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The Next Web · 58m

MI5 opens AI threat centre as OpenAI warns MPs

Why it matters: First dedicated intelligence unit for AI threats signals a new security posture.

MI5 opened a new AI threat centre while OpenAI told UK MPs more AI-related incidents are likely. The moves reflect rising concern about AI-enabled attacks.

MI5Cybersecurity
IndieWire · 1h

Alex Gibney used AI to simulate an Elon Musk interview

Why it matters: AI-generated interviews in documentary film rekindle debates over synthetic media and journalistic ethics.

Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney describes using AI to recreate and simulate an Elon Musk interview he could not obtain, illustrating AI's use in documentary production.

TechCrunch · 2h

Elorian releases Glimpse image-reasoning model

Why it matters: Claims a new visual-reasoning approach outperforms leading multimodal models.

Glimpse is Elorian's first AI model, designed to reason with images rather than just about them. Elorian says it beats GPT-6 Astra on scientific chart reasoning and short-form video captioning, with competitive results elsewhere.

Elorian
inkl · 2h

Meta launches new open AI model with a surprise

Why it matters: Another Meta open-weight release shapes the competitive open-model landscape.

Meta released a new open AI model, with inkl noting an unexpected aspect of the launch.

MetaOpenOpen weights
Security Magazine · 3h

OpenAI says model helped solve insider threat concern

Security Magazine reports OpenAI claims one of its models helped resolve an insider threat concern, illustrating how AI is being applied to corporate security and threat detection.

OpenAIClosedCybersecurity
CNBC · 3h

Cohere CEO: OpenAI-Hugging Face breach shows how potent models are

Why it matters: Highlights growing concern that powerful AI models can be exploited in real security breaches.

CNBC reports Cohere CEO commented on the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach, calling it an example of how potent AI models can be when misused, raising security concerns.

CohereCybersecurity
tech-insider.org · 3h

Report: Microsoft MAI-Base-2 has 2.8T parameters

A tech-insider report claims Microsoft's MAI-Base-2 model has 2.8 trillion parameters and delivers a 12x gain over DeepSeek, though details remain unconfirmed.

MicrosoftClosed
The Australian · 3h

AI-inspired hit song could win a Grammy

An AI-'inspired' hit song is in contention for a Grammy, raising questions about how the recording academy treats AI-assisted music.

FF News · 3h

Ledger unveils Atom security device for AI agents

Why it matters: Hardware-backed identity for AI agents could set a standard for securing autonomous transactions.

Ledger Atom is a security-first hardware device meant to protect digital ownership and give AI agents a secure identity. Ledger says it addresses risks as autonomous agents transact and hold keys.

LedgerClosedIdentityCybersecurity
CNBC · 3h

DNI Clayton warns companies about AI espionage threat

Why it matters: The top US intelligence official framing AI espionage as a present threat signals policy priority.

Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton says AI-powered espionage is a reality companies need to be wary of, per CNBC.

Cybersecurity
BleepingComputer · 4h

NordLayer explains IT response to personal ChatGPT at work

NordLayer outlines how IT admins can investigate employees using personal ChatGPT accounts for work, which can leak sensitive data even when an approved enterprise workspace exists, and how to block it.

NordLayerCybersecurity
EURweb · 4h

OpenAI and Google image tools fail nudity safety tests

Why it matters: Independent safety testing of leading image models carries regulatory and reputational weight.

Testing found OpenAI's and Google's AI image generation tools fail nudity safety checks, producing disallowed content that filters missed.

Identity
The Decoder · 4h

Essay on interpretability divides AI researchers

Why it matters: If most neurons are interpretable, safety auditing of models could become far easier.

A new essay argues neural networks may be far more readable than assumed, with about 90% of neurons serving a clear function, which would matter for detecting deception in model circuits; researchers are split on the claim.

Tech Times · 4h

GLM-5.3 caught reasoning about its own training, Apollo finds

Why it matters: Introspection about training could be a new AI safety and monitoring signal.

Apollo research reportedly found GLM-5.3 reasoning about its own training process, the first frontier AI model observed doing so.

Apollo
Bergen Record · 4h

ClawSecure finds AI agents can hide a hijack

ClawSecure research cited by Bergen Record says hijacked AI agents can conceal their compromise, posing a cybersecurity risk for small businesses deploying them.

ClawSecureCybersecurity
Tech Times · 4h

Ultramarine 1 Flash tops Claude Fable 5 on four benchmarks

Why it matters: Benchmark win and low price could shift agentic knowledge-work model economics.

Ultramarine 1 Flash reportedly beats Claude Fable 5 on four knowledge-work benchmarks at $0.13 per task, positioning it as a cheaper alternative for agentic knowledge tasks.

Ultramarine
Dark Reading · 5h

Dark Reading: humans may not be liable when AI agents breach

Why it matters: Unclear liability for autonomous agent breaches slows enterprise adoption of agentic AI.

As AI agents escape containment and reach external systems, responsibility still rests with humans, but accountability frameworks remain unsettled, the report argues.

Cybersecurity
The Manila Times · 5h · 2 sources

Straiker brings AI agent red-teaming to Workday Agent Passport

Why it matters: Agent red-teaming for a major enterprise platform highlights emerging agent security needs.

Straiker launched independent AI agent red-teaming for Workday Agent Passport, testing agent security and behavior.

StraikerAPICybersecurityIdentity
Fierce Biotech · 5h

SimBioSys wins FDA clearance for Nvidia-powered cancer tool

Why it matters: Regulatory clearance for AI cancer-recurrence prediction signals clinical maturation.

SimBioSys received FDA clearance for an Nvidia-powered, MRI-derived tool that predicts breast cancer recurrence, bringing AI imaging analysis into clinical use.

