177 Skills and 100 Databases: What an AI Scientist Actually Needs
The fifth most-trending repo on GitHub this week isn't a model. It's 177 interface files that stop agents from inventing database columns.
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100 Yuan for 30 Seconds of a Face You Don't Own
A labeled deepfake sold 7,000 units of skincare in thirty days. The supply chain quotes 100 yuan for a thirty-second celebrity video, and the label was priced as a cost, not a defense.
You Review the Spec, the Machine Reviews the Code
GitHub Next's PDD Kit asks a human to approve a Verus spec, then proves the agent's Rust code meets it for every input. Rust only, research preview, and the burden just moved.
The Synthetic Still That Got Filed as 1986 Footage
A labeled AI image of a Journey to the West character collected 3,383 likes and was absorbed into a national archive of childhood. The label never traveled.
A Chinese Court Ruled on a Medusa LoRA. The Reasoning Is the Story.
A Shanghai court held that a LoRA holds a low-rank statistical compression, not a copy. The user who prompted the output is liable; the platform that hosted it isn't.
No Rigging Required: Viggle's JST-2 Generates a 3D Scene in About a Second
Viggle's JST-2 builds scenes out of persistent 3D atoms instead of pixels, and turns a single image into an animatable character without a rigging step.
Runway Will License You Its Closed Weights. Read the Terms First.
Runway licenses closed model weights to enterprises, and Baseten now hosts them. The price is unpublished, the exclusivity is unpublished, and the model ranks 26th.
Krea 3 Edits 2K Images in Under Eight Seconds. That's the Feature.
Krea 3 returns most 2K edits in under eight seconds. The speed isn't a spec, it's what makes iterating possible, and the LoRA training is what makes consistency configurable.
The Three Giveaways of AI-Made Work: Four Pixels Off, an Invisible Stamp, and Nobody's Name
A diagram project's 4px rule, SynthID's invisible stamp and the Nikon scandal, and the publishers using AI without telling authors: three layers of “AI-ness,” only two of which technology can patch.
CLI-Anything Gives Desktop Software a Command Line So Agents Can Use It
Instead of teaching agents to click, HKU's lab generates Click-based CLIs from application source code, with tests, JSON output, and a package you pip install. Real backends, real renders, honest limits.
XERJ Searches Your Code So Agents Stop Reading Whole Files
A Rust search engine with autoindex, tree-sitter symbol awareness, and an Elasticsearch-compatible wire protocol. Its benchmark says 2.7x fewer tokens than grep. Its maintainer says the star count is inflated 13x.
Book Covers Are Being Generated Quietly, and Publishing Has a Disclosure Problem
Wired reports that at least three of the Big Five have used AI for cover art, publicity copy, and agent emails. The official statements draw a line that their own staff describe crossing.