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🏒 BUSINESS

Microsoft-OpenAI Restructuring Deal

+++ OpenAI's pivot to a capped-profit model lets Microsoft lock in tech access through 2032 while the nonprofit foundation gets a $130B equity cushion and theoretical control that may or may not matter once AGI arrives. +++

Microsoft gets access to OpenAI tech through 2032, including models post-AGI but excluding consumer hardware; OpenAI can now develop products with third parties

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

The Principles of Diffusion Models (over 400 pages)

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 87 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Probabilistic computing β€’ Efficient AI training β€’ Skepticism over claims
πŸ’¬ "an ML stack that is fully prepared for the Bayesian revolution of 2003-2015" β€’ "Everyone hates to hear that you're cheering from the sidelines, but this time I really am"
⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

A Year of Fast Apply – Our Path to 10k Tokens per Second

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

OpenAI $1.4T Infrastructure Spending

+++ Sam Altman puts a number on what everyone suspected: scaling AGM requires absurd amounts of power and money, and OpenAI is betting the company (literally) that the returns justify it. +++

Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity

πŸ”’ SECURITY

[R] Confidential compute benchmark - TEE overhead for transformers consistently under 10%

"Just published our benchmarking results comparing standard GPU inference vs TEE-secured inference for various transformer architectures. Key findings across 1000+ inference runs: - BERT-base: 6.2% overhead - GPT-2: 7.8% overhead - T5-large: 9.1% overhead - RoBERTa: 5.9% overhead Tested on both In..."
🏒 BUSINESS

SK Hynix says its DRAM, NAND, and HBM production capacity for next year β€œhas been sold out” and that it would set up a production system to meet OpenAI's demand

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Serve 100 Large AI Models on a single GPU with low impact to time to first token.

"I wanted to build an inference provider for proprietary AI models, but I did not have a huge GPU farm. I started experimenting with Serverless AI inference, but found out that coldstarts were huge. I went deep into the research and put together an engine that loads large models from SSD to VRAM up t..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 29 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 GPU Bandwidth β€’ Hardware Requirements β€’ Model Customization
πŸ’¬ "Interesting. Finally system to GPU bandwidth starts to be of interest also for inferencing." β€’ "What's the difference between what you did and ServerlessLLM?"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

IBM releases Granite-4.0 Nano (300M & 1B), along with a local browser demo showing how the models can programmatically interact with websites and call tools/browser APIs on your behalf.

"IBM just released Granite-4.0 Nano, their smallest LLMs to date (300M & 1B). The models demonstrate remarkable instruction following and tool calling capabilities, making them perfect for on-device applications. Links: \- Blog post: [https://huggingface.co/blog/ibm-granite/granite-4-nano](htt..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 25 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Local AI inference β€’ Model architecture β€’ Mamba-Transformer hybrid
πŸ’¬ "Local AI actually practical" β€’ "Mamba-2 layers and conventional transformer blocks"
πŸ€– AI MODELS

How to scale AI without using nuclear reactors (Adaptive attention)

πŸ€– AI MODELS

Do we still need OCR? An implementation of a pure vision-based agent

πŸ€– AI MODELS

Cursor Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 34 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Pricing comparison β€’ Performance evaluation β€’ Feature requests
πŸ’¬ "Pricing for this model compare to GPT 5 and Sonnet 4.5?" β€’ "It's nowhere near to Sonnet 4.5's performance."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

AI agents can leak company data through simple web searches

"When a company deploys an AI agent that can search the web and access internal documents, most teams assume the agent is simply working as intended. New research shows how that same setup can be used to quietly pull sensitive data out of an organization. The attack does not require direct manipulati..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

JanusCoder: Towards a Foundational Visual-Programmatic Interface for Code Intelligence

"The scope of neural code intelligence is rapidly expanding beyond text-based source code to encompass the rich visual outputs that programs generate. This visual dimension is critical for advanced applications like flexible content generation and precise, program-driven editing of visualizations. Ho..."
🏒 BUSINESS

We Let Our AI Deploy Itself to Production

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

AWS activates Project Rainier: One of the world’s largest AI compute clusters comes online

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 6 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Anthropic infrastructure innovation β€’ Anthropic scaling β€’ Anthropic business dealings
πŸ’¬ "The collaborative infrastructure innovation delivers nearly half a million Trainium2 chips in record time" β€’ "they also made a deal with google with TPU's very recently"
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

I Led Product Safety at OpenAI. Don't Trust Its Claims About 'Erotica.'

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

A Survey of Data Agents: Emerging Paradigm or Overstated Hype?

"The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has spurred the emergence of data agents--autonomous systems designed to orchestrate Data + AI ecosystems for tackling complex data-related tasks. However, the term "data agent" currently suffers from terminological ambiguity and inconsistent ado..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Dexto – Connect your AI Agents with real-world tools and data

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Open-source Software β€’ SaaS Orchestration β€’ Licensing Considerations
πŸ’¬ "does anyone have a Mumbai-based SaaS orchestrator for my orchestrators?" β€’ "What's your pricing model?"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Omni-Reward: Towards Generalist Omni-Modal Reward Modeling with Free-Form Preferences

"Reward models (RMs) play a critical role in aligning AI behaviors with human preferences, yet they face two fundamental challenges: (1) Modality Imbalance, where most RMs are mainly focused on text and image modalities, offering limited support for video, audio, and other modalities; and (2) Prefere..."
πŸ—£οΈ SPEECH/AUDIO

Just dropped Kani TTS English - a 400M TTS model that's 5x faster than realtime on RTX 4080

