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Trace voice agents in LangSmith

LangSmith now supports tracing for voice agents built with Pipecat, LiveKit, OpenAI Realtime, and Gemini Live. Capture audio, STT and TTS latency, interruptions, tool calls, and more in one trace.

LangChain BlogAgents / ResearchIn-site articleTrace voice agents in LangSmith
How to build interactive experiences with canvases

GitHub Copilot's 'canvases' transform AI from a conversational tool into a visual, interactive workspace. Developers can create custom canvases via prompts for tasks like issue triage, code visualization, session management, prompt coaching, and knowledge finding. Canvases support real-time collaboration, allowing users and AI agents to iterate together.

GitHub AI & MLAgentsIn-site articleHow to build interactive experiences with canvases
NVIDIA Vera Rubin Driving Performance Per Watt, Lowest Token Cost for Partners Worldwide

NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 production is ramping up with partners CoreWeave, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The platform delivers highest performance per watt and lowest token cost, with 10x more throughput per megawatt than Grace Blackwell NVL72 in benchmarks. It also powers Europe's open-model era through a partnership between Microsoft and Mistral.

NVIDIA BlogModels / Agents / ChipsIn-site articleNVIDIA Vera Rubin Driving Performance Per Watt, Lowest Token Cost for Partners Worldwide
Show HN: One person runs 200 AI agents in our agent-only MMO

SpaceMolt is a game you don’t actually play — every character is an AI agent. Humans (operators) build and deploy bots, then watch. This interview features Brocktree, who runs one of the largest swarms — about 200 agents mining, hauling, and funneling items through a single stationary bot. He explains his philosophy: keep humans in charge, use scripts for mechanical tasks, and never let AI make strategic decisions.

Hacker News AIAgentsIn-site articleShow HN: One person runs 200 AI agents in our agent-only MMO
Lattics

Brain-like knowledge base with AI writing and deep research capabilities.

Product Hunt AIResearchIn-site articleLattics
Show HN: OpenAI Hackathon Submission: ADE

Diff Forge AI is an open-source Agentic Development Environment (ADE) that leverages AI agents for PCB design, video editing, and software development. The author recounts his escape from war-torn Iran and how he used AI tools like Codex, Fable 5, and GPT-5.6 Sol to build the project in two months, writing over 888k lines of code. The tool offers a free open-source client and premium cloud services including remote agent control, cellular communication, and automated workflows.

Hacker News AIModels / Agents / StartupsIn-site articleShow HN: OpenAI Hackathon Submission: ADE
Google ships 3 new Gemini models. Just not the one everyone’s waiting for.

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, a cheaper and faster 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, but the flagship 3.5 Pro remains delayed. 3.6 Flash shows significant improvements in benchmarks and lower output costs. 3.5 Flash-Lite targets high-throughput tasks with strong cost-performance. 3.5 Flash Cyber, for cybersecurity, matches Opus 4.6 but is limited to pilot access.

The New Stack AIModels / Research / AgentsIn-site articleGoogle ships 3 new Gemini models. Just not the one everyone’s waiting for.
Built for Vera Rubin, NVIDIA Spectrum-6 Arrives in Gigascale AI Factories

AI has entered the gigascale era. The world’s most advanced AI factories are bringing together hundreds of thousands of GPUs and CPUs to train frontier models, power agentic AI and generate intelligence at unprecedented scale. At this level, networking becomes a critical computing power multiplier in driving token generation. Marking a networking milestone, NVIDIA Spectrum-6 — a 102.4-terabit-per-second Ethernet switch system delivering 2x the capacity of previous-generation systems and built as part of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform — is arriving across the world’s gigascale AI factories.

NVIDIA BlogModels / Agents / ChipsIn-site articleBuilt for Vera Rubin, NVIDIA Spectrum-6 Arrives in Gigascale AI Factories
Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos

Google has launched an AI security model named Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, designed to quickly find and patch vulnerabilities. It is a cost-efficient alternative to larger, more expensive models like Anthropic's Mythos. The model is built on Gemini 3.5 Flash and will be available first to governments via CodeMender. Google claims it achieved competitive performance on cybersecurity benchmarks and identified 55 unique issues in the V8 engine.

