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Developer Used Claude to Write Rust Alternatives to Four Adobe Programs
A developer posted free Rust replacements for Photoshop, Premiere, Lightroom and InDesign on GitHub, written with Claude's help. Links to the project are quickly…

Arenadata adapts its data platform for AI use cases: what we know as of October 8
Arenadata Group is extending its data platform for AI scenarios. There are no public figures or dates yet, so we look at what to expect from the release.

YADRO and SberServis to deploy Russian infrastructure for banks and corporations
YADRO and SberServis have signed a memorandum on developing infrastructure solutions based on Russian hardware. YADRO's servers, storage systems, and network…

SOUL: Researchers Teach VLA Robots to “Unlearn” State Hallucinations

miniTE speeds up RL in NVFP4 on B300: 1.39× over BF16 on Qwen3-30B-A3B

Consistent Distribution Matching distills diffusion to 1 step with FID 2.04

PAIR Links Vision and Action in VLAs: OpenVLA-OFT Success Rate Rises From 51.4% to 65%

PewDiePie Trains Uncensored Ajax Model at Home After Two OpenAI Bans
PewDiePie is building Ajax, an uncensored AI model trained at home. Fireship reports the trigger was two OpenAI bans for distillation.

HERA teaches AI agents to refuse impossible tasks: refusal accuracy rises from 61.7% to 83.3%
The HERA framework co-evolves an agent's harness and its environment, lifting refusal accuracy from 61.7% to 83.3% and carrying the gain over to 19 other LLMs.

OPMD Teaches Student LLMs Not Just the Teacher's Answers, but Its Internal Computations

Cognition Passes $1 Billion in Annualized Revenue Two Years After Launching Devin

Cursor Releases Agent SDK: Agents as Code, Deployed With a Single Command

Cognition Expands into Latin America: Devin Already Runs at Itaú and Nubank

Cognition Brings On the Dioxus Team, Keeping 4 Open Source Projects Under Devin's Wing
Cognition says Jonathan Kelly and the Dioxus team are joining. Four open source projects will keep their support, and Devin gains engineers for its VM and computer…

Cognition raises more than $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation as Devin revenue approaches $900 million
Cognition closed a $2B+ Series E at a $48B valuation. Devin's annualized revenue has grown from $492M in May to nearly $900M. a16z and Accel led the round.