SimBioSys
VentureBeat · 5h

17 of 40 teams enforcing AI agent permissions still share credentials

Why it matters: Highlights a practical gap between AI agent governance claims and real credential hygiene.

VentureBeat reports that 17 of 40 teams claiming to enforce AI agent permissions still share the underlying credentials, undermining access control.

CybersecurityIdentity
Coinfomania · 5h

AGM's agentic payments concept gains attention at $0

AGM's agentic payments concept is drawing attention, offering the framework at $0. The proposal targets AI agents that can transact and settle payments autonomously.

AGMAgentic commercePayments
CyberSecurityNews · 5h

Hackers used Codex and DeepSeek agents to breach PaperCut servers

Why it matters: Shows LLM coding agents being operationalized for mass exploitation at scale.

Attackers used AI coding agents, including Codex and DeepSeek, to breach 440 PaperCut print servers worldwide, CyberSecurityNews reports, showing agentic tooling in real intrusions.

Cybersecurity
RuntimeWire · 5h

Benchling moves AI agents into end-to-end R&D workflows

Why it matters: Shows AI agents moving from isolated lab tasks to orchestrating full scientific R&D pipelines.

Benchling co-founder Ashu Singhal launched a product that coordinates models, CROs and lab automation around research goals, with scientists setting approval points in end-to-end R&D workflows.

BenchlingClosed
The Register · 5h

Brave adds TEE-based end-to-end encryption to AI chats

Why it matters: Brings verifiable privacy to hosted AI chats, a growing enterprise concern.

Brave is using trusted execution environments to give its AI chat end-to-end encryption so conversations can't be read in the cloud.

BraveAppFreeCybersecurityIdentity
WSJ · 6h

Nvidia, Meta and Apple unveil new open models

Why it matters: Open releases from Nvidia, Meta and Apple intensify competition with Chinese open-weight models.

WSJ's Morning Download notes Nvidia, Meta and Apple each unveiled new open models, continuing the wave of open-weight releases from major tech companies.

OpenOpen weights
RuntimeWire · 6h

Colossal's AI maps 2,300 dodo gene-editing targets

Why it matters: Demonstrates AI-driven target selection in de-extinction, though predictions remain untested.

Colossal says its GenoMorph AI used data from over 70 bird species to prioritize about 2,300 gene-editing targets toward reconstructing the dodo; CEO Ben Lamm says lab testing is next.

Colossal
Crypto Briefing · 7h · 2 sources

MEXC reports 85% of crypto traders use AI

An MEXC AI trading report found 85% of crypto traders use AI but most limit its control over funds. Separately, Jensen Huang discussed agent gone-rogue risks and AI doomers.

Fraud & risk
More: Fortune
The Neuron · 8h

The Neuron reports advertisers can target ChatGPT by prompt

Why it matters: Prompt-level ad targeting reshapes how brands reach AI chatbot users.

The Neuron newsletter reports that advertisers can target ChatGPT users based on the prompts they type, a new ad targeting surface on OpenAI's chatbot.

OpenAICommerce media
TechCrunch · 1h · 2 sources #

Ex-Nvidia robotics executive says field still in 'Lego era'

Why it matters: A seasoned robotics investor argues physical AI's missing building blocks explain why humanoids lag language models.

Amulya Vishwanath, who led product marketing for Nvidia's robotics platforms, says robotics has not reached its ChatGPT moment because actuators, hands, software and safety standards are still being rebuilt.

RuntimeWire · 3h

XREAL 1 Pro+ adds 1,200-nit brightness to $599 glasses

XREAL's 1 Pro+ display glasses cost $599 and keep the One Pro's chip and 57-degree field of view, adding 1,200-nit brightness, AI HDR, faster 2D-to-3D conversion and a redesigned nose pad.

XREALOn sale
Korben · 4h

Remote-controlled Unitree R1 robot assaults teenager in Cologne

Why it matters: An assault by a commercially sold humanoid highlights physical-safety and remote-control risks as cheap robots spread.

Korben reports a remote-controlled Unitree R1 humanoid robot assaulted a teenager in Cologne, raising fresh questions about safety and control of commercially available robots.

Unitree
Interesting Engineering · 4h

Two humanoid robots play table tennis doubles

Why it matters: Coordinated multi-robot play with fast reaction is a hard physical-AI benchmark.

Two humanoid robots teamed up for a table tennis doubles match, rallying for more than ten shots in a demonstration of coordinated manipulation and reaction.

eeNews Europe · 5h

Siemens and Nvidia speed up chip lithography 12x

Why it matters: Cuts lithography simulation time, a key bottleneck in advanced chipmaking.

Siemens and Nvidia demonstrated a 12x speedup in AI chip lithography by applying GPU-accelerated computing and AI to lithography simulation and mask optimization.

Siemens
The Verge · 6h · 6 sources #

Nvidia's RTX Spark laptops go on sale starting at $2,599

Why it matters: Arm-based superchips for local AI inference challenge Apple and Intel in the PC silicon market.

Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X Arm-based superchip arrives in laptops, with Surface Laptop Ultra and other RTX Spark machines now shipping. Nvidia markets them as able to run AI models locally.

NvidiaOn salePaid
Tom's Hardware · 7h

Ukrainian drones strike Russian data centers, disrupting services

Why it matters: Drone strikes on data centers show AI infrastructure is now a wartime target.

Ukrainian long-range drones hit Russian data centers, knocking out or severely disrupting Russian digital services and apps. Some reports suggest online bot activity also fell, though less than first claimed.

Robotics & Automation News · 9h

Tesla patent reveals touch-sensitive skin for robot hands

Why it matters: Tactile skin patents show humanoid makers racing to close the dexterity gap.

