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πŸ€– AI MODELS

Mistral 3 Model Family Release

+++ Mistral shipped a full stack from 3B to 675B parameters under Apache 2.0, proving that competitive open models now span every conceivable hardware tier from browsers to data centers. +++

Mistral launches Mistral 3, a family of 10 models under the Apache 2.0 license, including its new flagship Mistral Large 3 and nine smaller Ministral 3 models

πŸ”’ SECURITY

Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 93 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Forecasting challenges β€’ AI hardware trends β€’ AI market dynamics
πŸ’¬ "Why Forecasting Is Nearly Impossible" β€’ "The real whiplash will come from extrapolation"
🏒 BUSINESS

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 598 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Sustainability of AI investments β€’ Technological disruption and obsolescence β€’ Economic impact of AI
πŸ’¬ "You've got to use it all in five years because at that point, you've got to throw it away and refill it" β€’ "If AGI is everywhere, what's step 2? It seems like everything AGI generated will have a value of near zero."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 92 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Startup challenges in unfamiliar domains β€’ Collision of startup and legal cultures β€’ Security vs. functionality tradeoffs
πŸ’¬ "how can I do a startup in legal when I don't work in this domain" β€’ "this is a 2010-level bug pattern wrapped in 2025 AI hype"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

ChatGPT is leaking unhashed PII in network traffic

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Amazon Trainium3 Launch

+++ Amazon debuts its homegrown AI chip with respectable gains over last-gen silicon, then immediately admits it'll play nice with Nvidia's anyway, because lock-in strategies are apparently so 2023. +++

Amazon launches Trainium3

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 65 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI hardware performance β€’ AI software support β€’ Product naming
πŸ’¬ "AWS pushes it hard but "more price performant" isn't a benefit if it's a major PITA to deploy and run" β€’ "The hubris is magnanimous to say the least"
πŸ’° FUNDING

Anthropic Acquires Bun

+++ Anthropic acquires its first company (JavaScript runtime Bun) while Claude Code quietly mints a billion dollars annually, suggesting the real money was never in the tooling itself. +++

Anthropic acquires Bun (JavaScript Runtime) to accelerate code, announces Claude Code hit $1B milestone.

"Official Anthropic research or company announcement."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 134 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Open-source business model β€’ Talent acquisition strategy β€’ Bun project priorities
πŸ’¬ "Download counts don't map well to profit automatically" β€’ "Selling open-source was always hard"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

The Art of Scaling Test-Time Compute for Large Language Models

"Test-time scaling (TTS) -- the dynamic allocation of compute during inference -- is a promising direction for improving reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, a systematic comparison of well-known TTS strategies under identical conditions is missing, and the influence of model type and..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Beyond SFT: Reinforcement Learning for Safer Large Reasoning Models with Better Reasoning Ability

"Large reasoning models (LRMs) extend large language models by generating explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, significantly improving mathematical and logical problem solving. However, this explicit reasoning process also introduces new safety risks, as unsafe behaviors often emerge within int..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

A Technical Tour of the DeepSeek Models from V3 to V3.2

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

TokenPowerBench: Benchmarking the Power Consumption of LLM Inference

"Large language model (LLM) services now answer billions of queries per day, and industry reports show that inference, not training, accounts for more than 90% of total power consumption. However, existing benchmarks focus on either training/fine-tuning or performance of inference and provide little..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Thank you for Opus 4.5

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 51 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI model performance β€’ AI model competition β€’ AI model consistency
πŸ’¬ "Opus 4.5 is the best model I have ever worked with." β€’ "We reached a point where it's more about the infrastructure and the techniques that makes a difference than the model."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

AI Autonomously Finds 7 FFmpeg Vulnerabilities

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

AWS launches Nova Forge, a $100,000/year service allowing clients to customize Amazon's AI models at various stages of training and refine open-weight models

πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

AI companies' safety practices fail to meet global standards, study shows

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

A look at Anthropic's societal impacts team, which studies AI's broad societal risks to tackle β€œinconvenient truths”, beyond typical safety teams at AI startups

πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

How confessions can keep language models honest | OpenAI | 54Β commentaires

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ“Š DATA

[R] [N] TabPFN now scales to millions of rows (tabular foundation model)

"Context: TabPFN is a pretrained transformer trained on more than hundred million synthetic datasets to perform in-context learning and output a predictive distribution for the test data. It natively supports missing values, categorical features, text and numerical features is robust to outliers and ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 10 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Tabular ML Techniques β€’ Predictive Distributions β€’ Open Source Licensing
πŸ’¬ "Still rocking xgboost and lightgbm" β€’ "What kind of license? Someone mentioned limited to non commercial use cases."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

I built an open-source tool to stop Claude Code from re-reading my files every session (Persistent Memory)

"I got tired of the 'Context Tax.' Every time I started a new session, I was watching Claude re-explore my codebase, read files it read yesterday, and burn tokens just to get back to where we left off. **So I built** Grov**.** It’s a local CLI tool that injects past reasoning in..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 21 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Automatic context injection β€’ Relevance and contradiction detection β€’ Semantic search for context
πŸ’¬ "It's not semantic search (yet, on roadmap). Also contradiction detection isn't implemented - that's a valid gap." β€’ "The proxy injects at most 5 recent tasks and 5 file-level reasonings, all filtered by your project path."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

Amazon releases its second-gen Nova AI models, including Nova Lite, Nova Pro, Nova Sonic, and fully multimodal reasoning model Nova Omni, to limited customers

πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior

"OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models. Researchers at the company can make an LLM produce what they call a confessio..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Chain-of-Ground: Improving GUI Grounding via Iterative Reasoning and Reference Feedback

"GUI grounding aims to align natural language instructions with precise regions in complex user interfaces. Advanced multimodal large language models show strong ability in visual GUI grounding but still struggle with small or visually similar targets and ambiguity in real world layouts. These limita..."
🏒 BUSINESS

Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 79 comments 😀 NEGATIVE ENERGY
🎯 Microsoft's AI failures β€’ Limitations of consumer AI β€’ AI's lack of profitability
πŸ’¬ "ie between low quota and broken tech their consumer level office AI is literally of no use to me" β€’ "No wonder if Microsoft failed to deliver a single AI tool that adds value"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

How Far Are We from Genuinely Useful Deep Research Agents?

"Deep Research Agents (DRAs) aim to automatically produce analyst-level reports through iterative information retrieval and synthesis. However, most existing DRAs were validated on question-answering benchmarks, while research on generating comprehensive reports remains overlooked. Worse, current ben..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

An Empirical Study of Agent Developer Practices in AI Agent Frameworks

"The rise of large language models (LLMs) has sparked a surge of interest in agents, leading to the rapid growth of agent frameworks. Agent frameworks are software toolkits and libraries that provide standardized components, abstractions, and orchestration mechanisms to simplify agent development. De..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: TabPFN Scaling Mode – Tabular Foundation Model on millions of rows

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

LORE: A Large Generative Model for Search Relevance

"Achievement. We introduce LORE, a systematic framework for Large Generative Model-based relevance in e-commerce search. Deployed and iterated over three years, LORE achieves a cumulative +27\% improvement in online GoodRate metrics. This report shares the valuable experience gained throughout its de..."
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Claude's Soul Document

+++ Anthropic employee Amanda Askell verified that Claude was indeed trained on an internal "soul document" outlining values and behavior, which the internet discovered anyway because information wants to be free. +++

Claude's "Soul Doc" confirmed real by Anthropic employee Amanda Askell

">I just want to confirm that this is based on a real document and we did train Claude on it, including in SL. It's something I've been working on for a while, but it's still being iterated on and we intend to release the full version and more details soon. >The model extractions aren't always..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 26 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI Alignment Goals β€’ Anthropic's Cautious Approach β€’ Community Skepticism
πŸ’¬ "Anthropic is tackling the problem with much more care and consideration than other companies" β€’ "They provide their model with a more nuanced and generalized framework from which they hope good behaviour will emerge"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

