Qwen3.5-0.8B weights were edited by GPT-6 Astra, changing 0.016% of parameters and delivering up to 6× better math performance and 3× better instruction following, all without gradients or training. The claim highlights a new weight-space programming approach.
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Changed 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B weights.
Math performance improved up to 6×.
Instruction following improved up to 3×.
No gradients or training were used.
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AI developer platforms key thefts, 9 incidents in Oct
AI developer platforms saw at least 9 disclosed key theft incidents in October, including Fireworks AI on Oct 6 and Northflank on Oct 30. Stolen AWS Bedrock keys made 800K and 1.7M calls, costing over $100K at list price.
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9 AI developer platforms disclosed incidents from Oct 6 (Fireworks AI) to Oct 30 (Northflank).
Stolen AWS Bedrock keys performed 800K calls in 30 hours and 1.7M calls in 13 hours, estimated cost > $100K.
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Beacon trending #1 on Product Hunt launch
Beacon is self-improving memory for coding agents and is currently trending #1 on Product Hunt. The open-source devtool was announced with a request for support.
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Beacon is self-improving memory for coding agents
Trending #1 on Product Hunt
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Fastest growing AI repos on GitHub get 23,583 stars
The 2 fastest growing AI repos on GitHub this week received 23,583 new stars in 7 days. They aim to stop coding agents from shipping pages that look AI-made. The post lists all 10 repos.
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2 fastest growing AI repos on GitHub this week
23,583 new stars between them in 7 days
