# AI SI Daily

> AI SI Daily is an independent bilingual (English/Chinese) site about AI tools, online utilities, open-source projects and software — what each one does, how to get started and where the official docs are — plus hands-on tests and a daily AI news brief with every claim linked to its source.

- AI SI Daily is an independent publication and is not affiliated with the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) or the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI).
- Posts come in two types: "hands-on" (tested by the author) and "overview" (compiled from official websites, docs and READMEs; not tested by us).
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## Key pages

- [Online Tools](https://aisidaily.com/tools/): Utilities that run in your browser
- [AI Background Remover](https://aisidaily.com/tools/remove-background/): Local image processing with full-size transparent PNG or a custom background
- [remove.bg alternatives](https://aisidaily.com/guides/remove-bg-alternative/): Compare privacy, downloads and free-use limitations
- [Home](https://aisidaily.com/): Tool map, latest posts and daily briefs
- [All posts](https://aisidaily.com/posts/): All 23 posts grouped by category
- [AI Daily Brief](https://aisidaily.com/daily/): The day in AI, every claim linked to its source.
- [AI Model Prices](https://aisidaily.com/ai-pricing/): AI model API prices per 1M tokens, with vendor sources
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## Categories

- [AI Tools](https://aisidaily.com/category/ai-tools/): Assistants, image and video models, agents, coding tools and local AI.
- [Guides](https://aisidaily.com/category/guides/): Step-by-step tutorials and setup guides.

## AI Tools

- [Hex voice dictation: a free, local way to talk to your coding agent](https://aisidaily.com/posts/hex-voice-dictation.md): Hex, Anomaly's free MIT-licensed dictation app with on-device speech recognition: install on Mac, Windows, Linux, alternatives compared, and a Linux engine test.
- [nsh (Native Shell): Longbridge's Rust cross-platform UI, explained for frontend devs](https://aisidaily.com/posts/longbridge-nsh-native-shell.md): Longbridge's nsh (Native Shell) for frontend devs: TSX with signals, native views, hot reload, AI-agent tooling, and a comparison with React Native, Flutter and Tauri.
- [mygo: an AI-built Go framework for desktop apps, with native UI or a web frontend](https://aisidaily.com/posts/mygo-go-desktop-apps.md): mygo builds Go desktop apps as one ~9 MB binary with a webview or GPU-drawn native UI, no cgo, mostly co-written by Claude. Quickstart, our Linux build, and comparisons.
- [It could have been stronger. Moonshot AI held it back on purpose](https://aisidaily.com/posts/kimi-k3-1-pro-review.md): Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro: 2.8 trillion total parameters, a 1M-token context, full weights before November 4. But first, a rarer detail: it could have been stronger.
- [quickjs-oxide: Can an AI-written, safe-Rust QuickJS keep pace with C?](https://aisidaily.com/posts/quickjs-oxide.md): AI Rewrites tests quickjs-oxide, a zero-unsafe Rust rewrite of QuickJS: how AI built it, what we reproduced on Test262 and benchmarks, and where it still falls short. (hands-on)
- [tsrs: Is the AI-assisted Rust port ready to replace tsc?](https://aisidaily.com/posts/tsrs-typescript-rust.md): AI Rewrites examines tsrs: what it ports, how to read its performance claims, compatibility limits, and a practical way to evaluate it.
- [Cline: What It Is, Key Capabilities, and Getting Started](https://aisidaily.com/posts/cline.md): An introduction to Cline, an open-source AI agent for your IDE, CLI, and desktop that coordinates code changes and executes terminal workflows.
- [NotebookLM Guide: What the AI Research Tool Is and How to Use It](https://aisidaily.com/posts/notebooklm.md): Discover how NotebookLM works as an AI research assistant, explore its source-grounded features, and learn how to get started with your Google Account.
- [Khoj: What It Is, Key Features, and How to Get Started](https://aisidaily.com/posts/khoj.md): Learn about Khoj, an open-source personal AI second brain that connects your notes, documents, and local or online LLMs into a private workspace.
- [Open WebUI: Overview, Key Features, and Getting Started](https://aisidaily.com/posts/open-webui.md): Explore Open WebUI, an open-source, self-hosted interface for local and cloud AI models. Learn about its capabilities, setup steps, and requirements.
- [ComfyUI Guide: What It Is, Features, and How to Get Started](https://aisidaily.com/posts/comfyui.md): Discover ComfyUI, a modular node-based engine for AI content creation. Learn what it does, how it works, and how to get started on your machine.
- [Dify: What It Is and How to Build AI Applications](https://aisidaily.com/posts/dify.md): Explore Dify, an open-source platform for creating AI workflows, agents, and RAG pipelines. Learn what it offers, how it works, and how to get started.
- [HunyuanVideo: Architecture, Capabilities, and Getting Started](https://aisidaily.com/posts/hunyuanvideo.md): Explore HunyuanVideo, Tencent's 13B open-source video foundation model. Learn about its dual-stream design, system requirements, and setup steps.
- [Ollama: An Introduction and Getting-Started Guide](https://aisidaily.com/posts/ollama.md): An introduction to Ollama, exploring how to run open AI models locally or in the cloud with complete privacy, developer APIs, and integrations.
- [Understanding n8n: A Guide to AI Automation and Workflows](https://aisidaily.com/posts/n8n.md): Explore n8n, a fair-code automation platform combining a visual node canvas, custom scripting, and tools to build multi-step AI agents.
- [whisper.cpp: High-Performance Speech Recognition in C and C++](https://aisidaily.com/posts/whisper-cpp.md): An introductory guide to whisper.cpp, a lightweight C/C++ port of OpenAI's Whisper model for running speech transcription locally across diverse devices.
- [OpenHands: An Introduction to the AI Developer Control Center](https://aisidaily.com/posts/openhands.md): Discover OpenHands, an open-source control center for running AI coding agents, managing workflows, and connecting development tools.
- [Aider: Terminal AI Pair Programming and Quickstart Guide](https://aisidaily.com/posts/aider.md): An introduction to Aider, the open-source terminal tool for AI pair programming, codebase mapping, Git integration, and multi-model code editing.

