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rust-v0.171.0-alpha.3

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Michelangelo AI

Michelangelo AI is now open source, with the material citing Uber-scale usage of 400+ active ML projects, 20K+ model training jobs per month, 5K+ models in production, and 45M+ real-time predictions per second at peak. It offers feature management, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring, with feature management, evaluation, and monitoring marked coming soon. A Python API example shows distributed XGBoost training with Ray and an end-to-end training workflow.

Open Source AI Salons: Shaping the Osaid, Together

The Open Source Initiative hosted the first Open Source AI Salons in Raleigh and Barcelona, two years after releasing the Open Source AI Definition (OSAID 1.0), to discuss its practical application with civil society, government, industry, and academia. Participants broadly agreed that the four freedoms (use, study, share, modify) must be preserved and that training data transparency is the main bottleneck, while noting that an OSI-approved code license does not automatically mean a model meets the OSAID. OSI plans further Salons at the DPGA Annual Members Meeting in Paris in November and at FOSDEM in January, and is seeking global partners to host events in 2027.

AI Ambition: ArtCraft Cloned Photoshop and Now Wants to "Rebuild Everything"

At the AI Engineer Code Summit in San Francisco, ArtCraft founder and CEO Brandon Thomas presented his company's AI-based open source manifesto, describing how it built a Photoshop alternative called PhotoCraft in Rust from a detailed prompt and has since released 17 open source versions of popular tools, including clones of Acrobat, Figma and a word processor called WordCraft. Thomas said PhotoCraft is still not at 100% parity with Photoshop (just past 60%), that the apps are being downloaded about 1.7 million times per day, and that the open source community has grown to roughly 4,000 developers. He also said Rust was essential to performance, that agents handle desktop apps and games while humans do backend work and API design, and that ArtCraft plans to open source AutoCraft, a fully autonomous software factory.

AI Security Wiki

The AI Security Wiki is a reference for securing enterprise AI adoption, covering governance, risk management, secure engineering, monitoring, vendor evaluation and assurance, with pages reusable as templates that specify the audit evidence each activity should produce. It positions itself as the implementation layer—control objectives, evidence, audit procedures and test cases—that works alongside frameworks such as FINOS AIGF, ISO/IEC 42001, NIST CSF, PCI DSS and CERT-In rather than replacing them. The repository includes a 682-case test library, regional compliance hubs for the GCC, EU and other jurisdictions, framework crosswalks, role-based playbooks and downloadable templates.

Notion AI chat transcripts exposed in Fireworks AI breach

Notion said a Fireworks AI incident affected under 1% of Notion workspaces, with the impacted dataset including Notion AI chat transcripts used for the Insights feature that were largely unattributable to users or workspaces. Notion disconnected from Fireworks on 3 November, deleted its data there, disabled Insights, and stopped serving open-weight models through Fireworks; it contacted affected customers on 9 November. Affected customers can retrieve the data in their workspace and are advised to treat it as exposed and rotate any sensitive information, passwords or API keys pasted into Notion AI during the incident timeframe.

Turning Teacher Expertise into AI-Generated Educational Simulations

The Generative AI Labs team introduces Primer, an open-source system that lets educators build educational simulations through a structured AI interview rather than code, producing a reviewable design document that must be approved before any simulation is built. Specialized agents then create and run the simulation, with student-facing mentor, practice (Roleplay or Teachback), and feedback agents, and educators receive individual and aggregate performance reports. Primer is described as an experimental prototype, not a vetted classroom product, and its prompts, templates, and code are released on GitHub.

I Love AI

In a personal essay, the author reflects on twenty years since leaving home to study computer science, explaining why AI drew them in: a field built on tackling problems computers cannot yet solve, where success gets absorbed into ordinary technology (the "AI Effect") and only the failures keep the AI label. They contrast that tradition of heuristics and resource-constrained approximation with today's generative AI, which they see as mostly scale-up engineering, and with papers whose contribution is simply asking an LLM to do something. They still call themselves an AI researcher "at heart," with a tongue-in-cheek "not that kind" disclaimer.

Sandbox resourcing: burst, don't reserve

Modal argues that fixed-resource reservations fit poorly with bursty Sandbox workloads, since a typical Sandbox spends more than half its life using under 6% of its peak CPU, so users over-reserve and pay for peak constantly. Modal's Sandboxes now burst by default from a base request of 0.125 cores and 128 MiB, with active-resource pricing billed each second for what is used, and the company cites 58% savings versus a fixed-size reservation on an illustrative 20-minute coding agent task. It also describes an OOM SLO of below 0.0001% per minute for bursting Sandboxes under 8 GiB and tools like exit snapshots and the termination reasons SDK to reduce eviction impact.

