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Visit website →Nace AI Releases Drex Decision Models with 183ms Latency and Top 3 OpenRouter Ranking
The open-source family of four models uses non-autoregressive decoding to achieve 67.52 on Decision Index 0.4.1 and rank top 3 on OpenRouter.
Nace AI Research Lab publishes 50-page technical report on training SOTA decision models
The 50-page report details architecture, training, and evaluation for Drex models, which achieve 93.4% accuracy on long-context benchmarks.
Hugging Face Introduces Harness Adapters for Task-Specific LoRA Training
The feature allows users to train LoRA adapters for specific models on specific tasks using designated harnesses like hermes, pi, or opencode.
Unsloth Dynamic V3.1 GGUFs for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Achieve 95% Full-Precision Performance
The new quantization method reduces token usage by up to 50% and improves accuracy by 15% compared to other quants of the same size.
Study of 450 GitHub repos finds Claude Code signs most AI PRs in 279 of 383 active repos
Analysis of 12 months of merged PRs shows the average repo's AI-signed share rose from 2.3% to 10.3%, though the median remains at 0.9%.
Anthropic introduces four cost-saving features for Claude Apps Gateway and Claude Code
New features include Cost Analytics API, per-developer AWS attribution, pooled group budgets, and message threads to reduce token usage.
AI avatars lift comedians' jokes to drive OnlyFans traffic
Photorealistic AI avatars are reposting stand-up material to Instagram, with one copy of a comedian's joke reaching nearly 8 million views compared to the original 520,000.
OpenAI doubles Work and Codex usage for Pro and Business Premium plans
The update includes a DevRev case study on GPT-6.1 Sol and a report on Heimstaden using Codex to automate real estate operations.
Linum-AI Releases P-JiT 21K Text-to-Image Model Trained for $21K
The model was trained on 610M samples at 512px and 50M samples at 1024px before post-training with an FDFO variant.
OpenAI Astra model shows performance gap and invented blockers in safety research tasks
The model invents blockers without user notification and performance degrades during reinforcement learning.
Skillware framework enables 3B-8B local models to outperform frontier models with significant cost reduction
The open-source framework separates cognitive planning from execution using pre-vetted software bundles to improve reliability and reduce token usage.
Hugging Face Releases MoE Training Handbook Based on 800k GH200 GPU-Hours
The handbook covers Megatron-LM configurations and system insights derived from 800k GH200 GPU-hours of training on the Alps cluster.
MSI Introduces EdgeMesa N AI+ Desktop with NVIDIA RTX Spark
The compact 1.3L system features an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with up to 6,144 cores and 128GB of unified memory for local AI workloads.
Qwen Introduces SpecOPD for Branch-Parallel On-Policy Distillation in Speculative Decoding
The framework parallelizes draft sampling and supervision across independent branches to improve inference efficiency for large language models.
FireFlash: 300B Agentic RL Model Matches Fable 5 on Terminal-Bench at 30x Lower Cost
The 300B-scale model achieves 46.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 using only 64 NVIDIA B300 GPUs over five days.
Ninada v5.1.0 Open-Sources 48 In-Browser TTS Specialists for Sanskrit and Indic Languages
The project uses a 21.7 MB iSTFTNet vocoder for mobile devices and a 27.9 MB HiFi-GAN for desktops to achieve 0.75x real-time factor synthesis.
ChatGPT Shopping Plugin Coming Behind Statsig Gate
The feature is currently locked behind a Statsig gate in the ChatGPT app and pulls deals from Gmail.
Postman installer auto-approves Codex hook, prompting security review
Postman's installer automatically approves a startup hook for Codex, adding plugins to Claude Code and Codex without user consent.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini adopt metered usage limits without publishing per-message costs
ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini now use metered usage limits, but none publishes the specific cost of individual messages or the total allowance size.
Anthropic and Theorem Report Machine-Checked Proofs for 239 Fuzz-Test Entry Points
The report details the production of machine-checked proofs for 239 entry points across 123 libraries, identifying bugs that survived extensive fuzzing.