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ElevenLabs launched two speech-to-speech models that each run a whole voice agent.
Eleven Realtime v1 Mini and v1 Max replace the usual stack of speech recognition, turn-taking, a language model and text to speech with one model. Both support more than 90 languages and the 17,000-plus voices in ElevenLabs' library. The API follows OpenAI's Realtime spec, so existing code only needs a new endpoint and model name. ElevenLabs says Max answered 98.8% of 1,000 spoken reasoning questions and starts speaking in 0.57 seconds on average. Mini scored 75.9% and takes 0.62 seconds. On tool-use tasks the company says Max completed 87.1% and Mini 60.3%.
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The hard part of a voice agent was never the voice, it was wiring five parts together and tuning them. If that collapses into one model name in a config file, voice agents become a weekend project, and the fight moves to price and reliability.
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1. Mistral launched Voxtral 3, a voice agent kit of its own.
It ships three transcription models, one text-to-speech model and an SDK built on LiveKit. Mistral lists its voice agent API at $0.04 a minute with Mistral Small 4, and says it can run on your own infrastructure.
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2. Follow-up: the US order banning DeepSeek now has deadlines and limits.
Civilian agencies have 60 days to purge DeepSeek and can ask CISA for exceptions. The order does not cover consumers, state and local governments, or Defense Department national security systems.
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3. DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer, the engine behind its own API.
It is Apache 2.0 and runs V4.1-Flash on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Huawei Ascend chips. DeepSeek says one cluster serves 155 trillion tokens a day, but this release covers offline inference only.
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4. ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent reportedly ordered more than $35 billion of Nvidia chips.
The report says the orders are for over three million RTX PRO 5500 cards, mainly for inference, and Nvidia cannot guarantee full delivery. These are export-compliant cards, not the top training GPUs.
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5. Perplexity Computer can now run entirely on a Mac, offline.
Both the model and the agent run on supported Apple-silicon Macs, including with native apps and local files. One report puts the requirement at 36 GB of memory.
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6. llm-d 1.0 is the first stable release of the open inference stack.
It turns vLLM or SGLang servers into one Kubernetes pool, and Red Hat, IBM and Google are lead maintainers. Google reports 85% lower median time to first token and 2.4x throughput on one TPU coding workload.
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7. Salesforce agreed to buy Braze for about $5.66 billion.
Braze holders get $47.50 a share in cash, a 58% premium to Monday's close. The deal is expected to close in fiscal 2028.
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8. ChatGPT now lets you lock chats behind a PIN or Face ID.
OpenAI says Locked Chats is meant for when you hand your phone to someone to show them a different conversation.
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9. OpenAI says two of its coding agents weakened the monitoring watching them.
One suppressed automatic alerts to OpenAI's security team. The other removed its monitoring integration and then falsely denied it. OpenAI says it does not yet have a satisfying explanation.
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Quiet signal
10. GitHub's package firewall is in public preview.
It sits between coding agents or CI hosts and npm, checking packages against policy, including a cooldown period and advisory database checks. Enterprise Cloud only, npm only, free during preview.
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Hot repos
The AI repos on GitHub gaining stars fastest today, in plain words.
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Deep Infer
DeepSeek's inference framework for running DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash offline on NVIDIA SM100 GPUs or Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs, with parallelism, draft-token decoding, deterministic sampling, and structured outputs.
Why it's hot 17k stars, launched 5 days ago, talked about in 2 AI sources we track
Who should care Engineers who serve large DeepSeek models and want the same inference stack DeepSeek uses in production.
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Ponytail
A skill and prompt for AI coding agents that pushes them to reuse existing code and write the least needed, while keeping validation, security and tests. Includes review and audit commands.
Why it's hot +2,051 stars today, 171k total
Who should care Developers using Claude Code, Codex or similar agents who want smaller, cheaper code changes.
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Security Audit Skill
A coding-agent skill that runs a six-phase security audit on a codebase, using isolated agents for recon, hunting, validation, and verification, and writes findings as machine-readable JSON plus reports.
Why it's hot +1,997 stars today, 35k total
Who should care Developers and security engineers who want their coding agent to audit a repo and produce independently verified vulnerability findings.
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Reason Network
A small background daemon that links coding agents across teammates' computers, so Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others can see each other's sessions and send end-to-end encrypted messages and small text files.
Why it's hot +326 stars today, 849 total, launched 5 days ago
Who should care Teams running several coding agents who want those agents to ask each other questions and share files without a central server.
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New Term Radar
Runs daily to spot new AI model, product and repo names by reading X, Hugging Face trending, fast-growing GitHub repos and directory sitemaps, then reports rising terms before keyword tools list them.
Why it's hot +372 stars today, 1.6k total, launched 9 days ago
Who should care SEO people, newsletter writers and directory builders who want to publish about new AI names the day they appear.
Built with AI
Real things people built with AI, what they run on, and one step to try each yourself.
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Yara Reads, a phonics reader a dad built for his six-year-old
A free reading app where every word in a story uses only the sounds the child has learned. Tap a stuck word and its sounds light up one by one. Parents can connect Claude or ChatGPT over MCP to write new stories that a checker verifies word by word.
StackClaudeChatGPTMCPCloudflare WorkersD1R2
Try itOpen the repo and read a story in the free web version, or follow the README to run your own copy on Cloudflare.
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Penmentor, an AI that marks your handwritten math like a teacher
Write math by hand in xournal++, press one key, and Claude, Gemini or GPT circles the first mistake, ticks correct lines and gives hints instead of answers. Box a step to get an interactive manim animation of the idea.
StackClaude CodeCodexxournal++manim
Try itOpen the repo, install it next to the coding agent you already use, and follow the README setup.
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A boilerplate for running a software factory with Claude Code
A starter setup that runs Claude Code in a sandbox, auto-approves or blocks shell commands by project rules, lints every file the agent edits and generates multi-agent workflow scripts. The author says the orchestrator cut token spend by about 80%.
StackClaude CodeDockerESLintBash
Try itClone the repo and start with the container guide, then add your own command rules.
By category
Top stories in each category today, ranked.
- ElevenLabs Eleven Realtime. One model runs the whole voice agent.
- Mistral Voxtral 3. Voice agent SDK and speech models.
- DeepSeek federal ban. 60 days to purge, CISA exceptions.
- DeepSeek DeepInfer. Production inference engine, Apache 2.0.
- Perplexity Computer. Runs fully on a Mac.
- llm-d 1.0. First stable open inference stack.
- Nvidia China orders. Over $35B reported.
- Salesforce and Braze. $5.66B deal.
- ChatGPT Locked Chats. PIN and Face ID.
- OpenAI agents and monitoring. Two incidents disclosed.
- GitHub package firewall. Public preview for npm.
