// 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: 2026-09-25.
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Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.
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Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]
The following explanation is taken from Alan Kay performs an improvisational avant garde layered audio feedback loop about Claude Shannon, live online during…
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GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases
Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools…
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Quoting John Gruber
Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running…
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Show HN: Doom or Bloom, map your AI worldview
Map your AI worldview by answering a few questions, and see how you compare with others. only takes a few minutes && free & open source && private by default…
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Show HN: Hamilton – a no-internet Android health dashboard, named after my dog
I started experimenting with LLMs and decided I wanted to create a fitness app. My first thought was an app that disabled Google Pay every time my phone…
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State of agent skills
In seven months, the registry grew to one million agent skills and recorded nearly 280 million installs.skills.sh A skill gives an AI agent reusable…
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[AINews] The Future of Latent Space
A quiet day lets us discuss the work behind the scenes - now open for business!
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Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican
Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CA New 200-800mm Canon EF lens got me my best…
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Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds
GWM Worlds 2 uses persistent context and timed actions to steer a world model generating video and audio in real time.
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Note on 24th September 2026
The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder. We can do amazing things with them,…
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commit-rewriter 0.2
Release: commit-rewriter 0.2 Support for branches other than the default branch. Use uvx commit-rewriter --branch other to run against another branch. #3 Tags:…
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datasette 1.0a41
Release: datasette 1.0a41 Alec Garcia added support for OpenTelemetry to Datasette in this release. I've also refactored all of Datasette's modal dialogs to a…
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AI-powered fuzzing with the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent
In this blog post, I explain how to use the new fuzzing taskflow based on the GitHub Security Lab Taskflow Agent AI framework. The post AI-powered fuzzing with…
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Build your way: Use any AI agent of your choice in Android Studio
Posted by Matthew Warner, Product Manager, Android Developer Experience AI-powered developer tools have become an essential multiplier for engineering…
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Foundries vs Navigators: Lowering the Cost of Science
Guest Post: In science, thinking has gotten cheap but doing has not. This asymmetry is reshaping how research companies operate, largely inconspicuously.
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[AINews] Meta Connect 2026: Muse glasses, voice, video, and Charm
Team Zuck is absolutely on fire.
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The Vercel Bug Bounty Program is now publicly available
In 2022, we launched a private bug bounty program through HackerOne. Over the last several years, we've worked with HackerOne's VIP program to refine our…
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How Klaviyo shipped 356 internal apps in two weeks on Vercel
Klaviyo on Vercel Implementing safeguards across the stack Built a platform for shipping internal apps 512 builders and 356 live apps in two weeks Every app…
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Vercel Connect now supports TanStack AI
Agents built with TanStack AI can now call OAuth-protected MCP servers through Vercel Connect, with no credentials for you to store or rotate. The new subpath…
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Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app
How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments. The post Rendering huge…
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Unlimited Vercel Blob stores on every plan
You can now create as many stores as you need. The previous limits of 100 stores on Hobby, 500 on Pro, and 1,000 on Enterprise no longer apply.Vercel Blob Blob…
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Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground
Tool: Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground Google released two new Gemini text-to-speech models today - gemini-3.8-flash-tts and gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts . They come…
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Shadow roots, explained with live examples
Tool: Shadow roots, explained with live examples Prompt to Fable 5.1 Medium: Build an artifact to explain shadow roots in CSS with interactive examples Tags:…
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Two years of OpenAI Academy
Marking two years of OpenAI Academy and bringing AI skills to even more communities.
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🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
Radical Numerics is using biological chain-of-thought and multimodal perception to keep up with the bio-defense arms race, design new genomes and gain insights…
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OpenAI extends cyber access to Ukraine for civilian defense
OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine to support the cyber defense of civilian infrastructure.
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Sam Altman’s remarks at the United Nations Security Council
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses AI safety, human control, and international cooperation in remarks to the United Nations Security Council.
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Harvey turns legal context into stronger drafts with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra produces more structured, context-aware legal documents, freeing lawyers to focus on strategy.
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How invideo improves color grading 3x with GPT‑6 Astra
With GPT‑6 Astra, invideo plans edits with greater precision, improves color correction and grading threefold, and produces 50 custom effects in one day.
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Ringg’s AI agents resolve up to 65% of customer calls with OpenAI
Using GPT-5.6, Ringg powers multilingual agents across voice, chat, WhatsApp, and web for 90% less cost vs. GPT-4.1.
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Introducing MentalHealthBench
MentalHealthBench is an expert-informed benchmark for evaluating helpful and safe AI responses across realistic mental health conversations.
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[AINews] Claude Opus 5.5, the new default model for AINews — and everybody cuts prices 40-50%
overshadowing more efficient GPT6 models from OpenAI
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SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering I'm hosting an evening event with Jesse Vincent in San Francisco on Wednesday 14th October…
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ChatGPT Ads expands to Southeast Asia and Taiwan
ChatGPT Ads is expanding to Southeast Asia and Taiwan, giving eligible businesses new ways to reach people across more than 60 countries.
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Airbnb widens access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models
Learn how Airbnb is expanding access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models to help engineering teams solve bugs, design systems, and ship faster.
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Grab and OpenAI bring practical AI skills to Southeast Asia
OpenAI and Grab launch GO Forward with AI, a regional programme helping 30,000 partners build practical AI skills across Southeast Asia.
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Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech models now available on AI Gateway
and from Google are now available on .Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTSGemini 3.8 Flash TTSAI Gateway Both models take text and generate speech in more than 100…
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Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now in public beta
Drives for Vercel Sandbox are now available in public beta on Hobby, Pro, and Enterprise. A Drive is persistent storage that you mount as a directory in a…
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Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI…
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🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the…
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Better prompt caching for GPT-6
Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.
