From the archiveNo. 19Published daily at 06:00 KST
This issueThis issue 147 stories · 10 outlets30 repos·9 papers
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147 stories · by sectionLLM
11 stories- Tencent releases Hy3 open-source model with 295B parametersThe Decoder
- Meituan releases LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter open MoE model with 1M contextMarkTechPost
- Anthropic launches Claude Science workbench and plans drug developmentThe Verge AI
- Sonnet 5 available today, Fable 5 launching tomorrowLatent Space
- xAI officially becomes SpaceXAI and integrates into SpaceXKorean outletAI Times
- GPT-4's year-long lead dwarfs today's seven-week model dominanceThe Decoder
- Sakana AI launches Sakana Translate, a Namazu-powered translation tool for Japanese, English, and ChineseMarkTechPost
- Baidu's Unlimited OCR processes dozens of document pages at onceThe Decoder
- Mistral AI raises funding as an open source AI competitor to OpenAITechCrunch
- OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna to trusted partnersLatent Space
- The Download: a startup has a solution for AI's groupthink problemMIT Tech Review
Agents
33 stories- JADEPUFFER is the first agentic ransomware operationFront pageThe Decoder
- OpenAI releases GPT-Realtime-2.1 and mini for voice agentsFront pageMarkTechPost
- AI agent conducted ransomware attack but required human directionTechCrunch
- ByteDance and Alibaba shut down AI persona services ahead of China regulationsKorean outletAI Times
- RepoAnt Group releases Napaxi, a mobile-native on-device AI agent SDKGitHub
- RepoReina: open-source desktop AI agent with multi-agent teams and Skills marketplaceGitHub
- RepoClaude Code orchestrates parallel Codex workers and Opus design agentsGitHub
- RepoBrain0, a transparency platform for AI-written codeGitHub
- LG AI Research and KOSCOM develop stock market prediction service with EXAONEKorean outletAI Times
- Zhipu AI launches ZCode to challenge Claude Code and CodexThe Decoder
- Meta AI tests scheduled tasks feature to evolve from chatbot to agentKorean outletAI Times
- Qwen's former lead explains why hybrid thinking failed and backs agentic approaches insteadMarkTechPost
- Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of softwareLatent Space
- Adobe experiments with agentic sites that assemble themselves for each visitorLatent Space
- Skill engineering and the case against one-shot AI designLatent Space
- Autoresearch: the feedback loop behind self-improving agentsLatent Space
- How Cursor deploys AI agents inside the enterpriseLatent Space
- OpenAI reports Codex usage surged 56x in research teams since November 2025Latent Space
- Databricks leaders argue frontier AI ecosystem must remain openLatent Space
- RepoNative iPhone app for Hermes agents now availableGitHub
- RepoVibe-Research brings personal AI stock research agent to multiple marketsGitHub
- RepoOpenCode agent delegates to 6 specialized subagents with adversarial verificationGitHub
- RepoUltraCodex runs Claude Code workflows unmodified on OpenAI Codex CLIGitHub
- Repoactivity-frames brings episodic memory to AI agents without cloud or LLMsGitHub
- RepoGolem: a Go-native AI programming agent CLIGitHub
- Repocontextrot analyzes where coding agents start degrading in your sessionsGitHub
- Reponeo is an open-source agent harness that scales small models for complex workGitHub
- Repomarket-fish, a multi-agent market prediction engineGitHub
- iOS 27 beta lets users customize Siri's pace and expressivityTechCrunch
- Claude Code ported 2003 strategy game to iOS in hoursThe Decoder
- LlamaIndex releases legal-kb, an agentic retrieval app with retrieve, find, read, and grep toolsMarkTechPost
- Zuckerberg tells Meta staff AI agents haven't progressed as hopedTechCrunch
- Meta launches Pocket, an AI app for generating mini gamesTechCrunch
Physical AI
4 stories- PaperGigaWorld-1 builds world models optimized for evaluating robot policiesFront pageHugging Face
- KAIST develops physical AI for transparent object recognition and action planningFront pageKorean outletAI Times
- PaperEVA-Client unifies deployment and data collection for robot manipulation policiesHugging Face
- Yeosu deploys 3D drone-based cadastral survey systemKorean outletAI Times
