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What is climbing fastest across every source

LLMs6.2xDeepSeek6.7xAnthropic6.8xClaude9.0xGoogle7.1xBattle Drones7.1xRTS7.1xMystery Hype Theater 30007.4xTheater 30007.4xDHS8.0x

google-gemini/gemini-cli Release v0.65.0

Google releases Gemini CLI version 0.65.0, which includes fixes for workspace settings, session resumption, and OAuth validation. ·

GitHub Releases5h ago▲0 to 1 across 3 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 Releases5h ago▲8 to 20 across 3 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 Releases5h ago▲8 to 20 across 3 pollsgithub.com

google-gemini/gemini-cli Release v0.65.0

Google releases Gemini CLI version 0.65.0, which includes fixes for workspace settings, session resumption, and OAuth validation. ·

GitHub Releases5h ago▲0 to 1 across 3 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. ·

GitHub15h ago▲143 to 315 across 11 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 312 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲111 to 312 across 45 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 Releases5h ago▲8 to 20 across 3 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 News13h ago▲6 to 510 across 48 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 Papers26h ago▲11 to 237 across 22 pollsarxiv.org

Trending topics today: heat

LLMs: 2.06LLMs2.06DeepSeek: 1.75DeepSeek1.75Anthropic: 1.72Anthropic1.72Claude: 1.25Claude1.25Google: 1.03Google1.03Battle Drones: 1Battle Drones1
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LLMs2.06
DeepSeek1.75
Anthropic1.72
Claude1.25
Google1.03
Battle Drones1

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: 2,770google/embeddinggemma…2,770deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017: 1,965deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-…1,965black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy ▲1: 1,097black-forest-labs/… ▲11,097fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1: 836fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1836meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B ▲3: 611meta-models/Muse-S… ▲3611black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein ▲3: 566black-forest-labs/… ▲3566
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google/embeddinggemma-22770
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10171965
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein-comfy ▲11097
fishaudio/drama-3 ▲1836
meta-models/Muse-Spark-Open-816B-A42B ▲3611
black-forest-labs/flux-3-image-klein ▲3566

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/

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 Papers26h ago▲11 to 237 across 22 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 Papers26h ago▲111 to 149 across 18 pollsarxiv.org

X voices

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X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon

GitHub

5 stories

New repos, releases and changelog

New AI repos this week: stars

deepseek-ai/DeepInfer: 12,857deepseek-ai/DeepInfer12,857Leonxlnx/earshot: 1,955Leonxlnx/earshot1,955feder-cr/git-ai: 1,273feder-cr/git-ai1,273aicodeking/leanrea: 1,180aicodeking/leanrea1,180OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image: 1,168OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image1,168alchaincyf/huashu-motion: 1,157alchaincyf/huashu-mot…1,157
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deepseek-ai/DeepInfer12857
Leonxlnx/earshot1955
feder-cr/git-ai1273
aicodeking/leanrea1180
OpenMOSS/MOSS-Image1168
alchaincyf/huashu-motion1157

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. ·

GitHub15h ago▲143 to 315 across 11 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 312 stars in its first week.

GitHub+ Hacker News2d ago▲111 to 312 across 45 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. ·

GitHub15h ago▲143 to 315 across 11 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 Releases28h ago▲6 to 25 across 15 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