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What is climbing fastest across every source

OpenAI6.5xClaude5.6xRust6.9xAnthropic5.4xHours7.8xLLMs6.3xQwen3.86.5xDecision-18.4xGoogle DeepMind6.7xImage-2.15.5x

If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves

Mois Navon warns that if Anthropic's Claude is conscious, the company creates happy slaves by focusing on its happiness. ·

15 points and 24 comments on Hacker News, linking groundlevel-ai.com.

Hacker News2h ago▲18 to 39 across 2 pollsdiscussgroundlevel-ai.com

Quoting The New York Times

Anthropic disclosed that its A.I. agents submitted 20 incomplete visa applications through a State Department website form, according to two sources. ·

Simon Willison5h ago▲simonwillison.net

If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves

Mois Navon warns that if Anthropic's Claude is conscious, the company creates happy slaves by focusing on its happiness. ·

15 points and 24 comments on Hacker News, linking groundlevel-ai.com.

Hacker News2h ago▲18 to 39 across 2 pollsdiscussgroundlevel-ai.com

openai/codex 0.162.1

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.162.1, which fixes a terminal crash involving multi-line questions and resolves startup failures caused by feature setting mismatches. ·

GitHub Releases11h ago▲2 to 13 across 5 pollsgithub.com

mu-zi-lee/magpie-our-free-model

A developer publishes a Magpie plugin that integrates free model pools, EAC authentication, and a Cloudflare remote console. ·

GitHub14h ago▲100 to 135 across 4 pollsgithub.com

franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen

Franzenzenhofer releases a Mac tool that lets AI agents draw arrows, boxes, and text on the screen. It supports Claude Code and Codex. ·

A new repository written in Swift with 503 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News46h ago▲162 to 503 across 18 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.162.1

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.162.1, which fixes a terminal crash involving multi-line questions and resolves startup failures caused by feature setting mismatches. ·

GitHub Releases11h ago▲2 to 13 across 5 pollsgithub.com

navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider

A GitHub project named Discord Server Raider offers an AI-driven tool that streamlines server management tasks. ·

GitHub17h ago▲204 to 605 across 13 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

OpenAI: 2.80OpenAI2.80Claude: 1.70Claude1.70Rust: 1.34Rust1.34Anthropic: 1.31Anthropic1.31Hours: 1.25Hours1.25LLMs: 1.07LLMs1.07
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OpenAI2.8
Claude1.7
Rust1.34
Anthropic1.31
Hours1.25
LLMs1.07

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

Models

5 stories

Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings

Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▲1: 3,793abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▲13,793Cloudflare/clef ▲1: 1,955Cloudflare/clef ▲11,955google/embeddinggemma-2 ▲3: 1,391google/embeddingge… ▲31,391Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲2: 847Aleph-Alpha/Kolibr… ▲2847jialinyyzz/humanizer ▲3: 805jialinyyzz/humaniz… ▲3805Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF ▲2: 676Venastine-Research… ▲2676
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▲13793
Cloudflare/clef ▲11955
google/embeddinggemma-2 ▲31391
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲2847
jialinyyzz/humanizer ▲3805
Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF ▲2676

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/

mu-zi-lee/magpie-our-free-model

A developer publishes a Magpie plugin that integrates free model pools, EAC authentication, and a Cloudflare remote console. ·

GitHub14h ago▲100 to 135 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo

A text to image model from Qwen with 343 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face16h ago▲124 to 343 across 33 pollshuggingface.co

mu-zi-lee/magpie-our-free-model

A developer publishes a Magpie plugin that integrates free model pools, EAC authentication, and a Cloudflare remote console. ·

GitHub14h ago▲100 to 135 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo

A text to image model from Qwen with 343 likes and 0 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face16h ago▲124 to 343 across 33 pollshuggingface.co

Phocinae/Phocinae-Largha-150M-v1

A text classification model from Phocinae with 229 likes and 89 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face16h ago▲130 to 229 across 24 pollshuggingface.co

X voices

5 stories

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

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

mhtsec/ARTEX: 2,486mhtsec/ARTEX2,486LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance: 1,556LosaLosSantos/aurelio…1,556elstongun/leviathan: 716elstongun/leviathan716AgentMemoryRepo/agentmemoryrepo: 674AgentMemoryRepo/agent…674navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider: 605navyofficerpipe/Disco…605shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio: 573shinshin86/mesh-avata…573
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mhtsec/ARTEX2486
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance1556
elstongun/leviathan716
AgentMemoryRepo/agentmemoryrepo674
navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider605
shinshin86/mesh-avatar-studio573

openai/codex 0.162.1

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.162.1, which fixes a terminal crash involving multi-line questions and resolves startup failures caused by feature setting mismatches. ·

GitHub Releases11h ago▲2 to 13 across 5 pollsgithub.com

mu-zi-lee/magpie-our-free-model

A developer publishes a Magpie plugin that integrates free model pools, EAC authentication, and a Cloudflare remote console. ·

GitHub14h ago▲100 to 135 across 4 pollsgithub.com

navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider

A GitHub project named Discord Server Raider offers an AI-driven tool that streamlines server management tasks. ·

GitHub17h ago▲204 to 605 across 13 pollsgithub.com

GoliathCuttlefish/Adobe-Substance-3d

Adobe Substance 3D models complex material compositions and renders photorealistic visuals within a professional desktop environment. ·

GitHub17h ago▲201 to 303 across 13 pollsgithub.com

franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen

Franzenzenhofer releases a Mac tool that lets AI agents draw arrows, boxes, and text on the screen. It supports Claude Code and Codex. ·

A new repository written in Swift with 503 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News46h ago▲162 to 503 across 18 pollsgithub.com

openai/codex 0.162.1

OpenAI releases Codex version 0.162.1, which fixes a terminal crash involving multi-line questions and resolves startup failures caused by feature setting mismatches. ·

GitHub Releases11h ago▲2 to 13 across 5 pollsgithub.com

navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider

A GitHub project named Discord Server Raider offers an AI-driven tool that streamlines server management tasks. ·

GitHub17h ago▲204 to 605 across 13 pollsgithub.com

mu-zi-lee/magpie-our-free-model

A developer publishes a Magpie plugin that integrates free model pools, EAC authentication, and a Cloudflare remote console. ·

GitHub14h ago▲100 to 135 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Sun 04: 3Sun 043Mon 05: 31Mon 0531Tue 06: 28Tue 0628Wed 07: 28Wed 0728Thu 08: 28Thu 0828Fri 09: 29Fri 0929Sat 10: 2Sat 102
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Sun 043
Mon 0531
Tue 0628
Wed 0728
Thu 0828
Fri 0929
Sat 102

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

432 paid models listed; median of the 49 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Speed Bumps Slow Asia-Pacific’s Data Center Gold Rush

Firmus and PLDT withdrew their data center IPOs this week, while regional governments paused development, creating obstacles for the Asia-Pacific data center expansion. ·

Data Center Knowledge12h ago▲datacenterknowledge.com

Speed Bumps Slow Asia-Pacific’s Data Center Gold Rush

Firmus and PLDT withdrew their data center IPOs this week, while regional governments paused development, creating obstacles for the Asia-Pacific data center expansion. ·

Data Center Knowledge12h ago▲datacenterknowledge.com