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Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Anthropic submits confidential draft S-1, opening door to IPO
The AI company says SEC review still has to finish before it decides whether to pursue a public listing.
- Shafiq Joty's team proposes Procedural Memory Distillation for less forgetful LLM training
PMD is presented as a training-time method that stores lessons from prior model attempts, then uses them to teach the next policy.
- Tripo's VAST previews Project Eden, a bid for persistent AI worlds
Rather than treating world models as video generators, VAST says Eden separates durable state from rendering so objects, actions and multiplayer views can persist over time.
- NVIDIA Is Assembling the Operating System for Robots
The Agent Toolkit collection turns robotics, AV, vision AI and industrial digital twin workflows into agent-executable tasks, with early use from TSMC, Pegatron, Siemens and more.
- NVIDIA unveils Vera, a CPU for agents claiming 80% faster task completion vs x86
Vera extends NVIDIA's AI platform from GPU to CPU and will ship in standalone servers, Vera Rubin systems, and Vera BlueField-4 STX AI storage platforms, per the company.
- NVIDIA Unveils Nemotron 3 Ultra, Targets the Next Wave of AI Agents
Jensen Huang used his Taipei keynote to position NVIDIA as a full-stack AI platform, installing Nemotron 3 Ultra atop its open model family with a latent MoE trained in NVFP4 and a claimed 5x throughput uplift.
- Pixio AI shares fresh look at its creative tools, signaling ongoing development
In a post on X, the AI creative platform showed work-in-progress tooling aimed at professionals in visual production workflows.
- YC alum-led Tesana shows a 2-day, 39-prompt AI-built game prototype
The Los Angeles startup posted a vibe-first prototyping clip on X; it says it used muranyi-3 and roughly $90 in tokens. Engine and funding remain undisclosed.
- MiniMax unveils M3, an open-weights model touting coding-agentic gains and 1M context
In a thread on X, MiniMax cites 59.0% on SWE-Bench Pro and a new sparse attention scheme that scales context to 1M, with an API promo rolling out this week.
- Agent Cookie Lets AI Agents Stay Logged In Across Your Apps
Open-source, peer-to-peer cookie and token sync pairs two Macs so agents like OpenClaw and Hermes can stay authenticated for carts, orders, and API calls.
- Insane Mario-like demo game shows the power of Opus 4.8
In a 4-post thread, Nakajima shared a demo labeled Opus 4.8 and said he will run an AI security session for non-engineers, calling out Claude Code users.
- Artisan CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack says KC Green dispute is settled, pulls Ava ads using 'This is fine'
Artisan took down New York and San Francisco ads that riffed on KC Green’s meme; Green says the settlement came together quickly, per TechCrunch, with terms undisclosed.
- NousResearch says it's a big week for Hermes Agent; X takes notice
A one-line tease on X pulled in 850 likes and 61 replies with no technical details.
- Apify hosts biggest SF AI hackathon for 180 builders; 80+ spots already claimed
The event centers on AI automation and web scraping projects built on Apify's platform; capacity is 180 with 80+ registrations already claimed, per Apify's post on X.
- Bankr hackathon coming after Base MCP launch
A post on X says the upcoming Bankr event will focus on agent-powered swaps and trading on Base, positioning builders to tap Coinbase’s L2 for distribution.
- Hermes Agent claims No. 1 on OpenRouter as agents crowd weekly AI usage board
OpenRouter's opt-in usage data puts Hermes Agent at No. 1; OpenClaw, Kilo Code, Descript, pi, Janitor AI, GitLawb, ISEKAI ZERO, and Cline round out the week's most-used tools.
- xAI’s Grok-Imagine-Video-1.5-Preview hits #1 on Arena.ai’s image-to-video leaderboard
Arena.ai reports a +52 point jump over the prior Grok-Imagine-Video (720p), edging past Seedance-2.0 and HappyHorse on its image-to-video leaderboard.
- Ruflo plugs multi-agent orchestration into Claude Code, claims 100+ specialized agents and shared memory
Posted on X, Ruflo is presented as a GitHub repo that runs multi-agent workflows inside Anthropic's Claude Code, with task results feeding a shared, self-learning SOP layer.
- Nature Biotechnology paper introduces MOLEA, a single-pass AI for multi-objective drug design
MOLEA reports simultaneous optimization of potency, selectivity, and safety in one go, challenging the usual one-property-at-a-time workflows in AI-assisted drug design.
- Addy Osmani packages Claude Code agent skills into slash commands that mirror the dev cycle
A post says the kit wraps senior-engineer patterns into slash commands like /spec, /plan, /build, /test, /review, /ship; it claims seven commands but lists six.
- Mystery company allegedly spent $500 million on Claude in one month after leaving license usage uncapped
Tom's Hardware, citing Axios, says an unnamed enterprise forgot to set usage limits on employee Claude licenses, amplifying worries that corporate AI spend is outpacing returns.
- Caelan Garrett to present ScheduleStream, a GPU-driven multi-arm planner, at ICRA 2026 in Vienna
The researcher says ScheduleStream tackles multi-arm task-and-motion planning on GPUs; the announcement surfaced via an X post amplified by Bowen Li.
- Xiaoxuan Ma shares REST3D, aiming for physically stable, visually consistent 3D from a single photo
In a post on X amplified by Bowen Li, the REST3D project teases single-image 3D scene reconstruction; no paper or code link was provided in the announcement.
- Liquid AI ships LFM2.5-8B-A1B, an 8B on-device MoE trained on 38T tokens
The on-device 8B MoE adds a 128K context, 128K vocab, and scaled pretraining to improve tool-calling on laptops, with base and post-trained weights on Hugging Face.