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  1. Hugging Face BlogOfficialAI score66

    How one developer built six custom models with ML-Intern for about USD 103

    AIA Hugging Face blog author used the ML-Intern agent in HuggingChat to build six small models by writing detailed prompts that specify datasets, base models, baselines, smoke tests, and spending limits. The projects include a citrus disease vision-language model, a Huggy character LoRA, a camera-angle LoRA, a doodle-to-object LoRA, a 0.8B prompt rewriter, and a 4-step distilled Agate model, with total compute cost of about USD 103. Each project's prompts and public models are linked from the post.

    Why it matters: The author shows how prompt structure, baselines, smoke tests, and budget caps shape an agent-driven training workflow, with per-project costs given.

  2. catXAI score14

    Cat Wu shares using Claude to find top feature users for feedback

    AICat Wu, who works at Anthropic, says a favorite product manager use case for Claude is asking who used a given feature most last week. She suggests having Claude build an artifact of the top 10 users by usage, then reaching out to schedule 15-minute chats, which she calls the fastest way to get user feedback.

    Image from @_catwu's post
  3. Teknium 🪽XAI score28

    Teknium posts a "hello" greeting on X

    AITeknium, a Nous Research affiliate, posted only the word "hello" on X. The quoted post from Nous Research announces a Series B raise to advance Hermes Agent and build a mobile app, with investors including NVIDIA and Samsung Next.

  4. Guillermo RauchXAI score18

    Hardening and optimizing code never ends; know when to stop

    AIGuillermo Rauch argues that any program can be hardened and optimized almost endlessly, which the engineering community will rediscover. He notes that these efforts carry real costs in time, attention, and opportunity, and that agents will keep drilling without knowing when to stop.

  5. IThome · AINewsAI score72

    Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, cutting run costs about 75% from Haiku 4.5

    AIAnthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, which it calls the fastest, cheapest, and most capable Haiku model so far. On average it costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, with input at $0.10 and output at $0.50 per million tokens for requests up to 100,000 tokens. Anthropic also cut Sonnet 5.5's cache read price from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens, which it says lowers run costs by about 20% on many agent tasks.

    This story has a top pick“Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, scoring 43 on the Intelligence Index”

  6. DatabricksOfficialAI score36

    Claude Haiku 5.5 launches on Databricks as a Day 0 release

    AIAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 is available on Databricks from day zero, which Databricks calls its cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model. On Databricks' OfficeQA Pro V1 benchmark, it delivers about 15% higher quality than Haiku 4.5 at a fraction of the cost. Users can run it alongside 60+ other models on data already in Databricks, with Unity Gateway handling governance, monitoring, and security.

    Video from @databricks's post
  7. eric zakariassonXAI score20

    Grok Bot can search X feedback and propose plans, no connector needed

    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.

  8. CognitionOfficialAI score26

    Cognition shares a blog post on Claude Haiku 5.5

    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.

  9. Vercel DevelopersOfficialAI score34

    Vercel AI Gateway adds Browserbase search and fetch tools

    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.

  10. 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalogXAI score34

    Microsoft brings hybrid local-cloud intelligence to Copilot for Windows

    AIMicrosoft is adding hybrid intelligence to Copilot for Windows, letting it use local PC context and local models for tasks. Per Satya Nadella's quoted post, Windows will route each task to local or cloud models, and Copilot will act on the user's behalf only with permission.

    Video from @testingcatalog's post
  11. MarkTechPostNewsAI score67

    Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, a small model with 1M context

    AIAnthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100K tokens. It keeps a 1M token context window, up to 128K output tokens, and is generally available on the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud, Microsoft Foundry and Claude Platform on AWS. Anthropic reports 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 (offline subset) versus 15.7% for Haiku 4.5, and the article notes that non-default temperature, top_p or top_k values return a 400 error.

  12. Amjad MasadXAI score40

    Replit building desktop app with Microsoft and Nvidia OpenShell

    AIReplit is building a powerful desktop app with a focus on security and reliability, citing supply-chain attacks and catastrophic agent mistakes as risks of desktop AI apps. The company is partnering with Microsoft and will be an early adopter of Nvidia's OpenShell. A quoted Replit post says the desktop preview runs builds locally on Windows, with each build in its own sandbox powered by Microsoft Execution Containers and OpenShell, and offers a waitlist.