## Guides

- [Why AI coding feels smoother on a Mac — and the first fix every Windows user needs](https://aisidaily.com/posts/windows-ai-coding-setup.md): AI-written commands keep failing on Windows? Install PowerShell 7, make your agent use pwsh, and add agent-skills and coreutils. About 15 minutes. (hands-on)
- [Make right-click “Run with PowerShell” use PowerShell 7 (one command)](https://aisidaily.com/posts/powershell-7-run-with-powershell.md): Windows still sends “Run with PowerShell” to the old 5.1. Switch it to PowerShell 7 with one no-admin command, or a custom ProgID — plus how it works and how to undo it. (hands-on)
- [Run a Local LLM on Your Computer: Ollama and Open WebUI Guide](https://aisidaily.com/posts/guide-local-llm.md): Learn how to set up and run open large language models locally on your computer using Ollama and the self-hosted Open WebUI browser interface.
- [Install Windows Apps via CLI: Guide to WinGet and Scoop](https://aisidaily.com/posts/guide-windows-package-managers.md): Discover how to install and manage Windows applications from the command line using WinGet and Scoop with this clear, beginner-friendly guide.
- [Getting Started with Docker Compose: A Guide to Self-Hosting](https://aisidaily.com/posts/guide-self-hosting-start.md): Discover how to start self-hosting multi-container applications using Docker Compose, including essential concepts, storage, and networking.

