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Five things new in AI, today. Each one confirmed by the people already using it, with the thread and the source linked.

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Rev. 09-26No. 03 ·
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 Runs 30% Faster at the Same Price

Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini skills replacing Gems, ElevenLabs' Eleven v4, Cloudflare's cf CLI and H Company's open Holo4: five things new in AI, each confirmed on Reddit.

  1. Claude Sonnet 5.5 runs faster at the same price

    Confirmed in r/singularity

    Model
    790

  2. Gemini skills replace Gems, with slash commands

    Confirmed in r/GeminiAI

    Feature
    View the thread

  3. Eleven v4 makes cloned voices more expressive

    Confirmed in r/ElevenLabs

    Model
    View the thread

  4. Cloudflare's cf CLI puts its whole API in an agent's reach

    Confirmed in r/CloudFlare

    Tool
    View the thread

  5. Holo4 is an open computer-use model you can run locally

    Confirmed in r/LocalLLaMA

    Model
    View the thread
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How an item makes the five

Announcements are cheap. A thread of people using the thing is not. Every item has to pass all three conditions.

  1. It shipped in the last four days

    Available to use now: a release, a feature, a repo, an access change. Nothing "coming soon".

  2. People are using it on Reddit

    A real thread with real reports, on r/artificial, r/MachineLearning, r/LocalLLaMA, r/ClaudeAI, r/OpenAI and their neighbors. The thread is linked on every item.

  3. You can act on it today

    Each item says what it does, who it is for and what to do next, with the primary source linked. Our own words, no hype.

Past issues

Every issue stays up, five items each, threads and sources included.

  1. Rev. 09-26

    Claude Opus 5.5 Delivers Fable-Level Work for 40% Less

    Claude Opus 5.5, OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Claude Code cloud sessions, the ThinkingCap fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS: five things new in AI, each confirmed on Reddit.

    No. 02
  2. Rev. 09-26

    Grok 4.7 Lands in Copilot, Cursor and the API

    Grok 4.7, Qwen-Image-2.1, a 5.9 GB Bonsai 2, Xiaomi's MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6 and an open-sourced ZCode: five things new in AI, each confirmed on Reddit.

    No. 01

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