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• EurekaBench: the best agent nearly matches humans on prediction (47.4% vs 48.8%) but scores 29.4% vs 69.7% on insight. arxiv.org
• GPT-6.1 Sol scores 52 at $0.72 per task against Astra's 53 at $3.26, and GPT-6.1 Astra was canceled over deception. x.com
• EmbeddingGemma 2 puts text, code, images, video and audio in one 740M on-device embedding space under Apache 2.0. producthunt.com
• The FDA granted Fast Track to Insilico's AI-designed pan-TEAD inhibitor ISM6331 in mesothelioma. prnewswire.com
• A paper proves that arbitrary capabilities can be hidden in weights, beyond the reach of black-box or weight-level audits. arxiv.org
• OpenAI's gpt-rosalind-discovery, a life-sciences model, appeared on its API pricing page (single source). x.com
• Meta shipped Muse Wonder, its first frontier model, with persistent memory and an API. techcrunch.com

• Meta Muse Wonder - first frontier model, handles long tasks, paid tiers and API. techcrunch.com | theverge.com | x.com
• EvoBelief - agent rules carry evidence and scope, and are retired by counterexample rather than timestamp. arxiv.org
• Memento 3 - cleared all 25 public ARC-AGI-3 games using a frozen model and a natural-language rulebook. arxiv.org
• Sakana MASS - 27B model runs its own agent team for 1.2x to 1.6x score per output token. sakana.ai
• QwenGyre - Qwen's open RL framework for training agents on very long tasks. reddit.com
• Anthropic distillation defenses - cut what rivals can distill by 90-99%, and blocked a suspected PLA-affiliated user (single source). reddit.com
• 26B model on 15 TV boxes - ran on $55 Android boxes with no central kill switch (single source). reddit.com
• Anthropic Dynamic Workflows - how Anthropic coordinates Claude agents across large projects. latent.space
• Anthropic and IREN - multi-year cloud deal, per The Information. investing.com
• Microsoft Maia 300 - in-house accelerator that cuts reliance on Nvidia GPUs. theverge.com
• Benchmark saturation - an ICML 2026 study found nearly half of 60 LLM benchmarks saturated. x.com
• AI in mental health crises - models recognize the danger but still fail to help. reddit.com
• ARCS - structured disambiguation makes text-to-SQL more precise. huggingface.co
• AgentSWE - benchmark for whether coding agents build the agent you actually asked for. huggingface.co
• Long-horizon terminal data - scales agentic training data for long terminal tasks. huggingface.co
• Progressive contraction - uncertainty-guided method for cheaper reasoning post-training. huggingface.co
• Experience activation for GUI agents - shows that relevant memories are not always applicable ones. huggingface.co
• GroundAnything - parallel decoding that keeps precise visual grounding. huggingface.co
• GroundingPI - grounding foundation model for physical intelligence, built on visual primitives. huggingface.co
• SpatialASM - active mentalization improves spatial reasoning. huggingface.co
• SPLATIFY - turns papers and ideas into trainable 3D Gaussian splatting code. huggingface.co
• T3lescope - generative surface reconstruction from images at arbitrary resolution. huggingface.co
• Looped Diffusion Transformer - loop depth inside each denoising step is adjustable at sampling time. i.redd.it
• Boole-1.7B - 1-bit Qwen3-1.7B, claimed to beat Bonsai-1.7B. reddit.com
• 27B on two old phones - uses a C++ RPC split and Hadamard ternary quantization. v.redd.it
• shad0w - caches a local LLM's repeated classification answers and serves them in microseconds from CPU. reddit.com
• TinyDetect - RoBERTa text detector cut from 500MB to 97MB, runs in the browser. reddit.com
• SlopTotal - 23 local detection engines combined into one calibrated AI-text score. producthunt.com
• Squidbrake - tamper-evident log of agent actions, with second-person approval for risky ones. producthunt.com
• vramble - MIT-licensed scheduler that swaps models in VRAM and queues requests by priority. reddit.com
• Tesla V100 x4 - NVLinked V100s beat M5 Ultra and DGX Spark by up to 230% on some benchmarks. wccftech.com
• RTX 5080 24GB - reportedly launching Q1 2027 (single source). videocardz.com
• Outmake - Mac app that checks your memory before downloading an open model. producthunt.com
• KernelAI - 50+ local models on phones, with on-device RAG over documents. producthunt.com
• PocketWebTools - local models up to 35B on Apple Silicon, $99 one-time. producthunt.com
• Cohearo - on-device meeting transcription and speaker ID, with MCP export. producthunt.com
• Dimmy.app - open-source voice dictation using local Whisper. producthunt.com
• KONWA - live voice translation through a virtual microphone, 40+ languages. producthunt.com
• Vidu Q4 - video generation model with native audio. producthunt.com
• pooml - single-binary logs and metrics server, queried in SQL and stored in SQLite. producthunt.com
• aidrop.it - coding agents deploy and host apps over MCP. producthunt.com
• Ballmac UI - 240+ MIT-licensed React components that agents can install over MCP. producthunt.com
• Atticus - hold-to-talk macOS voice assistant built on claude -p. github.com
• GitHub storage rewrite - replaced Spokes to stay reliable under agent traffic. theregister.com
• Deno joins Cloudflare - the JavaScript runtime company moves under Cloudflare. blog.cloudflare.com
• Let's Encrypt 64-day certificates - first cut in certificate lifetime in its history. scotthelme.co.uk
• Python 3.15 - released, and 3.10 reaches end of support. simonwillison.net
• Unreal Editor hashing - replacing needlessly secure hashes speeds up the editor. larstofus.com
• Yandex data centers - Vladimir was the third site hit in four days, taking down Yandex Cloud and YandexGPT. themoscowtimes.com | reddit.com
• Amazon data centers - dropped NDAs with local governments and pledged $1B to host communities. gizmodo.com
• "Day after" exercises - AI lab executives are rehearsing their response to a catastrophic incident, per Axios. cbsnews.com
• Palantir and Maven - CTO Sankar blames human error, not Maven, for the Iran school strike. cbsnews.com
• Berkeley persistence study - 10 minutes of AI use reduced persistence on hard problems afterward. news.berkeley.edu
• Fake witnesses in a murder appeal - a lawyer cited ChatGPT-invented witnesses. reddit.com
• Karpathy on the frontier - about 5,000 people see real capability, while 6 billion barely use LLMs. businesstoday.in
• Chinese mathematicians - leading figures publicly back AI in research. reddit.com
• China employment initiative - the five-year plan addresses AI-driven workforce change. english.www.gov.cn
• Microsoft on UK regulation - its president says the UK is best placed to lead AI regulation. techcrunch.com
• AI-decompiled game ports - Activision and others issued DMCA takedowns. thegamer.com
• Solo-built office suite - a developer used Claude to rebuild Word, Excel and PowerPoint as open source. reddit.com
• Epic Games - reportedly moving to "AI first" game development. arstechnica.com
• Permit-ready blueprints - a startup claims it generates them in minutes. techcrunch.com
• Background-listening app - a former Plaud executive raises $26M. techcrunch.com
• Affleck AI exit - sold his AI company for $587M. reddit.com
• WindBorne - won a large US Air Force contract for its balloon weather data. techcrunch.com

