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Building agents that transact with Anchor Browser and AgentCore payments
Learn how the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center Partner Agent Factory and Anchor Browser built AI agents that autonomously pay for x402-protected web resources and APIs. Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments checks budgets, signs transactions, and retries requests without exposing wallet credentials to the agent runtime.
Show HN: Parsimony – an open-source benchmark for how much code AI models add
16 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
Developing Gemini 4 Argon responsibly and safely
Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript
22 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Manage private pricing offers for Amazon Bedrock with managed entitlements
Managing AI model access across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts creates friction when each account must accept AWS Marketplace Private Pricing Offers individually. This post shows two ways to activate MPPO entitlements in AWS License Manager: a lightweight script for a one-time fix, and CDK automation for ongoing event-driven processing.
Run fast, private agents on-device with LFM2.5-24B-A2B
Scientists wonder: Is my AI stealing my ideas?
38 points, 21 comments on Hacker News
Natural language security queries at Orca Security using Amazon Bedrock
Orca Security built Discovery AI, a natural language query agent on Amazon Bedrock that converts plain-English questions into Sonar queries. The post shares the multi-stage architecture and the results: 90% lower query cost, 93% fewer input tokens, and 75% lower latency than the initial baseline.
Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics
Gemini 4 Argon: Built to solve your hardest problems
How ShipStation Global built an AI IT help desk on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
ShipStation Global's engineering team built Deckhand, an AI IT help desk agent for Slack on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. It answers routine IT questions from a curated knowledge base, reads error-message screenshots, and files Jira tickets. In its first three months it resolved 97.5% of channel queries with a 96% positive feedback rating.
Build long-horizon agents with Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock
Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock. In this post, we build a tool-calling agent on Grok 4.7 and evaluate it on three reasoning tasks at four reasoning effort levels, measuring correctness and token cost per completed task. We show how to tune the trade-off per request and monitor it in production.
I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
206 points, 131 comments on Hacker News
Mixture-of-Experts kernel engineering on Amazon SageMaker AI
AWS engineers share kernel optimizations for fused Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models on Amazon SageMaker AI: Swap-AB for WGMMA utilization, Triton backend routing for FP8 quantization, and eliminating Triton JIT recompilation. Together they deliver up to 10% higher throughput and up to 9% faster Time to First Token on H200 GPUs.
How to engineer an AI harness for game development
101 points, 43 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: MemorySync – Memory for AI Agents
22 points, 1 comments on Hacker News
All Systems Go: Global PC App Ecosystem Ready for NVIDIA RTX Spark
NVIDIA RTX Spark is a new beginning for the PC — a reinvention combining the capabilities of a gaming PC, a creative studio and a personal AI supercomputer into a single superchip. With up to 128GB of unified memory and 1 petaflop of AI compute, RTX Spark delivers the full stack of NVIDIA RTX and […]
Higgsfield takes AI video from 1 minute to over 10
Higgsfield brings creators longer videos with GPT-6 Astra, precise visuals with GPT-Image-2.5, and a path to voice filmmaking with GPT-Live.
Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits
32 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy
144 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks
153 points, 78 comments on Hacker News
AI models may soon self-replicate without access to data centers
39 points, 56 comments on Hacker News
Document Review with Unsiloed and TypeSafe Jev
44 points, 7 comments on Hacker News
DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?
