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Daily links
One-line pointers to today's local-AI, model, hardware, and healthcare-AI news. No commentary — just the headline, the link, and where it came from.
[ hardware ]12
- b11192 — llama.cpp
- Are there still any hidden gem gpu's left? — r/LL
- b11191 — llama.cpp
- b11190 — llama.cpp
- I ran the actual break-even math on buying vs renting an H200 box, and it is not where I… — r/LL
- b11189 — llama.cpp
- b11188 — llama.cpp
- b11185 — llama.cpp
- Trained my first small language model — r/LL
- b11184 — llama.cpp
- b11183 — llama.cpp
- AMD Takes the Lid off of Next-Gen EPYC 9006 Venice As Zen 6 Comes to Servers — STH
[ new models ]6
- How long can I expect to wait until the local ~30B A3B frontier catches up to GLM 5.3 Fl… — r/LL
- 4-5 days replacing Claude w Qwen 3.8 Next — r/LL
- Qwen3.8-27B: Using KV Cache Transplants to Boost Output Quality — r/LL
- Swift1.5-Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is phenomenal vs. base 3.8-Flash! — r/LL
- Splash on a 40-core M5 Max: +20% decode by tuning the kernels for your own chip — r/LL
- Accelerating vision-language models with LFM2.5-VL-DSpark — HF
[ local ai ]11
- Ling Tiny 3.0 is a glimpse of the future — r/LL
- Custom Models in Oh My Pi: vLLM, llama.cpp, SGLang and More — r/LL
- Kev 4B topped out in every Tetris game I ran. Mica v0.1 4B cleared about 4x more lines a… — r/LL
- Mica v0.1 4B got an iron pickaxe in real Minecraft without generating a single token — r/LL
- Is there a lightweight version of Hermes agent? — r/LL
- Make Volta Fast Again — r/LL
- How do you use subagents & multiple agent with local models, and how many? — r/LL
- PSA for M5Ultra owners running LLMs: set your prefill step to 8192 — r/LL
- Has anyone benchmarked AI agents against the SOLIDWORKS CSWA exam? — r/LL
- Gemma 4 Developer Agent Competition — r/LL
- Former Intel CEO: "HBM is lousy". High Bandwidth Flash Is Coming — r/LL
[ benchmarks & papers ]3
- Jev vs. Kev: open-source Jev alternative tested side by side — r/LL
- Qwengram-0.8B: I transferred Qwen3.8 Flash-Next’s n-gram memory into Qwen3.5-0.8B — 5.05… — r/LL
- Guiding large language models to predict edit sequences for molecular synthesizability o… — NatMI
[ tools ]2
- Blabbermouth AI coding agents hate this one weird trick! — r/LL
- Best LLM for every budget, updated daily — HN
[ healthcare ai ]12
- Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by… — STAT
- STAT+: Licensing deals on generic versions of Roche flu drug aimed at preparing for pand… — STAT
- STAT+: Lilly wins approval for once-weekly insulin shot — STAT
- Opinion: FDA commissioner nominee Heidi Overton is ignoring the science on abortion drug — STAT
- STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings — STAT
- STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a reticent FDA commish nominee, a Novo deal, an… — STAT
- Federal judge rolls back landmark disability protections — STAT
- How Big Tobacco flooded the FDA with public comments to kill a menthol cigarette ban — STAT
- At least five candidates vie to become the next WHO leader, as questions over U.S. role… — STAT
- STAT+: The head of Kennedy’s new autism project has roots in Iraq War, Sesame Street — STAT
- Opinion: RFK Jr.’s use of the National Center for Health Statistics will add confusion t… — STAT
- Opinion: The ‘died with’ vs. ‘died of’ measles discussion misses something very importan… — STAT
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