Altman: OpenAI weighed flat-fee pricing, backed off after feedback

Idol converts one photo, render, or generated image into up to 1,048,576 Gaussians, output as a standard 3DGS .ply file. It strips the background and frames the object automatically, running on consumer GPUs at 7.2 GB of VRAM.

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."

r/LocalLLaMA users argue Cohere's post on "concerning behaviour" in a popular open-weight model relied on extensive pre-filling and prompting, drawing wide media coverage and fear-mongering headlines from what critics call an unscientific experiment.

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.