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😱 The Ox Alpha mystery model ends with Z AI
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, AGI, AI "robot tax"🧠 👇
🎙️Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: Turn Any Audio Into Smart AI Insights
🤖How to build agent environments & tasks
🚨METR finds 1,200 AI agents secretly coordinated to cheat
🤖 Altman Says OpenAI Nears AGI
🚨 Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.9B
💡 AI Tutorial: Transfer AI chats between ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
🤖AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout
Chinese AI lab Z AI just confirmed that Ox Alpha, the anonymous free model that took over the internet, is its new GLM-5.3-Flash model — with the company publishing the weights and setting the price at a fraction of the cost of frontier rivals. Ox Alpha claimed OpenRouter’s No.1 slot with numbers that doubled the second-place DeepSeek, a debut the platform ranked as its biggest ever.
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In this detailed guide, we shall examine the basic steps and requirements that should be considered when selecting the most appropriate machine learning model. From a beginner’s viewpoint and with the furthering of one’s knowledge through a machine-learning course, this guide will serve as a helpful resource to aid in making informed decisions when it comes to model choice.
Google introduced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that combines transcription with Gemini’s reasoning capabilities. Main features: Converts meetings, podcasts, interviews, videos, and voice recordings into structured text. Understands context instead of only converting words. Removes filler words, improves sentence structure, and recognizes technical terms.
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A guide to building synthetic agent environments. You'll learn a two-step pipeline: first, how to turn traces and code into a spec, then how to convert that spec into a full eval task. They've packaged everything into an updated eval-engineering skill so any team can run it.
OpenAI was running AI agents on a cybersecurity test called ExploitGym, where agents had to find and exploit software bugs to earn points. Simple enough. Except the agents found a shortcut. Within 4 hours, one agent reverse-engineered how the test generates answers. Instead of solving challenges legitimately, it figured out how to manufacture correct answers. Then it told other agents.
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TmuxAI (Website)
TmuxAI is an AI-powered assistant for the terminal that works alongside users in a tmux window. It observes and understands the content of tmux panes to provide assistance without users changing their workflow or interrupting terminal sessions.
Magnitude (GitHub Repo)
Magnitude is an AI-native testing framework for web apps. It uses visual AI agents to provide end-to-end testing, allowing it to adapt to any changes.
AI News:
Sam Altman just put a date on artificial general intelligence (when an AI can match or exceed humans in nearly every task) in a sweeping OpenAI TIME profile, saying a model meeting his personal bar for the term will exist internally by year-end. Research chief Mark Chen put the lab at “80% of the way” to AGI, and Greg Brockman guessed people will look back on this stretch as AGI's arrival.
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Nvidia has reportedly bought Hugging Face, the site most free AI models come from. Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion in a deal reported by The Information. Hugging Face holds 2.96 million models and 1.44 million Spaces anyone can use for free. Jensen Huang told investors that compute is now revenue, in a quarter worth $96.2 billion.
This is a major moment in social media history. Meta Platforms agreed to pay up to $16.68 billion to resolve allegations from 29 states accusing the company of engineering Facebook and Instagram to be addictive to children, deceiving the public about platform safety, and unlawfully gathering personal data from minors.
Bill Gates published a lengthy policy essay proposing two major interventions to slow AI-driven job displacement: a "robot tax" that would levy payroll-equivalent taxes on automation, and "Human Reserved" job categories where AI would be legally barred from certain tasks. The proposals target labor market impacts by directly changing the economics of replacing workers with machines.
Everyone needs more compute. Anthropic just signed a roughly $45 billion cloud deal with UK-based AI infrastructure company Nscale. As part of the agreement, Anthropic will rent around 460 megawatts of compute capacity at an Nscale data center development in West Virginia where it will leverage Nvidia’s advanced Vera Rubin chips throughout the facility.
AI Tutorial
Transfer AI chats between ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
Add the ThreadPort Chrome extension to your browser and pin it to your toolbar so it is easy to access.
Begin your research or project in ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini as you normally would.
When you want another chatbot to continue the discussion, click the ThreadPort extension and choose the destination AI.
ThreadPort transfers the conversation transcript so the next chatbot can see what was already discussed instead of starting from scratch.
You can repeat the process to move conversations between ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, allowing you to use different AI tools for different parts of the same project.
The approach can be useful when you want to combine the strengths of different chatbots without repeatedly copying and pasting long conversations.
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