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What is climbing fastest across every source
New research from Bold Agent Kit indicates that human receptionists achieve roughly four times higher inbound intake conversion rates than AI, despite AI handling a larger volume of calls. ·
29 points and 28 comments on Hacker News, linking boldagents.co.
OpenRouter adds Moondream 3 Preview, a vision-language model with nine billion total parameters and two billion active parameters that handles visual question answering, captioning, OCR, and visual reasoning. ·
OpenRouter adds Moondream 3.1, a vision-language model with nine billion total parameters and two billion active parameters that handles visual question answering, captioning, and OCR. ·
A image text to text model from meta-models with 225 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.
A image to image model from black-forest-labs with 196 likes and 39 downloads on Hugging Face.
OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·
New research from Bold Agent Kit indicates that human receptionists achieve roughly four times higher inbound intake conversion rates than AI, despite AI handling a larger volume of calls. ·
29 points and 28 comments on Hacker News, linking boldagents.co.
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
A image text to text model from meta-models with 225 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.
The magazine bans artificial intelligence to protect human thought and creativity, committing to remain handmade and urging readers to support other publications that do the same. ·
A image to image model from black-forest-labs with 196 likes and 39 downloads on Hugging Face.
Unsloth adds local support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 and Meta Muse Spark Open, introducing text-diffusion LLMs, DeepSpeed training, and improved prompt caching for coding agents. ·
New research from Bold Agent Kit indicates that human receptionists achieve roughly four times higher inbound intake conversion rates than AI, despite AI handling a larger volume of calls. ·
29 points and 28 comments on Hacker News, linking boldagents.co.
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
A image text to text model from meta-models with 225 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.
llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·
A image to image model from black-forest-labs with 210 likes and 3,241 downloads on Hugging Face.
The magazine bans artificial intelligence to protect human thought and creativity, committing to remain handmade and urging readers to support other publications that do the same. ·
| Anthropic | 3.09 |
| black-forest-labs | 1.52 |
| flux-3 | 1.52 |
| Chinese | 1.34 |
| Scion | 1.18 |
| Mononoke | 1 |
Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.
Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings
| abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized | 4382 |
| google/embeddinggemma-2 | 2396 |
| jialinyyzz/humanizer | 1729 |
| Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo | 874 |
| openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B | 793 |
| fishaudio/drama-3 ▲6 | 472 |
| gpt-6.1-sol | 98.9 |
| opus-5-5 | 96.46 |
| gpt-6-sol | 91.6 |
| gpt-6-luna | 65.25 |
| haiku-4-5 | 4.28 |
Agents build our own projects from a brief; every run, failures included: https://cowerx.dev/daily/piratebench/
A image to image model from black-forest-labs with 210 likes and 3,241 downloads on Hugging Face.
Krea 3 is a new image editing model designed for production use. It preserves product integrity and offers volume-based pricing. ·
The Simons Foundation launches a $15 million effort to help mathematicians navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in their field. ·
38 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking research.meta.ai.
Researchers present Any Time, Any Space, a framework that compiles screenplays into shots with explicit spatial and temporal references to improve consistency across nonconsecutive video generation requests. ·
A image to image model from black-forest-labs with 210 likes and 3,241 downloads on Hugging Face.
Krea 3 is a new image editing model designed for production use. It preserves product integrity and offers volume-based pricing. ·
The Simons Foundation launches a $15 million effort to help mathematicians navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in their field. ·
Researchers present Any Time, Any Space, a framework that compiles screenplays into shots with explicit spatial and temporal references to improve consistency across nonconsecutive video generation requests. ·
Researchers propose Road MOPD, a method that uses non-routed teachers as auxiliary critics to resolve gradient conflicts during multi-teacher on-policy distillation. ·
X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
GPT-Live-1.1 – New voices. Better accents. Less "checking."
1 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Handwired: Turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Total War Remaster Removed from Steam After AI Allegations, Brings Back Original
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now free in OpenCode
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
AI researchers are taking up smoking to signal to other researchers
3 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
GPT-Live-1.1 – New voices. Better accents. Less "checking."
1 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Handwired: Turn your regular JavaScript code into a neural net
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Total War Remaster Removed from Steam After AI Allegations, Brings Back Original
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now free in OpenCode
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Can Coding Agents Act Like Staff Engineers?
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
New repos, releases and changelog
| onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent | 2424 |
| rociiu/talorys | 1136 |
| marclou/mailcheap | 1049 |
| zhuyansen/new-term-radar | 1023 |
| deeplethe/solid-glass | 962 |
| outcrawlai/scout | 829 |
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Unsloth adds local support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 and Meta Muse Spark Open, introducing text-diffusion LLMs, DeepSpeed training, and improved prompt caching for coding agents. ·
llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·
Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·
BlastLoop is a structure-first coding method for AI agents that uses build altitudes and quality gates to manage development. ·
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
llama.cpp v0.7.0 adds LiliCorr speculative decoding, a GPU cache for host-memory experts, and support for models like K2 Horizon and Prism Bonsai 2. ·
Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·
Unsloth adds local support for NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 and Meta Muse Spark Open, introducing text-diffusion LLMs, DeepSpeed training, and improved prompt caching for coding agents. ·
New release v2.1.300 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost
| Sat 10 | 3 |
| Sun 11 | 7 |
| Mon 12 | 41 |
| Tue 13 | 29 |
| Wed 14 | 34 |
| Thu 15 | 41 |
| Fri 16 | 0 |
Stories from DCD, Data Center Knowledge, EIA and Hacker News, by publication day.
One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
| moondream3-preview | 2.5 |
| moondream3.1-9b-a2b | 2.5 |
| muse-spark-open | 4.25 |
| nemotron-3.5-super-vl | 0.5 |
| pareto-latest | 7.5 |
| median, all paid models | 2 |
438 paid models listed; median of the 47 added in 30 days: $5.00. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
49 points and 40 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
Proposed reliability standards for large AI data centers and crypto miners await approval by NERC and federal regulators, applying to loads of 50 MW or more at 100 kV or higher. ·
378 points and 272 comments on Hacker News, linking startupfortune.com.
49 points and 40 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
378 points and 272 comments on Hacker News, linking startupfortune.com.
60 points and 39 comments on Hacker News, linking dfarq.homeip.net.
25 points and 39 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
Small AI models may soon self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes without requiring a datacenter. ·
