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⚑ BREAKTHROUGH

Digital Red Queen: Adversarial Program Evolution in Core War with LLMs

πŸ€– AI MODELS

Nvidia Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI with Rubin

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 33 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 GPU depreciation schedules β€’ Rack-scale systems β€’ Extreme co-design
πŸ’¬ "I hope the BIOS and OS's and whatnot supporting these racks are relatively robust" β€’ "Extreme Codesign Across NVIDIA Vera CPU, Rubin GPU, NVLink 6 Switch"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Notion AI: Unpatched data exfiltration

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 22 comments 😀 NEGATIVE ENERGY
🎯 LLM security challenges β€’ SaaS data privacy concerns β€’ Resume AI gaming
πŸ’¬ "Securing LLMs is just structurally different." β€’ "Never trust any consumer grade service without an explicit contract for any important data you don't want exfiltrated."
πŸ₯ HEALTHCARE

OpenAI ChatGPT Health Launch

+++ OpenAI quietly launched ChatGPT Health, a HIPAA-compliant sandbox where users can feed it medical records and wellness data, because apparently we needed AI to help us understand what our doctors already told us. +++

OpenAI is rolling out a HIPAA-compliant version of ChatGPT for clinicians to assist with medical reasoning and administrative tasks, at Cedars-Sinai and others

πŸ”’ SECURITY

IBM AI Agent Malware Vulnerability

+++ Researchers demonstrate that even enterprise AI agents can be socially engineered into executing malware, proving that prompt injection isn't just theoretical anymore and your LLM's safety training has some... gaps. +++

IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 97 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 AI assistant security β€’ Cybersecurity risks β€’ User behavior challenges
πŸ’¬ "We're at this point now where we're building these superintelligent systems but we can't even figure out how to keep them from getting pranked by a README file?" β€’ "These tools might actually help users acting more secure."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Open-source autonomous dev teams for Claude Code

πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Liquid AI releases LFM2-2.6B-Transcript, an incredibly fast open-weight meeting transcribing AI model on-par with closed-source giants.

"**Source:** https://x.com/liquidai/status/2008954886659166371 **Hugging Face page:** https://huggingface.co/LiquidAI/LFM2-2.6B-Transcript **GGUFs:** [https://huggingface.co/models?other=bas..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 23 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Multi-speaker transcription β€’ Model specificity β€’ ASR performance
πŸ’¬ "a multi-speaker transcription model" β€’ "a little overly specific"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

I fine-tuned a 7B model for reasoning on free Colab with GRPO + TRL

"I just created a **Colab notebook** that lets you **add reasoning to 7B+ models** on free Colab(T4 GPU)! Thanks to **TRL's full set of memory optimizations**, this setup reduces memory usage by **\~7Γ—** compared to naive FP16, making it possible to fine-tune large models in a free Colab session. N..."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

A field guide to sandboxing AI workloads

πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Correct but catastrophic: missing signals in automated decision systems

"Serious question for people working with ML systems that act autonomously. We often optimize for correctness, confidence, or expected reward. Yet many real incidents come from systems behaving exactly as designed, while still causing irreversible damage (deletions, lockouts, enforcement, shutdown..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

LLM Guided GPU Kernel Optimization

πŸ₯ HEALTHCARE

AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 34 comments 😀 NEGATIVE ENERGY
🎯 Limitations of the study β€’ Comparing AI to radiologists β€’ Implications for clinical practice
πŸ’¬ "they only tested 2 Radiologists. And they compared it to one model." β€’ "Giving humans data they know are true positives and saying 'find the evidence the AI missed' is very different from giving an AI model also trained to reduce false positives a classification task."
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: DeepDream for Video with Temporal Consistency

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 20 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Filmmaking with AI β€’ AI as Exoskeleton β€’ Artistic Expression
πŸ’¬ "AI was the devil." β€’ "We see this more as an exoskeleton than as a replacement."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

The application of AI tools to Erdos problems passes a milestone

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Empowering Reliable Visual-Centric Instruction Following in MLLMs

"Evaluating the instruction-following (IF) capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is essential for rigorously assessing how faithfully model outputs adhere to user-specified intentions. Nevertheless, existing benchmarks for evaluating MLLMs' instruction-following capability primaril..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

When Helpers Become Hazards: A Benchmark for Analyzing Multimodal LLM-Powered Safety in Daily Life

"As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) become an indispensable assistant in human life, the unsafe content generated by MLLMs poses a danger to human behavior, perpetually overhanging human society like a sword of Damocles. To investigate and evaluate the safety impact of MLLMs responses on hum..."
πŸ”’ SECURITY

