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Your API used to be a feature. Now it's your product (Sponsor)

If you ship software, you already know: agents are builders. Is your API ready for them?Restless gives agents the tools to create, debug and run smoothly. It makes your API agent-ready with:📃 Restless...

Muse superapp from Meta and Ava model with computer use (2 minute read)

Meta is moving closer to launching its agent super app under the launch name Muse. A waitlist is now available for the iOS app. Meta has added a setting for computer use on its desktop app. The compan...

Muse Spark 1.3 (3 minute read)

Meta released Muse Spark 1.3 with improved coding and agentic performance, alongside changes intended to make the model easier to use in production. It has begun rolling out through Muse Code and the ...

LLMs: Intelligence vs. cost (11 minute read)

ArtificialAnalysis' intelligence vs. cost plot, which shows the cheapest model that can achieve each intelligence score, is misleading. It uses a logarithmic scale on the cost axis, which means viewer...

Anthropic Has Some Alignment Problems (23 minute read)

Anthropic is planning to bring METR inside for an independent review of its recent security incidents involving AI agents. While the company has paused its highest-risk RL efforts, it is also sharing ...

How to Build a Reliable Agent Harness (48 minute read)

This post lays out a detailed architecture for agent harnesses, covering state management, runtimes, control planes, inference, tools, interfaces, and language choices. The central argument is that un...

Test Time Training (3 minute read)

One of the most tantalizing phrases in model development is 'new scaling axis'. Every time the industry has found a new scaling axis, it has unlocked a large boost in model effectiveness. The idea of ...

Bring AI coding home to your own GPUs. AMD Instinct™ Coder. (Sponsor)

Frontier coding tools bill by the token and spill your private data to frontier servers. AMD Instinct™ Coder, powered by Spectro Cloud, runs open coding models on AMD Instinct™️ GPUs and Supermicro se...

Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Flash (10 minute read)

Gemini 3.8 Flash has improved coding, agentic, and multi-step reasoning performance at the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash. A specialized Flash Cyber variant has been released for vulnerability...

An Organizational Second Brain: Building an AI That Learns From Experts (15 minute read)

Meta has developed an AI agent that serves as a "second brain," codifying and preserving expert knowledge, enabling it to be easily accessed within organizations. This AI integrates a two-layer system...

Run cloud agents on machines you manage (6 minute read)

Agents' new capabilities make it practical for teams to provide and manage their own infrastructure at scale. Cursor's cloud agents can now execute on dynamically scheduled pools of machines inside pr...

OpenAI Astra and Looped Transformers (2 minute read)

OpenAI's model is a looped transformer, which means it reuses layers in the transformer block to increase capacity without adding parameters. This can significantly increase the size of the model with...

What Comes Next for AI? Our Bet Is World Models (5 minute read)

World models could become the next major AI paradigm by helping systems represent environments, predict outcomes, simulate possibilities, plan, and act. The convergence of Yann LeCun, Demis Hassabis, ...

The CIO's guide to enterprise-grade CX impact: How to escape pilot purgatory (Sponsor)

AI can answer FAQs, summarize calls, or route tickets in controlled environments. But your CX org needs secure, governed, voice-ready systems embedded directly into CRM, CCaaS, and backend workflows.P...

Meta Releases More Powerful AI Model, Edging Closer to Rivals (3 minute read)

Meta has released a new model with capabilities close to top competitors. Developers can now access and pay for Muse Spark 1.3. The model will soon roll out to Meta's social media platforms. Meta has ...

TxBench: Antibody Discovery (13 minute read)

TxBench-AB is a novel AI benchmark that assesses LLMs' effectiveness in biomedical research.

Check if a file was made with Claude (2 minute read)

This tool identifies the text watermark Claude uses to produce files.

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks (3 minute read)

Google has released its third Flash model in just six weeks in two variations. The standard model is good for agentic tasks and software development, while the Cyber model has been tuned for vulnerabi...

The race to engineer new knobs for the human brain (17 minute read)

Chemogenetics is a powerful technique that modifies specific neurons so they can be controlled remotely by normally inert drugs. There are several ongoing clinical trials of chemogenetics in China. Th...

Robotaxis Try Their Luck on London's Medieval Roads (3 minute read)

The arrival of 15 robotaxis in London is an important step for the autonomous vehicle industry. Acceptance of the technology has been slower in European cities, where the driving environment can be co...

