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.
Top now
6 storiesWhat is climbing fastest across every source
OpenAI6.3xClaude5.7xRust6.9xAnthropic5.4xHours7.8xLLMs6.3xDecision-18.5xQwen3.87.3xTypesafe7.3xGoogle DeepMind6.0x
Show HN: A simple to-do app for iPhone, Mac, and your agent
9 points and 6 comments on Hacker News, linking ilia.page.
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. ·
Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding — Pushmeet Kohli, Google DeepMind & Sal Candido, Biohub
Google DeepMind's Pushmeet Kohli and Biohub's Sal Candido discuss why AlphaFold did not fully solve protein folding and how they are rethinking AI for biology. ·
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.
Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours
23 points and 7 comments on Hacker News, linking bloomberg.com.
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.296
New release v2.1.296 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
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. ·
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. ·
Lightricks/LTX-2.5-22b-IC-LoRA-Alpha-Gen
A video to video model from Lightricks with 137 likes and 6,999 downloads on Hugging Face.
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 528 stars in its first week.
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. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.296
New release v2.1.296 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
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. ·
Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
Police report that an Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip regarding an unsolved Philadelphia murder, prompting an investigation. ·
navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider
A GitHub project named Discord Server Raider offers an AI-driven tool that streamlines server management tasks. ·
Trending topics today: heat
Table
| OpenAI | 2.38 |
| Claude | 1.5 |
| Rust | 1.18 |
| Anthropic | 1.15 |
| Hours | 1.1 |
| LLMs | 0.95 |
Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.
Models
5 storiesReleases, papers, trending weights and new listings
Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes
Table
| abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▲1 | 3805 |
| Cloudflare/clef ▲1 | 1961 |
| google/embeddinggemma-2 ▲3 | 1413 |
| Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲1 | 849 |
| jialinyyzz/humanizer ▲4 | 845 |
| Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF ▲2 | 677 |
PirateBench: score out of 100
Table
| gpt-6.1-sol | 98.9 |
| opus-5-5 | 96.46 |
| gpt-6-sol | 91.6 |
| gpt-6-luna | 65.25 |
| haiku-4-5 | 4.28 |
Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/
Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
Police report that an Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip regarding an unsolved Philadelphia murder, prompting an investigation. ·
163 points and 122 comments on Hacker News, linking nbcphiladelphia.com.
Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making
181 points and 58 comments on Hacker News, linking commandline.microsoft.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. ·
Lightricks/LTX-2.5-22b-IC-LoRA-Alpha-Gen
A video to video model from Lightricks with 137 likes and 6,999 downloads on Hugging Face.
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
A text to image model from Qwen with 369 likes and 2,138 downloads on Hugging Face.
Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
Police report that an Anthropic AI model submitted a false tip regarding an unsolved Philadelphia murder, prompting an investigation. ·
163 points and 122 comments on Hacker News, linking nbcphiladelphia.com.
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo
A text to image model from Qwen with 369 likes and 2,138 downloads on Hugging Face.
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. ·
Phocinae/Phocinae-Largha-150M-v1
A text classification model from Phocinae with 229 likes and 89 downloads on Hugging Face.
Lightricks/LTX-2.5-22b-IC-LoRA-Alpha-Gen
A video to video model from Lightricks with 137 likes and 6,999 downloads on Hugging Face.
X voices
5 storiesX posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
@generativexp
Haydn-01 – music recognition and text model
1 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@plannotator
Email-Like Inbox for Agentic Engineering
6 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@AdithyaNLP
A model that can play chess well and explain its moves
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@tomekkorbak
Tomek Korbak: OpenAI's head of safety told they no longer trust me
45 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@generativexp
Haydn-01 – music recognition and text model
1 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@tomekkorbak
Tomek Korbak: OpenAI's head of safety told they no longer trust me
45 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@plannotator
Email-Like Inbox for Agentic Engineering
6 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@danintheory
OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results
376 points and 606 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
GitHub
5 storiesNew repos, releases and changelog
New AI repos this week: stars
Table
| mhtsec/ARTEX | 2647 |
| LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance | 1559 |
| elstongun/leviathan | 718 |
| AgentMemoryRepo/agentmemoryrepo | 674 |
| navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider | 605 |
| ThariqS/ai-newtab | 586 |
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.296
New release v2.1.296 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
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. ·
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. ·
navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider
A GitHub project named Discord Server Raider offers an AI-driven tool that streamlines server management tasks. ·
GoliathCuttlefish/Adobe-Substance-3d
Adobe Substance 3D models complex material compositions and renders photorealistic visuals within a professional desktop environment. ·
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 528 stars in its first week.
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.296
New release v2.1.296 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
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. ·
navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider
A GitHub project named Discord Server Raider offers an AI-driven tool that streamlines server management tasks. ·
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. ·
Infrastructure
5 storiesData centers, power, chips and what tokens cost
Data-center and energy stories per day
Table
| Sun 04 | 3 |
| Mon 05 | 31 |
| Tue 06 | 28 |
| Wed 07 | 28 |
| Thu 08 | 28 |
| Fri 09 | 29 |
| Sat 10 | 2 |
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
One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)
Table
| step-5-preview | 2.7 |
| claude-haiku-5.5 | 0.5 |
| claude-haiku-5.5:batch | 0.25 |
| gemini-nano-banana-2.1 | 7.5 |
| mistral-large-4-0 | 2.09 |
| median, all paid models | 2 |
432 paid models listed; median of the 49 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours
23 points and 7 comments on Hacker News, linking bloomberg.com.
Brockovich AI Datacenter Reporting: AI Data Centers Across the United States
Brockovich AI Datacenter Reporting provides an interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States, showing built, proposed, and cancelled facilities to help users understand local community impacts. ·
Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties
29 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking pressaudit.org.
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
A UAV attack disabled modules at Yandex's largest Kaluga data center, reducing service to a facility holding 3,800 server racks. ·
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. ·
Republican data center support collapses locally when sites are in GOP counties
29 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking pressaudit.org.
Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours
23 points and 7 comments on Hacker News, linking bloomberg.com.
Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
A UAV attack disabled modules at Yandex's largest Kaluga data center, reducing service to a facility holding 3,800 server racks. ·
Brockovich AI Datacenter Reporting: AI Data Centers Across the United States
Brockovich AI Datacenter Reporting provides an interactive map of major AI data centers across the United States, showing built, proposed, and cancelled facilities to help users understand local community impacts. ·
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. ·