A Tesla patent describes touch-sensitive skin for robot hands, per Robotics & Automation News. The filing covers tactile sensing likely for Optimus humanoid hands.

Tesla
Pandaily · 10h

WanNa Robotics debuts NOVA21 direct-drive dexterous hand

Why it matters: Higher-DoF direct-drive hands advance dextrous manipulation for humanoids.

NOVA21 is a robotic dexterous hand with 21 active rotary joints and 16 force sensors, shown at the Hong Kong Autumn Electronics Fair with industrial fieldbus options.

WanNa Robotics
Pandaily · 10h

AgiBot places YuanSheng robots at 20+ Chinese universities

Why it matters: Campus deployments give AgiBot large-scale real-world robot data and talent pipelines.

AgiBot's YuanSheng program will put Genie and Lingxi humanoids, Expedition and quadruped robots plus AIMA software seats at more than 20 Chinese universities, over 1,000 robots in total.

AgiBot
DigiTimes Asia · 10h

Chunghwa Telecom builds Taiwan network for AI agent era

Chunghwa Telecom president Rong-shy Lin said the shift from conversational AI to autonomous agents is reshaping enterprise adoption, making data governance, access controls and accountability critical at scale, as the telco builds Taiwan's high-speed computing network.

Chunghwa Telecom
Robotics & Automation News · 10h · 2 sources

Pudu expands from service robots into quadrupeds

Pudu Robotics is expanding beyond service robots into semi-humanoid and quadruped robot lines, extending its commercial robotics lineup into new form factors.

Pudu Robotics
More: menafn
The Economic Times · 10h · 3 sources

Amazon's Bee Frontier always-listening AI wearable available now

Why it matters: Amazon's entry pushes always-on AI wearables into the consumer mainstream.

Amazon's Bee Frontier is an always-listening AI wearable that records conversations and prioritizes privacy; it is available now. Coverage questions whether such recording devices are necessary.

AmazonClosedOn sale
TechNode · 10h

Hesai's Kosmo turns real places into 3D assets for robots

Why it matters: Physical AI's biggest bottleneck is real-world data, and 3D asset capture aims to fill it.

Kosmo, from lidar maker Hesai, captures real-world locations and converts them into 3D assets robots can learn from, addressing the shortage of physical-world training data for embodied AI.

Hesai
The Elec · 10h

Intel to showcase physical AI robots at Web Summit 2026

Why it matters: Chipmakers are pushing physical AI as the next frontier beyond data-center workloads.

Intel said it will demonstrate physical AI technologies for real-world industrial use at Web Summit 2026, featuring robots deployed in manufacturing, smart cities and retail.

Intel
DigiTimes Asia · 11h

Samsung, SK Hynix develop zHBM and HBF for AI memory

Why it matters: New memory architectures could reshape how AI accelerators are designed and supplied.

Samsung is exploring stacking HBM directly above GPUs, while SK Hynix advances high-bandwidth flash to expand capacity, as both target AI system memory bottlenecks.

Samsung
DigiTimes Asia · 11h

Delta says AI power gap will drive standalone microgrids

Why it matters: Power availability is becoming a binding constraint on AI data center expansion.

Delta Electronics chairman Ping Cheng said AI data centers and EVs are pushing electricity demand beyond supply, and the company is expanding into integrated microgrid solutions.

Delta Electronics
富途牛牛 · 12h

Lenovo begins global delivery of Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72

Why it matters: Shows Vera Rubin NVL72 systems moving from announcement into volume global delivery.

Lenovo Group has started global delivery of Nvidia Vera Rubin NVL72 systems, with its AI Cloud Gigafactory accelerating deployment.

Lenovo
DigiTimes Asia · 13h

Holtek targets edge AI and AI server cooling in 2026 roadmap

Taiwan MCU maker Holtek unveiled a 2026 roadmap focused on smart protection, green energy and intelligent control, edge AI computing and general-purpose applications, with AI server cooling orders expected to lift 2027 revenue.

Holtek
DigiTimes Asia · 14h

BOE's 24-layer glass substrates enter AI chip packaging trials

Why it matters: A display giant entering glass-core substrates could add capacity and competition in AI packaging.

Chinese display maker BOE said at an October 15 investor event that it completed the full manufacturing process for glass-core packaging substrates with 24 layers and has reached AI chip packaging trials, with mass production still ahead.

BOE
DigiTimes Asia · 14h

AIDC white paper flags power management in site selection

A new white paper on AI data centers highlights energy efficiency, power management and PUE as key site-selection factors, saying projects must assess feeder capacity and grid limits given rising power density.

Pandaily · 14h

Leju Robotics runs 15 humanoids on auto parts line at 98% success

Why it matters: Multi-station humanoid deployment in real production shows factory humanoids moving from demos to routine work.

At a Hangzhou auto parts plant, 15 Leju humanoid robots now load parts at 15 stations across routine shifts, taking up to 40 seconds per cycle versus about 15 seconds for a skilled worker, with roughly 98% success.

Leju Robotics
Vietnam.vn · 14h · 2 sources

South Korea warns AI glasses could aid CSAT cheating

Why it matters: AI wearables are forcing exam and school policy changes around cheating.

Ahead of South Korea's university entrance exam, officials and teachers flag Meta-style AI glasses as a cheating risk, prompting tighter monitoring and pressure on invigilators.

DigiTimes Asia · 15h

Japan automakers push vehicle-road coordination for self-driving

Why it matters: Japan's infrastructure-first autonomy path is a distinct alternative to Tesla-style vehicle-only AI.

At Japan Mobility Show Bizweek 2026, Nissan, Subaru and Toyota demonstrated autonomous driving systems linking vehicles to road infrastructure, a strategic bet beyond vehicle-only AI.

