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SiliconANGLE · 2h #

Thinking Machines releases Inkling 2 Small model amid $5B raise reports

Why it matters: A new lab model aimed at automating AI training work, plus a huge reported raise, signals a fresh frontier competitor.

Thinking Machines Labs released Inkling 2 Small, a large language model that automates AI training tasks. Business Insider separately reported the startup is raising about $5 billion.

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Reddit · 3h #

Cactus Compute releases Mirage, a 22 MB vision model for devices

Why it matters: Shows a 22 MB model can handle multi-task vision on-device, widening local physical AI.

Mirage is a tiny vision-language model that runs scene description, object detection, OCR, segmentation and spatial reasoning in a single pass. Its weights file is 22 MB, aimed at phones, wearables and robots.

Cactus ComputeOpenOpen weights
Reddit · 4h #

Xing4.0-29B-A4B GGUF posted on Hugging Face

Xing4.0-29B-A4B is a 29B mixture-of-experts model in the Xing series (formerly TeleChat) from China Telecom's AI division. bartowski published GGUF quantizations for local use.

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RuntimeWire · 6h · 2 sources #

PSI says its AI system proved the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture

Why it matters: A machine-checked proof of a known conjecture would mark a notable AI math milestone.

Physical Superintelligence says a system using a non-public Anthropic model produced a Lean-accepted, machine-checked proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture.

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RuntimeWire · 7h #

Boson AI launches 45B model that talks and renders a face

Why it matters: Sub-200ms duplex voice-plus-video models push real-time avatars toward natural conversation.

Boson AI released Higgs Realtime Duplex, a 45B model that processes voice and video in 160ms chunks to converse with a rendered face, handle tools and delegate harder questions.

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CNA · 7h Widely covered · 19 sources #

OpenAI CFO says company will keep investing in data centers

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told CNBC the company will press ahead with its data-center expansion despite the midterm election results, reaffirming its infrastructure investment plans.

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TechRepublic (AI) · 8h #

Cursor adds Build Live Apps to generate and deploy web apps

Why it matters: Pushes AI coding agents from autocomplete into full app building and deployment.

Cursor's new Build Live Apps feature creates and deploys web applications with databases, authentication and hosting from prompts, TechRepublic reports, detailing what is included and what it costs.

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EE Times · 9h · 2 sources #

IBM, AMD, Oak Ridge launch hybrid quantum-AI system

Why it matters: Hybrid quantum-classical HPC could speed error-correction work, a key path to useful quantum computing.

IBM, AMD and Oak Ridge National Laboratory launched a hybrid quantum-classical HPC system to accelerate quantum error-correction research ahead of 2028.

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Computerworld · 9h #

Box launches Architect AI workflow builder

Box Architect is a natural-language AI tool for building automated workflows around document processes. Announced at BoxWorks 2026, it acts as an agentic operator of Box's content and workflow capabilities.

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Bloomberg · 10h Widely covered · 15 sources #

OpenAI closes $11B portion of funding at $1.25T valuation

Why it matters: Reinforces record AI startup valuations and funding scale.

OpenAI has received roughly $11 billion, the initial part of a round valuing it at $1.25 trillion, with the company targeting about $9 billion more. SoftBank is reportedly in talks to invest.

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AWS Machine Learning · 5h · 2 sources #

AWS SageMaker Inference adds Nvidia MIG GPU partitioning

Why it matters: GPU partitioning lets cloud users pack more models per accelerator and cut inference cost.

Amazon SageMaker Inference now supports Nvidia Multi-Instance GPU, splitting one GPU into isolated partitions so users can run separate models or right-sized fractions of a newer accelerator per endpoint.

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Bloomberg · 5h Widely covered · 7 sources #

Microsoft winds down Oracle deal to rent AI cloud capacity

Why it matters: Signals AI compute demand reassessment and pressure on neocloud providers in the buildout.

Microsoft is winding down an arrangement to rent AI computing from Oracle as it reassesses billions of dollars in cloud partnerships, and plans to rely on fewer neoclouds as the AI buildout shows strain.

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MarkTechPost · 6h #

Zyphra releases ZYFA FP8 attention kernels for AMD MI355X

Why it matters: Gives AMD GPU users faster, lower-error attention kernels as an open alternative to AITER.

Zyphra open-sourced FP8 and BF16 prefill attention kernels for AMD Instinct MI355X that run 1.16-1.76x faster than AMD's AITER, with 62-78% lower error at head dimension 128.

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Unite.AI · 6h #

Baseten makes Serverless Loops generally available

Why it matters: Per-token post-training billing lowers the barrier to fine-tuning open models.