CLI for fine-tuning (SFT, RL, DPO, ORPO, PPO) - inference for test + MPS support

"I had a lot of problems running trainings on runpod and other virtual environments after testing on my local Mac. Tried finding some open source projects to abstract some work and couldn’t find much other than autotrain from HF, but it was an old project needing new recipes and revamping.. So I too..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Agentic Policy Optimization via Instruction-Policy Co-Evolution

"Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has advanced the reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs), enabling autonomous agents that can conduct effective multi-turn and tool-integrated reasoning. While instructions serve as the primary protocol for defining agents, RLVR typi..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

KV Pareto: Systems-Level Optimization of KV Cache and Model Compression for Long Context Inference

"Long-context Large Language Models (LLMs) face significant memory bottlenecks during inference due to the linear growth of key-value (KV) cache with sequence length. While individual optimization techniques like KV cache quantization, chunked prefill, and model weight quantization have shown promise..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

AlignSAE: Concept-Aligned Sparse Autoencoders

"Large Language Models (LLMs) encode factual knowledge within hidden parametric spaces that are difficult to inspect or control. While Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) can decompose hidden activations into more fine-grained, interpretable features, they often struggle to reliably align these features with..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Amazon expands its AI agent platform, Bedrock AgentCore, with new tools for managing agent boundaries, agent memory capabilities, and agent evaluation features

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

promptolution: A Unified, Modular Framework for Prompt Optimization

"Prompt optimization has become crucial for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs) across a broad range of tasks. Although many research papers show its effectiveness, practical adoption is hindered as existing implementations are often tied to unmaintained and isolated research co..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Rectifying LLM Thought from Lens of Optimization

"Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have been driven by their emergent reasoning capabilities, particularly through long chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting, which enables thorough exploration and deliberation. Despite these advances, long-CoT LLMs often exhibit suboptimal reasoning beh..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

A look at startups like AGI and Plato, which build replicas of websites to let AI agents learn to navigate the internet and complete tasks, like booking flights

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

GrndCtrl: Grounding World Models via Self-Supervised Reward Alignment

"Recent advances in video world modeling have enabled large-scale generative models to simulate embodied environments with high visual fidelity, providing strong priors for prediction, planning, and control. Yet, despite their realism, these models often lack geometric grounding, limiting their use i..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

AutoNeural: Co-Designing Vision-Language Models for NPU Inference

"While Neural Processing Units (NPUs) offer high theoretical efficiency for edge AI, state-of-the-art Vision--Language Models (VLMs) tailored for GPUs often falter on these substrates. We attribute this hardware-model mismatch to two primary factors: the quantization brittleness of Vision Transformer..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Latent Debate: A Surrogate Framework for Interpreting LLM Thinking

"Understanding the internal thinking process of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the cause of hallucinations remains a key challenge. To this end, we introduce latent debate, a novel framework for interpreting model predictions through the lens of implicit internal arguments. Unlike the current work..."
🏒 BUSINESS

Microsoft slashes AI sales growth targets as customers resist unproven agents

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 7 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Customer Resistance β€’ AI Integration β€’ OS Reimagination
πŸ’¬ "when it comes time to deliver they're just like 'lol" β€’ "the last thing any of us were down for was a smart agent"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Prompt Injection via Poetry

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 23 comments 😀 NEGATIVE ENERGY
🎯 Bypassing AI Restrictions β€’ Limitations of Content Moderation β€’ Adversarial Techniques in LLMs
πŸ’¬ "There are an infinite amount of ways to jailbreak AI models." β€’ "Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs"
πŸ’° FUNDING