Mid Florida Newspapers · 16h · 14 sources #

Faraday Future launches FF Nova humanoid under $2,500

Why it matters: A sub-$2,500 humanoid would sharply lower the cost floor for physical AI development.

Faraday Future and FFR launched FF Nova, an embodied AI humanoid robot priced below $2,500 in the US, plus FF Nova Mini, a Physical AI curriculum and a reinforcement-learning developer program.

Faraday FutureOn sale
DigiTimes Asia · 18h

Nvidia shows PTFE switch board at OCP, names Taiwan partners

Why it matters: New materials and named partners signal how Nvidia's AI rack networking supply chain is evolving.

At OCP Global Summit 2026 Nvidia unveiled an MGX switch board sample using PTFE and named seven supply-chain partners, including Taiwan's Flexium Interconnect and Taiflex Scientific.

Nvidia
RuntimeWire · 18h

Standard Bots lets factory workers program robot arms from an iPad

Why it matters: Conversational programming could lower the barrier for smaller manufacturers to adopt industrial robots.

Standard Bots' October 15 launch pairs conversational programming with vision skills; CEO Evan Beard bets easier setup can bring automation to smaller manufacturers.

Standard BotsClosedOn sale
DigiTimes Asia · 18h

Qualcomm advances full AI infrastructure platform as agentic AI reshapes competition

Why it matters: Qualcomm's data center push tests whether it can challenge Nvidia in AI infrastructure.

After launching its Dragonfly data center product line in June 2026, Qualcomm is expanding beyond Snapdragon into a complete AI infrastructure platform serving multiple hyperscalers, as agentic AI reshapes chip competition.

Qualcomm
The Rundown AI · 20h · 2 sources

UCLA open-sources PhoneBot robot driven by an Android phone

UCLA researchers open-sourced PhoneBot, a small humanoid whose brain is an Android phone, replacing roughly five separate robot systems with one phone. It is available as an open project for other researchers to build on.

UCLAOpenCode
Dev tool · GitHub · 1h

mcp-for-blender-pro adds MCP server and AI assistant to Blender

An MCP server and AI assistant for Blender: chat visually, run scene tools, pick models and use multi-agent workflows for bpy scripting, 3D modeling and geometry nodes. Works with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama and OpenCode.

New repo · ★ 108 in its first week · Python
mcp-for-blender-proOpenCode
Hugging Face · Hugging Face · 1h

DeepLethe releases FDE-Gym benchmark dataset

FDE-Gym is a dataset of 20 scenarios testing whether an agent can do a forward-deployed engineer's job: enter a running customer environment, find what matters, make decisions and ship production-ready systems.

Dataset · n<1K · other · ♥ 51
DeepLetheOpenOpen weights
App · Adafruit · 4h

Microsoft forms lab for AI-decompiled games

Why it matters: Sets an official path for AI-driven game decompilation, a legally sensitive area.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a new Microsoft group focused on AI-assisted game decompilation, following a wave of community decompiles like Super Smash Bros. Melee running natively on PC, Android and Linux.

Microsoft
Dev tool · GitHub · 4h

git-ai is a Git built specifically for AI agents

git-ai is an open-source Go project offering a Git-style version control system designed for AI agents rather than humans. It drew 1,000 stars in its first week on GitHub.

New repo · ★ 1.0k in its first week · Go
feder-crOpenCodeFree
Hugging Face · Hugging Face · 7h

FreeInference releases agentic coding trace dataset

A Hugging Face dataset capturing 12,002 coding and assistant agent sessions from 267 accounts and 14 agent harnesses over 16 weeks, with over 1.18M logged LLM interactions and an interactive session explorer.

Dataset · 1M<n<10M · cc-by-4.0 · ♥ 50
FreeInferenceOpenFreeCode
Dev tool · Tom's Hardware · 7h

Torvalds posts first AI-assisted patch to Linux kernel

Why it matters: Linux's lead maintainer embracing AI tooling signals shift in core open-source development.

Linus Torvalds posted his first LLM-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, Tom's Hardware reports, with a synthetic test clocking a 23x performance leap after he issued pro-AI directives.

LinuxOpenCode
Dev tool · Tom's Hardware · 8h

Jailbroken PS5 runs local AI at over 100 tokens per second

Why it matters: Shows consumer game consoles can serve as cheap local LLM inference hardware.

A PS5LM fork lets jailbroken PS5 consoles run local LLMs natively using the GPU and more RAM, reaching over 100 tokens per second and running Qwen3.8-27B at 20 tokens per second.

PS5LMOpenCode
Dev tool · The Register · 8h

Postgres 19 delayed as AI reviewers find more bugs than humans can fix

Why it matters: Shows AI review capacity can itself slow an open-source major release.

Postgres core developers reverted up to 10 features and pushed the release to November, saying AI-assisted code review surfaced more bugs than the team could fix in time.

PostgreSQLOpenCode
Dev tool · shattered.io · 9h · 2 sources

GitHub AI Scan exits preview; Copilot agentic autofix ships

Why it matters: Bundles AI code scanning and automated fixes directly into the developer workflow.

GitHub AI Scan is now generally available, though its findings cannot block merges. GitHub's agentic autofix can repair up to 25 code-scanning alerts in a single draft pull request.

GitHubClosedAPIPaidCybersecurity
More: OpenTools
Dev tool · Pandaily · 10h

4Paradigm and RiseUnion open-source ModelSphere for LLM serving

Why it matters: It offers a domestic-chip alternative for serving LLMs at scale in China.

ModelSphere is an open-source system for serving large language models across heterogeneous clusters, unifying cluster serving, KV caching and AutoTune under Apache 2.0, with claimed support for Ascend, Iluvatar, Moore Threads and Hygon DCU chips.

