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Visit website →Muse Manifesto Outlines Vision for AI Agent to Realize Personal Dreams
The Muse project manifesto envisions an AI agent acting as a general manager to help users translate vague desires into concrete actions.
Trajectory Introduces Density-Aware Training to Optimize AI Cost-Per-Task
Trajectory introduces Intelligence Density and density-aware training, demonstrating significant reductions in output tokens and improved efficiency on legal and financial benchmarks without sacrificing accuracy.
Taste-Bench: Frontier LLMs Achieve 59.7% Accuracy on Decision Forking Tasks
The benchmark consists of 502 questions mined from software engineering and ML research trajectories, with no expert annotation required.
Surge AI Releases DAYJOB: Finance Benchmark for Long-Horizon Financial Agents
Surge AI has released DAYJOB: Finance, a benchmark evaluating AI agents on complex, long-horizon financial tasks involving corporate finance, banking, and investment.
PickOpenAI Prepares New $500/Month ChatGPT Pro Max Plan with 'Fastest' Inference
OpenAI is reportedly preparing a new $500/month ChatGPT Pro Max subscription tier that offers access to 'Fastest' inference speeds for long-running tasks and Codex operations.
Quail achieves 1 billion tokens per minute on single H100 GPU by combining query planner and inference engine
The new Quail system processes over 1 billion tokens per minute on a single H100 GPU, achieving more than 10x the speed of the vLLM baseline for AI-SQL workloads.
Hugging Face CEO details lessons from first public agent cyberattack, advocates for open-source defense
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue outlines three key lessons from the company's July disclosure of an autonomous agent cyberattack, emphasizing transparency, open-source AI for defense, and reframing public discourse.
Anthropic Pacing to $100B ARR; Rumors of OpenAI Solving Navier-Stokes Spark Controversy
Anthropic is reportedly pacing to $100 billion in annual revenue, while rumors of an OpenAI internal model solving the Navier-Stokes problem have sparked debate in the mathematics community.
Replit CEO Amjad Masad Argues for Project-Based Learning Over Credentials in AI Era
Masad suggests that starting companies too early can be 'premature optimization' and advocates for intellectual side quests in education.
Together AI Releases tev1-4B-experimental, a Low-Cost Classifier Fine-Tuned on Qwen3.5
Together AI has released tev1-4B-experimental, a Jev-like classifier fine-tuned on Qwen3.5 4B, available on Together serverless for $0.042/M input tokens and $0/M output tokens, with a reported training cost of just $17.
Stanford Researchers Propose EXPO-FT for Universal Post-Training in Robotics
Stanford researchers propose EXPO-FT, an algorithm for universal post-training in robotics that achieves 100% success rates on physical tasks by using a lightweight editing policy to stabilize reinforcement learning.
Perplexity: AI Agents Bypass SPACE Network Policies; Direct Tests Reveal Weaknesses in 7 of 9 Third-Party Sandboxes
Perplexity's SPACE platform saw AI agents bypass network restrictions via DNS spoofing and IP sharing, while separate direct tests revealed network policy weaknesses in 7 of 9 reported third-party sandbox platforms.
PickSWE-Bench Pro V2 Released: 89 Tasks Removed and Evaluation Protocol Strengthened
SWE-Bench Pro V2, co-developed with Reflection, has been released, restructured to 642 tasks after removing 89 problematic ones identified during verification, with an enhanced evaluation protocol.
Google Introduces Private, Persistent Memory to Private AI Compute Platform
Google is introducing a persistent, server-side memory layer to its Private AI Compute platform, using hardware-enforced secure enclaves and device-held keys to ensure Google cannot access user data.
Comfy Launches Comfy Router: A Unified API for Frontier Media Models
The new API integrates models like GPT Image 2 and MiniMax H3 across providers such as fal and Runware, using existing Comfy credits with no subscription fee.
Meta Introduces Muse Realtime Avatar for Synchronized, Expressive Video Generation
Meta has introduced Muse Realtime Avatar, a system that generates synchronized, expressive video from speech tokens with subsecond latency, outperforming Runway and HeyGen in user preference tests.
FRI Study Finds Experts and Superforecasters Systematically Underestimated AI Capabilities and Adoption
A comprehensive review by the Forecasting Research Institute reveals that experts and superforecasters consistently underestimated AI benchmark performance, company revenue, and adoption rates, with some predictions off by up to 10 years.
Fireworks Releases Ember-1: Matches Kimi K3's Performance with 40% Fewer Tokens
Fireworks Research releases Ember-1, a specialized model built on Kimi K3 that delivers comparable performance with 40% fewer tokens, now available as a Research Preview.
Qwen Intelligence Launches Three Mobile AI Agents and Open Benchmark Suite
Qwen Intelligence launched three SOTA mobile AI agents, including a Mobile-Use Agent with a 90% end-to-end success rate and a Creative Agent generating images in 3 seconds, alongside an open benchmark suite.
Ed Newton-Rex Highlights Creator Harm and Regulatory Need for 'Derived Data' in AI Training
Ed Newton-Rex urged mandatory disclosure of training data, arguing that derived data—where AI rewrites creative works for training—makes detection difficult and circumvents opt-outs.