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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic6.3xOpenAI6.0xLLM6.4xGemini 4 Argon7.0xRust7.7xSystem7.2xRSI6.9xCharacter.ai7.0xBeyond6.8xRobotics6.8x

HydraFusion updates and new Max option

GitHub updates HydraFusion with a new model pool and improved workflows, and introduces HydraFusion Max, which is available in VS Code and the GitHub Copilot app. ·

GitHub Changelog4h ago▲github.blog

fishaudio/drama-3

A text to speech model from fishaudio with 307 likes and 839 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face20h ago▲132 to 307 across 40 pollshuggingface.co

0xProbabillity/house-control

A new repository written in Swift with 181 stars in its first week.

GitHub11h ago▲178 to 181 across 2 pollsgithub.com

Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Anthropic built Scion, a custom source control system, after daily code merges rose from 2,500 in May 2026 to over 30,000 by September. ·

Hacker News+ Simon Willison32h ago▲20 to 1828 across 112 pollsdiscussanthropic.com

Jeva: System One Models from First Principles

Jeva is a decision-native architecture that addresses structural requirements for low-latency models by using a shared encoder and compact decision stack to handle variable candidate sets and null outcomes. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲3 to 265 across 18 pollsarxiv.org

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 3.02Anthropic3.02OpenAI: 2.30OpenAI2.30LLM: 2.20LLM2.20Gemini 4 Argon: 1.11Gemini 4 Argon1.11Rust: 1.04Rust1.04System: 0.89System0.89
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Anthropic3.02
OpenAI2.3
LLM2.2
Gemini 4 Argon1.11
Rust1.04
System0.89

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

abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized ▼1: 4,302abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▼14,302google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,258google/embeddinggemma…2,258jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,632jialinyyzz/humanizer1,632Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: 771Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-T…771autotrust/JEV-35B ▲6: 717autotrust/JEV-35B ▲6717openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲2: 610openbmb/MiniCPM-V-… ▲2610
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized ▼14302
google/embeddinggemma-22258
jialinyyzz/humanizer1632
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo771
autotrust/JEV-35B ▲6717
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲2610

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/

fishaudio/drama-3

A text to speech model from fishaudio with 307 likes and 839 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face20h ago▲132 to 307 across 40 pollshuggingface.co

Jeva: System One Models from First Principles

Jeva is a decision-native architecture that addresses structural requirements for low-latency models by using a shared encoder and compact decision stack to handle variable candidate sets and null outcomes. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲3 to 265 across 18 pollsarxiv.org

Vela: User Behavior as Supervision Sparks LLM Intelligence

Vela is a framework that converts real user behavior data into training tasks for large language models. It uses records from 100,000 users to generate 100,000 tasks across 91 templates. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲6 to 53 across 5 pollsarxiv.org

Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively

Agent-Reflex is a training framework that helps language agents reflect on noisy tool feedback and user corrections to improve their performance during long-horizon reasoning tasks. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲16 to 193 across 17 pollsarxiv.org

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

230 points and 55 comments on Hacker News, linking developers.googleblog.com.

Hacker News+ Google DeepMind32h ago▲4 to 285 across 60 pollsdiscussdevelopers.googleblog.com

Jeva: System One Models from First Principles

Jeva is a decision-native architecture that addresses structural requirements for low-latency models by using a shared encoder and compact decision stack to handle variable candidate sets and null outcomes. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲3 to 265 across 18 pollsarxiv.org

Vela: User Behavior as Supervision Sparks LLM Intelligence

Vela is a framework that converts real user behavior data into training tasks for large language models. It uses records from 100,000 users to generate 100,000 tasks across 91 templates. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲6 to 53 across 5 pollsarxiv.org

Agent-Reflex: Teaching Language Agents to Act Reflectively

Agent-Reflex is a training framework that helps language agents reflect on noisy tool feedback and user corrections to improve their performance during long-horizon reasoning tasks. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲16 to 193 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: 9,977wheresryan22/anatomy9,977mhtsec/ARTEX: 4,074mhtsec/ARTEX4,074onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: 2,069onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,069NVIDIA-Omniverse/usd-brep: 1,392NVIDIA-Omniverse/usd-…1,392trhhubsd/ARTEXX: 1,200trhhubsd/ARTEXX1,200rociiu/talorys: 998rociiu/talorys998
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wheresryan22/anatomy9977
mhtsec/ARTEX4074
onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2069
NVIDIA-Omniverse/usd-brep1392
trhhubsd/ARTEXX1200
rociiu/talorys998

0xProbabillity/house-control

A new repository written in Swift with 181 stars in its first week.

GitHub11h ago▲178 to 181 across 2 pollsgithub.com

0xProbabillity/house-control

A new repository written in Swift with 181 stars in its first week.

GitHub11h ago▲178 to 181 across 2 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Fri 09: 30Fri 0930Sat 10: 3Sat 103Sun 11: 7Sun 117Mon 12: 41Mon 1241Tue 13: 29Tue 1329Wed 14: 34Wed 1434Thu 15: 0Thu 150
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Fri 0930
Sat 103
Sun 117
Mon 1241
Tue 1329
Wed 1434
Thu 150

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)

pareto-latest: 7.50pareto-latest7.50pareto-26.9: 7.50pareto-26.97.50lfm-2.5-24b-a2b: 0.70lfm-2.5-24b-a2b0.70gemini-4-argon: 10gemini-4-argon10gemini-4-argon:batch: 5gemini-4-argon:batch5median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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pareto-latest7.5
pareto-26.97.5
lfm-2.5-24b-a2b0.7
gemini-4-argon10
gemini-4-argon:batch5
median, all paid models2

436 paid models listed; median of the 44 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.