Meta Open-Sources Astryx: An Agent-Ready React Design System With 150+ Accessible Components, Seven Themes, and a CLI
Meta has open-sourced Astryx, the React and StyleX design system it ran internally for eight years across 13,000+ apps. It ships 150+ accessible components, seven themes, dark mode, templates, and an agent-ready CLI under MIT — with React 19+ required.
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NVIDIA Releases Cosmos 3 Edge: A 4B-Parameter Open World Model That Reasons and Generates Robot Actions On-Device
NVIDIA has released Cosmos 3 Edge, a 4-billion-parameter open world model built to run on-device. It helps robots and vision AI agents understand surroundings, reason in real time, and generate robot actions locally. The Cosmos 3 family included Cosmos 3 Nano (16B) and Cosmos 3 Super (64B) shipped o...
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a Hosted Text-to-Speech Model in Flash and Plus Tiers Across 16 Languages
Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab has released Qwen-Audio-3.0-TTS, a production-oriented text-to-speech (TTS) system. The model ships in two variants from the same lineage. Flash targets real-time interaction. Plus targets high-quality generation. Both are delivered as hosted models through Alibaba Cloud Model S...
AI’s most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is one of the basic building blocks of AI interoperability, giving AI models a secure way to access external data sources and services. It’s the plumbing that lets a chatbot reach into your calendar, your database, or your internal tools, instead of engineers buildin...
China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the country’s leading AI companies. David Sacks, ...
Someone Fine-Tuned OpenBMB’s MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 Traces to Ship a 657MB Local Thinking Model
A community developer fine-tuned OpenBMB's MiniCPM5-1B on Claude Fable 5 traces into a 1B model that runs fully local — a 657MB smallest build, 128K context, and visible reasoning. We verify every spec against the Hugging Face cards, separate what a fine-tune actually inherits from real capability, ...
Feyn AI Releases SQRL, a Text-to-SQL Model Family That Inspects the Database Before Writing a Query
Feyn Labs has released SQRL, a family of text-to-SQL models that inspect a database with read-only probes before committing to a query. The flagship SQRL-35B-A3B reports 70.6% execution accuracy on BIRD Dev, edging Claude Opus 4.6, and distills into self-hostable 4B and 9B checkpoints.
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Perplexity AI Releases WANDR: An Open Benchmark Evaluating Research Agents That Must Search Wide And Deep
Perplexity's WANDR is an open benchmark and evaluation harness with 500 evidence-heavy tasks. It tests whether research agents can discover many qualifying entities and back each one with cited, re-verifiable evidence. Perplexity Search as Code leads at 0.363 soft F1 and 0.133 hard F1.
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10 Open-Source No-Code AI Platforms for Building LLM Apps, RAG Systems, and AI Agents
Retrieval, agents, and workflows now ship as visual and plain-English tools. This roundup covers 10 open-source no-code and low-code platforms for building LLM apps, RAG systems, and AI agents, each with its verified license, repository, and best-fit use case.
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NVIDIA Released DeepStream 9.1: Bringing Agentic AI to Vision AI With 13 Skills and Multi-View 3D Tracking
NVIDIA DeepStream 9.1 introduces 13 agentic skills that let coding agents like Claude Code and Codex build multi-camera video analytics pipelines from natural-language prompts. Multi-View 3D Tracking (MV3DT) fuses per-camera detections into one shared 3D world with a globally consistent object ID, w...
Google Cloud’s Always-On Memory Agent Replaces RAG and Embeddings With Continuous LLM Consolidation on Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google Cloud's generative-ai repository ships the Always-On Memory Agent, a reference implementation that treats memory as a running process. Built on Google ADK and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, it uses no vector database and no embeddings. Instead, an orchestrator routes to Ingest, Consolidate, and Query...
Sakana AI’s Error Diffusion Trains Dale-Compliant Dual-Stream Networks, Reaching 96.7% MNIST and 61.7% CIFAR-10 Without Backpropagation
Backpropagation relies on weight transport, which biological circuits likely cannot implement. Sakana AI's Error Diffusion sidesteps that constraint, training dual-stream excitatory/inhibitory networks that obey Dale's principle. This piece breaks down how modulo error routing scales the rule from M...
Neil Rimer, the venture capitalist who co-founded Index Ventures, predicts the historic wealth AI is generating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed, voluntarily or involuntarily.
Build an Agentic Event Venue Operator with MongoDB Atlas, Voyage, and LangGraph
Introduction This tutorial starts where most agent demos stop: giving the agent persistent memory, operational context, and a place to write back what happened. An event operator does not just need an agent that can summarize a weather report or generate a generic plan. The operator needs an agent t...
Zyphra Releases ZUNA1.1: An Apache 2.0 EEG Foundation Model With Variable-Length Inputs From 0.5 To 30 Seconds
Zyphra released ZUNA1.1 on July 16, 2026, under the Apache 2.0 license. The 380M masked diffusion autoencoder reconstructs, denoises, and upsamples scalp-EEG across arbitrary channel layouts. It accepts variable-length inputs from 0.5 to 30 seconds, against ZUNA1's fixed five seconds. Reported NMSE ...