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Show HN: Liter-LLM, Universal LLM client in Rust with bindings for 11 languages

Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x

Why Claude Code Won (For Now)

Ask HN: Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid?

Just as the title says, isn't it stupid to run AI in a production environment before we have addressed some pretty major fucking problems with it? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560855 Points: 10 # Comments: 9

Show HN: Shoofly – pre-execution security for Claude Code Cowork and OpenClaw

Anthropic says on their safety page: "these filters are not a security boundary." Snyk found 36% of ClawHub skills contain security flaws. Trend Micro documented malware being distributed through ClawHub.These agents have shell access, file access,...

Mr. Chatterbox is an LLM trained exclusively on Victorian-era British texts

AI Hot Takes from a Platform Engineer / SRE

Why question-space can't be baked into LLM weights (preprint)

Zuck's obsession with VR lost him AI leadership

Eval-Driven Development: Applying TDD Principles to AI Agent Prompts

Vanilla Claude vs. GitAuto Test Generation

Show HN: Phantom – Let AI use your API keys without leaking them

Wikipedia officially bans AI-generated content

Learn what your AI built. easily

Switching to Claude? Here's how to take your ChatGPT memories with you

A new Claude AI feature now lets you copy your memories and preferences from another AI so making the change is easier.

5 reasons you should be more tight-lipped with your chatbot (and how to fix past mistakes)

Your casual conversations with AI chatbots could have some major privacy implications.

Suno leans into customization with v5.5

Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control. It includes three new features:...

Why can’t TikTok identify AI generated ads when I can?

I've been struggling to tell whether the ads appearing in my TikTok feeds have been made with generative AI tools. As someone who spends a great deal of time scrutinizing images and videos for the usual "tells" that something was synthetically...

Why OpenAI killed Sora

On Tuesday morning, everything was business as usual at OpenAI. By the end of the day, the company had announced that it would scrap its video-generation app, Sora, and reverse plans for video generation inside ChatGPT; it would wind down a $1...

AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics

A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this week and then was quickly reversed.

The latest in data centers, AI, and energy

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility...

Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100

As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.

The Download: the internet’s best weather app, and why people freeze their brains

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app The best snow-forecasting app for skiers isn’t a...

The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook.

I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often

Ads are rolling out across the US on ChatGPT’s free tier. I asked OpenAI's bot 500 questions to see what these ads were like and how they related to my prompts.

Judge sides with Anthropic to temporarily block the Pentagon’s ban

After Anthropic's weeks-long standoff with the Pentagon, the company won one milestone: A judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit, which sought to reverse its government blacklisting while the judicial process plays out. "The...

Liberate your OpenClaw

Liberate your OpenClaw (via Hugging Face Blog)

David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar

David Sacks, the venture capitalist and tech billionaire who'd become Silicon Valley's primary advocate inside the White House and a key architect of its aggressive AI policy initiatives, revealed on Thursday that he was no longer a special...

Anthropic Supply-Chain-Risk Designation Halted by Judge

A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s designation, clearing the way for Anthropic to keep doing business without the label starting next week.

Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini

After Anthropic updated its tool for copying another AI's memory into Claude earlier this month, Google Gemini is rolling out new "Import Memory" and "Import Chat History" features on desktop that can help users quickly copy over everything their...

Apple will reportedly allow other AI chatbots to plug into Siri

Apple's iOS 27 update will allow users to choose the AI chatbot they want to link with Siri. That's according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who says third-party chatbots downloaded from the App Store, like Google's Gemini or Anthropic's...

Apple’s AI Playlist Playground is bad at music

Apple Music: "What do you want to hear?" Me: "Atmospheric instrumental black metal to write to." Apple Music: "Here's three metal songs with vocals, a field recording, an ambient electronic track, and a piece of doom jazz." I am skeptical of AI's...

Google’s ‘live’ AI search assistant can handle conversations in dozens more languages

Google is expanding access to Search Live, a feature that lets you search for information using your voice and camera. The AI search assistant is now available in more than 200 countries and territories, as well as dozens of languages, according to...

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

Watch James Manyika talk AI and creativity with LL COOL J.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Approved_thumbnail_with_logo.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">In the latest episode of our Dialogues on Technology and Society series, LL COOL J sits down with James Manyika.

Transform your headphones into a live personal translator on iOS.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Static-InterstitialscreenJapane.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Google Translate’s Live translate with headphones is officially arriving on iOS! And we're expanding the...

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/gemini-3.1-flash-live_blog_head.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is now available across Google products.

