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What is climbing fastest across every source

OpenAI6.1xClaude Code7.7xBenchmark7.1xClaude Haiku 5.57.0xClaude5.0xOpus 5.55.9xAnthropic7.1xFinland5.9xOn-Policy Distillation5.8xLLM4.9x

OpenAI, the Partition Principle, and Mathematics

OpenAI announces that the Partition Principle does not hold, a claim that prompted multiple inquiries to the author regarding the mathematical implications of the statement. ·

5 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking karagila.org.

Hacker News31m ago▲discusskaragila.org

langchain==1.4.4

LangChain releases version 1.4.4, which adds a retry mechanism for the summarization middleware when context overflow occurs. ·

GitHub Releases2h ago▲github.com

ThariqS/ai-newtab

A new repository written in TypeScript with 135 stars in its first week.

GitHub6h ago▲github.com

Permits, Not Power, Halt Google’s Finland Data Centers

Environmental regulations block construction at two sites in Google's €13 billion Finland data center expansion, despite the company securing access to the northern grid. ·

Data Center Knowledge6h ago▲datacenterknowledge.com

ThariqS/ai-newtab

A new repository written in TypeScript with 135 stars in its first week.

GitHub6h ago▲github.com

openai/codex 0.162.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.162.0, which adds Git worktree management tools and enables users to pin tasks in the agent Command Center. ·

GitHub Releases5h ago▲0 to 2 across 3 pollsgithub.com

autotrust/GLM5.3-Flash-E224-DGX-Spark

A image text to text model from autotrust with 376 likes and 5,422 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face14h ago▲132 to 376 across 29 pollshuggingface.co

Claude Haiku 5.5

1,031 points and 480 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison30h ago▲72 to 1511 across 131 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

ThariqS/ai-newtab

A new repository written in TypeScript with 135 stars in its first week.

GitHub6h ago▲github.com

autotrust/GLM5.3-Flash-E224-DGX-Spark

A image text to text model from autotrust with 376 likes and 5,422 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face14h ago▲132 to 376 across 29 pollshuggingface.co

openai/codex 0.162.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.162.0, which adds Git worktree management tools and enables users to pin tasks in the agent Command Center. ·

GitHub Releases5h ago▲0 to 2 across 3 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

OpenAI: 2.90OpenAI2.90Claude Code: 2.03Claude Code2.03Benchmark: 1.28Benchmark1.28Claude Haiku 5.5: 1.06Claude Haiku 5.51.06Claude: 0.87Claude0.87Opus 5.5: 0.72Opus 5.50.72
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OpenAI2.9
Claude Code2.03
Benchmark1.28
Claude Haiku 5.51.06
Claude0.87
Opus 5.50.72

Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.

Models

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Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings

Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 3,675abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…3,675autotrust/JEV-27B-VL ▲1: 2,870autotrust/JEV-27B-… ▲12,870Cloudflare/clef ▼2: 1,885Cloudflare/clef ▼21,885autotrust/GEV-26B-Decide ▲1: 1,811autotrust/GEV-26B-… ▲11,811google/embeddinggemma-2: 1,191google/embeddinggemma…1,191Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1: 813Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1813
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF3675
autotrust/JEV-27B-VL ▲12870
Cloudflare/clef ▼21885
autotrust/GEV-26B-Decide ▲11811
google/embeddinggemma-21191
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1813

PirateBench: score out of 100

gpt-6.1-sol: 99gpt-6.1-sol99opus-5-5: 96opus-5-596gpt-6-sol: 92gpt-6-sol92gpt-6-luna: 65gpt-6-luna65haiku-4-5: 4.28haiku-4-54.28
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gpt-6.1-sol98.9
opus-5-596.46
gpt-6-sol91.6
gpt-6-luna65.25
haiku-4-54.28

Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/

autotrust/GLM5.3-Flash-E224-DGX-Spark

A image text to text model from autotrust with 376 likes and 5,422 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face14h ago▲132 to 376 across 29 pollshuggingface.co

Claude Haiku 5.5

1,031 points and 480 comments on Hacker News, linking anthropic.com.

Hacker News+ Simon Willison30h ago▲72 to 1511 across 131 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

Mistral Large 4: "Le Chonk"

Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk, is an enterprise AI platform that allows users to customize, fine-tune, and deploy assistants, agents, and multimodal models. ·

Hacker News+ Mistral, Simon Willison2d ago▲35 to 569 across 72 pollsdiscussmistral.ai

autotrust/GLM5.3-Flash-E224-DGX-Spark

A image text to text model from autotrust with 376 likes and 5,422 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face14h ago▲132 to 376 across 29 pollshuggingface.co

On KL-Regularized Policy Optimization

Researchers propose KL-Regularized Policy Optimization, a framework that anchors the KL regularizer at the sampler to avoid importance weights during asynchronous reinforcement learning for large language model agents. ·

HF Daily Papers+ arXiv24h ago▲4 to 20 across 14 pollsarxiv.org

X voices

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X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon

@MistralAI

70 points and 4 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.

X, via Hacker News2d ago▲18 to 74 across 67 pollsView on X

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

QingYunA/answer-me-with-html: 2,319QingYunA/answer-me-wi…2,319Jakeschincariol/replica-skill: 1,070Jakeschincariol/repli…1,070LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance: 699LosaLosSantos/aurelio…699elstongun/leviathan: 694elstongun/leviathan694mhtsec/ARTEX: 689mhtsec/ARTEX689jiwoochris/artex-ko: 674jiwoochris/artex-ko674
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QingYunA/answer-me-with-html2319
Jakeschincariol/replica-skill1070
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance699
elstongun/leviathan694
mhtsec/ARTEX689
jiwoochris/artex-ko674

openai/codex 0.162.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.162.0, which adds Git worktree management tools and enables users to pin tasks in the agent Command Center. ·

New release rust-v0.162.0 of openai/codex on GitHub.

GitHub Releases5h ago▲0 to 2 across 3 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.162.0

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.162.0, which adds Git worktree management tools and enables users to pin tasks in the agent Command Center. ·

New release rust-v0.162.0 of openai/codex on GitHub.

GitHub Releases5h ago▲0 to 2 across 3 pollsgithub.com

mhtsec/ARTEX

A new repository written in Go with 689 stars in its first week.

GitHub18h ago▲161 to 689 across 13 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

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Mon 0531
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Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.

Median output price of models added in the last 30 days, $ per million tokens

Last $5.00Min $2.09Max $5.00

One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

step-5-preview: 2.70step-5-preview2.70claude-haiku-5.5: 0.50claude-haiku-5.50.50claude-haiku-5.5:batch: 0.25claude-haiku-5.5:batch0.25gemini-nano-banana-2.1: 7.50gemini-nano-banana-2.17.50mistral-large-4-0: 2.09mistral-large-4-02.09median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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step-5-preview2.7
claude-haiku-5.50.5
claude-haiku-5.5:batch0.25
gemini-nano-banana-2.17.5
mistral-large-4-02.09
median, all paid models2

443 paid models listed; median of the 51 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

How many GPUs is 1M/B/T tokens?

A calculator converts daily, monthly, or yearly token volumes into estimated counts of A100, H100, or B200 GPUs, including a sourced uncertainty range. ·

14 points and 4 comments on Hacker News, linking cedana.com.

Hacker News2d ago▲4 to 18 across 5 pollsdiscusscedana.com