## AI Daily Brief (recent)

- [AI Daily Brief · Nov 4, 2026 | Axios: OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer; Postman accused of auto-installing plugins into Claude Code and Codex; Tencent releases Hy4](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-11-04/): Axios reports exclusively that OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer and fold its code storage into Codex. A developer accuses Postman's desktop app of auto-installing plugins into Claude Code and Codex and writing a trust record for its own startup hook, and the Hacker News thread reached 1,391 points. Claude Code recapped its October updates and added auto-connect for enterprise plugins, Tencent Hunyuan released Hy4 with vision and computer use, and OpenAI showed models designing physical hardware; an NBC exit poll found 56% of voters called AI and data centers a factor in their vote.
- [AI Daily Brief · Nov 3, 2026 | Anthropic's amended S-1 shows $16.96B in Q3 revenue; MIT has GPT-6 Astra edit a small model's weights directly; FT says Nvidia told clients to limit China business](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-11-03/): Anthropic's amended IPO filing shows Q3 revenue of $16.96 billion and an operating loss of $567 million, and says internal estimates for future models indicate it may soon reach its RSP threshold for AI-accelerated progress. MIT CSAIL had GPT-6 Astra edit just 0.016% of Qwen3.5-0.8B's weights with no training, lifting its MATH-500 score from 7.9% to 48.1%. OpenAI raised bug bounties and unveiled its in-house Git backend Pando and the everyday-tasks benchmark LifeVal, while the FT reported that Nvidia told cloud clients to sell at least 51% of their compute to non-Chinese companies.
- [AI Daily Brief · Nov 2, 2026 | SemiAnalysis launches GDPx, where the best score is just 12%; Abu Dhabi signs four deals with OpenAI; AI subscription subsidies tighten](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-11-02/): SemiAnalysis released GDPx, a benchmark of 206 tasks across 11 domains, with Claude Opus 5.5 on top at 12.0. Abu Dhabi signed four agreements with OpenAI, including one for ADNOC to bring OpenAI models into its operations. Elon Musk said Grok Bot costs too much to serve relative to revenue, and OpenAI said ChatGPT and Codex will share usage limits starting in December. Axios reports OpenAI is preparing a post-midterm policy push built around AI "speed limits."
- [AI Daily Brief · Nov 1, 2026 | Musk says Colossus 2 will have about 1.2M Blackwells by year-end; DeepSeek open-sources the dsh-superagent coding-agent prototype; Apple overtakes Nvidia in market value](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-11-01/): Musk detailed two new Colossus 2 clusters, Gun Range and Spam, and said the site will have about 1.2 million Blackwells by year-end, though the four buildings he listed add up to only about 860,000 GB300s. DeepSeek open-sourced dsh-superagent, a research-prototype coding agent that watches a GitHub repo and picks up work on its own. In an AI-stock pullback, Apple overtook Nvidia with a $5.03 trillion market value; Anthropic's Claude self-assessment drew "snitch" accusations, and SpaceXSI said the Grok API will watermark text by default starting Nov 7.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 31, 2026 | FT says OpenAI cut its funding target by $10B; Claude Max 20x becomes Ultra with no 5-hour limit; Google's space TPU sends back a haiku](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-31/): The FT reports that OpenAI cut its funding target from $30 billion to about $20 billion and its valuation target to $1.25 trillion, and that Blackstone expects Anthropic to get only a "high junk" rating after its IPO. Anthropic renamed Max 20x to Ultra and removed its 5-hour limit, and published research using thousands of Claude agents for automated red-teaming. Google's Project Suncatcher satellite ran TPU inference in orbit and sent back a haiku, while OpenAI launched Private Intelligence and listed the legal model gpt-6-astra-law on its API pricing page.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 30, 2026 | OpenAI doubles usage limits; Bloomberg says Anthropic is SpaceX's biggest customer; a malicious Claude Code extension hits Cursor's marketplace; Mistral opens Large 4 weights](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-30/): OpenAI dropped its planned Pro cut and doubled usage limits for Pro and Business Premium, while publishing its frontier-model monitoring system and a new Model Spec. Bloomberg reports Anthropic is the customer behind 34.5% of SpaceX's third-quarter revenue, and Nvidia is said to be in talks to guarantee credit for Nscale's Anthropic data center. A tampered Claude Code extension reached up to 5,000 Cursor users, and Mistral released open weights for the 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 29, 2026 | Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon; Alphabet and Microsoft earnings: cloud surges, Alphabet falls ~10% after hours; OpenAI's Dot takes texts; DOJ looks at Nvidia's Hugging Face deal](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-29/): Google released Gemini 4 Carbon, which tops Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 at 59 and leads several cybersecurity evals, with a staged rollout starting with cyber defenders. Alphabet's Q3 cloud revenue rose 103%, but the overall miss sent shares down about 10% after hours, while Microsoft's Azure grew 48%. OpenAI let Pro users text their Dot and bundled API credits into Pro and Business plans. The Information reported that DeepSeek and Moonshot distilled GPT-6 Astra, and the DOJ is asking questions about Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition as The New York Times reported that a close contact of Jensen Huang is believed to be a Chinese intelligence asset.