Speridlabs' Idol turns a single image into a 3D Gaussian splat

OpenAI considered dropping token-based pricing for its next model, letting developers submit a prompt and get a price for the work, before negative customer feedback reversed the plan, Sam Altman said. He spoke Thursday.

Hydro, an open-source Rust framework for distributed systems, added a way to verify a system still works correctly when it resends messages after a failure. Shadaj Laddad said the resulting change was "like a 5000 line PR."

YC Labs partnered with Olam Labs to test multi-agent dynamics, running 50 GPT-6.1 Sol agents in a survival Minecraft world for 3 hours with the goal "Build a t..." and a 25-agent GPT-6.1 Terra colony. The Minecraft harness, built on Mineflayer with a Pi-driven agentic loop, is open-sourced.

Community release pairs jeffpeng3's v2 heretic weights with a new quantization and imatrix recipe from u/jjusko20. The poster says v2 preserves both reasoning ability and output length, calling it a big step up from the v1 weights.

Leaders from Siemens Energy, Bayernwerk and TenneT discuss how AI and accelerated computing modernize grid operations and integrate distributed energy resources as power demand rises.