Into the Omniverse: NVIDIA GTC Showcases Virtual Worlds Powering the Physical AI Era

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. NVIDIA GTC last week showcased a...

Search Live is expanding globally

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Search_Live_blog_header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re expanding Search Live globally, to all languages and locations where AI Mode is available.

Game On: Five New Titles Now Streaming on GeForce NOW

That gaming backlog won’t clear itself — GeForce NOW is here to help. Stream the latest titles straight from the cloud across a variety of devices. This week, five new titles are ready to play instantly in the cloud gaming platform’s library....

The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why this battery company is pivoting to AI Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about the state of the battery...

‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young

AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.

The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app

The best snow-forecasting app for skiers and snowboarders isn’t from any of the federally funded weather services. Nor from any of the big-name brands. It’s an independent app startup that leverages government data, its own AI models, and decades of...

The Future of AI Is Open and Proprietary

AI is the defining technology of our time, quickly becoming core business infrastructure. It’s fueled by a diverse ecosystem of models: large and small, open and proprietary, generalist and specialist. This variety is essential for a future where...

There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

With female AI fruit being fart-shamed and even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.

Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/BuildWithLyria3_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Lyria 3 is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.

Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more Google products

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Lyria-3-Pro_thumbnail.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We are bringing Lyria 3 to the tools where professionals work and create every day.

Why this battery company is pivoting to AI

Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about how he sees the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died or is going to die. It’s kind of the reality,” he says. Hu is the CEO of SES AI, a Massachusetts-based battery...

This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called Axplorer, is a redesign of...

The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in...

Blowing Off Steam: How Power-Flexible AI Factories Can Stabilize the Global Energy Grid

At the half-time whistle of the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16 football match between England and Germany, millions of viewers stepped away from their screens in the U.K. to do the same thing at the same time — turn on their kettles. National Grid,...

Advancing Open Source AI, NVIDIA Donates Dynamic Resource Allocation Driver for GPUs to Kubernetes Community

Artificial intelligence has rapidly emerged as one of the most critical workloads in modern computing. For the vast majority of enterprises, this workload runs on Kubernetes, an open source platform that automates the deployment, scaling and...

A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents (EVA)

A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents (EVA) (via Hugging Face Blog)

How Autonomous AI Agents Become Secure by Design With NVIDIA OpenShell

Autonomous agents mark a new inflection point in AI. Systems are no longer limited to generating responses or reasoning through tasks. They can take action: Agents can read files, use tools, write and run code, and execute workflows across...

Build a Domain-Specific Embedding Model in Under a Day

Build a Domain-Specific Embedding Model in Under a Day (via Hugging Face Blog)

What's New in Mellea 0.4.0 + Granite Libraries Release

What's New in Mellea 0.4.0 + Granite Libraries Release (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA GTC 2026: Live Updates on What’s Next in AI

Rolling coverage from San Jose, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, news highlights, live demos and on‑the‑ground color through March 19.

Smooth Moves: 90 Frames-Per-Second Virtual Reality Arrives on GeForce NOW

It’s a double feature on GFN Thursday. This week, GeForce NOW offers smoother sights in virtual reality (VR) and a sprawling new land to conquer. Streaming at 90 frames per second (fps) comes to supported VR headsets. And Crimson Desert, which...

From Simulation to Production: How to Build Robots With AI

The latest open models and frameworks from NVIDIA bring together simulation, robot learning and embedded compute to accelerate cloud-to-robot workflows.

More Than Meets the Eye: NVIDIA RTX-Accelerated Computers Now Connect Directly to Apple Vision Pro

NVIDIA and Apple’s collaboration brings native integration of NVIDIA CloudXR 6.0 to visionOS, securely delivering NVIDIA RTX-powered simulators and professional 3D graphics applications — like Immersive for Autodesk VRED on Innoactive’s XR streaming...

NVIDIA, Telecom Leaders Build AI Grids to Optimize Inference on Distributed Networks

As AI‑native applications scale to more users, agents and devices, the telecommunications network is becoming the next frontier for distributing AI. At NVIDIA GTC 2026, leading operators in the U.S. and Asia showed that this shift is underway,...

State of Open Source on Hugging Face: Spring 2026

State of Open Source on Hugging Face: Spring 2026 (via Hugging Face Blog)

Bringing the power of Personal Intelligence to more people

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Header_gl7r1il.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We're expanding Personal Intelligence across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome.

