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Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 Points: 851 # Comments: 947

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I'm a first year ML PhD at a T5 ML program in the US. I managed to get a first author paper accepted to NeurIPS Main Track last month and thought I'd start applying for PhD research internships since I saw a lot of them required a "top" venue publication.</p> <p>But I've just been getting rejections (Nvidia, Waymo etc) and I also even got rejected from the Citadel NeurIPS travel grant.</p> <p>Now, I'd say my area of research isn't super "hype", it's still a well

Hey Hacker News! I'm Eric, the founder of Consus. We route all AI requests to ITAR restricted and controlled unclassified information (CUI) compliant infrastructure. Consus itself satisfies ITAR restrictions, and we recently completed our FedRAMP equivalency audit against the 410 FedRAMP High controls. FedRAMP High is the U.S. government’s strictest security baseline for cloud services handling sensitive unclassified data. A breach of this data could cause severe or catastrophic harm. Achieving

Character.ai has filed for bankruptcy and is looking for a buyer. If none steps up, the platform shuts down. Founded by ex-Google researchers, the company once had over 20 million users but is now battling lawsuits over harm to minors and operational problems. The sale should close by the end of 2026. The article Character.ai will shut down if no buyer emerges, capping a fall from $2.7 billion Google deal to bankruptcy appeared first on The Decoder .

Article URL: https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073221 Points: 339 # Comments: 182

Muse, Meta's AI assistant, can send raunchy messages that wouldn't fly on Instagram.

Siri AI functionality goes all the way back to back to the second-gen Apple TV 4K box from 2021.

Agentic AI is rewriting how software ships. Assistants draft pull requests, agents open migrations, and review bots claim a change is safe before a human finishes coffee. The industry often frames this as a path to fewer people in quality. That framing is backward. When machines author more of the codebase, the scarce skill is not generation. It is independent verification. The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey found that 84% of respondents are using or planning to use AI tools in…

AWS engineers share kernel optimizations for fused Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models on Amazon SageMaker AI: Swap-AB for WGMMA utilization, Triton backend routing for FP8 quantization, and eliminating Triton JIT recompilation. Together they deliver up to 10% higher throughput and up to 9% faster Time to First Token on H200 GPUs.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi,</p> <p>I am a master's student working on a project where our fine-tuned AI model provides feedback on images. We are also comparing its feedback with outputs from Qwen/OpenAI APIs on the same images.</p> <p>My postdoc and PhD mentors suggested creating a Google Form where participants compare the feedback and select which one is more accurate or useful. They asked me to collect around 60 responses and perform statistical analysis to determine which model pe

Lambda said on October 13, 2026 that it is working with NVIDIA to make the open-sourced Run:ai GPU scheduler a first-class managed option on Lambda Kubernetes Service (LKS), part of a planned library of schedulers delivered as managed components. The plan appeared in an October 13, 2026 post on Lambda's blog. "We welcome NVIDIA's decision to open-source Run:ai, and we're working to make it a first-class option on Lambda Kubernetes Service (LKS)," the company stated. Lambda said it has supported…

Framework's Laptop 12 was conceived as a Chromebook killer, but now it has a flagship chip inside. Does it work as a grown-up machine?

Within this dinoflagellate plankton is a tiny microbe that acts more like a virus than a cell. (Takuro Nakayama/University of Tsukuba) What is an organism, anyway? ScienceAlert stories are written, fact-checked, and edited by humans, never generated by AI. Don't miss a story, subscribe here.

<p>Rapid AI adoption left workers cleaning up a flood of errors and low-quality work</p><p>Employers around the globe are grappling with the fallout from rushing to adopt fast-changing artificial intelligence tools.</p><p>Meta has scaled back plans to axe staff and use more AI agents after the company found employees were spending more and more time cleaning up technical and security errors, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/investigations/mark-zuckerberg-had-bold-plan-replace-meta-staff-with-ai-

Article URL: https://www.zaproxy.org/blog/2026-10-13-developing-zap-in-the-llm-age/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072740 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

AutoStore announced a Fall 2026 set of new and enhanced hardware and software products on October 13, 2026, framed around removing practical barriers to more autonomous fulfillment operations. The announcement, datelined Nedre Vats, Norway, spans fulfillment workflows, system design, maintenance, and an expanded range of use cases. In the Fall 2026 product announcement, the company said even highly automated fulfillment operations still depend on manual workflows to manage exceptions, including…

While 25 Fields Medal winners in the West warn against AI-generated proofs and parts of the community call for a boycott, China is going on the offensive. Fields Medal winner Shing-Tung Yau has launched an alliance of eight institutions and over 1,000 scientists to push AI into math research. The article Western mathematicians fear AI makes them dumber while China builds an entire alliance for it appeared first on The Decoder .

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Came across this GitHub project called Paper Review Harness. Thought it might be useful for people preparing ML research papers.</p> <p>It uses 30 different AI reviewer personas to simulate the kind of feedback a paper might receive at conferences like CVPR, ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS.</p> <p>What's interesting is that it goes beyond simply asking an LLM to "review my paper."</p> <p>It provides:</p> <ul> <li>Independent reviews from different reviewer perspectives<

Apple has announced the new HomePod mini 2. The $149 smart speaker comes in five colors and won't have Siri AI at launch.

