


time to become graph engineers guys /s
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Jensen Huang, who only joined X this June, used his first-ever post on the platform to share a three-page industry letter titled “Open Weights and American AI Leadership.” He made the case for why the US needs a strong open-model ecosystem alongside closed frontier labs.
His main points:
The letter also makes a pretty notable defense of distillation. It says using one model’s outputs to improve another is a standard development and evaluation technique, and policymakers should distinguish that from illegal extraction or commercial misappropriation instead of broadly restricting distillation itself.
The original signers included NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, Hugging Face, IBM, Mozilla, Linux Foundation, Palantir, Perplexity, Replit, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike, Dell, Box, Black Forest Labs, Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz, among others. The updated version later added companies including OpenAI, Cohere, GitHub, Nous Research and Fireworks AI.
A number of major tech figures also publicly backed it on X:
So this has quickly looked like a broader industry push against letting frontier AI become completely locked behind a handful of closed providers, especially while Washington is debating Chinese open models (KIMI K3 I think), distillation, and possible restrictions.
what do you guys think?
Original post from: https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2080643682408321103
xAI appears to be retiring Grok’s 3D AI Companion avatars and shifting resources back to the core AI experience.
The feature launched in 2025 with characters like Ani and Rudy, offering animated AI companions with personalized personalities. However, the feature also became controversial, with many criticisms around the sexualized nature of some interactions and concerns over moderation and safety.
According to Grok, xAI is ending the dedicated avatars and companion modes while keeping chat histories and allowing users to recreate similar personalities through prompts. xAI wants to focus on improving Grok’s memory, conversations, reliability, and the overall model experience with Grok 4.5.
Feels like Musk finally made Grok do something “serious” lol. What do you guys think?
Original image from: https://x.com/james406/status/2077045927857025532
I think openclaw paired with GPT’s live voice could probably handle something like this for real?. Maybe not perfectly yet, especially with hold music and automated phone menus, but it doesn’t feel that far off... What do you guys think?
Original image from: https://x.com/anothercohen/status/2080090515584721265
This 3 minute AI-made Odyssey scene has been everywhere on X lately, and it’s being called one of the least “AI-looking” AI videos people have seen so far.
It shows Calypso begging Odysseus to stay, and the facial expressions, voices, lighting, wind, and shot-reverse-shot editing all look surprisingly convincing. Elon saw it, reposted it, and immediately claimed Grok Imagine will make a full-length, “historically accurate” version of The Odyssey before the end of this year.
of course whether Musk actually delivers that is another story lol.
The creator, Heavy Pulp, also shared how he made it. He treated Grok like a film crew: used two anchor frames to keep the characters and camera angles consistent, generated both sides of the conversation separately, and reused the exact same action descriptions across different shots so the cuts would match.
He also said prompting “angry” or “sad” isn’t enough. You have to describe the actual performance like clenched teeth, locked jaw, eye movement, pauses, breathing, tone of voice, etc.
My take is if AI videos can consistently look like this without screaming “AI” every five seconds, that’s actually pretty damn impressive... as for Musk making a full-length version by year-end… yeah, that part still feels very much TBD. what do you guys think?
Origianl video from: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DadcMZVJny-/
I feel like AI has become insanely powerful at anything that can be handled “in theory” or inside software systems like coding, math, cybersecurity, research, and so on.
But is that really enough to call it the singularity? From what I understand, AI is still pretty weak in medicine and many other non-IT, real-world fields.
Are we actually entering the singularity, or are we just seeing extreme progress in a few digital domains? What do you guys think?
The Washington Post reported on a 31-year-old startup worker in San Francisco whose husband, an engineering manager, decided he needed to put all his energy into becoming “AI native.”
He asked her to take on almost all the parenting duties for their preschool-age daughter, then spent his days, nights, and weekends locked in his office working on AI projects. Eventually, he thanked her because he had become the top AI user at his company.
The couple already earns a combined $550,000 a year, but they still feel far behind friends working at OpenAI and Anthropic, who could receive huge payouts if those companies go public. She even joked that an Anthropic employee would probably buy her dream house before she could.
The Washington Post said the story was part of a broader report about the growing panic inside Silicon Valley. Tech workers are being laid off, ranked by how much AI they use, and pressured to automate their own jobs before someone else does it for them...
damn bro already has a $550K household income and is still grinding AI on nights and weekends like the final boss is an Anthropic employee bidding on his house.... what do you guys think?
Original news link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/07/19/tech-has-never-been-richer-its-workers-have-never-felt-less-secure/
ABC News Verify has published an investigation into Australian influencer Lily Jay Hinson and the Lily Jay Foundation, which has been collecting money for supposed humanitarian projects in Gaza, Uganda, Nepal and Sudan.
Some of the “evidence” used to promote those projects appears to have been generated or manipulated with AI:
What makes this even stranger is how Lily Jay built her audience.
She originally tried to make it in music and dance while posting lifestyle, luxury travel and jewellery content. Then, between 2024 and 2025, she suddenly rebranded around her conversion to Islam, began posting religious content, wearing a hijab and discussing the Quran.
By March 2025, she reportedly had around 1 million Instagram followers. The foundation began promoting its aid projects by at least September 2025, and by July 2026 her Instagram following had surged to nearly 3 million.
She later redirected that audience toward the Lily Jay Foundation and its donation pages.
After ABC sent questions:
To be clear, she has not been convicted of fraud, and nobody currently knows how much money was collected or whether she personally took it.