Our latest investment in open source security for the AI era

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/25367___BRS___Aspen_Security_Fo.max-600x600.format-webp_J9uPoFt.webp">Google is making new investments, building new tools and developing code security to improve open source...

GTC Spotlights NVIDIA RTX PCs and DGX Sparks Running Latest Open Models and AI Agents Locally

The paradigm of consumer computing has revolved around the concept of a personal device — from PCs to smartphones and tablets. Now, generative AI — particularly OpenClaw — has introduced a new category: agent computers. These devices, like the...

Snap Decisions: How Open Libraries for Accelerated Data Processing Boost A/B Testing for Snapchat

The features on social media apps like Snapchat evolve nearly as fast as what’s trending. To keep pace, its parent company Snap has adopted open data processing libraries from NVIDIA on Google Cloud services to boost development. Every new feature...

Holotron-12B - High Throughput Computer Use Agent

Holotron-12B - High Throughput Computer Use Agent (via Hugging Face Blog)

Roche Scales NVIDIA AI Factories Globally to Accelerate Drug Discovery, Diagnostic Solutions and Manufacturing Breakthroughs

Roche's new deployment spans more than 3,500 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across its worldwide operations and embedded across the entire value chain, massively scaling R&D productivity, next-generation diagnostics and manufacturing efficiencies.

NVIDIA DSX Air Boosts Time to Token With Accelerated Simulation for AI Factories

Setting up AI factories in simulation — decreasing deployment time from months to days — is accelerating the next industrial revolution. Nowhere was that more apparent than at GTC 2026, in San Jose, where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang...

How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AIHealth_v2_2096x1182_02.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">A new Google AI initiative aims to improve heart health outcomes for people living in remote Australian communities.

Gemini in Google Sheets just achieved state-of-the-art performance.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Workspace_Jan_Moment_Sheets_Blo.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Today we announced new beta features for Gemini in Sheets to help you create, organize and edit entire sheets,...

Introducing Storage Buckets on the Hugging Face Hub

Introducing Storage Buckets on the Hugging Face Hub (via Hugging Face Blog)

Keep the Tokens Flowing: Lessons from 16 Open-Source RL Libraries

Keep the Tokens Flowing: Lessons from 16 Open-Source RL Libraries (via Hugging Face Blog)

Ulysses Sequence Parallelism: Training with Million-Token Contexts

Ulysses Sequence Parallelism: Training with Million-Token Contexts (via Hugging Face Blog)

LeRobot v0.5.0: Scaling Every Dimension

LeRobot v0.5.0: Scaling Every Dimension (via Hugging Face Blog)

How our open-source AI model SpeciesNet is helping to promote wildlife conservation

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/specieshero_v2.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">An overview of SpeciesNet, our open-source AI model that is helping people around the world protect and conserve wildlife.

Ask a Techspert: How does AI understand my visual searches?

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Fan_out_query_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Learn more about AI Mode in Search’s query fan-out method for visual search.

The latest AI news we announced in February

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Thumbnail_mPCqgRv.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are Google’s latest AI updates from February 2026

Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations

Bringing Robotics AI to Embedded Platforms: Dataset Recording, VLA Fine‑Tuning, and On‑Device Optimizations (via Hugging Face Blog)

Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines

Introducing Modular Diffusers - Composable Building Blocks for Diffusion Pipelines (via Hugging Face Blog)

Use Canvas in AI Mode to get things done and bring your ideas to life, right in Search.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AIMMode_Social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Canvas in AI Mode is now available for everyone in the U.S. Plus, it can now help you draft documents or build interactive tools.

Create new worlds in Project Genie with these 4 tips

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Genie_2.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Learn more about Google DeepMind’s Project Genie and how to write prompts to create your own worlds.

PRX Part 3 — Training a Text-to-Image Model in 24h!

PRX Part 3 — Training a Text-to-Image Model in 24h! (via Hugging Face Blog)

Mixture of Experts (MoEs) in Transformers

Mixture of Experts (MoEs) in Transformers (via Hugging Face Blog)

GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI (via Hugging Face Blog)

Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

This story has been retracted

OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

OpenAI's new GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark is 15 times faster at coding than its predecessor.

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial...

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But...

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a...

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise...

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and...

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four...

The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes.For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude...

How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change

Mitti Labs is working with The Nature Conservancy to expand the use of climate-friendly rice farming practices in India. The startup uses its AI to verify reductions in methane emissions.

Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation

After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.

Meta to add 100MW of solar power from US gear

The social media company is adding another tranche of solar to power a new AI data center in South Carolina.

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.