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Every story Herald of AI has published. Stories are not removed to hide mistakes, so a story from any day is still here, at the same address, whenever you come back for it.
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2026
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Oct 19, 2026
- New modelsdoubleAI introduces Maxwell, a model that runs inside code to speed it up
A new kind of AI model doesn't write programs — it lives inside them and makes them faster on the spot.
- New modelsMiniMax launches M3.1 Flash a cheap agentic AI model with a 1 million token context
The new MiniMax M3.1 Flash model matches top AI agents at less than half the price of its older sibling.
- New modelsMistral releases Timestral, a new family of time-series forecasting models
The French AI lab says its smallest model tops every major benchmark while running on a standard CPU.
- New modelsDeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash 1017 Max with 1M token context and reasoning ability
The new open-weight model scores top marks in intelligence and speed benchmarks from Artificial Analysis.
Oct 18, 2026
- How it worksNew AI agents can think in hidden code but still talk through text
Researchers show that letting LLM agents switch between internal latent reasoning and public text can cut costs by over half and speed up work.
- New modelsStack Overflow for Agents triples signups after launching ChatGPT plugin
A quick plugin move turned a two-engineer product into a 10x growth story.
- Made with AIYour boss is automating their messages into the void
A worker shares how a manager’s flood of AI-generated updates is creating workplace chaos — and coworkers offer survival tips.
- How it worksMIT builds AI that can see crystal structures in 3D
A new model combines atomic geometry with language so machines can help discover better materials.
- New modelsGoogle Unveils Gemini 4 Argon with 1 Million Token Output
The new frontier model can generate a million tokens in one go, but trails rivals on real coding tasks.
- How it worksHow GPT-6 Astra Helped Turn an Old Kindle Into a Photo Frame
An AI agent jailbroken a 10th-gen Kindle so it could display a looping slideshow of personal photos.
- How it worksAI Is Decompiling Games Faster Than Ever. Here's Why That Matters.
New AI tools can now reverse-engineer old video games in days instead of years, making preservation easier but opening the door to widespread software theft.
- How it worksDeepSeek launches Search and Fetch APIs for $0.75 per 1000 requests
The new tools let AI agents pull live web content directly through code, without building their own web crawlers.
- How it worksGoogle Open-Sources Harness² , a Framework That Improves AI Agents Without Retraining Models
A new open-source tool from Google Research lets agents get better at tasks by tweaking their setup instead of their core model.
Oct 16, 2026
- How it worksHow the Claude Code team reinvented code review with AI
The team behind Anthropic's coding agent says Claude now catches most routine mistakes before a human ever looks at the code.
- How it worksA developer gave Claude Code a website and an ad budget. Here is what it did.
Using Anthropic's coding tool on a data-harvesting website shows how autonomous AI agents handle real-world tasks.
- New modelsLiquid AI Unveils d1-ultra Decision Model Ranking 1 on AI Benchmark
The new model reads text and images to answer questions with probabilities instead of generating text, cutting costs for developers.
- New modelsNVIDIA Releases Open 120B Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Model
The open-source model combines text, image, video, and coding into one agent-ready system that runs on a single GPU.
- How it worksNew AI plugin lets Claude design PCB boards inside KiCad 10
Konnect is a free open-source plugin that lets an AI assistant place components, route circuits and export manufacturing files directly inside KiCad.
- How it worksPulse Local runs AI budgeting entirely on your Mac
A new budgeting app downloads AI models to your machine so your financial questions never leave your computer.
- How it worksTurboMamba combines Mamba and Transformer for faster, smarter language models
A new hybrid architecture boosts speed and accuracy by mixing two kinds of AI designs.
Oct 15, 2026
- New modelsOpenAI Brings GPT-Rosalind to Academic Research Labs Through New Free Plan
The Rosalind Academic Plan offers eligible labs up to 30 free seats to access OpenAI's life sciences model for up to 12 months.
- How it worksGraphicle brings fast code graphs and memory to coding agents
A Rust rewrite of Graphify runs on your own machine and helps Claude and other AI coding assistants understand your project.
- PeopleSimon Willison builds two-player pong game that communicates via audio chirps
The AI educator used Claude Opus 5.5 to create a game where two phones exchange moves through sounds played through the microphone.
- New modelsFLUX.3 Image Klein Arrives in Hugging Face Diffusers
The 6-billion-parameter image-to-image model from Black Forest Labs is now available through the popular open-source library.
- How it worksClawLoop AI agents that teach themselves to get better
A new training framework lets AI agents improve on their own without a stronger teacher model guiding every step.
- PeopleSimon Willison Codes a Game With One Prompt to Claude
A blogger proved that 'vibe coding' can produce a surprisingly polished Three.js game in just one conversation.
- How it worksNew attention method speeds up AI models with mathematical shortcuts
A paper introduces DoSA, which finds important tokens faster using bounds instead of full calculations.
Oct 14, 2026
- PeopleSimon Willison releases web-edit for browser-based file editing
His new tool lets you edit files in a folder straight from your browser, with help from Claude Opus 5.5.
- New modelsT0 A 256M open-weights model redefines time-series forecasting
The Forecasting Company released T0, a small but powerful foundation model that produces probabilistic forecasts for everything from electricity demand to drug reimbursements.
- PeopleSimon Willison Updates llm-gemini to Support New Gemini 4 Argon Model
The developer behind the popular llm plugin adds Google's latest low-cost model, which promises strong performance at a fraction of rival prices — at least until December.
- How it worksHow Echo lets big AI models train faster using ultra-low 4-bit data
A new communication method cuts the data-hauling bottleneck in large AI training by sending just 4 bits at a time, without breaking model quality.
- How it worksNew Plugin Lets You Use Meta’s Muse Wonder AI Models
Simon Willison updated his llm-meta-ai tool to work with Meta’s latest top-tier reasoning models.
- How it worksAI model breaks the two-week weather forecast barrier
Researchers use machine learning to correct forecast errors, doubling accuracy for the difficult two-to-six-week range that matters for emergencies and energy planning.
- New modelsGoogle's Gemini 4 Argon powers Chrome refactor, beats rivals in intelligence tests
The latest model helped Chrome engineers complete months of work in weeks while climbing the top of benchmark rankings.
- How it worksEngineer Your Game As an AI Harness
Developers are rethinking how games are built so large language models can actually help create them instead of falling apart.
- How it worksPRIME A new way to shrink AI models without losing smarts
Researchers have created a unified method that cuts and combines parts of large AI models, saving memory and speeding up answers while keeping accuracy high.
- New modelsEU's AI adoption shifts to agentic tools, report finds
OpenAI data shows businesses are moving beyond chat to let AI plan and complete tasks, though growth remains uneven across the bloc.
Oct 13, 2026
- How it worksAnthropic rebuilt its code system to handle 10x growth in daily changes
Anthropic replaced Git with a custom tool called Scion after its daily code merges jumped from 2,500 to over 30,000 in just four months.
- How it worksHow AI networks learn by building their own learning tools
MIT researchers show neural networks can self-organize their own learning rules, possibly mirroring how brains learn.
- Made with AIXbox Forms 'Xbox Labs' to Explore AI-Powered Game Mods and Ports
Microsoft is creating a new team to experiment with the wave of AI-generated game remixes, decompiles, and cross-platform ports that modders have been sharing online.