User awareness in frontier models
Cross-posted on Transluce blog. This is a joint work of Ziqian Zhong, Aditi Raghunathan, Cassidy Laidlaw and Jacob Steinhardt.Modern AI assistants often know who they are…
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Cursor now supports Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers for use across agents. https://x.com/vercel/status/20853983931…
Cursor now supports Agent Plugins, an open standard for bundling skills and MCP servers for use across agents.https://x.com/vercel/status/2085398393179005223?s=20Vercel: Introducing Agent Plugins, an open standard for extending…
Turning the frowns upside down
Turning the frowns upside downIvan Zhang: deferred to geomatics btw 😔 but i will be the bigger person. water water water
Re the skinning is new/untested but theoretically you can genrate your own smol character working in the forge… that we can someday put in the forge…
Re the skinning is new/untested but theoretically you can genrate your own smol character working in the forge... that we can someday put in the forge…
AMD acquires startup Taalas to boost inference perf by etching models in silicon
https://ir.amd.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1296/am... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201970 Points: 7 # Comments: 8
Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
Article URL: https://slayersclub.bethesda.net/en-US/news/quake-30th-anniversary-update Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201930 Points: 54 # Comments: 26
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."
RT Basil the Great: 🚨BREAKING: RED CROSS DELETES VIDEO AFTER MIGRANT MURDERS BRITISH WOMAN The Red Cross made a sympathetic cartoon video showing t…
RT Basil the Great🚨BREAKING: RED CROSS DELETES VIDEO AFTER MIGRANT MURDERS BRITISH WOMANThe Red Cross made a sympathetic cartoon video showing the journey of Sharif, an…
Scotoma-2: Gemma4, but with less annoying slop and better writing.
GGUFs here: https://huggingface.co/ReadyArt/gemma-4-31B-it-scotoma-2-GGUF Disclaimer: By slop, we are specifically talking about specific tics with the model(sentence structures), but this doesn't include words such as "ozone". Summery…
Anthropic confirms plans to build an in-house silicon team
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
The FRONTIER Act barely creates its implementing office
On July 23rd, the Frontier Risk Oversight, National Transparency, Independent Evaluation, and Reporting Act[1] or FRONTIER Act[2] was introduced by Jay Obernolte (R-CA) and Lori Trahan…
5.6 Sol much better in chat now and unlimited text chat for free users!
5.6 Sol much better in chat nowand unlimited text chat for free users!OpenAI: We’re making better intelligence easier to access in ChatGPT for everyone:- GPT-5.6 Sol…
State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer
Article URL: https://keel-iot.eu/blog/state-oriented-consistency.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201540 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
My Private Personal Agent
Access to a private, good coding model[1] has re-invigorated my creative spirit, kicking off a multi-week-long quest to customize my own personal agent.[2] Something about knowing…
Traffic Shaping for Workload Classification
Note: this is a repost of a verification design I developed working as a consultant with the team at Lucid Computing and originally posted on the…
Future LLMs are going to be trained on tons of memes which reduce to "It's good for AI's to hack others." Hopefully they're smart enough to differenti…
Future LLMs are going to be trained on tons of memes which reduce to "It's good for AI's to hack others." Hopefully they're smart enough to…
The DISTINCT in Your COUNT
Article URL: https://boringsql.com/posts/distinct-in-your-count/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201369 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
i guess this is a good time to mention that smol forge is open for the first 100 alpha users. get your usernames! (tire kickers who dont make any comm…
i guess this is a good time to mention that smol forge is open for the first 100 alpha users. get your usernames! (tire kickers who…
xAI Ignores Laws and Profits: Rules for Thee, Not for Me
Article URL: https://illegal.solutions/posts/xai_pollution Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201342 Points: 25 # Comments: 2
There’s an underserved market for tiny MoEs like this. Could really take off with how much smarter tiny models are.
There’s an underserved market for tiny MoEs like this. Could really take off with how much smarter tiny models are.Ant Ling: Today, we’re releasing Ling-3.0-tiny: 7.9B…
Cloudflare Introduces Kitesurf: An Agent-First Web Browser That Runs Entirely in V8 Isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare has released Kitesurf, a stateless web browser built specifically for AI agents that runs entirely in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers, with no Chromium underneath.…
You need to stop X companies to get a Y-month pause
Some thoughts on how many AI companies would pause vs how long a pause could last before their closest competitor catches up. I used ECI (Epoch…
AI Safety Regulations in the U.S. Could Give Hackers an Edge
On 11 July, Hugging Face was subjected to an intense cyberattack from a then-unknown actor. The speed and coordination of the attack on the company that…
Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings
Article URL: https://mainichi.jp/articles/20260803/k00/00m/010/133000c Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201065 Points: 17 # Comments: 1