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  1. Augment Code BlogAI score22

    Augment Code uses Cosmos to check enterprise pilot health against usage and deal data

    AIAugment Code's Solutions Architecture lead used the Cosmos agentic orchestration platform to build a live pilot-health view that combines product usage, GitHub and PR activity, Salesforce deal data, and customer call transcripts. Each account's health and board-level one-liner was checked against the customer's own stated success criteria, such as a 30% PR merge-time reduction. The article says the view refreshed from current Salesforce data and was designed to avoid inflating usage numbers through session lineage reconciliation.

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  1. Matei ZahariaAI score44

    Matei Zaharia says AI Gateways let teams cut token costs centrally

    AIMatei Zaharia argues AI tokens are now a resource to optimize in software engineering, with companies routing all AI usage through an AI Gateway. The approach enables centralized analysis, which found settings on Claude Code and Codex that can substantially lower cost, plus smart routing and per-task budgets for engineers.

  2. Ali GhodsiAI score58

    Databricks details four techniques it used to cut internal AI coding spend by up to 90%

    AIDatabricks published an analysis of four techniques it used to reduce internal AI spend while growing adoption, with savings of up to 90% in some scenarios. The techniques are shifting defaults to cheaper models such as GLM, automated task-level model routing, per-user spend visibility with adaptive budgeting, and pruning context bloat. The author, Ali Ghodsi, reposted Databricks co-founder Patrick Wendell's summary and recommended it.

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  1. Fireworks AI BlogAI score54

    Fireworks tests whether LoRA or full fine-tuning gaps come from data, learning rate, or rank

    AIFireworks AI ran controlled SFT experiments on Qwen3.5-9B comparing LoRA with full parameter fine-tuning across three synthetic verifiable tasks. The post argues that a FullFT advantage can come from data coverage, learning-rate tuning, or adapter rank, and it recommends testing these in that order before switching methods. Under a fixed multi-task budget, FullFT kept a 4.29-point lead over the best LoRA recipe tested, while matched data exposure favored LoRA.

  2. Liquid AI NewsletterAI score46

    Liquid AI Expands LFM2 Tokenizer to 128K, Speeding On-Device Thai, Vietnamese, and Hindi

    AILiquid AI doubled the LFM2 tokenizer's vocabulary from 65K to 128K without retraining from scratch, extending the original BPE merges and initializing new embeddings as the mean of their sub-tokens. The expanded tokenizer needs 4.0× fewer tokens for Thai, 2.6× fewer for Vietnamese, and 2.4× fewer for Hindi, which the source says yields roughly 2.2–3.7× faster on-device decoding for these languages with no reported quality loss on previously supported languages. LFM2.5-8B-A1B and the expanded tokenizer are available on Hugging Face with open weights.

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  1. Fireworks AI BlogAI score46

    Fireworks AI Shows Low-Cost Fine-Tuning Lifts Domain Embedding Retrieval

    AIFireworks AI describes fine-tuning Qwen3-Embedding-8B on private (query, positive) pairs using bidirectional InfoNCE loss through its Training SDK, then serving the model via an OpenAI-compatible embeddings endpoint. The post reports that around 150 training steps was enough, that rank-32 LoRA landed within about one point of full-parameter fine-tuning, and that gains were largest where the base model struggled, while tasks like CoSQA and FiQA2018 showed flat results.

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  1. One Useful Thing (Ethan Mollick)AI score67

    Ethan Mollick's guide to choosing AI tools for agentic work

    AIEthan Mollick's guide says ChatGPT and Claude are the main choices for real work, since their agent modes can act on a computer. He separates agent modes that run on the company's computers from those that access the user's own computer. He recommends keeping approval settings on for sending, spending, or deleting, because of prompt injection risk. He also notes that Gemini currently lags for agentic work, though its Notebook and video tools are useful.

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  1. Andrej KarpathyAI score30

    Karpathy suggests long voice rambles help LLMs understand your intent

    AIAndrej Karpathy describes using /voice to ramble for about 10 minutes, sometimes as a short interview, to give an LLM context that would be tedious to type. He says LLMs reconstruct these messy streams of thought remarkably well, often returning a cleaner version than the speaker started with, which improves shared understanding and reduces later corrections.

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  1. Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)AI score52

    How Reasoning Effort Settings Are Built Into LLMs Through Training

    AIThe article explains how reasoning models can offer multiple effort modes, separating training-time methods from inference-time controls such as system prompts and chat templates. It compares six open-weight models, including DeepSeek V4, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Kimi K2.5, GLM-5, Qwen3, and Inkling, noting that their reports disclose different levels of detail. It also shows how GPT-5.6's model selection and effort settings act as two separate scaling axes.

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  1. Andrew NgAI score28

    DeepLearning.AI launches course on fast LLM inference with Cerebras

    AIDeepLearning.AI has launched a short course, built with Cerebras, on building LLM applications that respond quickly using inference-optimized hardware. The course compares how GPUs, TPUs, and Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine handle the memory-to-compute bottleneck, which keeps model weights close to compute units to speed token generation. It covers real-time applications such as live translation and voice agents, plus habits for agentic coding.

    Video from @AndrewYNg's post

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  1. OpenAI NewsroomAI score12

    James Costello uses ChatGPT to run his demolition business

    AIStructural engineer James Costello, who oversees complex New York City high-rise demolitions, uses ChatGPT to review lengthy contracts, organize compliance documents, and create construction plans for his family-rooted firm DEMTEC. The post says the tool helps him move through these workflows faster and with more confidence, freeing time to grow the business and support his team.

