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  1. Latent.SpaceAI 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
  2. Fidji SimoAI 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.

  3. ReplicateAI 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
  4. Comfy BlogAI 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.

  5. Microsoft CopilotAI 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.

  6. Goodfire ResearchAI 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.

  7. Prime IntellectAI 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
  8. NewcomerAI 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.