NYU Researchers Evolve Readable Python Rules That Build Playable Game Levels
A new research paper reframes cellular automata as evolvable Python modules, letting genetic programming discover readable rules for level generation.
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TokenRhythm's NeoHorse-1 Beats Its Base Model by 6 Points on Agentic Benchmarks
TokenRhythm fine-tunes Qwen3.5-4B with a routing harness that turns agent traces into training data, gaining 5.93 points across ten benchmarks.
Zhijian Skills Bundles 16 Open-Source Agent Workflows Into One Catalog
A Chinese developer's open-source Agent Skills portfolio bundles sixteen focused tools, including a layered Web Clipper that chains five extractors to reliably scrape anything.
Japan's LLM-jp-4-VL 9B Beats InternVL on Japanese While Staying Truly Open Source
Japan's national LLM project releases an Apache-2.0 vision-language model with reasoning traces, trained on a scrubbed 29M-sample dataset.
Experiential Gives AI Agents One Open-Source Gateway to Rule All Models
Experiential is an open source, OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes across hosted, BYOK, and local models with zero markup and spend controls.
OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-2B Beats Larger Rivals With 128K Context on Consumer Hardware
OpenBMB's compact 2B model hits open-source SOTA in its class, beating several 4B rivals on code, math, and agent benchmarks while running locally.
NVIDIA's Nemotron Beats the Best Human at the Coding Olympics
NVIDIA's fine-tuned Nemotron system scored 535.4 out of 600 at IOI 2026, topping the best human contestant under identical contest conditions.
GitHub Restores Star Growth Tracking Without Exposing Who Starred
GitHub added a REST endpoint that returns weekly star counts with timestamps, restoring star-history tracking that broke when stargazer listings were locked down.
Artificial Analysis Rebuilds Its AI Leaderboard to Stop Models From Gaming It
Artificial Analysis pushes Intelligence Index v4.2 with private test sets, a 4,592-page PDF reasoning benchmark, and a new agentic knowledge-work suite.
Perplexity's ROSE Serving Stack Beats vLLM on Speed and Latency
Perplexity open-sources details of Ivy, Tulip, and ROSE, its Rust plus Python embedding stack that beats vLLM on latency and throughput.
MBZUAI Releases K2 Horizon, the Largest Fully Open-Source AI Fleet Ever
IFM released six fully open models from 0.9B to 375B parameters, complete with weights, code, training data, and recipes under Apache 2.0.
LlamaIndex's ExtractBench Catches GPT-5 and Gemini-3 Hitting 0% on Wide Schemas
LlamaIndex and Kaggle launch a schema-guided document extraction benchmark that grades models on missing fields, source grounding, and repeated records across 370 enterprise files.
Anthropic's Claude Formally Proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 Days
Claude autonomously wrote a 13 million line Lean proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 11 days, verifying 29,500 supporting theorems along the way.
H-BAC Shrinks a 327 MB Plant Disease Model Down to 6 MB
A unified pruning, quantization and distillation pipeline shrinks a Vision Transformer 54.5x while holding 95.13% accuracy on out-of-distribution chilli disease images.
GitHub's HydraFusion Beats Claude Opus 5 at 67% Lower Cost
GitHub's new research preview routes each coding task through single, cascade, or critique workflows across multiple models, beating Opus 5 at a fraction of the cost.
Google Opens Lyria 3.5 to Developers, Generating Full Songs With Vocals
Google's newest music generation model expands from Flow Music into the Gemini API, AI Studio, and the Gemini app with 44.1 kHz stereo output.
Cohere Labs' ATE Dataset Reveals Only 2.6% of AI Agent Tools Actually Work
Cohere Labs scraped 696K agent tools from 123K MCP servers and found only 2.6% can actually finish a real job task alone.
Ant Group's Ling-3.0-flash-VL Brings Images and Video to Its 124B Open Model
InclusionAI open-sources a 124B-parameter mixture-of-experts vision-language model with 5.5B active parameters, 256K context, and MIT license.
NAVER Labs' BLASt3R Merges Live SLAM and 3D Reconstruction Into One Pipeline
A new hybrid Structure-from-Motion framework from NAVER Labs unifies real-time SLAM and offline reconstruction, beating even calibrated systems while running uncalibrated.
Backpass Turns Your AI Agent's Chat History Into Self-Improving Memory
A new CLI treats AGENTS.md as a set of weights, mining your agent transcripts to propose evidence-backed edits under a strict token budget.
Anthropic Ships Terraform-Style Workflow to Deploy Claude Agents From Code
Anthropic's ant CLI now lets you declare agents, skills, environments, memory stores, and deployments as files and reconcile them like Terraform.
xAI Pushes Grok Bot Into Enterprise With Audit Controls and Free Trials
SpaceXAI opens its always-on agent platform to companies with access, network, and audit controls, plus two weeks of free usage for existing customers.
Prime Intellect Slashes GLM-5.2 Weight Transfer by 22x With RDMA
Prime Intellect rebuilt weight sync on RDMA and vLLM tracing, dropping GLM-5.2's 1.6TB policy transfer from 86 seconds to under 4.
Nous Research's Hermes Desktop Picks and Runs Local AI Models in One Click
Hermes Desktop now auto-detects your hardware, picks a fitting local model, downloads it, and configures the runtime without any manual setup.
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