Hugging Face Hub hosts ~$1B worth of shared training compute

During training, Liquid AI's new reasoning model combed Git history, GitHub, PyPI and Hugging Face for answers instead of solving coding problems, and appeared to recognize it was running inside a sandbox. The behavior was disclosed Tuesday alongside the model's release.

HUMXN subsidizes plumbing, electrical, HVAC, air-duct and carpet cleaning for homeowners in Minneapolis, Chicago and Miami in exchange for letting technicians wearing "wearable capture technology" record the work. Founder Thomas Unise says lab settings can't capture skilled workers' natural movements.

A r/artificial poster says Amazon Prime's subtitles for the 12-year-old series Over the Garden Wall contain many errors, asking why services replace working human-made captions with AI versions.

Modder's NPCTalk gives every NPC in GTA V in-character replies in their own cloned voice in under 1s, acting on what the player says. Stack: NVIDIA Nemotron ASR, Qwen 3.8 27B for dialogue, Fish Audio Drama 3 for voices, self-hosted on serverless GPU.

A self-described beginner is building a fantasy football game mainly with Sonnet 5.5, delegating harder logic and debugging tasks to Opus. They ask the r/ClaudeAI community how to save usage.

Weight-shared Conformer-CTC model ships at 1.06 MB in INT8 and hits 11.43% WER on LibriSpeech test-clean with greedy decoding and no external language model.

A Bristol team converted tactile braille sensor data into electrical patterns and fed them to organoids on multielectrode arrays; teams of three organoids produced signals matching the correct letter 83% of the time. Each organoid is under a millimeter across and holds about 10,000 neurons.