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  1. OpenAI NewsroomAI score15

    Emma Dahl used ChatGPT to help design and build her custom wedding dress

    AIEmma Dahl wanted a historically inspired wedding dress that incorporated pearls from her grandmother's necklace, so she used ChatGPT over months to troubleshoot niche sewing and corset construction. The chatbot also helped her choose a sewing machine upgrade, the shape of her veil, and how to pack and travel with the orchids for her bouquet.

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  1. Andrew NgAI score50

    Andrew Ng outlines three loops for building 0-to-1 AI products

    AIAndrew Ng describes three loops he uses to build 0-to-1 products with AI agents: an agentic coding loop, a developer feedback loop, and an external feedback loop. He says the agentic coding loop runs every few minutes, letting coding agents build, test, and iterate on software for around an hour without human intervention. The developer feedback loop operates over tens of minutes to hours, with humans steering product decisions because they hold a context advantage over AI systems.

    Image from @AndrewYNg's post

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  1. Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)AI score37

    Local Coding Agents: Setting Up Qwen3.6 with Open-Source Harnesses

    AISebastian Raschka's tutorial shows how to build a fully local coding agent by pairing an open-weight LLM served through an inference runtime with an open-source harness that can read files, edit code, and run commands. He recommends Qwen-Code for Qwen3.6, citing Nvidia's Polar paper, which found Qwen models performed best in Qwen-Code. The Qwen3.6 35B-A3B model is about 22 GB to download and needs roughly 30–40 GB of RAM.

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  1. PaddlePaddleAI score32

    PP-OCRv6 Ep.4 benchmarks show 3.9x CPU speedup and 0.13s A100 OCR

    AIPaddlePaddle's PP-OCRv6 Tech Deep Dive Ep.4 benchmarks the OCR models across A100, V100, Intel Xeon CPU, and Apple M4 setups. PP-OCRv6_tiny processes an image in 0.13s on A100, while PP-OCRv6_tiny with OpenVINO runs 3.9x faster than PP-OCRv5_mobile on Intel CPU. The post recommends Medium for high-concurrency APIs, Small for CPU document systems, Tiny for mobile or embedded devices, and Medium or Small for multilingual business use.

    Image from @PaddlePaddle's post

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  1. Lilian WengAI score40

    Lilian Weng's Overview of Scaling Laws and Compute-Optimal Allocation

    AILilian Weng published a long blog post on scaling laws, which help estimate the best split of compute between data and model size before a large training run. The post covers what scaling laws predict, how compute-optimal allocation works, and why Kaplan et al. and Chinchilla reach different conclusions. It also addresses how data limits and fitting details make extrapolation difficult.

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  1. Eugene YanAI score33

    How benchmarks evaluate AI models' ability to find and exploit vulnerabilities

    AIThe post explains how cybersecurity benchmarks test whether models can find and exploit vulnerabilities. Common setups place a target in a sandboxed Docker container, provide either only code (0-day) or code plus a patch (1-day), allow tools like bash and static analyzers, and use a grader to score exploits or captured flags.

  2. PaddlePaddleAI score30

    PP-OCRv6 Detection Module Outperforms VLMs on Text Localization Benchmarks

    AIPaddlePaddle says its PP-OCRv6_medium text detector reached an 86.2% detection Hmean in benchmarks, versus 46.8% for Gemini-3.1-Pro and 38.3% for GPT-5.5. The detector's design uses RepLKFPN with 7×7 kernels to cut FPN neck parameters from 172K to 118K, auxiliary deep supervision heads on P2–P4, and Focal Loss paired with Dice Loss, which adds +1.15% Hmean in ablation.

    Image from @PaddlePaddle's post

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  1. Zed BlogAI score14

    Zed Blog's Hidden Gems Part 4 covers multi-project navigation and command aliases

    AIZed Blog's "Hidden Gems: Part 4" lists editor tips including a centered layout toggle with adjustable padding, keybindings for switching between projects, worktrees and branches, and setting EDITOR and VISUAL to zed --wait in the integrated terminal. It also explains command_aliases for mapping short mnemonics such as gd and gcp to commands like git::Diff and git::CreatePullRequest.

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  1. Andrew NgAI score15

    DeepLearning.AI launches course on adding voice to AI agents

    AIDeepLearning.AI has launched a course, taught by VocalBridge CEO Ashwyn, on adding voice to AI agents and applications. It covers building voice agents that are both reliable and fast, with three projects: a voice-interactive game, an agent that gains a voice in about 10 lines of code, and an agent that places outbound calls via a make_phone_call function.

    Video from @AndrewYNg's post

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  1. PromptArmor Threat IntelligenceAI score62

    PromptArmor shows Codex auto-review agent approved malware install via prompt injection

    AIPromptArmor demonstrated that OpenAI's Approve-for-me agent approved a malicious NPM install with elevated privileges after a hidden prompt injection in an external GitHub issue influenced the main Codex agent. The malicious package's post-install script then ran unsandboxed with the user's full privileges. The report also gives steps for organizations to disable agentic auto-review in Claude Code and Codex.

    Why it matters: The report shows a prompt-injected GitHub issue leading an approval agent to permit a malicious NPM install, a concrete test of agent-in-the-loop guardrails.

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