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October 16, 2026

Upcurrent: qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill leads Friday, October 16

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

Top mover: qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill, score 94. 3 of the top 10 are in Vision.

Climbing fastest

  1. qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill (score 94). Qwen-Image 2.1 NSFW/姿势出图 skill:作者级提示词配方 + NSFW LoRA + 136 姿势 VNCCS 人偶控制;适用 Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / OpenClaw
  2. esp32-iphone-agent (score 91). 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,…
  3. embeddinggemma-2 (score 90). Vision on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 2.4K
  4. humanizer (score 89). Model on Hugging Face · open source · ♥ 1.8K
  5. Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo (score 89). Vision on Hugging Face · open weights · ♥ 893

Headlines

  • Taiwan plans US industrial parks costing $2B to $4B each, starting with a Texas complex costing up to $4B, to build a supply chain for Nvidia, TSMC, and Foxconn (Techmeme)
  • Austin-based RapidCanvas, which uses agents to help businesses build custom AI tools, raised a ∼$29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures and Hitachi Ventures (Techmeme)
  • Microsoft unveils MAI-Base-2, a MoE model with 2.8T total and 80B active parameters, claiming 4x-12x more pretraining FLOPs-efficiency than DeepSeek-V4-Pro-Base (Techmeme)
  • Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline (Hugging Face)
  • OpenAI continues to work to grow its ad business in ChatGPT, cutting ad rates, chasing small and midsize businesses, and hiring some new talent from Meta (Techmeme)

Repos gaining stars

  • Arekejoker/qwen21-nsfw-pose-skill: about +692 stars in 24h
  • onehumanbeing/esp32-iphone-agent: +606 stars in 24h
  • deeplethe/solid-glass: about +288 stars in 24h

Threads people are discussing

  • Muse Spark Open (Hacker News)
  • Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design (Hacker News)
  • Any window from your Mac, on your iPhone and iPad (Hacker News)

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