April 14, 2026 AI-DIGEST BY MAURO SICARD
From Product Hunt
Product Hunt

Figma opens its canvas to AI agents via MCP, a clever Claude Code token saver, and a fully local macOS speech tool.

Figma for Agents — Design with AI agents, connected to your design system Figma's use_figma MCP tool lets AI agents create and edit designs directly on the canvas using your actual components, variables, and auto layout. Skills files encode your team's conventions. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Copilot.
▲ 445 · figma.com
Caveman — Why use so many token when few do trick? Claude Code skill that makes responses terse while keeping full technical accuracy. Benchmarks show 22–87% token savings, averaging 65%. Multiple intensity levels from Lite to Ultra. One-command install.
▲ 211 · github.com
Ghost Pepper — 100% Local Private AI for Speech & Meeting Notes macOS app for voice dictation and meeting transcription running entirely on Apple Silicon. Hold Control to dictate into any text field. Records calls with AI summaries saved as markdown. 50+ languages. Free and open source (MIT).
▲ 176 · matthartman.github.io
HeyGen CLI — Make Videos, Translate Content & Create Avatars in Terminal HeyGen's developer platform now includes a CLI for creating videos, translating content, and generating avatars from the command line. Integrates into CI/CD and automation workflows.
▲ 124 · developers.heygen.com
Google Nest Doorbell — Smart Battery-Powered Video Doorbell New Nest Doorbell with AI-powered person, package, and vehicle detection. Battery-powered with Google Home integration.
▲ 106 · store.google.com
From Reddit
r/openai r/singularity r/LocalLLaMA r/artificial

Major week ahead: Opus 4.7 reportedly imminent, OpenAI responds to Mythos with a cybersecurity model, and GPT-5.4 Pro cracks another Erdős problem. Local inference keeps accelerating.

Anthropic Preparing Claude Opus 4.7 and AI Design Tool

The Information reports Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with an AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations — potentially releasing as soon as this week.

The design tool would compete with Google Stitch and Gamma. Figma's stock dropped on the news. Community anticipation is high after weeks of complaints about Opus 4.6 degradation.

theinformation.com · r/singularity
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.4-Cyber for Defensive Security A variant of GPT-5.4 fine-tuned for cybersecurity with lower refusal boundaries and binary reverse engineering capabilities. Available through tiered Trusted Access program to vetted security professionals. Direct response to Anthropic's Mythos, released exactly one week later.
GPT-5.4 Pro Solves Erdős Problem #1196 Solved in one shot after 80 minutes of thinking. Mathematician Jared Lichtman, who worked on this problem for 7 years, confirmed the result. Formalization is underway. Continues the accelerating trend of AI cracking long-standing math problems.
Anthropic's AI Agents Outperform Human Researchers on Alignment Anthropic built autonomous AI agents that propose ideas, run experiments, and iterate on weak-to-strong supervision — an open research problem. The agents outperform human researchers, suggesting automating alignment research is already practical.
Nvidia: AI Cuts 10-Month, 8-Engineer Chip Design Task to Overnight Porting a standard cell library — previously requiring 8 engineers over 10 months — now done overnight by a single GPU. Nvidia is introducing AI at every stage of chip design, though chief scientist says they're still "a long way" from full automation.

Local inference — speedups keep stacking.

DDTree — Another Layer of Speedup on Top of DFlash Builds a draft tree from one block diffusion pass and verifies the entire tree in a single target-model forward pass. Achieves 3.3–7.5x speedups depending on task. Local inference acceleration is compounding fast.
LLM Self-Tunes Its Own llama.cpp Flags — +54% tok/s The model iteratively tunes its own llama.cpp runtime flags and caches the fastest config. On a 3090 Ti + 4070 + 3060 rig: Qwen3.5-122B jumped from 4.1 to 17.47 tok/s, Qwen3.5-27B from 18.5 to 28.5 tok/s.
I-DLM: Convert Autoregressive LLMs to Diffusion Models New method achieves >2x speedup, fully compatible with existing inference stacks. Big potential for multi-user local inference.
From Reddit
r/StableDiffusion r/midjourney r/comfyui

Baidu drops a potential new SOTA open-source image model, Tencent is about to release engine-ready 3D world generation, and Midjourney ships V8.1.

Baidu ERNIE-Image — New SOTA Open-Source Image Model

8B parameter DiT model the community is calling the new SOTA among open-source image generation. Cinematic quality and color grading praised as next-level. Excels at text rendering, posters, infographics, and text-heavy content.

Turbo variant runs on 24GB consumer GPUs in ~2 seconds. ComfyUI support and LoRA training available day-zero via Ostris AI Toolkit. Base and Turbo variants on HuggingFace.

huggingface.co · r/StableDiffusion
Tencent HY-World 2.0 — Open-Source 3D World Generation Dropping April 15 Multimodal world model generating persistent, explorable 3D environments from text and images. Engine-ready output for game development and simulations. Major upgrade over HY-World 1.5. Open source.
Nucleus-Image — 17B MoE Diffusion Transformer Sparse mixture-of-experts image model: 17B total, ~2B active per pass. Claims to match or exceed leading models. New Pareto frontier in quality-versus-efficiency for open-source image generation.
Midjourney V8.1 Alpha — HD 3x Faster, Moodboards Stabilized HD mode now 3x faster and 3x cheaper (now default). Standard res 50% faster. V7-style aesthetics restored. Moodboards and srefs now super stable.
From Reddit
r/macapps r/selfhosted r/SideProject

A self-hosted search engine for your browsing history, a floating local AI for macOS, and self-hosted music discovery to ditch Spotify's playlists.

Hister — Self-Hosted Search Engine for Your Browsing History Full-text indexer that saves all visited pages rendered by your browser. Chrome and Firefox extensions auto-index everything. Powerful query language, offline access to cached pages, terminal and web UI. AGPLv3, built with Go.
Thuki — Free Local Floating AI Assistant for macOS Context-aware floating AI that pops up with double-tap Control, even over fullscreen apps. Highlight text first and it arrives pre-filled. Runs locally with Ollama — no API keys, no subscriptions, no cloud.
Explo + ListenBrainz — Self-Hosted Music Discovery Automated music discovery using ListenBrainz recommendations for your self-hosted library. If you want to ditch Spotify but miss the weekly discovery playlists, this fills the gap with Jellyfin/Navidrome.
Hush — macOS Focus & Screen-Sharing Privacy Hides desktop clutter, Dock badges, notifications, and other windows. Rebuilt around focus mode for everyday productivity.
Sync-in 2.2 — Self-Hosted File Sync with PDF OCR Open-source file storage and sync. v2.2 adds full-text search with PDF OCR, Markdown indexing, and an internal event system.