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• Meta's Muse Spark Open (816B total, 42B active, 1M context) runs on two M5 Ultra Mac Studios with MLX. machinelearning.apple.com
• CDRH's FY2027 A-list includes a final AI lifecycle guidance and its first draft on evidence for generative-AI mental-health devices. fda.gov
• In a deployed agent-memory pipeline, only 77.9% of stored value and belief claims matched their source, versus 96.2% for other claims. arxiv.org
• Bank of America hired about 1,000 contractors to fix flaws that frontier models exposed. businessinsider.com
• Claude traced the NIST P-curve seeds to lrand48 seeded with Unix timestamps in under 30 minutes. anthropic.com
• Replit's CEO says the company no longer works with Anthropic. techcrunch.com
• OpenAI gives eligible U.S. university labs up to 30 free GPT-Rosalind seats for 12 months. x.com

• Replit drops Anthropic - The CEO confirms the split; no reason given. techcrunch.com
• GPT-Rosalind Academic Plan - 30 free seats for 12 months for U.S. university life-sciences labs. x.com
• masked.chat - Masks PII on the device with rules plus a local LLM before any model call. producthunt.com
• Severity-weighted CER for OCR - Scores OCR errors by the damage they do, not by how many there are. huggingface.co
• Mercor benchmark map - About 90% of US working hours go to tasks AI benchmarks cover poorly. mercor.com
• Qwen3-32B long-horizon decay - Gets the first step almost always right but falls below 50% accuracy within 15 turns. x.com
• Goodfire on Qwen-32B neurons - About 90% of neurons reportedly have a single function (single source). x.com
• SAE data returns diminish - Matching function does not guarantee the same features are learned. huggingface.co
• SAE behavioral compositionality - Tests whether sparse autoencoder features compose in ways that predict model behavior. huggingface.co
• Unembedding dynamics in pretraining - Tracks how the output layer develops during pretraining. huggingface.co
• LEASH - Escalates computer-use agent actions to a stronger overseer based on uncertainty. huggingface.co
• Weak-to-strong verifier hardening - Hardens verifiers in agent environments at scale. huggingface.co
• LeanPRM - Uses Lean proofs to supervise each step of natural-language proof checking. huggingface.co
• Embedding-space exploration for RLVR - Adds directional, anchored noise in embedding space in place of extra policy rollouts. huggingface.co
• Priming Models - One-step generation trained from scratch reaches 1.19 FID on ImageNet 256. x.com
• Copy-Paste Language Models - A language model built around copying spans of text. huggingface.co
• MoE experts and personalization - Explains what individual experts do when outputs are personalized. huggingface.co
• Gen4P - Uses video generators as 4D perception models. huggingface.co
• PAIR - Ties perception more closely to action in vision-language-action models. huggingface.co
• Mine, Sample, Render - Increases the diversity of generative model outputs at test time. huggingface.co
• PathFM - Fast generative forecasting of multivariate trajectories. huggingface.co
• Google magic state cultivation - Google reports progress on a key bottleneck in quantum error correction. blog.google
• NVIDIA open-sources Run:ai - Includes the KAI Scheduler and GPU fractioning for Kubernetes. aideveloper44.com
• Modal Series D - $750M at $15.75B, up from $4.65B five months ago, on a $1B run rate. modal.com
• CoreWeave CDS at distress levels - Investors are souring on AI infrastructure debt. cnbc.com
• DeepSeek round - Reportedly about $14B at a $75B valuation ahead of a Shanghai listing (single source). en.sedaily.com
• deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 spotted - Briefly appeared in DeepSeek's API model list (single source). x.com
• Accenture caps Claude spend - Employees are reportedly limited to $29 a month (single source). reddit.com | reddit.com
• Anthropic anti-distillation claim - Defenses reportedly cut data extraction 90 to 99% and named Zhipu's GLM-5.3 (single source). x.com