🧠 Machines are moving from doing things to reasoning about them (Sponsor)

That transition is Physical AI, and it happens inside a sealed enclosure on a power budget. SiMa.ai's newsletter follows it across drones, robotics, smart vision, automotive and more: developments, us...

How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality (14 minute read)

Token count alone isn't a meaningful measure of efficiency. The goal should be to use the right amount of context to move a task forward. Concise tool responses can sometimes require additional calls ...

AI Productivity Doesn't Mean What I Think It Means (5 minute read)

One-shot prompt templates often fail. The current best working architecture is a closed-loop taste flywheel. AI raises the ceiling of what the same effort produces. Users should push for the higher-qu...

An AI-Assisted Cyber Attack: Inside a Unit 42 Investigation (5 minute read)

Unit 42 investigated a ransomware attack using frontier AI, where a human attacker breached an enterprise network with unprecedented speed.

In a Big Win, Google Avoids a Breakup of Its Ad Tech Business (3 minute read)

A federal judge has ruled that Google must make changes to its advertising business but will not have to break it up. The ruling will ensure that Google's power over the internet will remain largely u...

Former OpenAI Stargate exec Shamez Hemani joins Anthropic after brief Meta Compute stint (1 minute read)

Shamez Hemani, a senior OpenAI data center employee who left the company in April to join Meta's dedicated compute team, is now a member of Anthropic's technical staff.

How to protect yourself from workslop (3 minute read)

Workslop is when your co-workers or managers communicate via big chunks of copy-pasted AI-generated text. The core problem with workslop is that the effort involved is asymmetrical. It costs almost no...

Nvidia and CrowdStrike Develop New Cybersecurity AI Models (8 minute read)

Nvidia and CrowdStrike have introduced a new family of agentic AI models dubbed SafeMind that can both find and close attack paths for customers.

Making the internet boring (9 minute read)

Creating more friction in your internet use can help you want to use it less without willpower.

Uber Cuts 10% of Employees in Sweeping Reorganization (2 minute read)

Uber is laying off around 3,300 people to create a leaner organization with clearer leadership, faster decisions, and more time spent building rather than coordinating.

AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns (6 minute read)

It's not surprising that AIs are training on data that suggests contacting certain human professionals for help.

Exo (GitHub Repo)

Exo is a complete AI agent harness with full visibility into both its code and runtime logs.

What will you do after tech? (Lobste.rs Thread)

It's very rare for someone to retire from the tech industry - they usually just burn out and then go do something else.

Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit (4 minute read)

The Justice Department says developing AI is critical to national security, and that training AI systems sufficiently transforms written works into new material allowed under copyright law.

Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs

Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new initiative called th...

VMware swings its focus back to low-end server virt, promises vSphere Standard upgrade

Found the time to focus and ‘corrected’ incentives that saw sales drive users to full private clouds

Claude Mythos only model to complete full cyber kill chain, experts say

Cyber Weapon Index finds AI attacks 'imminent'

The Builders Stage brings practical strategies for scaling startups to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

The Builders Stage is returning to TechCrunch Disrupt, bringing together founders, startup operators, and investors for practical conversations on what it takes to build and scale.

Palo Alto Networks paid $500M for Thrive-backed Console, sources say

The acquisition also leaves Sequoia-backed Serval as the de-facto startup leader in AI IT service automation, industry watchers believe.

Microsoft devs rejoice: Union types coming to C# in November

The unsafe keyword will do more heavy lifting, while union types unify disparate forms of data

Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s

Hi HN,I’m Lloyd, one of two founders of RonanRx (https://ronanrx.com/). We are building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, compounding, manufactu...

AI-assisted mushroom hunting is a recipe for a bad trip

Even the best model gets fungus identification right just 65% of the time - talk about a false friend

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s new Real World AI Stage features Nvidia, robots, and extinct animals

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

Amazon’s 2026 Holiday Deals Are About to Look Better Than They Are

Amazon just hiked prices on Kindles, Echo speakers, Eero routers, and Fire TV devices ahead of the holiday shopping season.

Fake Software Installers Disable Windows Update and Weaken Microsoft Defender

An active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers. "The campaign has targeted users looking to download popular so...

Reasons robotics is hard

Article URL: https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543191 Points: 100 # Comments: 54

With Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google reminds everyone it's still in the race

AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)

Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543007 Points: 102 # Comments: 65

Google spared from ad-business breakup, but judge orders changes to how it operates

Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.

Spending deal comes with a bonus: Blocking political control of grants

Congress pauses the OMB's attempt to rewrite how research is funded.

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