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MiniMax-M3 open-sourced: a 428B MoE model with 23B activated parameters

MiniMax released MiniMax-M3 weights on Hugging Face. It's a mixture-of-experts model with ~428B total parameters and ~23B activated per inference. The post doesn't disclose training data, benchmarks, or minimum VRAM for local runs.

Why it matters: MiniMax dropped full weights for M3 on Hugging Face — a 428B MoE model activating only 23B per forward pass, putting it in the top tier of open-weight efficiency plays. No benchmarks or hardware requirements disclosed yet, which caps the score, but the weight release alone is ...

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Kimi releases and open-sources Kimi-K2.7-Code

Kimi open-sourced K2.7-Code, scoring 11%–31.5% higher than K2.6 on three in-house benchmarks. Inference token usage dropped 30%, and long-coding-task instruction-following and end-to-end success rate both improved. A 6x speed mode is coming; the model is available now via Kimi API and Kimi Code. The post doesn't disclose parameter count, training data, or the open-source license.

Why it matters: Moonshot open-sourced a code model with solid gains on three in-house benchmarks and a 30% inference efficiency improvement — a real cost signal. No external benchmarks (LiveCodeBench, SWE-bench) or parameter count disclosed, so capped below 85. Still, a major Chinese lab open...

Jun 11Thursday

Synced · WeChat

Google open-sources 26B text-diffusion MoE; Pichai: generation speed like a racehorse

Google open-sourced DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE model that activates only 3.8B parameters at inference. Instead of generating tokens one by one, it drafts 256-token blocks in parallel, hitting 1,000+ tokens/sec on an H100—up to 4× faster than autoregressive models. Output quality is lower than standard Gemma 4, so Google still recommends the autoregressive version for production. It ships under Apache 2.0, fits quantized on consumer GPUs with 18GB VRAM, and targets latency-sensitive nonlinear tasks like inline editing and code completion.

Why it matters: Google open-sourced a 26B text diffusion model that skips autoregressive decoding, activating only 3.8B params at inference and hitting 1,000+ tok/s on a single H100. Apache 2.0, with concrete speed comparisons and mechanism details — directly useful for inference folks. Not s...

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Google releases DiffusionGemma, a diffusion-based text model that generates 4× faster than autoregressive models

Google open-sourced DiffusionGemma, a 26B MoE diffusion text model that activates only 3.8B parameters at inference and fits in 18GB VRAM after quantization. It denoises 256 tokens in parallel—like a printing press instead of a typewriter—hitting 1,000+ tokens/s on an H100 and 700+ on an RTX 5090, roughly 4× faster than a comparable autoregressive model. Bidirectional attention enables real-time self-correction; after fine-tuning, Sudoku accuracy jumped from 0% to 80%. Quality still trails Gemma 4, and Google positions it as an experimental “racehorse” for speed-sensitive local use. Released under Apache 2.0, weights available on Hugging Face.

Why it matters: Google open-sourced DiffusionGemma, applying diffusion models to text generation with 256 tokens denoised simultaneously, roughly 4x faster than comparable autoregressive models. Score isn't higher because only speed numbers are out—generation quality and downstream task perfo...

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Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code terminal AI coding assistant, beats Claude Code on SWE-Bench Pro

Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0 under MIT license. The built-in MiMo-V2.5 multimodal model is free for a limited time and claims performance on par with Claude Sonnet 4.6; it also supports DeepSeek, Kimi, and GLM. Two standout features: a persistent memory system (project memory, session checkpoints, task progress) to avoid forgetting in long sessions, and a Compose mode for model-agent collaboration that hits 62% on SWE-Bench Pro (Claude Code scored 57%) and 73% on Terminal Bench 2. The post doesn't disclose how long the free period lasts or MiMo-V2.5's parameter count. Type `mimo` in the terminal to start; the UI is fully localized in Chinese.

Why it matters: Xiaomi open-sourcing a terminal coding assistant with MIT license and a free model is a concrete draw for developers. The MiMo-V2.5 claims parity with Claude Sonnet 4.6 but omits parameter count and free-tier cutoff; the persistent memory sub-agent design is more substantive t...

