AI News. April 13, 2026

OpenAI is developing Scratchpad for Codex, a TODO-style interface that lets users queue multiple tasks and run them in parallel ahead of the broader Codex Superapp launch

TestingCatalog News 🗞@testingcatalog

OpenAI is working on a new experimental feature for Codex called Scratchpad. Users will be able to start multiple Codex chats from a TODO list view, which will be executed in parallel. It will become very instrumental in the upcoming Codex Superapp, where you will be able to

5:34 PM · Apr 11, 2026 · 217K Views

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Meta started rolling out Contemplating mode for Muse Spark, running 16 agents in parallel to synthesize answers to user prompts

TestingCatalog News 🗞@testingcatalog

Meta started rolling out Contemplating mode for Muse Spark, where 16 agents will work on your prompt to synthesize a consolidated answer! Deep Think for free? 👀 h/t @borrowed_ideas

Jack Wu @JackTripleU

Contemplating mode is rolling out slowly, everyone will get a chance to try it soon!

11:18 PM · Apr 11, 2026 · 35.7K Views

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NousResearch released Autoreason, a reasoning method co-written with the Hermes Agent that enables conference-grade research paper generation

Nous Research@NousResearch

Have an idea for an experiment? Hermes can now write conference-grade research papers alongside you.

𒐪 @SHL0MS

introducing Autoreason, a reasoning method inspired by @karpathy's AutoResearch which extends the strategy for subjective domains the paper was co-written with Hermes Agent by @NousResearch, using a research-paper-writing skill developed while writing it paper + results below

7:49 PM · Apr 12, 2026 · 113K Views

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MiniMax open sourced M2.7 with SOTA performance on SWE-Pro (56.22%) and Terminal Bench 2 (57.0%), available on Hugging Face and licensed for commercial use

ollama@ollama

MiniMax M2.7 is available on Ollama's cloud, and is licensed for commercial usage. Use it with OpenClaw: ollama launch openclaw --model minimax-m2.7:cloud Coding agents, such as Claude: ollama launch claude --model minimax-m2.7:cloud Chat with the model: ollama run

MiniMax (official) @MiniMax_AI

We're delighted to announce that MiniMax M2.7 is now officially open source. With SOTA performance in SWE-Pro (56.22%) and Terminal Bench 2 (57.0%). You can find it on Hugging Face now. Enjoy!🤗 huggingface：https://t.co/lyDLCyPqsy Blog: https://t.co/tTzoxgUTud MiniMax API:

1:28 AM · Apr 12, 2026 · 238K Views

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Google open sourced TimesFM, a time-series forecasting model pre-trained on 100B real-world data points with zero-shot forecasting capability, under Apache license​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

0xMarioNawfal@RoundtableSpace

Google quietly open sourced a time-series AI that predicts anything. Sales trends. Market prices. User traffic. Energy demand. Crypto volatility. It's called TimesFM. Pre-trained on 100B real-world data points. Zero-shot forecasting with no fine-tuning. Outperforms supervised

5:16 PM · Apr 12, 2026 · 179K Views

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