Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia
23 points and 18 comments on Hacker News, linking 6abc.com.
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6 storiesWhat is climbing fastest across every source
Anthropic6.0xLLMs5.8xblack-forest-labs6.9xflux-36.9xChinese7.1xScion7.6xText-to-image Generation7.2xOpenRouter5.8xMononoke7.7xNvidia5.8x
Speculative Forcing for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation
Researchers introduce Speculative Forcing, a framework that accelerates autoregressive video generation by freezing tokens that require minimal refinement. The method matches four-step generator quality using approximately 1.7 denoising steps on LongLive. ·
OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding
Researchers introduce OmniCompass, a benchmark for evaluating multimodal models on video grounding and understanding. It includes 820 vision-language videos and 240 audio-visual videos. ·
PointWormGazebo/panel-all-in-one-any-game
PointWormGazebo offers a universal cheat panel that provides AI-enhanced aimbot and per-game precision tuning for various video games. ·
Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline
From Hugging Face blog.
Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI
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. ·
Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia
23 points and 18 comments on Hacker News, linking 6abc.com.
Speculative Forcing for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation
Researchers introduce Speculative Forcing, a framework that accelerates autoregressive video generation by freezing tokens that require minimal refinement. The method matches four-step generator quality using approximately 1.7 denoising steps on LongLive. ·
PointWormGazebo/panel-all-in-one-any-game
PointWormGazebo offers a universal cheat panel that provides AI-enhanced aimbot and per-game precision tuning for various video games. ·
Intern Lumina U2: A Multi-Codebook Diffusion Large Language Model for Omni-Visual Understanding and Image Generation
Intern Lumina U2 is a diffusion language model that represents multi-codebook visual tokens in a fully discrete space to unify visual understanding and image generation. ·
Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI
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. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.301
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Speculative Forcing for Efficient Autoregressive Video Generation
Researchers introduce Speculative Forcing, a framework that accelerates autoregressive video generation by freezing tokens that require minimal refinement. The method matches four-step generator quality using approximately 1.7 denoising steps on LongLive. ·
35 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
PointWormGazebo/panel-all-in-one-any-game
PointWormGazebo offers a universal cheat panel that provides AI-enhanced aimbot and per-game precision tuning for various video games. ·
Intern Lumina U2: A Multi-Codebook Diffusion Large Language Model for Omni-Visual Understanding and Image Generation
Intern Lumina U2 is a diffusion language model that represents multi-codebook visual tokens in a fully discrete space to unify visual understanding and image generation. ·
Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia
23 points and 18 comments on Hacker News, linking 6abc.com.
Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI
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. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.301
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Trending topics today: heat
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| Anthropic | 2.71 |
| LLMs | 1.47 |
| black-forest-labs | 1.33 |
| flux-3 | 1.33 |
| Chinese | 1.17 |
| Scion | 1.03 |
Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.
Models
5 storiesReleases, papers, trending weights and new listings
Top 6 trending on Hugging Face: likes
Table
| abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized | 4391 |
| google/embeddinggemma-2 | 2412 |
| jialinyyzz/humanizer | 1742 |
| Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo | 884 |
| openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B | 796 |
| fishaudio/drama-3 ▲5 | 482 |
PirateBench: score out of 100
Table
| 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/
Intern Lumina U2: A Multi-Codebook Diffusion Large Language Model for Omni-Visual Understanding and Image Generation
Intern Lumina U2 is a diffusion language model that represents multi-codebook visual tokens in a fully discrete space to unify visual understanding and image generation. ·
14 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
SWE-at-Scale: Scalable Issue Synthesis from Historical Bug Fixes
SWE-at-Scale is a framework that automatically synthesizes realistic software engineering tasks by reverse-engineering historical bug fixes to create diverse evaluation scenarios for coding agents. ·
Orbia: Do Generated Videos Form a Consistent 3D World?
