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Show HN: A Claude Code skill that scopes problems like Peter Naur

Based on Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985) Asks agent to create a problem-theory artifact before writing code. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331670 Points: 1 #...

Aedis – An open-source macroeconomic framework for the AI transition Body

What a 98-Year Old Children's Book Teaches Us About AI

Tokens or Humans? The New AI Cost Trade-Off Reshaping Corporate Budgets [video]

Software Architecture After AI

China Limits Overseas Travel for AI Talent at DeepSeek, Alibaba, Private Firms

21 days, $5K, 7 AI agents: how a non-programmer built a talent marketplace

Claude just discovered workflows. Charlie started there

Flathub bans AI-generated apps and submissions

GPT 5.5 Bro [video]

Where AI coding spend goes: 48% code, 40% thinking

Why AI can't match human creative work

Ask HN: How is your org managing PR review load as AI multiplies code output?

We are facing flooding and surge in PRs across the teams. AI reviewer tools are good, but not exactly helping in efficiency. Almost all developers are experiencing velocity gains in programming but...

Local AI Hardware: Break Even in 2.6 Years?

You don't know how to use AI

Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious

Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago. The company licensed the character for a new Amazon series—made with AI—without her consent.

Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend

Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.

Take our I/O 2026 quiz, vibe coded in Google AI Studio.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/IOQuiz2026_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We used Google AI Studio to vibe code a quiz about our top I/O 2026...

Tech companies desperately want to film you doing chores

This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free. It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get...

9 demos of Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 in action

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Gemini_Omni_and_Gemini_3.5_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Watch 9 videos showing the capabilities of Gemini Omni and...

We Asked the ‘Future of Truth’ Author to Explain How He Used AI. It Didn’t Go Well

A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes. Its problems go beyond that.

Open-source security is a mess - IBM and Red Hat bet $5 billion and 20,000 engineers can fix it

Project Lightwell is an AI‑powered initiative to find and fix vulnerabilities in open-source software at an industrial scale. Here's what we know so far.

I've used Gemini in Android Auto for 2 months now, and it's transformed my daily drive in 4 ways

Gemini has made voice control in my car fun and useful, and I'm still discovering new ways to use it.

The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic

Pope Leo XIV may not be able to disarm AI, but he’s got the attention of the industry.

Check out real-life AI prototypes from the Futures Lab.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/FutureLabs_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">University of Waterloo students develop AI prototypes like sign language...

This AI startup will clean your home for free to train future robots

AI training startup Shift wants to clean your home for free. The catch - because, despite what its website says, there's always a catch - is that it will record cleaners as they scrub, vacuum, dust,...

Adobe’s conversational AI agent is a mediocre design intern

AI image tools rarely make me feel like I'm part of the creative process. They are, after all, mostly designed so that people with no design experience can type in a few words and get back a usable...

How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment

Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on artificial intelligence includes a statement that warrants serious attention from technologists and policymakers: “Technology is never neutral.” Magnifica Humanitas...

Behavior-Induced Mirror-Prox Temporal-Difference Learning for Faster Off-Policy Prediction

arXiv:2605.28849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient temporal-difference methods provide stable off-policy prediction with linear function approximation, but their practical performance is...

Behavior-Aware Auxiliary Corrections for Off-Policy Temporal-Difference Prediction

arXiv:2605.28855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Temporal-difference learning with function approximation can be unstable under off-policy sampling. TDC stabilizes off-policy TD through an auxiliary...

The Cognitive Categorical Transformer: Category-Theoretic Inductive Biases for Language Modeling

arXiv:2605.28864v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Cognitive Categorical Transformer (CCT) is a 306M-parameter architecture that augments a pretrained GPT-2 Small backbone with cognitively grounded...

Ultra-Reduced-Impact-Encased-Logging (URIEL): propose a new method for selective sustainable logging and post-harvest silvicultural treatment in tropical forest using airborne robotics systems

arXiv:2605.28883v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tropical forests worldwide are under intense deforestation pressure driven by economic and political interests, and scientific evidence suggests this...

