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AI News Digest: January 03, 2026

Daily roundup of AI and ML news - 8 curated stories on security, research, and industry developments.

Here's your daily roundup of the most relevant AI and ML news for January 03, 2026. Today's digest includes 5 security-focused stories. Click through to read the full articles from our curated sources.

Security & Safety

1. IQuest-Coder: A new open-source code model beats Claude Sonnet 4.5 and GPT 5.1 [pdf]

Article URL: https://github.com/IQuestLab/IQuest-Coder-V1/blob/main/papers/IQuest_Coder_Technical_Report.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472667 Points: 13

Comments: 5

Source: Hacker News - ML Security | 1 hours ago

2. Red Teaming with RL: Exploiting Tinker API for Harmful RL on 235B Model

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/blog/georgefen/red-teaming-with-rl Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472407 Points: 2

Comments: 0

Source: Hacker News - ML Security | 2 hours ago

3. Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin

Hi Hacker News,This is definitely out of my comfort zone. I've never programmed DSP before. But I was able to use Claude code and have it help me build this using CMajor.I just wanted to show you guys because I'm super proud of it. It's a 100% faithful recreation based off of the schematics, pate...

Source: Hacker News - ML Security | 4 hours ago

4. Verified Model-Based Conformance Testing for Dummies

Article URL: https://welltyped.systems/blog/verified-conformance-testing-for-dummies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46473059 Points: 1

Comments: 0

Source: Hacker News - ML Security | just now

5. The New Moore's Law: Why Optical Computing Could Redefine Scaling for AI

Article URL: https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/industry-articles/the-new-moores-law-why-optical-computing-could-redefine-scaling-for-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472699 Points: 3

Comments: 1

Source: Hacker News - ML Security | 1 hours ago

Tech & Development

6. Lynkr – Multi-Provider LLM Proxy

Article URL: https://github.com/Fast-Editor/Lynkr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471238 Points: 1

Comments: 1

Source: Hacker News - AI | 5 hours ago

7. One line, one agent: LLM-native language NERD goes agent-first

Article URL: https://www.nerd-lang.org/agent-first Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46471097 Points: 1

Comments: 1

Source: Hacker News - AI | 5 hours ago

8. Glasses-free 3D display with ultrawide viewing range using deep learning

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09752-y Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46470501 Points: 3

Comments: 0

Source: Hacker News - AI | 7 hours ago


About This Digest

This digest is automatically curated from leading AI and tech news sources, filtered for relevance to AI security and the ML ecosystem. Stories are scored and ranked based on their relevance to model security, supply chain safety, and the broader AI landscape.

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