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There are many words that I would never, ever use to describe a drone. Stealthy. Subtle. Whatever the opposite of obnoxious is. Much of this is because of the giant angry bee sound that drones tend to make, but it’s also the way that they look in flight: With uncannily linear movements and an even less canny ability to hover perfectly still, they tend to draw the eye as affronts to nature. In a paper presented this week at RSS 2026 in Sydney, roboticists from Northwestern University, Evanston, I

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion.

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936451 Points: 52 # Comments: 33

<pre style='white-space:pre-wrap;width:81ex'>fix(prompt-probe): bound Anthropic upstream proxy fetch requests (#108832) * fix(prompt-probe): bound Anthropic upstream proxy fetch requests * test(prompt-probe): exercise stalled upstream deadline --------- Co-authored-by: Peter Steinberger <steipete@gmail.com></pre>

A video analytics AI agent that can perceive, reason, and act based on massive amounts of video footage must be integrated with existing workflows and...

Hey HN, we’re Xia and Varun, the founders of Traceforce ( https://www.traceforce.ai/ ). Traceforce provides visibility and control over AI apps such as ChatGPT, Claude etc directly on all devices (laptops, sandboxes, virtual machines) by discovering not just which apps are being used but also how they are connected to other data sources via MCPs. We also have an open-source dynamic MCP pentesting tool https://github.com/traceforce/mcp-xray to detect vulnerable MCPs. The purpose of Traceforce is

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>While writing an essay about AI memory and persistent context, I started wondering whether current AI memory systems are optimized for the right thing. Current AI systems already maintain forms of persistent context through saved memories, conversation summaries, user preferences, project notes, and similar mechanisms. These memories are primarily descriptive. They help the system remember facts about the user and previous interactions.</p> <p>But suppose future

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps they use regularly.

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.

Learn how OpenAI is making ChatGPT safer for teens with age-appropriate protections, learning tools, parental controls, and expert partnerships.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/ConnectedAppshero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">You’ll be able to securely link and interact with your go-to services directly in AI Mode.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/omni-blog-header_OarEe2t.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini Omni and personal avatars in Google Vids make video creation easier than ever.

Agentic AI changes the infrastructure pattern for AI factories. One request can trigger many model calls, tool calls, memory lookups, policy checks, storage...

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini Notebook, but will remain a standalone app even as it integrates more deeply across Gemini and Google Search. Google first revealed Gemini Notebook - then called Project Tailwind - in May 2023 before widely releasing […]

We just open sourced a first class our AI web app builder. Instead of using another hosted AI coding platform, you can fork this project and build your own AI app builder, fully customized and running under your own brand. It includes: Next.js + TypeScript AI chat with streaming Artifact generation File explorer Code editor Live preview Databases Sandboxes to be used by AI agents Versions Responsive production-ready UI And a lot more... The only required dependency is the Totalum API, which expo

In this post, we show you how to build a voice ordering system that answers a phone number and takes the order from greeting to confirmation. The system uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to host and run the agent and Amazon Nova 2 Sonic for real-time speech, connected to a restaurant backend through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The walkthrough covers deploying the full stack with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) and bridging a phone call into the agent through a Session Initiation Protocol (

When you start working with Claude Code, you likely notice one interesting behavior: no matter what task you complete with Claude Code… Continue reading on UX Planet »

Article URL: https://github.com/chattymin/PokeTokenBar Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936171 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.

This week saw the releases of, among other things:

Neverclick avoids being limited to certain apps by ditching accessibility APIs for a quick, lightweight computer vision model.

Article URL: https://martin-schenk.es/blog/2300-ai-articles-google-buried-my-traffic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936083 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

The Tesla driver who fatally struck a woman after crashing into her home "manually overrode" the vehicle's Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology by pressing the gas pedal to 100 percent, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) confirmed in a preliminary report on Wednesday. After examining the car's electronic data, investigators found that the Tesla Model 3 […]

Token Gobbler was inspired by Fable 5, that hungry beast. You're an LLM floating through a 1990s cartoon world. Eat tokens, reset usage limits, dodge prompt injections - and reach the singularity. Have fun. I’d love feedback. Also on iOS TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/5abEMyjg Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936047 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, build carts, and place orders from the terminal, marking another step toward software designed for AI agents instead of just humans.

I kept hearing about how e-commerce was dead and how a lot of brick-and-mortar stores and sellers will go out of business soon because of AI. I am a product manager and studied machine learning while in school. The last thing I want is for engineers to be losing their jobs 'because of AI', and also for small businesses barely getting by to see the same fate. AI is amazing tech hopefully kifly helps people use their AI assistants find things they need. This is early and I would love your feedback

Inspired by cmux's tabs, but works in vanilla tmux. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935997 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

<p><strong><a href="https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/">Inkling: Our open-weights model</a></strong></p> Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just released their first open-weights model. Inkling is "a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters, 41B active" - an Apache-2.0 licensed multimodal model trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, images, audio and video.</p> <p>They're also promising Inkling-Small, a 276B (12B active) model, but that's still being tested a

Article URL: https://blog.simbastack.com/announcing-sentinel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935984 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Hey we are launching Docs.dev, a full feature docs product that lets you host your developer docs on Cloudflare in a couple minutes. Why this exists: We don’t think every early stage startup should need to pay $300-$500 a month for beautiful docs, in fact every startup should just have beautiful human and agent ready docs ready to go. Additionally the workflow for docs is a lot different now in that Claude Code or Codex will generate 60-80% of the code, so why not have them update your docs as w

As long as we don't have AGI or superintelligence, we still need good software engineers. And even if we do reach AGI and coding is "solved," are we really supposed to just trust the generated code? Outsourcing our cognitive thinking and understanding isn't the way to advance as humans, nor is it the way to stay ahead of AI. If we give that up, how do we limit AI slop? And how would we even pull the plug, if it came to that? Understanding computer science concepts and developing good software en

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

Article URL: https://robert-mcdermott.medium.com/introducing-phlox-gw-llm-gateway-10f5b693ca0f Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935922 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

<div class="hs-featured-image-wrapper"> <a href="https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/crm-data-migration" title="" class="hs-featured-image-link"> <img src="https://53.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/53/Title%20(8)-1.png" alt="A robotic arm hands a rolled up piece of paper to another arm with data imagery in the corner, symbolizing CRM data migration" class="hs-featured-image" style="width:auto !important; max-width:50%; float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;"> </a> </div> <p>CRM data migration is

<p>Case is one of first brought by an AI company against a user ⁠for allegedly using a tool to generate child abuse material</p><p>Elon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested ⁠earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging he misused the company’s AI system Grok to ⁠create child sexual abuse ⁠material.</p><p>xAI ​alleged in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Texas on Tuesday, that Terry Harwood violated the company’s ⁠terms of

Article URL: https://github.com/democr-ai/democrai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935704 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.