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Washington waited for DeepSeek to become good before acting. Cheap and capable is what turns a model from a curiosity into a procurement problem, and this is the first sign the policy response is now tracking model releases within days.

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   Chips & InfrastructureEveryone covered this

   1. Amazon launched TorchNeuron.

   An open-source layer that runs PyTorch code on Amazon's Trainium chips with no rewriting, in public beta. It goes after Nvidia's real moat, which is software.

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   Funding & BusinessEveryone covered this

   2. Tenstorrent raised $1.5 billion at a $6.2 billion valuation.

   The Nvidia challenger took the money to stay independent after acquisition interest earlier this year.

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   Model ReleaseEveryone covered this

   3. MiniMax released M3.1 Flash.

   $0.15 per million input tokens for a large mixture-of-experts agent model. It also confirmed the stealth model Space Bunny was an early build.

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   People & CultureEveryone covered this

   4. Anthropic says junior hires fell from 27% to 9% of its technical hires.

   Its own workforce study also says staff agents logged far more hours than the people running them.

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   Funding & BusinessWidely covered

   5. Anthropic will put 5% of its equity into a public benefit fund.

   More could follow as its valuation grows, and the fund is meant to address AI job disruption. Stockholders still need to approve.

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   Safety & SecurityWidely covered

   6. Microsoft added Guardian Agents to Project Perception.

   Agents are now treated as potential insiders, supervised continuously, with per-agent permission controls.

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   Product LaunchWidely covered

   7. World launched World ID for banks.

   A way for banks to verify that a human, or an authorized AI agent, is on the other end.

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   Funding & BusinessWidely covered

   8. Replit made OpenAI its default provider over Anthropic.

   Claude stays selectable for users, so this is about cost and partnership.

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   Quiet signal

   Policy & LawAlmost nobody caught this

   9. China added 40 technologies, including large AI models, to its export ban and restriction list.

   The ban on DeepSeek and Beijing's own export curbs now point the same direction: AI is being treated like a strategic export.

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Repo Radar

The AI repos on GitHub gaining stars fastest today, in plain words.

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   google-research/harness2

   A framework that lets an AI agent keep improving its own setup (prompts, tools, memory, skills) while the model itself stays unchanged.

   Why it's hot +8,361 stars today, 11k total, launched 13 days ago, talked about in 3 AI sources we track

   Who should care Researchers and teams building agents who want measurable gains without retraining anything.

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   feder-cr/git-ai

   Version control built for coding agents instead of humans, so many agents can work on one codebase without stepping on each other.

   Why it's hot +1,271 stars today, 2.4k total, launched 4 days ago

   Who should care Teams running several coding agents at once.

3. 3

   stablyai/orca

   A desktop and mobile app to run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and other coding agents side by side, each in its own workspace, on your own subscriptions.

   Why it's hot +2,104 stars today, 98k total, picked up by one AI source we track

   Who should care Developers juggling more than one coding agent.

4. 4

   Leonxlnx/earshot

   Gives coding agents ears: they can listen to audio, review it and generate sound. Runs on a plain CPU and is open source.

   Why it's hot +711 stars today, 1.4k total, launched 4 days ago

   Who should care Developers building video, game or audio projects with an agent.

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   heygen-com/hyperframes

   Write ordinary HTML and get a rendered video out. Built so agents can make videos without a video model.

   Why it's hot +1,225 stars today, 68k total

   Who should care Marketers and developers who want automated, repeatable video.

Built with AI

Real things people built with AI, what they run on, and one step to try each yourself.

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   WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare

   Lets Claude on your phone read your WhatsApp messages, hosted free on Cloudflare with no always-on server.

   StackClaudeMCPWhatsAppCloudflare

   Try itClone the repo and follow the quickstart in its README.

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   Kapitsa, a local model engine for Apple Silicon

   An open-source Metal engine tuned for Qwen and Nemotron, with benchmarks on M1 Pro, M4 Pro and M5 Max Macs.

   StackMetalQwenNemotronApple Silicon

   Try itOpen the project page and compare the benchmark for your Mac's memory size.

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   A keyword rank tracker for App Store and Google Play

   An indie developer's tool that shows which keywords your apps actually rank for.

   StackPythonFastAPISQLite

   Try itOpen the tracker and check one of your own apps.

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