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DiffusionGemma

DiffusionGemma is an experimental open model from Google DeepMind in the Gemma family that generates text by diffusion instead of autoregression. Rather than predicting one token at a time, it denoises whole spans in parallel, built on Gemma 4 and Gemini Diffusion research. The payoff is speed: up t

The US Government Banned Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Three days. That's how long Anthropic's most powerful model lasted in the wild before the US government pulled the plug.

Audiblez

Audiblez is an open-source tool that converts EPUB e-books into M4B audiobooks using AI text-to-speech. You give it an EPUB, pick a voice and language, and it generates chapter-by-chapter audio combined into a single audiobook file.

NVIDIA SkillSpector

SkillSpector is NVIDIA's open-source security scanner for AI Agent Skills — the executable skill components used by Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Gemini CLI. It vets a skill before you install it, detecting vulnerabilities and malicious patterns.

Vercel AI CLI

The Vercel AI CLI (`ai-cli`, by Vercel Labs) is a lightweight, agent-native command-line tool for generating images, video, and text from the terminal. It uses the Vercel AI SDK and AI Gateway for unified access to hundreds of models across providers.

Always bet on text

Essay by Graydon Hoare (creator of the Rust programming language). His thesis: "text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period." When in doubt, default to text.

LM Studio Mobile App

The official mobile companion to LM Studio, called Locally (acquired by LM Studio in 2026). It lets you use the Large Language Models (LLMs)) running on your desktop computer from your phone, so a frontier-sized model executes at home while you chat from anywhere.

Open Knowledge Format (OKF)

The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is an open specification from Google Cloud for representing the metadata, context, and curated knowledge that AI systems need, in a portable, vendor-neutral, human- and agent-readable form. Version 0.1 shipped on 2026-06-12, authored by Sam McVeety and Amir Hormati of

last30days: An Agent Skill That Searches People, Not Editors

Matt Van Horn — co-founder of the June oven and an early member of the team that became Lyft — has been building in open source lately, and one of his projects is worth your attention: last30days, an AI agent skill that researches any topic across the places people actually talk.

Open Code Review (Alibaba)

Open Code Review is an open-source, AI-powered CLI for automated code review from Alibaba. It was incubated from Alibaba's internal tooling after two years and tens of thousands of developers, then released to the community. Its distinguishing bet is a hybrid deterministic + agent architecture that

AI Wiki - PKM - PKM Anti-Patterns

Personal Knowledge Management promises clarity, creativity, and compounding returns on intellectual effort. But the practice is riddled with failure modes that can turn a knowledge system into a productivity sink. These anti-patterns are among the most discussed topics in PKM communities, precisely

mq: jq for Markdown

If you've ever loved jq for slicing JSON and wished you had the same thing for Markdown, mq) is exactly that.