Orbia is a benchmark that systematically evaluates three-dimensional consistency in interactive video generation models by measuring input preservation, content persistence, and self-consistency. ·
JevAgentHarness: Benchmarking, Deploying and Training Decision Models That Share Control with LLMs
Researchers introduce JevAgentHarness, a system that delegates routine agent decisions to smaller models to reduce costs, and release AgentDecision-4B, an open four-billion-parameter model trained on agent trajectories. ·
3DCodeVerse: Exploring 3D Worlds as Code
Researchers introduce 3DCodeVerse, a system allowing coding agents to generate editable 3D content using a two-million-item dataset and an automated verification framework. ·
Intern Lumina U2: A Multi-Codebook Diffusion Large Language Model for Omni-Visual Understanding and Image Generation
Intern Lumina U2 is a diffusion language model that represents multi-codebook visual tokens in a fully discrete space to unify visual understanding and image generation. ·
14 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
SWE-at-Scale: Scalable Issue Synthesis from Historical Bug Fixes
SWE-at-Scale is a framework that automatically synthesizes realistic software engineering tasks by reverse-engineering historical bug fixes to create diverse evaluation scenarios for coding agents. ·
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B
A image text to text model from meta-models with 270 likes and 402 downloads on Hugging Face.
Orbia: Do Generated Videos Form a Consistent 3D World?
Orbia is a benchmark that systematically evaluates three-dimensional consistency in interactive video generation models by measuring input preservation, content persistence, and self-consistency. ·
JevAgentHarness: Benchmarking, Deploying and Training Decision Models That Share Control with LLMs
Researchers introduce JevAgentHarness, a system that delegates routine agent decisions to smaller models to reduce costs, and release AgentDecision-4B, an open four-billion-parameter model trained on agent trajectories. ·
X voices
5 storiesX posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
@antigravity
Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity to Paid Google AI Pro
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@SEGA
Total War Remaster Removed from Steam After AI Allegations, Brings Back Original
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@opencode
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now free in OpenCode
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@firesidealpha
AI researchers are taking up smoking to signal to other researchers
3 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@HelloSurgeAI
Can Coding Agents Act Like Staff Engineers?
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@antigravity
Gemini 4 Argon in Antigravity to Paid Google AI Pro
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@SEGA
Total War Remaster Removed from Steam After AI Allegations, Brings Back Original
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@opencode
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is now free in OpenCode
4 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@HelloSurgeAI
Can Coding Agents Act Like Staff Engineers?
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
@OpenAINewsroom
OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices
85 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
GitHub
5 storiesNew repos, releases and changelog
New AI repos this week: stars
Table
| onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent | 2531 |
| rociiu/talorys | 1169 |
| marclou/mailcheap | 1059 |
| deeplethe/solid-glass | 1042 |
| zhuyansen/new-term-radar | 1028 |
| outcrawlai/scout | 835 |
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.301
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
unslothai/unsloth NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 + Meta Muse Spark Open
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. ·
ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.7.0
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/open_scion
Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·
Show HN: BlastLoop, a structure-first coding method for AI agents
BlastLoop is a structure-first coding method for AI agents that uses build altitudes and quality gates to manage development. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.301
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
ggml-org/llama.cpp v0.7.0
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/open_scion
Feder-cr releases open_scion, an open-source version control system designed specifically for coding agents. ·
unslothai/unsloth NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 + Meta Muse Spark Open
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. ·
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.300
New release v2.1.300 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
Infrastructure
5 storiesData centers, power, chips and what tokens cost
Data-center and energy stories per day
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| 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.
Median output price of models added in the last 30 days, $ per million tokens
One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)
Table
| 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.
Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom
49 points and 40 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
Reliability Standards for AI Data Centers, Crypto Miners Move Closer to Adoption
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. ·
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
378 points and 272 comments on Hacker News, linking startupfortune.com.
Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom
49 points and 40 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
378 points and 272 comments on Hacker News, linking startupfortune.com.
Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256
60 points and 39 comments on Hacker News, linking dfarq.homeip.net.
AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers
25 points and 39 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
Small AI models may soon self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes without requiring a datacenter. ·