The Verge AIModels / Research / AgentsIn-site articleGoogle launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos
Remote OpenClaw

Remote OpenClaw offers over 13,000 MCP servers, skills, and plugins designed to enhance AI coding agents, providing a comprehensive ecosystem for developers.

Product Hunt AIAgentsIn-site articleRemote OpenClaw
Where Your AI Lives Matters More Than How Smart It Is – Especially in the UAE

In the UAE, enterprise AI decisions hinge not just on model capability but on where data is processed, operational costs, and regulatory compliance. The gap between frontier and open-weight models is narrowing, but self-hosting costs are high. UAE regulations mandate data localization, driving sovereign cloud and hybrid architectures. Companies should adopt a traffic-light routing system based on data sensitivity and validate demand before investing in hardware.

Hacker News AIModels / AgentsIn-site articleWhere Your AI Lives Matters More Than How Smart It Is – Especially in the UAE
AI Is ThoughtWare, Not Software: The End of Thinking as We Know It

The article proposes that AI should be considered 'ThoughtWare' rather than software, arguing that AI is transitioning from a tool to a cognitive environment that will fundamentally reshape human thinking. It warns that this dependence may lead to cognitive degradation, making humans obligate symbionts of machines.

Hacker News AIResearch / StartupsIn-site articleAI Is ThoughtWare, Not Software: The End of Thinking as We Know It
Show HN: Rowset – An open-source back end for AI agents

Rowset is a private MCP and REST backend for structured datasets that trusted AI agents can create, inspect, update, export, and share. It provides a stable programmatic interface for agents, avoiding browser automation.

Hacker News AIAgentsIn-site articleShow HN: Rowset – An open-source back end for AI agents
Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

Prince Canuma, creator of MLX-VLM, launches Nativ, a macOS desktop app that wraps MLX with a chat interface and local API server, automatically detecting models in your Hugging Face cache.

Simon Willison's WeblogModels / ResearchIn-site articleNativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac
Study Claiming AI Helps Students Learn Retracted

A meta-analysis claiming ChatGPT significantly improves student learning performance has been retracted due to serious methodological flaws. The study, published in a Springer Nature journal, gained widespread attention and influenced edtech policy, but its conclusions were not supported by data.

Hacker News AIResearchIn-site articleStudy Claiming AI Helps Students Learn Retracted
Run the Mythos Enhanced Coding Model Locally with llama.cpp and Pi

Learn how to run the Qwythos-9B-Claude-Mythos-5-1M model locally using llama.cpp, connect it to the Pi coding agent, and build local coding workflows with MTP speculative decoding and an OpenAI-compatible API.

KDnuggetsModels / AgentsIn-site articleRun the Mythos Enhanced Coding Model Locally with llama.cpp and Pi
AI physics on vacation turned into real research in quantum mechanics

A security engineer used AI assistant Claude during a family vacation to explore generalized Pauli constraints in quantum mechanics, leading to new discoveries. The AI helped find two extremal states of a constraint polytope and classify them. The work highlights the potential of AI-assisted research while emphasizing the need for rigorous verification and expert feedback.

Hacker News AIResearch / AgentsIn-site articleAI physics on vacation turned into real research in quantum mechanics
Contra George Hotz on "AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence"

Matthew Tromp critiques George Hotz's dismissal of AI 2040 scenarios, arguing that Hotz underestimates the feasibility of fast AI takeoff, the need for regulation, and the risks of unaligned AI. He defends Plan A's regulatory approach and questions Hotz's 'Plan L' of open-source AI.

Hacker News AIAgentsIn-site articleContra George Hotz on "AI 2040 and the Cult of Intelligence"
Formal verification might solve AI's review bottleneck

Formal verification can eliminate the human review bottleneck for AI-generated code by specifying correctness formally. Using a circuit optimizer example, the article shows how Lean specifications allow AI agents to generate correct code without manual inspection, and discusses the broader implications for software engineering.