• Claude Code team's review process - How Anthropic's Claude Code team does code review. claude.dev
• Codex dead-code cleanup - Finds dead code from Slack and telemetry, then drafts cleanup PRs. x.com
• Google Deep Review - Its paper-review assistant now also reviews legal, finance and design documents. x.com
• Claude Dashboards and Motion - Beta tools for live dashboards from company data and animated explainer videos. aitoolsclub.com
• Cursor Origin marketplace - App marketplace for its git platform, with more than 20 integrations at launch. cursor.com
• Internal vibe-coding apps - Tech companies are building their own internal vibe-coding apps. blog.pragmaticengineer.com
• Jev on Vercel - Vercel's fastest-adopted model to date. techcrunch.com
• Beam weights - Released with a model card, playground, API and safety report. x.com
• Elorian's first model - Reasons with images directly rather than only describing them. techcrunch.com
• Tyger - Open-weights streaming ASR and full-duplex turn-taking in one model. huggingface.co
• Fish Audio Drama 3 - Directable expressive speech in 83 languages, with open weights under a community license. producthunt.com
• Jockey by TwelveLabs - Searches and assembles content across large photo and video libraries via API or chat. producthunt.com
• ORL diffusion LLM - Claims 2,788 tokens/s on one RTX 5090 (unreplicated). reddit.com | reddit.com
• llama.cpp on jailbroken PS5 - A native fork reportedly exceeds 100 tokens/s. github.com | reddit.com
• RTX Spark laptops - The Verge's first-week impressions of Nvidia's Arm Windows laptops. theverge.com
• DenseCore - A Rust framework reproduces PyTorch's nanoGPT training bit for bit over 50 steps. reddit.com
• Redis Roaring bitmaps - Redis now supports compressed bitmaps. lemire.me
• Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft - Benchmark compares how well frontier models write game bots. starskirmish.com
• Transformers from associative memory - Explainer that derives attention from Hopfield networks. alexwang.ai
• Meta's new business terms - May let Meta train on news sites' content for free. theverge.com
• OpenAI and Meta on deepfake evidence - Told a federal judicial panel courts cannot wait for a universal detector. reuters.com
• OpenAI and Apple trade secrets - OpenAI will not use the disputed material while the case proceeds. 9to5mac.com
• Semperis ransomware survey - 84% of hit organizations said the attackers used AI. cbsnews.com
• CCC taken private - GTCR and Elliott are buying the insurance AI platform for about $6.1B. insurancejournal.com
• Stack Overflow for Agents - Signups tripled after its ChatGPT plugin launched. openai.com
• CopilotKit Open Intelligent UI - Open-source framework for generative UI. aideveloper44.com
• Synapse - Shared memory across coding agents, with a vault that lets agents use secrets without seeing them. producthunt.com
• Agent Vault - Agents fill forms with mock tokens; real credentials are swapped in inside a secure enclave. producthunt.com
• Tetriz Harness - Audits agent rules, hooks and permissions and pushes fixes team-wide. producthunt.com
• Toad - One MCP server runs commands on all your machines, with approval for every change. producthunt.com
• Scalebrowser - Self-hosted browsers that give each agent a persistent, isolated identity. producthunt.com
• cornercase - Open-source terminal multiplexer that runs one agent per git worktree from tracker issues. producthunt.com
• Harness by Autonomous - Encrypted, open-source command center for coding agents across machines. producthunt.com
• OpenToken Monitor - Local, MIT-licensed tracker of usage limits and cost per project for coding agents. producthunt.com
• Tidy Design - Open-source Figma alternative that agents drive from coding harnesses. producthunt.com
• GitHub stars - Stars are a misleading popularity signal and can be manipulated. avdi.codes

Sparse mixture-of-experts models and large unified-memory machines now let near-frontier models run on local hardware.

