// news
What we're reading.
A daily reading list across 11 feeds we follow
on AI, mobile, and web. Auto-refreshes a few times a day,
newest first. Last updated: 2026-08-11.
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Vercel Connect now supports CLI setup for 100+ connectors
You can now integrate 100+ services through Vercel Connect from the CLI. Previously, completed setup in the terminal for some services, and opened the…
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[AINews] Muse Glimmer and Spark: Open Weights return Personal Superintelligence promise
a small win for american open models - Glimmer runs on a fits on a single RTX 3090!
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A sandbox without a network boundary is only half a sandbox
Running untrusted code safely requires more than separating it from the host. You also have to control what that code can reach. This matters more as AI agents…
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Introducing Muse Glimmer
Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the…
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Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java
Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the…
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Vercel Sandbox now runs on Vercel Managed Images
Today we are introducing Vercel Managed Images (VMI), a set of versioned, open-source base images you can use as-is or extend. The source for every image lives…
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Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones,…
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What building an AI-native finance function taught me
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.
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What's the best programming language for coding agents?
Related: Which programming languages are most token-efficient? - - Jan 2026 (91 comments)
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OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth…
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Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol
Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks.
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Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows
Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-specific model available through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and…
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Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands
Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed cybersecurity services to customers.
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Quoting OpenClaw
The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went…
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Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business
Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business. Sign up by August 20 to get $100 in workspace credits and unlock higher usage for your team's most demanding work.
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How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work
The enterprise marketing team at Zapier uses ChatGPT Work to reduce the number of drop-offs in its lead funnel, build campaign assets, and automate reporting.
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Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work
Virgin Atlantic is accelerating research, product planning, and decision-making with ChatGPT Work, helping teams connect signals across the customer journey.
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Simplified onboarding for deepsec
, the open-source security review harness from Vercel, now lets you set up a repository and run its first security review with a single command.deepsec The…
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Bun runtime for Vercel Functions now accepts Bun.serve as an entrypoint
The for Vercel Functions now supports as a function entrypoint, including WebSocket handlers. The server you run locally with Bun deploys as-is, without being…
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Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were first released on June 9, 2026. On June 12, 2026, Anthropic suspended access to both models to comply with U.S.…
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GitHub Models is now retired
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message:…
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SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on…
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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode , to the point that they are…
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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News. I think one of the most interesting details here…
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[AINews] Zawinski's Law of MultiAgents
a quiet day lets us find some connections among recent themes
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Quoting John Gruber
Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album. Except when I’m writing a piece where I really want it to be an album.…
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Grok Imagine Image 2.0 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
is now available on AI Gateway.Grok Imagine Image 2.0 Preview from xAI The model follows detailed instructions closely and plans typography and layout…
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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog). The video was…
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Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)
Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 , where I had…
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Vercel AI Gateway and Vercel Sandbox now available on Hermes Agent
can now use as its inference layer and run its agent commands in an isolated microVM. Access 200+ models through AI Gateway at no markup on tokens, and every…
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Vercel Container Registry repositories can now be made public
now lets you make a repository public, so anyone with a Vercel account can pull and use its images.Vercel Container Registry Sharing already granted read…
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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio…
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Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
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How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory
Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.
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[AINews] AMD buys Taalas
The Inference Inflection is HEATING up.
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Skill packs are now available on skills.sh
You can now bundle multiple agent skills into a shareable pack on .skills.sh Build a pack from community skills, your own local folders and zips, or public and…
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datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13
Release: datasette-auth-tokens 0.4a13 Upgraded for compatibility with `sqlite-utils 4. Tags: datasette
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Give every agent in Herdr its own Vercel Sandbox
Terminal coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode can now each run in their own isolated , orchestrated from , a tmux-style manager that runs them…
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A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app
Go beyond chat in the GitHub Copilot app with these slash commands. They'll help you plan, collaborate, automate, and customize your dev workflow. The post A…
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datasette 1.0a38
Release: datasette 1.0a38 This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables…
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datasette 0.65.3
Release: datasette 0.65.3 Back-ported the SQL Injection security fix from 1.0a38 . Tags: datasette
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Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked…
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Inside Android Skills - Built for deprecation
Posted by Jose Alcérreca, Developer Relations Engineer, Android Developer Relations We released the official Android Skills in April, and the response…
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Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users
ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6…
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Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI
OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.
