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meetpateltechon iPhone Duo

Anyone noticed the headline has two "Hello"s for a phone that folds in two? John Ternus' first tweet was just "hello" and he opened the event the same way.

This has to be on purpose.

meetpateltechon Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

According to the WSJ, 3.5 Pro is reportedly being skipped entirely, making Gemini 4 the next flagship model after post-training.

https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/2094937419615502370

meetpateltechon DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp

News announcement with benchmarks: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260821/

meetpateltechon Bun 1.4

From the Rewriting Bun in Rust blog post: 5.9B uncached input tokens, 690M output tokens, 72B cached reads, came out to ~$165k at API pricing.

meetpateltechon Grok 4.6

Cursor blog: https://cursor.com/blog/grok-4-6

meetpateltechon Ask HN: Is the GitHub pancake menu now a pancake emoji?

Looks like an easter egg for Stacked Pull Requests.

https://gh.io/stacks

meetpateltechon Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence

Kimi K3 blog is up: https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3

2.8T param open model, 1M context, native vision. Weights releasing by July 27 with technical report. Launching with max thinking effort by default; low/high effort modes coming in future updates.

meetpateltechon GPT-5.6

GPT-5.6 Sol sets a new SOTA on ARC-AGI-3: 7.8%

Sol is the first verified frontier model to ever beat an ARC-AGI-3 game

https://arcprize.org/results/openai-gpt-5-6

meetpateltechon GPT‑Live

GPT‑Live is rolling out now to ChatGPT users globally across iOS, Android, and ChatGPT.com. GPT‑Live‑1 will become the default model powering ChatGPT Voice for Go, Plus, and Pro users, and GPT‑Live‑1 mini will become the default for Free users.

meetpateltechon Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

If it’s blocked before any output, you’re billed only at Opus rates. If it’s blocked midstream, you’re billed Fable rates for what was generated so far, and Opus rates for the rest.

meetpateltechon Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

Another model family, another naming scheme to get used to.

Sol Ultra ≈ Pro

Sol ≈ Standard

Terra ≈ Mini

Luna ≈ Nano

meetpateltechon US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

> Google shows that the page was crawled a few days ago.

That's the release blog post. Google is likely pulling the snippet from the Related Content section at the bottom, which includes the post about the US government directive.

meetpateltechon Claude Fable 5

> To ensure we’re responsibly deploying Mythos-class models, we are requiring limited data retention and review as part of our safety work. Prompts submitted to, and outputs generated by, Mythos-class models are retained for 30 days for trust and safety purposes, on every platform where these models are offered. [1]

[1] https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retenti...

meetpateltechon Gemini 3.5 Flash: frontier intelligence with action

edited it.

meetpateltechon Gemini Omni

blog post: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/ge...

model card: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-omni-flash...

meetpateltechon I’ve joined Anthropic

Karpathy will start this week on Anthropic's pre-training team, which is responsible for the massive training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to Anthropic.

Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-a...

meetpateltechon GPT-5.5

GPT-5.5 System Card:

https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-5

meetpateltechon Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence

"It will be available in private preview via API to select partners, and we hope to open-source future versions of the model."

from Facebook Newsroom: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/04/introducing-muse-spark-met...

meetpateltechon Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

here: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-flash-...

also deepmind page: https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-audio/

meetpateltechon Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model

Gemini 3.1 Flash Image is based on Gemini 3 Flash.

source: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-flash-...

meetpateltechon Nano Banana 2

Model Card: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-flash-...

Blog Post: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/ai/nano-ban...

Developer Blog: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-...

meetpateltechon Lyria 3

Same here, but they’re gradually rolling it out since many users are slowly getting it under Tools.

meetpateltechon Claude Sonnet 4.6

AWS and Google

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-amazon

https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-partners-with-googl...

meetpateltechon Claude Sonnet 4.6

They're probably saving 5 for a bigger leap.

meetpateltechon Twitter(X) Is Down

Can confirm.

DownDetector showing widespread reports: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/

meetpateltechon NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry

There’s also https://v1.run/ (packrun.dev) experimenting with an npm registry for agents that adds package scoring and MCP integration for AI coding assistants.

meetpateltechon Gemini 3 Deep Think

The official blog post was submitted earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990637), but somehow this story ranked up quickly on the homepage.

meetpateltechon Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode

Anthropic's blog:

> Apple’s Xcode now supports the Claude Agent SDK

https://www.anthropic.com/news/apple-xcode-claude-agent-sdk

meetpateltechon Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds

Google Deepmind Page: https://deepmind.google/models/genie/

Try it in Google Labs: https://labs.google/projectgenie

(Project Genie is available to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US 18+.)

meetpateltechon Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed

Google actually does something similar for major releases - they publish a dedicated collection page with all related links.

For example, the Gemini 3 Pro collection: https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-collection/

But having everything linked at the bottom of the announcement post itself would be really great too!