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What is climbing fastest across every source

Anthropic6.8xOpenAI9.9xS-18.1xAstra7.5xIPO6.7xRecursive Self Improvement7.8xCensus Bureau7.5xBalanov8.6xChina7.6xAgents6.2x

Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads

Intel stock declines further as a $3.5 trillion chip sector sell-off spreads to memory and storage companies on Monday. ·

68 points and 36 comments on Hacker News, linking finance.yahoo.com.

Hacker News2h ago▲11 to 104 across 6 pollsdiscussfinance.yahoo.com

llm 0.37

llm 0.37 updates the LLM CLI tool with new models, an OpenAI endpoint command, and embedding support for Gemini Embedding 2. ·

Simon Willison2h ago▲simonwillison.net

sgl-project/sglang v0.5.23

SGLang version 0.5.23 includes 1007 pull requests from 257 contributors and adds support for models like Muse Spark Open and Beam-1.0. ·

GitHub Releases4h ago▲github.com

Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads

Intel stock declines further as a $3.5 trillion chip sector sell-off spreads to memory and storage companies on Monday. ·

68 points and 36 comments on Hacker News, linking finance.yahoo.com.

Hacker News2h ago▲11 to 104 across 6 pollsdiscussfinance.yahoo.com

Balanov/shim

Balanov/shim is a tiny local-first AI harness supporting any model, MCP, and Agent Skills via a natural-language CLI with zero dependencies under the MIT license. ·

GitHub8h ago▲github.com

langchain==1.4.8

LangChain version 1.4.8 updates dependencies and warns that Python 3.10 support ends in version 1.5.0. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲0 to 1 across 5 pollsgithub.com

vllm-project/vllm v0.33.0

vLLM version 0.33.0 adds support for 122 new models and upgrades to PyTorch 2.14.0 while dropping CUDA 12.9. ·

GitHub Releases16h ago▲1 to 12 across 8 pollsgithub.com

FusionCow/Sulphur-3

FusionCow releases the Sulphur-3 model, a minimax-h3 machine learning model available for download and exploration on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face18h ago▲134 to 256 across 35 pollshuggingface.co

burner22/numbat

The burner22/numbat model is a machine learning model with 6.8 trillion parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

A model model from burner22 with 298 likes and 7,108 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face+ Hacker News33h ago▲123 to 298 across 63 pollshuggingface.co

vllm-project/vllm v0.33.0

vLLM version 0.33.0 adds support for 122 new models and upgrades to PyTorch 2.14.0 while dropping CUDA 12.9. ·

GitHub Releases16h ago▲1 to 12 across 8 pollsgithub.com

Trending topics today: heat

Anthropic: 4.73Anthropic4.73OpenAI: 2.10OpenAI2.10S-1: 1.86S-11.86Astra: 1.58Astra1.58IPO: 1.22IPO1.22Recursive Self Improvement: 1.09Recursive Self Improv…1.09
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Anthropic4.73
OpenAI2.1
S-11.86
Astra1.58
IPO1.22
Recursive Self Improvement1.09

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

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 ▼1: 4,704deepseek-ai/DeepSe… ▼14,704mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B: 1,501mistralai/Mistral-Lar…1,501LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B ▲1: 1,069LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B ▲11,069nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B: 684nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotro…684baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2 ▲1: 563baidu/Unlimited-OC… ▲1563speridlabs/idol ▲4: 419speridlabs/idol ▲4419
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 ▼14704
mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B1501
LiquidAI/LFM3-1.7B ▲11069
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Transcribe-30B-A4B684
baidu/Unlimited-OCR-2 ▲1563
speridlabs/idol ▲4419

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/

Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

Astra reads and writes weights to improve Qwen. Frontier LLMs natively read and write neural network weights better than expected. ·

1,945 points and 619 comments on Hacker News, linking rikiyat.github.io.

Hacker News8h ago▲11 to 2564 across 34 pollsdiscussrikiyat.github.io

FusionCow/Sulphur-3

FusionCow releases the Sulphur-3 model, a minimax-h3 machine learning model available for download and exploration on Hugging Face. ·

Hugging Face18h ago▲134 to 256 across 35 pollshuggingface.co

burner22/numbat

The burner22/numbat model is a machine learning model with 6.8 trillion parameters available on Hugging Face. ·

A model model from burner22 with 298 likes and 7,108 downloads on Hugging Face.