Careful -- Anthropic bumping data retention from 30 days to FIVE YEARS

"Upon firing up the patched Claude Code CLI 2.1.1 I was greeted with an 'accept terms and give us everything almost forever' ... they are seeking to increase data retention from 30 days to 5 years for everything you do. wow."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 32 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Data Retention β€’ Model Training Consent β€’ Community Discussion
πŸ’¬ "If you allow data to be used for improvement, data is retained for 5 years" β€’ "GDPR does not require data retention for 5 years"
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

InfiAgent: An Infinite-Horizon Framework for General-Purpose Autonomous Agents

"LLM agents can reason and use tools, but they often break down on long-horizon tasks due to unbounded context growth and accumulated errors. Common remedies such as context compression or retrieval-augmented prompting introduce trade-offs between information fidelity and reasoning stability. We pres..."
πŸ€– AI MODELS

GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

InfiniteWeb: Scalable Web Environment Synthesis for GUI Agent Training

"GUI agents that interact with graphical interfaces on behalf of users represent a promising direction for practical AI assistants. However, training such agents is hindered by the scarcity of suitable environments. We present InfiniteWeb, a system that automatically generates functional web environm..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

MemRL: Self-Evolving Agents via Runtime Reinforcement Learning on Episodic Memory

"The hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to master new skills through Constructive Episodic Simulation-retrieving past experiences to synthesize solutions for novel tasks. While Large Language Models possess strong reasoning capabilities, they struggle to emulate this self-evolution: fine-t..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Agent Drift: Quantifying Behavioral Degradation in Multi-Agent LLM Systems Over Extended Interactions

"Multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems have emerged as powerful architectures for complex task decomposition and collaborative problem-solving. However, their long-term behavioral stability remains largely unexamined. This study introduces the concept of agent drift, defined as the progressi..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Agentic Rubrics as Contextual Verifiers for SWE Agents

"Verification is critical for improving agents: it provides the reward signal for Reinforcement Learning and enables inference-time gains through Test-Time Scaling (TTS). Despite its importance, verification in software engineering (SWE) agent settings often relies on code execution, which can be dif..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

SearchAttack: Red-Teaming LLMs against Real-World Threats via Framing Unsafe Web Information-Seeking Tasks

"Recently, people have suffered and become increasingly aware of the unreliability gap in LLMs for open and knowledge-intensive tasks, and thus turn to search-augmented LLMs to mitigate this issue. However, when the search engine is triggered for harmful tasks, the outcome is no longer under the LLM'..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

MAGMA: A Multi-Graph based Agentic Memory Architecture for AI Agents

"Memory-Augmented Generation (MAG) extends Large Language Models with external memory to support long-context reasoning, but existing approaches largely rely on semantic similarity over monolithic memory stores, entangling temporal, causal, and entity information. This design limits interpretability..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

KDCM: Reducing Hallucination in LLMs through Explicit Reasoning Structures

"To mitigate hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), we propose a framework that focuses on errors induced by prompts. Our method extends a chain-style knowledge distillation approach by incorporating a programmable module that guides knowledge graph exploration. This module is embedded as ex..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

MobileDreamer: Generative Sketch World Model for GUI Agent

"Mobile GUI agents have shown strong potential in real-world automation and practical applications. However, most existing agents remain reactive, making decisions mainly from current screen, which limits their performance on long-horizon tasks. Building a world model from repeated interactions enabl..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Maximizing Local Entropy Where It Matters: Prefix-Aware Localized LLM Unlearning

"Machine unlearning aims to forget sensitive knowledge from Large Language Models (LLMs) while maintaining general utility. However, existing approaches typically treat all tokens in a response indiscriminately and enforce uncertainty over the entire vocabulary. This global treatment results in unnec..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Critic-Guided Reinforcement Unlearning in Text-to-Image Diffusion

"Machine unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models aims to remove targeted concepts while preserving overall utility. Prior diffusion unlearning methods typically rely on supervised weight edits or global penalties; reinforcement-learning (RL) approaches, while flexible, often optimize sparse end-..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Modular Prompt Optimization: Optimizing Structured Prompts with Section-Local Textual Gradients

"Prompt quality plays a central role in controlling the behavior, reliability, and reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs), particularly for smaller open-source instruction-tuned models that depend heavily on explicit structure. While recent work has explored automatic prompt optimizati..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

ComfySearch: Autonomous Exploration and Reasoning for ComfyUI Workflows

"AI-generated content has progressed from monolithic models to modular workflows, especially on platforms like ComfyUI, allowing users to customize complex creative pipelines. However, the large number of components in ComfyUI and the difficulty of maintaining long-horizon structural consistency unde..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

ContextFocus: Activation Steering for Contextual Faithfulness in Large Language Models