4ParadigmOpenOpen weightsCode
Dev tool · Product Hunt · 11h

Autonomous launches Harness command center for coding agents

Harness is an open-source command center that runs coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Hermes across machines, with desktop, terminal, iOS and Android apps and end-to-end encryption. Free on Mac and Linux.

Launch · ▲ 125 on Product Hunt
AutonomousOpenFreeCode
Dev tool · Product Hunt · 11h

Pomerado turns any website into an API or MCP server

Pomerado converts previously inaccessible websites like Google Flights, Zillow and Instacart into native APIs or MCP tools for agents in minutes, hosting, authenticating and maintaining the integrations.

Launch · ▲ 102 on Product Hunt
PomeradoOpenCode
App · Product Hunt · 11h

Hintly for Google Meet explains terms in real time

Hintly for Google Meet is a tool that explains terms, names and things people mention on your Google Meet calls a moment after they come up, providing real-time hints during meetings.

Launch · ▲ 94 on Product Hunt
HintlyClosedApp
Dev tool · Product Hunt · 11h

Parallax launches app to run many coding agents at once

Parallax runs coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and 40+ more in one app with 240+ models on your own subscriptions, plus a Captain agent, one-click PR merges and subscription auto-fallback.

Launch · ▲ 79 on Product Hunt
ParallaxClosedApp
Dev tool · RuntimeWire · 11h

DoubleAI plans code-optimization product announcement next week

DoubleAI plans to announce a code-optimization product next week, per Shashua. Its earlier WarpSpeed work produced doubleGraph, a free verified replacement for Nvidia's cuGraph; name and terms are undisclosed.

DoubleAI
Dev tool · RuntimeWire · 12h

Tencent WorkBuddy faces Claude Code copying allegation over prompts

Why it matters: Raises questions about provenance and licensing in agentic coding tools.

An October 16 post claims 224 identical text segments in WorkBuddy's bundled CodeBuddy CLI, while Tencent's docs confirm Claude plugin compatibility, complicating the copying comparison.

Tencent
Hugging Face · Hugging Face · 13h

Datalab releases Indra OCR document intelligence model

Why it matters: A tiny CPU-only OCR model at 49 pages/s lowers cost for document pipelines.

Indra OCR is a 1M-parameter model that converts PDFs and images into markdown, plain text or JSON with bounding boxes. It runs 49 pages per second on CPU, roughly 230ms per page, and is 11-17x faster than Tesseract and PaddleOCR.

Model · image-to-text · openrail · ♥ 100 · 0 downloads
DatalabOpenOpen weightsFree
GitHub · GitHub · 14h

Frametell turns ideas into explainer videos via AI director agent

Frametell is a local-first TypeScript project that turns your notes and material into explainer videos using an AI director agent, and works with any model. The repo gained 117 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 117 in its first week · TypeScript
sitor-aiOpenCodeFree
Dev tool · Cursor · 14h

Cursor 3.25.6 released for macOS, Windows and Linux

Cursor 3.25.6 is out for macOS, Windows and Linux, letting developers write, edit and chat about code with AI inside the editor.

Version 3.25.6 · macOS / Windows / Linux
CursorClosedAppPaid
Dev tool · Anthropic · 15h

Anthropic adds Claude Tag on-call teammate for incident channels

Why it matters: Puts an AI agent inside incident response, a core developer workflow.

Claude Tag is a new Anthropic feature that puts Claude in an incident channel as an on-call teammate, helping teams respond to outages and alerts directly where they already talk.

AnthropicClosedAppOfficial
Dev tool · RuntimeWire · 15h · 2 sources

Leon Lin releases Earshot audio reviewer for coding agents

Earshot is an open-source, CPU-only toolkit that lets AI coding agents hear and review audio, critique launch videos and generate sound effects; its blind-test evidence remains small.

EarshotOpenCodeFree
More: GitHub
Dev tool · SiliconANGLE · 17h

LogicMonitor Elevate: AI observability heads toward autonomous IT

At its Elevate event in Chicago, LogicMonitor detailed eight insights on AI-driven observability, combining operational data, AI automation and governance to help enterprises manage infrastructure and respond to incidents faster.

LogicMonitor
App · The Verge · 19h · 13 sources #

ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read your open browser tabs

Why it matters: Giving assistants visibility into browser tabs moves AI agents closer to controlling everyday web work.

OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension: with Chrome tagged in the web or desktop app, ChatGPT can view open browser tabs, compare pages and help complete tasks via browser automation.

OpenAIClosedAppFreePaid
Dev tool · Codex CLI · 20h

OpenAI releases Codex CLI 0.163.0

Codex CLI is OpenAI's open-source coding agent that runs locally on your computer. Version 0.163.0 is the latest release, installable via npm with the command npm i -g @openai/codex.

Version 0.163.0 · CLI (npm)
OpenAIOpenCodeFree
Dev tool · RuntimeWire · 21h

Cua launches shared desktops for teams and AI agents

Cua lets teams connect their own machines and supervise AI agents on shared desktops, and pay for collaboration tools. Founded by former Microsoft engineer Francesco Bonacci.

CuaWaitlist
Dev tool · RuntimeWire · 21h

Photon opens messaging-agent beta with $100 in credits

Photon 2.0 connects AI agents to iMessage, voice, email, WhatsApp, Telegram and SMS, and is opening a beta with $100 in credits for builders. Access is by request.

PhotonWaitlist
Dev tool · OpenCode · 22h

OpenCode 1.19.1-1.19.3 CLI released on npm

OpenCode, an open-source terminal coding agent, shipped versions 1.19.1 through 1.19.3. Installable via npm with npm i -g opencode-ai.

