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Daily Edition · Page 3

THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

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CHARACTER.AI EXPLORES SALE OR NEW FUNDING AMID RISING COSTS

Character.AI has been holding discussions with possible buyers, banks, and staff over the past few weeks about raising a few hundred million dollars at a valuation of more than $1 billion. The startup's founders left the company last September to join Google, leaving employees to take over ownership. If sold, the buyer would get Character.AI's app and website, which hosts chatbots that resemble anime characters, celebrities, and historical figures. Character.AI makes most of its revenue by charging for premium features with its chatbots. It expects to reach $50 million in annualized revenue by the end of the year.

pymnts.com · 4 min

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CHEAP RL TASKS WILL WASTE COMPUTE

AI labs will soon favor quality over quantity when procuring RL environments and spend a surprisingly large amount of money on procurement per RL task. Procuring RL tasks cheaply results in lower quality training runs, and the compute cost per RL run soon becomes very high. AI labs will increasingly move away from training on procedurally generated RL tasks and tasks produced cheaply by massive numbers of low-paid contractors toward a more labor-intensive build process that relies on full-time domain experts who spend months developing sustained context and crafting individualized tasks. The winners will be those who deliver the highest-quality, context-rich tasks, ship them rapidly, and price them efficiently given compute tasks.

mechanize.work · 5 min

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BEST PRACTICES FOR BUILDING AGENTIC AI SYSTEMS: WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS IN PRODUCTION

UserJot's founder argues for a strict two-tier architecture with stateless subagents that act as pure functions: no memory, no conversation history, just task-in-result-out. MapReduce patterns handle large-scale work through parallel execution, which keeps individual agent tasks under 30 seconds and prevents the debugging nightmares that plague complex hierarchies and shared state systems.

userjot.com · 10 min

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SCRIPT TYPE="TEXT/LLMS.TXT"

Most systems rely on external documentation or pre-configured knowledge to instruct AI agents when they hit protected pages, but it would be simpler to have the instructions right there in the HTML response. llms.txt is an emerging standard for making content such as docs available for direct consumption by agents. This post proposes a convention to include such content directly in HTML responses. It is designed to fit right in with llms.txt, which has found adoption for publishing LLM-targeted content in a discoverable fashion on the web.

vercel.com · 3 min

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TIKTOK PARENT COMPANY BYTEDANCE RELEASES NEW OPEN SOURCE SEED-OSS-36B MODEL WITH 512K TOKEN CONTEXT

ByteDance's Seed Team of AI researchers today released Seed-OSS-36B on Hugging Face. Seed-OSS-36B is a new line of open source, large language models designed for advanced reasoning with both synthetic- and non-synthetic-data variants and an instruct model. The synthetic-data variant is intended as a higher-performing general-purpose option, while the non-synthetic model avoids potential bias or distortion introduced by synthetic instruction data. The instruct model is post-trained with instruction data to prioritize task execution and instruction following. The models were released under the Apache-2.0 license, which allows free use, modification, and redistribution by researchers and developers working for enterprises.

links.tldrnewsletter.com · 11 min

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