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Take-home midterm row sharpens fears that the tools are dulling minds and easing cheating

I'm researching how people who don't code use AI tools for multi-step work on their actual files – renaming/organizing documents, filling forms on PDFs, cleaning up spreadsheets, turning notes into a report, and so on –. What was the last multi-step task you gave AI involving your files? Did you get what you wanted? Thanks. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846461 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Enough things added up that this week is getting split into two parts.

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AI is in a supply crunch today, but what happens when we come out of it? How and where will supply, demand, price, capacity and capex get back into equilibrium? Today, model labs can name their price, but why won’t they end up as low-margin commodity infrastructure?

Washington can’t promise allies it will never cut off their access to American AI or reach their data—but it can set, and eventually codify, clear rules for both.

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https://ai.meta.com/static-resource/muse-spark-1-1-evaluatio... [pdf] https://developer.meta.com/ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-09/meta-star... , https://archive.is/3ccKa Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846184 Points: 178 # Comments: 116

EvenKeel is an LLM-powered chatbot that helps with budgeting, financial planning, retirement savings, tax optimization, etc. It is a harness around Gemini 3 Flash Preview that provides a library of skills for things like: evaluating a house purchase, insurance planning, portfolio asset allocation, etc. as well as tools for doing financial math and Monte-Carlo simulations. You can upload files as well as chat, and as you go, it updates a "Financial Picture" with relevant facts about your situatio

After CEO promised 'flagship use-case' for AI, retired scheme members still struggling to make ends meet, MPs hear

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This article covers the full path from zero to a running private research assistant on Telegram, including configuring the context length correctly, connecting the channel, enabling web search, and deploying it headlessly in Docker.

After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a "step-change" from the first generation, with improvements […]

NIST is advancing nine new post-quantum signature algorithms as potential candidates for future standardization. We take a closer look at all of them, and argue that while they are in the works and show great potential, we should use ML-DSA for now — the best one currently available.

A new report reveals growth at companies deemed 'high intensity adopters' of AI.

On June 10, 2026, the FPF Center for Artificial Intelligence convened a Frontiers Workshop in Washington, DC. Held as part of FPF’s National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Department of Energy (DoE)-funded Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) Research Coordination Network, the workshop brought together privacy and frontier AI practitioners to examine challenges at the intersection of data […]

A few hours after checking into a hotel in New York City, David Streever woke up to a call from the front desk saying someone was looking for him. Streever had just landed on a return trip from Finland, where he'd vacationed with his daughter. Though Streever didn't know it yet, while he'd been away, […]

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State agency's delay could mean free robotaxi rides in company’s new Ojai vehicle for a few months.

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The Claude Reflect dashboard is like a mix of Spotify Wrapped and the screen time tool on your phone.

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7quater] - A 492-page document has a 358-entry table of contents. You can’t read it all, and top-k over every page mixes the answer with its neighbours. Route through the TOC instead: a bounded loop inside retrieval that saves tokens and lifts precision The post Loop Engineering for Hierarchical Retrieval: Reading a Long Document by Its Table of Contents appeared first on Towards Data Science .

The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber - and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a "reflect" feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over the past month, […]

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Anthropic launches a reflection tool for Claude users.

Sorry to ask a question about AI, but... Lately I've noticed that Google seems to be hiding the AI mode and trying to push people into the less capable AI Overviews. Often when I go explicitly to the AI Mode form it kicks me to AI Overview and doesn't give me a chance to converse more -- are token costs catching up with them? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48845508 Points: 3 # Comments: 2

OpenAI reviewed SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used test for measuring AI models' programming skills, and found roughly 30 percent of its tasks are broken. The company is pulling its earlier endorsement of the benchmark. The article OpenAI finds roughly 30 percent of popular AI coding test is broken appeared first on The Decoder .

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Meta has automatically opted all public accounts into its Muse Image AI.

For different reasons in the last 2 weeks I've found myself speaking to CTOs / CPOs that believe "Taste" is the main distinction and value a human brings to the process in a LLM/Generative AI world. I'm simply not getting it, and I don't know what I'm missing. + Self-driving as an example: We only really care if it drives better or equal to a human. So no taste applies there, once the standards are met. Don't get me wrong, I understand (and share) that we use a concept of "taste" to actually mea

Character.AI's plan to become more than just an LLM-powered chatbot platform is going beyond interactive books, comics, and audio dramas. Today, the company announced the debut of c.ai Series - short-form, episodic videos designed to be watched and interacted with - on your phone. Unlike traditional microdrama services that feature cheaply produced, live-action shows starring […]

I built Slopera, a desktop browser that, instead of connecting to the real web, renders each page as what an LLM thinks it might look like. You'll never get a 404, basically any URL you or the LLM (for example, in fake google results) comes up with exists. Clicking a link creates the next page on demand. Images and interactive JS content are generated too. It's Electron + TypeScript. You need an Anthropic or OpenRouter key to run it. Support for local models is planned, which would make this a f

Benchmark-backed Ollama has amassed 176,000 stars, and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub by helping developers easily run AI on their PCs.

In an interesting twist that takes advantage of the company's core product, users can chat with these shows' characters, ask them questions, and even roleplay different storylines.

Last year, Image Line introduced Gopher for FL Studio, an AI chatbot that was basically a glorified instruction manual. You asked it how to do something, and it would serve up the relevant instructions. It's the kind of thing I actually use AI for on a semi-regular basis. But in the new release, Gopher can […]

Learn how GPT-5.6 powers Microsoft 365 Copilot with stronger AI capabilities across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork for faster, higher-quality work.

Claude Cowork is brilliant, unnerving, and far more useful than I expected.