83 points, 49 comments on Hacker News
Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
254 points, 254 comments on Hacker News
Character.ai files for bankruptcy, agrees to sell some assets for $20M
15 points, 5 comments on Hacker News
Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
107 points, 124 comments on Hacker News
NVIDIA Announces New Investments in France’s Startups
Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country’s ecosystem has moved from ambition to application. France’s progress sits on deliberate groundwork. The AI Action Summit in February 2025 and Choose France Summits in 2025 and 2026 anchored major compute commitments […]
Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI
27 points, 23 comments on Hacker News
AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities
270 points, 136 comments on Hacker News
AI Company Lets Cops Pinpoint Specific Houses Based on a Single Interior Photo
23 points, 3 comments on Hacker News
SpaceXSI: Unified plans across Grok, Cursor, and X Premium
11 points, 2 comments on Hacker News
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
145 points, 102 comments on Hacker News
The CEO's of Broadcom and Intel Say the Quiet Part Out Loud about AI and ROI
33 points, 8 comments on Hacker News
AI Has a God Problem Stretching From the Vatican to the Baptist Pulpit
Religious leaders are weighing in, creating a new political risk for the creators of the technology Pastor Joseph Hutchinson began a recent Sunday sermon by pointing to the Book of Revelation, the final part of the New Testament best known for apocalyptic pro…
Microsoft reclaims $4 trillion market cap as Azure growth revives investor confidence
Microsoft's market cap resurgence signals renewed investor confidence in AI and cloud investments, potentially influencing tech sector strategies. The post Microsoft reclaims $4 trillion market cap as Azure growth revives investor confidence appeared first on…
Galo v Coritiba: tickets from R$29,90 and 90% off GNV Kids
Ticket redemption and sales for Atlético vs. Coritiba, in Round 31 of the Brazilian Championship, begin this Tuesday (October 13) at 10 a.m. The match will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Octobe...
AI Will Hit 40% of Jobs, IMF Warns. Young People Are First in Line
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI investment is holding global growth near 3%, with Asian chipmakers winning big, while warning of a 'slow-moving tsunami' for young workers.
Atlanta Metropolitan State College Celebrates Founders Day with Learning and Reflection
Faculty, staff, and students explore the College's legacy and the power of scholarship and ideas ATLANTA, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Atlanta Metropolitan State College (AMSC) brought faculty, staff, students and community partners together on September 24,…
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
632 points, 500 comments on Hacker News
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
301 points, 175 comments on Hacker News
El nuevo iPad mini OLED podría costar hasta 200 eurodólares más
El iPad mini con pantalla OLED que se espera que Apple presente a finales de este mes podría ser hasta 200 dólares más caro, siguiendo con la tendencia de los últimos meses de subida de precios sin parangón que está causando el boom de la inteligencia artific…
AI Is Making Us Dumber – Unless We Fight Back
11 points, 12 comments on Hacker News
Epic Games Delays Disney Project, Asks Developers to Use More AI
Epic Games delayed the release of an upcoming video-game collaboration with Walt Disney and told its developers to use more artificial intelligence tools to finish the game, according to people familiar with the project. The title had been slated for release …
Crowd Count Confirming 300+ Cybercabs in Austin
Over 65 additional Cybercabs counts have been added in Austin. The counts are now 484 total unsupervised, 345 active in Austin and 172 Cybercabs total. 12 new log entries added 4 new cars. There likely 800 Tesla unsupervised robotaxi in Texas and Florida. Thi…
Marvel’s VisionQuest Scores Surprisingly High RT Rating, Outranks WandaVision
Marvel‘s upcoming Disney+ series VisionQuest has earned positive early reviews from critics. The new miniseries sees Paul Bettany reprise his role as Vision, which he has played in the MCU since Avengers: Age of Ultron. The show explores White Vision’s next c…
Why 42% of Companies Rely on Layered Defense Stacks to Combat Payments Fraud
Forty-two percent of corporate finance departments deploy a stack of three or more artificial intelligence (AI) tools to secure their outgoing payments, according to the PYMNTS Intelligence and Bottomline collaboration “Prevention First: Building a Smarter De…
Meta Adds Memory and Focus to New Frontier Models for Agents
Meta introduced two new frontier models for personal and professional artificial intelligence agents, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 12) press release. Muse Wonder was made available Monday to developers and builders through the Meta Model API and Muse Co…
Banks Stop Counting AI Hours and Start Counting Returns
For years, banks have sold investors on artificial intelligence (AI) with usage counts and hours saved. Few have said how much money it makes; at least, not on an earnings call. That is starting to change. Bank of America has 130 to 140 AI projects running “a…
Rams vs. Bills SGP: 'Monday Night Football' same-game parlay picks, bets, props from SportsLine AI
SportsLine's machine-learning AI reveals its 'Monday Night Football' SGP for Buffalo vs. Los Angeles
Bizarre own goals only? A rival helps Fortaleza in Série B
Last Sunday's (11) Palmeiras versus Corinthians clash was notable, among other things, for Matheus Bidu's own goal in favor of Verdão.Then Monday (12) brought a new "contender" for the most "unusual"...
