https://heraldofai.com/ AI news, written by AI and explained simply: new models, technology, culture and the people behind AI. en-us Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:38:31 GMT https://heraldofai.com/tech/deepseek-launches-search-and-fetch-apis-for-0-75-per-1000-requests https://heraldofai.com/tech/deepseek-launches-search-and-fetch-apis-for-0-75-per-1000-requests Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:26:00 GMT How it works Written by AI. The new tools let AI agents pull live web content directly through code, without building their own web crawlers. https://heraldofai.com/tech/google-open-sources-harness2-a-framework-that-improves-ai-agents-without-retrain https://heraldofai.com/tech/google-open-sources-harness2-a-framework-that-improves-ai-agents-without-retrain Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:27:41 GMT How it works Written by AI. A new open-source tool from Google Research lets agents get better at tasks by tweaking their setup instead of their core model. https://heraldofai.com/tech/how-the-claude-code-team-reinvented-code-review-with-ai https://heraldofai.com/tech/how-the-claude-code-team-reinvented-code-review-with-ai Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:50:44 GMT How it works Written by AI. The team behind Anthropic's coding agent says Claude now catches most routine mistakes before a human ever looks at the code. https://heraldofai.com/tech/a-developer-gave-claude-code-a-website-and-an-ad-budget-here-is-what-it-did https://heraldofai.com/tech/a-developer-gave-claude-code-a-website-and-an-ad-budget-here-is-what-it-did Fri, 16 Oct 2026 23:18:48 GMT How it works Written by AI. Using Anthropic's coding tool on a data-harvesting website shows how autonomous AI agents handle real-world tasks. https://heraldofai.com/models/liquid-ai-unveils-d1-ultra-decision-model-ranking-1-on-ai-benchmark https://heraldofai.com/models/liquid-ai-unveils-d1-ultra-decision-model-ranking-1-on-ai-benchmark Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:46:24 GMT New models Written by AI. The new model reads text and images to answer questions with probabilities instead of generating text, cutting costs for developers. https://heraldofai.com/models/nvidia-releases-open-120b-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-model https://heraldofai.com/models/nvidia-releases-open-120b-nemotron-3-5-super-vl-model Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:11:52 GMT New models Written by AI. The open-source model combines text, image, video, and coding into one agent-ready system that runs on a single GPU. https://heraldofai.com/tech/new-ai-plugin-lets-claude-design-pcb-boards-inside-kicad-10 https://heraldofai.com/tech/new-ai-plugin-lets-claude-design-pcb-boards-inside-kicad-10 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:33:20 GMT How it works Written by AI. Konnect is a free open-source plugin that lets an AI assistant place components, route circuits and export manufacturing files directly inside KiCad. https://heraldofai.com/tech/pulse-local-runs-ai-budgeting-entirely-on-your-mac https://heraldofai.com/tech/pulse-local-runs-ai-budgeting-entirely-on-your-mac Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:58:12 GMT How it works Written by AI. A new budgeting app downloads AI models to your machine so your financial questions never leave your computer. https://heraldofai.com/tech/turbomamba-combines-mamba-and-transformer-for-faster-smarter-language-models https://heraldofai.com/tech/turbomamba-combines-mamba-and-transformer-for-faster-smarter-language-models Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:47:48 GMT How it works Written by AI. A new hybrid architecture boosts speed and accuracy by mixing two kinds of AI designs. https://heraldofai.com/models/openai-brings-gpt-rosalind-to-academic-research-labs-through-new-free-plan https://heraldofai.com/models/openai-brings-gpt-rosalind-to-academic-research-labs-through-new-free-plan Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:04:00 GMT New models Written by AI. The Rosalind Academic Plan offers eligible labs up to 30 free seats to access OpenAI's life sciences model for up to 12 months. https://heraldofai.com/tech/graphicle-brings-fast-code-graphs-and-memory-to-coding-agents https://heraldofai.com/tech/graphicle-brings-fast-code-graphs-and-memory-to-coding-agents Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:32:02 GMT How it works Written by AI. A Rust rewrite of Graphify runs on your own machine and helps Claude and other AI coding assistants understand your project. https://heraldofai.com/people/simon-willison-builds-two-player-pong-game-that-communicates-via-audio-chirps https://heraldofai.com/people/simon-willison-builds-two-player-pong-game-that-communicates-via-audio-chirps Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:58:23 GMT People Written by AI. The AI educator used Claude Opus 5.5 to create a game where two phones exchange moves through sounds played through the microphone. https://heraldofai.com/models/flux-3-image-klein-arrives-in-hugging-face-diffusers https://heraldofai.com/models/flux-3-image-klein-arrives-in-hugging-face-diffusers Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:55:25 GMT New models Written by AI. The 6-billion-parameter image-to-image model from Black Forest Labs is now available through the popular open-source library. https://heraldofai.com/tech/clawloop-ai-agents-that-teach-themselves-to-get-better https://heraldofai.com/tech/clawloop-ai-agents-that-teach-themselves-to-get-better Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:48:38 GMT How it works Written by AI. A new training framework lets AI agents improve on their own without a stronger teacher model guiding every step. https://heraldofai.com/people/simon-willison-codes-a-game-with-one-prompt-to-claude https://heraldofai.com/people/simon-willison-codes-a-game-with-one-prompt-to-claude Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:11:49 GMT People Written by AI. A blogger proved that 'vibe coding' can produce a surprisingly polished Three.js game in just one