📋 Log for 2026-03-31

😄 Joke of the Day

I always wanted to look into why I procrastinate, but I keep putting it off.

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Latest OpenRouter Models

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.7 (Fast) (anthropic/claude-opus-4.7-fast)

Fast-mode variant of <a href="/anthropic/claude-opus-4.7">Opus 4.7</a> - identical capabilities with higher output speed at premium 6x pricing.

Learn more in Anthropic's docs: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/fast-mode

Published: 12/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/anthropic/claude-opus-4.7-fast


Perceptron: Perceptron Mk1 (perceptron/perceptron-mk1)

Perceptron Mk1 (Mark One) is Perceptron's highest-quality vision-language model for video and embodied reasoning.** It accepts image and video inputs paired with natural language queries, and produces detailed visual understanding...

Published: 12/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/perceptron/perceptron-mk1


inclusionAI: Ring-2.6-1T (free) (inclusionai/ring-2.6-1t)

Ring-2.6-1T is a 1T-parameter-scale thinking model with 63B active parameters, built for real-world agent workflows that require both strong capability and operational efficiency. It is optimized for coding agents, tool...

Published: 08/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/inclusionai/ring-2.6-1t


Free Models Catalog

Model Capabilities Publication Date
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) N/A 11/03/2026
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 (free) N/A 12/02/2026
Free Models Router N/A 01/02/2026
StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash (free) N/A 29/01/2026
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Preview (free) N/A 27/01/2026
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) N/A 20/01/2026
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) N/A 20/01/2026
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) N/A 14/12/2025
Arcee AI: Trinity Mini (free) N/A 01/12/2025

Google: Lyria 3 Pro Preview (google/lyria-3-pro-preview)

Full-length songs are priced at $0.08 per song. Lyria 3 is Google's family of music generation models, available through the Gemini API. With Lyria 3, you can generate high-quality, 48kHz stereo audio from text prompts or from images. These models deliver structural coherence, including vocals, timed lyrics, and full instrumental arrangements. Lyria 3 Pro can generate full-length songs with verses, choruses, bridges.

Published: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:48:06 GMT


Google: Lyria 3 Clip Preview (google/lyria-3-clip-preview)

30 second duration clips are priced at $0.04 per clip. Lyria 3 is Google's family of music generation models, available through the Gemini API. With Lyria 3, you can generate high-quality, 48kHz stereo audio from text prompts or from images. These models deliver structural coherence, including vocals, timed lyrics, and full instrumental arrangements. Lyria 3 Clip can generate short clips, loops, previews.

Published: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:47:35 GMT


Qwen: Qwen3.6 Plus Preview (free) (qwen/qwen3.6-plus-preview)

Qwen 3.6 Plus Preview is the next-generation evolution of the Qwen Plus series, featuring an advanced hybrid architecture that improves efficiency and scalability. It delivers stronger reasoning and more reliable agentic behavior compared to the 3.5 series. In benchmarks, it performs at or above leading state-of-the-art models. Designed as a flagship preview, it excels in agentic coding, front-end development, and complex problem-solving.

Note: The model collects prompt and completion data that can be used to improve the model.

Published: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:26:09 GMT


Reka: Flash 3 (rekaai/reka-flash-3)

Reka Flash 3 is a general-purpose, instruction-tuned large language model with 21 billion parameters, developed by Reka. It excels at general chat, coding tasks, instruction-following, and function calling. Featuring a 32K context length and optimized through reinforcement learning (RLOO), it provides competitive performance comparable to proprietary models within a smaller parameter footprint. Ideal for low-latency, local, or on-device deployments, Reka Flash 3 is compact, supports efficient quantization (down to 11GB at 4-bit precision), and employs explicit reasoning tags ("<reasoning>") to indicate its internal thought process.

Reka Flash 3 is primarily an English model with limited multilingual understanding capabilities. The model weights are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Published: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 20:53:33 GMT



Robot Technology

🤖 Resource-sharing boosts robotic resilience

The Mori3 modular origami robot. Image credit: EPFL. Reproduced under CC-BY-SA. By Celia Luterbacher If the goal of a robot is to perform a function, then minimizing the possibility of failure is a top priority when it comes to robotic design. But this minimization is at odds with the robotic raison d’être: systems with multiple [&amp;#8230;]

Source: robohub.org • Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:01:32 +0000

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🤖 From Physical AI to operational AI

Artificial intelligence has brought enormous excitement to robotics. Robots can now walk, navigate complex environments, and perform tasks that seemed impossible only a few years ago. But there is a major gap between robot demonstrations and real industrial deployment . A robot that works in a controlled research environment is very different from a robot that operates reliably on a production line. This is the difference between physical AI and operational AI .

Source: blog.robotiq.com • Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:34:29 GMT

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Good News

Hero Black Lab Was Trained as a Seeing-Eye Dog, but Detected Owner’s Blood Clot Too

Luis Perez is no stranger to pain. At 45-years-old, he has been battling MS most of his life, lost his vision at age 23 due to complications with his condition, and now receives regular plasma infusions to combat symptoms of his autoimmune disease. All of this has been extremely difficult and has led to him [&amp;#8230;] The post Hero Black Lab Was Trained as a Seeing-Eye Dog, but Detected Owner&amp;#8217;s Blood Clot Too appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:30:58 +0000

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Aging Delivery Driver Gets Huge Tip After Conscientious Effort Goes Viral via Ring Video

GNN recently reported on a crowdfunding campaign gone viral on behalf of an elderly DoorDash driver working far beyond his retirement to afford his wife&amp;#8217;s expensive medication. Now along a similar vein, an Idaho man was left &amp;#8220;blown away&amp;#8221; when he learned that a nearly 70-year-old Dominoes driver had gone to the grocery store to [&amp;#8230;] The post Aging Delivery Driver Gets Huge Tip After Conscientious Effort Goes Viral via Ring Video appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:00:24 +0000

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Small S. Korea Town Welcomes First Newborn in 17 Years as Nation’s Fertility Rate Continues to Rise

A small, rural town in South Korea is celebrating the first child birth in 17 years as the country continues to enjoy a rise in its fertility rate. In addition, 4 students enrolled at the town&amp;#8217;s only the school, taking its attendance to 17, another demographic milestone the residents had reason to celebrate. Earlier, GNN [&amp;#8230;] The post Small S. Korea Town Welcomes First Newborn in 17 Years as Nation&amp;#8217;s Fertility Rate Continues to Rise appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:00:43 +0000

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Good News in History, March 31

43 years ago today, Monty Python&amp;#8217;s The Meaning of Life was released in the United States to modest box office success and enormous cult acclaim. Less of a continuous film like the comedy troupe&amp;#8217;s previous Life of Brain, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail and more of a collection of sketches, The Meaning of Life is divided into various chapters of [&amp;#8230;] The post Good News in History, March 31 appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:00 +0000

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Life lessons: Rick Astley on what life so far has taught him

The English singer-songwriter on appreciating good fortune, the benefits of stoicism, and being a trucker in another life The post Life lessons: Rick Astley on what life so far has taught him appeared first on Positive News .

Published: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:00:42 +0000

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