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AIDeveloper Brandon Thomas's Artcraft has launched seven open source apps in Rust that aim to replicate the interfaces and tools of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign, and Acrobat Pro. Thomas said he used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 to build the clean-room replacements, with WebAssembly versions available for browser use. The apps remain in a "super early alpha" state, and commenters have pointed out many current shortcomings.

AIOpenAI says ChatGPT now offers Intelligent UI, which returns answers with fully interactive user interfaces. GPT-6 is rolling out in ChatGPT, powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers. The rollout begins globally today in the Chat tab for paid tiers, with Free and Go tiers following tomorrow.

AIA Highwire survey of 1,034 corporate employees found 78% of managers used AI to help draft, edit, summarize, or inform performance reviews in the past year. Fifty-four percent of employees said feedback became more specific and actionable, while 34% found it more generic and 32% said it was less useful. Nearly one in four employees rehearse difficult workplace conversations with an AI tool, according to the survey.

AIThe post says users can ask the Grok bot to find all feedback about what they are building, summarize it, and propose a plan to address it, without needing an X account or connector. The background post notes that Grok Bot can now search, read, and monitor X.

AIGrok can be asked to track feedback on a product, follow a breaking story, or send a weekly roundup of an industry. The post says the feature is available to all users and does not require setting up the X connector.

AIfal invites users to try the MiniMax H3-Max relight model through a link to its model page. The post provides no details on features, pricing, or performance.

AIMark Chen recommends trying Intelligent UI, a ChatGPT feature where every completion can create a custom interface. He calls it useful for learning new things. The quoted OpenAI post says GPT-6 and Intelligent UI are rolling out in ChatGPT for everyone, providing interactive answers and on-the-spot tools.

AINoam Brown says LLMs have crossed a threshold by surpassing top human experts on some research problems, a jump that makes the recent surge in math results feel sudden. He expects breakthroughs in other domains to follow as models keep improving, though capabilities remain jagged and often still weaker than humans.

AICognition's X post links to a blog post at devin.ai about Claude Haiku 5.5, but the text provides no further details. The post itself offers no benchmark scores, prices, or capabilities to report.

AICognition, the company behind Devin, shared a link inviting readers to try the product at The post provides no further details on features, pricing, or availability.

AIMiles Brundage writes that he is starting to think building something smarter than humans has implications beyond the B2B SaaS market. The post is brief and offers no specific figures, products, or timelines.

AISchneider Electric will acquire industrial design and data management firm PTC Inc. for about $22.6 billion, aiming to connect product design with operations through a digital thread. Interact Analysis says the deal could narrow Schneider's portfolio gap with Siemens, but integration with AVEVA and Cognite and the 42.3% premium weighed on Schneider's shares after the announcement.

AIVercel says Browserbase Search and Fetch tools are now available on AI Gateway, letting any model with tool calling search the web and read pages. Browserbase presents the tools as a way to reliably search and extract page contents through an existing Vercel plan.

AIPerplexity's open-weights multimodal decision model, pplx-decider-v1.1-27b, is now available on OpenRouter. It accepts text, JSON, or images and returns typed answers with probabilities, priced at $0.02 per million input tokens with free output.

AITogether AI, IBM, and Nvidia are scaling open-source inference on a dedicated B300 cluster hosted on IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud GM Alan Peacock argues that spending on tokens is worthwhile when the business benefits from them.

AISnorkel AI is expanding its Open Benchmarks Grants tenfold to a $30M commitment to fund more diverse, robust, and continuously updated open AI benchmarks. The program adds an Open Benchmarks Red Team to test and strengthen those benchmarks, plus a Snorkel Research Fellowship for independent researchers developing new evaluation methods. The source says OBG-funded benchmarks have appeared on model cards from every major frontier lab.

AIPresident Trump announced a White House-led "Super Intelligence Force" that will spend 120 days examining AI risks and federal responses, and signed an executive order directing agencies to use "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "Artificial Intelligence" and "AI." The order asks officials to develop a possible new federal definition within 60 days, but the source says the change is linguistic rather than architectural. Critics quoted in the article argue that renaming does not change the technology itself.

AIEthan Mollick had early access to Intelligent UI and found it a welcome change from long blocks of text. He suggests interfaces will increasingly be built on demand for each user's problem. The quoted OpenAI post says GPT-6 and Intelligent UI are rolling out in ChatGPT for everyone, delivering fast, interactive answers with visual explanations and task tools.

AISimon Willison published notes on the pricing of Claude Haiku 5.5, alongside his pelican illustration tests. The post links to his full write-up for details.

AIPerplexity's open-weights multimodal decision model, Decider v1.1, is now available on OpenRouter. It accepts text, JSON, or images and returns typed answers with probabilities, priced at $0.02 per million input tokens with free output. Perplexity says it scores highest on Hugging Face's new Decision Index 0.3 benchmark and costs half as much as v1.

AIAnthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, priced at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens up to 100,000 tokens, matching GPT-6 Luna. Beyond 100,000 tokens the price rises to $0.50 and $2.50, and the author found the new tokenizer uses about 1.25x as many tokens as Haiku 4.5 on the same long prompt. The model cannot disable reasoning and defaults to medium effort.

AIEnvato has launched Burst Mode, which starts from a rough idea or reference image and generates up to six image directions side by side. Users can steer those directions with moodboards and a creativity control ranging from focused to wild. Envato says it can produce up to six directions at once, up to 10× faster, for one AI credit.

AITogether with DeepSeek's model and kernels and NVIDIA's collaboration, vLLM reports that time to first token (TTFT) drops nearly 70% at roughly 100K throughput. The post credits Inferact and the vLLM community for the work and thanks SemiAnalysis for AgentX.

AIvLLM has integrated DeepSeek's MegaAttention, which uses NVFP4 KV cache and is 45% smaller, alongside Mega-mHC, Mega-Gate, and DeepSelect kernels. Its own fusions include a CuTe-DSL fused WO-A that lowers ITL by up to about 6–7%, and sparse MQA logits that run 14–23× faster per layer at 512K context.

AIvLLM's bounded sliding-window attention (SWA) replay reruns only each request's last 128 tokens after a prefix hit, instead of replaying 40 × 128 tokens. With CUDA graphs, prefill compute drops 30–40% for layers 21–39.