Open Source & Tools
24 stories- Tencent releases Hy3, a 295B open mixture-of-experts modelFront pageMarkTechPost
- RepoOpen Science offers open-source alternative to Claude Science for AI researchFront pageGitHub
- RepoCognitive-Core-Skills defines universal cognitive taxonomy for LLMs and AI agentsFront pageGitHub
- Nota provides model optimization for AWS Trainium chip deploymentsKorean outletAI Times
- Synthetic Sciences releases OpenScience, an open-source AI workbench for scientific researchMarkTechPost
- Training Gemma-3 for mathematical reasoning with GRPO, LoRA adapters, and GSM8K rewardsMarkTechPost
- Structured PDF-to-JSON: a guide to open-source extraction models in 2026MarkTechPost
- Google launches Home Speaker built for Gemini, but AI features unfinishedThe Verge AI
- Local AI is catching up across devices and infrastructureLatent Space
- RepoSynthetic Sciences releases OpenScience, an open-source AI workbench for researchGitHub
- RepoCSSwitch connects Claude Science to multiple LLM APIs with one clickGitHub
- RepoLearning notes on agent development from usable to reliable systemsGitHub
- RepoAwesome-ai-companion curates open-source projects for AI companion developmentGitHub
- RepoBike4Mind launches open-core AI workbench supporting multiple models and local inferenceGitHub
- RepoOpenCode plugin adds automatic API-key failover across multiple providersGitHub
- RepoContextCodeCache generatorGitHub
- RepoTalos GPU worker client for open-model inference on the Talos networkGitHub
- RepoOpen WebUI native PowerPoint generator from JSON specsGitHub
- Repo9router-v2: self-hosted AI gateway with multi-provider auto-failoverGitHub
- RepoFrontier, a prompt standardization tool for frontier model-level outputsGitHub
- RepoOkkMax, an independent verification platform for AI API relay providersGitHub
- RepoLLMViz, publication-quality LLM architecture visualization from config.jsonGitHub
- Reddit deploys LLMs to combat spam largely created by LLMsTechCrunch
- Meta advances harness engineering platformLatent Space
Research
15 stories- PaperPixWorld unifies 3D scene generation and reconstruction in pixel spaceFront pageHugging Face
- PaperMasked boundary modeling improves vision pretraining for spatial perceptionHugging Face
- PaperUI-MOPD enables continual learning for multi-platform GUI agentsHugging Face
- PaperResearchStudio-Reel automates research dissemination to posters, videos, and blogsHugging Face
- PaperOmniOpt benchmarks over 100 optimizer methods across model training regimesHugging Face
- PaperLLMs effectively convey illocutionary intent and sycophancy in online discussionsarXiv
- PaperACUTE protocol improves LLM calibration, utility, and trust via activation analysisarXiv
- Trillion Labs' gWorld world model accepted to ICML 2026 main trackKorean outletAI Times
- LLMs lose reasoning ability during emotionally complex conversations, French researchers findKorean outletAI Times
- AI and human agency at AIEWF: resistance to the software factory visionLatent Space
- The coolest diffusion research is in molecular AI, not LLMs, says Genesis foundersLatent Space
- Field guide to Fable, a significant model launchLatent Space
- Scaffold-split Random Forest QSAR model for EGFR inhibitor discoveryMarkTechPost
- Fanfiction communities launch campaign to detect AI-generated worksThe Verge AI
- The only AI glossary you'll need this yearTechCrunch
Industry & Policy
60 stories- Samsung Electronics reports Q2 operating profit of KRW 89.4 trillion, up 1810% year-over-yearFront pageKorean outletAI Times
- UN secretary-general calls for international ban on killer robotsFront pageKorean outletAI Times
- Microsoft cuts 4,800 jobs, 2.1% of workforce, amid Xbox reorganizationFront pageKorean outletAI Times
- Anthropic signs 20-year lease with bitcoin miner Terraflux for 401MW AI data centerKorean outletAI Times
- U.S. reviews import restrictions on Chinese inverters for grid securityKorean outletAI Times
- SK Group to conduct multibillion-dollar U.S. IPO this weekTechCrunch
- AI data center expansion drives scope 3 emissions up sharply at Google and AmazonKorean outletAI Times
- Microsoft lays off 4,800 employees, about 2.1 percent of workforceThe Verge AI
