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What is climbing fastest across every source

Meta6.9xMuse Wonder7.0xGPT-66.9xOpenAI6.2xAnthropic5.5xImage-2.16.8xClaude5.1xMicrosoft6.9xEpic Games6.9xGoogle6.5x

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 Vase4h ago▲thezvi.substack.com

autotrust/JEV-35B

A text classification model from autotrust with 190 likes and 6,262 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲169 to 190 across 14 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. ·

Hacker News3h ago▲20 to 392 across 15 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. ·

GitHub8h ago▲316 to 475 across 4 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. ·

GitHub8h ago▲140 to 277 across 5 pollsgithub.com

autotrust/JEV-35B

A text classification model from autotrust with 190 likes and 6,262 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face6h ago▲169 to 190 across 14 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. ·

206 points and 186 comments on Hacker News, linking yyhh.org.

Hacker News3h ago▲20 to 392 across 15 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. ·

GitHub8h ago▲316 to 475 across 4 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. ·

GitHub8h ago▲140 to 277 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Meta: 1.61Meta1.61Muse Wonder: 1.61Muse Wonder1.61GPT-6: 1.28GPT-61.28OpenAI: 1.25OpenAI1.25Anthropic: 1.15Anthropic1.15Image-2.1: 1.09Image-2.11.09
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Meta1.61
Muse Wonder1.61
GPT-61.28
OpenAI1.25
Anthropic1.15
Image-2.11.09

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: 7,484Lightricks/LTX-2.57,484abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized new: 4,096abenzerps/Qwen-Im… new4,096Cloudflare/clef ▼2: 2,093Cloudflare/clef ▼22,093google/embeddinggemma-2: 1,938google/embeddinggemma…1,938jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,322jialinyyzz/humanizer1,322Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▲2: 633Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.… ▲2633
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Lightricks/LTX-2.57484
abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized new4096
Cloudflare/clef ▼22093
google/embeddinggemma-21938
jialinyyzz/humanizer1322
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▲2633

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+ arXiv25h ago▲10 to 27 across 17 pollsarxiv.org

X voices

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

GitHub

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New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

wheresryan22/anatomy: 6,216wheresryan22/anatomy6,216mhtsec/ARTEX: 3,566mhtsec/ARTEX3,566bherbruck/solidcraft: 1,087bherbruck/solidcraft1,087rociiu/talorys: 897rociiu/talorys897ThariqS/ai-newtab: 770ThariqS/ai-newtab770franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen: 669franzenzenhofer/big-a…669
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wheresryan22/anatomy6216
mhtsec/ARTEX3566
bherbruck/solidcraft1087
rociiu/talorys897
ThariqS/ai-newtab770
franzenzenhofer/big-arrow-on-the-screen669

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. ·

GitHub8h ago▲316 to 475 across 4 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. ·

GitHub8h ago▲140 to 277 across 5 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.

GitHub8h ago▲316 to 475 across 4 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. ·

GitHub8h ago▲140 to 277 across 5 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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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.