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In today's edition: Here is roundup of hackable FLUX diffusion, browser-to-AI skills, and major AI economy shifts 👇
📊25 Best Project Management Tools in 2026
🧠minFLUX - A hackable implementation of FLUX diffusion models
📈Five Eras in the Evolution of Probability and Statistics
🖱️BrowserBC Open-Sourced: Turning Human Clicks Into Reusable AI Skills
🚨 Anthropic's Mythos 5 Is Back
💡 AI Tutorial:How to switch from Claude Cowork to Codex in minutes
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
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In this article, you will learn how to distinguish agentic workflows from autonomous agents by focusing on who owns control flow — a human writing code in advance, or a model reasoning at runtime. Topics we will cover include: Why the real axis separating these systems is predictability versus autonomy, not whether an LLM is involved.
Efficient project management is critical for teams aiming to meet deadlines, stay organized, and optimize workflows. With the growing demand for advanced tools, here are the 25 best project management software solutions for 2026, complete with their standout features and descriptions:
A simplified educational PyTorch implementation of FLUX.1 and FLUX.2 diffusion transformers (DiT) by Black Forest Labs. Built for understanding rectified flow matching, joint attention, and the key design choices behind FLUX with verifiable line-by-line source mappings to the official codebases…
How do companies like Netflix, Airbnb, and Doordash apply machine learning to improve their products and processes? We put together a database of 200 case studies from 64 companies that share practical ML use cases and learnings from designing ML systems.️
Statistics isn’t a new thing. It dates back at least fifty centuries beginning as counts in the form of tally marks for keeping track of crops, animals, people, and time. From there, it evolved with the demands of government and business, supported by academic inquiry and the growth of technology…
The ViDA team recently open-sourced BrowserBC, a system designed to solve a major headache in AI web automation: getting agents to understand complex browser tasks without burning through massive compute costs. BrowserBC bumped agent success rates on the notoriously difficult WebArena-Hard benchmark from 60% up to an impressive 81%.
You already have a take on which AI lab ships next.
Claude or Gemini? OpenAI or Anthropic? GPT-7 before year-end or not? If you read tech newsletters, you've already formed opinions on all of it.
Kalshi has real-money markets on which AI model leads benchmarks this week, which lab ships AGI first, when Anthropic releases Mythos, whether OpenAI raises ChatGPT pricing, and which company has the best coding model at year-end. These aren't abstract questions — they're live markets with real money on both sides, moving as labs ship, benchmarks drop, and announcements land.
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OpenAI just launched GPT-5.6 Sol, its most capable model ever, alongside two cheaper siblings, but they all remain locked to some 20 vetted partners at the U.S. government’s request — as the company works its way to a broader release. GPT-5.6 is a three-tier family: Sol coming as the flagship, Terra as the balanced one matching GPT-5.5 at 2x less cost, and Luna being the fastest and cheapest
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Meta is building an app that allows people to make bets on practically anything, similar to Polymarket and Kalshi. Arena, which is now a top priority within Meta, will use points instead of real money and is aimed at 18- to 34-year-olds. The company is now actively trying to form partnerships with Polymarket and Kalshi, but it is unclear what kind of arrangement Meta is seeking.
Washington cleared Anthropic to send Mythos 5 back to 100 vetted firms. Anthropic is restoring Mythos 5 to organizations that operate and defend critical infrastructure. The government dropped the export license requirement for the approved partners. Fable 5, the version built for the general public, is still shut off as Anthropic negotiates its return.
Naveen Rao, founder of Unconventional AI, can cut the power AI burns on inference by up to 1,000 times. The idea rests on an oscillator-based architecture, a way of computing that’s nothing like today’s chips. The catch: the chip doesn’t exist yet. The claim runs on a software simulation, the team is under 50 people, and no schematics have shipped.
Elon Musk said Grok 4.5, trained with supplemental Cursor data, is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, claiming its performance matches Anthropic’s Claude Opus. Grok 4.5 got its coding edge from Cursor after SpaceX agreed to buy maker Anysphere for 60 billion dollars in mid June. The model runs on xAI's V9 foundation which finished training on May 26, about triple the size of the version still handling Grok on X.
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AI Tutorial
How to switch from Claude Cowork to Codex in minutes
You don’t even need to pay for the ChatGPT agent. You can use Microsoft Copilot for free. Here is how:
Go to the Codex and download the Codex for your computer.
Open Codex and sign in with your ChatGPT account.
During setup, Codex may ask if you want to import your setup from another agent.
Choose Claude Cowork if it appears on the screen.
Select the items you want to move over, such as tools, setup, projects, and recent chat sessions.
Click continue and let Codex bring everything across.
Once it finishes, your Codex workspace should already have your old setup ready to use.
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