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An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing Stop me if you've heard this one before : An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and…
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From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work
New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.
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Introducing Agent Plugins
Today, Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is publicly available. is an open, vendor-neutral standard for plugins that extend AI agents. Agent Plugins provide reusable…
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Seedance 2.5 now available on Vercel AI Gateway
from ByteDance is now available on AI Gateway. It generates up to 30 seconds in a single clip, holding camera movement and continuity without stitching shots…
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Marketplace integrations now install provider skills
When you install a integration from the Vercel CLI, it now also installs that provider's agent skills from , so your agents know how to use it: Vercel…
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Ling 3.0 Tiny is now available on AI Gateway
from ANT Group is now on AI Gateway, free to use till 8:00am PT on 8/14. Ling 3.0 Tiny takes the free slot from .Ling 3.0 TinyLing 3.0 Flash Ling 3.0 Tiny is a…
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Introducing Agent Plugins 1.0.0
Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is now available. It is an open, vendor-neutral standard for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins. Compatible agent…
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Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool…
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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models And another one . I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all! This post from…
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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing It happened again . This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who…
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One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5
Back in 2022 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that…
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Set your own project avatars
You can now set a project's avatar from its settings in the Vercel dashboard. Until now, Vercel set it automatically, using the favicon from the project's…
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New setup page after domain checkout
Buying a domain on Vercel now takes you to a setup page that tracks registration live, with direct paths to deploy a new project, connect an existing one,…
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Get ready for new creative assets on the App Store
As we announced in June, Apple is introducing new ways to market your apps and games on the App Store. With these new assets, you can go beyond in-use visuals…
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Hello Developer: August 2026
In this edition: Check out an all-new video from Cupertino to dive deeper into the biggest updates from WWDC26. Download templates and get started building App…
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[AINews] Megakernels are so dead and so back
A quiet day lets us highlight a Cursor launch and an engineering debate
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How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows
Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code. The post How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline…
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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.
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Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users
An external reconstruction of how Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills and Tools work in the new ChatGPT Work.
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Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack
Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests. The post…
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New ways to learn and teach with ChatGPT Work and Codex
Explore new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex that help K–12 teachers, college educators, and students learn, teach, research, and build.
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Apple is getting this wrong
OpenAI addresses Apple’s baseless lawsuit, corrects claims about its employees, and shares messages documenting what happened.
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The Inference Engineering Masterclass — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
Baseten just raised a $13B Series F and is now one of the leading kings of inference engineering. We go into everything you need to know for autoregressive and…
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How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months
GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.
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Circles powers telco personalization with OpenAI technology
Circles uses the OpenAI API and Codex to power AI-native telco experiences, increasing ARPU by 22%, reducing churn by 9%, and improving development efficiency.
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[AINews] not much happened today
apart from DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731, a quiet day.
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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and…
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Advancing responsible AI across Europe
OpenAI shares how its safety, security, transparency, and provenance practices support responsible AI governance in Europe. The work will continue as the EU AI…
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Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app. The post Stacked sessions and pull requests…
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Ontologies Are So Back: Why AI Agents Are Reviving the Semantic Web
AI engineers are rediscovering ontologies as a way to keep probabilistic agents inside deterministic boundaries.
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[AINews] AI is eating Finance; AIE NYC now open
a quiet day lets us cover how AI is permeating financial services as the next big vertical after coding.
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Delivering safer, age-appropriate experiences on Google Play
Posted by Paul Feng, VP of Product Management, Google Play Providing a safe online experience and protecting users from harm is a top priority at Google Play.…
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Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass…
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Scaling Laws, Carefully
Scaling laws are one of the most critical empirical findings in deep learning. The observation is simple in form: the training loss $L$ decreases predictably…
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microgpt
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Deep Neural Nets: 33 years ago and 33 years from now
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