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NEMOTRON 3.5 LIGHTNING

NVIDIA introduced Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, an open 30B mixture-of-experts model with 3B active parameters designed for low-latency, high-volume tasks inside long-running AI agents.

huggingface.co · 12 min

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GOOGLE'S NEW AI BOSS INHERITS A RACE TO CATCH OPENAI AND ANTHROPIC

Koray Kavukcuoglu is becoming head of Google DeepMind. He will report directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai and oversee Gemini model development, frontier AI research, and the Gemini app and developer teams. Kavukcuoglu was previously DeepMind's CTO and Google's chief AI architect. The promotion shows that Google is prioritizing execution over deep research.

cnbc.com · 8 min

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THE MODEL PICKER IS A DEAD END

The model picker in AI products assumes one model can handle all tasks optimally, which is flawed. Lovable focuses on model independence, aligning specific models with suitable tasks and adapting as models improve. The control plane monitors builds, switching models to optimize performance, and even incorporates Lovable's self-trained models when they outperform external ones.

lovable.dev · 9 min

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WHERE AN AI WATERMARK CAN HIDE IN PLAIN TEXT

It's possible to hide watermarks in model weights.

danielmiessler.com · 5 min

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RD-SIGNAL-2: FRONTIER CLASSIFICATION AT PRODUCTION SCALE

Raindrop launches Signals 2.0, offering task-specific binary classifiers with the rd-signal-2 model, matching near GPT-5.6 accuracy at a fraction of the cost.

raindrop.ai · 7 min

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MANUS UNACQUIRED

Some users will need to back up and restore their data as Manus resumes operations as an independent company.

geopolitechs.org · 5 min

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Code sessions, 103 tasks, and 3 models. SEE THE RESULTS.

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pointfive.co

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INTRODUCING GROK BOT

Grok Bot gives each agent its own cloud computer, memory, and access to apps and websites, letting teams delegate multi-step work that continues autonomously.

x.ai · 6 min

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IMPORT FROM ANOTHER AGENT

The ChatGPT desktop app and Codex CLI now support importing settings, skills, plugins, and projects from another agent.

learn.chatgpt.com · 3 min