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Two model drops: Thinking Machines Inkling 2 Small, and Tencent Hy4 open source
Thinking Machines launched Inkling 2 Small for fine-tuning on Tinker with full weights soon, and Tencent launched Hy4 as a leading open-source model.
What they showed / shipped
- Thinking Machines introduced Inkling 2 Small, scoring 31 on the AA Intelligence Index, available for fine-tuning and inference on Tinker today, with a full weight release planned soon (@thinkymachines).
- Tencent launched Hy4 and is pitching it as joining the ranks of leading open-source AI models (Tencent, HN).
- 📌 On the radar: Z.ai's Jie Tang outlined the training pipeline behind upcoming GLM-5.5 sizes (32B, 122B, 256B) on r/LocalLLaMA (thread).
Why it matters
- Inkling 2 Small is usable on Tinker today, and Hy4 adds another open weights option to compare.
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02
Perplexity Teammates: personal work agents on Max today
Perplexity launched Teammates, agents that take high-level goals and work with Computer tasks, skills, memory, tools and Slack, rolling out to Max users on the web.
What they showed / shipped
- Arav Srinivas says Teammates shift work from writing prompts in a session to giving high-level goals, live for Max on the web today, with native apps coming (@AravSrinivas).
- Perplexity's own post: Teammates take on jobs, work proactively with Computer tasks, skills, memory and tools, collaborate with other teammates, and can message coworkers in Slack (@perplexity_ai).
- Internal scale claim: about 10,000 teammates in Perplexity's workspace in the last 30 days, already 20x headcount, with about 1,000 active yesterday (@AravSrinivas).
- Coverage: The Verge.
Why it matters
- This is the productized version of the Computer/agent stack Perplexity has been shipping, now framed as coworkers you assign goals to.
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03
AI film takes New York awards, and Grimes is starring in one for theaters
A self-taught filmmaker's 9-minute AI fantasy film won four awards at the New York International Film Awards, and Grimes is set to star in an AI movie heading to theaters.
What they showed / shipped
- Min Choi: a self-taught working mom made a 9-minute AI fantasy film that won 4 awards at the New York International Film Awards, including Best AI Film and Best Screenplay (@minchoi, follow-up @minchoi).
- The Verge: Grimes is going to star in an AI movie that's coming to theaters (The Verge).
Why it matters
- Award juries treating AI films as real cinema shifts the 'slop' debate into receipts.
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04
World Labs Frameboy lets you play a world model like a game
World Labs launched Frameboy, a real-time optimized Atlas build that streams from cloud GPUs so you can load a world and explore it like a game.
What they showed / shipped
- Venture Twins: Frameboy from @theworldlabs loads a world and lets you explore it like a game, as a highly optimized Atlas for real-time inference streamed from cloud GPUs (@venturetwins).
Why it matters
- World models crossing from demos into something you can navigate live.
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05
Try today: Gemini Omni in Runway, ElevenLabs to SoundCloud, Claude on your bank
Three ship-it updates: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash inside Runway for up to 15s video, ElevenLabs posting AI music straight to SoundCloud, and Claude's Personal Finance tool that can plug into your bank via Plaid.
What they showed / shipped
- Runway: Google's Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is live in Runway for create/edit videos up to 15 seconds, with stronger dialogue and shot consistency, then upscale to 4K (@runwayml).
- ElevenLabs to SoundCloud: you can post AI music straight to SoundCloud from ElevenLabs (The Verge).
- Claude Personal Finance can analyze spending, and The Verge says it can plug directly into your bank account via Plaid (TechCrunch, The Verge).
- 📌 On the radar: Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar, and Muse has a voice mode (TechCrunch, The Verge).
Why it matters
- Runway + Omni and the SoundCloud path are one-click creator pipelines.
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06
GPT-6 Cyber ships, and a16z says AI cyber skill doubles every 4 to 5 months
OpenAI named and opened GPT-6 Cyber to select Daybreak Red customers, the model behind yesterday's Linux kernel research, while a16z published hard numbers on how fast AI cyber tasks are scaling.
What they showed / shipped
- OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Cyber as a security-research model with stronger capabilities and alignment, already in use at Mozilla, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco and OpenAI, available to select Daybreak Red customers (@OpenAI, openai.com).
- This is the named model behind yesterday's 948 Linux kernel bug pipeline; today's beat is the productized release, not the research redo (The Verge).
