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  1. Ali GhodsiXAI score40

    Databricks launches ai_decide() for fast decisions on governed data

    AIDatabricks has released ai_decide(), a function that runs decision models natively across enterprise data, enabling fast typed decisions instead of slow text generation. The approach targets large datasets already governed within Databricks, according to the post and linked blog.

    Image from @alighodsi's post
  2. Vercel DevelopersOfficialAI score24

    Laya decision model free on Vercel AI Gateway through October 31

    AIVercel says the Laya decision model is available free on AI Gateway through October 31, in partnership with Boundless. The post suggests using it to route agent work, triage support requests, and check guardrails.

  3. Latent.SpaceXAI score55

    Anthropic's Thariq explains what Claude Code mods can access and control

    AIAnthropic's Thariq describes Claude Code mods, which can read conversation scope such as turn count and token usage. Mods run in process, so they can spawn subagents, parse their results with structured output, and modify the UI, which hooks cannot do. Mods ship inside plugins and are installed with /plugin in the CLI or desktop app.

    Video from @latentspacepod's post
  4. SpaceXAIOfficialAI score46

    Grok 4.7 now available on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform

    AIGrok 4.7 is now available on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, according to the post from SpaceXAI, the account owned by xAI and Grok. The post gives no further details on pricing, context length, or capabilities.

    Video from @SpaceXAI's post
  5. Fidji SimoXAI score20

    Fidji Simo welcomes ChronicleBio AI, backed by Morgan Cheatham and Jimi Hendrix

    AIFidji Simo says she is excited to work with Morgan Cheatham and Jimi Hendrix, two early investors who recognized the importance of data in AI biotech. Morgan Cheatham's linked post says the partnership supports ChronicleBio, which is building AI models to identify biologically distinct patient subgroups within complex chronic diseases. The team reportedly combines clinical phenotyping, molecular measurement, and AI, and its early work has surfaced disease subtypes linked to potentially relevant therapies.

  6. ReplicateOfficialAI score47

    FLUX 3 Image launches with native 4K generation and bounding-box layout control

    AIBlack Forest Labs has released FLUX 3 Image, which generates native 4K images and supports hyper-specific layouts using bounding boxes. It can make multiple targeted edits at once while staying consistent across them, and up to 10 references can be used to compose an image. The first week is 50% off, and an open-weights version is coming in the coming weeks.

    Image from @replicate's post
  7. Comfy BlogOfficialAI score47

    Hakoniwa uses Comfy Agent to make the animated short YUI

    AIArtist 852 Hakoniwa made YUI, described as the first animated short created with Comfy Agent, which the ComfyUI team says took three days of focused work by one person at about 200,000 yen in total cost, excluding labor. The source says the film was made mostly with Seedance 2.5 and the making-of video with MiniMax H3, with Comfy Agent used to regenerate shots and compare video models.

  8. ReplicateOfficialAI score46

    Replicate powers Tavus's Griffin, a video Turing test-passing model

    AIReplicate says it is powering Griffin from Tavus on its platform. Tavus describes Griffin as the first model to pass the video Turing test, with 48% of live conversation participants believing it was a real human. The model ranks first on NVIDIA's full-duplex AI video benchmark.

  9. Perplexity DevelopersOfficialAI score41

    Perplexity launches Decisions API powered by pplx-decider-v1-27b

    AIPerplexity introduced its Decisions API, powered by pplx-decider-v1-27b, a multimodal model that outputs a probability distribution over a fixed set of answers rather than text. The company says the API costs $0.04 per million input tokens and scores 85.71% across benchmarks.

    Image from @perplexitydevs's post
  10. Microsoft CopilotOfficialAI score34

    Microsoft Copilot adds GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 models

    AIMicrosoft Copilot begins rolling out OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 today, joining Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol added earlier this month. Users can pick the model suited to each task, with Work IQ grounding responses in their files, meetings, and chats within existing permissions. The rollout starts today in Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio, with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Chat following in phases over the coming week.

  11. DatabricksOfficialAI score20

    Databricks Smart Routing assigns each coding task to a suitable model

    AIDatabricks' Smart Routing evaluates each coding task separately and selects the lowest-cost model capable of handling it, balancing quality, latency, and cost. In a demo, Omnigent splits an app build into planning, backend, and frontend work, routes each part to a different model, and runs some tasks in parallel.

    Video from @databricks's post
  12. Harrison ChaseXAI score22

    Harrison Chase outlines a four-step approach to model routing

    AIHarrison Chase says model routing is a provocative term that lacks a clear definition, but offers a practical approach. His four steps are to understand tasks, understand the models, build the router inside the harness, and track outcomes, aiming to lower costs without a performance hit.

    Image from @hwchase17's post
  13. Microsoft AIOfficialAI score36

    Microsoft's MAI models now available through Vercel AI Gateway

    AIMicrosoft AI's MAI models are now accessible to developers via Vercel, including the newest releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, MAI-Voice-2.1, and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. The partnership brings these models into Vercel's AI Gateway as another route for building Microsoft AI models into applications.