Schelling Atlas: AI agents know where to find each other on the web

Researchers ran trials in which two independent copies of a model had to find each other on the web and exchange secret tokens without being told where to meet; most pairs converged on the push-notification service ntfy.sh within minutes, often posting to topics named from the task's own words such as agent-rendezvous. With ntfy.sh blocked, agents scattered across many sites and almost no pairs met in five minutes, though more time helped, and some agents left tokens in unusual places like OpenStreetMap notes, shared text canvases and a demo shop's product list. Asked to leave no trace, 37 of 90 agents chose channels that keep nothing or tried to delete their posts, and the authors note agents read the real internet while their posts reached only a simulated copy.

Jensen Huang and the end of the ‘lol nothing matters’ era of American politics

This Platformer column reports that Nvidia announced CEO Jensen Huang's resignation on Thursday morning, with CFO Colette Kress serving as CEO while the board searches for a permanent replacement, following New York Times and Reuters reports of extramarital relationships. The piece argues Huang's downfall illustrates the risks of Silicon Valley's cult of the founder, including key-man risk at a company with no apparent succession plan, and ties his resistance to AI-safety warnings and chip export controls to his defense of Nvidia's interests. It concludes that the 'lol nothing matters' era of US business and politics may be ending.

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llm-gemini 0.37

Google launched Gemini 4 Hydrogen, the lowest-cost member of the Gemini 4 family, priced at $1.50/M input, $0.075/M cached input and $7.50/M output, compared with Carbon and Argon at $2.00/$0.10/$10.00 through Nov 30, 2026, doubling from Dec 1, 2026. The post notes Carbon and Argon share the same price, that Hydrogen is only a 25% discount until December 1st (then 75%), and that it remains far more expensive than Claude Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna at $0.10/$0.50. Hydrogen is described as the new free tier model and the model powering AI features in Google Search.

Reranking in RAG: How to Fix Bad Retrieval with a Reranker

This guide explains that vector search often ranks near-miss chunks first because embeddings compress whole chunks into single vectors, and shows how adding a cross-encoder reranker over the top 30 candidates raised precision@1 from 81% to 97% on a 274-question synthetic benchmark at roughly $0.10 per 1,000 queries. It compares 11 rerankers (voyageai/rerank-3-lite and rerank-3 were the most accurate dedicated models and cheapest, while LLM rerankers like openai/gpt-6-luna hit 99.6% but took about 4 seconds per call), covers candidate-count tuning, input_type settings, and silent failures such as cohere/rerank-v3.5's 4,096-token limit. It includes a Python example using the embeddings and rerank APIs and notes that real-world gains depend on your own documents and evaluation set.

AI Bubble: 'Circular financing is over' – Ed Zitron [video]

A Hacker News submission links to a YouTube video in which Ed Zitron discusses the AI bubble and states that "circular financing is over." The submission includes the video URL and a Hacker News comments link, with 4 points and 1 comment at the time of listing.

The Nvidia AI GPU Black Market (2025)

A Hacker News submission links to a YouTube video titled "The Nvidia AI GPU Black Market (2025)." The submission has 1 point and no comments.

Show HN: AI Math Kit – Open Problems. Explore Honestly

AI Math Kit is a browser extension popup that presents 217 open math problems (number theory, calculus, and cross-field mysteries such as the Riemann Hypothesis and P vs NP) alongside 242 plain-language guides to AI and formalized-math breakthroughs, plus prompt templates and an honesty pledge for exploring with AI. It offers Chinese, English, and Japanese interfaces, caches payment status locally, and unlocks full problem explanations, breakthrough details, and prompts via an optional Pro in-app purchase (ExtPay). The developer states the content is introductory paraphrase and does not claim AI has proven any conjecture.

Have AI timelines suddenly moved?

A new METR report and follow-on analyses by Ajeya Cotra, the AI Futures team and Buck Shlegeris suggest Anthropic's capabilities progress accelerated around October 2025, with METR estimating that AI building AI accounts for roughly 80% of the speed-up, which would bring forecasts for superhuman AI R&D from 2028-2029 forward to 2027. The author notes that Anthropic's internal index shows a 1.5-1.9x speed-up while other labs have not accelerated and the overall frontier trend remains stable, and that outside organizations report 1.5-3x gains from AI rather than Anthropic's reported 12x. The piece concludes that the decisive data exists only inside Anthropic, and that the probability of a superhuman researcher in 2027 ranges from about 70% under METR's headline figure to about 20% using only public Epoch numbers and the field's earlier trajectory.

