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Visit website →AI Verifies 118 Planets in TESS Data
University of Warwick researchers used RAVEN to verify 118 planets in TESS data, newly confirming 31.
LLM Harness Regression Tester
Defined the harness of LLM development tools and proposed a regression testing tool.
Function Calling Backend Benchmark
The function calling harness has narrowed the frontier-local gap in backend generation.
Trooper v3.0 Update
Trooper v3.0 adds a circuit breaker and observability headers.
Hummingbird+ FPGA Inference
Hummingbird+ ran Qwen3-30B-A3B Q4 at 18 t/s on a board with 24GB and a mass-production price of about $150.
Deep Learning Optimizer Discovered by Genetic Algorithm
A genetic algorithm discovered an optimizer that outperforms Adam by 2.6%.
AutoBe, Monthly Local LLM Backend Benchmark
AutoBe has released a monthly benchmark comparing backend generation by GLM, Qwen, and DeepSeek.
Upskill, a skill registry for agents, released
The open-source skill registry `upskill` has indexed and released 10,000+ skills.
Carto, a Context Management Tool for AI Coding Agents
Carto, an open-source CLI tool that automatically manages codebase context to improve the accuracy of AI coding tools, has been released.
N-gram compression outperforms zlib by 33%
Compressing Python source with n-grams and arithmetic coding achieved a 33% improvement over zlib.
A New Kind of Package for AI Agents: Markdown
Markdown is playing a growing role as 'agent skills' that control the behavior of AI agents.
Mac Mini M4 Pro 70 t/s
On a Mac Mini M4 Pro 64GB, the 14B dense model hit 16.2 t/s, while Qwen3.6 35B NVFP4 reached 69.8 t/s.
PixelCheck, an MCP Server for AI Agents, Released
PixelCheck, an MCP server that helps AI agents directly check frontend rendering results, has been released.
DeepSeek V4, China's Top Model
CAISI evaluated DeepSeek V4 and found it to be China's top model, but about 8 months behind the US frontier.
OpenAgentd, a Multi-Agent System for Personal Assistance
OpenAgentd has released a local multi-agent personal assistant system.
PNAS Warns of the Risks of 'Evolvable AI (EAI)'
Not AGI, but 'Evolvable AI (EAI)'—capable of replication and mutation—is emerging as a new safety threat.
Manifest Router adds support for GPT-5.5 and Pro
Manifest Router has begun supporting routing for GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro.
Designing a TypeScript harness for coding agents
It emphasizes that coding agent performance depends more on harness design than on the model.
Qwen3.6·gpt-oss Benchmark
On MBP M3 Max benchmarks, the gap between three Qwen3.6 variants and gpt-oss:120b was revealed.
Comparing 10 Local Image Models on Mac
Comparing 10 image models on an M1 Max 64GB revealed differences in non-English cultural accuracy.