  14. Google WorkspaceOfficialAI score32

    Google Sheets canvas turns spreadsheets into interactive mini-apps via prompts

    AIGoogle Workspace says Sheets canvas can turn static spreadsheet data into interactive tools such as Kanban boards, dashboards, and visual workflows from a simple prompt. Derek Snyder, Director of Product Marketing for Google Workspace, demonstrates the feature in the latest AI Boost Bite video.

    Video from @GoogleWorkspace's post
  15. Goodfire ResearchOfficialAI score60

    Goodfire proposes protein embedding monitors for biosecurity risks in AI agents

    AIGoodfire Research developed sequence-aware monitors using protein language model embeddings to flag concerning biological sequences in dual-use AI agent tasks. On a custom benchmark, the monitors outperformed frontier model safeguards with fewer refusals on benign requests, and they held up better against paraphrasing and fragmentation attacks. The paraphrase results rely on in-silico estimates and do not establish whether the redesigned proteins keep biological activity, and the monitors run in milliseconds per sequence.

    Why it matters: The post gives a concrete benchmark setup and fragmentation results, showing how sequence embeddings can separate dual-use biology requests that task-based safeguards handle poorly.

  16. Guillermo RauchXAI score22

    Vercel brings Microsoft AI's speech models to AI Gateway on day zero

    AIVercel has made Microsoft AI's MAI-Voice-2.1 for long-form and fast-reply speech and MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for transcription available on AI Gateway starting today. Guillermo Rauch of Vercel said the team is excited to bring the models to Vercel at launch.

  17. Vercel DevelopersOfficialAI score32

    Vercel adds Microsoft AI speech and transcription models to AI Gateway

    AIVercel says it partnered with Microsoft AI to make MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming available through AI Gateway today. MAI-Voice-2.1 handles long-form and fast-reply speech, while MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming provides transcription.

  18. Prime IntellectOfficialAI score32

    Extropic uses Prime Intellect to post-train Qwen3.6-35B-A3B for thermodynamic ML

    AIExtropic post-trained Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with Prime Intellect for thermodynamic ML research, nearly tripling its held-out eval results in about 100 GRPO steps. The team built a custom RL environment with verifiers and trained on Hosted Training, Prime Sandboxes, and Prime Inference. This let Extropic avoid managing multi-node GPU infrastructure and focus on research.

    Image from @PrimeIntellect's post
  19. NewcomerBlogAI score38

    Benchmark Leads Funding Round for Chip Startup Tendrils Compute

    AIBenchmark has won a hot competition to lead a new funding round for early-stage chip startup Tendrils Compute, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Sources say the company is already discussing a fast follow-up raise that could value it at more than $1 billion. The deal is part of a wave of VC investment in specialized chips, including inference-focused startups such as Etched, which doubled its valuation to $21 billion in August.

  20. ZyphraOfficialAI score38

    Zyphra Research explains how local memory aids positional sense in LLMs

    AIZyphra Research explains how language models track word order without explicitly encoding position in attention. The post says local memory layers that read nearby words help global attention layers preserve sequence information. The source is a short teaser thread, so no further technical details are given.

    Image from @ZyphraAI's post
  21. Josh WoodwardXAI score34

    Google launches Stitch CLI to generate design ideas from terminal

    AIGoogle has introduced the @google/stitch CLI, letting users generate screens and design systems without leaving the terminal. It connects to local coding agents and can send a local dev server snapshot to Stitch. The tool complements the existing Stitch MCP and SDK, and can also be driven through agents such as Antigravity.

  22. ComfyUIOfficialAI score20

    ComfyUI introduces Comfy Agent, an AI agent for creative workflows

    AIComfyUI announces Comfy Agent, which its post presents as the first agent built for creative work. The post directs readers to a blog for more details, but its own text provides no further specifics on capabilities, availability, or pricing.

  23. Praan IncXAI score30

    Praan launches new HIVE air purifier, smaller and 30% more affordable

    AIPraan launched a new HIVE, its medical-grade indoor air purifier, priced at ₹49,999 (all-inclusive, $520). The new model is 62mm smaller, more capable, and autonomous, and is 30% more affordable than its predecessor. The company says the HIVE is now in more than 1,500 locations across 8 countries.

  24. Lewis Tunstall @ COLM 🌉XAI score44

    Training LFM2.5-2.6B inside four agent harnesses boosts held-out tasks

    AIHugging Face shows that training LFM2.5-2.6B with RL inside the agent harnesses themselves lifted held-out task success from 42% to 54% across four harnesses. Before training, the model solved 62% of tasks in Mini-SWE-Agent but only 33% in Claude Code, so the same model behaved very differently per harness. The approach uses an OpenEnv capture proxy to record tokens and logprobs, Harbor for tasks and sandboxes, and TRL's async GRPO trainer, with 31% fewer tool calls on already-solved tasks; training in OpenCode alone mostly improved OpenCode.

    Video from @_lewtun's post
  25. merveXAI score46

    Hugging Face clarifies ml-intern options, one trained model for $6

    AIHugging Face says ml-intern is an open-source ML engineering and research harness usable free on local setups, and it is also hosted on Hugging Chat with no-code access. A second hosted option runs on Hugging Face infrastructure, where ml-intern selects the cheapest GPU for a task so models can be trained for a few dollars. MaziyarPanahi reportedly trained a model by prompting alone for $6.60 on an NVIDIA A100 in 16 minutes.