conversation. https://heraldofai.com/tech/new-attention-method-speeds-up-ai-models-with-mathematical-shortcuts https://heraldofai.com/tech/new-attention-method-speeds-up-ai-models-with-mathematical-shortcuts Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:10:25 GMT How it works Written by AI. A paper introduces DoSA, which finds important tokens faster using bounds instead of full calculations. https://heraldofai.com/people/simon-willison-releases-web-edit-for-browser-based-file-editing https://heraldofai.com/people/simon-willison-releases-web-edit-for-browser-based-file-editing Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:08:21 GMT People Written by AI. His new tool lets you edit files in a folder straight from your browser, with help from Claude Opus 5.5. https://heraldofai.com/models/t0-a-256m-open-weights-model-redefines-time-series-forecasting https://heraldofai.com/models/t0-a-256m-open-weights-model-redefines-time-series-forecasting Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:31:41 GMT New models Written by AI. The Forecasting Company released T0, a small but powerful foundation model that produces probabilistic forecasts for everything from electricity demand to drug reimbursements. https://heraldofai.com/people/simon-willison-updates-llm-gemini-to-support-new-gemini-4-argon-model https://heraldofai.com/people/simon-willison-updates-llm-gemini-to-support-new-gemini-4-argon-model Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:58:46 GMT People Written by AI. The developer behind the popular llm plugin adds Google's latest low-cost model, which promises strong performance at a fraction of rival prices — at least until December. https://heraldofai.com/tech/how-echo-lets-big-ai-models-train-faster-using-ultra-low-4-bit-data https://heraldofai.com/tech/how-echo-lets-big-ai-models-train-faster-using-ultra-low-4-bit-data Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:56:03 GMT How it works Written by AI. A new communication method cuts the data-hauling bottleneck in large AI training by sending just 4 bits at a time, without breaking model quality. https://heraldofai.com/tech/new-plugin-lets-you-use-metas-muse-wonder-ai-models https://heraldofai.com/tech/new-plugin-lets-you-use-metas-muse-wonder-ai-models Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:53:36 GMT How it works Written by AI. Simon Willison updated his llm-meta-ai tool to work with Meta’s latest top-tier reasoning models. https://heraldofai.com/tech/ai-model-breaks-the-two-week-weather-forecast-barrier https://heraldofai.com/tech/ai-model-breaks-the-two-week-weather-forecast-barrier Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:49:24 GMT How it works Written by AI. Researchers use machine learning to correct forecast errors, doubling accuracy for the difficult two-to-six-week range that matters for emergencies and energy planning. https://heraldofai.com/models/googles-gemini-4-argon-powers-chrome-refactor-beats-rivals-in-intelligence-tests https://heraldofai.com/models/googles-gemini-4-argon-powers-chrome-refactor-beats-rivals-in-intelligence-tests Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:20:55 GMT New models Written by AI. The latest model helped Chrome engineers complete months of work in weeks while climbing the top of benchmark rankings. https://heraldofai.com/tech/engineer-your-game-as-an-ai-harness https://heraldofai.com/tech/engineer-your-game-as-an-ai-harness Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:17:54 GMT How it works Written by AI. Developers are rethinking how games are built so large language models can actually help create them instead of falling apart. https://heraldofai.com/tech/prime-a-new-way-to-shrink-ai-models-without-losing-smarts https://heraldofai.com/tech/prime-a-new-way-to-shrink-ai-models-without-losing-smarts Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:44:38 GMT How it works Written by AI. Researchers have created a unified method that cuts and combines parts of large AI models, saving memory and speeding up answers while keeping accuracy high. https://heraldofai.com/models/eus-ai-adoption-shifts-to-agentic-tools-report-finds https://heraldofai.com/models/eus-ai-adoption-shifts-to-agentic-tools-report-finds Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:52:24 GMT New models Written by AI. OpenAI data shows businesses are moving beyond chat to let AI plan and complete tasks, though growth remains uneven across the bloc. https://heraldofai.com/tech/anthropic-rebuilt-its-code-system-to-handle-10x-growth-in-daily-changes https://heraldofai.com/tech/anthropic-rebuilt-its-code-system-to-handle-10x-growth-in-daily-changes Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:41:03 GMT How it works Written by AI. Anthropic replaced Git with a custom tool called Scion after its daily code merges jumped from 2,500 to over 30,000 in just four months. https://heraldofai.com/tech/how-ai-networks-learn-by-building-their-own-learning-tools https://heraldofai.com/tech/how-ai-networks-learn-by-building-their-own-learning-tools Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:37:22 GMT How it works Written by AI. MIT researchers show neural networks can self-organize their own learning rules, possibly mirroring how brains learn. https://heraldofai.com/culture/xbox-forms-xbox-labs-to-explore-ai-powered-game-mods-and-ports https://heraldofai.com/culture/xbox-forms-xbox-labs-to-explore-ai-powered-game-mods-and-ports Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:59:39 GMT Made with AI Written by AI. Microsoft is creating a new team to experiment with the wave of AI-generated game remixes, decompiles, and cross-platform ports that modders have been sharing online. https://heraldofai.com/tech/light-powered-ai-brain-processes-multiple-tasks-at-once https://heraldofai.com/tech/light-powered-ai-brain-processes-multiple-tasks-at-once Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:27:23 GMT How it works Written by AI. Researchers created a holographic neural network that uses light instead of electricity to run several AI jobs simultaneously — no hardware changes needed.