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  1. a16z NewsBlogAI score46

    a16z backs Preference Model, which builds RL environments for training AI models

    AIPreference Model is open-sourcing Karotte, the framework it uses to build reinforcement learning environments that resist reward hacking, including defenses like killing stray processes before grading and rejecting grader-crashing files. The framework has been hardened through more than a million evaluation runs and controlled red-teaming. The company focuses on machine learning engineering tasks for leading labs, and a16z says it is partnering with Preference Model and its founders, Jennifer Zhou and Ning Cao.

  2. ClaudeOfficialAI score40

    Claude Haiku 5.5 now available on all major cloud platforms

    AIAnthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, available now across all platforms including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. The post links to Anthropic's announcement page for further details.

  3. NVIDIA AI DeveloperOfficialAI score22

    NVIDIA announces what's new in CUDA 13.4

    AINVIDIA's developer account promoted a broadcast covering what's new in CUDA 13.4. The post provides only the release name and a link, so no specific features, benchmarks, or details are stated.

  4. Wired · AINewsAI score62

    OpenAI's ChatGPT Intelligent UI generates interactive visuals for answers

    AIOpenAI unveiled an Intelligent UI update for ChatGPT that generates custom visual elements when they help answer a question. The update is powered by GPT-6, rolling out to paid users immediately and to free users the next day. A reviewer's test produced an annotated slug diagram, an apartment affordability calculator with sliders, and a clickable airplane seat explorer, and OpenAI says users can ask for fewer visual outputs.

  5. IThome · AINewsAI score42

    Nvidia unveils DGX Station for Windows, a desktop AI supercomputer for running trillion-parameter models

    AINvidia announced DGX Station for Windows, a desktop AI supercomputer built on the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip with up to 748GB of unified memory, able to run models of up to about one trillion parameters locally. The machine offers up to 20 PFLOPS of AI compute and combines 252GB of HBM3e GPU memory with 496GB of LPDDR5X CPU memory. It is scheduled to go on sale in the fourth quarter of 2026.

  6. Vercel DevelopersOfficialAI score23

    Glyph Cluster is available on Vercel AI Gateway in stealth

    AIVercel says Glyph Cluster, listed as stealth/glyph-cluster, is now free on AI Gateway for a limited time while in stealth. Access is restricted to paid users, the model is positioned for coding and agentic knowledge work, and prompts may be used for model improvement.

  7. Georgi GerganovXAI score44

    llama.cpp adds ggml RPC for distributing inference across heterogeneous devices

    AIllama.cpp can distribute inference across heterogeneous devices through the ggml RPC backend, according to Georgi Gerganov. He says it is currently an advanced setting, but he expects it to become more accessible to regular users over time. A related post reports MiMo 2.6 Flash running across an RTX 6000 GPU and an M5 laptop over 10 GbE at about 40 tokens/sec.

  8. GitHub Blog · AI & MLOfficialAI score57

    GitHub argues secret protection must scale with AI-driven code growth

    AIGitHub reports that one in three pull requests now involves an AI agent, and that public secret exposures rise with the volume of pushes rather than from declining developer care. It introduces a ModernBERT-based classifier with Microsoft Applied Sciences that evaluates candidate secrets in under two milliseconds and could more than double the secrets prevented at push time. The feature is in private preview, with availability for GitHub Secret Protection customers later this month.

  9. eric zakariassonXAI score16

    Grok Bot 0.68.1 adds slide decks, email drafts, and faster computer use

    AIxAI's Grok Bot 0.68.1 lets bots build slide decks delivered as PowerPoint or Google Slides and send formatted emails directly from a draft card. The update also gives 1:1 chat messages the color of the Bot and speeds up computer use on a 1920x1200 screen.

    Image from @ericzakariasson's post
  10. Gergely OroszXAI score31

    Samuel Newman on why LLMs aren't world models and lack causality

    AISam Newman argues the tech world misunderstands LLMs because they have no concept of causality, so "if I do A, B happens" reasoning is absent. He contends LLMs are not world models, unlike older world-model approaches that could in principle track cause and effect. He adds that people overestimate LLM capabilities because they seem smart, and that guardrails are unlikely to be the right long-term fix.

    Video from @GergelyOrosz's post
  11. AMDOfficialAI score22

    Agentic AI workloads are about 80% CPU-bound, AMD and mimik find

    AIRecent mimik tests of agentic workflows on AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 processors found about 80% of operations were CPU-bound, covering coordination, orchestration, scheduling and reporting. The post argues that CPUs play a major role in agentic AI rather than GPUs alone, and that heterogeneous compute matters for deploying it at the edge. A full interview with mimik founder and CEO Fayarjomandi is linked.

