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A new map shows that 90% of US working hours involve tasks poorly covered by current AI benchmarks, highlighting significant gaps in evaluation coverage. ·
55 points and 29 comments on Hacker News, linking mercor.com.
85 points and 19 comments on Hacker News, linking theregister.com.
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Poland is positioned to gain a larger share of global data center capacity due to its evolving energy situation and the ongoing industry expansion. ·
Google DeepMind is hiring a nuclear expert to evaluate and mitigate the safety risks of frontier AI models in the nuclear domain. ·
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A new map shows that 90% of US working hours involve tasks poorly covered by current AI benchmarks, highlighting significant gaps in evaluation coverage. ·
55 points and 29 comments on Hacker News, linking mercor.com.
85 points and 19 comments on Hacker News, linking theregister.com.
A image text to text model from meta-models with 145 likes and 814 downloads on Hugging Face.
MAI-Gym is an open platform for evaluating and training GUI agents across mobile and computer environments. It supports 20,000 parallel instances and trains a 9B agent. ·
Researchers introduce Waypoint-OPD, a distillation method that gates policy shifts using intermediate checkpoints to improve transfer between Qwen3 model sizes in reasoning tasks. ·
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·
A new map shows that 90% of US working hours involve tasks poorly covered by current AI benchmarks, highlighting significant gaps in evaluation coverage. ·
55 points and 29 comments on Hacker News, linking mercor.com.
MAI-Gym is an open platform for evaluating and training GUI agents across mobile and computer environments. It supports 20,000 parallel instances and trains a 9B agent. ·
85 points and 19 comments on Hacker News, linking theregister.com.
Researchers introduce Waypoint-OPD, a distillation method that gates policy shifts using intermediate checkpoints to improve transfer between Qwen3 model sizes in reasoning tasks. ·
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·
| Anthropic | 2.06 |
| Chinese | 1.5 |
| A42B | 0.97 |
| Open-816B | 0.97 |
| meta-models | 0.97 |
| Muse Spark | 0.93 |
Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.
Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings
| abenzerps/Qwen-Image-2.1-Uncensored-Quantized ▼1 | 4421 |
| google/embeddinggemma-2 | 2494 |
| jialinyyzz/humanizer | 1805 |
| Qwen/Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo ▼1 | 928 |
| openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4.7-35B-A3B ▲1 | 831 |
| fishaudio/drama-3 ▲2 | 535 |
| 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/
106 points and 50 comments on Hacker News, linking starskirmish.com.
A image text to text model from meta-models with 145 likes and 814 downloads on Hugging Face.
MAI-Gym is an open platform for evaluating and training GUI agents across mobile and computer environments. It supports 20,000 parallel instances and trains a 9B agent. ·
Researchers introduce Waypoint-OPD, a distillation method that gates policy shifts using intermediate checkpoints to improve transfer between Qwen3 model sizes in reasoning tasks. ·
FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·
MAI-Gym is an open platform for evaluating and training GUI agents across mobile and computer environments. It supports 20,000 parallel instances and trains a 9B agent. ·
92 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers.
106 points and 50 comments on Hacker News, linking starskirmish.com.
Researchers introduce Waypoint-OPD, a distillation method that gates policy shifts using intermediate checkpoints to improve transfer between Qwen3 model sizes in reasoning tasks. ·
FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios across 18 sectors, where agents interact with stakeholders to improve customer success metrics. ·
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. ·
X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
GPT-Live-1.1 – New voices. Better accents. Less "checking."
2 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.
Can Coding Agents Act Like Staff Engineers?
2 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Claude Fable 5.5 traces have been spotted in Azure configs
1 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Claude desktop should have trello boards
1 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
GPT-Live-1.1 – New voices. Better accents. Less "checking."
2 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.
OpenAI finds recording device in one of their offices
85 points and 2 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
New repos, releases and changelog
| onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent | 2821 |
| deeplethe/solid-glass | 1343 |
| rociiu/talorys | 1242 |
| marclou/mailcheap | 1126 |
| zhuyansen/new-term-radar | 1062 |
| feder-cr/git-ai | 1042 |
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·
A new repository written in Python with 176 stars in its first week.
PointWormGazebo offers a universal cheat panel that provides AI-enhanced aimbot and per-game precision tuning for various video games. ·
OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·
Anujasid releases an AI assistant and MCP server for Blender that supports visual chat, scene tools, and multi-agent workflows. It integrates with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, and OpenCode. ·
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
New release v2.1.301 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.
OpenMOSS releases MOSS-Image, a 5B-parameter base DiT model that generates high-quality text and layouts while supporting efficient fine-tuning. ·
OpenAI releases Codex version 0.163.0, which adds parallel read-only tool execution and enables Daybreak by default for eligible accounts. ·
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. ·
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 | 32 |
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.
| beam-1.0-501b-a23b | 1 |
| moondream3-preview | 2.5 |
| moondream3.1-9b-a2b | 2.5 |
| muse-spark-open | 4.25 |
| nemotron-3.5-super-vl | 0.5 |
| median, all paid models | 2 |
439 paid models listed; median of the 48 added in 30 days: $4.62. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
Researchers reverse engineer the Eufy Homebase2, revealing its WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns, and a damaged flash memory chip. ·
8 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking adepts.of0x.cc.
Salience Labs raises $125 million in a Series B round with participation from AMD and Intel to develop optical circuit switching technology. ·
49 points and 40 comments on Hacker News, linking reuters.com.
Researchers reverse engineer the Eufy Homebase2, revealing its WiFi secrets, UART lockdowns, and a damaged flash memory chip. ·
382 points and 277 comments on Hacker News, linking startupfortune.com.
60 points and 39 comments on Hacker News, linking dfarq.homeip.net.