Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia
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6 storiesWhat is climbing fastest across every source
Anthropic6.0xblack-forest-labs6.8xflux-36.8xChinese7.1xScion7.6xText-to-image Generation6.3xOpenRouter5.8xMononoke7.7xNvidia5.8xSCOPE7.0x
[AINews] Agents disprove Polysemanticity; greatly improve Interpretability & Alignment
Nick Cammarata claims that agents disprove polysemanticity, greatly improving interpretability and alignment. ·
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. ·
WorldCast: Exploring Intelligent Visual Generation in World State Prediction
Researchers introduce WorldCast, a benchmark containing 320 manually designed cases across eight categories, to evaluate twelve models on multi-step world state prediction tasks. ·
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. ·
Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia
39 points and 27 comments on Hacker News, linking 6abc.com.
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. ·
InfoVis: Unified Slide Image Generation and Editing
Researchers introduce InfoVis, a nine-billion-parameter model for unified slide generation and editing, which leads open-source models on eleven metrics and scores 7.94 overall. ·
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. ·
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.
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. ·
68 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
InfoVis: Unified Slide Image Generation and Editing
Researchers introduce InfoVis, a nine-billion-parameter model for unified slide generation and editing, which leads open-source models on eleven metrics and scores 7.94 overall. ·
Woman arrested after blocking delivery robot in Center City Philadelphia
39 points and 27 comments on Hacker News, linking 6abc.com.
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. ·
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 | 2.49 |
| black-forest-labs | 1.21 |
| flux-3 | 1.21 |
| Chinese | 1.08 |
| Scion | 0.94 |
| Text-to-image Generation | 0.86 |
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 | 4396 |
| google/embeddinggemma-2 | 2421 |
| jialinyyzz/humanizer | 1756 |
| Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo | 889 |
| openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B | 802 |
| fishaudio/drama-3 ▲4 | 492 |
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/
InfoVis: Unified Slide Image Generation and Editing
Researchers introduce InfoVis, a nine-billion-parameter model for unified slide generation and editing, which leads open-source models on eleven metrics and scores 7.94 overall. ·
14 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
CommerceGen-Studio: An End-to-End Framework for Commercial-Grade Main-Image Generation
CommerceGen-Studio is an end-to-end framework that generates commercial-grade main images for e-commerce products using a three-stage pipeline. It operates at a scale of millions of images per day. ·
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. ·
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. ·
EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation
EdgeWise is an edge-cloud framework that runs a small local model for most steps and delegates critical tasks to a cloud large model to reduce inference costs. ·
InfoVis: Unified Slide Image Generation and Editing
Researchers introduce InfoVis, a nine-billion-parameter model for unified slide generation and editing, which leads open-source models on eleven metrics and scores 7.94 overall. ·
14 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
CommerceGen-Studio: An End-to-End Framework for Commercial-Grade Main-Image Generation
CommerceGen-Studio is an end-to-end framework that generates commercial-grade main images for e-commerce products using a three-stage pipeline. It operates at a scale of millions of images per day. ·
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. ·
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. ·
EdgeWise: Bringing Long-Horizon Agents to the Edge via Selective Cloud Delegation
EdgeWise is an edge-cloud framework that runs a small local model for most steps and delegates critical tasks to a cloud large model to reduce inference costs. ·
X voices
5 storiesX posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
@OpenAI
GPT-Live-1.1 – New voices. Better accents. Less "checking."
2 points and 0 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.
@OpenAI
GPT-Live-1.1 – New voices. Better accents. Less "checking."
2 points and 0 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 | 2588 |
| rociiu/talorys | 1183 |
| deeplethe/solid-glass | 1094 |
| marclou/mailcheap | 1066 |
| zhuyansen/new-term-radar | 1032 |
| outcrawlai/scout | 840 |
anthropics/claude-code v2.1.301
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
openai/codex 0.163.0
OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·
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. ·
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. ·
openai/codex 0.163.0
OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·
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. ·
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 274 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 274 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. ·
