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White House AI code
As of Sep 30, President Trump and tech CEOs signed a voluntary, 'morally binding' AI code of conduct at the White House covering third-party audits and an independent safety oversight board, per The Decoder.
Aleph-Alpha
On Oct 3, Aleph-Alpha open-sources Kolibri-1: a 78B MoE with 3.46B active and 1M context.
flow-1
On Oct 2, Laminar released flow-1, an RL-trained model for finding failures in agent traces.
APEX Accounting Benchmark
As of Oct 2, Mercor's APEX study reported by The Decoder found Claude Opus 5.5 leading at 61.8% on the 160-task accounting benchmark, though no model fully solved nearly 60% of tasks.
Trillium Labs
On Oct 2, Nathan Lambert unveiled Trillium Labs, a new non-profit for open AI research.
Lightpanda
On Oct 2, Lightpanda 1.0 shipped: a headless browser built for crawlers and agents.
Continuum
On Oct 1, Runway Labs unveiled Continuum, an OS research app where live generative video is the interface.
Overmind
On Oct 1, Overmind launched agent training platform with self-reported 7x accuracy gains.
doxx.net
On Oct 1, doxx.net launched agentic private networking, raised $38 million led by a16z.
Andrej Karpathy
As of Oct 1, Andrej Karpathy proposed models explain complex material in escalating forms, from controlled English to custom videos.
GLiner2.5-Decide
As of Sep 30, a Reddit post introduced Gliner2.5-Decide, a Jev-style decision model, in community testing.
FTC AI probe
As of Sep 30, The Decoder reported the FTC launched a sweeping probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over consumer protection concerns.
Chinese AI tool bioweapon claim
As of Sep 30, a Reddit post claimed a Chinese AI tool told researchers how to make bioweapons; the claim is unverified.
Ollama Browser Agent
As of Sep 29, an open-source browser agent that runs locally with LM Studio or Ollama, including a 450M-parameter built-in model, is in development per a Reddit post.
Nuoin Intelligent
As of Sep 29, Nuoin Intelligent has completed five funding rounds within a year, totalling over 1 billion RMB, per QbitAI.
IQuest-Q1
As of Sep 29, IQuest-Q1 is a 320B-parameter sparse-MoE model (about 15B active) reported by QbitAI, with demos spanning game generation, three-body equation solving and RL training-data debugging.
IQuest
As of Sep 29, IQuestLab released IQuest-Q1 on Hugging Face.
Databricks
As of Sep 29, a Databricks team described putting GPT-6 Astra and Opus 5 into an automatic optimization loop that continuously rewrites, tests and improves GPU kernels.
Baidu AI Cloud
On Sep 29, Baidu AI Cloud is teaming up with Finch, and we've got plans. 🤝.
Vespper
As of Sep 28, Vespper (YC F24) launched a Docx MCP on Hacker News.
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