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What is climbing fastest across every source

LLMs6.3xDeepSeek6.7xAnthropic7.0xClaude9.1xGoogle7.1xBattle Drones7.1xRTS7.1xMystery Hype Theater 30007.4xTheater 30007.4xDHS8.0x

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.305

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.305, which adds Linux user namespace support and fixes regressions affecting Vertex, Bedrock, and other providers. ·

New release v2.1.305 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.

GitHub Releases3h ago▲8 to 17 across 2 pollsgithub.com

On AI writing

The source defines AI writing as text where at least fifty percent of the words are generated by artificial intelligence. ·

Hacker News4h ago▲13 to 107 across 10 pollsdiscussbolkunov.com

anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python v1.17.0

Anthropic releases Python SDK version 1.17.0, adding organization webhook endpoints, user profile enforcement events, and RBAC group owner-access error codes to the Admin API. ·

GitHub Releases2h ago▲github.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.305

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.305, which adds Linux user namespace support and fixes regressions affecting Vertex, Bedrock, and other providers. ·

New release v2.1.305 of anthropics/claude-code on GitHub.

GitHub Releases3h ago▲8 to 17 across 2 pollsgithub.com

On AI writing

The source defines AI writing as text where at least fifty percent of the words are generated by artificial intelligence. ·

Hacker News4h ago▲13 to 107 across 10 pollsdiscussbolkunov.com

dominikmartn/harp

Harp is an unofficial Warp fork that runs multiple Claude Code and Codex agents in a single sidebar to indicate which requires attention. ·

GitHub13h ago▲143 to 280 across 9 pollsgithub.com

lodestones/Kromoss

A text to image model from lodestones with 169 likes and 5,365 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face15h ago▲131 to 169 across 30 pollshuggingface.co

finereli/whatsapp-mcp

A read-only MCP server lets AI agents search and read personal WhatsApp messages while running on Cloudflare Workers. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 311 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲111 to 311 across 43 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.305

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.305, which adds Linux user namespace support and fixes regressions affecting Vertex, Bedrock, and other providers. ·

GitHub Releases3h ago▲8 to 17 across 2 pollsgithub.com

Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs

Peec AI reports that fifty thousand fabricated statistics were cited by ChatGPT, illustrating how large language models incorporate false data. ·

Hacker News11h ago▲6 to 493 across 46 pollsdiscusspeec.ai

Scaling Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Brain Encoding

Researchers introduce BrainLoRA, a parameter-efficient fine-ting method that adapts large multimodal backbones for brain encoding using low-rank adapters and causal structure to reduce computational costs. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲11 to 235 across 20 pollsarxiv.org

Trending topics today: heat

LLMs: 2.23LLMs2.23DeepSeek: 1.90DeepSeek1.90Anthropic: 1.88Anthropic1.88Claude: 1.34Claude1.34Google: 1.12Google1.12Battle Drones: 1.09Battle Drones1.09
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LLMs2.23
DeepSeek1.9
Anthropic1.88
Claude1.34
Google1.12
Battle Drones1.09

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

google/embeddinggemma-2: 2,763google/embeddinggemma…2,763deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: 1,948deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-…1,948black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy ▲1: 1,089black-forest-labs/… ▲11,089fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1: 835fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1835meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B ▲3: 607meta-models/Muse-S… ▲3607black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein ▲3: 564black-forest-labs/… ▲3564
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google/embeddinggemma-22763
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10171948
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy ▲11089
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1835
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B ▲3607
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein ▲3564

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/

lodestones/Kromoss

A text to image model from lodestones with 169 likes and 5,365 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face15h ago▲131 to 169 across 30 pollshuggingface.co

Scaling Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Brain Encoding

Researchers introduce BrainLoRA, a parameter-efficient fine-ting method that adapts large multimodal backbones for brain encoding using low-rank adapters and causal structure to reduce computational costs. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲11 to 235 across 20 pollsarxiv.org

MemT-1.0: Towards Memory-Native Evolution

Researchers introduce MemT-1.0, a memory-native foundation model architecture that internalizes memory during computation. The system uses Gated DeltaNet-2 and Mixture-of-Storage to scale native memory capacity. ·

HF Daily Papers24h ago▲111 to 148 across 16 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

deepseek-ai/DeepInfer: 12,047deepseek-ai/DeepInfer12,047Leonxlnx/earshot: 1,943Leonxlnx/earshot1,943feder-cr/git-ai: 1,264feder-cr/git-ai1,264aicodeking/leanrea: 1,173aicodeking/leanrea1,173OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image: 1,159OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image1,159alchaincyf/huashu-motion: 1,145alchaincyf/huashu-mot…1,145
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deepseek-ai/DeepInfer12047
Leonxlnx/earshot1943
feder-cr/git-ai1264
aicodeking/leanrea1173
OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image1159
alchaincyf/huashu-motion1145

dominikmartn/harp

Harp is an unofficial Warp fork that runs multiple Claude Code and Codex agents in a single sidebar to indicate which requires attention. ·

GitHub13h ago▲143 to 280 across 9 pollsgithub.com

finereli/whatsapp-mcp

A read-only MCP server lets AI agents search and read personal WhatsApp messages while running on Cloudflare Workers. ·

A new repository written in TypeScript with 311 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲111 to 311 across 43 pollsgithub.com

dominikmartn/harp

Harp is an unofficial Warp fork that runs multiple Claude Code and Codex agents in a single sidebar to indicate which requires attention. ·

GitHub13h ago▲143 to 280 across 9 pollsgithub.com

anthropics/claude-code v2.1.304

Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.304, which adds new mod hooks, a guided setup command, and a security comparison tool. ·

GitHub Releases26h ago▲6 to 25 across 14 pollsgithub.com

unslothai/unsloth DeepSeek-V4.1 & FLUX-3

Unsloth releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 and FLUX.3 Image Klein for local use, adding image and video chat features, multi-GPU training, and one-command MCP setup for coding agents. ·

GitHub Releases32h ago▲11 to 22 across 16 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

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Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Thu 15: 41Thu 1541Fri 16: 35Fri 1635Sat 17: 5Sat 175Sun 18: 2Sun 182Mon 19: 32Mon 1932Tue 20: 31Tue 2031Wed 21: 0Wed 210
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Thu 1541
Fri 1635
Sat 175
Sun 182
Mon 1932
Tue 2031
Wed 210

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 $3.69Min $3.20Max $5.00

One point per OpenRouter reading, last 8 days. Data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017: 0.60deepseek-v4.1-flash-1…0.60glimpse: 3glimpse3beam-1.0-501b-a23b: 1beam-1.0-501b-a23b1mercury-3: 0.35mercury-30.35moondream3-preview: 2.50moondream3-preview2.50median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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deepseek-v4.1-flash-10170.6
glimpse3
beam-1.0-501b-a23b1
mercury-30.35
moondream3-preview2.5
median, all paid models2

439 paid models listed; median of the 50 added in 30 days: $3.69. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.

Belief-Trajectory Energy: Measuring the Path to a Prediction

Researchers introduce Belief-Trajectory Energy, a metric that tracks how large language models revise predictions across layers. The method achieves 0.998 macro-AUROC for detecting human-written text. ·

HF Daily Papers2d ago▲2 to 17 across 23 pollsarxiv.org