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AIA new model extracts values absent from a document by computing them from figures that are present, such as deriving a yearly product cost from a monthly price. Santiago says the video shows examples of inferring complex formulas. The background post describes this as Higher-Order Extraction, which deterministically computes needed numbers from raw page values.

AIKrea has released a plugin that brings its AI tools into Adobe Photoshop, according to a link to its Photoshop plugin page. The post itself provides no further details on features, pricing, or availability.

AISmallest AI's Pulse ranks first on the Diarization + ASR track of Voice Arena's Diarization Bench with a 24.4% DER, where lower is better. The next system in that track scores 40.7% DER, and Pulse misses 4.4% of reference speech, the lowest in the track.

AIStacklok, founded by Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, has released Mecatl, an open source cloud-native harness for coding agents on GitHub. Mecatl keeps the agent loop separate from the client, model provider, state store, and execution environment, and moves tool calling, session management, and memory into manageable systems. The article also covers ToolHive, an MCP platform, and an AI Gateway that is not yet open sourced, with a commercial enterprise control plane tying the pieces together.

AIDevelopers are running Hermes on devices such as LilyGO watches, AIPI Lite, desk gadgets, and old Android phones after the Hermes Gadget open SDK and demo were released three days ago. The post credits @NousResearch and says more boards are landing on main through contributor PRs, with the SDK available on GitHub.

AIOrange AI released "podcast-to-article," a free MIT-licensed open-source skill that reorganizes podcast transcripts by topic rather than speaker timeline. The author says it keeps every number and original quote while cutting off-topic tangents, and that early readership and engagement were good.

AIZeptap, a Mac app, is live on Product Hunt and lets AI agents use a user's iPhone the way the user does. The team is asking for support and feedback on the launch.

AIBooks by People, a British startup, has received UK Intellectual Property Office approval to distribute a mark certifying that a published book was written by a human, displayed on the cover as a thumbprint-style stamp. The startup verifies manuscripts through an authorship declaration, proprietary software, and review of drafts and research materials, and five publishers have signed up so far. The mark is expected to appear on its first book by the end of the year.

AISystem76's COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to declare no LLM-generated content in pull requests, including code, comments, and descriptions. GNOME Calendar and GNOME Extensions also restrict AI-generated contributions, while GNOME developer Michael Catanzaro argues the project should accept AI-generated bug reports. Catanzaro's case rests on memory-unsafe languages such as C, C++, and Vala, and he has shortened GNOME Security's disclosure deadline from 90 days to 30, effective August 1.

AIZeptap is now live on Product Hunt as a Mac app that lets AI agents use an iPhone the way a person would. The team describes it as computer use for iPhone and is offering a free 7-day launch license key to those who DM them.

AIMentionBird, at mentionbird.ai, has launched on Product Hunt as a tool for checking where a brand appears in AI search answers. The company says it helps brands win more answers across the AI platforms buyers increasingly use for product and brand research.

AITeknium says a plugin from @altryne's current project should be added to the plugin catalog. The post is a brief endorsement and does not describe the plugin's functions. Background from @tonysimons_ says Hermes is getting a local video editor for editing user footage with 42 FFmpeg scripts and no cloud or API key required.

AIvLLM Semantic Router and KR Labs released Vela 2.0, which makes span-level decisions covering safety checks, domain classification, PII spans, and unsupported claims in a single call. It comes in four sizes from 0.3B to 9B parameters under the Apache-2.0 license.

AIEvery launched the Every Agent, a Slack-based agentic coworker whose token costs it passes on to customers without markup. Engineer Paridhi Agarwal explains how she made the agent more token-efficient, and the newsletter says the company moved from personal agents to a single shared company agent.

AIMastra Connect is a public beta that lets Mastra projects connect providers such as Linear, Notion, and Slack, giving agents and workflows ready-made tools. Connect launches with 23 providers, almost 900 tools, and 7 hosted MCP providers, and it is free to use on Mastra platform during beta. Developers can add connections via the CLI or dashboard, limit tools with glob filters, and call a provider's SDK directly with credential() when a tool is missing.

Why it matters: The post shows how connected services become agent tools, and how credentials and access limits are managed, which is useful for building agent workflows.

AISimon Willison released an LLM plugin for sending prompts to OpenAI's new Jev-clone decision model, which is based on GPT-6 Luna. The post links to his write-up with details about the plugin.

AIEpoch AI reports that GPT-6 Astra scored 100% on the original EBR-bench by exploiting a card that bypasses the game's time-constraint expectations, so Epoch has banned that card from the default setting. Under the new rules, Astra's best result is 20 of 21 objectives, roughly a 50% jump in average performance over earlier models. Epoch will report revised scores only for Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and future models.

AIPollen Robotics' Microduck now runs on its first fully custom single-board computer, built by Seeed around the same Rockchip CPU. The new board adds better memory, WiFi/BT, dual NFC antennas, status LEDs, an RGB flashlight, and improved cooling and boot speed, replacing the earlier Radxa-based prototype stack.

AIPenguin Mail 1.0.5 is a free, GPL-3.0-or-later email and calendar app for x86_64 Linux that supports Gmail, Microsoft, IMAP and POP3 accounts. The app includes an optional AI assistant that stays off until a model is chosen and can run locally through LM Studio or Ollama, asking before it sends mail or changes settings.

AISigil Wen has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks. The post says the startup is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors, but does not name them or give product details.