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Visit website →LLM Steering Gets Interesting Again with DeepSeek-V4-Flash
DwarfStar 4 enables LLM steering experiments that manipulate the internal activations of the DeepSeek-V4-Flash model.
SANA-WM, an Open-Source 2.6B-Parameter World Model for 1-Minute 720p Video
NVIDIA has unveiled SANA-WM, which generates 1-minute 720p video with 6-DoF camera trajectories.
Turso Ends Its Bug Bounty Program
Turso has ended its bug bounty program due to a flood of low-quality, AI-generated PRs.
Amazon Employees Reportedly Inflating AI Token Consumption by Creating Unnecessary Tasks Under Pressure to Use AI
Amazon employees are reportedly creating unnecessary AI agents to artificially inflate token consumption in order to meet AI usage metrics.
What Does GGUF Contain Besides Weights, and What's Still Missing
This analyzes the components of the GGUF file format—chat templates, special tokens, sampler settings—and the areas that still need improvement.
Claude for Legal - Anthropic's AI Plugin Collection for Legal Practice
Anthropic has released a bundle of Claude plugins and agents for legal practice.
How Claude Code Works in Large Codebases: Best Practices and Starting Points
Claude Code has organized its operating principles for large codebases into an official guide.
Plugin (tunaLlama) that offloads heavy code generation from Claude Code and Codex CLI to a local LLM
It's an MCP-based plugin that delegates heavy code generation tasks to a local LLM to reduce token consumption in Claude Code and Codex CLI.
Hands-on with Superpowers, the Claude Code plugin nearing 190,000 GitHub stars
This introduces Superpowers, a Claude Code plugin that enforces a planning phase during AI coding to prevent reckless, unplanned code generation.
Ontario Auditor General Finds AI Note-Taking Tools for Doctors Repeatedly Get Basic Facts Wrong
Ontario's Auditor General audited 20 AI Scribe systems and found widespread errors.
A Few Words on DS4
DwarfStar 4, a Metal-based local inference engine, has been released supporting DeepSeek V4 Flash.
First Publicly Disclosed macOS Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability on Apple M5
Using the AI tool Mythos Preview, engineers developed a macOS kernel exploit that bypasses Apple M5's MIE security feature.
New arXiv Policy: One-Year Ban for Hallucinated References
arXiv will impose a one-year ban for unverified LLM outputs.
Learning Opportunities - A skill that helps with intentional skill development in Claude Code and Codex
It's a skill for Claude Code and Codex that suggests learning exercises to prevent technical debt that arises while using AI coding tools.
Bun's Rust Rewrite PR Merged
Bun merged a massive PR rewriting roughly 1 million lines of code into Rust.
Claude for Small Business
Anthropic unveiled Claude for Small Business, integrated with QuickBooks and PayPal.
Supertonic 3 Launches as Ultra-Lightweight On-Device TTS, Supporting 31 Languages and Emotion Tags
Supertonic 3 has been released as an on-device TTS supporting 31 languages and emotion tags.
The 2026 Buyer's Playbook | A Seller's Worst Nightmare
The spread of AI technology is expected to shift the 2026 software market into a buyer's market.
DeerFlow 2.0 — ByteDance's Long-Running SuperAgent Harness
ByteDance has fully rewritten and released DeerFlow 2.0 for sub-agent orchestration.
Codex is now integrated into the ChatGPT mobile app
OpenAI has integrated Codex into the ChatGPT mobile app and officially launched Remote SSH.