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Coding agent fixes Canon webcam with overnight Rust app
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Great little story from @danshapiro about how he asked a coding agent to fix the official webcam software from Canon that kept crashing. He woke up to a new, fully functional Rust webcam app that has worked ever since. https://
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MiniMax Speech 2.8 Text-to-Speech Model Launches on Poe
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MiniMax Speech 2.8 is now live on Poe. A text-to-speech model with multiple voice presets, emotional tone control, and fine-grained audio settings. A strong fit for narrating videos, generating podcast voiceovers, building voice agents, or producing polished audio for apps and
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TurboQuant, QJL, PolarQuant: Advanced AI Model Quantization Methods
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TurboQuant: https://
alphaxiv.org/abs/2504.19874 QJL: https://
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Claude demand surge: Rate limits adjusted during peak hours
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this guy literally called this 11 days ago and this was thariq's response lol Thariq (@trq212) To manage growing demand for Claude we're adjusting our 5 hour session limits for free/Pro/Max subs during peak hours. Your weekly limits remain unchanged. During weekdays between 5am–11am PT / 1pm–7pm GMT, you'll move through your 5-hour session limits faster than before. — https://nitter.net/trq212/status/2037254607001559305#m
→ View original post on X — @randal_olson, 2026-03-26 21:33 UTC
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Mistral Launches Voxtral-4B, a New TTS Model
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Blog post: mistral.ai/news/voxtral-tts Playground: console.mistral.ai/build/audio/text-to-speech Technical report: mistral.ai/static/research/voxtral-tts.pdf Model weights: huggingface.co/mistralai/Voxtral-4B-TTS-2603 [Translated from EN to English]
→ View original post on X — @guillaumelample, 2026-03-26 21:03 UTC
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Mistral AI Launches Voxtral TTS: Fast, Cost-Effective Speech Model
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Our first speech model, Voxtral TTS, is out. It delivers SOTA performance while significantly reducing cost compared to existing solutions, and it operates with very low latency. It uses a new architecture that combines auto-regressive generation of semantic speech tokens with flow-matching for acoustic tokens. We are also releasing a technical report sharing all our training methodology and insights. Much more to come in audio — stay tuned ! Mistral AI (@MistralAI) 🔊Introducing Voxtral TTS: our new frontier open-weight model for natural, expressive, and ultra-fast text-to-speech 🎭Realistic, emotionally expressive speech. 🌍Supports 9 languages and accurately captures diverse dialects. ⚡Very low latency for time-to-first-audio. 🔄Easily adaptable to new voices — https://nitter.net/MistralAI/status/2037183026539483288#m
→ View original post on X — @guillaumelample, 2026-03-26 21:03 UTC
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Small AI Models Experience Exponential Growth in Usage Trends
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Small AI model usage is growing exponentially GPT 5.4 nano – excellent fast classifier Gemini Flash – used 10x more than Gemini Pro Haiku 4.6 – Only 10% worse than Opus! Qwen – excellent as a fine tune base Flash Lite – delightfully cheap and fast
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MiniMax 2.5 Powers Fast Agentic Workflows on SambaCloud
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@openclaw is unstoppable…when powered by the right model. Big, slow LLMs kill agentic workflows. The secret? MiniMax 2.5 + SambaCloud’s lightning-fast inference. Try it on http://
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OpenAI Doubles Codex Rate Limits for One Week
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meanwhile, you can enjoy Codex with 2x rate limits for the next week 24×7 across all ChatGPT subscriptions! npm i -g @openai/codex time to build is NOW!!