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Research, Notes, News, Hackathons & Events

Hackathons, events, news, research, and lab notes — rigorously categorized for noise-free exploration.

Hackathons

🏆 Hackathon⏳ Closing Soon

Deadline: September 30, 2026

AssemblyAI Voice Agent Hackathon

A month to build voice agents on AssemblyAI. Online. Starts Sep 1, 2026; registration stays open all month.

Amazon Developer Hackathon: Build, Ship, Shape

🏆 Hackathon● Open

Deadline: October 23, 2026

Amazon Developer Hackathon: Build, Ship, Shape

◈Prizes: USD 190,000

Global Amazon & AWS hackathon offering over USD 190,000 in prizes to build AI agents and applications with Bedrock, SageMaker, and Alexa+. Closes October 23, 2026.

🏆 Hackathon● Open

Deadline: October 26, 2026

OpenCV AI Competition 2026

◈Prizes: USD 19,500

Global computer vision and agentic vision challenge powered by OpenCV 5 and AWS offering over USD 19,500 in prizes. Closes October 26, 2026.

🏆 Hackathon○ Ended

Deadline: September 09, 2026

Agentic Cinema

Media production agents with Gemini and partner MCP (IBM, Grafana, Replit, and more). Closes Sep 9, 2026 at 16:00 Ecuador time.

🏆 Hackathon○ Ended

Deadline: September 04, 2026

Alpaca AI Trading Agents Hackathon

Trading agents with Alpaca's API, MCP server, and CLI. Live now. Closes Sep 4, 2026 at 10:00 Ecuador time.

🏆 Hackathon○ Ended

Deadline: September 03, 2026

The WebMCP Challenge

Agent-native sites with WebMCP. Organized by OpenAI, Chrome, Cloudflare, and Vercel. Closes Sep 3, 2026 at 15:00 Ecuador time.

🏆 Hackathon○ Ended

Deadline: August 31, 2026

All Things Agentic Hackathon

Online Google Cloud hackathon to build autonomous agents with Gemini, ADK, and Cloud Run. Closes Aug 31, 2026 at 19:00 Ecuador time.

News

Claude Opus 5.5 and the Opus Lineage: Adaptive Thinking, Fable Parity, and Agentic Dominance

📰 News

September 24, 2026· 7 min read

Claude Opus 5.5 and the Opus Lineage: Adaptive Thinking, Fable Parity, and Agentic Dominance

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5: 40% cheaper execution, always-on adaptive thinking, and benchmark-shattering performance across multi-repo agentic workflows.

TypeSafe's Jev: Deep Technical Dive into the System 1 Decision Engine

📰 News

September 22, 2026· 7 min read

TypeSafe's Jev: Deep Technical Dive into the System 1 Decision Engine

An exhaustive technical teardown of Jev (Jev-1 / 1.13): non-autoregressive architecture, parallel typed question evaluation (noul, choice, score), Python/TypeScript SDKs, and performance telemetry vs GPT-4o.

Best CV: AI résumé builder, ATS match, and LaTeX export

📰 News

September 02, 2026· 2 min read

Best CV: AI résumé builder, ATS match, and LaTeX export

Introducing Best CV: edit, import, improve, and translate your résumé, match it to job posts, and export to LaTeX or PDF.

📰 News

July 20, 2026· 1 min read

Welcome to Parsec AI Labs

Why this lab exists, what we will publish here, and how we will measure progress.

Notes

What Are System 1 Decision Models: Ending Generative Token Waste

📝 Note

September 22, 2026· 8 min read

What Are System 1 Decision Models: Ending Generative Token Waste

A conceptual and mathematical deep dive into prefill-only decision models. Why forcing generative LLMs into JSON structured outputs is an architectural flaw, and how Jev, Laya, and Kev establish a new standard.

Research

The ART System in Jumbo Phages: Deep Analysis of Claude's Discovery, Real Limits, and CRISPR Comparisons

🔬 Research

September 24, 2026· 13 min read

The ART System in Jumbo Phages: Deep Analysis of Claude's Discovery, Real Limits, and CRISPR Comparisons

An agnostic, molecular deep dive into array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART) discovered by Anthropic's autonomous AI agents, contrasted with modern CRISPR and evaluating its impact on biological sciences.

DeepSeek-R1: Open Reasoning and Distillation for Local Inference

🔬 Research

September 22, 2026· 7 min read

DeepSeek-R1: Open Reasoning and Distillation for Local Inference

Analysis of DeepSeek-R1's reasoning architecture, its distilled models, and how to run dense reasoning models on local hardware.

Jev vs. Laya vs. Kev: Exhaustive Benchmark and Decision Guide for System 1 Models

🔬 Research

September 22, 2026· 8 min read

Jev vs. Laya vs. Kev: Exhaustive Benchmark and Decision Guide for System 1 Models

A rigorous technical comparison between Jev, Laya, and Kev across latency, total cost of ownership (TCO), data sovereignty, and fine-tuning flexibility. Which model fits your software architecture.