    Video from @AMD's post
  12. elvisXAI score22

    Elvis Saravia describes building personal multi-agent teams with Opus 5.5

    AIElvis Saravia reports that agent-to-agent communication with a personal agent, built on models like Opus 5.5, is already coordinating work faster and at higher quality than he can match. He describes progressing from individual Claude Code sessions to subagents, then a persistent team of eight specialized bots with his own orchestrator. He argues everyone should build a personalized agent orchestrator and says most apps like Code and Claude Desktop are behind.

    Image from @omarsar0's post
  13. Liquid AIOfficialAI score38

    Liquid AI's Open d1 models run on NVIDIA hardware with llama.cpp support

    AILiquid AI's Open d1 models run across NVIDIA DGX, RTX, and Jetson hardware, with day-one llama.cpp support for deployment anywhere. Measured one request at a time, the d1-3B model's single-question latency is 8 ms on an NVIDIA RTX 4090, 16 ms on Jetson AGX Thor, 26 ms on Jetson AGX Orin 64 GB, and 50 ms on Jetson Orin Nano.

  14. Liquid AIOfficialAI score30

    Liquid AI shows d1-3B running 10 live-camera demos, one forward pass per frame

    AILiquid AI built 10 live-camera demos for its d1-3B model, ranging from gesture-controlled games to content moderation, each using one forward pass per frame. In collaboration with NVIDIA Robotics, the company also showed d1-3B navigating an environment in Isaac Sim, served on a Jetson in a hardware-in-the-loop setup.

    Video from @liquidai's post
  15. GoogleOfficialAI score42

    Google's Project Suncatcher tests TPUs in orbit on a satellite

    AIGoogle launched its first test satellite carrying four TPUs into orbit last week as part of Project Suncatcher, a moonshot exploring whether machine learning infrastructure could one day operate in space. The test aims to determine whether Google's AI hardware can withstand the physical stress of spaceflight and the radiation and thermal extremes of orbit.

    Image from @Google's post
  16. AvidXAI score40

    Guide to building a 24/7 AI quant research desk with Opus 5.5

    AIThe X article "How to Build a 24/7 Quant Trading Desk with Opus 5.5" walks readers through an AI quant research setup covering Minara, Codex, Jev, and Dots. It stresses defining the investable universe first, including issuer and listing identifiers, and excludes ETFs, funds, and private firms from the core sample. The author says the Minara pilot needs documented historical coverage and membership data before any results can be trusted.

  17. GammaOfficialAI score43

    Gamma 5 rebuilds its engine with an agent, design freedom, and imports

    AIGamma announces Gamma 5, which it calls its biggest update, rebuilding its engine from the ground up. The release adds an agent for brainstorming, research, and editing, plus style control from described looks or visual inspiration. It also supports importing and exporting PowerPoints, PDFs, and company brand, with connections to Slack, Notion, Salesforce, Claude, and ChatGPT.

    Video from @GammaApp's post
  18. Google Cloud TechOfficialAI score34

    Google explains eager vs. lazy loading of MCP tools in Agent Plugins

    AIGoogle DevRel's James O'Reilly explains how Antigravity Agent Plugins expose local MCP server tools to the model, either eagerly as top-level functions or lazily through a call_mcp_tool proxy. Eager loading, set via "eager": true in mcp_config.json, avoids the discovery turn but adds fixed per-turn token overhead that can degrade reasoning with 100+ tools. Lazy loading is the plugin default and keeps baseline token use low, at the cost of an extra proxy hop and a higher chance of JSON quoting errors.

  19. Databricks BlogOfficialAI score41

    Databricks Apps Adds On-Behalf-of-User Authorization for Permission-Aware Apps

    AIDatabricks announced general availability of on-behalf-of-user (OBO) authorization for Databricks Apps, letting apps act with the signed-in user's identity so Unity Catalog enforces that user's row filters and column masks. Developers can request narrow API scopes such as sql:restricted-query, which allows only read-only SQL queries, while apps keep a dedicated service principal for app-owned operations.

  20. Daniel HanXAI score48

    Unsloth enables local training of decision models on 3GB VRAM

    AIUnsloth now lets users train their own decision models locally on just 3GB of VRAM by fine-tuning Qwen, Gemma, and Llama with a Clef head. The post says this raises accuracy from 30% to as high as 78%, and the tool is available through Unsloth Desktop.