Baseten's Serverless Loops, a managed SDK for supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning of open models with per-token training billing, is now generally available and connects checkpoints to Dedicated Inference.

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The Information · 9h · 11 sources #

TSMC weighs making advanced AI memory chips, report says

Why it matters: Memory is a growing AI bottleneck; TSMC entering it could reshape the supply chain.

TSMC is considering expanding into advanced memory manufacturing, including 3D DRAM, which would give the world's largest chipmaker a bigger share of the AI hardware supply chain, per The Information.

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Tom's Hardware · 11h #

Tesla unveils SI6 and Dojo D3 AI accelerator roadmap

Why it matters: Tesla is designing its own AI inference and training accelerators, widening custom-silicon competition.

Tesla detailed custom silicon under new 'Super Intelligence' branding: SI6, an inference accelerator claimed to deliver 80 times more compute, and Dojo D3 training chips that could reach orbital data centers.

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Bloomberg · 13h · 11 sources #

Nvidia boosts AI chip tracking in Southeast Asia to curb smuggling

Why it matters: Export-control enforcement shapes where AI compute can legally flow.

Nvidia is stepping up monitoring of AI accelerators sold in Southeast Asia to stop shipments illegally reaching Chinese firms, after criticism it had not done enough. US Congress is also targeting AI chip exports.

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Hoodline · 21h · 2 sources #

AMD pays $2.9B for Toronto AI chip startup Taalas

Why it matters: AMD buying an AI chip startup shows it is still hunting for ways to close the gap with Nvidia.

AMD acquired Toronto-based AI chip startup Taalas for $2.9B in a large Canadian tech deal; separately, Cathie Wood's Ark swapped AMD for Nvidia.

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DigiTimes Asia · 1d Widely covered · 12 sources #

Nvidia completes $1B payment, takes over 4% stake in Naver

Why it matters: Nvidia deepens a Korean AI factory foothold amid sovereign compute competition.

Nvidia finalized a $1B payment and acquired over 4% of Naver, which is preparing to launch an Nvidia-backed AI factory after an infrastructure deal with Brookfield worth up to $9B. Nvidia also added Korea's JNTC to its glass substrate supplier list.

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Dev tool · GitHub · 1h #

vork: open-source headless 3D and VFX engine for AI agents

A Rust project that provides a headless 3D and VFX engine agents can drive programmatically, letting AI agents render scenes and effects without a GUI. It is a research preview and drew 186 GitHub stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 186 in its first week · Rust
voyager-soOpenCode
Dev tool · GitHub · 6h #

Repo offers RAG over GitHub issues with audited eval set

issue-rag is a Python project that answers questions over GitHub issues using retrieval-augmented generation, with a hand-reviewed evaluation set and an audit of the judge model, reporting confidence intervals rather than only best scores.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · Python
zaxiu88888OpenCode
Dev tool · Reddit · 7h #

llama.cpp PR adds LRFU-style hybrid MoE expert cache

A pull request for llama.cpp replaces the SLRU expert cache with a hybrid cache that ranks frequently used experts via decaying usage history. With a warm cache it reports about +6% decode on QFN and +7% on GLM versus SLRU with 8% fewer uploads.

llama.cppOpenCode
Dev tool · TechRepublic (AI) · 8h #

Cursor adds Build Live Apps to generate and deploy web apps

Why it matters: Pushes AI coding agents from autocomplete into full app building and deployment.

Cursor's new Build Live Apps feature creates and deploys web applications with databases, authentication and hosting from prompts, TechRepublic reports, detailing what is included and what it costs.

CursorClosedPaid
Dev tool · Computerworld · 9h #

Box launches Architect AI workflow builder

Box Architect is a natural-language AI tool for building automated workflows around document processes. Announced at BoxWorks 2026, it acts as an agentic operator of Box's content and workflow capabilities.

BoxClosed
Dev tool · GitHub · 15h #

MianStack open-source programmer interview prep repo launches

A free open-source question bank for programmer interviews covering Java, Python, databases, algorithms, LLMs, AI agents and RAG, with company-targeted prep and project walkthroughs; 104 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 104 in its first week · JavaScript
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Hugging Face · 1d #

Researcher edits Qwen3.5-0.8B weights without training to boost math

A Hugging Face model card describes Qwen3.5-0.8B edited by a frontier LLM through 'Weight-Space Programming' — directly modifying weights with no gradient descent or training — to improve its math ability. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Model · image-text-to-text · apache-2.0 · ♥ 100 · 1.3k downloads
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Hugging Face · 1d #

Free AI Humanizer Space strips formulaic phrasing in browser

A Hugging Face Space demo that removes clichéd, formulaic phrasing from English and Chinese text while leaving code, URLs, numbers and quotes untouched. Runs fully in the browser with no upload or backend; the Lite build has a fixed rule list.