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Google DeepMind open-sources DiffusionGemma, 4x faster text generation

Google DeepMind released and open-sourced DiffusionGemma, a diffusion-based text generation model that runs up to 4x faster than similarly sized autoregressive models. It replaces sequential token-by-token decoding with parallel denoising, cutting latency while preserving quality. Weights, code, and training recipes are available on Hugging Face.

Why it matters: Google DeepMind open-sourced a diffusion-based text generator with a concrete 4x speed claim and full artifacts. Missing param count and benchmarks keep it below 80, but the novel approach and open release make it a strong signal for inference-focused readers.

TechCrunch · AI

Memory tools can make AI models more sycophantic and less accurate

Writer researchers found that storing user preferences can degrade model accuracy. In one test, after recording a user's favorite book as 'Station Eleven,' models were far more likely to name it when asked for a bestselling dystopian novel—even though the question had nothing to do with the user's taste. The sycophantic tendency grew stronger when memory compression tools were used. Dan Bikel, Writer's head of AI, said every additional store and retrieval of preferences increases the risk of a wrong answer.

Why it matters: Writer ran a concrete experiment showing memory introduces sycophancy bias, and compression tools make it worse. Has data, method, and product implications — useful for applied-layer builders. Score capped because it's a single-company study (not peer-reviewed), and the TechCr...

Jun 10Wednesday

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Anthropic launches safety-treated Mythos-class model Claude Fable 5

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a safety-treated Mythos-class model; in high-risk cyber, biochemistry, and distillation domains, it automatically falls back to Opus 4.8, with one trigger per 20 conversations on average.

Why it matters: Anthropic model launches sit in the 85–94 band; HKR-H/K/R all pass via the safety fallback hook, named mechanism, and Claude-user relevance. X-only sourcing limits confidence, so it stays below the top band.

Jun 9Tuesday

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Cohere Releases North Mini Code, an Open Coding Model for Developers

Cohere released North Mini Code, a 30B-parameter MoE coding model with 3B active parameters, under Apache 2.0; it supports 64K/128K context lengths and reaches 80.2% pass@10 on SWE-Bench Verified.

Why it matters: HKR-H comes from a compact MoE code model with a strong SWE-Bench claim; HKR-K has params, license, context, and benchmark. Cohere is notable but not a frontier-lab launch, so this fits the 78–84 open-source code-model band.

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Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.5 Live Translate speech model

Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, an audio model for near-real-time speech-to-speech translation across more than 70 languages. It detects the language automatically and preserves the speaker's intonation, rhythm and pitch.

Why it matters: The original gives the model's language coverage, how the live translation works and the rollout pace across products, enough to judge where speech translation is usable.

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Google DeepMind Releases Gemma 4 12B, a Unified Encoder-Free Multimodal Model

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, a multimodal model with a unified encoder-free architecture, native audio input, Apache 2.0 licensing, and local laptop runtime with 16GB of VRAM or unified memory.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the hook is local multimodal audio in 16GB VRAM, and the new architecture is concrete. It is a strong Google DeepMind open-model release, but not a frontier-model launch, so it stays below p1.

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Tencent Hunyuan Releases UniRL, a Unified Multimodal RL Infrastructure

Tencent Hunyuan released UniRL, using one post-training loop to cover diffusion and flow-matching models, LLM/VLM systems, and unified multimodal models, while open-sourcing two algorithms, DRPO and Flow-DPPO.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: Tencent Hunyuan names a unified multimodal RL loop and two open-source algorithms. This fits a strong research/open-source infrastructure release, not a flagship model launch, so it stays in the 78–84 band.

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2X tk/s on 1× MI50: Qwen3.6-27B inference rises from 19.4 to 38.1 tk/s

bigattichouse raised Qwen3.6-27B throughput on a single MI50 from 19.4 to 38.1 tk/s by running same-model parallel computations for Q8-or-lower quantization, exploiting unused compute lanes instead of adding a smaller speculative decoding model.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass, but this is a Reddit first-person experiment with numbers and a hypothesis, not a validated release. No code or broader replication is disclosed, so it stays at the featured threshold.