NVIDIA is making the full NVIDIA Run:ai platform available as open source software, giving customers, developers, and ecosystem partners access to...

Apple is getting into the smart home game in a big way, with a brand-new HomeView smart display powered by Siri AI.

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Assisted-By-Req Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50072133 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

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IFS launched IFS Intelligence on October 13, 2026, at its IFS Unleashed event in Orlando, Florida, a product the company says gathers data from the assets, systems and processes of an industrial operation and converts it into action within minutes. According to the launch announcement, IFS Intelligence executes work inside the systems that run physical operations, drawing on live data from IFS and third-party systems and operating only within rules the business defines. IFS said people in the…

It has been roughly a year since my last dedicated post on this question. Its first sentence has not changed: I happily admit I am deeply confused about consciousness.

<img class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual" src="https://lawfare-assets-new.azureedge.net/assets/images/default-source/article-images/scaling-laws-logo.jpg?sfvrsn=7a7b38eb_3" /><p>What happens to society, law and privacy when artificial intelligence makes it possible for police to detect nearly every observable crime? Matthew Tokson, Director of the Criminal Law Program and Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, joins Kevin Frazier, dir

<p>The tech bros and their highly paid sock puppets are banking on us giving in to their ‘inevitability doctrine’. But in Australia, and around the world, resistance is rising</p><p>Of all the drivers of the populist wave, one of the most powerful is the sense of inevitability that surrounds what we are told is the march of progress. In presenting the future as a fait accompli, it poisons the civic well by dealing us out of the game.</p><p>While the US clings on to its status as the oldest const

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<p>It was supposed to be an Australian business success story. Just over a week ago local AI company Firmus was preparing to hit the market with a value that would put the startup in the same league as Woolworths. But last Friday, everything fell apart.</p><p>At the centre was Firmus co-founder Oliver Curtis, an entrepreneur trying to rebuild his reputation after spending time in prison for insider trading. Curtis said the collapse was down to Australia’s ‘mantra of disbelief around entrepreneur

Benchmarking NumPyro, affine-invariant MCMC, and dynesty against exact ground truth and watching them fail. The post Three Samplers, One Posterior: NUTS vs. Emcee vs. Nested Sampling appeared first on Towards Data Science .

A four-level technical roadmap for building agentic AI systems, from single cognitive loops and stateful memory through multi-agent swarms and production observability.

<p>The latest example of workers under surveillance comes from Co-op, a British consumer cooperative that runs thousands of businesses</p><ul><li><p><strong>This was originally published in TechScape, a newsletter about how technology shapes our lives. </strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2022/sep/20/sign-up-for-the-techscape-newsletter-our-free-technology-email"><strong>Sign up to receive it here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p></li></ul><p>Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m B

Apple introduced Apple HomeView on October 13, 2026, a smart display with a 7-inch Liquid Retina screen powered by Apple Intelligence with Siri AI. Pre-orders opened the same day at $299 (U.S.), with availability beginning November 13, 2026. Pre-orders cover both the tabletop and wall-mounted models in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the UK, and the U.S. through apple.com/store and the Apple Store app. Customers in Singapore can pre-order starting October 15, 2026 at 9 a.m. SGT, and…

The new X Subscription combines X's paid features with AI tools like Grok and Cursor, offering plans ranging from $8 to $200 per month.

Apple announced the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K on October 13, 2026, featuring Siri AI, an entirely new version of its assistant powered by the next generation of Apple Intelligence, along with an A19 chip and built-in far-field microphones. The streaming box is priced at $299 (U.S.), with pre-orders opening the same day and availability in stores beginning November 13, 2026. Siri AI on Apple TV 4K Siri AI arrives on the television as a full-screen conversational experience. Apple describes…

OpenEvidence and Johns Hopkins Medicine on October 13, 2026 announced a strategic collaboration to reshape medical education and clinical care for the era of artificial intelligence. The partnership is built on two foundational pillars: readying the next generation of clinicians for the environment in which they will practice, and grounding every patient's care in the most current evidence-based clinical guidelines. Datelined Miami, FL and Baltimore, MD, the announcement frames the effort's…

Article URL: https://github.com/agustin18/fastapi-stream-lease Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50071567 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

<blockquote cite="https://ghuntley.com/agency/"><p>If the agent isn't using my diagnostics library, I could introspect and update AGENTS.md, but there's still a delta, and it'll drift. Instead, I write a pre-commit hook that checks the git diff for direct calls to observability modules that bypass my diagnostics module. Boom: fail the commit, inject a prompt telling the agent to use the diagnostics library. All of a sudden it's ten out of ten.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">— <a href="https://

96-chip configuration promises seven times its predecessor's token throughput, with production deployments due in 2027

Workday introduced Work Intelligence on October 13, 2026, at Workday Rising 2026 in Las Vegas, a product the company says decomposes each job into its underlying tasks and ties those tasks to required skills, drawing on Workday Skills Cloud, which Workday says is now used by more than 3,450 customers. A Task-Level View of Each Job According to Workday, Work Intelligence gives companies a view of how AI is altering the day-to-day work inside each role and which skills employees will need next…