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Visit website →NEWI released Inflect v3: lightweight local TTS in 34M parameters (Apache 2.0)
The release includes Mini, Micro, and Atom variants, with the 34.31M parameter Mini model supporting reference voice tuning and 48 kHz enhancement on CPU and CUDA.
NEWFreeBSD Project Reports AI Corporations Using Botnets to Scrape Data
The FreeBSD project describes its current situation as being under constant attack and DDoSing due to data scraping by AI corporations.
NEWPatch.gg releases 50,000 CC0 open-source 3D assets and game systems for Codex
The free library includes over 5,000 original assets and separate open-source systems like physics engines, accessible via CLI and MCP.
NEWAustralia Mandates Immediate AI Incident Reporting and System Access for All AI Companies
New rules require AI companies to disclose misalignment incidents and open systems for evaluation following an OpenAI breach of government health data.
Apiiro Finds 1,122 Public Repositories Leaking Secrets via Claude Code Settings
Apiiro identified 104,185 public instances of .claude/settings.local.json, with 1,122 containing exposed secrets due to missing project-level gitignore rules.
Blind test of 32 ElevenLabs voices finds professional badges and popularity do not predict audiobook quality
Loudness and age tags significantly influence listener preference, while usage metrics and professional status show no correlation with quality.
NEWmlxVS brings cuVS-style GPU nearest-neighbor search to Apple Silicon with MLX
The open-source library supports exact k-NN, k-means, NN-Descent, and CAGRA algorithms, outperforming CPU-based hnswlib in both build time and search speed.
Nature paper defines AI slop as a social judgment rather than an intrinsic content property
The study argues that defining slop by community rejection allows for measurable governance of AI-generated content.
Journalists uncover 400-account astroturfing operation defending Jensen Huang and attacking AI safety
The coordinated campaign, traced by journalists, specifically targeted the Financial Times report alleging Jensen Huang had an affair with a Chinese spy.
2 scandals, 1 destination—Why Nvidia can’t shake China smuggling allegations
Two separate investigations into $2.5 billion in servers and Nvidia's largest Southeast Asian customer challenge CEO Jensen Huang's claims that no chips are being diverted to China.
Open-source Claude skill enables headless, note-by-note music composition with 5 models
The MIT-licensed tool outputs editable MIDI, stems, and project files, with examples generated by Claude Fable 5.2, Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, and GPT-6 models.
Embedl Releases Optimized Alpamayo 2 Edge for NVIDIA AGX Thor
The optimized model processes input from 6 cameras and recent motion data using a reinforcement learning training loop.
KRAFTON releases Raon-1 nano, a 3.1B parameter open-source model with 262K context
The model uses a hybrid dense architecture with 18 linear attention layers and supports Korean and English tool calling.
Unsloth releases Qwen3.8-27B Dynamic V3.1 GGUFs with 5-10% accuracy gains
New 2-bit to 6-bit quantizations achieve higher accuracy on agentic and coding benchmarks using 256K and 128K context windows.
Domyn releases five open specialist teacher models for Edge 4B distillation
The release includes Math, STEM, Code, Instruction Following, and Agentic models trained with GRPO on verifiable rewards.
OpenAI's AI-generated proof of Yang-Mills existence verified by expert committee
The verification committee, led by David Gross, confirmed the AI-generated proof is valid but too complex for immediate human comprehension.
Claude Fable 5.2 designs three working hardware prototypes without circuit fixes
Anthropic reports that Claude Fable 5.2 generated complete specs, board layouts, and firmware for three devices that Diode Computers built with no circuit fixes.
Tree-Ising Repairs LLM Weights via Discrete Optimization, Outperforming Agent-Based Edits on MATH-500
The method uses simulated annealing on BF16 weights to fix reasoning loops in Qwen3.5-0.8B, requiring only $0.90 in GPU time and zero LLM tokens.
Nex-N2.6 releases public FP8 weights with 16% to 1.6% repetition reduction
The 321B parameter model based on GLM-5.3-Flash defaults to max reasoning, requiring token usage checks before comparison.
Currents publishes Claude connector to provide CI failure context to AI agents
The connector allows Claude to access Playwright traces, network requests, and flakiness history to diagnose CI test failures accurately.