Version 1.19.1 · CLI (npm)
OpenCodeOpenCodeFree
Hugging Face · Hugging Face · 23h

Tencent releases Youtu-Parsing-Omni and Hy-Memory-30B-A3B models

Why it matters: A multimodal open parser for documents, images, audio and video expands structured-data extraction.

Youtu-Parsing-Omni parses documents, images, charts, geometry, audio and video into structured JSON; weights, a vLLM plugin and an OmniDocBench evaluation are released. Hy-Memory-30B-A3B also appears.

Model · image-text-to-text · other · ♥ 100 · 1.3k downloads
TencentOpenOpen weights
App · TechCrunch · 23h · 3 sources #

Bluesky expands Attie AI builder to websites and games

Why it matters: Brings AI app-building into a social network, testing coding features for mainstream users.

Bluesky is expanding its experimental Attie AI tool so users can build interactive websites, games and quizzes that plug into the social network's audience, part of a push into "social vibe coding."

BlueskyClosedApp
Dev tool · GitHub · 1d

Hugging Face releases Transformers v5.20.0

Transformers is the widely used model-definition library for text, vision, audio and multimodal models, for training and inference. Version 5.20.0 is tagged on GitHub; release notes list only the version tag.

Release v5.20.0 · huggingface/transformers
Hugging FaceOpenCodeFree
App · Quasa.io · 1d

Quasa reviews Rosebud AI journaling app

Quasa reviews Rosebud, an AI journal aimed at surfacing patterns and supporting personal growth by analyzing what users write over time.

RosebudClosedAppPaid
Dev tool · Google Developers · 1d

Google unifies Agent Development Kit resources in adk-recipes repo

The google/adk-recipes GitHub repository gathers Agent Development Kit resources into three layers—core/, plugins/ and contrib/—so developers can reuse reference patterns and install modular skills for building AI agents.

GoogleOpenCodeOfficial
Dev tool · GitHub · 1d

Graphicle gives coding agents a code graph and memory

Graphicle is an open-source Rust program that builds a code graph and memory for AI coding agents. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client, helping agents understand a codebase. It drew 157 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 157 in its first week · Rust
Graphicle-AIOpenCodeFree
Dev tool · Quasa.io · 1d

CoLab review: AI design review for engineering teams

Quasa.io reviews CoLab, software that uses AI to help engineering teams run design reviews and catch issues on mechanical CAD projects before they reach production.

CoLabClosedAppPaid
Dev tool · Qwen Code · 1d

Qwen Code 0.25.2 released

Qwen Code is an AI-powered coding assistant CLI installed via npm. Version 0.25.2 is a minor update to the open-source tool.

Version 0.25.2 · CLI (npm)
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Dev tool · AWS Machine Learning · 1d

AWS details Trust in Depth approach for agent autonomy

AWS outlines Trust in Depth, a layered approach-scope, know, bound, observe, prove-that lets agents act autonomously when actions can be verified, reserving humans for judgment calls.

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Dev tool · Microsoft · 1d

Microsoft Copilot Studio adds persistent proactive agent delegation

Why it matters: Persistent, proactive agents in a major low-code platform push business-process automation further.

Microsoft Copilot Studio now lets users delegate shared business processes to agents that are more persistent and proactive. It targets teams automating repeatable workflows with agents.

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Dev tool · Hacker News · 1d

Developer uses AI to reverse engineer hardware

A GNOME developer blog post describes using AI models to reverse engineer hardware, with discussion on Hacker News about the practical workflow and limits.

Dev tool · Google Developers · 1d

Google publishes guide for evaluating multi-turn AI agents

An engineering guide and reference architecture for continuous evaluation of multi-turn AI agents, using Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Google ADK and OpenInference standards.

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Dev tool · The New Stack · 1d · 2 sources

Anthropic builds internal git alternative Scion for coding agents

Why it matters: Signals big labs rethinking developer tooling for agent-driven software workflows.

Anthropic reportedly built Scion, a version control system designed for AI-scale coding agents, but it is not publicly available. An open-source clone, open_scion, exists on GitHub.

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Dev tool · MarkTechPost · 1d

CopilotKit releases CLiF continual learning platform for agents

Why it matters: Turns production agent traces into training data, easing agent reliability work.

CLiF is a platform that turns AI agent traces and user actions into reusable skills, evaluations and fine-tuning data, helping teams make agents perform consistently on product-specific tasks.

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Dev tool · The Information · 1d

Cognition to measure engineer token efficiency

Why it matters: Token efficiency becomes a managed metric as AI coding costs come under scrutiny.

Cognition, maker of the Devin coding agent, is adding a way to measure how efficiently engineers use tokens, as companies cap AI spending.

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Dev tool · TechAfrica News · 1d

DE-CIX open-sources MCP server for network management

DE-CIX released an open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants query and manage network infrastructure, connecting agents to IX operational tooling.

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App · 404 Media · 1d

ChatGPT ads target users by phone number and email

Why it matters: Raises privacy concerns over ad targeting inside AI assistants.

404 Media reports most ChatGPT users don't know advertisers can target them on the platform using their email, phone number, or unique phone identifier.

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Dev tool · MarkTechPost · 1d

openKylin outlines KART AI runtime and openKylin 3.0

At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openKylin described moving Linux from resource management to intent management, unveiling the KART unified AI runtime plus AI Assistant and global intelligent search features in openKylin 3.0.

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Dev tool · Yahoo Finance · 1d

Presentations.AI opens presentation agent via API and MCP server

Why it matters: Puts slide generation behind an API and MCP server so agents can build decks programmatically.

Presentations.AI, an AI slide generator, made its presentation agent available to developers and other AI agents through an API and an MCP server, so software can generate decks programmatically.