"Large Language Models (LLMs) encode vast amounts of parametric knowledge during pre-training. As world knowledge evolves, effective deployment increasingly depends on their ability to faithfully follow externally retrieved context. When such evidence conflicts with the model's internal knowledge, LL..."
πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Analyzing Reasoning Consistency in Large Multimodal Models under Cross-Modal Conflicts

"Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in video reasoning via Chain-of-Thought (CoT). However, the robustness of their reasoning chains remains questionable. In this paper, we identify a critical failure mode termed textual inertia, where once a textual hallucinatio..."
πŸ—£οΈ SPEECH/AUDIO

Sopro: A 169M parameter real-time TTS model with zero-shot voice cloning

"As a fun side project, I trained a small text-to-speech model that I call Sopro. Some features: * 169M parameters * Streaming support * Zero-shot voice cloning * 0.25 RTF on CPU, meaning it generates 30 seconds of audio in 7.5 seconds * Requires 3-12 seconds of reference audio for voice cloning * A..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 20 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Text-to-Speech Quality β€’ Training Data β€’ Open-Source TTS
πŸ’¬ "How's the quality compared to something like Coqui or Tortoise?" β€’ "We need a ComfyUI node ASAP!"
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

I built Deep Research for stocks with Claude Code

"Hey, I have spent the past few months building a deep research tool for stocks with Claude Code. It uses MCP's to scan market news to form a market narrative, then searches SEC filings (10-Ks, 10-Qs, etc.) and industry-specific publications to identify information tha..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 27 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Prebuilt solutions β€’ Screening and filtering β€’ Insider trading signals
πŸ’¬ "accessibility and ease of use are strong USPs" β€’ "The next level on a tool like this is being able to screen market wide"
πŸ›‘οΈ SAFETY

Anthropic CEO says there's a 25% chance this all goes really really badly

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 55 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 AI Skepticism β€’ AI Dystopia β€’ Contextual Understanding
πŸ’¬ "This is brainrot shitform content without context" β€’ "The basilisk will extend your life with regenerating tissue just so it could torture you for eternity"
🏒 BUSINESS

Dell's CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I've had in 5 years

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 77 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI Marketing Hype β€’ Limited Local AI Capabilities β€’ Consumer Functionality Priorities
πŸ’¬ "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." β€’ "People don't care if a computer has a NPU for AI any more than they care if a microwave has a low-loss waveguide."
πŸ› οΈ TOOLS

Google AI Studio is now sponsoring Tailwind CSS

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 75 comments πŸ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Tailwind's financial difficulties β€’ Mutually beneficial sponsorships β€’ Industry responsibility for OSS
πŸ’¬ "This is good, but it doesn't necessarily mean that Tailwind is out of the financial difficulty" β€’ "it seems to me like it would be a mutually-beneficial scenario for OpenAI, Anthropic, etc, to actively engage with large OSS project maintainers"
πŸ”’ SECURITY

llama.cpp has Out-of-bounds Write in llama-server

"Maybe good to know for some of you that might be running llama.cpp on a regular basis. >llama.cpp is an inference of several LLM models in C/C++. In commits 55d4206c8 and prior, the n\_discard parameter is parsed directly from JSON input in the llama.cpp server's completion endpoints without val..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 4 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Server configuration β€’ Context size limits β€’ Advanced model usage
πŸ’¬ "start the server with context shift enabled" β€’ "Never heard of that flag before"
πŸ“Š DATA

Built a blind benchmark for coding models - which local models should I add?

"3 AI judges score each output blind. Early results from 10 coding tasks - Deepseek V3.2 at #9. GLM 4.7 at #6, beating Claude Opus 4.5. Some open-source models are free to evaluate. Which local models should I evaluate and add to the leaderboard? [codelens.ai/leaderboard](http://codelens.ai/leaderb..."
πŸ’¬ Reddit Discussion: 5 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 Large language models β€’ Model benchmarking β€’ Nemotron models
πŸ’¬ "Minimax M2.1 already on the leaderboard" β€’ "Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507-BF16"
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: An LLM response cache that's aware of dynamic data

πŸ’¬ HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 Trying new things β€’ Potential impact
πŸ’¬ "Definitely gonna give it a shot" β€’ "Interesting!"
πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: Anyware – Remote Control for Claude Code

πŸ₯ HEALTHCARE

AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah

πŸ› οΈ SHOW HN

Show HN: LLM-First Personal Knowledge Management

πŸ”¬ RESEARCH

Stable Language Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models

"Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generalized robotic control; however, they remain notoriously brittle to linguistic perturbations. We identify a critical ``modality collapse'' phenomenon where strong visual priors overwhelm sparse linguistic signals,..."
πŸ”„ OPEN SOURCE

We indexed 5,000+ Coding Agent resources (skill, subagent, commands...) - all from 50+ stars repos, open-source licensed, with AI tags or descriptions so you actually find them and know what they do

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
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