# Digest: 2026-05-08

## Status
phase: selection-complete
updated: 2026-05-08

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## Final Selection

Total items: 22

### Item 1: Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers uses GPT-5.5 Pro, warns of math research "crisis"
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a-recent-experience-with-chatgpt-5-5-pro/
    twitter: https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2052830948685676605
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1t7iyis/
- title: Fields Medalist Gowers Uses GPT-5.5 Pro to Solve Open Problems
- description: Fields Medal winner Timothy Gowers published a blog post about using GPT-5.5 Pro to solve open mathematical problems, saying he believes mathematical research will face a "crisis" very soon at the current rate of AI progress. He described crossing an "interesting threshold" where the model's mathematical reasoning has become genuinely useful for research-level work.
- meta: gowers.wordpress.com · r/singularity

### Item 2: Google DeepMind AI Co-Mathematician — 48% FrontierMath Tier 4 (new SOTA)
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06651
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1t7dcum/
- title: DeepMind AI Co-Mathematician Sets FrontierMath Record
- description: Google DeepMind released an agentic AI co-mathematician that scores 48% on FrontierMath Tier 4, the new high score among all AI systems — beating GPT-5.5 Pro (39.6%) and GPT-5.4 Pro (37.5%). Multi-agent system with coordinated parallel workstreams, hypothesis tracking, and LaTeX write-ups.
- meta: arxiv.org · r/singularity

### Item 3: OpenAI launches GPT-5.5-Cyber for vetted defenders
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-with-trusted-access-for-cyber/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1t7f1ef/
- title: GPT-5.5-Cyber — Fewer Guardrails for Security Teams
- description: OpenAI launched GPT-5.5-Cyber in limited preview through the Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program. Vetted defenders at government, critical infrastructure, and security vendors get a version with fewer guardrails for bug hunting, malware analysis, and reverse engineering. Advanced Account Security required from June 1.
- meta: openai.com · r/OpenAI

### Item 4: METR evaluated early Claude Mythos — 50% time horizon 16+ hours
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://metr.org/time-horizons/
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1t7pqpr/
- title: METR Evaluates Early Claude Mythos — Unprecedented Task Duration
- description: METR evaluated an early version of Claude Mythos Preview during a limited window in March 2026, estimating a 50% time horizon of at least 16 hours (95% CI 8.5-55 hours). Only 5 of 228 tasks in their suite exceed 16 hours, indicating they're reaching the limits of their current evaluation framework.
- meta: metr.org · r/singularity

### Item 5: Claude for Microsoft 365 now generally available
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://claude.com/blog/collaborate-with-claude-across-excel-powerpoint-word-and-outlook
    twitter: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2052445786651168849
- title: Claude for Excel, PowerPoint, Word — Now GA (Outlook in Beta)
- description: Claude add-ins for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint are now generally available. Key innovation: Claude carries full conversation context as you move between apps. Outlook is in public beta. Requires paid Claude plan. Works on Windows, Mac, and web.
- meta: claude.com · r/singularity

### Item 6: DeepSeek seeking $7.35B funding, V4.1 next month
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t7bfpw/
- title: DeepSeek Targeting $7.35B Round, V4.1 Coming in June
- description: Update: DeepSeek is now targeting up to RMB 50 billion (~$7.35B) in its first-ever funding round, significantly higher than the $3-4B initially reported. Founder Liang Wenfeng plans to contribute the maximum allowable amount. V4.1 update planned for next month.
- meta: r/LocalLLaMA

### Item 7: DS4 — DeepSeek 4 Flash inference engine for 128GB Macs
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/antirez/ds4
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t72tk9/
- title: DS4 by antirez — DeepSeek V4 Flash on Your Mac
- description: Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez, creator of Redis) released DS4, a DeepSeek 4 Flash-specific inference engine optimized for 128GB MacBooks. Purpose-built for the V4 Flash architecture rather than being a general inference engine.
- meta: github.com · r/LocalLLaMA

### Item 8: AI2 EMO — Novel MoE with document-level expert routing
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/collections/allenai/emo
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t7kgy4/
- title: AI2 EMO — 14B MoE with Domain-Aware Expert Routing
- description: Allen AI released EMO, a 14B total / 1B active MoE model trained on 1T tokens. Interesting architectural innovation — experts cluster around domains (health, news, etc.) via document-level routing rather than surface patterns.
- meta: huggingface.co · r/LocalLLaMA

### Item 9: Ring 2.6 1T by InclusionAI
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://openrouter.ai/inclusionai/ring-2.6-1t:free
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1t7bvmq/
- title: Ring 2.6 1T — Ant Group's Latest Trillion-Parameter Model
- description: InclusionAI (Ant Group) released Ring 2.6 1T, the successor to Ring-1T-2.5. Available on OpenRouter for free. Open weights expected based on precedent with prior releases.
- meta: openrouter.ai · r/LocalLLaMA

### Item 10: Scientists identify 10,000+ exoplanet candidates using AI
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://www.livescience.com/space/exoplanets/scientists-identify-10-000-impossible-exoplanet-candidates-potentially-tripling-the-number-of-known-alien-worlds
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1t7879n/
- title: AI Identifies 10,000+ New Exoplanet Candidates
- description: Scientists used AI to identify over 10,000 new exoplanet candidates, potentially tripling the number of known alien worlds. A significant demonstration of AI's impact on scientific discovery at scale.
- meta: livescience.com · r/singularity