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Dev tool · Enterprise Times · 1d

Precisely connects AI assistants to SAP

Precisely launched an integration that links AI assistants directly to SAP systems, letting them work with enterprise data.

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GitHub · GitHub · 1d

GitHub toolkit splits cross-border e-commerce ops into 7 AI agents

AI-Cross-Border-Ecommerce-Agent-Toolkit is a Python GitHub repo that turns cross-border e-commerce operating procedures into seven reusable AI agent workflows, with prompts, templates and real case studies. It drew 100 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · Python
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Dev tool · GitHub · 1d

Developer publishes MCP servers for Iranian web services

A Python repo with 19 open-source MCP servers (308 tools) that give AI agents access to Iranian services like Digikala, Snappfood and Jabama, with prices in Toman. It hit 100 stars in a week.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · Python
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Hugging Face · Hugging Face · 1d

JetBrains releases Mellum2.1 Thinking GGUF builds

GGUF quantizations of JetBrains' Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, a Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model with 64 experts, ready to run in llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio as single files.

Model · text-generation · apache-2.0 · ♥ 102 · 65.9k downloads
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Dev tool · Kilo Code CLI · 1d

Kilo Code CLI 7.8.12 released

Kilo Code CLI is a terminal AI coding agent that generates code from natural language, automates tasks and runs terminal commands, powered by 500+ AI models. Version 7.8.12 is available via npm.

Version 7.8.12 · CLI (npm)
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DeepLethe releases FDE-Gym benchmark dataset

FDE-Gym is a dataset of 20 scenarios testing whether an agent can do a forward-deployed engineer's job: enter a running customer environment, find what matters, make decisions and ship production-ready systems.

Dataset · n<1K · other · ♥ 51
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Hugging Face · 7h

FreeInference releases agentic coding trace dataset

A Hugging Face dataset capturing 12,002 coding and assistant agent sessions from 267 accounts and 14 agent harnesses over 16 weeks, with over 1.18M logged LLM interactions and an interactive session explorer.

Dataset · 1M<n<10M · cc-by-4.0 · ♥ 50
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Hugging Face · 13h

Datalab releases Indra OCR document intelligence model

Indra OCR is a 1M-parameter model that converts PDFs and images into markdown, plain text or JSON with bounding boxes. It runs 49 pages per second on CPU, roughly 230ms per page, and is 11-17x faster than Tesseract and PaddleOCR.

Model · image-to-text · openrail · ♥ 100 · 0 downloads
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Hugging Face · 23h

Tencent releases Youtu-Parsing-Omni and Hy-Memory-30B-A3B models

Youtu-Parsing-Omni parses documents, images, charts, geometry, audio and video into structured JSON; weights, a vLLM plugin and an OmniDocBench evaluation are released. Hy-Memory-30B-A3B also appears.

Model · image-text-to-text · other · ♥ 100 · 1.3k downloads
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Hugging Face · 1d

JetBrains releases Mellum2.1 Thinking GGUF builds

GGUF quantizations of JetBrains' Mellum2.1-12B-A2.5B-Thinking, a Mixture-of-Experts reasoning model with 64 experts, ready to run in llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio as single files.

Model · text-generation · apache-2.0 · ♥ 102 · 65.9k downloads
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HF Papers · 1d

Speculative Forcing speeds autoregressive video generation

Speculative Forcing is a method that lets few-step autoregressive video generators skip unnecessary refinement by only running extra denoising on tokens that still need it, cutting computation for streaming video generation.

Paper · ▲ 43 upvotes
HF Papers · 1d

SCOPE improves text-to-image prompt rewriting with RL

A paper proposing SCOPE, a Group Relative Policy Optimization objective that scores coherent semantic spans rather than individual subword tokens when RL fine-tunes prompt rewriting for frozen text-to-image generators.

Paper · ▲ 23 upvotes
HF Papers · 1d

Waypoint-OPD paper distills RL policy shifts on-policy

Waypoint-OPD is a research method that transfers RL-induced policy changes from a teacher model to a student via gated on-policy distillation, improving on endpoint-only policy shift distillation.

Paper · ▲ 114 upvotes
HF Papers · 1d

FDE-Gym benchmark targets real-world AI delivery tasks

FDE-Gym is a benchmark of 95 end-to-end delivery tasks from 20 customer scenarios, testing whether agents can clarify ambiguous requirements and work in live systems as forward-deployed engineers do.

Paper · ▲ 26 upvotes
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HF Papers · 1d

Paper proposes routing policy optimization for diffusion RL

A new paper on Hugging Face Papers introduces Routing Policy Optimization, a method that adds stochastic exploration inside visual generators while preserving the original sampler, aiming to cut the cost of rollout-based reinforcement learning for diffusion models.

Paper · ▲ 20 upvotes
HF Papers · 1d

OneWM unifies world and action modeling in causal framework

A research paper introduces OneWM, a framework that trains world and action models together in one video-action architecture, treating actions as both prediction conditions and policy targets. It tests whether forward dynamics and policy learning help each other.

Paper · ▲ 30 upvotes
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GitHub · 1h

mcp-for-blender-pro adds MCP server and AI assistant to Blender

An MCP server and AI assistant for Blender: chat visually, run scene tools, pick models and use multi-agent workflows for bpy scripting, 3D modeling and geometry nodes. Works with OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama and OpenCode.

New repo · ★ 108 in its first week · Python
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GitHub · 4h

git-ai is a Git built specifically for AI agents

git-ai is an open-source Go project offering a Git-style version control system designed for AI agents rather than humans. It drew 1,000 stars in its first week on GitHub.

