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AIGergely Orosz says modern software engineering is no longer done without LLMs and that people who refuse AI use won't be hired at 99.9% of startups, Big Tech, and ambitious companies. He compares AI tools to the keyboard as a basic part of software development. The post quotes Geoffrey Huntley's view that teams too busy for normal work to experiment with AI are preparing to be replaced.

AIStepFun's Step 5 Preview, a 600B-total, 27B-active MoE model with 1M context and vision, is free to try on Nous Portal for one week. Nous Research says it scored 33.89 on the Hermes Index, the same score as GPT-6 Luna.

AIVercel says agents can now buy domains with the Vercel CLI, extending an agent marketplace where they already purchase infrastructure products and services. Guillermo Rauch says agents have bought from the marketplace through the CLI often enough to surprise the company. He adds that agents can now move from idea to online business, including registering a domain name.

AINVIDIA's Bryan Catanzaro argues that math as a hobby does not have to change, because hobbies like music and baking are valued for the joy of the work rather than for being first. He compares it to machines baking bread, which does not destroy baking as a hobby. He replies to a post by @EigenGender, who sympathizes with mathematicians whose publicly funded hobby is now less fun.

AIEpoch AI says it has published an interactive data page on how often arXiv papers acknowledge AI use, broken down by math subfield, use case, and provider. The post links to the dataset at and provides no further figures.

AIElevenLabs says it is working on new standards for agents that interact with businesses as part of the Personal Agents Protocol working group led by Meta and Sierra. The company says businesses use its platform to deploy agents across phone, website, in-app, email, WhatsApp, SMS, and other text and voice channels. ElevenLabs says its goal is to ensure all of those channels are covered so customers can define how they interact with personal agents.

AIElevenLabs says synthetic voice detection is available now to enterprise customers through its forward deployed team. Broader access is planned for later this month, and the company will share progress on its Personal Agent Protocol (PAP) as the work develops.

AIDex Horthy (@dexhorthy) posted only the words "he cook" on X, with no further detail. The post is a short reaction and does not describe a product, release, or result on its own. Background from the quoted post by @0xblacklight describes a serverless background agent that created a GitHub pull request from an issue.

AISierra has published a draft of the Personal Agent Protocol, known as Poppy, and named 35 additional design partners, including Adyen, Bank of America, Mastercard, OpenAI, PayPal, and Visa. Under the protocol, companies publish a /.well-known/poppy.json discovery file, and personal agents start sessions, identify themselves, and sign in through OAuth with session tokens limited to approved access. The company says the draft will be followed by design workshops and a reference implementation over the next month.

Why it matters: The draft specifies how personal agents identify themselves, obtain customer-approved access, and work with company websites, APIs, or agents, which helps readers assess its practical effect on agent-driven transactions.

AITypeSafe Inc., creator of the Jev AI model, says it raised $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation, led by Andreessen Horowitz with Sequoia Capital and DCVC participating. Jev outputs structured results, such as yes/no answers, list selections or scores, instead of natural language text, and the company says it runs requests in under 700 milliseconds, up to 200 times faster than some frontier LLMs. TypeSafe plans to use the funds to expand its planned System One model series and roll out unspecified enterprise features.

AIOpenAI has released the Decisions API in public beta, returning typed probabilities, choices, and scores instead of prose from text and images. OpenAI says it runs about 10x faster than the Responses API and costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens with no output charges. The article notes that OpenAI has not published accuracy data and that TypeSafe Jev offers cheaper input pricing at $0.042 per 1M tokens.

AIAlibaba's Qwen team released Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, an accelerated checkpoint of its open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 that generates and edits images in 8 denoising steps instead of 40. The hosted qwen-image-2.1-turbo API costs CNY 0.1 per image, 2.5x cheaper than Pro, but the weights carry a research-only license that requires separate permission for commercial self-hosting.

AIEthan Mollick says it is reasonable for mathematicians to note that proofs are not always the same as advancing mathematics. He argues this calls for new goals for what math is trying to do. He adds that AI-driven increases in output, such as 100x more PowerPoint or code, do not automatically mean progress.

AIJoshua Achiam says OpenAI's comment on firing safety staff Jasmine, Tomek, and Mikita came late and lacked substance. He urges OpenAI to make its information-sharing policies explicit and to endorse mandated disclosure protections for staff who report through legal channels. He warns that ambiguity risks losing top safety talent.

AIQwen has released its Turbo image model with open weights, giving image app builders an option to run it in-house instead of relying on hosted API pricing. The post does not specify model size, benchmarks, or pricing.

AIGoogle says Colab is now included in its Google AI plans. The post links to a Google Developers blog post for details and setup instructions.

AISherwin Wu, who owns OpenAI's account context here, says he has been tab-accepting about 40-50% of Codex's next-message suggestions after a week of use. OpenAI Devs says composer predictions, which suggest a user's next message from the conversation and their style, are in beta for Pro users.

AIPrime Intellect shares an essay by @hallerite titled "On the nature of the swarm," linked on its blog. The post gives no further details about the essay's content.

AILucas Beyer says he worked at a startup a decade ago with nearly identical arms, grippers, and camera placement. He says those models used CNN and LSTM architectures without real pretraining, while several startups now show a big step up.

AICloudflare has published a new model called clef-omni on Hugging Face, according to a post from Julien Chaumond, who owns the account. The post links to the model page but gives no further details about its size, capabilities, or benchmarks.

AIGrok Bot now has its own email service, and users can claim an address with the prefix they need. To get one, users mention the bot in a comment or send it this post on X. The bot can use the address to sign up for services, contact businesses, or schedule meetings.