### Item 11: Helix 02 robot tidies bedroom autonomously
- source: AI-LLMs
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://youtu.be/8xEuFQz4E4A
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1t7bix8/
- title: Helix 02 — Robot Tidying a Bedroom Autonomously
- description: Helix 02 humanoid robot demonstrated tidying a bedroom autonomously — picking up items, folding, and organizing without human intervention. One of the most practical humanoid robot demos to date.
- meta: youtube.com · r/singularity

### Item 12: FluxRT — Real-time webcam stream processing at 30 FPS
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: featured
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/tensorforger/FluxRT
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1t7nd7e/
- title: FluxRT — Real-Time Video Stream Processing with Flux.2-Klein
- description: Open-source pipeline built on Flux.2-Klein-4B that processes webcam video in real-time at 30 FPS with ~0.2s latency on a single RTX 5090. Uses a custom spatial-aware KV cache that only recomputes tokens where motion occurs, plus frame interpolation.
- meta: github.com · r/StableDiffusion

### Item 13: LTX-2.3 PolarQuant Q5 — 88% size reduction, near lossless
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://huggingface.co/caiovicentino1/LTX-2.3-22B-HLWQ-Q5
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1t7mhaw/
- title: LTX-2.3 PolarQuant Q5 — 88% Smaller, 0.9986 Cosine Similarity
- description: A new quantization method (PolarQuant Q5) reduces LTX-2.3 22B to 88% of its original size while maintaining near-lossless quality (cosine similarity 0.9986). Huge for running video generation locally.
- meta: huggingface.co · r/StableDiffusion

### Item 14: Qwen3-1.7B distilled text encoder — 21% less VRAM for Z-Image
- source: GenAI-Media
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/1t71hvm/
- title: Distilled Qwen3-1.7B Text Encoder Saves 21% VRAM
- description: A finetuned Qwen3-1.7B with adapter imitates Qwen3-4B hidden states, reducing VRAM from 20.7GB to 16.3GB (21% savings) with nearly identical output quality. Generation time also slightly faster.
- meta: r/StableDiffusion

### Item 15: Ara — Computer use agent that lives in your Mac's notch
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://ara.so
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/dereference-the-100x-ide
- title: Ara — Computer Use Agent in Your Notch
- tagline: BYOLLM computer-use agent for Mac
- description: Agentic computer use that lives in your Mac's notch. Bring your own LLM provider, use Codex-like computer use for free. Executes tasks by controlling cursor, clicking apps, filling forms. 1,000+ integrations. Think Wispr Flow but with actual screen control.
- votes: 122
- domain: ara.so

### Item 16: SuperIsland — Dynamic Island for macOS with Extensions SDK
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://dynamicisland.app
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/superisland
    github: https://github.com/shobhit99/SuperIsland
- title: SuperIsland — Dynamic Island for macOS
- tagline: iOS-style live activities in your Mac's notch
- description: Free, open-source Dynamic Island for Mac with an extensions SDK. Music player, calendar, weather, file tray, and growing extension library (WhatsApp, Linear, AI agent status, teleprompter). Raycast-style extension model.
- votes: 96
- domain: dynamicisland.app

### Item 17: Monid 2.0 — OpenRouter for agent tools
- source: Product Hunt
- card_type: ph
- urls:
    primary: https://monid.ai
    producthunt: https://www.producthunt.com/products/monid
- title: Monid 2.0 — OpenRouter for Agent Tools
- tagline: One skill, every tool your agent needs
- description: Plug in once and your agent can discover, compare, and pay for any of 200+ tools on demand — social scrapers, search APIs, ecommerce data, lead gen. Unified API for agent tool access.
- votes: 373
- domain: monid.ai

### Item 18: FileFluss — Open source multi-cloud file manager for Mac
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/rana-gmbh/filefluss
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t76p53/
- title: FileFluss — Manage Files Across Cloud Providers
- description: Free, open-source Mac-native file manager for searching, moving, and syncing files across multiple cloud storage providers (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc.) from a single interface. From the creator of NetFluss (9,000+ downloads).
- meta: github.com · r/macapps

### Item 19: Kavita v0.9.0 — CVE security update
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1t75mtc/
- title: Kavita v0.9.0 — Security CVE Fix + Major Release
- description: Self-hosted reading server Kavita v0.9.0 released with fixes for 2 medium CVEs. Also includes new features. Update immediately if running Kavita.
- meta: r/selfhosted

### Item 20: NaiveChat — Raycast AI Chat alternative for power users
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: link
- urls:
    primary: https://reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1t7rn1b/
- title: NaiveChat — Hotkey-Driven AI Chat for Mac
- description: A Raycast AI Chat alternative built for extreme efficiency and intensive model/prompt engineering. Hotkey-driven, focused on speed and control over the chat experience.
- meta: r/macapps

### Item 21: AutoFocusMonitor — Auto-focus last window when switching monitors
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://github.com/javalight/AutoFocusMonitor
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1t7frt8/
- title: AutoFocusMonitor — One Less Click Per Monitor Switch
- description: Free, open-source macOS utility that automatically focuses the last-used window when you move your mouse between monitors. Eliminates the click needed to regain focus. Tiny quality-of-life fix.
- meta: github.com · r/opensource

### Item 22: Technitium DNS Server v15 — OIDC single sign-on
- source: Apps-Software
- card_type: compact
- urls:
    primary: https://blog.technitium.com/2026/04/technitium-dns-server-v15-released.html
    reddit: https://reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1t7kctw/
- title: Technitium DNS v15 — Now with OIDC SSO
- description: Popular self-hosted DNS server adds OIDC single sign-on support. Long-requested feature for homelab users running identity providers like Authentik or Keycloak.
- meta: blog.technitium.com · r/selfhosted

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phase: selection-complete