OpenAI becomes for-profit, gives Microsoft 27% stake

🎨 CREATIVE

Chinese short-video company Kuaishou launches Kling Video O1, saying it is the first multimodal AI model to unify video generation, editing, and post-production

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

BHRAM-IL: A Benchmark for Hallucination Recognition and Assessment in Multiple Indian Languages

"Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multilingual applications but often generate plausible yet incorrect or misleading outputs, known as hallucinations. While hallucination detection has been studied extensively in English, under-resourced Indian languages remain largely unexpl..."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Amazon debuts three frontier agents: Kiro autonomous agent, AWS Security Agent, and AWS DevOps Agent, each focused on a different aspect of software development

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

LLM CHESS: Benchmarking Reasoning and Instruction-Following in LLMs through Chess

"We introduce LLM CHESS, an evaluation framework designed to probe the generalization of reasoning and instruction-following abilities in large language models (LLMs) through extended agentic interaction in the domain of chess. We rank over 50 open and closed source models by playing against a random..."
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

[D] LLMs Need Better Executive Function

"*Note: this is adapted from a piece I first posted on my personal site; link at bottom.* *---* In the past several weeks we’ve gotten GPT-5.1, Gemini 3, and Opus 4.5.Β They’re incredible machines.Β Their benchmarks are superhuman and climbing. They can whip up interactive RNA explainers faster than ..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Every Sora AI video burns 1 Kilowatt hour and emits 466 grams of carbon

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 509 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Open source licensing β€’ GitHub vs alternatives β€’ Codeberg infrastructure
πŸ’¬ "The whole point of many open source licenses (and especially the MIT license) is actually the opposite: allowing people to do whatever they want with the source code." β€’ "Running all this on donations seems like it could have some issues long term for more serious projects."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Claude Code on Desktop

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Four Over Six: More Accurate NVFP4 Quantization with Adaptive Block Scaling

"As large language models have grown larger, low-precision numerical formats such as NVFP4 have become increasingly popular due to the speed and memory benefits they provide. However, to accelerate computation with NVFP4, all matrix multiplication operands--weights and activations in the forward pass..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Persistent memory for Claude Code sessions

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Atlas: Coding Agent for Legacy Codebases

πŸ”§ INFRASTRUCTURE

Amazon launches AWS AI Factories, which lets customers deploy AWS infrastructure, including AWS Trainium chips and Nvidia GPUs, in their existing data centers

πŸ’° FUNDING

Anthropic IPO Planning

+++ Anthropic taps IPO counsel for a potential 2026 debut at a reported $300B valuation, because nothing says "we've figured out AGI safety" like going public at peak hype valuations. +++

Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 185 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI Company Acquisitions β€’ AI Company IPOs β€’ AI Capability Competition
πŸ’¬ "I don't see the pure AI plays like OpenAI and Anthropic able to survive as independent companies" β€’ "It's better for the public to have a way to own a piece of the company"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Cross-Lingual Prompt Steerability: Towards Accurate and Robust LLM Behavior across Languages

"System prompts provide a lightweight yet powerful mechanism for conditioning large language models (LLMs) at inference time. While prior work has focused on English-only settings, real-world deployments benefit from having a single prompt to operate reliably across languages. This paper presents a c..."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Airena – Client-side arena for comparing AI models across 68 providers

🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Llama 3.1 70B + one prompt now beats Claude 3.5 Sonnet (96.9% on Arena-Hard-Auto, 4% refusals)

"I spent the last few weeks iterating a single system prompt until stock Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct started outperforming Claude 3.5 Sonnet on the hardest blind arena benchmark. Results (100% reproducible): β€’ 96.4–96.9% win rate on Arena-Hard-Auto (vs Sonnet’s 94.7%) β€’ Only 4% refusals (base model is ..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 32 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Prompt engineering β€’ Model capabilities β€’ Skepticism of claims
πŸ’¬ "How did you verify the results from Llama 3.1?" β€’ "Such extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Building AI agents that work: Introducing Nova Act as a service

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