News Around the World — 2026-11-13 Officials say: Codex CLI 0.168.0 — new release lets users choose a default model provider for new chats and adds side-conversation panes in the TUI, alongside audio-recording attachments and OSC 777 terminal notifications. AI Hugging Face Papers — BirdDreams: Joint Perspective and BEV Video Generation for a Plausible, Reactive Driving World Model — proposes a driving world model that jointly generates first-person and bird’s-eye-view video so the two perspectives stay consistent and reactive to agent actions. Hugging Face Papers — On the Design of Hyper-Connections: Simplification, Stability, and Scalability — simplifies the hyper-connections technique for deep networks, reporting better training stability and scalability than the original design. Hugging Face Papers — Duo: A Reciprocal World Model for Full-Duplex Interaction — introduces a world model built for full-duplex (talk-while-listening) interaction rather than turn-based exchanges. Hugging Face Papers — G-STAR: Group-Scaled Token Capacity for Deeply Compressed Autoregressive Generation — a group-scaled token-capacity scheme aimed at keeping autoregressive generation quality under heavy compression. Hugging Face Papers — From Large Language Models to Efficient System One Models via Adaptive Computation — distills slower, deliberate LLM reasoning into faster “System 1”-style models using adaptive computation to control the speed/quality trade-off.