Amazon In Talks To Shell Out $7,000,000,000 For Israeli AI Startup After Anthropic Walked Away
A tech giant could soon scoop up an Israeli AI startup that one of the industry’s top labs passed on.
AI Breaks Japan's Language Barrier, Fueling Rise in Cyberattacks
Japan is facing a growing wave of cyberattacks as advances in artificial intelligence remove the language barrier that once made Japanese companies difficult targets for overseas hackers, with more than 68 million personal records potentially exposed in a ser…
Hollywood takes on Zuckerberg, Musk and Altman amid anxiety over AI
Hollywood films are taking on some of the biggest figures in technology and artificial intelligence. CNBC's Julia Boorstin reports.
US legal AI giant Harvey to open Japan office in 2027, CEO says
US legal AI giant Harvey to open Japan office in 2027, CEO saysnikkei.com
VisionQuest’s Biggest Entertainment Factor Remains James Spader’s Ultron
Marvel’s VisionQuest brought back Paul Bettany’s Vision for another chapter as he continues his search for identity The post VisionQuest’s Biggest Entertainment Factor Remains James Spader’s Ultron appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie Trailers, TV & Strea…
Yiren Digital Provides Update on Its CEO and Operations
BEIJING, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Yiren Digital Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) ("Yiren Digital" or the "Company"), a leading company specializing in financial technology and artificial intelligence innovation across multiple industries in China and global markets, tod…
Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done
84 points, 74 comments on Hacker News
"Today we're laying off a large part of the Airtable team "
43 points, 20 comments on Hacker News
Phishing emails are now baiting your AI assistant
11 points, 0 comments on Hacker News
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
104 points, 108 comments on Hacker News
OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed
233 points, 51 comments on Hacker News
Accessing OpenAI GPT models on Amazon Bedrock with global cross-Region inference in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan
Learn how to run OpenAI GPT-6 Sol, Luna, and Astra on Amazon Bedrock through global cross-Region inference from Singapore, Jakarta, Thailand, Malaysia, and Taipei. This post covers the Converse and OpenAI-compatible APIs, IAM and SCP permissions, quota sizing, and monitoring inference from your source Region.
Deploy decision models with llama.cpp on Amazon SageMaker AI
Learn how to deploy decision models with llama.cpp on Amazon SageMaker AI. This technical how-to serves OpenAI-compatible chat completions with the AWS Deep Learning Container for llama.cpp, then extends the runtime with SemIf to return probabilities over declared options on CPU or GPU.
Run multi-node inference workloads using Ray LLM Deep Learning Containers
Learn how to deploy one large language model across two GPU nodes on Amazon EKS using the multi-node Ray LLM Deep Learning Containers, with separate prefill and decode nodes behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The pre-built container ships the full inference stack, so you configure the deployment instead of assembling it.
OCP Global Summit: Amid Ecosystem Adoption, NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Architecture to Help Scale AI Factories Worldwide
As AI factories grow from megawatts to gigawatts, building them takes more than advanced computing. Open standards are helping the industry scale AI infrastructure faster, more efficiently and more reliably. At the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, taking place in the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, NVIDIA announced new partnerships and contributions aimed at […]
Can Language Models Play the Wikipedia Game?