Review Arcade: On the Human Alignment and Gameability of LLM Reviews

arXiv:2605.28897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-generated reviews for scientific papers are gaining considerable traction and are even being officially piloted by major conferences. We have to...

Orthogonal Concept Erasure for Diffusion Models

arXiv:2605.28902v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept erasure has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate undesired or unsafe content in diffusion models, yet existing methods still face...

Frontier LLM-based agents can overcome the ontology curation bottleneck for natural phenotypes

arXiv:2605.28965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Linking free-text phenotype descriptions to ontology terms, typically referred to as phenotype annotation, is essential for the cross-study integration...

VFEAgent: A Multimodal Agent Framework for End-to-End Automated Finite Element Analysis

arXiv:2605.28978v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Finite Element Analysis (FEA) serves as the cornerstone of modern engineering design. However, its workflow is inherently complex and relies heavily on...

BEAMS: Benchmarking and Evaluating AI for Modeling and Simulation

arXiv:2605.28994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tools to support real world decision making must be able to build simulation models that inform their recommendations and render them interpretable....

Adopt $\neq$ Adapt: Longitudinal Analyses of LLM Conversations in the Wild

arXiv:2605.29018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although a growing body of research has begun to describe user--LLM interactions, the picture it paints is largely static; little is known about how...

When Models Disagree: Rethinking LLM Evaluation for Public Comment Analysis

arXiv:2605.29025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federal agencies are deploying large language models (LLMs) to categorize public comment corpora, where the model's organization of the record shapes...

Mind Your Tone: Does Tone Alter LLM Performance?

arXiv:2605.29027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of Large Language Models (LLMs) is proliferating, yet their performance is observed to vary based on prompting styles and tones. In this study,...

Practitioner Beliefs and Behaviors in AI-Enhanced Education: DOT Framework Survey Evidence

arXiv:2605.29041v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study reports findings from a cross-sectional survey (n = 72) of higher education practitioners examining beliefs, behaviors, and institutional...

Differentiable Belief-based Opponent Shaping

arXiv:2605.29042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human coordination often relies on the ability to influence the beliefs of others through strategic action. In multi-agent reinforcement learning,...

Hallucination Mitigation with Agentic AI, Nested Learning, and AI Sustainability via Semantic Caching

arXiv:2605.29055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hallucination remains a major reliability barrier for production LLM systems, particularly in multi-agent pipelines where unsupported claims can...

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler (via Hugging Face Blog)

AI Model Release Tracker: Opus 4.8's misalignment rates similar to Claude Mythos Preview

Not every new model is all it's cracked up to be. Our tracker keeps each release in context with its peers, so you know which models are worth your time.

Perplexity launches Bumblebee: How its new read-only dev scanner differs from Chainguard

The AI company's Bumblebee tool tackles your most urgent question after any supply‑chain advisory: Do your programmers have this malware installed?

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.

Microsoft 365 Copilot gets a speed boost and cleaner design

Microsoft is launching a revamped version of Microsoft 365 Copilot, offering a cleaner design that the company claims loads twice as fast. As part of this update, Copilot will provide more reliable...

Claude’s new model is more ‘honest’ when it messes up

Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model's "honesty." According to Anthropic, it trains "all [its] models to be honest - for instance, to avoid making...

Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, with honesty as its killer feature

Anthropic's latest Claude model isn't just faster or smarter. Opus 4.8 is being pitched as more honest, more careful, and better suited to complex coding projects.

A $2,000 AI-generated film will make its debut at Tribeca

Next month's Tribeca Festival will include the premiere of an AI-generated film: Dreams of Violets. The 75-minute film is a fictional dramatization of the Iranian government's mass killing of...

How to force Google AI Overviews to prioritize your favorite news sources

Google's Preferred Sources feature is now available in AI Overviews and AI Mode, so you can add your favorite sites to your AI-powered searches.

