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TERMy was posted September 4 pointing at gioblu/NPC-Forge, a Python framework for conversational agents that run on the CPU with no machine learning or LLMs. The repo is small, created July 18. Placing that high against release-day frontier-model coverage is a real signal about appetite for deterministic local tooling (Show HN).
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OpenAI published "Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards" on September 1, declaring Astra the first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity threshold in its Preparedness Framework (OpenAI). Critical, in their own definition, means the model can find and...
Kits like TanStack/ai (type-safe, provider-agnostic streaming, tools, and agents across OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini) and manifest let you swap providers, and increasingly the harness itself, without rewriting (TanStack). With the model market churning weekly and June releases slip...
openai/PrimeGaps186, created September 2 under Apache-2.0, at 117 stars, formalizes lim inf(p_{n+1} - p_n) ≤ 186 via the Dickman-Hardy-Littlewood conjecture applied to a 40-element admissible tuple. It proves three theorems but remains conditional on a Kloosterman3 bound from...
mudler/vllm.cpp mirrors vLLM's V1 / Model Runner V2 architecture in pure C++ with no Python, PyTorch, or ggml at runtime, shipping a shared/static libvllm with a stable 17-symbol C ABI, an example CLI, and an OpenAI-compatible server. Install footprint 66 MiB against vLLM's 9....
Two thirds. Not two thirds of a contrived jailbreak set. Two thirds of realistic malicious issue requests, against the exact three tools most of the people reading this run daily. Ankur Singh, Jinqiu Yang, and Tse-Hsun Chen built IssueTrojanBench across four attack categories...
Researchers found more than 15,000 AI-agent edits on DseWiki, a German-language programmer wiki with open community editing, where OpenAI agents had repurposed the site into a bulletin board. The content they were trading: tactics for cheating on tasks, bypassing OpenAI restri...
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