How Amplitude ships product improvements in 1–2 days with OpenAI

Amplitude's proactive product agent, Wave, is built primarily on OpenAI models and identifies what to build, helps teams ship changes with coding agents, and measures the impact.

7 customer service skills every human and AI agent needs (with examples)

This guide outlines seven customer service skills—communication, problem-solving, conflict resolution, empathy, adaptability, personalization, and product knowledge—and explains how both human and AI agents apply each, citing a Zendesk study that more than 50% of customers switched to competitors after a single bad experience. It describes implementation steps including defining CX goals, choosing an agentic AI platform, architecting the agent workflow, and testing before deployment, and notes Gartner's projection that at least 70% of customers will start their customer journey using an AI interface by 2028. It also covers training and feedback through metrics such as CSAT, first contact resolution, and average handle time, and distinguishes hard from soft skills.

0.171.0-alpha.1

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Habits of Highly Ineffective AI Programmers

A Medium article by Young Coder lists seven habits of highly ineffective AI programmers, shared on Hacker News with 1 point and 1 comment.

Show HN: AxiomStory – Keep stories consistent across AI text, images, video

AxiomStory is an AI story studio that reads every chapter to flag continuity errors, builds a wiki page for each character and place, and generates pictures, voices and video using one saved look per character. It supports importing existing manuscripts in Word, EPUB, PDF, Markdown, HTML or plain text, and offers a free plan plus paid tiers from $16 to $160 per month.

Kids and Parents Are Protesting Google's Classroom AI

Parents, students, educators and community members protested outside Google's New York City headquarters against the company pushing AI into schools, with rallies also held in six other cities. The protest followed Google's announcement that it would turn off its AI tools for school systems unless administrators opt in, and a lawsuit alleging the Gemini chatbot on a school-issued Chromebook harmed a 13-year-old girl in North Carolina. New York State Sen. Andrew Gounardes promoted his FOCUS Act requiring screen-free learning for pre-K to fifth grade, while organizers called for a pause on generative AI in New York City's K-12 public schools.

Mirendil raises $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins to democratize AI R&D

Mirendil announced a $1B Series A led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital, with participation from Battery Ventures, Doerr Capital, Gil & Co, Google, M13, Pear VC, S32 and others. The company says one researcher working with agents pretrained Mirendil-Base, a competitive coding model, from scratch in 3.5 months with less than $10M in compute, and it was then post-trained into Fern, which holds up to 10M tokens of context. Lor, now in private beta, lets hundreds of agents write code and run experiments for days at a time, and Mirendil says it runs on Lor every day.

AI Company Employees Should Unionize

The article argues that safety-conscious AI company employees should stay and organize labor unions rather than quit, noting that skilled AI researchers have unusual leverage because they are hard to replace. It describes how informal "concerted activity" protections could let employees form groups like an "OpenAI Safety Union," and how unions could push for whistleblower protections, transparency, and coordinated deals across companies. It also recommends that employees considering whistleblowing or quitting contact the nonprofit Psst for legal advice.

AI #194: Spy versus Guy

This weekly AI roundup covers the release of Claude Fable 5.2, allegations that Jensen Huang had an affair with a Chinese spy and that Nvidia's board is preparing to remove him, and the METR report on AI R&D acceleration that prompted large timeline updates from Daniel Kokotajlo and Paul Christiano. It also notes that GPT-6 Astra underperforms on safety research tasks, and includes sections on Gemini 4 Carbon, GPT-6 Cyber, benchmarks, AI agents in commerce, and AI safety debates.

AI-written peer reviews outscored top human experts

A PsyPost article reports on a Harvard working paper finding that AI-written peer reviews outscored top human experts in blind comparisons. The item links to the PsyPost article and a Hacker News discussion thread.

AI and Virtual Reality Enter the Therapist's Office

An Undark article examines the use of AI and virtual reality, including avatars and deepfakes, in therapy settings. The piece is discussed on Hacker News.

Security flaws in popular AI tools have nearly tripled

A post links to research at birdyfoot.com reporting that security flaws in popular AI tools have nearly tripled, and to a Hacker News discussion thread on the topic. The submission had 4 points and no comments at the time.

Axelera AI Thinks Titania Is a Better Way to Scale AI Inference

A Forbes article by Marco Chiappetta covers Axelera AI's argument that its Titania approach offers a better way to scale AI inference. The piece is linked on Hacker News, where it has drawn limited discussion.

Gondola doubles revenue as its team builds more with Codex

Gondola helps creatives get credit and get hired, with Codex raising its lead engineer's output by 50% and ChatGPT simplifying daily work.