  13. ClaudeDevsOfficialAI score43

    Anthropic adds computer and browser use toolsets to Claude SDKs

    AIAnthropic's Python and TypeScript SDKs now include built-in computer use and browser use toolsets for Claude. The SDKs run the agent loop and send actions to drivers, replacing the custom loop developers previously had to write to map clicks and keystrokes to commands.

    Video from @ClaudeDevs's post
  14. Satya NadellaXAI score38

    Microsoft brings Hybrid Intelligence to Copilot on Windows

    AIMicrosoft is upgrading Copilot on Windows with Hybrid Intelligence, which lets it use context from the user's PC, take actions on the user's behalf, and run local models when appropriate. With the user's permission, the feature aims to add capability while stretching token usage further.

    Video from @satyanadella's post
  15. Replit ⠕OfficialAI score34

    Replit to build and run apps locally on Windows in sandboxes

    AIReplit says it builds and runs apps locally on Windows, with each build executing in its own sandbox powered by Microsoft Execution Containers and Nvidia OpenShell. The announcement was made on stage alongside Microsoft's Pavan Davuluri at 16:29.

    Image from @Replit's post
  16. KushXAI score23

    Fluffles open-sourced as a lesson on stateful server-based agents

    AIDeveloper team open-sources fluffles-os on GitHub, presenting it as a hard lesson rather than the product at puffle.ai. The post says stateful server-hosted agents like Hermes proved unworkable, and the team's earlier fluffles agent, built as a near-unrestricted "god agent" on a Mac mini, was painful to harness because failure modes were unbounded. The team says it later ported to Eve, which let them focus on agent behavior instead of integration scaffolding, and plans a launch this week.

    Image from @kushbhuwalka's post
  17. GitHubOfficialAI score57

    GitHub Copilot local sandboxing becomes generally available

    AILocal sandboxing for GitHub Copilot is now generally available. It lets Copilot run commands in an isolated environment with controlled access to files, networks, system capabilities, and credentials. Enterprise teams can also centrally manage policies, and the feature is available in GitHub Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and @code.

  18. OpenAI DevelopersOfficialAI score18

    OpenAI Developers showcases a chaotic bar-management game built with Codex

    AIOpenAI Developers highlighted a neighborhood bar simulation game built by @lizziepika, in which players run a COVID-conscious lesbian bar in western Massachusetts through a chaotic Saturday shift. The game was built with OpenAI's tools for a modretro chromatic game jam, and the developer shared her agent sessions via Entire.

  19. laurenXAI score42

    Lauren Tan proposes "time to rewrite" as a heuristic for agent-readiness

    AILauren Tan (@poteto) proposes "time to (fully automated, hands-off) rewrite" (TTR) as a rough thought-experiment heuristic for how well a codebase is set up for agents. She suggests asking how long a single engineer would need to rewrite the code in another language, framework, or architecture, since the answer surfaces gaps like missing verification that agents can use to confirm user-visible behavior matches. The post also raises questions about whether a rewrite would improve, maintain, or regress performance and maintainability over time.

  20. Alex AlbertXAI score39

    Claude Haiku 5.5 is faster and 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5

    AIAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 is much faster and 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, which launched October 15, 2025, less than a year earlier. Anthropic describes it as a significant step up over Haiku 4.5 across coding, computer use, and knowledge work.

  21. Google ResearchOfficialAI score10

    Google Research to demo EnvHarness for adaptive LLM agent training

    AIGoogle Research is presenting EnvHarness at the #COLM2026 Google booth (#107) at 2:00 PM today, with Zifeng Wang leading the session. EnvHarness is a plug-in architecture that dynamically reshapes environment behaviors to improve reinforcement learning and agent adaptability, addressing limits of static training setups for LLM agents.

    Image from @GoogleResearch's post
  22. Harrison ChaseXAI score27

    deepagents now dynamically loads tools when skills are loaded

    AILangChain's deepagents now supports dynamically loading tools when a skill is loaded, so skills requiring specific tools no longer need those tools always available. With OpenAI and Anthropic models, this can be done without breaking the prompt cache.