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

Top mover: flint, score 94. 3 of the top 10 are in Vision.

Climbing fastest

1. flint (score 94). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 788
2. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 (score 91). Vision on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 2.8K
3. Spark-X2.6-4B (score 89). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 459
4. day-trader-skill (score 87). 11 Claude skills for day trading: scan thousands of charts, track breaking news, time every entry and exit, and replay every outcome before you…
5. flux-3-image-klein-comfy (score 87). Vision on Hugging Face · open weights · ♥ 1.5K

Headlines

• Baba, which develops AI tools to help Medicare and Medicaid patients connect to care teams and handle advocacy tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by FirstMark (Techmeme)
• Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens (Techmeme)
• Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year, after Anthropic discontinued its discount (Techmeme)
• ‘Synthetic twin’: Why Socceroo Cristian Volpato is the latest footballer to license his AI clone (The Guardian)
• OpenAI Built a Giant Fake Internet for Its Agents to Use and Abuse Safely (Gizmodo)

Repos gaining stars

• Jakeschincariol/day-trader-skill: +347 stars in 24h
• alchaincyf/huashu-motion: +42 stars in 24h

Threads people are discussing

• No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector (Hacker News)
• Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness (Hacker News)
• America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI? (Hacker News)

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