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What is climbing fastest across every source

LLM6.1xClaude4.7xNvidia4.3xJetBrains0.9xTHX-010.0x

Google Data Centers around the world

Google operates data center communities located around the world, which are distributed across various global regions. ·

28 points and 15 comments on Hacker News, linking datacenters.google.

Hacker News1h ago▲7 to 43 across 4 pollsdiscussdatacenters.google

openai/openai-python v3.29.0

OpenAI releases version 3.29.0 of its Python library, adding a billing error code, a new voice, and vault metadata filters. ·

GitHub Releases6h ago▲github.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.3

New release v0.40.3 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases22h ago▲10 to 20 across 9 pollsgithub.com

Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers

A court orders Google to halt construction at two data center sites because the company failed to complete required environmental impact assessments before clearing forest land. ·

42 points and 6 comments on Hacker News, linking theguardian.com.

Hacker News1h ago▲18 to 48 across 3 pollsdiscusstheguardian.com

Google Data Centers around the world

Google operates data center communities located around the world, which are distributed across various global regions. ·

Hacker News1h ago▲7 to 43 across 4 pollsdiscussdatacenters.google

rociiu/talorys

rociiu releases talorys, a personal AI agent that users deploy to their own Cloudflare accounts using a single command. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News38h ago▲117 to 746 across 33 pollsgithub.com

ollama/ollama v0.40.3

New release v0.40.3 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases22h ago▲10 to 20 across 9 pollsgithub.com

rociiu/talorys

rociiu releases talorys, a personal AI agent that users deploy to their own Cloudflare accounts using a single command. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 746 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News38h ago▲117 to 746 across 33 pollsgithub.com

Google Data Centers around the world

Google operates data center communities located around the world, which are distributed across various global regions. ·

Hacker News1h ago▲7 to 43 across 4 pollsdiscussdatacenters.google

ollama/ollama v0.40.3

New release v0.40.3 of ollama/ollama on GitHub.

GitHub Releases22h ago▲10 to 20 across 9 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

LLM: 1.35LLM1.35Claude: 0.73Claude0.73Nvidia: 0.43Nvidia0.43JetBrains: 0.09JetBrains0.09THX-01: 0THX-010
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LLM1.35
Claude0.73
Nvidia0.43
JetBrains0.09
THX-010

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

Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲1: 7,313Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲17,313abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF: 3,979abenzerps/Qwen-Image-…3,979Cloudflare/clef ▼1: 2,026Cloudflare/clef ▼12,026google/embeddinggemma-2: 1,692google/embeddinggemma…1,692jialinyyzz/humanizer ▲1: 1,074jialinyyzz/humaniz… ▲11,074Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▲3: 538Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.… ▲3538
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Lightricks/LTX-2.5 ▲17313
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-GGUF3979
Cloudflare/clef ▼12026
google/embeddinggemma-21692
jialinyyzz/humanizer ▲11074
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▲3538

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/

Build your own decision model

The text explains how to build system one decision models that output calibrated probabilities, noting that structured output constrains language models to valid JSON. ·

Hacker News25h ago▲3 to 553 across 110 pollsdiscussnishtahir.com

Bitwarden Dual License Model

Bitwarden shifts its store apps to commercial licenses while keeping the GPLv3 version on GitHub, with all features available in both builds. ·

Hacker News33h ago▲30 to 693 across 78 pollsdiscusscommunity.bitwarden.com

Build your own decision model

The text explains how to build system one decision models that output calibrated probabilities, noting that structured output constrains language models to valid JSON. ·

Hacker News25h ago▲3 to 553 across 110 pollsdiscussnishtahir.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: 3,138mhtsec/ARTEX3,138LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance: 2,211LosaLosSantos/aurelio…2,211rociiu/talorys: 746rociiu/talorys746elstongun/leviathan: 742elstongun/leviathan742ThariqS/ai-newtab: 736ThariqS/ai-newtab736sirioberati/Genjustsu-Open-Source-Workflow: 640sirioberati/Genjustsu…640
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mhtsec/ARTEX3138
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance2211
rociiu/talorys746
elstongun/leviathan742
ThariqS/ai-newtab736
sirioberati/Genjustsu-Open-Source-Workflow640

rociiu/talorys

rociiu releases talorys, a personal AI agent that users deploy to their own Cloudflare accounts using a single command. ·

GitHub+ Hacker News38h ago▲117 to 746 across 33 pollsgithub.com

rociiu/talorys

rociiu releases talorys, a personal AI agent that users deploy to their own Cloudflare accounts using a single command. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 746 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News38h ago▲117 to 746 across 33 pollsgithub.com

NousResearch/hermes-official-plugins

Nous Research maintains official plugins for Hermes Agent, including integrations for Home Assistant, Spotify, and Claude Subscription DirectSDK, available in the plugin catalog. ·

GitHub27h ago▲116 to 183 across 9 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Tue 06: 28Tue 0628Wed 07: 28Wed 0728Thu 08: 28Thu 0828Fri 09: 30Fri 0930Sat 10: 3Sat 103Sun 11: 7Sun 117Mon 12: 0Mon 120
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Tue 0628
Wed 0728
Thu 0828
Fri 0930
Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 120

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 $2.95Min $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 42 added in 30 days: $2.95. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

Yandex Cloud reports that its third data center was hit, providing current information on service availability and the incident timeline. ·

Hacker News16h ago▲30 to 1199 across 67 pollsdiscussstatus.yandex.cloud

3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

Yandex Cloud reports that its third data center was hit, providing current information on service availability and the incident timeline. ·

Hacker News16h ago▲30 to 1199 across 67 pollsdiscussstatus.yandex.cloud