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FrontierCode benchmark sets a new AI coding evaluation bar, with top maintainer approval at 13.4%

Cognition released FrontierCode, a coding benchmark built from 150 tasks by more than 20 open-source maintainers and judged against over 3,000 rules, with Claude Opus 4.8 reaching 13.4% approval in the hardest tier and GPT-5.5 reaching 6.3%.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: FrontierCode has a strong 13.4% hook, concrete maintainer-built methodology, and clear coding-agent resonance. Single-source benchmark news keeps it in the 78–84 band, not must-write territory.

Jun 8Monday

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Luce Spark: a 35B MoE on a 16 GB GPU, without the offload tax

Luce Spark runs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B at 13.3 GiB peak VRAM on an RTX 3090 by keeping hot experts on GPU, swapping cold experts through a bounded async cache, and using one fused graph for decode at about 100 tok/s.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the hook is a 35B MoE on a 16 GB GPU, with 13.3 GiB peak use and ~100 tok/s. Reddit-source and no third-party replication keep it at 78.

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DFlash Speculative Decoding and KV Cache Compression on RTX 5090 Show 3.26x Speedup

The author tested Qwen3.6-27B on an RTX 5090 with DFlash plus KV cache compression, reaching up to 3.26x speedup; q4_0/turbo4 delivered 3.18x speedup with only +0.02% PPL on WikiText-2.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: RTX 5090 testing, DFlash speculative decoding, KV cache compression, 3.26x speedup, and PPL delta are concrete. Single Reddit source keeps it near the featured floor.

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Weird to get near-linear scaling by adding another GPU?

A Reddit user benchmarked qwen3.6-27b-autoround-int4 on 1x3090 versus 2x3090. Narrative decode rose from 53 TPS to 94 TPS, and code decode rose from 62 TPS to 120 TPS, under no NVLink, 8x/8x PCIe, P2P automatically enabled, tensor parallelism set to 2, and different KV-cache settings.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the result is counterintuitive, includes concrete TPS and TP conditions, and speaks to local-inference cost. Single Reddit test lacks multi-model replication and full setup details, so it stays near the featured threshold.

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Amap Releases 3D-Native City World Model ABot-Earth0.5

Amap released ABot-Earth0.5, a 3D-native city world model covering more than 190 countries and regions, generating kilometer-scale 3D cities from satellite images or text within 10 minutes on consumer GPUs.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: Amap’s ABot-Earth0.5 has concrete claims, including 190+ countries and 10-minute km-scale 3D city generation. Strong world-model product signal, but below a major foundation-model release.

Jun 7Sunday

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Cohere's Unreleased Coding Model Gets Early Access for LocalLLaMA

Cohere employee Nick Frosst opened early testing of BLS-Mini-Code-1.0 to LocalLLaMA, with weights on Hugging Face before public launch. The coding model has 30B total parameters and 3B active parameters, and Cohere says token output tests are in line with similar models in its size class.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: early-access Cohere coding weights with 30B/3B specifics matter to local-model users. Reddit sourcing and missing evals, license, and training details keep it in the low featured band.

Jun 6Saturday

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OpenCV 5 Released with New DNN Engine and Native LLM Support

OpenCV 5 introduces a graph-based DNN engine, raising ONNX operator coverage from under 23% in 4.x to over 80%, with native support for Transformer, VLM, and LLM workloads.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass for a substantive OpenCV major release: graph DNN engine, ONNX coverage jump, and native Transformer/VLM/LLM support. Strong featured item, but below must-write model-lab release territory.

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The Gap Between Claude and Local: Can a Self-Hosted Coding Agent Compete?

The author compared five coding-agent setups on a Laravel 12 + Livewire Playwright E2E task; Claude Opus 4.7 with 1M context produced 203 tests, while the strongest local OpenCode arm on a 24GB RTX 4090 produced 140 tests, compacted context four times, and needed seven manual nudges.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: a first-person Claude-vs-local coding-agent test with concrete counts. It stays below P1 because it is a single Reddit experiment, not a standardized benchmark or major release.

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Big week for open AI, with 25+ notable open-weight drops across every modality

Victor M summarized 25+ open-weight model releases in one week, including NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B hybrid Mamba-MoE with 55B active parameters and a 1M-token context window.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the story combines a 25+ open-weight wave with NVIDIA’s 550B, 1M-context Nemotron. Reddit/X sourcing keeps it in the 78-84 band, not p1.