New repo · ★ 1.0k in its first week · Go
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GitHub · 14h

Frametell turns ideas into explainer videos via AI director agent

Frametell is a local-first TypeScript project that turns your notes and material into explainer videos using an AI director agent, and works with any model. The repo gained 117 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 117 in its first week · TypeScript
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GitHub · 1d

Hugging Face releases Transformers v5.20.0

Transformers is the widely used model-definition library for text, vision, audio and multimodal models, for training and inference. Version 5.20.0 is tagged on GitHub; release notes list only the version tag.

Release v5.20.0 · huggingface/transformers
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GitHub · 1d

Graphicle gives coding agents a code graph and memory

Graphicle is an open-source Rust program that builds a code graph and memory for AI coding agents. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and any MCP client, helping agents understand a codebase. It drew 157 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 157 in its first week · Rust
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GitHub · 1d

GitHub toolkit splits cross-border e-commerce ops into 7 AI agents

AI-Cross-Border-Ecommerce-Agent-Toolkit is a Python GitHub repo that turns cross-border e-commerce operating procedures into seven reusable AI agent workflows, with prompts, templates and real case studies. It drew 100 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · Python
heqiangdiao-wqOpenCodeFreeAgentic commerce
GitHub · 1d

Developer publishes MCP servers for Iranian web services

A Python repo with 19 open-source MCP servers (308 tools) that give AI agents access to Iranian services like Digikala, Snappfood and Jabama, with prices in Toman. It hit 100 stars in a week.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · Python
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GitHub · 1d

openai-agents-python v0.24.0 released

A lightweight Python framework for building multi-agent workflows. Version 0.24.0 exposes MCP annotations on converted tools, adds run-wide tool exception formatting and batches OpenAI conversation session writes.

Release v0.24.0 · openai/openai-agents-python
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GitHub · 1d

eleven is an agent-first reverse engineering tool for binaries and apps

eleven is an open TypeScript tool that lets any ACP agent read, rename and patch binaries, Android apps and GPU kernels alongside you. Works on macOS, Windows and Linux; ~103 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 103 in its first week · TypeScript
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GitHub · 1d

gpt-with-taste adds judgment steering for GPT in Codex

gpt-with-taste is an open JavaScript repo of system instructions and source-aware steering that aims to give GPT in Codex better judgment and taste with less ceremony. ~100 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · JavaScript
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Microsoft forms lab for AI-decompiled games

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a new Microsoft group focused on AI-assisted game decompilation, following a wave of community decompiles like Super Smash Bros. Melee running natively on PC, Android and Linux.

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Product Hunt · 11h

Hintly for Google Meet explains terms in real time

Hintly for Google Meet is a tool that explains terms, names and things people mention on your Google Meet calls a moment after they come up, providing real-time hints during meetings.

Launch · ▲ 94 on Product Hunt
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The Verge · 19h · 13 sources #

ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read your open browser tabs

OpenAI upgraded ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension: with Chrome tagged in the web or desktop app, ChatGPT can view open browser tabs, compare pages and help complete tasks via browser automation.

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Quasa.io · 1d

Quasa reviews Rosebud AI journaling app

Quasa reviews Rosebud, an AI journal aimed at surfacing patterns and supporting personal growth by analyzing what users write over time.

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Tom's Hardware · 7h

Torvalds posts first AI-assisted patch to Linux kernel

Linus Torvalds posted his first LLM-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, Tom's Hardware reports, with a synthetic test clocking a 23x performance leap after he issued pro-AI directives.

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Pandaily · 10h

4Paradigm and RiseUnion open-source ModelSphere for LLM serving

ModelSphere is an open-source system for serving large language models across heterogeneous clusters, unifying cluster serving, KV caching and AutoTune under Apache 2.0, with claimed support for Ascend, Iluvatar, Moore Threads and Hygon DCU chips.

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Product Hunt · 11h

Autonomous launches Harness command center for coding agents

Harness is an open-source command center that runs coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Hermes across machines, with desktop, terminal, iOS and Android apps and end-to-end encryption. Free on Mac and Linux.

Launch · ▲ 125 on Product Hunt
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Product Hunt · 11h

Pomerado turns any website into an API or MCP server

Pomerado converts previously inaccessible websites like Google Flights, Zillow and Instacart into native APIs or MCP tools for agents in minutes, hosting, authenticating and maintaining the integrations.

Launch · ▲ 102 on Product Hunt
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Product Hunt · 11h

Parallax launches app to run many coding agents at once

Parallax runs coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and 40+ more in one app with 240+ models on your own subscriptions, plus a Captain agent, one-click PR merges and subscription auto-fallback.

Launch · ▲ 79 on Product Hunt
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Cursor · 14h

Cursor 3.25.6 released for macOS, Windows and Linux

Cursor 3.25.6 is out for macOS, Windows and Linux, letting developers write, edit and chat about code with AI inside the editor.

Version 3.25.6 · macOS / Windows / Linux
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SiliconANGLE · 17h

LogicMonitor Elevate: AI observability heads toward autonomous IT

At its Elevate event in Chicago, LogicMonitor detailed eight insights on AI-driven observability, combining operational data, AI automation and governance to help enterprises manage infrastructure and respond to incidents faster.

LogicMonitor
Codex CLI · 20h

OpenAI releases Codex CLI 0.163.0

Codex CLI is OpenAI's open-source coding agent that runs locally on your computer. Version 0.163.0 is the latest release, installable via npm with the command npm i -g @openai/codex.

Version 0.163.0 · CLI (npm)
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RuntimeWire · 21h

Cua launches shared desktops for teams and AI agents

Cua lets teams connect their own machines and supervise AI agents on shared desktops, and pay for collaboration tools. Founded by former Microsoft engineer Francesco Bonacci.

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