not much happened today

**Ornith-1.5** launches as a new open-weight model family with **9B dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE** variants under **MIT license**, featuring quantized formats like **FP8, GGUF, MLX, and NVFP4** and showcasing end-to-end **self-improvement** capabilities. Compression techniques improve accuracy and efficiency, with **Qwen3.8-27B GGUFs** using **Dynamic V3** achieving **10% higher accuracy** and 1-bit quantization retaining **77% BF16 accuracy** on **8GB RAM**. Agent evaluation boards highlight models like **Claude Opus 5 (High)**, **Kimi K3**, **GLM 5.2**, **Grok 4.5**, and **GPT-5.6 Luna** leading in quality and value. **DeepSeek Harness (DSH)** introduces a plugin-based open agent runtime architecture optimized for extensibility and tooling. **TrueFoundry** open-sources **TrueForge**, a self-hostable, vendor-neutral agent harness that reduces token usage by **30%** and cuts costs by **75%** while maintaining accuracy, emphasizing the growing importance of session, environment, memory, and tools layers in agent platforms.