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Token-saviour – routing skill for AI agent tool selection (~70% fewer tokens)

Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs

Aegis: A Backup Reflex for Physical AI

We’re strengthening our presence in Alabama through new investments and community support.

Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Operating since 2019 on a repurposed former…

Ask HN: How do you deal with the feeling of "loss of control" with AI coding?

I have to admit that newest models and harness tools have gotten really good and produce working code really fast with even mediocre prompts "wish programming".The problem is more on my side than the...

Show HN: AI Metrics, Visually

Sakana AI Launches Its First Commercial Product, Sakana Marlin

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

Has anyone here fully swapped Claude/GPT for a local model as their main coding tool, not just for side experiments? If so, please share your setup and performance (e.g tok/s) Comments URL:...

Show HN: Tecton Forge AI – An AI tool that generates designs

Coase-Information Theory for AI Orgs

Claude Code Is a Chainsaw

Show HN: Pantheon – AI vs AI: one writes the code, the other attacks it

There's always a generous look at the code you've come up with. But the pantheon is different. The pantheon is made by turning multiple sub-agents, and when the scorer scores them one by one and...

Owning vs. Renting AI

7 ways AI can help with your Linux system management

AI does have its places, and one of them could be in helping you manage your Linux systems, be they desktops or servers.

Perfect universal protections against LLM jailbreaks are impossible [pdf]

People around the world see a winner on AI – and it's not the US

Estimating the Productivity of an Autonomous AI Software Engineer

Windows Subsystem for Linux 3 gives developers a compelling reason to stick with Microsoft - here's why

WSL 3 makes staying on Windows easier, especially for developers building or running Linux-based AI, container, or dev workloads.

Google Maps vs. Waze: I've driven 100+ miles with the two best navigation apps - this one's better

Waze is ideal for quick reroutes and real-time alerts, while Google Maps offers deeper Gemini integration and more features. Here's my choice.

Why Anthropic suddenly pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for everyone

Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 are gone. The reason? A US government directive.

I've reviewed every PDF editor out there - then I had ChatGPT build me a better one

The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it interact with your files, but asking it to write software that handles them safely.

A Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL)-Based Transformer Method for Solving the Open Shop Scheduling Problem

arXiv:2606.13682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The open shop scheduling problem (OSSP) arises in many industrial and service settings but remains computationally challenging as the number of jobs...

UP-NRPA: User Portrait based Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation for Planning with Large Language Models in Goal-oriented Dialogue Systems

arXiv:2606.13683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: To address the challenge that current dialogue policy planning methods struggle to dynamically adapt to diverse user characteristics, this paper...

History of the Muddy Children Puzzle

arXiv:2606.13703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Muddy Children Puzzle is a puzzle about knowledge and ignorance that has been inspiring for the development of epistemic logic. Who came up with it...

Orchestra-o1: Omnimodal Agent Orchestration

arXiv:2606.13707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The recent success of agent swarms has shifted the paradigm of large language model (LLM)-based agents from single-agent workflows to multi-agent...

Hybrid Open-Ended Tri-Evolution Makes Better Deep Researcher

arXiv:2606.13710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research and agent evolution serve as de-facto tasks for AI agents in real-world applications toward artificial general intelligence. The former...

WorkBench Revisited: Workplace Agents Two Years On

arXiv:2606.13715v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The best agent on WorkBench in March 2024, GPT-4, completed 43% of tasks and took an unintended harmful action, such as emailing the wrong person, on...

Refusal Beyond a Single Direction: A Preliminary Comparison of Diff-in-Means and INLP

arXiv:2606.13720v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Arditi et al. (2024) has shown that refusal in safety fine-tuned chat models is mediated by a single linear direction in the residual stream,...

YeasierAgent: Agentic Social Sandbox as a Canvas for Intent-Driven Creation of Platform-Agnostic Symbiotic Agent-Native Applications

arXiv:2606.13722v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces YeasierAgent, an application-building paradigm based on symbiotic agents, narrative worlds, and scene-aware interaction. It...

TwinBI: An Agentic Digital Twin for Efficient Augmented Interactions with Business Intelligence Dashboards

arXiv:2606.13731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Business intelligence (BI) increasingly combines dashboard interaction with LLM-based assistance, but these two modes often fall out of sync during...

When Sample Selection Bias Precipitates Model Collapse

arXiv:2606.13732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proliferation of recursive training on synthetic data can alleviate data scarcity but risks model collapse, where repeated training erodes...

AI Receptivity or AI Adoption Breadth? A Tool-Specific Reanalysis of the Lower-Literacy/Higher-Usage Link

arXiv:2606.13734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent evidence reported by Tully, Longoni, and Appel (2025) suggests that lower artificial intelligence (AI) literacy predicts greater receptivity...

MA-ProofBench: A Two-Tiered Evaluation of LLMs for Theorem Proving in Mathematical Analysis

arXiv:2606.13782v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have made notable progress in automated theorem proving, yet existing formal benchmarks remain limited in both...

Poker Arena: Multi-Axis Profiling of Strategic Reasoning and Memory in LLMs

arXiv:2606.13815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Strategic reasoning under uncertainty underpins consequential decisions in negotiation, finance, and policy, but prevailing game-play benchmarks...