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 28, 2026 | Google DeepMind unveils Genie 4; Anthropic buys a one-person biotech and publishes exploit-chain and expert-judgment studies; AA Intelligence Index v5; Google TPUs come to Oracle Cloud](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-28/): Google DeepMind released Genie 4, a world model with native audio and real-time natural-language scene edits that is headed to the API for the first time. Anthropic shared early drug-development progress, disclosed its acquisition of one-person biotech Mithril, and published two studies: an unreleased model built five working exploit chains, and analysts followed an AI agent’s planted leanings 86% of the time. Artificial Analysis launched Intelligence Index v5, with Claude Opus 5.5 on top at 58 and the open-weights gap widening to 12 points. Google TPUs will arrive on Oracle Cloud in 2027, and The Information reports OpenAI plans to buy Google AI chips. Axiom used AI agents to fully formalize the classification of finite simple groups in Lean in 24 days.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 27, 2026 | OpenAI ships GPT-6.1 Terra; three science claims; NVIDIA/AMD buy Meta equity; Broadcom’s $63B Anthropic chip SPV](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-27/): OpenAI launched GPT-6.1 Terra with API prices cut roughly in half and a 15-point gain on Agents’ Last Exam versus GPT-5.6 Terra at about one-third the cost; it also claimed three scientific advances in math, complexity theory, and QFT. NVIDIA will put $3B into Meta’s equity raise and expand Muse collaboration; AMD will invest $1B and says Helios is already running at Meta. Broadcom and bank partners announced a ~$63B SPV to finance Anthropic’s AI accelerators. Cursor shipped an Agent SDK and added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 26, 2026 | Anthropic files for its IPO; Anthropic breached in 12 hours as Claude pulls Georgia vote data; SpaceX's $40B GPU deal and a neocloud shakeout](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-26/): Anthropic publicly files its S-1 to list on Nasdaq as "ANT," reporting $16.3 billion in first-half revenue; the same day, a security startup is reported to have broken into its internal systems in under 12 hours, and Georgia discloses that Claude bypassed a paywall to read aggregate vote counts; Musk says SpaceX secured $40 billion for GPUs and that 200-plus neoclouds face a shakeout; NVIDIA lowers Vera Rubin's memory and NVLink bandwidth; Kimi apologizes for rate limits.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 25, 2026 | Altman says bugs can't all be patched; Sweden blocks ChatGPT and Claude; Elvis rights holders sue Anthropic](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-25/): Sam Altman says he no longer thinks every bug can be patched, as a study shows how an edited open-weight model can hide a backdoor; Sweden's Government Offices block ChatGPT and Claude on staff computers from Oct. 26; Elvis Presley's rights holders sue Anthropic for about $41 million; the FBI weighs an economic espionage charge in the OpenAI bugging case; GPU rents, AI's payoff outside tech and an RTX 40-series 'unlock' fuel the compute debate; r/opensource and a thousand mathematicians push back on AI.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 24, 2026 | Kimi K3.1 Pro debuts at the top of open models; OpenAI cuts frontier training off from the internet; Texas sues OpenAI and Altman](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-24/): Moonshot releases Kimi K3.1 Pro, which ranks 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and 1st among openly available models on its Cyber Index, though its promotional campaign is accused of telling creators not to disclose paid partnerships; OpenAI details how it hardened its training environment, cutting frontier training off from the live internet, after red-team agents passed messages between VMs through the processor cache and found a remote code execution bug in Brotli; the Texas attorney general sues OpenAI and Sam Altman; Block launches Dessa, a full-duplex voice model trained only on speech; China and the UK announce AI policies on jobs and AI security.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 23, 2026 | Claude makes auto mode the default; Mythos 5 test incident reviewed and gaps in OpenAI's monitoring exposed; OpenAI reportedly raising at a $1.25 trillion valuation](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-23/): Anthropic says Claude apps will run in auto mode by default starting next week and donates Agent Skills to the Linux Foundation's AAIF; Anthropic and the UK AISI review how Mythos 5 attacked a real GitHub repository during testing, while METR and Redwood publish gaps in OpenAI's internal agent monitoring; CNBC reports OpenAI is raising up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation; MiniMax releases the weights of M3.1 Flash and Kimi teases K3.1.
- [AI Daily Brief · Oct 22, 2026 | Anthropic launches proactive agent Claude Duet; AI-agent attacks come into view; DeepSeek reportedly raises about $15 billion](https://aisidaily.com/daily/ai-daily-2026-10-22/): Anthropic opens a research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent, and switches Claude Security to continuous scanning; security firm Straiker and Microsoft detail attacks automated with AI agents, and Axios reports US banks have found unauthorized agents in customer accounts; DeepSeek reportedly raises about 100 billion yuan at a 500 billion yuan pre-money valuation; Recursive and Mirendil release new models built with help from AI.

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