Catch up on 12 major I/O 2026 moments

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/KW_KNH.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are 12 of the biggest Google I/O 2026 keynote moments, including news about Gemini...

These new iOS 27 renders hint at Siri’s big redesign

Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul, expected to arrive in iOS 27, might look a lot like ChatGPT with a splash of Liquid Glass. Renders from Bloomberg offer a preview of iOS 27, including the new app...

CNN sues Perplexity over ‘verbatim’ copycat articles

CNN has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity, claiming that the startup's AI tools generate "verbatim" copies of its work, as reported earlier by CNN. The lawsuit, filed in a New York court on...

NVIDIA Research Advances Robotics From Simulation to the Real World

Robotics is entering a new phase: moving from controlled demos and scripted automation toward generalizable, reliable embodied autonomy in the real world. At the International Conference on Robotics...

The Name’s Gaming … Cloud Gaming: ‘007 First Light’ Launches on GeForce NOW

License to stream, shaken and stirred. GeForce NOW is dialing up the espionage with the launch of 007 First Light, letting members slip into James Bond’s reimagined origin story from almost any...

The Download: climate tech goes public and the AI Hype Index returns

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Climate tech companies are going public. What’s next? Solar...

New Moms Are Returning to Coding Jobs Radically Reshaped by AI

New mothers working in software development are staring down an AI-pilled workplace they barely recognize.

The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season

It is one thing to say AI will change the world. It is another to expect the class of 2026 to applaud it. In fact, when former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told University of Arizona graduates that their...

Illinois Lawmakers Just Passed America’s Strongest AI Safety Bill

The bill requires companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to have third parties confirm they’re following safety standards. Illinois governor JB Pritzker says he’ll sign it.

ITBench-AA: Frontier Models Score Below 50% on the First Benchmark for Agentic Enterprise IT Tasks — by Artificial Analysis and IBM

ITBench-AA: Frontier Models Score Below 50% on the First Benchmark for Agentic Enterprise IT Tasks — by Artificial Analysis and IBM (via Hugging Face Blog)

AI Factories: The New Infrastructure of Intelligence

AI factories are token factories, converting power into intelligence in real time. And as agentic AI scales and autonomous, always-on special agents are deployed in the enterprise, performance per...

Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop

Trajectory is betting the rapid iteration cycle that supercharged vibe-coding can help all kinds of companies build AI products that learn continuously.

The Download: keeping up with AI, and the future of IVF

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Stay on top of what’s going on in AI this summer Here at MIT...

Reachy Mini goes fully local

Reachy Mini goes fully local (via Hugging Face Blog)

Shipping a Trillion Parameters With a Hub Bucket: Delta Weight Sync in TRL

Shipping a Trillion Parameters With a Hub Bucket: Delta Weight Sync in TRL (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA Vera CPU Is ‘Packing a Heavy-Hitting Punch’ Against Competition

The shift to agentic AI creates a new CPU requirement for the AI factory: fast cores, massive memory bandwidth and the ability to sustain high performance when all cores are active. Initial benchmark...

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

"BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.

Rethinking organizational design in the age of agentic AI

Amid rapidly growing adoption of enterprise-level AI agents, there’s a disconnect emerging between ambition and execution. Although 85% of organizations say they want to be agentic within the next...

The Download: puncturing the AI jobs panic

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria Despite the growing...

Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right

Harness, Scaffold, and the AI Agent Terms Worth Getting Right (via Hugging Face Blog)

Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models

Towards Speed-of-Light Text Generation with Nemotron-Labs Diffusion Language Models (via Hugging Face Blog)

Catch up on the Dialogues stage at Google I/O 2026.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/IO26_Dialogues_3z680sK.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">A recap of the 2026 I/O Dialogues, where leaders discuss the future of...

Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook

Specialization Beats Scale: A Strategic Variable Most AI Procurement Decisions Overlook (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX: Live Updates on What’s Next in AI

At NVIDIA GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, the world’s developers, researchers and industry leaders are converging to dive into the latest breakthroughs shaping every industry, covering topics spanning AI...

