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12 Aug 2026 edition

634 articles · 11 sources · 623 papers ·

Top topics: AI · AI Research · Python

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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) The latest DeepSeek Pro model is now available, via API only. I had to link to OpenRouter because DeepSeek don't have any obvious announcement page for their new model. I haven't…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

alchemy-utils 0.1a0

Release: alchemy-utils 0.1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like. This morning (literally a shower project) I tasked Codex and GPT-5.6…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

Quoting Florian Herrengt

But then users start to report a weird bug. It's the 4th time your team has been trying to fix it. I mean... asking AI to fix it. Unfortunately, it seems like not even Fable can figure it out. You go talk to the person…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
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Scaling AI agents with trustworthy data

Business and technology leaders need no convincing that the time of agentic AI is here. Organizations are rapidly adopting agents, and few executives doubt the technology’s potential to transform work. But many…

Source: MIT Technology Review AI MIT Technology Review Insights
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Towards Efficient Reasoning in LLM-Based Recommender Systems via Model Merging

arXiv:2608.10447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model-based recommender systems are increasingly adopting slow-thinking models that generate step-by-step reasoning before making predictions, often…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Linh Dieu Le, Tong Chen, Shazia Sadiq, Hongzhi Yin, Ming Jin, Junliang Yu
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IndexTTS 2.5 Technical Report

arXiv:2601.03888v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In prior work, we introduced IndexTTS 2, a zero-shot neural text-to-speech foundation model comprising two core components: a transformer-based Text-to-Semantic…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Yunpei Li, Xun Zhou, Jinchao Wang, Lu Wang, Yong Wu, Siyi Zhou, Yiquan Zhou, Yining Wang, Yaogen Yang, Zhetao Hu, Shiyao Duan, Jiacheng Xu, Jingchen Shu, Bin Xia
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GitSkills: A Dataset of Agent Skills on GitHub

arXiv:2608.10906v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An agent skill is a folder containing a SKILL.md file with instructions for a language-model agent, optionally accompanied by scripts and reference files. The agent…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Giuseppe Destefanis, Daniel Graziotin, Matteo Vaccargiu, Marco Ortu
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Fast and Memory-Efficient Wavelet Convolutions via I/O-Aware Reformulation

arXiv:2608.10805v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wavelet convolution (WTConv) has emerged as an increasingly popular drop-in replacement for standard convolutions, expanding a network's receptive field exponentially…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Amit Aflalo, Shahaf E. Finder, Roy Amoyal, Eran Treister, Oren Freifeld
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MIRA: Medical Image Reflection for Agentic Diagnosis

arXiv:2608.10827v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical visual agents can use tools to inspect images and retrieve external knowledge, but indiscriminate tool use may introduce noisy or misleading evidence. Reliable…

Source: arXiv cs.AI Shengzhi Wang, Jun Yang, Kai Wu, Xiaozhong Ji, Yiwen Ye, Ziyang Chen, Mingliang Xiong, Wen Fang, Mingqing Liu, Mengyuan Xu, Miaoxuan Shan, Caiyan Liu, Bin He, Qingwen Liu

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