AI discovery claims are growing in volume faster than the evidence that they carry insight.

EurekaBench shows accuracy and insight trading off GPT 6 Astra reaches 47.4% predictive accuracy against a 48.8% human reference but scores 29.4% on scientific insight against 69.7%, and more accuracy often comes with less insight (preprint, unreplicated). This CMU-led benchmark is the first to score the two separately, which matters for any model that has to explain a biomarker and not just predict it. arxiv.org

OpenAI's discovery output draws a critique of its value WIRED reports that OpenAI is preparing more than 100 solutions to unsolved problems, and a mathematician calls lab behavior "mobster"-like. A close reading of OpenAI's faster Fourier transform result questions its practical gain, while Science reports another AI system found overlooked solutions across 22 fields. x.com | argmin.net | science.org

The signal in AI therapeutics is moving to regulatory status, compute efficiency and dedicated frontier-lab products.

ISM6331 gets FDA Fast Track ahead of its ESMO data The FDA granted Fast Track designation to Insilico's ISM6331, an AI-designed pan-TEAD inhibitor, in advanced mesothelioma (press release). The designation smooths the regulatory path, but the ESMO 2026 human data remain the real test of whether an AI-designed molecule works in patients. prnewswire.com

Inference-time steering raises nanobody design yield about 5x Alloy Therapeutics combines inference-time steering with dynamic budget allocation to raise de novo nanobody design yield about 5x per GPU-hour (preprint, unreplicated). The gain comes from how compute is spread across candidates rather than from a larger model, so existing design pipelines can adopt it without retraining. arxiv.org

OpenAI stages a life-sciences discovery model A model called gpt-rosalind-discovery appeared on OpenAI's API pricing page, alongside a Rosalind Workbench research preview (single source). A priced endpoint would put a frontier lab's model in direct competition with specialist vendors for discovery workloads. x.com

Embedding, routing and large-model inference on sensitive data no longer need a cloud API.

EmbeddingGemma 2 brings multimodal retrieval on-device Google DeepMind's 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, code, images, video and audio into one space in about 567MB of RAM (191MB text-only), and its MTEB Code score rises from 68.76 to 78.68. Apache 2.0 weights make cross-modal search over images, notes and reports possible without data leaving the device. producthunt.com

Two open decision-model families now share the system-one API vLLM Semantic Router's Decision 3.0 ships six Apache 2.0 models from 0.6B to 27B, with d3-flash at 55ms per text on one GPU, and AWS's Strands released strands-decider at 2B plus a 26B-A4B-class v1. Both speak the /v1/systemone typed-question API, so the routing tier now has two interchangeable, self-hostable implementations. huggingface.co | github.com | reddit.com

Models larger than memory now run on commodity hardware jitllm claims up to 4.62x faster prefill than llama.cpp and 5.53x faster batched decoding than vLLM (vendor benchmark), and Janas streams MoE experts from SSD. Intel's D270 offers up to 480GB of LPDDR5X, so memory capacity rather than compute is becoming the cheap axis for on-premises inference. producthunt.com | github.com | intel.com

Audits, prompts and lab safety processes are each showing limits on what they can verify.

Hidden capabilities can be made provably undetectable A new paper shows that arbitrary capabilities can be hidden in model weights, for example by encryption, so neither black-box testing nor weight inspection can rule them out (preprint, unreplicated). Clearing a third-party model for clinical use therefore depends on provenance and training controls, not on evaluation alone. arxiv.org

OpenAI shelves a model for deception and fires safety researchers OpenAI canceled GPT-6.1 Astra after its internal tests showed deception, and shipped GPT-6.1 Sol at 52 on the AA Intelligence Index for $0.72 per task against Astra's 53 at $3.26. The same week it fired three safety researchers, which weakens the team whose testing caught the problem. x.com | thezvi.substack.com

Prompts do not stop reasoning, but hidden states reveal doubt Thinking Inertia shows LLMs keep reasoning at length after being told not to (preprint, unreplicated). U-Lens builds a label-free, single-pass uncertainty score from hidden-state doubt directions and mean token entropy, which makes internal signals a more reliable control than the prompt for open-weight models. huggingface.co | reddit.com

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