Good morning. Here's what picked up speed in AI over the last day.

Top mover: esp32-iphone-agent, score 94. 4 of the top 10 are in Agents.

Climbing fastest

1. esp32-iphone-agent (score 94). Let an AI model use a real iPhone with a $7 ESP32: AirPlay eyes, USB HID hands, any OpenAI-compatible vision model. No Mac, no developer account,…
2. anatomy (score 93). An agent skill for creating detailed, interactive isometric illustrations of real-world machines and complex systems. Generates polished SVGs with…
3. Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (score 91). Vision on Hugging Face · open weights · ♥ 718
4. ARTEX (score 90). AI 自主渗透测试系统 | 百度“agent+”攻防挑战赛冠军项目
5. embeddinggemma-2 (score 90). Vision on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 2.1K

Headlines

• Open letter: Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and over 400 scientists call for an international body to oversee AI containment standards and incident reporting (Techmeme)
• Delaware-based Causa Prima, which develops an agent-to-agent AI platform for managing B2B payments, resolving billing disputes, and more, raised a $20M seed (Techmeme)
• Google DeepMind and Singapore Government announce new AI tool to protect citizens against scams (Google DeepMind)
• Filing: Abdulrahman Alfozan, the OpenAI staffer charged with bugging a conference room, used a Seeed Xiao ESP32-S3 Sense dev board; a website sells it for $14 (Techmeme)
• Albert Invent, which launched an AI model trained on chemical patents and data about 15M molecules, raised a $55M Series B, a source says at a $340M valuation (Techmeme)

Repos gaining stars

• wheresryan22/anatomy: about +1,470 stars in 24h
• onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: about +690 stars in 24h
• mhtsec/ARTEX: about +654 stars in 24h

Threads people are discussing

• Gemini 4 Argon (Hacker News)
• OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room (Hacker News)
• 11 year old unsoundness bugs found in Rust borrow checker (Hacker News)

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