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Anthropic receives a high junk rating from credit agencies following its IPO, which increases the cost of raising capital for its business. ·
12 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking techcrunch.com.
A new repository with 128 stars in its first week.
Drew Breunig embeds a Nintendo Entertainment System emulator into Qwen3.5-4B weights to run ROMs. Opus 5.5 prompts guide the process using 15-year-old conformance tests. ·
171 points and 105 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.
Proton CEO Andy Yen cancels AI re-interviews after 404 Media reports he pushed AI despite security concerns and a culture of fear. ·
Speridlabs releases Idol, an image-to-3D model available for download and exploration on Hugging Face. ·
171 points and 105 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.
A new repository with 128 stars in its first week.
Anthropic receives a high junk rating from credit agencies following its IPO, which increases the cost of raising capital for its business. ·
Unsloth updates its platform with custom backgrounds, faster app updates, improved Linux performance, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 support. ·
Speridlabs releases Idol, an image-to-3D model available for download and exploration on Hugging Face. ·
Pika Labs releases the Pika-H3-Flex image-to-video diffuser model, which contains 33 billion parameters and is built with Diffusers. ·
171 points and 105 comments on Hacker News, linking github.com.
Mistral releases Mistral Large 4, a one trillion parameter multimodal model trained in Europe, as the best open-weight coding model. ·
Unsloth updates its platform with custom backgrounds, faster app updates, improved Linux performance, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 support. ·
Intrinsic Distribution Matching improves one-step text-to-image generation by matching feature means and standard deviations. It achieves 94.25% on Chinese LongText-Bench using Z-Image-Turbo 6B. ·
A-RSI refreshes multimodal training tasks based on reward variation and accuracy, raising performance on eleven benchmarks without external data. ·
Capri is a fan-made cyberpunk AI agent for Windows that controls files and code via Claude Code, Codex, or Antigravity without requiring a terminal. ·
| Anthropic | 1.74 |
| Claude Code | 1.44 |
| Claude | 1.44 |
| IPO | 1.17 |
| Cisco | 1.16 |
| Proton | 1.05 |
Heat = summed hotness of today's stories naming the topic.
Releases, papers, trending weights and new listings
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | 4005 |
| Nanbeige/Nanbeige4.3-33B | 798 |
| LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B ▲1 | 559 |
| ISTA-DASLab/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017-GSQ-RCO-GGUF ▲2 | 507 |
| nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B ▲5 | 498 |
| baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2 ▲4 | 452 |
| 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/
Anthropic's official Claude Code extensions for Visual Studio Code and Cursor contain malware that creates a remote access Trojan. ·
651 points and 17 comments on Hacker News, linking cyberplace.social.
731 points and 455 comments on Hacker News, linking phorion.io.
RL-trained Qwen3-4B flies a simulated Tesla Roadster 21% better than GPT-6 Astra in storms. ·
Pika Labs releases the Pika-H3-Flex image-to-video diffuser model, which contains 33 billion parameters and is built with Diffusers. ·
Intrinsic Distribution Matching improves one-step text-to-image generation by matching feature means and standard deviations. It achieves 94.25% on Chinese LongText-Bench using Z-Image-Turbo 6B. ·
Mistral releases Mistral Large 4, a one trillion parameter multimodal model trained in Europe, as the best open-weight coding model. ·
1,674 points and 433 comments on Hacker News, linking mistral.ai.
731 points and 455 comments on Hacker News, linking phorion.io.
Anthropic's official Claude Code extensions for Visual Studio Code and Cursor contain malware that creates a remote access Trojan. ·
Intrinsic Distribution Matching improves one-step text-to-image generation by matching feature means and standard deviations. It achieves 94.25% on Chinese LongText-Bench using Z-Image-Turbo 6B. ·
A-RSI refreshes multimodal training tasks based on reward variation and accuracy, raising performance on eleven benchmarks without external data. ·
X posts other sources are linking to, then named voices on Bluesky and Mastodon
Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites
99 points and 100 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Reddit CEO admits Google's AI Mode is choking off its search traffic
7 points and 6 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Claude: renaming Max plans: Max 5x → Max, Max 20x → Ultra
4 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Project Suncatcher: TPU on the Orbit
6 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
First video gen model trained on real neurons online
2 points and 0 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Anthropic Cracking Down on Video Game Rewrites
99 points and 100 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Building an AI-native engineering org
95 points and 130 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Reddit CEO admits Google's AI Mode is choking off its search traffic
7 points and 6 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Project Suncatcher: TPU on the Orbit
6 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
Claude: renaming Max plans: Max 5x → Max, Max 20x → Ultra
4 points and 1 comments on Hacker News, linking an X post.
New repos, releases and changelog
| anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh | 3941 |
| ccch1mneyyy/dsh-Go | 2448 |
| andyhuo520/digital-human-koubo | 1550 |
| qybaihe/bla | 1393 |
| DenisSergeevitch/ex-ussr-kinship-research | 1342 |
| wangzan101/Mika | 1239 |
Unsloth updates its platform with custom backgrounds, faster app updates, improved Linux performance, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 support. ·
New release v0.1.913-beta of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.
Spinf-serve is an Apache 2.0 inference server that performs bulk classification and decision scoring on a single GPU. ·
Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.314, adding write permissions, idle compaction, and session fixes. ·
OpenAI releases Codex version 0.166.0, adding keyboard-driven transcript selection, GPT-6.1 Terra support, and various bug fixes. ·
A user compiles an integer neural network into a DOOM map using Voodoo dolls for arithmetic and light levels for values. ·
Unsloth updates its platform with custom backgrounds, faster app updates, improved Linux performance, and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 support. ·
New release v0.1.913-beta of unslothai/unsloth on GitHub.
Capri is a fan-made cyberpunk AI agent for Windows that controls files and code via Claude Code, Codex, or Antigravity without requiring a terminal. ·
Anthropic releases Claude Code version 2.1.314, adding write permissions, idle compaction, and session fixes. ·
The heydamir/unslop project is a Claude skill that converts vibecoded, AI-looking user interfaces into designed layouts. ·
A new repository written in Kotlin with 1,239 stars in its first week.
Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost
| Sun 25 | 1 |
| Mon 26 | 39 |
| Tue 27 | 34 |
| Wed 28 | 32 |
| Thu 29 | 42 |
| Fri 30 | 29 |
| Sat 31 | 0 |
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.
| particle-1 | 0.5 |
| gpt-6.1-terra-pro | 5 |
| gpt-6.1-terra-pro:batch | 2.5 |
| gpt-6.1-terra | 5 |
| gpt-6.1-terra:batch | 2.5 |
| median, all paid models | 2 |
428 paid models listed; median of the 29 added in 30 days: $2.50. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.
34 points and 31 comments on Hacker News, linking youtube.com.
A Scottish automotive company proposes a data center near Cowlairs Park in Glasgow and is consulting the local council about the project. ·
From DCD.
34 points and 31 comments on Hacker News, linking youtube.com.
SkyPilot optimizes NVLink usage in NVL72 racks through topology-aware placement, in-place recovery, and automatic defragmentation. ·
A Scottish automotive company proposes a data center near Cowlairs Park in Glasgow and is consulting the local council about the project. ·
From DCD.