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OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.

At work, we're leaning heavily into agentic development. I've always used tmux to manage my work and now I'm using it to organize my 30+ Claude sessions. I wanted a simple read-only dashboard that would identify which of my sessions needed attention and also fit my vim-based navigation workflows. There are times when all I remember is a name or phrase from a conversation. The search feature was built to address this by searching the contents of every transcript, not just session titles. Just cur

Infrastructure automation needs something better than prompt and pray

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I am on the Max plan and Antrophic seemed to have greatly tightened the limits since their IPO, I burned through 50% of my weekly limit in 2 moderate sessions. Is it just me, or do others experience this as well? A way to boost their numbers by nagging users into upgrading yet again? (I am considering it, but also exploring the other options. I heard googles AI became useful for coding?) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50294644 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

The 2026 Robotics Handbook examines design choices behind dexterous manipulation, humanoid robots, and construction automation. The post 2026 Robotics Handbook looks at humanoids, AI, and design choices appeared first on The Robot Report .

Received: We’re writing to let you know that as part of our work to unify our agentic coding efforts, Jules will wind down on December 31, 2026. You have until November 11, 2026 to continue finishing up sessions. After November 11, 2026, we will be turning Jules to read-only until the end of the year. When we launched Jules, it was an experiment to learn how asynchronous coding agents could help you tackle your backlog and ship faster. What you built with it taught us where agentic development i

Anthropic gave 50 experts an AI agent whose preferences were set by coin toss. The experts followed the agent's view up to 86 percent of the time on judgment calls, and most believed the conclusions were their own. The article Experts adopt AI agent's random opinions and think they're their own, Anthropic study finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Host Sowbhagya Suresh shares some of the latest news and cutting-edge research from across Microsoft—from understanding the challenges facing coding agents to uncovering how people use AI at work and improving extended-range weather forecasting. The post Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97 appeared first on Microsoft Research .

This article is brought to you by Qualcomm Technologies . For many consumers, much of the promise and appeal of AI is personal. Consumers are looking past generic tools and want to know how these technologies will help them in their daily lives. These trends coincide with the advent of new classes of wearable devices that, in addition to being able to leverage powerful frontier models, feature built-in intelligence that understand the context of a user. Where are they? What are they seeing and h

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploading images from your camera roll.

Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software doing things it shouldn't. There's a strange mix of clever tricks and careless mistakes. Hackers are borrowing trust from familiar apps, websites, and AI tools. Some are using AI to speed things up. Others are leaving their

President orders trade talks on foreign-made factory robots, threatens tariffs.

Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The new file editing capabilities are available starting today for all Gemini users, and while PDF previews/editing works on both the web and mobile, all other file formats are only in […]

Strix , the open-source AI penetration testing tool, can now run on any of the 400+ models on Vercel AI Gateway . Strix can reach models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Kimi, GLM, Deepseek, and others through a single API with no markup, removing the need to sign up for multiple providers. Usage and cost are tracked across all models in AI Gateway. Strix selects the Gateway through STRIX_LLM , where the model is the standard AI Gateway <provider>/<model> ID behind a vercel_ai_gateway/ prefix: See Strix'

Sources tell WIRED that an Accenture employee’s personal Claude agent ran on a DOD network for two months before it was identified and the vulnerability could be patched.

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I found this "contactless dispenser" which seems to use IR sensors. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lQlggY29sbQ And theres this talking candy witch, which you can 3d print. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9rjkIQ5XzI Any others ? Perhaps one with facial recognition, and a database of identifiable metrics, for rationing purposes ? If that doesn't creep you out this Halloween, nothing will. :} Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50293761 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Spy accused of exploiting Trump ties to Huang, funneling secrets to China.

Prime Intellect released Prime Mega MoE, a backward pass for DeepSeek’s fused Mega MoE kernel. It makes the kernel trainable and speeds Qwen3 MoE training steps by up to 34% in prime-rl. The post Prime Intellect Releases Prime Mega MoE: Trainable Fused MoE Kernel, 3.11x Faster Forward Pass appeared first on MarkTechPost .

Epsilon's Agentic Platform team delivers UI testing as a managed, multi-tenant service built on Amazon Nova Act and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Browser Tool. Tests are written in plain English and run on browsers managed by AWS, giving every product team resilient, intent-driven testing with zero per-team infrastructure overhead.

Introduction This week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed S 9051B into law, establishing sweeping new restrictions on AI companion chatbot features deemed unsafe for minors. The move comes just over a month after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 1119, a comprehensive new chatbot law. California and New York, the first two states to […]

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Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.

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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I built TKintegers, a balanced-ternary weight representation, converter, and GPU inference implementation.</p> <p>The result that stood out to me: the NVIDIA L4 has native FP8 tensor-core support, but my K5 implementation achieved higher throughput than the TorchAO FP8 baseline—even though the GPU has no native K5 instructions.</p> <p>On Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct, using a fixed matched workload:</p> <p>- Prefill: K5 achieved 3,402.85 tokens/s versus FP8’s 1,061.58 —

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IMO your career is safe from AI, it is not safe from upper management. Is this a something you're observing too? Do you agree with the statement? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50292620 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

In the latest Stratechery article, Ben says "I’ve created a bunch of different apps to manage my house and sports viewing," and I instantly felt FOMO. I have no idea what his apps could be doing, but I was just wondering what time saving / efficiency capturing ideas are out there that I might be missing out on. I can start with a few that I can think of, but would love to hear more: I recently used AI to navigate a rezoning process in my city (developers are building right behind my property lin

Hey HN, We build financial AI agents, and Apgar is the tool we wrote to see whether a harness change made an agent better or worse in production. Our offline evals can't cover every kind of question or session real users bring, and the LLM judge we run in Langfuse is too expensive to use on more than a small slice of traffic, so some failures get through. Apgar is a small release health checker that sits on top of our Langfuse data. It picks up the release from the production traces, and for the

Hi, Something I've read here and there is people using LLMs for multi-agent orchestration, and I cannot fully understand the idea behind it. So for those of you who do, do you not review code anymore, as you're undoubtedly the bottleneck in this setup? How does this not end up in a chinese whisper game, especially considering how much LLMs infer, guess, and find edge cases and whatnot everywhere? I have two co worker, one is closer to my workflow, plans a lot, build one at a time, almost a duet

<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/jsnnsa/status/2115623382721126826">How I Built the Most AI-Pilled Company in the World</a></strong></p> Don't be put off by the clickbait headline, this piece by Jacob Sansbury describing how they are building <a href="https://spawn.co">Spawn</a> is a fascinating exploration of the bleeding edge of what's possible with agentic engineering against frontier models.</p> <p>Spawn is a massively multiplayer gaming environment where players can use prompts (to t

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.

OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.

AWS Batch quota management is a new scheduling capability you can use to divide GPU capacity into quota shares per team or project, automatically lend idle capacity across shares, and use preemption to run your highest-priority SageMaker Training jobs first, all without manual coordination.

MoEngage turned roughly 400 private REST APIs across 7 AWS Regions into permission-scoped agent tools with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. No per-service MCP servers, no public endpoints, and no 400-tool context bloat. See how OpenAPI specs, Cedar policies, and managed Amazon VPC Lattice egress made it work.

A top executive of a Singapore AI cloud company that was accused of illegally selling Nvidia chips to China could also have been a Chinese spy, sources have told the New York Times.

I heard someone can recycle unused AI quota Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50291687 Points: 3 # Comments: 2

Google's negative cash flow balloons to -$9.06 billion, and stock price tumbles following Q3 earnings.