GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 3
This week’s updates across GitHub Copilot in the desktop app, CLI, and VS Code help you resume and organize work, review changes, and ask questions without…
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👀Thariq: we should have called this post "defeating the lethal trifecta"https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code
RT Zain: Autoscaling peaky LLM inference workloads is completely different than autoscaling something like a web service. I wrote a deepdive covering …
RT ZainAutoscaling peaky LLM inference workloads is completely different than autoscaling something like a web service.I wrote a deepdive covering this topic in detail.👇
GaussianSelector: Lightweight Human-Guided Object Selection in 3D Gaussian Splatting with Graph Optimization
Selecting a complete 3D object from a reconstructed scene with minimal user effort is essential for practical scene editing and embodied interaction. Existing 3DGS-based methods either…
RT ℏεsam: 🚨 BREAKING — Anthropic investors worry Dario Amodei’s AI doom marketing could hurt its upcoming IPO. “He’s more of a religious lead…
RT ℏεsam🚨 BREAKING — Anthropic investors worry Dario Amodei’s AI doom marketing could hurt its upcoming IPO.“He’s more of a religious leader than he is a…
astra is a powerful model and we are working to make it generally available. we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models to a chosen…
astra is a powerful model and we are working to make it generally available.we do not think it is a good strategy to keep powerful models…
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Put your tray tables up and prepare for graphic animations that land. Seedance 2.5 excels at integrating both photographic and info/icono/typo/graphic…
Put your tray tables up and prepare for graphic animations that land. Seedance 2.5 excels at integrating both photographic and info/icono/typo/graphic references into a complete 30-second…
People underestimate how much this will be gamed. I predict a deluge of “original content” AI slop, and AI videos are the less horrible part, we’ll…
People underestimate how much this will be gamed. I predict a deluge of “original content” AI slop, and AI videos are the less horrible part, we’ll…
OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns
OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity prowess.
Working on Economics with Fable 5
Article URL: https://wilsoniumite.com/2026/08/03/working-on-economics-with-fable-5/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217001 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
The young Kim is wiser than his predecessors
The young Kim is wiser than his predecessorsJoe Weisenthal: It's boom times in Pyongyang. GDP for the DPRK has kicked into a higher gear, and if…
U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative
Article URL: https://genesisopenmodels.anl.gov/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216946 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
The funniest part is that Dean W. Ball is also the author of this enormous subsidy to the lab he now works for. If not for him, who knows what would r…
The funniest part is that Dean W. Ball is also the author of this enormous subsidy to the lab he now works for. If not for…
Weights or Skills? A Survey of Robot-Learning Techniques: from Action-Predicting Weights to Robots that Write their Own Skills
Robot learning is splitting into two bets: policies that bake competence into frozen weights (vision-language-action, or VLA, models), and agents that write and refine their own…
FactorJEPA: Factorizing Monolithic Futures into Layout-Agent-Interaction Channels for Crowded and Chaotic Global South Urban Worlds
World models have attracted significant attention for their ability to capture and predict the structure and dynamics of the physical world. In this emerging landscape, Joint…
Speaking of, I wonder if DeepSeek will fail the FelonyBench. Unlike OpenAI, they pay a lot of attention to using up 100% of hardware potential. Less s…
Speaking of, I wonder if DeepSeek will fail the FelonyBench. Unlike OpenAI, they pay a lot of attention to using up 100% of hardware potential. Less…
Tencent Cloud Open-Sources TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0: A Team-Level Memory Hub for AI Coding Agents
Tencent Cloud has open-sourced TencentDB Agent Memory v2.0, a team-level memory hub that turns conversations, documents and code into four governed, reusable assets — Chat Memory,…
RT Ernst Haeckel Groyper: It's a market failure if restaurants buying & preparing food in bulk are not able to provide cheaper food than what one coul…
RT Ernst Haeckel GroyperIt's a market failure if restaurants buying & preparing food in bulk are not able to provide cheaper food than what one could…
Self-monitoring doesn't scale (without these 3 countermeasures)
The untrusted monitoring protocol, as defined and evaluated in the AI control literature [1, 2, 3], looks like this:In comparison, the current monitoring setups at most…
After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool
After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.
RT a16z: According to data from SensorTower, Kimi app downloads nearly quintupled and daily active users jumped by ~40%. The K3 hype is translating in…
RT a16zAccording to data from SensorTower, Kimi app downloads nearly quintupled and daily active users jumped by ~40%. The K3 hype is translating into real users.Charts…
RT Dima Zeniuk: ELON MUSK: “In order to ascend the Kardashev scale, in order to get to any meaningful percentage of the sun's energy harness, you hav…
RT Dima ZeniukELON MUSK: “In order to ascend the Kardashev scale, in order to get to any meaningful percentage of the sun's energy harness, you have…
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tts: account for the vocoder pass in the timings line (#26733) get_output runs the waveform work the pipeline defers to it, from a single trailing window…