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Starcloud has already launched an orbital AI data center using Nvidia H100 GPUs.

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Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly spent years building an AI-driven startup that keeps living human skin tissue alive for weeks outside the body to discover new skincare compounds, and is only now going public about it.

OpenAI also slashed prices for its smaller Terra and Luna models last month.

Roby Lynn explains how R2 Labs bridges PLCs, robots, and AI to unify fragmented manufacturing systems. The post How software-defined manufacturing fits into real factory operations appeared first on The Robot Report .

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“There are shadow agents running in almost every environment we look at,” warns Cisco’s VP of product for identity, who oversees the company’s Duo Agentic Identity product designed to solve the problem.

Cheap energy, abundant land, and proximity to Beijing have turned a city in Inner Mongolia into a crucial hub for data centers.

Cloudflare's new Bot Preference Sync automatically aligns your robots.txt file with your AI bot policies for Search, Agent, and Training. Easily manage which bots access your content without maintaining static files.

What's up, ChickenButt? I made a free, native GTK client called ChickenButt. :) It lets you chat with local models through Ollama, and I figured some of you might get a kick out of it. Here's the repo: https://github.com/pixelhackstudios/ChickenButt I've always hated reading long text in the terminal, and I couldn't find anything that ran locally that allowed me to get quick answers from LLMs when I needed them. Also, not everyone has access to the frontier models and whatnot, so I thought helpi

I think agent-first chat interfaces will be a primary software modality and busy dashboard/UI will go away. I’m not sure who exactly wins it, but I want my knowledge to grow/go with me. A lot of the “knowledge” ie research, analysis, reasoning will be done by agents as the primary user. Our current notes tools & tasks management systems were built for humans… I don’t care what the 17th thing on my bug backlog is. I want to conduct agents that can execute for me and do great work. What I built Oz

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

Nv's new chips need new datacenters, but you can't have bit barns without power

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

A friend of mine just moved to San Francisco and was completely lost in our vocab. So I built this for her and everyone like her: sfisms.org The field guide to SF vernacular. Got an ism? Pitch it and an agent adds it after expert review by our panel :) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394412 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia and others. Without even trying.

you can buy the front page of the internet and stay there, while you use it for AI SEO, until someone out bids you and now they are on the front page of the internet, bid now just for a dollar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49394299 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

LinkedIn actually announced a "Seems like AI slop" button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it. According to a Thursday post from chief product officer Hari Srinivasan, "over a million people" have clicked on the button, which is accessible from the three dots menu on a […]

Ora on Vercel Front end, back end, and agent runtime on one platform Every major agent tested side by side on live sites Hundreds of commits a day from a 16-person engineering team Ora sends agents onto live websites with instructions to sign up for a product, integrate with it, and pay for it. Agents often fail, and by Ora's estimate, 99% of the web isn't agent-ready. The platform shows customers where and why agents fail, and what to change. Assaf Elovic, co-founder of Ora, spent years helping

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Fahrenheit 203, the temperature GPUs stop gorging on literature

The Women in Robotics Lunch at RoboBusiness is an opportunity to form new connections and deepen relationships. The post Amazon’s Bhavana Chandrashekhar to speak at RoboBusiness’ Women in Robotics Lunch appeared first on The Robot Report .

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Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

Schaeffler is creating its strain wave gearboxes with a forming technology that will enable mass production of the components. The post Schaeffler plans to mass produce gearboxes for humanoid robots in 2027 appeared first on The Robot Report .

Scott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking together with Hendrik Kirchner.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. "When the module loads, it locates the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process," TrendAI, Trend Micro's

Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India. No one in the small Maharashtra village had computers or phones. Only one household owned a television, and neighbors often gathered there to watch shows together. Ingole never even saw a computer growing up. It wasn’t until he reached middle school that he encountered a computer lab, an experience he says changed his life. Almost immediately, he says, the machine felt like a window into a different scale of possibility for h

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm/releases/tag/0.32.1">llm 0.32.1</a></p> <p>Fresh installs of LLM stopped working the other day because the OpenAI Python library dropped its usage of <code>httpx</code>, and it turned out LLM depended on that library but only installed it via a transitive <code>openai</code> dependency.</p> <p>This dot-release fixes that for the moment by pinning to <code>openai<3</code>, and a soon-to-drop 0.33 release will switch from <code>ht

The Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP) is a reference architecture on Amazon Bedrock that uses specialized AI agents to automate the full Bronze-to-Silver-to-Gold data pipeline lifecycle, compressing new-source onboarding from weeks to hours while keeping data governance and compliance controls inline.

Give your AI agents governed, auditable access to enterprise tools without consolidating infrastructure. This post walks through a four-scope maturity model (Connect, Control, Catalog, and Harden) for building a governed tool gateway with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, advancing only when real governance pain demands it.

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Plain-language definitions of the AI terms that come up in product and design work, from tokens and context windows to agents, evals, and prompt injection.

When users didn’t know whether an image was AI-generated, the images we tested did not create any perception penalty compared to stock photos.

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-openrouter/releases/tag/0.7">llm-openrouter 0.7</a></p> <p>Now that this plugin is compatible with <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/new-release-of-llm/">LLM 0.32</a> it can display the reasoning traces for LLMs available through OpenRouter.</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Updated for compatibility with <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-32">LLM 0.32</a>.</li> <li>Models now use OpenRouter's impl

Panasonic Avionics worked with AWS and the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build an agentic AI system on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue that diagnoses in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) issues across a global fleet, reducing diagnosis time from hours to minutes while maintaining accuracy.

This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itself inside bacteria, destroying them from the inside. Using an existing bacteriophage as an example—ΦX174 (pronounced “fie-ex-1-7-4”), known for its ability to infect and destroy E. coli bacteria—the models generated about 700,000 potential designs, of which the researchers picked 285 that looked most p

Use AdaptGrow, a GPU-accelerated matrix factorization algorithm, to turn rolling correlation and tail-dependence matrices into hard clusters, soft factor...

<p><strong><a href="https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08/20/stop-making-tuis/">Stop Making TUIs</a></strong></p> Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing.</p> <p>I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/27/vibe-coding-swiftui/">back in March</a>, a