not much happened today

**Apple** released three real-time vision-language models (**FastVLM**, **MobileCLIP2**) on Hugging Face with significant speed and size improvements, supporting WebGPU and Core ML. Their MLX framework now supports **MXFP4** format, competing with **NVFP4** for FP4 quantization. **xAI** launched **grok-code-fast-1**, outperforming Claude for code edits, while **OpenAI** integrated **GPT-5** into Xcode 26 and released a new **Responses API** on **Groq** hardware. CLI-first agent workflows advanced with tools like **SemTools**, **MLX** local runner for Apple Silicon, and **llama.vim** recommending **Qwen 3 Coder 30B A3B**. Retrieval research highlights limitations of single-vector embeddings, promoting ColBERT-style late interaction.