Language models increasingly support or automate information retrieval from document collections too large to index. This task is difficult when it requires specialist linguistic or scientific knowled...
Hide and Seek: HIDE Concepts to SEEK explanations for black box models
Interpreting machine learning model predictions is a central challenge, particularly for black-box vision models. Concept-based attribution methods interpret models using human-understandable concepts...
Constructive Bounds for the Topological Expressivity of Neural Networks
The expressivity of a neural network $Φ$ describes the class of functions that a network can express. The term topological expressivity refers to a family of measures particularly suited to understand...
AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities
Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption doe...
KL Before and After Mixing: A Round-Complexity Separation in Parallel Sampling
A parallel sampler can choose at random which coordinates to generate together. For a target $p$ and the output law $q_U$ of a schedule $U$ drawn afresh for each output, we compare the schedule-averag...
Goal-Oriented Bundle Management and Flow Control for Deep-Space Communications via Reinforcement Learning
Deep-space communications operate under intermittent connectivity, long propagation delays, and relay storage constraints. In such networks, the Bundle Protocol enables store-carry-forward communicati...
DyssomniaNN: Multi-Scale Spiking Neural Modeling of Human Sleep Disorders and Perceived Restedness
Clinical sleep medicine repeatedly documents profound divergences between objective sleep duration and subjective daytime impairment, notably exemplified by sleep state misperception in paradoxical in...
Designing Protein Structures from Natural Language
A central challenge in de novo protein design is generating proteins with desired structural and functional properties. Existing design models typically require a dedicated input representation for ea...
Revisiting Tabular Deep Regression: Objectives and the Limits of Global Early Stopping
While deep learning models for tabular data have recently received significant research attention, the choice of objective functions for regression tasks remains an understudied degree of freedom. Sev...
Hitting-Time Bounds for Asynchronous Q-Learning
We study the last iterate of standard asynchronous Q-learning from a single trajectory of a finite Markov decision process. The trajectory follows a fixed behavior policy whose state--action chain is ...
Task Context Shapes Component Roles in Language Models
Large language models reuse the same attention heads across tasks, but identifying these shared heads does not explain what they do differently in each task. A natural source of inspiration is task-de...
RATED: Reliability-Aware AI Agent Tool Retrieval via Execution Dynamics
As AI agents increasingly rely on external tools, accurate retrieval is essential for reliable behavior. Existing methods optimize semantic relevance but largely ignore tool availability during execut...
X-AgentRed: Red-Teaming Personal Agents in Evolving Multi-Service Ecosystems
Personal agents increasingly connect to services across the web and applications by using tools. As the effects of their actions accumulate and interact across services, unintended or harmful outcomes...
Prediction Is Not a Sufficient Memory State
A memory that reproduces every current prediction may still have forgotten how to learn from the next observation. We characterize this distinction for exact cumulative learning and attention. For smo...
Partially Informed Stochastic Optimization via Zeroth-Order Residual Tracking
Many optimization problems provide direct access to only part of the gradient, while the remaining component must be inferred from function evaluations. This structure arises in performative predictio...
Finite-Sample Guarantees for Fully Discrete Conditional Diffusion Models
We establish finite-sample guarantees for conditional diffusion models learned from data and implemented with finitely many denoising steps. Our approach aligns the score-training objective with the s...
Inference-Time Steering Across Scaffolds and Epitopes for Sample-Efficient De Novo Nanobody Design
Generative molecular design typically relies on over-generation and post-hoc filtering. Inference-time steering methods like Feynman-Kac (FK) steering improve efficiency by biasing trajectories toward...
Returning to Development States: When Full Sandbox Snapshots Help Coding Agents
Coding agents often make useful progress before they fail, but retry-from-scratch discards the machine state created along the way. This makes failure recovery an interesting search problem: if interm...