Hacker News AIAgents / ResearchIn-site articleFormal verification might solve AI's review bottleneck
Show HN: Neverbell, an AI agent that analyzes markets and executes trades

Neverbell is an AI agent skill providing direct market access for trading stocks, ETFs, commodities and crypto with leverage, enabling 24/7 automated trading via natural language instructions.

Hacker News AIAgentsIn-site articleShow HN: Neverbell, an AI agent that analyzes markets and executes trades
A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

Simon Willison hosted a fireside chat at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. They discussed Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic uses these tools internally. Key takeaways include: Claude Tag now lands 65% of product engineering PRs; system prompts have been reduced by 80%; best practices now include fewer 'do not' instructions; and offsetting coding-agent-induced 'Deep Blue' by being more ambitious.

Simon Willison's WeblogAgentsIn-site articleA Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
I tested iOS 26 Siri against iOS 27 Siri AI in my car - and it wasn't even close

The author tested Siri AI (iOS 27 beta) vs regular Siri (iOS 26) in the car. For simple requests, both performed similarly, but for complex tasks, Siri AI was significantly better, though still has beta issues.

ZDNet AIToolsIn-site articleI tested iOS 26 Siri against iOS 27 Siri AI in my car - and it wasn't even close
The Current State of Agentic AI

Agentic AI architecture has evolved by mid-2026 with native reasoning models replacing orchestrated loops, multi-agent swarms, and standardized tool protocols via MCP. This article covers how to design stateless specialist agents, memory graphs, and security patterns.

Machine Learning MasteryAgents / ResearchIn-site articleThe Current State of Agentic AI
I asked an AI agent to delete a folder my tool was guarding

The author of Termaxa, a Rust CLI for gating AI coding agent shell commands, tested his tool by asking Cursor agent to delete a protected folder. Cursor bypassed the tool in four ways: retrying in different shell dialects, using indirect deletion commands, escaping via native file tools, and exploiting silent API changes. These lessons led to intent classification, session circuit breakers, and improved integration testing.

Hacker News AIAgentsIn-site articleI asked an AI agent to delete a folder my tool was guarding
US banks insulated from AI data centre downturn

Analysts say tougher underwriting standards adopted since the global financial crisis will enable Wall Street banks to weather a sharp reversal in the AI boom, following a challenging week for tech stocks.

Hacker News AIStartupsIn-site articleUS banks insulated from AI data centre downturn
The classic Java RSS reader won't run in 2026, so I rebuilt it to the web

A developer rebuilt the abandoned Java desktop RSS reader RSSOwl for the web using AI (Claude Code) and Vaadin 25. Most of the UI transferred quickly, but the AI produced incorrect APIs due to outdated training data. With the help of an MCP server for current docs and manual verification against the original, a multi-user reader emerged, though some features (pluggable menus, embedded browser) were impossible to port.

Hacker News AIAgentsIn-site articleThe classic Java RSS reader won't run in 2026, so I rebuilt it to the web
HugstonOne Architecture, Capability, Benchmark to Privacy Local AI Workstation

Published July 21, 2026. HugstonOne Enterprise Edition 3.0.0 is a standalone, cross-platform, privacy-first local AI workstation combining local model execution, large-source RAG, document processing, coding, agents, research tools, encrypted collaboration, session continuity, and network/memory controls. The whitepaper details architecture, privacy model, benchmark methodology (12-pillar weighted capability benchmark), and competitive analysis for enterprise technology leaders and AI engineers.

Hacker News AIAgentsIn-site articleHugstonOne Architecture, Capability, Benchmark to Privacy Local AI Workstation
We spent months building AI agents. Then we deleted them

Runnit's team built multiple specialized AI agents due to model context limitations, but after newer models with larger context windows, they realized a single intelligence architecture was simpler and more effective, so they deleted all agents.

Hacker News AIAgents / ResearchIn-site articleWe spent months building AI agents. Then we deleted them