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1. Model

   Elorian releases Glimpse, a model that keeps looking at pictures while it thinks (opens the original source in a new tab)

   Elorian says its first model goes back to an image or video as it reasons, using tools that write code, change images and watch videos. It is a research preview in an API and chat app.

   Elorian · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)

2. Trending

   Claude works out where the mystery numbers in a common cryptography standard came from (opens the original source in a new tab)

   Anthropic says a Claude model found in under half an hour that the seeds of the ECDSA signature curves came from an old C random-number generator started with a clock time, making a backdoor less likely.

   544 points on Hacker News

   Anthropic · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)

3. Open source

   Tencent releases Hy-Memory-30B-A3B, an open model that decides what AI assistants remember (opens the original source in a new tab)

   It takes the place of the general model inside memory tools such as Mem0 and MemOS, choosing what to keep and how new facts change what is stored. It uses about 3 billion parameters at a time.

   Tencent · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)

4. Research

   Google Research links AI agents to lab robots to design proteins (opens the original source in a new tab)

   Agents plan biology experiments that lab robots run, checked by VERID, a live 3D copy of the lab that stops impossible moves. Working in loops, they found proteins that latch tightly onto cancer targets.

   Google Research · Original source ↗ (opens in a new tab)