Hugging Face+ Hacker News33h ago▲123 to 298 across 63 pollshuggingface.co

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/dsh-superagent-prototype: 13,235deepseek-ai/dsh-super…13,235heydamir/unslop: 6,286heydamir/unslop6,286wangzan101/Mika: 5,317wangzan101/Mika5,317paipiange/nvzhuang: 2,043paipiange/nvzhuang2,043caru-ini/stack-diagram: 1,203caru-ini/stack-diagram1,203jacke-pp/open-yoki: 841jacke-pp/open-yoki841
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deepseek-ai/dsh-superagent-prototype13235
heydamir/unslop6286
wangzan101/Mika5317
paipiange/nvzhuang2043
caru-ini/stack-diagram1203
jacke-pp/open-yoki841

Balanov/shim

Balanov/shim is a tiny local-first AI harness supporting any model, MCP, and Agent Skills via a natural-language CLI with zero dependencies under the MIT license. ·

A new repository written in Go with 170 stars in its first week.

GitHub8h ago▲github.com

langchain==1.4.8

LangChain version 1.4.8 updates dependencies and warns that Python 3.10 support ends in version 1.5.0. ·

GitHub Releases10h ago▲0 to 1 across 5 pollsgithub.com

vllm-project/vllm v0.33.0

vLLM version 0.33.0 adds support for 122 new models and upgrades to PyTorch 2.14.0 while dropping CUDA 12.9. ·

GitHub Releases16h ago▲1 to 12 across 8 pollsgithub.com

Balanov/uncut

A new repository written in Go with 572 stars in its first week.

GitHub33h ago▲187 to 572 across 27 pollsgithub.com

vllm-project/vllm v0.33.0

vLLM version 0.33.0 adds support for 122 new models and upgrades to PyTorch 2.14.0 while dropping CUDA 12.9. ·

New release v0.33.0rc3 of vllm-project/vllm on GitHub.

GitHub Releases16h ago▲1 to 12 across 8 pollsgithub.com

Balanov/uncut

A new repository written in Go with 572 stars in its first week.

GitHub33h ago▲187 to 572 across 27 pollsgithub.com

davidlopez-x05x8/minecraft-aim-assist

Davidlopez-x05x8 releases Minecraft Aim Assist 2026, a Fabric mod for version 1.21.4 that provides smooth aiming assistance with adaptive tracking and customizable FOV. ·

GitHub22h ago▲300 to 301 across 21 pollsgithub.com

caru-ini/stack-diagram

The caru-ini/stack-diagram agent skill generates an architecture diagram with official logos from a single sentence describing a technology stack. ·

GitHub44h ago▲219 to 1203 across 33 pollsgithub.com

Infrastructure

5 stories

Data centers, power, chips and what tokens cost

Data-center and energy stories per day

Wed 28: 32Wed 2832Thu 29: 42Thu 2942Fri 30: 29Fri 3029Sat 31: 2Sat 312Sun 01: 5Sun 015Mon 02: 34Mon 0234Tue 03: 0Tue 030
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Wed 2832
Thu 2942
Fri 3029
Sat 312
Sun 015
Mon 0234
Tue 030

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 $2.50Min $2.50Max $3.20

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

Output price, $ per million tokens (newest models)

glm-5.3-flashx-legal: 1.25glm-5.3-flashx-legal1.25particle-1: 0.50particle-10.50gpt-6.1-terra-pro: 5gpt-6.1-terra-pro5gpt-6.1-terra-pro:batch: 2.50gpt-6.1-terra-pro:bat…2.50gpt-6.1-terra: 5gpt-6.1-terra5median, all paid models: 2median, all paid mode…2
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glm-5.3-flashx-legal1.25
particle-10.5
gpt-6.1-terra-pro5
gpt-6.1-terra-pro:batch2.5
gpt-6.1-terra5
median, all paid models2

425 paid models listed; median of the 29 added in 30 days: $2.50. Rankings data by OpenRouter, CC BY 4.0.