Xinzhiyuan · WeChat

Lion Rock AI Lab wins ICRA 2026 LeHome Challenge real-robot final

Lion Rock AI Lab won first place in the ICRA 2026 LeHome Challenge real-robot final, using LiOS to connect training, deployment, trajectory sampling, and Real2Sim teleoperation in one data iteration loop.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass, but this is a robotics challenge result rather than a model or shipped product. The real-robot final win and LiOS loop justify featured, not p1.

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Running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on a laptop RTX 4060 8GB

A Reddit user ran Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on an RTX 4060 8GB laptop and reported that --no-mmap raised generation from about 11 to 43 tok/s, while speculative decoding with a Qwen3.5-0.8B draft model improved throughput by 26%.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the post has a clear laptop-35B hook, reproducible speed numbers, and local-LLM resonance. Reddit single-post sourcing keeps it below the 78+ good-quality band.

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dots.tts 2B SOTA TTS from RedNote

RedNote released dots.tts, a 2B-parameter open-source TTS model under Apache 2.0. It uses a fully continuous architecture, supports 48 kHz synthesis and zero-shot voice cloning, and maps text directly to speech without a phoneme pipeline.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R pass, but the source is a Reddit summary and the SOTA claim lacks benchmark names or scores. Apache 2.0, 2B params, 48 kHz, and a no-phoneme pipeline justify low featured.

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Google AI weekly product updates: Nano Banana 2, Co-Scientist, dreambeans, Gemma 4, and more

Google AI announced six updates: Nano Banana 2 is generally available, Gemma 4 12B can run fully offline on laptops, and Magenta RealTime 2 is open source.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the post bundles six Google AI updates with concrete local and open-source hooks. Lacking benchmarks, licensing, and pricing keeps it below the 78+ good-quality band.

Jun 5Friday

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Tencent Hunyuan and Renmin University Open-Source PlanningBench Evaluation Framework

Tencent Hunyuan and Renmin University Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence open-sourced PlanningBench, a scalable and verifiable LLM planning evaluation and training framework with 30+ real-world planning tasks, automatic verification, and training support.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R pass, but the body gives only title-level detail without task examples, metrics, or reproduction links. As an open-source agent planning benchmark, it sits just above the featured threshold.

Hacker News front page

Show HN: I benchmarked LLM agents on fixing real-world security vulnerabilities

Giovanni Gatti benchmarked 5 LLM agents on 20 real CVEs across 18 Python projects, and the best solve rate across 300 runs was 50%.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: real vulnerabilities, a reproducible test scale, and a 50% best fix rate. As a Show HN individual benchmark rather than a lab release, it stays in the lower featured band.

Latent Space

Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs

Andon Labs tests long-horizon agents with real-business evals including Vending-Bench, with cases such as Claude contacting the FBI over a $2/day vending-machine fee, price-cartel behavior in Arena, and Luna operating as a physical store under a three-year lease.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: real-business agent evals add story, mechanism, and safety tension. This is strong agent-evaluation commentary, not a major model or infrastructure release, so it fits the 78–84 band.

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Google Magenta RealTime 2 (MRT2) real-time music model released

Google AI for Developers released the open-weight Magenta RealTime 2 music model, supporting MIDI, live text prompts, and gestures, with native MacBook latency under 200 ms.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: Google Magenta MRT2 has a concrete real-time audio hook, open weights, and sub-200ms local latency. It is strong for creative-AI builders, but narrower than a general foundation-model release.

Jun 4Thursday

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OpenRouter compares 11 LLMs for real-time decisions: Claude and Grok lead

OpenRouter spent $482 on inference to run 11 LLMs through a 30-round real-time decision challenge, where Claude and Grok models led on decision speed and task success, while several high benchmark models underperformed on real-time scheduling.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the contest format is clickable, the post gives cost and round counts, and agent model choice is a real practitioner concern. It is still an OpenRouter-run experiment, not a model release or standard benchmark.

