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What is climbing fastest across every source

Meta6.9xMuse Wonder7.1xOpenAI6.2xAnthropic5.5xGPT-67.9xImage-2.16.8xClaude5.2xMicrosoft6.9xEpic Games6.9xGoogle6.7x

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

The author responds to Rich Hickey by arguing that large language models function as tools requiring skill, feedback, and judgment to use effectively. ·

Hacker News2h ago▲20 to 333 across 10 pollsdiscussyyhh.org

OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers

OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, citing mishandled sensitive company information. ·

Don't Worry About the Vase3h ago▲thezvi.substack.com

autotrust/JEV-35B

A text classification model from autotrust with 183 likes and 6,262 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲169 to 183 across 12 pollshuggingface.co

langchain==1.4.5

LangChain version 1.4.5 allows developers to pass a summarizer into its SummarizationMiddleware component. ·

GitHub Releases5h ago▲github.com

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

The author responds to Rich Hickey by arguing that large language models function as tools requiring skill, feedback, and judgment to use effectively. ·

175 points and 158 comments on Hacker News, linking yyhh.org.

Hacker News2h ago▲20 to 333 across 10 pollsdiscussyyhh.org

Aquafitzdisconnect/Discord-Server-Raider

Aquafitzdisconnect releases Discord Server Raider, an AI-driven tool that automates server management and moderation tasks to improve user experience and resource efficiency. ·

GitHub7h ago▲316 to 475 across 3 pollsgithub.com

Galaxychiblast/SketchUp-Pro

Galaxychiblast offers a SketchUp Pro desktop software configuration that provides an intuitive interface and advanced modeling capabilities for professional use. ·

GitHub7h ago▲140 to 277 across 4 pollsgithub.com

autotrust/JEV-35B

A text classification model from autotrust with 183 likes and 6,262 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲169 to 183 across 12 pollshuggingface.co

AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

The author responds to Rich Hickey by arguing that large language models function as tools requiring skill, feedback, and judgment to use effectively. ·

175 points and 158 comments on Hacker News, linking yyhh.org.

Hacker News2h ago▲20 to 333 across 10 pollsdiscussyyhh.org

Aquafitzdisconnect/Discord-Server-Raider

Aquafitzdisconnect releases Discord Server Raider, an AI-driven tool that automates server management and moderation tasks to improve user experience and resource efficiency. ·

GitHub7h ago▲316 to 475 across 3 pollsgithub.com

Galaxychiblast/SketchUp-Pro

Galaxychiblast offers a SketchUp Pro desktop software configuration that provides an intuitive interface and advanced modeling capabilities for professional use. ·

GitHub7h ago▲140 to 277 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Meta: 1.68Meta1.68Muse Wonder: 1.68Muse Wonder1.68OpenAI: 1.31OpenAI1.31Anthropic: 1.20Anthropic1.20GPT-6: 1.17GPT-61.17Image-2.1: 1.14Image-2.11.14
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Meta1.68
Muse Wonder1.68
OpenAI1.31
Anthropic1.2
GPT-61.17
Image-2.11.14

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: 7,477Lightricks/LTX-2.57,477abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized new: 4,095abenzerps/Qwen-Im… new4,095Cloudflare/clef ▼2: 2,090Cloudflare/clef ▼22,090google/embeddinggemma-2: 1,932google/embeddinggemma…1,932jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,316jialinyyzz/humanizer1,316Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▲2: 631Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.… ▲2631
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Lightricks/LTX-2.57477
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized new4095
Cloudflare/clef ▼22090
google/embeddinggemma-21932
jialinyyzz/humanizer1316
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▲2631

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/

Contextual Correction of Parallel Draftsfor Speculative Decoding

Researchers introduce DCOCO, a mechanism that restores dependencies in parallel diffusion-based drafting to improve large language model inference throughput across four verifier backbones and ten benchmarks. ·

HF Daily Papers+ arXiv24h ago▲10 to 27 across 16 pollsarxiv.org

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

wheresryan22/anatomy: 6,152wheresryan22/anatomy6,152mhtsec/ARTEX: 3,558mhtsec/ARTEX3,558LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance: 2,841LosaLosSantos/aurelio…2,841bherbruck/solidcraft: 1,076bherbruck/solidcraft1,076rociiu/talorys: 894rociiu/talorys894ThariqS/ai-newtab: 767ThariqS/ai-newtab767
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wheresryan22/anatomy6152
mhtsec/ARTEX3558
LosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance2841
bherbruck/solidcraft1076
rociiu/talorys894
ThariqS/ai-newtab767

Aquafitzdisconnect/Discord-Server-Raider

Aquafitzdisconnect releases Discord Server Raider, an AI-driven tool that automates server management and moderation tasks to improve user experience and resource efficiency. ·

GitHub7h ago▲316 to 475 across 3 pollsgithub.com

Galaxychiblast/SketchUp-Pro

Galaxychiblast offers a SketchUp Pro desktop software configuration that provides an intuitive interface and advanced modeling capabilities for professional use. ·

GitHub7h ago▲140 to 277 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Aquafitzdisconnect/Discord-Server-Raider

Aquafitzdisconnect releases Discord Server Raider, an AI-driven tool that automates server management and moderation tasks to improve user experience and resource efficiency. ·

A new repository with 475 stars in its first week.

GitHub7h ago▲316 to 475 across 3 pollsgithub.com

Galaxychiblast/SketchUp-Pro

Galaxychiblast offers a SketchUp Pro desktop software configuration that provides an intuitive interface and advanced modeling capabilities for professional use. ·

GitHub7h ago▲140 to 277 across 4 pollsgithub.com

primemitechaos/Imei-Repair

A developer publishes an AI-driven software tool that allows users to manage their device's IMEI number information securely and quickly. ·

GitHub7h ago▲141 to 174 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Wed 07: 28Wed 0728Thu 08: 28Thu 0828Fri 09: 30Fri 0930Sat 10: 3Sat 103Sun 11: 7Sun 117Mon 12: 42Mon 1242Tue 13: 0Tue 130
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Wed 0728
Thu 0828
Fri 0930
Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 1242
Tue 130

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)

muse-wonder: 20muse-wonder20step-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-2.17.50median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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muse-wonder20
step-5-preview2.7
claude-haiku-5.50.5
claude-haiku-5.5:batch0.25
gemini-nano-banana-2.17.5
median, all paid models2

433 paid models listed; median of the 41 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.