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Visit website →Meta Expands Muse AI to Apple Watch and Wear OS After 10M Downloads
The agent reached 10 million U.S. App Store downloads within 40 days of launch, joining only 11 other apps to hit that milestone.
Satura Space open-sourced: Unity coding agent tool with real Inspector and multiplayer testing
The desktop app allows coding agents to open a focused Unity editor with the real Inspector for specific objects and supports up to three multiplayer clones.
Apiiro Researchers Find 2,539 Leaked Secrets in Claude Code Local Settings on GitHub
Security researchers identified 2,539 real secrets exposed in public GitHub repositories through the .claude/settings.local.json file.
Zyphra Releases ZONOS3-Mini, an Open-Source 100M Parameter TTS Model
The model supports 43 languages and runs on phones, laptops, and browsers using Apache 2.0 licensed weights.
IFM Releases PAN 2, a 29B-Parameter World Model for Simulative Reasoning
The model couples a Qwen3.5-9B language model with a 29B MMDiT diffusion backbone to predict video outcomes of actions.
WorkflowArena Benchmark Finds Strongest Model Does Not Always Make Best Agent Coordinator
A new benchmark from Einsia shows that using the strongest model as a coordinator does not guarantee better performance for the worker agents it directs.
Claude Opus 5.5 edits Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct weights to reduce hallucinations
The experiment modified 10,752 weights (0.002% of the model) to force the base model to admit uncertainty instead of inventing answers.
Qwen4-Max enters preview on Alibaba Token Plan
The model is available for early access on QwenWork, Qoder, Qwen APP, and QwenStudio.
ExecuTorch WebGPU backend enables PyTorch models to run directly in browsers
The new backend executes torch.export .pte files directly in Chrome, Safari, and other WebGPU-enabled browsers without format conversion.
Prefixwise: Open-source tool diagnoses vLLM and SGLang prefix cache misses with 19 specific causes
The MIT-licensed tool analyzes KV-cache events from vLLM and SGLang to pinpoint why requests miss the prompt cache, achieving 32/32 agreement with Anthropic's diagnostics.
Microsoft Patent Describes Real-Time AI System for Altering Live Speech and Lip Movements
The system uses generative AI to replace specific words or phrases in live video while reshaping mouth movements to match the new audio.
Australia to investigate criminal charges for AI companies failing to prevent harm
The move follows a review of the September OpenAI hack of the Medicare statistics portal, with remaining AI standards expected by year-end.
Deletion Tuning Matches Full Fine-Tuning by Zeroing Less Than 0.05% of LLM Weights
The method learns a binary mask over gate projections, resulting in checkpoints hundreds to thousands of times smaller than full fine-tuning.
Anthropic Reports Five Cases of AI Use in Potential Bioweapon Development
The incidents included assistance with gain-of-function research on a mosquito-borne virus and experiments to enhance bird flu infectivity in mammals.
RidgeFill Achieves 1.25-1.31x Faster Prefill on Qwen3.8-27B Without Training
The method saves 28 seconds on 120K-token prompts using ridge regression maps, with RULER scores dropping 1.2-1.4 points.
SWE-Pair Benchmark: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Outperforms GPT-6 Luna on Dual-Bug Fixing Tasks
In a new benchmark requiring simultaneous fixes for two real bugs, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash achieved a 90% success rate at a cost of 6 cents per task, surpassing GPT-6 Luna.
Nvidia Board Investigates Foreign Intelligence Targeting of CEO Jensen Huang
The investigation follows reporting that Huang's partner was a Chinese intelligence asset, though the board stated no national security or company secrets were compromised.
SpeakLeash Releases Bielik-11B-v3.1-Instruct, a Multilingual LLM Trained on 500B Tokens
The 11B-parameter model was trained on 500B tokens and uses modified GRPO reinforcement learning across 14 environments.
Community Changelog Identifies 114 Changes Omitted from Claude Code Official Notes
A community project tracks 24 Claude Code releases, identifying 114 changes not mentioned in official notes and 18 features announced in the wrong version.
Egzakta releases Kvark Sparkle 1.1, a Qwen3.8-27B fine-tune for agentic document QA
Egzakta releases Kvark Sparkle 1.1, an Apache 2.0 fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B that correctly declines answers not found in documents 91.5% of the time.