Seriously, when AI people, children, locations and entire charity projects can look this convincing, what the hell are we even supposed to trust anymore..? damn
Original news from: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-05/lily-jay-foundation-posts-ai-generated-misleading-videos/106866422
Lily Jay Ins: https://www.instagram.com/real.lilyjay/
Hugging Face has confirmed a serious breach of its internal infrastructure.
What happened:
These were not just normal account passwords. The attackers reportedly accessed the equivalent of internal master keys that could open servers, storage systems, databases, and other infrastructure.
What was affected:
That matters because If a popular model or package had been modified, malicious code could have spread to thousands of developers and companies.
What has not been found so far:
Hugging Face has revoked affected credentials, rebuilt compromised systems, fixed the vulnerabilities, and brought in outside forensic specialists and law enforcement.
The confirmed damage is already serious: attackers got inside and stole powerful credentials.
The nightmare scenario like poisoned models spreading through the AI supply chain has not been found so far.
Original news link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/hugging-face-confirms-breach-affected-internal-datasets-and-credentials-urges-users-to-take-action/
*Tibo is the guy leading Codex at OpenAI.
Are Chinese labs just brute-forcing their way to fable now? DeepSeek V4 is 1.6T, Kimi K3 is 2.8T, and now Qwen3.8 is coming in at 2.4T...and somehow they’re all being pitched as somewhere around Fable 5 level... damn
Original post link: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2078759124914098291
Original image from: https://x.com/steipete/status/2078261964242039113
Saw Peter’s “loops or graphs?” tweet and my first thought was: wait, isn’t this basically n8n or ComfyUI for agents?
I looked into it a bit, and my current take is that “graphs” just pull the agent loop apart into visible steps: plan, act, check, retry, hand off, whatever. A bunch of replies also mentioned LangGraph, DAGs, state machines, and GraphFlow.
So maybe that’s the whole point? Instead of one big black-box loop, you can actually see the steps and mess with the flow.
Kinda feels like the agent world is slowly reinventing regular software engineering lol.
But maybe I’m missing something bigger here. What do you guys think?
Nous Research recently announced the top three winners of the Hermes Agent Accelerated Business Hackathon, presented with Stripe and NVIDIA.
All three projects are built around real business workflows rather than simple demos, so I thought they were worth sharing here. Anyone already using agents may find these examples useful or at least interesting.
Custodian, built by Daniel LaForce, is an external governance kernel for AI agents that can spend real money.
Instead of allowing the model to approve its own actions, Custodian sits between the agent and the payment system. The agent proposes an action, the kernel checks it against its policies, and only then can the action run.
It includes payment permissions, cryptographic receipts for every decision, human escalation, and an operator kill switch.
In the demo, Custodian detected that an agent could rewrite its own policy file to give itself payment authority. Rather than letting the payment go through, the system stopped the action and escalated it to a human.
The project runs with real Stripe payments and Nemotron inference.
Prize: $10,000 cash, an NVIDIA DGX Spark, and $5,000 in Stripe credits.
Repo link: https://github.com/KeyArgo/custodian-kernel
https://x.com/NousResearch/status/2077517417425543632
Scott Hewitson built Mom-n-Pop Skills for his mother and stepfather, who are in their 60s, are not technical, and run a service business without a CRM.
They already used Telegram for messaging, so Scott made Telegram the interface for their Hermes Agent.
The agent reads their inbox, identifies potential leads, calculates prices through a real pricing engine, drafts estimates, creates Stripe payment links, analyzes company finances, and helps generate marketing ideas.
Scott also created a broader small-business skill library covering CRM, financial analysis, marketing, and owner onboarding. He built the system in around 10 days.
The important part is that the agent does not operate without supervision. The owners approve every external action before anything is sent or purchased.
Prize: $5,000 cash, an NVIDIA DGX Spark, and $3,000 in Stripe credits.
Repo link: https://github.com/hewi333/Mom-n-Pop-Skills
https://x.com/NousResearch/status/2077517421150118214
CashFromChaos, built by David Diaz, turns a photo and a one-line description into a completed resale transaction.
A seller sends Hermes a picture of something they no longer want. The agent identifies the item, asks only the necessary follow-up questions, chooses the appropriate marketplace, sets a price, writes the listing, negotiates with buyers, collects a Stripe-held payment, guides fulfillment, and releases the payout after delivery.
The agent operates under an explicit CommercePolicy defined by the seller. This controls things like the minimum acceptable price, negotiation rules, counteroffers, and spending limits.
That means Hermes can run most of the sale autonomously, but only inside boundaries set by the owner.
Prize: $2,500 cash, an NVIDIA DGX Spark, and $1,000 in Stripe credits.
Repo link: https://github.com/DavidDiazMerino/cashfromchaos
https://x.com/NousResearch/status/2077517426980176223
thats it:)
It feels like Hermes has been running quite a few competitions lately, and the prizes are surprisingly generous. OpenClaw could probably use a few more events like this too lol. What do you think of these three agent use cases, and which one would you actually want to try guys?
Moonshot AI has officially released Kimi K3, the first 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model with a one-million-token context window (DeepSeek is 1T). The company says it will fully open the model on July 27.
K3, as moonshot claims, is being positioned as a general-purpose frontier model, not one built around a single standout capability.
According to the published benchmarks, K3:
Early hands-on testing by a Chinese AI influencer highlighted K3’s strengths in:
K3’s main weaknesses include:
---- that's it.
In general, K3’s overall agent capabilities look solid, but the price is much higher than the aggressively (cheap) priced Chinese open-model APIs people may be used to. The weights may be open, but serving a 2.8T-parameter model is definitely impossible for individuals and the electricity bill alone would be anything but cheap. what do you guys think?
Official launch post: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3