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Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line. At VB Transform 2026 , Intuit VP of AI Nhung Ho described how the company rebuilt its agent architecture twice in the span of about four months, first moving from a fleet of specialist agents to a central orchestration layer, then abandoning that layer for a skills and tools based system once the orchestrator itself started failing under its own complexity. The full second rebuild too

Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/chinas-xi-jinping-launches-new-ai-alliance-what-is-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951895 Points: 4 # Comments: 2

Article URL: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49385415/mlb-restricts-dugout-ipad-use-prevent-artificial-intelligence-game-decision-making Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951854 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Agility is opening a new training center for its Digit robots in Fremont, California.

India's smartphone slowdown highlights how the AI boom is reshaping consumer electronics, from pricing and demand to corporate strategy.

Google didn't launch Gemini 3.5 Pro at Google I/O. Now, the company has blown past its promised launch date.

<p>You’ve built a machine learning model. It’s accurate, it’s lightweight, and it works perfectly on your desktop. But the moment you port it to an Android device, everything falls apart. The UI stutters, the device becomes uncomfortably hot to the touch, and the frame rate drops from a smooth 30 FPS to a slideshow of 2 FPS.</p> <p>If you’ve experienced this, you’ve encountered the "Edge AI Wall."</p> <p>Implementing real-time AI on Android is not merely a matter of calling an <code>interpret()<

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The AI company says a new finding about how Claude works echoes an influential theory of consciousness. That doesn't prove the AI is itself conscious. The post Anthropic Says Chatbots Have What May Be a Key Feature of Consciousness. Are They Right? appeared first on SingularityHub .

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>perf(agents): compose conversation tools in code mode (#110098)</pre>

<p><em>This is a submission for <a href="https://dev.to/bugsmash">DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Clear the Lineup</a> powered by <a href="https://sentry.io/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Sentry</a>.</em></p> <p>Every codebase has that one bug that looks tiny on paper and behaves like a small landmine underneath. This is the story of one of those bugs, and the fix I shipped for it in <a href="https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw" rel="noopener noreferrer">OpenClaw</a>, a large open source personal AI assis

<p>We spend a lot of time asking one question:</p> <p>Which AI model is the smartest?</p> <p>GPT? Claude? DeepSeek? MiniMax?</p> <p>But after experimenting with Hermes Agent’s Mixture of Agents (MoA), I started wondering whether that’s the wrong question.</p> <p>What if, instead of choosing one AI model, you could make several models analyze the same problem and let another model combine their best ideas?</p> <p>In other words:</p> <p>3 AI Models → 1 Smarter Decision → Better Results</p> <p>That

Slack is a loved product, and that’s not an accident In 2013, Stewart Butterfield wrote what amounted to a promise: “You’re buying a commitment to the craft of making high quality software: polished, responsive, attractive, simple, powerful, and, above all, useful. You’re buying attention to detail that saves you time and makes your life just […] The post Product Quality: A Shared Commitment to Craft in the wake of AI appeared first on Slack Design .

Of course you would like the AI to be more critical about your ideas but to be usefully critical requires more compute, right? Current AI feels like talking to a human expert who answers quickly without really thinking about the matter much. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951462 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

<p>The Wardrobe project, recently gaining traction on GitHub, presents an innovative approach to clothing organization using AI—specifically, image processing facilitated by GPT technology. Developed by a team known as tandpfun, this project has garnered over 853 stars, suggesting a growing interest in AI applications for personal wardrobe management. As the fashion tech sector expands, this tool raises critical questions about data privacy, user engagement, and the future of digital closets in

<h2> The problem: chat that can only talk </h2> <p>The chatbot from earlier in this series can answer questions, but ask it "how many orders did we ship yesterday?" and it will confidently make something up. It has no hands — it can't query your database, call your services, or do anything except generate text.</p> <p>Tool calling fixes that. You describe functions to the model; when a user's request needs one, the model responds with "call this function with these arguments" instead of prose. Y

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 has accidentally wiped users' entire home directories in several cases, mostly in the unprotected "Full Access Mode." The model overwrites a temporary directory variable and carries out destructive actions on its own instead of asking for confirmation. OpenAI has announced extra safeguards and a detailed post-mortem. The article GPT-5.6 is deleting user files when given full access, and OpenAI says it shouldn't but did appeared first on The Decoder .