    Video from @danielhanchen's post
  21. ModalOfficialAI score12

    Modal publishes a case study on type-safe AI infrastructure

    AIModal, a cloud platform for running AI workloads, shares a case study on its approach to type-safe AI. The post itself offers only a link to the full story, so no further technical details can be confirmed.

  22. Unsloth AIOfficialAI score40

    Unsloth lets users train local decision models on 4GB VRAM

    AIUnsloth released an open-source method to fine-tune LLMs into decision models that run locally, lifting Qwen3.5 0.8B's aggregate accuracy from 20.7% to 74.3% across three decision benchmarks. The team used a Clef head with LoRA (r=64) for one epoch on just 4GB VRAM, with the approach applicable to models such as Qwen3.8 and Gemma 4. A guide and notebooks are available on the Unsloth documentation site and GitHub.

    Image from @UnslothAI's post
  23. SantiagoXAI score22

    Model infers derived values from document data, computing yearly costs from monthly figures

    AIA new model extracts values absent from a document by computing them from figures that are present, such as deriving a yearly product cost from a monthly price. Santiago says the video shows examples of inferring complex formulas. The background post describes this as Higher-Order Extraction, which deterministically computes needed numbers from raw page values.

  24. GitHub Copilot ChangelogOfficialAI score30

    GitHub launches purpose-built AI model for leaked secret detection across developer workflows

    AIGitHub is rolling out a fine-tuned, purpose-built model for secret detection that reads surrounding code to identify likely credentials, including passwords without recognizable token formats. Existing AI-detected Password alerts have been upgraded automatically, and AI-detected secrets in push protection is in private preview. New opt-in checks in push protection and the GitHub Copilot /security-review command will consume GitHub AI Credits.

  25. PerplexityOfficialAI score36

    Perplexity's models search PDFs and slides directly, without OCR

    AIPerplexity's models embed images and rendered pages directly, so PDFs, slides, and scans can be searched without OCR. This preserves tables, figures, and layout that text extraction typically drops.

    Image from @perplexity_ai's post
  26. Microsoft ResearchOfficialAI score24

    Agent Lightning connects existing AI agents to reinforcement learning training

    AIMicrosoft Research introduced Agent Lightning, a tool that connects existing AI agents to reinforcement learning training. It aims to make agents easier to improve without rebuilding them, since their tools, context, and decision-making are typically managed by complex frameworks.

    Video from @MSFTResearch's post
  27. Jerry LiuXAI score47

    OpenDocRouter offers one API for document parsing across many models

    AILlamaIndex has launched OpenDocRouter, a unified API that transcribes documents to markdown across frontier and open-weight models at cost plus a small transaction fee. The service handles rate limits, adds bounding boxes and layout as a service, and will benchmark new OCR models on ParseBench before adding them.

    Video from @jerryjliu0's post
  28. LlamaIndex 🦙OfficialAI score47

    LlamaIndex launches OpenDocRouter, one API for many document parsing models

    AILlamaIndex announced OpenDocRouter, a single API that routes document parsing requests to any of 10 frontier and open-source models at launch, including Claude Opus 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-6 Luna, MinerU2.5-Pro, and PaddleOCR-VL-1.6. Users can switch models in one line with the same request and markdown output, and each model is scored on ParseBench for quality and cost. Pricing is per-token, failed pages are not charged, and the service costs $0.86 to $48.82 per 1,000 pages depending on the model.

    Video from @llama_index's post
  29. Codex · GitHub ReleasesOfficialAI score34

    Codex 0.161.0 makes GPT-6.1 Sol default and adds Daybreak opt-in

    AIOpenAI's Codex 0.161.0 release makes GPT-6.1 Sol the default model in the bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs. It adds Amazon Bedrock support for multi-agent V2 and Ultra reasoning on compatible models, plus opt-in Daybreak routing enabled through --enable cli_daybreak or features.cli_daybreak=true.

  30. Microsoft ResearchOfficialAI score62

    Microsoft Research Asia releases Agent Lightning v1.0 for agentic RL with real harnesses

    AIMicrosoft Research Asia has open-sourced Agent Lightning v1.0, a roughly 3,500-line agentic RL framework that trains the same agent harness used in deployment. In an end-to-end coding agent pipeline, Qwen3.5-9B rose from 41.8% to 56.4% Pass@1 on SWE-bench Verified using about 6,000 training samples. The framework runs agents as standard Kubernetes jobs without paid commercial sandbox services.

    Why it matters: The source shows how training with the deployed agent harness avoids rebuilding agents, and reports concrete SWE-bench Verified gains from about 6,000 samples.