Upcurrent: Mika leads Saturday, October 31
Good morning. Here's what picked up speed in AI over the last day.
Top mover: Mika, score 97, up 51% in a day. 4 of the top 10 are in Agents.
Climbing fastest
- Mika (score 97). Mika — 你手机上的私人 AI 助理,替你操作 App、上网、把事办成。An on-device AI agent for Android that operates apps and the web to get things done for you.
- ai-pose-gallery-zh (score 95). 中文版 AI 姿势参考图库 · 1439 组 / 2878 张图片 / 完整汉化 · 零依赖静态画廊
- unslop (score 94). A Claude skill that turns vibecoded, AI-looking UI into a designed interface
- nvzhuang (score 92). 1407 张 AI 女装参考图集与虚拟试穿网站,支持中英检索、OpenAI Images / Gemini / 豆包及自定义 Base URL、API Key、模型。https://github.com/paipiange/nvzhuang
- Nanbeige4.3-33B (score 91). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 803
Headlines
- As AI models commoditize, lasting wealth will accrue to those controlling chokepoints like distribution, payment rails, and a stablecoin dollar, not to the labs (Techmeme)
- Anthropic says a malicious actor used access to Cursor's marketplace to publish a "tampered" copy of the Claude Code extension, which it didn't build or publish (Techmeme)
- John Ternus says Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake" and that Tim Cook is "available to help wherever I ask" on policy; Ternus has yet to meet Trump (Techmeme)
- Sources: OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target, and expects to raise more in coming weeks (Techmeme)
- Sources: OpenAI now seeks ~$20B at a $1.25T valuation for its latest round, from $30B at a $1.4T valuation, as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff (Techmeme)
Repos gaining stars
- wangzan101/Mika: +1,942 stars in 24h
- heydamir/unslop: +1,499 stars in 24h
- paipiange/nvzhuang: about +682 stars in 24h
Threads people are discussing
- OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target (Hacker News)
- AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them (Hacker News)
- Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace (Hacker News)
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