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llm 0.36
Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna . #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False…
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Quoting @therealcornpop
Hey, you know it's like super obvious if you're using AI to write your scripts for TikTok and YouTube, right? [...] It's not just the general AI-isms of "it's…
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Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.
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llm-anthropic 0.29
Release: llm-anthropic 0.29 Adds support for Claude Opus 5.5 : llm -m claude-opus-5.5 "prompt goes here" Tags: llm , anthropic
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Land your apps on Googlebook with adaptive development
Posted by Fahd Imtiaz, Senior Product Manager, and Loryn Hairston, Product Marketing Manager, Android Developer Googlebook introduces a new category of laptops…
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llm-typesafe 0.1a0
Release: llm-typesafe 0.1a0 I built this new plugin for LLM to add support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model . Install it like this: llm install llm-typesafe…
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Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra
GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.
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[AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M
crowning a new Chinese frontier lab
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Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments
OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and safeguards.
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway
and from are now available on .GPT-6 SolGPT-6 LunaOpenAIAI Gateway Both models bring GPT-6 improvements in professional work, coding, computer use, factuality,…
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Claude Opus 5.5 now available on AI Gateway
from is now available on . It is a step-change improvement over , with its biggest gains in agentic coding, long-running agent tasks, and knowledge work.…
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev , their first example of a new category of model that they are calling "System One models" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I…
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Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available After a two year preview, Cloudflare's support for running Python code in their server-side Workers…
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Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
The definitive Jev podcast with its lead creator.
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Vercel Connect now supports Microsoft Teams
now includes a managed connector for . Creating one gives your organization a Teams bot that your apps and agents run. People can @mention it in channels or…
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Bring your Android game to the car screen today
Posted by Jan Kleinert, Developer Relations Engineer, Android for Cars Today, the games category for Android Auto and cars powered by Android Automotive OS…
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Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra
With GPT-6 Astra, Higgsfield AI makes video ad creation easier for small businesses and brings new creative tools to market faster.
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Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI is working with an independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence to guide the review and communication of emerging AI results.
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Building standards for the next phase of AI
OpenAI outlines a path to shared global AI standards, calling for coordinated evaluation, reporting, and governance to improve safety.
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Expanding OpenAI Academy with new learning paths
Explore new OpenAI Academy learning paths for employees, developers, leaders, educators, and students to build and demonstrate practical AI skills.
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V7 cuts costs 78% while boosting accuracy with GPT-5.6 Luna
Using GPT-5.6, V7 turns scattered company files into context agents can use to complete complex, source-linked work.
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MiMo V2.6 models now available on AI Gateway
, , and from are now available on .MiMo V2.6 ProMiMo V2.6 FlashMiMo V2.6 Pro UltraSpeedXiaomiAI Gateway MiMo V2.6 combines coding, reasoning, and tool use with…
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AI Gateway now supports TypeSafe clients and an HTTP API for Jev
You can now call through AI Gateway using an existing TypeSafe client or the HTTP API, in addition to the AI SDK.Jev from TypeSafe AI is a probabilistic…
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Grok 4.7 now available and 40% off on AI Gateway, fx, and eve
from SpaceXAI is now available on AI Gateway and 40% off through September 27. The discount applies automatically when you call .Grok 4.7spacexai/grok-4.7 Grok…
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Quoting voxium
It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those…
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MCP was always a bad idea?
My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News. This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to…
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llm-keys-ui 0.1
Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling…
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datasette-explain 0.2.2
Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which…
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datasette-auth-github 1.0
Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated sessions weren't…
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[AINews] Here are 6 Clones of Jev in 2 days
Imitation is the sincerest form of Flattery
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WebMCP support now available in mcp-handler
now has experimental support for , the proposed web standard for exposing tools to in-browser agents. Add a single script tag to your site, and your existing…
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Build for iPhone Duo with new resources
Get Xcode 27.1 beta. View downloads and release notes Get Figma and Sketch design kits for iPhone Duo from the Apple Design Resources. Download design kits…
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v0 now reads npm credentials from shared environment variables
now installs private packages from npm and custom registries using credentials stored as shared environment variables on Vercel.v0 This makes it easier for…
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Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills kill MCP?
We dive into these questions and other AI hot takes on the latest episode of the GitHub Podcast. The post Should you read the code, is RAG dead, and did Skills…
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Jev is the fastest-adopted model in AI Gateway history
Within 24 hours of launching on AI Gateway, reached more than twice as many paid teams as any previous model launch, making it the fastest-adopted model in…
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[AINews] not much happened today
a quiet day
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Reproducing, disclosing, and fixing the libheif vulnerability with Hacktron and the maintainers
In August 2026, reported what looked like a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Next.js image optimization. Their investigation found that the…
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GLM 5.3 FlashX now available on AI Gateway
is now available on AI Gateway.GLM 5.3 FlashX GLM 5.3 FlashX is a high-speed serving option for Z.ai's multimodal coding model, delivering inference at ~200…
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Introducing the AndroidX Security State Libraries: A Unified View of Device Security
Posted by Maunik Shah, Staff Software Engineer, Alec Garcia, Software Engineer, and Joseph Yong, Technical Program Manager At Android, we are constantly…
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Android Bench 2.0: Pushing the frontier with challenging long-horizon tasks
Posted by Matthew McCullough, VP, Product Management, Android Developer When we first launched Android Bench, we built a rigorous foundation for evaluating how…
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[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)
A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.
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Get ready with the latest beta releases
The beta versions of iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, visionOS 27.2, and watchOS 27.2 are now available. Get your apps ready by confirming they…
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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
.post-header h1 { font-size: 35px; } .post pre, .post code { background-color: #fcfcfc; font-size: 13px; /* make code smaller for this post... */ } The Yann…