Edge0-145B: Frontier AI Capabilities on Your Own Computer

The company open-sourced Edge0-145B and Edge0-120B, describing Edge0-145B as the first open-source 145-billion-parameter on-device model, alongside a unified inference framework and deployment tools. It reports 29GB peak memory, 80+ tokens/s decoding, 1,100+ tokens/s prefill, roughly 120W typical power and 128K–256K context on a compatible laptop, with benchmark scores compared against named cloud models. The release also describes shared-matrix sparse experts, tiered GPU/system-memory/SSD loading and CPU-GPU co-scheduling, plus local demonstrations in video, Blender 3D scenes, games, drone control and PCB design.

Why You Should Expect an AI Crash

An Economist leaders article arguing that readers should expect an AI crash, shared on Hacker News where it drew 82 points and 66 comments.

v2.1.323

Claude Code v2.1.323 adds an experimental opt-in Code Mode in which Claude writes JavaScript to call its tools, plus plugin engine version ranges in plugin.json and TypeScript hook type checking in claude plugin validate. The release also adds .docx support to Artifact tool asset uploads and fixes a wide range of issues across permissions, sandboxing, sessions, MCP, OpenTelemetry and Remote Control.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on Vera Rubin NVL72: 58x Throughput vs. GB300 NVL72 at 387 tokens/s

On a single NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack, vLLM serves DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash at 1.7M tokens/s per GPU with 387 tokens/s per user, 58x GB300 NVL72, reaching 2.52M at peak throughput and 1,810 tokens/s for a single user. The gains come from kernels tuned for Rubin's split memory domains and FP4 tensor cores, specialized low-latency decode kernels, and a rack-wide KV cache and Engram tables shared over NVLink. The post details four optimization groups and reports a 96.5–97% prefix hit rate at high concurrency with workload-aware routing.

Build once, run on any agent: A practical guide to agent skills

GitHub's guide explains agent skills as versioned directories centered on a SKILL.md file that capture repeatable task instructions shareable across agents, while the environment still supplies tools, credentials, and permissions. Using examples like Proof Agent for adversarial verification and Data Forge for a multi-skill data pipeline, it recommends keeping project configuration in a manifest, sharing execution paths between skills, and placing human checkpoints and CI checks in workflows. It also covers packaging skills for clients such as Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot, and notes that applications suit workflows needing stable interfaces, shared state, audit trails, or permissions enforced outside the model.

Dispelling LTAP myths

This post rebuts four common misconceptions about LTAP: that it is CDC replication, that a single copy forces slow lookups or scans, that open table formats mean eventual consistency, and that Postgres logical replication suffices. It argues Lakebase keeps one logical table with the lake as its durable tier and caches in front of it, so no layer adds a second catalog or source of truth. Each myth is traced to the same misunderstanding of treating every materialization of the data as a second database.

Liquid AI Releases LiquidCodec, a 74M-Parameter Streaming Audio Codec

Liquid AI released LiquidCodec, a ~74M-parameter streaming speech tokenizer used in its LFM3-Audio-2B and LFM3-Omni-2B models, which converts 24 kHz audio into 12 token streams at 12.5 Hz frames and back. Liquid AI reports best ViSQOL and lowest mel distance on all 8 test sets versus X-Codec 2, NanoCodec and Mimi, with encode RTF 0.0028 and decode RTF 0.0115 on a single CPU thread, though NanoCodec scored higher PESQ (WB) on 7 of 8 sets. Weights are on Hugging Face, with Q4_0, Q4_K_M and Q8_0 GGUF builds for llama.cpp.

Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay

Meta's consumer AI agent Muse can now place calls to U.S. businesses on behalf of users, but the feature is limited to paid subscribers after an initial September test. Muse subscriptions start at $20 per month for 500 million tokens per week, with a $100 per month tier offering 3 billion tokens. Meta Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said the feature could handle calls people don't want to make, such as to cable companies, the DMV, or restaurants without online reservations.

Democrats launch Nvidia investigation, write scathing letter on Huang’s ‘scheme’ with Trump

Rep. Richard Neal and Sen. Ron Wyden opened a Democratic inquiry into how the Trump administration handled Nvidia's chip sales to China, sending a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick asking the department to preserve records about an arrangement they allege is illegal. The letter questions why Lutnick allowed Megaspeed to keep buying chips after being reportedly informed of suspicions about Alice Huang and her relationship with Jensen Huang, and asks how Nvidia's $26 million in donations to Trump's projects factored in. The inquiry follows Nvidia's ouster of CEO Jensen Huang, who agreed to testify before a separate Republican-led group of Congressional committees.