Space · static · ♥ 100
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GitHub · 1h #

vork: open-source headless 3D and VFX engine for AI agents

A Rust project that provides a headless 3D and VFX engine agents can drive programmatically, letting AI agents render scenes and effects without a GUI. It is a research preview and drew 186 GitHub stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 186 in its first week · Rust
voyager-soOpenCode
GitHub · 6h #

Repo offers RAG over GitHub issues with audited eval set

issue-rag is a Python project that answers questions over GitHub issues using retrieval-augmented generation, with a hand-reviewed evaluation set and an audit of the judge model, reporting confidence intervals rather than only best scores.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · Python
zaxiu88888OpenCode
GitHub · 15h #

MianStack open-source programmer interview prep repo launches

A free open-source question bank for programmer interviews covering Java, Python, databases, algorithms, LLMs, AI agents and RAG, with company-targeted prep and project walkthroughs; 104 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 104 in its first week · JavaScript
MianStackOpenFreeCode
GitHub · 16h #

GitHub repo connects Claude and Cursor to Roblox Studio

An open-source Model Context Protocol server for Roblox Studio that lets AI assistants like Claude and Cursor read object trees, edit scripts and run playtests safely. Written in Python; 425 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 425 in its first week · Python
HerdBuilderEstimateOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 17h #

Open-source skill strips AI traces from Turkish text

A Python Agent Skill and humanizer package that removes AI-slop, translationese and TDK errors from Turkish text; it drew 106 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 106 in its first week · Python
yucezereyOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 17h #

CodeRail offers self-hosted remote control for coding agents

A TypeScript GitHub project that lets you control Claude Code and Codex coding agents from a browser or phone: chats, approvals, terminals, files, git and dev-server previews across your computers, run via one Docker container on your own server.

New repo · ★ 102 in its first week · TypeScript
wiva-hqOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 19h #

Ork offers self-hosted AI assistant with persistent bots

Ork is a source-available, self-hosted AI assistant whose persistent bots share conversations and work on isolated computers, with web, desktop and mobile apps. The new TypeScript repo drew about 102 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 102 in its first week · TypeScript
orkbot-runOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 19h #

Repo ranks agent memory MCP servers

A new GitHub repo compares long-term memory MCP servers for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients, covering Glen, Mem0, Supermemory, Zep and others with storage, capture model, team sharing, license and live stars.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · n/a
Glen-Web-AppOpenCodeFree
GitHub · 20h #

GitHub repo offers agentic hacking skills and MCP configs

A GitHub repo collects 28 SKILL.md templates, agents and MCP configs for AI-powered web security and automation, companion material for an 'Agentic Hacking' ebook; it drew 346 stars in its first week.

New repo · ★ 346 in its first week · JavaScript
OpenCodeFreeCybersecurity
GitHub · 1d #

GitHub repos let agents control remote computers and iPhones

agenterm is a self-hosted Go tool letting AI agents control any remote computer via MCP and a terminal; poki runs a local MCP server and agent so AI can operate a real iPhone without jailbreak or extra hardware.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · Go
OpenCodeFree
GitHub · 1d #

relayworks-recovery resumes failed AI agent jobs from checkpoints

An open-source TypeScript tool that restarts failed AI agent jobs from their last checkpoint instead of from scratch, keeping verified completed work and billing the remainder in USDC on Solana via x402 after you accept results.

New repo · ★ 100 in its first week · TypeScript
relayworkslabOpenCode
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Meta AI for iPhone · 1d · 14 sources #

Meta adds Muse voice mode and AI video calls for US users

Meta AI for iPhone 297.1.0 adds scheduled tasks, daily briefings, email and calendar connections and research reports; separately Meta rolled out Muse voice mode, AI video calls with an animated avatar and custom spaces for US users.

Version 297.1.0 · iPhone / iPad
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Reddit · 7h #

llama.cpp PR adds LRFU-style hybrid MoE expert cache

A pull request for llama.cpp replaces the SLRU expert cache with a hybrid cache that ranks frequently used experts via decaying usage history. With a warm cache it reports about +6% decode on QFN and +7% on GLM versus SLRU with 8% fewer uploads.

llama.cppOpenCode
Computerworld · 9h #

Box launches Architect AI workflow builder

Box Architect is a natural-language AI tool for building automated workflows around document processes. Announced at BoxWorks 2026, it acts as an agentic operator of Box's content and workflow capabilities.

BoxClosed
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