"Hey everyone! We've been quietly grinding, and today, we're pumped to share the new release of KaniTTS English, as well as Japanese, Chinese, German, Spanish, Korean and Arabic models. Benchmark on VastAI: RTF (Real-Time Factor) of ~0.2 on RTX4080, ~0.5 on RTX3060. It has 400M..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 66 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Text-to-speech quality β€’ Pronunciation challenges β€’ Model optimization
πŸ’¬ "Not good OP, it fast but not good" β€’ "Need to finetune for tel numbers"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Think Twice: Branch-and-Rethink Reasoning Reward Model

"Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on thinking models that externalize intermediate steps and allocate extra test-time compute, with think-twice strategies showing that a deliberate second pass can elicit stronger reasoning. In contrast, most reward models (RMs) still compress many quali..."
πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Jensen Huang says its Blackwell GPUs are now in full production in Arizona, after being solely manufactured in Taiwan previously

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: I got tired of rebuilding tool integrations for AI agent,so I built 2LY

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 5 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Abstraction of tool integrations β€’ Centralized management of dependencies β€’ Observability and testability
πŸ’¬ "we wanted to fully decouple tool infrastructure from agent logic" β€’ "everything scales independently"
🎨 CREATIVE

Generative AI Image Editing Showdown

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 48 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Image generation quality β€’ Online vs. local models β€’ Benchmarking AI models
πŸ’¬ "ai generated images still feel a bit off" β€’ "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image / Nano Banana... more powerful"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Multi-Agent Evolve: LLM Self-Improve through Co-evolution

"Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated significant potential in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, the success of RL for LLMs heavily relies on human-curated datasets and verifiable rewards, which limit their scalability and generality. Recent Self-P..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

OpenAI: gpt-oss-safeguard: two open-weight reasoning models built for safety classification (Now on Hugging Face)

" gpt-oss-safeguard lets developers use their own custom policies to classify content. The model interprets those policies to classify messages, responses, and conversations. These models are fine-tuned versions of our gpt-oss open models, available under Apache 2.0 license. Now on Hugging Face..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 14 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI-powered moderation β€’ Large language models β€’ Novel applications
πŸ’¬ "Sounds like this is for automoderation?" β€’ "I wonder if this could be adapted/fine-tuned to function as a Game Master."
πŸ’° FUNDING

OpenAI’s promise to stay in California helped clear the path for its IPO

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 262 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 IPO structure & corporate governance β€’ Impact on local economy β€’ Concerns about tech companies
πŸ’¬ "Governance isn't just 'where is HQ?'β€”it's who sets the operational guardrails" β€’ "This isn't a diss to Sam either, it just shows he is motivated by whatever is best for the entity"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

An efficient probabilistic hardware architecture for diffusion-like models

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

U.S. Department of Energy forms $1 billion supercomputer and AI partnership with AMD: Reuters

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 11 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Supercomputing capabilities β€’ Government-corporate relationships β€’ Open-source AI models
πŸ’¬ "The article is about supercomputers" β€’ "government becoming corporations"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Claude Agent Skills: A First Principles Deep Dive

βš–οΈ ETHICS

Chat GPT just giving away the password I set up so my son wouldn’t use it to cheat on his homework

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

ReCode: Unify Plan and Action for Universal Granularity Control

"Real-world tasks require decisions at varying granularities, and humans excel at this by leveraging a unified cognitive representation where planning is fundamentally understood as a high-level form of action. However, current Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents lack this crucial capability to o..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Qwen3-VL now available in Ollama locally for all sizes.

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 65 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Hardware Configuration β€’ Virtual Assistant Capabilities β€’ Search Capabilities
πŸ’¬ "RTX 8000 Quadro 48GB for gaming." β€’ "I use ddgs. It auto-switches to multiple backends (google, bing, duckduckgo, etc.) if it encounters any errors or ratelimits."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Claude Code is a Beast – Tips from 6 Months of Hardcore Use

"*Quick pro-tip from a fellow lazy person: You can throw this book of a post into one of the many text-to-speech AI services like* *ElevenLabs Reader* *or* *Natural Reader* *and have it read the post for you* :) # Disclai..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 175 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Claude usage β€’ Community engagement β€’ Helpful insights
πŸ’¬ "As I Mentioned to another user that DM'd me, I'll look at getting a GitHub set up" β€’ "This might be the best post I've read. So much of it makes sense."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Claude Skills, anywhere: making them first-class in Codex CLI

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Alita-G: Self-Evolving Generative Agent for Agent Generation

"Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to perform better when scaffolded into agents with memory, tools, and feedback. Beyond this, self-evolving agents have emerged, but current work largely limits adaptation to prompt rewriting or failure retries. Therefore, we present ALITA-G, a self-evolut..."
🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

[D] Why does single-token sampling work in LLM RL training, and how to choose between KL approximations (K1/K2/K3)?

"When training LLMs with RL (e.g., GRPO), I notice two common practices that puzzle me: **1. Single-token sampling for KL computation** For each token position, we only compute the log probability of the *actually sampled token* (rather than the full vocabulary, which would be too expensive). While..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

MiniMax M2 Llama.cpp support

"By popular demand, here it is: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/16831 I'll upload GGUFs to https://huggingface.co/ilintar/MiniMax-M2-GGUF, for now uploading Q8\_0 (no BF16/F16 since the ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 13 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Piotr's work support β€’ Hardware specifications β€’ MiniMax M2 requirements
πŸ’¬ "Support Piotr here" β€’ "6 x 5090 and 512 GB RAM"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

BrowseConf: Confidence-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Web Agents

"Confidence in LLMs is a useful indicator of model uncertainty and answer reliability. Existing work mainly focused on single-turn scenarios, while research on confidence in complex multi-turn interactions is limited. In this paper, we investigate whether LLM-based search agents have the ability to c..."
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