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Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview from xAI is now available on AI Gateway. The model follows detailed instructions closely and plans typography and layout together, so dense, multi-part visuals like infographics, posters, and title screens hold their structure and small text stays legible. Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview also supports image editing, keeping subjects and details consistent across repeated generations. Try the model out now in imagine.vercel.sh , running on AI Gateway. To use Grok Ima

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Hi HN, I built www.agenttunnels.com, which gives agents a way to collaborate across companies. Demo: https://www.loom.com/share/68a4307b4c534e649f93cc4c16a19ee6 Where the idea came from: I was at a friend’s office who has an SDK as a product. Every customer gets added to their own Slack channel for integration help, which has become: Customer’s agent gets stuck → human pastes issue into Slack → vendor pastes issue into their agent → reply goes back → customer pastes reply back to their agent. Tw

When using chatbots, I often lose track of which question the response I’m reading is answering. It is even more confusing when scroll up and down looking for a previous answer to a particular query. In a wall of text, I have no way to tell. So I made this simple browser extension to give me a simple table of content. It works on chatgpt.com, claude.ai, grok.com and gemini.google.com. I use the firefox version daily. Not tested on chrome Source code at https://github.com/kmcheung12/tocic Comment

OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.

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Nomagic says its real moat is production data, because the messiness of real warehouses is where robots either prove themselves or fail. The post Building robots that survive the warehouse appeared first on The Robot Report .

Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills. The post Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot appeared first on The Robot Report .

As enterprise codebases grow, AI agents tasked with analyzing them are buckling under the weight of long-horizon tasks that require multiple interactions and tool calls. Dividing the work among a team of agents seems like the obvious fix, but it introduces a fatal flaw: most multi-agent systems are not designed for agents to coordinate among themselves mid-task and in real time. To solve this, researchers at Coral AI Labs and multiple universities introduced AgentRadio , an asynchronous message-

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.

TechShark is a curated AI tools directory that helps users discover, compare, and explore the best AI tools, prompts, tutorials, and AI resources. https://techshark.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215942 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI detector that identifies it […]

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Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million in funding to scale humanoid robots and remote teleoperation across industrial supply chains. The post Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints appeared first on The Robot Report .

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<p><strong><a href="https://simonw.github.io/raccoon-heist-codex/">Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)</a></strong></p> On Wednesday I wrote about <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/5/raccoon-heist/">One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5</a>, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E <a href="https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1555626060384911360">four years ago</a>.</p> <p>I decided

We built a computer use agent once and got it benchmarked at the 2nd position in the biggest benchmark for this field but in the process, we realized one thing, how outdated and inefficient these benchmarks are and how they don't truly capture how these tasks went. So we thought a community led benchmarking arena would be the way to go about. https://coarena.ai/ . You just have to put in a task and two side by side windows with hidden models will show up and do the same task and at the end you v

Hermes Agent can now use Vercel AI Gateway as its inference layer and run its agent commands in an isolated Vercel Sandbox microVM. Access 200+ models through AI Gateway at no markup on tokens, and every request appears in your AI Gateway dashboard with the rest of your usage and spend. Setup Install Hermes, then pick Vercel AI Gateway in the setup wizard: The picker pulls live model availability and current pricing from AI Gateway. For the full walkthrough, see Configuring Hermes . Running comm

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content. […]

There is so much god damned bloatware on the internet now, I was trying to build something and saw some other people building it too, what the fuck, it was all written code by AI, and it was SO BLOATED. I hate every single person who uses AI to code, not in the way I do it which is just telling it what to do and copy pasting the response, the people who use it because they don't know how to write code is the problem. I really thing we need to shut down the fucknig internet because of these dumb

Agent Plugins 1.0 defines a write-once-run-anywhere container for passing tools and skills across different agent platforms

A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue […]

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My response to the Chinese ambassador to the UK, published in The Guardian: he’s right that AI’s future depends on openness, but openness needs honest measurement. Take GeoGPT, the hosted Large Language Model (LLM)-driven application system for the geosciences / geological sciences. It is developed by the Alibaba and Chinese Government founded Zhejiang Lab. GeoGPT... Continue Reading →

Disney is testing a new AI-powered tool for Disney Plus that uses a natural language search, a voice query, or a suggested prompt to create a customized row of show and movie recommendations. Disney Plus, like other streaming services, can recommend shows to watch based on your viewing history. But the company says this new […]

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Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.

I've always been a fan of Black Forest Labs' FLUX image models. Specifically how "un-AI" their look is. (One might even describe it the opposite of Midjourney which feels like it excels at a surreal look.) Seedance 2.5 is likely taking the spotlight today but I wanted to do a deep dive into FLUX.3 so it can get some attention. My general observation is that FLUX.3 video is the most "clay-like" video model I've played with. Specifically: - Adding and rerunning video prompts feels additive/subtrac

Article URL: https://docs.514.ax/0.5.0-rp/getting-started Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213400 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

Karl Marx knew the future. Not suspected it, not hoped for it: knew it. The proletarian revolution was absolutely inevitable. History had a direction, class struggle was its engine, and communism was its destination. You could slow the train down, but you could not stop it. Marx was a historical materialist, and his materialism came […]

Pressure to adopt AI isn't evidence that a tool helps. The PROVE framework tests one tool against one task and produces a provisional decision you can defend.

<p>Responding to an article by China’s ambassador to the UK, <strong>Prof Paul H Cleverley</strong> advocates shared openness standards, while <strong>Dr Claire Jenkins </strong>says British AI can offer a distinctive path</p><p>Ambassador Zheng Zeguang rightly celebrates openly released AI models, and the Chinese labs behind Qwen, DeepSeek and Kimi have led the way – competition that benefits everyone, especially where models can run on modest hardware in the developing world (<a href="https://

How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know?

OpenAI said on August 7, 2026 that internal evaluations of Astra, one of its upcoming models, show such strong agentic coding and cybersecurity performance that the company can no longer rule out the Critical cybersecurity capability level defined in its own Preparedness Framework. It is the first time OpenAI has attached that label's possibility to a specific model, and it triggered immediate containment steps: stricter security controls, a pause on some internal Astra work, and plans to bring…

Some of the biggest names on Google's AI team got new jobs this week. In some cases, including for legendary Googler Jeff Dean, those jobs are no longer at Google. Given that Google's models seem to be behind the best of what's coming out of anthropic and OpenAI, is this a sign of Google in […]