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  1. Jerry LiuAI score38

    LightOn OCR-3 now on OpenDocRouter, near Gemini 3.8 Flash at lower cost

    AILightOn OCR-3 is now available on OpenDocRouter at $0.28 per 1M input tokens and $1.40 per 1M output tokens, about $3.19 per 1k pages on ParseBench. On ParseBench, the author says it sits on the Pareto frontier for open-weight OCR models, with performance similar to Gemini 3.8 Flash low at roughly 45% lower price. It is described as decent at tables, workable for charts, and quite good at grounding.

  2. Microsoft CopilotAI score29

    Copilot on Windows gains Hybrid Intelligence, blending cloud and local agents

    AIMicrosoft Copilot announced Hybrid Intelligence for Windows, which balances cloud and locally run agents to handle tasks like file wrangling and workflows on the PC. According to Satya Nadella, Copilot can use context on the PC with user permission and draw on local models when appropriate. The feature is described as coming soon.

  3. Databricks BlogAI score40

    Databricks Launches Beta Workday Data Connect Federation for Unity Catalog

    AIDatabricks has released a public Beta of a Workday Data Connect federation connector for Unity Catalog, letting teams query Workday HR and finance data in place without copying it. Workday administrators share approved tables through Workday Data Cloud, and Databricks administrators create an OAuth connection and foreign catalog to govern access. The data is read-only, and Workday remains the system of record.

  4. Testing CatalogAI score62

    Atomic Agent Desktop, an open-source local AI agent app, is now available

    AIAtomic Agent Desktop is a free open-source app for macOS, Windows, and Linux that runs open models like Qwen and Gemma locally without an account. It connects to a cloud model only when selected, and its Fusion feature lets a cloud model plan a task while up to 8 local agents carry it out. The post's own text adds a setup wizard that checks RAM and suggests suitable models, and import from Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, and OpenClaw.

  5. Databricks BlogAI score40

    Funke Brings Native HL7v2 Parsing to Databricks Lakehouse

    AIDatabricks has released Funke, a Python and PySpark library and deployable pipeline that parses HL7v2 healthcare messages into native Spark types while preserving the full message hierarchy. It succeeds Smolder, the Scala data source Databricks open-sourced in 2021, and ingests through Auto Loader into Unity Catalog bronze and silver tables. Users can query segments, fields, components, and subcomponents directly with DataFrame or Spark SQL expressions.

  6. SiliconANGLE · AIAI score36

    CoreWeave Forge Aims to Speed Up the AI Agent Improvement Loop

    AICoreWeave launched Forge, a platform meant to help teams run, observe, evaluate and improve AI agents continuously through a five-stage loop. The offering includes Agent Lens, Registry, RL Rollouts, model distillation, and the AI Research and Iteration Agent (ARIA), which is now generally available. CoreWeave also introduced a partner network of tested, co-engineered integrations, according to Susanne Seitinger, vice president of product marketing.

  7. Midjourney UpdatesAI score46

    Midjourney Tests Thinking Mode for Image Generation on Alpha Site

    AIMidjourney is testing a "Thinking Mode" on its Alpha website, where users can click "Rerun (Thinking)" in a job's lightbox to regenerate an image. The company says early tests show gains in prompt accuracy, typography, and coherence, and it is asking users to share feedback in its #ideas-and-features channel. It may later offer the mode broadly or as an option to add more thinking after a job.

  8. Midjourney UpdatesAI score25

    Midjourney Adds Shared Folders and Thinking Mode in Alpha Update

    AIMidjourney's alpha site now lets users share folders with others as Collaborators or Viewers, with sharing by link also available. A new thinking mode lets users rerun jobs made with 8.2 standard and edit models to fix missed prompt details such as objects, layout, anatomy, and text. Sharing does not change image privacy, so non-stealth images can still appear on Explore and profiles.

  9. Claude Code · GitHub ReleasesAI score56

    Claude Code v2.1.295 adds hook failure blocking and gateway controls

    AIClaude Code v2.1.295 adds onFailure: "block" for command and HTTP hooks, so a hook that cannot start, times out, or exits unexpectedly blocks the action. The release also adds an optional models list for Claude apps gateway upstreams, plus upstream_request_id in the inference audit event, and fixes a range of MCP, plugin, and terminal issues.

  10. The DecoderAI score65

    Anthropic launches Claude Dashboards and Motion features in beta

    AIAnthropic launched two beta features for Claude: Dashboards, which turns connected data sources like BigQuery, Databricks, Snowflake, or Salesforce into auto-updating live dashboards from text prompts, and Motion, which creates animated explainer videos from text, diagrams, and images. Dashboards is available to paid users and Motion to Team and Enterprise plans, while Docs, Slides, and Design leave beta and work across all plans, including free accounts.