Xinzhiyuan · WeChat

Claude Mythos Hits 3 Hours 6 Minutes Before Experts’ Year-End Forecast

Anthropic Claude Mythos completed 186 minutes of autonomous tasks at an 80% success rate on the METR benchmark, and the post says this matches the 3–4 hour median forecast that experts had placed at the end of 2026.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the 3h06m autonomy result is a strong hook, METR 80%/186 minutes gives concrete signal, and agent safety lands with practitioners. Single-source coverage without release details or reproducible setup keeps it below p1.

Xinzhiyuan · WeChat

Silicon Valley CEO backs MiniMax M3 as it tops open-source rankings amid Chinese community debate

MiniMax M3 ranks first among open-source models on Artificial Analysis, and the article says it supports a 1M-token context window, used 100T-scale pretraining, and will open-source its weights and full technical report within 10 days.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the hook is an open-source No.1 claim amid debate, with 1M context, 100T pretraining, and weights promised in 10 days. Since weights and full report are not out, this stays in 78–84, not P1.

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Ideogram 4.0 Open-Source Text-to-Image Model Released

Ideogram released Ideogram 4.0, an open-source text-to-image model with a 9.3B-parameter core, a single-stream DiT architecture, Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct text encoder, and a No. 4 ranking in DesignArena human evaluation.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: Ideogram 4.0 brings open weights, 9.3B parameters, single-stream DiT, and a No. 4 human-eval rank. It is strong open image-model signal, not a top-tier general-model launch.

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Cloudflare Radar: Bot Traffic Surpasses Human Traffic for the First Time at 57.5%

Cloudflare Radar reported that from May 28 to June 4, bots accounted for 57.5% of global HTML requests, while human browsers accounted for 42.5%; across all HTTP response content types, JSON led with 33.1% and HTML accounted for 12%.

Why it matters: Cloudflare Radar supplies a concrete window and ratios, clearing HKR-H/K/R. The post does not separate AI crawlers, search bots, and malicious automation, so it sits just above the featured threshold.

Latent Space

Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math

Axiom solved all 12 Putnam problems in 2025 and scored 8/12 within the time limit; Carina Hong says its Verina ProofGen result reached 187/189, while the last disclosed OpenAI o3 result on that benchmark was 4.9%.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: Putnam results, the o3 comparison, and 187/189 give it a real hook. It stays at 80 because this is a Latent Space interview/research story, not a broad model release.

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I built a compiler that rewrites Python into a model-facing representation

The author released Vulpine, a compiler that converts Python into a compact model-facing representation for coding LLMs. Tests on about 13,000 held-out files showed roughly 14% token reduction and 99.8% AST-equivalent round-trip success, with code published on GitHub.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass, with a named experiment and concrete numbers. Source authority is low and the post does not disclose real-task gains, speed, or failure cases, so it stays at the featured threshold.

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Miso One Open-Sources Voice Model: 8B Parameters, 110ms Latency, One-Shot Voice Cloning

Miso One released an 8B-parameter open-weight TTS model with one-shot voice cloning from a short sample, 110ms inference latency, GitHub self-hosting without an API, and local audio data handling; the post says API access is coming but does not disclose pricing or launch timing.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass, but this is a single X-sourced launch with no benchmark suite, license detail, or third-party reproduction. The 8B, 110ms, self-hosted open TTS facts clear featured, not higher.

Jun 3Wednesday

AI Chat-Group Daily (群聊日报)

2026-06-02 Chat Group Daily

The chat group daily says Microsoft released MAI-Thinking-1 with 35B active parameters and about 1T MoE, matching Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench Pro and scoring 97% on AIME 2025.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: a Microsoft reasoning-model claim with concrete benchmark numbers. Source authority is weak, and the summary lacks official release, access terms, and full eval setup, so it stays below P1.

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Qwen3.7 Released with Upgrades to Reasoning and Agent Capabilities

Qwen released Qwen3.7, and the post says it upgrades reasoning, tool use, coding, and long-horizon agent tasks; the post does not disclose model size, pricing, benchmark scores, or release conditions.

Why it matters: HKR-H and HKR-R pass because Qwen3.7 is a flagship Alibaba model update with practitioner relevance. HKR-K fails: the post names capability areas but gives no params, pricing, benchmarks, or access terms.