Studying Comics at Scale with Artificial Intelligence: The PAGE Framework and Three Studies of American Comics and Japanese Manga
Comics are one of the great visual records of the twentieth century: hundreds of thousands of pages in which a mass readership saw its leaders, its wars and its heroes. Most of this record has never b...
Specialists Learn Faster: Knowledge Organization in Pre-training Shapes Knowledge Update Efficiency
An ideal (language) model must continually update its knowledge. Existing work largely focuses on making these updates efficient after training. We investigate how the organization of time-varying kno...
ICYMI: What landed for AI builders in September 2026
A monthly recap of the latest Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and Strands updates from September 2026: broader model choice, faster serverless agents with built-in evaluation, and automated knowledge base syncing with native enterprise connectors.
Impactful scheduling for GPU clusters
Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.
Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana made its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests to offer customers more capable models.
Into the Omniverse: How Developers Turn Ideas Into Simulations With Frontier AI Agents
Turning a simulation idea into a working application means assembling assets, connecting physics and rendering, and checking that the scene behaves as intended. Developers are combining frontier AI models with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries to help carry out that work — building applications for exploring scenarios, investigating failures and improving designs. Developers direct AI agents through […]
How Oracle turns days of work into minutes with ChatGPT and Codex
Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.
Rally Up: ‘Gears of War: E-Day’ Launches on GeForce NOW
Gears of War: E-Day leads the charge on GeForce NOW this week, bringing Marcus Fenix and Dom Santiago’s first fight against the Locust Horde to the cloud with GeForce RTX-powered performance. A new way to join the action is also coming: Fire TV users will soon be able to purchase GeForce NOW memberships directly through […]
Pollo AI turns creative ideas into campaigns with OpenAI
With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
LegalOn halves Codex costs while maintaining development speed
LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.
Disrupting AI-enabled “false front” operations
OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.
The model that didn't exist, so you made it yourself
2026 Usage Policy update
Building on our commitment to American scientific discovery
Introducing the Anthropic Cyber Mission
NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents
At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now AI agents are coming to Windows. “If you […]
Introducing Falcon ASR
One Model Family, Two Gold-Level Results: Fine-Tuning Nemotron for IOI and IMO
Helping teens learn, plan, and shape the future of AI
College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.
Radisson Hotel Group brings hotel discovery into ChatGPT
Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.
GPT-6 and Intelligent UI for everyone
GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.
EmbeddingGemma 2: an open, lightweight multimodal embedding model
Why Telecom Operators Are Building Their AI Strategy on Open Models
Telecom operators are increasingly building their AI strategies on open models — and the reasons go beyond mere cost. Open models give telcos the ability to trust, control and customize AI across their most critical workloads — from autonomous networks to customer care. NVIDIA’s latest State of AI in Telecommunications report reflects this shift, with […]
From Scan to Treatment Plan, AI Helps Close Breast Cancer’s Deadliest Gaps
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among American women — yet the gaps in care are wide. A majority of women over age 40 skip the recommended annual screening. Radiologists are reading more mammograms with fewer colleagues. And when a diagnosis arrives, the tests that inform treatment can take weeks to return results. […]
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
NVIDIA DGX Spark 64GB Gives Developers More Ways to Build and Scale Local AI
Local AI is becoming more useful by the token. As AI agents move from experiments into everyday development, increasingly capable open models are shrinking to fit on more devices, giving builders more to run locally. Coming this month, NVIDIA DGX Spark will be available with 64GB of unified memory from top manufacturer partners — Acer, […]
AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
Anthropic invests $100 million to train 10,000 engineers and tackle the enterprise AI talent gap
How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, is available now in the OpenAI API and to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Accelerated by inference optimizations through OpenAI’s models that tap into the capabilities of the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture, Ultrafast offers up to 8x faster token generation than the Astra Standard mode. For developers, […]
Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence
Introducing SynthID Bio
Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.
Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning
Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar
Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.