- Nvidia's Kyber NVL144 delayed to 2028 over circuit board problemsThe Decoder
- China forces shutdown of humanlike chatbot personas on major platformsThe Decoder
- Chinese quantitative funds powered by AI vastly outperform human tradersKorean outletAI Times
- Meta secretly tested rival AI chatbots using accounts posing as minorsKorean outletAI Times
- Anthropic discusses custom AI chip development with SamsungTechCrunch
- OpenAI proposes giving U.S. government 5 percent ownership stakeThe Verge AI
- Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 after export controls liftedThe Verge AI
- Even Realities reaches $1 billion valuation with $150 million fundingKorean outletAI Times
- MakinaRocks partners with AWS to expand defense AI capabilitiesKorean outletAI Times
- Nvidia denies reports that Kyber rack launch may slip to 2028Korean outletAI Times
- Germany uses voltage control to expand solar capacity without grid expansionKorean outletAI Times
- Germany's solar generation reaches record 43.2 TWh in first half of 2026Korean outletAI Times
- Cloudflare replaces blanket AI bot block with granular controlsThe Decoder
- Major tech layoffs in 2026 cite AI as a stated factorTechCrunch
- OpenAI's plan to share AI wealth with Americans gains attentionMIT Tech Review
- Google stores user media to train AI; here's how to opt outTechCrunch
- Microsoft lays off nearly 5,000 employees across Xbox and commercial salesTechCrunch
- Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing serviceThe Decoder
- U.S. college students skip internships for AI startup founding in San FranciscoKorean outletAI Times
- AI lowers startup barriers for entrepreneurs without business experience in the U.S.Korean outletAI Times
- Midjourney seeks to compel Hollywood studios to reveal their own AI usageTechCrunch
- Device preserves dead donor eyes for transplantationMIT Tech Review
- Teaching AI to run with the turbinesMIT Tech Review
- Why California's carbon manure math doesn't add upMIT Tech Review
- Warp CEO predicts every major software project will run on automated factoriesLatent Space
- RepoClaude Code can produce shorter replies to save output token spendGitHub
- Repoclaude-project-ops: battle-tested model dispatch rules for Sonnet and HaikuGitHub
- Naju checks flood-prevention facilities ahead of rainy seasonKorean outletAI Times
- Vercel CEO argues for splitting models from agents in production systemsTechCrunch
- Smart glasses and privacy concerns illustrated in Netflix's 'A Man on the Inside'The Verge AI
- Station F ramps up F/ai accelerator to support Europe's AI startupsTechCrunch
- Kmong launches dedicated AI adoption team with new leadershipKorean outletAI Times
- Wealthy Americans turning to AI tutors instead of traditional schoolsThe Verge AI
- Amazon to stop accepting new customers for Mechanical TurkTechCrunch
- Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude CodeTechCrunch
- Alternative browsers challenge Chrome and Safari dominanceTechCrunch
- Midjourney's medical scanner shown but proof of effectiveness remains sparseThe Verge AI
- UK's generational tobacco ban might not work. I'm supporting it anyway.MIT Tech Review
- AI Engineer World's Fair ends with loops debate and state of AI engineering reportLatent Space
- Jersey Mike's IPO shows extent of AI hype in corporate documentsTechCrunch
- Achieving operational excellence with AIMIT Tech Review
- AI Engineer World's Fair: loops, software factories, and forward-deployed engineersLatent Space
- Product engineers and forward-deployed engineers are convergingLatent Space
- Gwangyang nature park launches summer forest education programsKorean outletAI Times
- Suncheon's official blog selected as Naver Mate domestic travel channelKorean outletAI Times
- Mokpo Children's Library launches picture-book creation programKorean outletAI Times
- South Korean chip workers attract marriage market attentionMIT Tech Review
- South Korean chip workers become popular matches in marriage marketMIT Tech Review
- Google's new Workspace ad imagines founding fathers using AIThe Verge AI
- The Download: a smoking 'endgame' and a new Elizabeth Bear storyMIT Tech Review
- No significant AI news todayLatent Space
- Quiet day in AI newsLatent Space