- a16z: AI cyber skills are doubling every 4 to 5 months. Longest reliable cyber task in expert time: 5.5 minutes in late 2024, 40 minutes in early 2026, 4.8 hours by April 2026. Average attack timing flipped from 63 days after disclosure (2018-19) to 7 days before it (2025), while median time to fully fix a known-exploited bug rose to 43 days (@a16z, @a16z).
- 📌 On the radar: OpenAI's own misalignment report says GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research tasks (report).
Why it matters
- The doubling curve and the 63-days-to-7-days flip are checkable teach numbers, not scare copy.
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07
METR: Anthropic's unreleased Model 4, and nearly 2 years of progress in 1
METR reports Anthropic's unreleased Model 4 scored above 50% on all 15 capability benchmarks tested, and finds Anthropic is making nearly two years of AI progress in one year with no clear bottleneck yet.
What they showed / shipped
- r/singularity summarizing METR: Anthropic's unreleased Model 4, trained Sep–Oct 2026, scored 178.6 on an AI capability index, a jump nearly 90% as large as the entire improvement from Opus 4.6 to Mythos 5 (thread).
- METR also finds Model 4 above 50% on all 15 capability benchmarks tested, raising the 'tests are getting too easy' concern (thread).
- Separate METR finding: Anthropic is making nearly 2 years of AI progress in just 1 year, likely driven mostly by AI helping develop better AI, with no clear bottlenecks preventing further acceleration (thread).
- Ryan Greenblatt of METR estimates AI R&D acceleration has already reached levels predicted for March 2027 in the AI 2027 scenario (thread).
Why it matters
- When every bench clears 50%, the teach point is that public evals are saturating.
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08
Science agents: DeepMind chem in 1 hour, Sol learns surgery, a 11,382-step lab run
Three science beats: DeepMind's agentic cheminformatics on Antigravity compresses multi-day drug design into about an hour, GPT-6.1 Sol halves landmark time after three corrected mouse-brain procedures, and a Chinese AI scientist run completed 11,382 steps in 203 hours.
What they showed / shipped
- Google DeepMind unveils agentic cheminformatics on Antigravity, said to compress multi-day drug design workflows into 1 hour (r/singularity).
- GPT-6.1 Sol: after 3 mouse brain procedures with a surgeon correcting mistakes, landmark finding fell from 169 to 86 seconds and positioning error from 0.6 to 0.3 mm (r/singularity).
- A Chinese AI scientist run completed an 11,382-step experiment in 203 hours (r/singularity).
- 📌 On the radar: a YC startup is putting $1M behind five unsolved materials science problems for AI (TechCrunch), and Axiom Math wants to keep AI slop out of mathematics (TechCrunch).
Why it matters
- Sol's before/after seconds and mm error are the rare surgical numbers you can put on screen.
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09
Embodied day: Agility hits Nasdaq, Aina's AI ring, Boston Dynamics on security patrol
Agility Robotics is the first pure humanoid company on the public market, Aina shipped a smart ring with a screen, joystick and mic for talking to AI agents, and Boston Dynamics is pitching mobile robots as a security force multiplier.
What they showed / shipped
- Agility is the first pure humanoid robot company on the stock market; Ars covers the Nasdaq debut and the scrutiny it invites (TechCrunch, Ars).
- Aina's smart ring has a screen, a joystick, and a mic so you can talk to AI agents (TechCrunch).
- Boston Dynamics: mobile robots as an intelligent force multiplier for security patrols on industrial and commercial sites (@BostonDynamics).
- 📌 On the radar: researchers 3D-printed biomimetic legs with muscles, tendons and ligaments that move like a humanoid (r/singularity).
Why it matters
- A public humanoid ticker plus a wearable agent mic are two bets on where AI lives next.
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10
Claude Code leaked emails to sites, and Nasdaq dumped the AI trade
A GitHub issue says Claude Code sends your email address to websites it visits, while markets sold off AI names after the midterms as the data-center politics story continues.
What they showed / shipped
- HN front page: Claude Code sends your email address to websites (GitHub issue, HN).
- Show HN: Stroq is a local audit of what your coding agent did and why (GitHub).
- WSJ live coverage: Nasdaq sank about 5% as investors retreated from the AI trade after the election (WSJ).
- 📌 On the radar (repeat of Nov 5 ballot story): more coverage that voters reject AI data centers, Meta warning election backlash could slow expansion, and OpenAI easing NDAs on data-center projects (404 Media, TechCrunch, The Verge).
- 📌 Also: Mark Cuban says Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads, with docs cited at $16B fraud revenue (Yahoo).
Why it matters
- The Claude Code email issue is a concrete privacy check for anyone running agents against the open web.
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