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What is climbing fastest across every source

OpenAI6.1xClaude5.6xRust6.8xAnthropic5.4xHours7.8xLLMs6.3xQwen3.86.8xDecision-16.9xTypesafe6.2xGoogle DeepMind5.0x

LLMs Aren't Inevitable

The author argues that large language models are not inevitable, contrasting them with firearms, which become necessary for maintaining personal safety and independence once developed. ·

28 points and 32 comments on Hacker News, linking deadsimpletech.com.

Hacker News2h ago▲5 to 60 across 5 pollsdiscussdeadsimpletech.com

LiquidAI/d1-omni-600M

A image text to text model from LiquidAI with 99 likes and 10.0k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face1h ago▲98 to 99 across 3 pollshuggingface.co

LLMs Aren't Inevitable

The author argues that large language models are not inevitable, contrasting them with firearms, which become necessary for maintaining personal safety and independence once developed. ·

28 points and 32 comments on Hacker News, linking deadsimpletech.com.

Hacker News2h ago▲5 to 60 across 5 pollsdiscussdeadsimpletech.com

LiquidAI/d1-omni-600M

A image text to text model from LiquidAI with 99 likes and 10.0k downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face1h ago▲98 to 99 across 3 pollshuggingface.co

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 Releases18h ago▲2 to 14 across 9 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 544 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲162 to 544 across 25 pollsgithub.com

LLMs Aren't Inevitable

The author argues that large language models are not inevitable, contrasting them with firearms, which become necessary for maintaining personal safety and independence once developed. ·

Hacker News2h ago▲5 to 60 across 5 pollsdiscussdeadsimpletech.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 Releases18h ago▲2 to 14 across 9 pollsgithub.com

navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider

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

GitHub24h ago▲204 to 605 across 20 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

OpenAI: 1.96OpenAI1.96Claude: 1.27Claude1.27Rust: 0.99Rust0.99Anthropic: 0.97Anthropic0.97Hours: 0.93Hours0.93LLMs: 0.80LLMs0.80
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OpenAI1.96
Claude1.27
Rust0.99
Anthropic0.97
Hours0.93
LLMs0.8

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: 3,821abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▲13,821Cloudflare/clef ▲2: 1,970Cloudflare/clef ▲21,970google/embeddinggemma-2 ▲2: 1,435google/embeddingge… ▲21,435jialinyyzz/humanizer ▲4: 894jialinyyzz/humaniz… ▲4894Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲1: 853Aleph-Alpha/Kolibr… ▲1853Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF ▲2: 678Venastine-Research… ▲2678
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF ▲13821
Cloudflare/clef ▲21970
google/embeddinggemma-2 ▲21435
jialinyyzz/humanizer ▲4894
Aleph-Alpha/Kolibri-1 ▲1853
Venastine-Research/Xing4.0-29B-A4B-GGUF ▲2678

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. ·

GitHub21h ago▲100 to 169 across 11 pollsgithub.com

Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo

A text to image model from Qwen with 397 likes and 2,138 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face23h ago▲124 to 397 across 47 pollshuggingface.co

Phocinae/Phocinae-Largha-150M-v1

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

Hugging Face24h ago▲130 to 229 across 24 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. ·

GitHub21h ago▲100 to 169 across 11 pollsgithub.com

X voices

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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: 2,767mhtsec/ARTEX2,767LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance: 1,798LosaLosSantos/aurelio…1,798elstongun/leviathan: 724elstongun/leviathan724AgentMemoryRepo/agentmemoryrepo: 675AgentMemoryRepo/agent…675ThariqS/ai-newtab: 607ThariqS/ai-newtab607navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider: 605navyofficerpipe/Disco…605
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mhtsec/ARTEX2767
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance1798
elstongun/leviathan724
AgentMemoryRepo/agentmemoryrepo675
ThariqS/ai-newtab607
navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider605

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 Releases18h ago▲2 to 14 across 9 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. ·

GitHub21h ago▲100 to 169 across 11 pollsgithub.com

fayazara/robot-heads

Fayazara releases robot-heads, a React library providing animated three-dimensional robot heads with LED faces that display agent activity. ·

GitHub22h ago▲105 to 120 across 3 pollsgithub.com

navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider

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

GitHub24h ago▲204 to 605 across 20 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 544 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲162 to 544 across 25 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 Releases18h ago▲2 to 14 across 9 pollsgithub.com

navyofficerpipe/Discord-Server-Raider

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

GitHub24h ago▲204 to 605 across 20 pollsgithub.com

fayazara/robot-heads

Fayazara releases robot-heads, a React library providing animated three-dimensional robot heads with LED faces that display agent activity. ·

GitHub22h ago▲105 to 120 across 3 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: 3Sat 103
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Sun 043
Mon 0531
Tue 0628
Wed 0728
Thu 0828
Fri 0929
Sat 103

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 Knowledge19h 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 Knowledge19h ago▲datacenterknowledge.com