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OptiQ Code scored 82.9 on the Harness Leaderboard's Terminal-Bench mini + DeepSWE mini tasks, state of the art there. The best harnesses on the board, pi and mini-swe-agent, get 82.2 on the same 29 tasks with GLM-5.3-Flash. All nine are in the chart. mlx-optiq.com/code?utm_sourc…

New OptiQ quant: Groot-19B-A3B-OptiQ-4bit, GrootTeam's mixture-of-experts model, 13.5 GB on disk, takes images. Capability Score 78.37: GSM8K 94.4, BFCL-V3 92.5, HumanEval 89.6, IFEval 77.1, MMLU 70.6, HashHop 46.0. Free: pip install mlx-optiq mlx-optiq.com/models/groot-1…

A PTS steering vector for Qwen3.5-0.8B cuts stock literary words ("hum", "whispered", "testament"): answers using one fell from 57% to 17% on 50 held-out prompts. Prompting "Write plainly" only got to 44%. No fine-tuning. Plainer prose, not better prose. huggingface.co/LocalLLaMA/Qw…

The Ramayana in 30 seconds, told with characters from free browser games 🪔 Happy Diwali. mythology.games/?utm_source=…

Frame 1.1.3 turns a finding it proved reachable into a runnable test that drives the app's own code to the sink, in Python, JS/TS, Java and C#. Then --check-fixed re-runs that test on the fixed code: it passes only if the fix removed the flow. github.com/lambdasec/frame/r…

Mandiant: average time from disclosure to exploitation fell from 63 days (2018-19) to 5 in 2023. Verizon's 2024 DBIR: ~55 days to fix half of critical known-exploited flaws. Frame checks which vulnerable deps your code actually reaches, so those go first. github.com/lambdasec/frame

Happy Dhanteras from the palace arena 🪔 Free browser games, no install: mythology.games/?utm_source=…

AI visibility numbers flip week to week. One question on merageo.com went 2, 0, 2, 1, 0, 2 assistants across six scans. meraGEO's new scoreboard only counts a question as named in 2 of the last 3 scans, and sets it next to your first scan. Paid plans: merageo.com/pricing?utm_sour…

The camera drifts over a river city, settles on the palace's gold domes, and dusk falls with every lamp lit. Switch off raids in Myth City and you can just build and watch. Free to play. mythology.games/city/?utm_so…

Eight riders on one long road, and you can hit the one next to you. This is the snow stretch on a bull in Myth Dash, free in your browser. mythology.games/dash/?utm_so…

On Easy, a bull-drawn chariot starts 8th on a seaside track, works past the elephants and the crowds, and wins the race. Myth Kart is free in the browser, nothing to install. mythology.games/kart/?utm_so…

A low AI visibility score says there's a problem, not where. meraGEO now lists the questions where ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini named competitors and not you. These are sampled answers, not search volume. On paid plans, and the first scan is free. merageo.com/?utm_source=x&ut…

Qwen3.5-4B-3D-Coder now runs on a Mac as a 4-bit OptiQ quant and writes game assets as single-file Three.js HTML. About 26 tokens/s, 4-6 GB peak on a 24 GB M4. This cannon is one of the 11 that rendered out of 18 tries; 3 crashed, 4 looped. mlx-optiq.com/models/qwen3.5…

A miss from a Claude Code session on Opus 5.5 in auto mode. During routine file moves it added rm -f /dev/null to a command, for no reason. Auto mode didn't stop it. macOS refused, so nothing changed, but sudo would have let it through. It flagged the slip itself.

OptiQ Code for GitHub: mention @optiq-bot on an issue, get a pull request back. It was told not to edit workflow files and wrote one anyway. A check before pushing refused it. Instructions to a model aren't a security boundary. mlx-optiq.com/blog/optiq-cod…