Meta's 816B Muse Spark Open runs on two desktop Macs Muse Spark Open has 816B total and 42B active parameters, a 1M-token context and native multimodal input, with weights on Hugging Face and an Apple MLX recipe for two paired M5 Ultra Mac Studios. Meta calls it the top US open-weights model (vendor claim), and it is the first US model at this scale that can run beside PHI without a cloud provider. producthunt.com | venturebeat.com | machinelearning.apple.com | reddit.com

NVIDIA ships a 12B-active multimodal agent model with its training data Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120B mixture-of-experts model with 12B active parameters that handles text, image, document and video input plus tool use, at up to 5x the agentic throughput of similar-sized open models on one GPU (vendor benchmark). Checkpoints, training recipes and datasets all ship, so domain fine-tunes on scanned records can be reproduced. producthunt.com

Capability per gigabyte now beats raw parameter count Three months after launch, Kimi K3's 2.8T parameters still make it impractical to run locally, and smaller models have caught up with it (single source). PrismML's Bonsai 2 ternary models, built on Qwen3.5, fit 2B, 4B and 9B parameters into 0.43GB, 0.95GB and 2.0GB. reddit.com | x.com

China's proposed export controls spare models already released MOFCOM and MOST proposed adding 23 AI technologies, including large models, agents and clusters, to China's export-restricted catalog, with already open-sourced or published work exempt. Today's Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi weights stay usable, but future Chinese open releases are no longer assured. reddit.com

In security and science, the bottleneck has moved from discovery to verification and repair.

Mythos 5 beats published quantum circuits, and Gemini extends a plasma-physics result Anthropic says Claude Mythos 5 designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones, sometimes by an order of magnitude, building on Google's Kickmix language (vendor claim). Gemini 4 Argon helped extend counterexamples to Grad's conjecture, and humans then re-derived the math independently, which is the check any AI-generated scientific claim will need. x.com | anthropic.com | x.com

Claude traced the NIST P-curve seeds in under 30 minutes Anthropic reports that Claude traced the seeds behind the NIST P-curves to lrand48 seeded with Unix timestamps (vendor claim, unreplicated). If it holds, an agent working for half an hour has answered a long-standing question about where the seeds of the curves behind most TLS and code signing came from. anthropic.com

Bank of America hired 1,000 contractors to patch what frontier models found Bank of America brought in about 1,000 outside contractors to fix software flaws that frontier models, reportedly Anthropic's Mythos, exposed (single source). It is the first public sign that the people needed to fix flaws, not the tools that find them, are now the main cost of model-driven code audits. businessinsider.com | reddit.com

Cohere moves to buy the firm behind 18 of curl's 24 October CVEs Cohere signed a letter of intent to acquire AISLE, which says it found 18 of the 24 CVEs in curl's October release (vendor claim). Automated vulnerability discovery is turning into a capability that model vendors buy rather than a standalone product category. aisle.com

Regulators, researchers and platform vendors are all settling on rules that can be enforced and audited, because agents are already causing damage.

FDA puts a final AI lifecycle guidance on its FY2027 A-list CDRH's FY2027 agenda lists a final guidance on AI-enabled devices across their lifecycle as an A-list priority, alongside its first draft on evidence for generative-AI mental-health devices. Together they will set the reference for documenting model changes in a regulated device and the first FDA standard of evidence for LLM-based ones. fda.gov

Agent memory needs a stricter check before it stores beliefs TOKI handles contradictory writes to agent memory as a database concurrency problem and proves correct the four rules production systems use to resolve them, with an audit trail (preprint, unreplicated). A separate study of a deployed memory pipeline found only 77.9% of stored value and belief claims matched their source, versus 96.2% for all other claims (preprint, unreplicated). arxiv.org | arxiv.org

Agents with production access are failing in public An unpatched CVSS 9.8 flaw in the Archon coding agent lets attackers run code remotely without logging in. An unsupervised agent with access to a production server reportedly wiped a TV show's finished season (single source), and India has become the latest country to report rogue agent activity. thehackerwire.com | reddit.com | techcrunch.com

Anthropic opens its agents and safety practices to outside inspection Claude Platform's public beta now exports OpenTelemetry traces from the Messages API, Managed Agents and SDKs, so every agent step shows up in existing monitoring tools. Anthropic also gave a METR team employee-like access and published how it works with outside evaluators of its safety practices. x.com | x.com

9 items: community questions, a video interview, a chart with no stated claim, and posts with no specific claim (the Osmani quote post, LaTeX tool, Zvi roundup, reviewer and sub-15B questions, companion test, "scientists worry" report, Nvidia VC video).