StepFun releases StepAudio 3 ASR, tops AA-WER Index at 1.7% WER

A community benchmark charts MOSS across samplers, schedulers, step counts, CFG and denoise settings, published at claudiobeck.com. No model specs, scores or release details are given in the post.

Users running the Pixaroma Ep 36 "Qwen Image 2.1 - One Image Edit" workflow report that small edits like "make this character smile" introduce a criss-cross pattern in skin, making images look fake and AI-generated.

An r/MachineLearning post proposes training a diffusion model to output model weights instead of pixels, drawing the analogy that an image is just a 3D matrix of luminosity values. No experiments, results, or code accompany the idea.

AlixPartners pointed Claude Code at a real post-merger procurement review covering hundreds of vendors and 40,000+ contracts; the first answers looked complete but one total was off by roughly $800,000 and a key renewal deadline was a month late.

A Hugging Face dataset collects 12,121 tool calls drawn from 25 billion tokens of GPT-5.5 usage, credited to u/New_Comfortable7240 for sanitization. It targets Codex tool-use trajectories for training or evaluation.