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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic6.4xLLM6.5xOpenAI5.9xLFM2.57.2xLFM2.5-24B-A2B7.2xBuilt7.3xGemini 4 Argon7.0xRust7.6xSystem7.2xRSI7.0x

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

LFM2.5-24B-A2B is an open-weight reasoning model with 24 billion total and 2 billion active parameters designed for fast, private on-device agents. It outperforms Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on LiveClaw. ·

73 points and 18 comments on Hacker News, linking liquid.ai.

Hacker News2h ago▲8 to 91 across 8 pollsdiscussliquid.ai

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents

LFM2.5-24B-A2B is an open-weight reasoning model with 24 billion total and 2 billion active parameters designed for fast, private on-device agents. It outperforms Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on LiveClaw. ·

73 points and 18 comments on Hacker News, linking liquid.ai.

Hacker News2h ago▲8 to 91 across 8 pollsdiscussliquid.ai

0xProbabillity/house-control

A new repository written in Swift with 198 stars in its first week.

GitHub13h ago▲178 to 198 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Graphicle-AI/graphicle

Graphicle is a Rust program that provides code graph and memory features for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP client. ·

GitHub14h ago▲125 to 128 across 2 pollsgithub.com

fishaudio/drama-3

A text to speech model from fishaudio with 317 likes and 839 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face22h ago▲132 to 317 across 44 pollshuggingface.co

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 Willison34h ago▲20 to 1829 across 114 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 Papers26h ago▲3 to 269 across 20 pollsarxiv.org

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 2.74Anthropic2.74LLM: 2.16LLM2.16OpenAI: 2.09OpenAI2.09LFM2.5: 1.27LFM2.51.27LFM2.5-24B-A2B: 1.27LFM2.5-24B-A2B1.27Built: 1.05Built1.05
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Anthropic2.74
LLM2.16
OpenAI2.09
LFM2.51.27
LFM2.5-24B-A2B1.27
Built1.05

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: 4,309abenzerps/Qwen-Ima… ▼14,309google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,266google/embeddinggemma…2,266jialinyyzz/humanizer: 1,638jialinyyzz/humanizer1,638Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo: 776Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-T…776autotrust/JEV-35B ▲6: 731autotrust/JEV-35B ▲6731openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲2: 626openbmb/MiniCPM-V-… ▲2626
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abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized ▼14309
google/embeddinggemma-22266
jialinyyzz/humanizer1638
Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo776
autotrust/JEV-35B ▲6731
openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲2626

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 317 likes and 839 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face22h ago▲132 to 317 across 44 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 Papers26h ago▲3 to 269 across 20 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 Papers26h 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 Papers26h ago▲16 to 196 across 19 pollsarxiv.org

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

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

Hacker News+ Google DeepMind34h ago▲4 to 285 across 62 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 Papers26h ago▲3 to 269 across 20 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 Papers26h 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 Papers26h ago▲16 to 196 across 19 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

onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: 2,097onehumanbeing/esp32-i…2,097rociiu/talorys: 1,002rociiu/talorys1,002zhuyansen/new-term-radar: 963zhuyansen/new-term-ra…963marclou/mailcheap: 933marclou/mailcheap933jwuthri-cloud/Tracely-ai: 817jwuthri-cloud/Tracely…817outcrawlai/scout: 657outcrawlai/scout657
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onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent2097
rociiu/talorys1002
zhuyansen/new-term-radar963
marclou/mailcheap933
jwuthri-cloud/Tracely-ai817
outcrawlai/scout657

0xProbabillity/house-control

A new repository written in Swift with 198 stars in its first week.

GitHub13h ago▲178 to 198 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Graphicle-AI/graphicle

Graphicle is a Rust program that provides code graph and memory features for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP client. ·

GitHub14h ago▲125 to 128 across 2 pollsgithub.com

0xProbabillity/house-control

A new repository written in Swift with 198 stars in its first week.

GitHub13h ago▲178 to 198 across 4 pollsgithub.com

Graphicle-AI/graphicle

Graphicle is a Rust program that provides code graph and memory features for coding agents, supporting Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and any MCP client. ·

GitHub14h ago▲125 to 128 across 2 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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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.