License to Stream: ‘007 First Light’ Coming to GeForce NOW With an Ultimate Bundle

The mission begins now. GeForce NOW is dialing up the action with a blockbuster mix of spy thrills, high-speed racing and member rewards — plus eight new games joining the cloud this week, all ready...

We’re announcing new community investments in Missouri.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/MissouriSocial.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re helping build the state’s next-generation workforce and investing in...

100 things we announced at I/O 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/100_things_Social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We've been busy! Here’s a rundown of the top announcements, launches and...

A new experiment brings better group meetings to Google Beam

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Screenshot_2026-05-15_at_4.21.2.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">See and hear your colleagues in true-to-life size and sound,...

NVIDIA and Google Cloud Empower the Next Wave of AI Builders

At this year’s Google I/O conference, NVIDIA and Google Cloud are accelerating the work of more than 100,000 developers in the companies’ joint developer community, which provides curated learning...

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models (via Hugging Face Blog)

How AI Mode is changing the way people search in the U.S.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_Mode_US.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">One year after launch, see how AI Mode’s users are shifting from keywords to natural...

New ways to create and get things done in Google Workspace

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/GoogleWorkspace-IO.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Announcing new voice capabilities in Gmail, Docs and Keep, a new design tool...

I/O 2026: Welcome to the agentic Gemini era

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/SundarKeynote-hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">The latest from Google I/O: See how we’re helping you get more done with...

Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini-3-5__keyword__blog-heade.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">At Google I/O we released Gemini 3.5, our latest series of...

A new era for AI Search

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Search_AI_and_search_engine_v46.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We shared the next step in our journey to bring together the...

Everything new in our Google AI subscriptions, fresh from I/O 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/I_O_26_Header_1_AYohnR4.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Introducing a $100 AI Ultra plan — plus, new features and benefits for...

I/O 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/original_images/Collection-Hero.gif">At Google I/O 2026, we shared how we’re making AI more helpful for everyone. See everything we...

Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On...

Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family

Introducing the Ettin Reranker Family (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang at Dell Technologies World: ‘Demand Is Going Parabolic, Utterly Parabolic’

Agentic AI inference at one-tenth the cost per token with NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72. Agent sandboxes run 50% faster on NVIDIA Vera than traditional CPUs — while enterprise data queries are up to 3x...

Vera Arrives: NVIDIA’s First CPU Built for Agents Lands at Top AI Labs

The first NVIDIA Vera CPUs arrived at three of the world's leading AI labs on Friday — Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, SpaceXAI in Palo Alto — followed by a delivery to Oracle...

PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend (via Hugging Face Blog)

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality

Granite Embedding Multilingual R2: Open Apache 2.0 Multilingual Embeddings with 32K Context — Best Sub-100M Retrieval Quality (via Hugging Face Blog)

Sea You in the Cloud: ‘Subnautica 2’ Early Access Dives Onto GeForce NOW

Editor’s note: The Gaijin single sign-on feature is now up and running. Dive masks on — Subnautica 2 is making a splash on GeForce NOW day-and-date with launch, so members can plunge into the title’s...

Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching

Unlocking asynchronicity in continuous batching (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA, Ineffable Intelligence Team Up to Build the Future of Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure

Reinforcement-learning agents — AI systems that learn by trial and error — can convert computation into new knowledge. That’s the focus of a new engineering-level collaboration between NVIDIA and...

Hermes Unlocks Self-Improving AI Agents, Powered by NVIDIA RTX PCs and DGX Spark

Agentic AI is changing the way users get work done. Following the success of OpenClaw, the community is embracing new open source agentic frameworks. The latest is Hermes Agent, which crossed 140,000...

NVIDIA and SAP Bring Trust to Specialized Agents

Announced today at SAP Sapphire — where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang joined SAP CEO Christian Klein’s keynote by video — SAP and NVIDIA’s expanded collaboration helps enterprises run...