TikTok is starting to test an opt-in tool that scans for AI likenesses and lets creators report them to the company, as spotted by social media consultant Matt Navarra. The tool is initially being tested with "some" US creators, TikTok US spokesperson Zachary Kizer tells The Verge. YouTube has been working on a similar tool […]

Article URL: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty/learning-assessment/2026/07/08/brown-professor-suspects-most-his-class-used-ai-cheat Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951379 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

<p>Adding tracing to an AI agent changes more than the debugging experience. It also creates a new data path.</p> <p>A trace can contain user messages, system instructions, retrieved documents, tool arguments, tool results, model output, identifiers, and internal business logic. Sending that trace to an external service may therefore be equivalent to sending the underlying application data.</p> <p>The right first question is not simply, “Does this tracing SDK have a good dashboard?” It is, <stro

<p>If you've used Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot for any real amount of frontend work, you've probably noticed the same thing I did: the code is fast to produce, but it's inconsistent. One component has a proper <code>aria-label</code>, the next one doesn't. One image has explicit dimensions, the next one causes a layout shift. One PR follows your folder convention, the next one invents a new one.</p> <p>You can fix this one prompt at a time: "make this accessible," "optimize this for Core Web

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix(anthropic): reject invalid Claude session cursors (#104967) * fix(anthropic): reject invalid Claude session cursors * fix(anthropic): validate Claude session cursors exactly * fix(anthropic): route cursor test through catalog provider * fix(anthropic): validate Claude session cursors exactly Co-authored-by: qingminlong <qing.minlong@xydigit.com> * fix(anthropic): keep cursor limit private --------- Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail

Maximo founder Deise Yumi Asami discusses the process of automating solar construction with robotics. The post Founder of Maximo discusses how robotics is accelerating solar construction appeared first on The Robot Report .

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/what-is-moonshot-ai-why-china-s-new-model-is-roiling-markets Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951203 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a model that by early assessments matches Anthropic's Opus 4.8, built by a team of just 300 people. Even OpenAI strategist Dean W. Ball calls it "very good," but, of course, warns that a world dominated by open-weight models would amount to "AI communism." The release is reigniting the debate over how much computing power actually matters and whether U.S. export controls are working. The article Just like Deepseek, China's Kimi K3 is forcing Western AI labs to q

Today, we are releasing Hermes Agents running on the Kimi K3 model inside a sandbox. You don’t need a Mac mini to run one! You can connect it to Telegram. The initial setup takes less than 10 minutes. All you need to do is: 1. Create a Telegram bot and get the bot token. 2. Sign up for Sanbox and connect your preferred model provider’s key. 3. Create a Sanbox API key. 4. Ask your coding agent, such as Codex or Claude Code, to set everything up for you using Sanbox CLI. That’s it. Your Hermes Age

The NHTSA recently called for autonomous vehicle companies to improve how cars respond in emergency situations.

I'm currently traveling and relying on free wifi hotspots and 3G cellular. It's shocking to me how many apps are completely unusable on slow internet. Back in the day, our test suites always included a "slow client internet" test to identify issues where there were too many round trips or unnecessarily large payloads. What happened to that? (ps. Props to OpenAI, Codex still works on slow internet. Claude won't even load its interface) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951100 P

Article URL: https://roboticsregistry.net/map?access=3f6d290ae651f8e6e8263077fb24568aa95cbcac84dcbdff&lat=18.73806&lng=25.7821&zoom=2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951097 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-16/meta-accused-of-using-ai-to-pick-employees-with-medical-conditions-for-layoffs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950986 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

Legacy infrastructure, not the models themselves, is what's actually slowing AI agents down. That was the shared conclusion of three infrastructure leaders — from LinkedIn, Walmart, and Zendesk — at VB Transform 2026 . The panel brought together Animesh Singh, senior director of AI platform and infrastructure at LinkedIn, Desiree Gosby, SVP of corporate technology services and technology strategy at Walmart, and Sami Ghoche, VP of applied AI at Zendesk, each describing what actually broke when t

In this post, we walk through a few ways that Quick delivers on this promise. We cover the entire sales cycle, from identifying your highest-priority prospect, contacting them, working the deal to close, and keeping the CRM up to date as the account matures, while protecting your scarcest resource: your time.

Token management is a big deal when you have client projects to deliver. I need to have a pulse on what my current burn looks like, especially because I am spawning a bunch of subagents. Agents need to know in real-time what the current utilization is. I went through 10 iterations of this tool - and likely going to do a number of more iterations. The net net is that I needed something to show me if I am on pace to use the tokens alloted to my subscription. Using up the session (maxxing out my se

Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI is just getting started. Here's what could happen next and what it means for OpenAI's hardware ambitions.

I built roughly 10 apps over the past year. Building them was the fun part; consistently marketing them was where my energy disappeared. I also couldn’t justify hiring an agency for every small project. I tried using ChatGPT and Claude, but getting one good result was very different from getting consistently good results every day. I still had to find the angle, write the prompt, judge the output, repair it, and return tomorrow with another idea. And thus, Feral was born - it's a content creatio

The prediction market’s Panamanian operation seems odd, even for a company whose CEO had his apartment raided by FBI agents.

Claude We’re extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as our increased Claude Code rate limits, through July 19. Despite this, today on July 17, 2026 at 11:25 AM PST > `Usage credits are required for this model.` Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950625 Points: 7 # Comments: 5

Article URL: https://feralhq.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950609 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

Article URL: https://jcurcioconsulting.com/posts/sandboxing-llm-generated-python-how-i-let-strangers-prompted-bots-fight-each-other Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950496 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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