Hyperdimensional computing for structured querying on tabular data embeddings

arXiv:2606.13871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular data embeddings have become a cornerstone of data profiling and data integration pipelines, enabling tasks such as entity annotation and...

Capability Minimization as a Safety Primitive: Risk-Aware Causal Gating for Least-Privilege LLM Agents

arXiv:2606.13884v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern decision systems increasingly rely on learned components whose outputs may be confident yet wrong, exposing downstream actions to costly errors....

China may have accessed Mythos

According to a new report from Semafor, the White House's decision to impose export restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos was driven in part by fears that it had been accessed by a group linked to...

Amazon security research reportedly led to the White House’s Anthropic Fable ban

According to the The Wall Street Journal, the export control directive that led to Anthropic cutting off access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 was triggered in part by cybersecurity research from Amazon and...

My yard is dying, so I made an app for that

When I returned to my computer five minutes after giving Gemini a lengthy prompt, I had two things: a functional app in a preview window, and a message about a bug. "~ Channel is unrecoverably broken...

Anthropic cuts off Fable 5 and Mythos 5 access following government order

On Friday evening, the government ordered Anthropic to block access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all foreign nations, both inside and outside the US, due to national security concerns. That order...

Apple’s new AI photo editing tools mostly work, for better and worse

The most popular camera in the world just got its first set of serious AI photo editing features, and I don't think any of us are ready. As far as AI photo editing goes, the new features in iOS 27...

The future of Hollywood isn’t feeding prompts into vanilla gen AI models

For all the noise that's been made about how generative AI is poised to revolutionize the filmmaking industry, there haven't really been any projects created with the technology that felt like the...

A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews

The ruling holds that a company that designs, trains, operates, and manages an AI system must assume legal liability for any damages caused by the responses it generates.

Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order

“The government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in a blog post.

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon

“I’m not sure that this company supports a hackathon culture anymore,” one employee posted in a forum open to the entire staff.

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Shit’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess

Executives and employees alike are struggling with Meta’s chaotic AI strategy, according to sources and internal discussions reviewed by WIRED.

NVIDIA Blackwell Leads on First Agentic AI Infrastructure Benchmark

AgentPerf from Artificial Analysis, the industry’s first agentic AI benchmark, gives developers, enterprises and infrastructure providers a clear way to compare systems for agentic AI. In the first...

China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers

GOP lawmakers, tech investors, and even OpenAI have tied the anti-data-center movement in the US to Chinese interference. Experts say it’s much more complicated than that.

olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop

olmo-eval: An evaluation workbench for the model development loop (via Hugging Face Blog)

SpaceX’s massive IPO: all the latest news

SpaceX’s IPO on Friday allows the public to buy shares of the combined rocket, AI, and social media company for the first time, and raised enough money to make Elon Musk the first trillionaire. He...

Apple’s Camera Chief Thinks AI Can Give You Superpowers

The generative features in iOS 27’s new Photos app will add fake pixels to some of your shots, but Apple’s Jon McCormack says the company isn’t using AI “for the sake of AI.”

Why You Might Already Own SpaceX Shares, Siri’s AI Makeover, and Knicks Owner’s Surveillance Machine

Today on Uncanny Valley, we take an early look at the SpaceX IPO and why you might find yourself among the investors without even realizing it.

Meet the OpenAI Engineer Leading ChatGPT’s Biggest Transformation Yet

Thibault Sottiaux helped make AI coding one of OpenAI’s fastest-growing businesses. Now he’s overseeing a sweeping overhaul of ChatGPT.

Our new community investments in Virginia support local jobs and expand energy affordability.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/VirginiaSocial.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re helping build the state’s next-generation workforce and investing in...

Save Big and Play Bigger: GeForce NOW Summer Sale Brings Major Membership Savings

The GeForce NOW summer sale kicked off today with limited-time savings of up to $70 off a 12-month membership, making now the perfect time to upgrade to get the best of the cloud and see just how far...

Google DeepMind is worried about what happens when millions of agents start to interact

Google DeepMind is funding research into the potential dangers of situations where millions of different AI agents interact with each other online. According to Rohin Shah, who directs the company’s...

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 2): From nn.Linear to a Fused MLP

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 2): From nn.Linear to a Fused MLP (via Hugging Face Blog)

For Robotaxis, Safety Must Be Built In, Not Bolted On

A car pulls up to the curb. The app says, “Your ride is here.” No one’s in the driver’s seat. For people who live in one of the dozens of cities now hosting robotaxi services, this is already a...

NVIDIA Accelerates Google DeepMind’s DiffusionGemma for Local AI

Today, Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma — an experimental open model built for exceptionally fast text generation. NVIDIA has optimized DiffusionGemma to run even faster across NVIDIA GeForce...

NVIDIA Confidential Computing to Help Expand Apple’s Private Cloud Compute

NVIDIA GPUs with Confidential Computing are now used for confidential inference in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC), as it expands beyond Apple’s data centers to Google Cloud. Unveiled during...

How an Agent Built a 3D Paris Gallery by Chaining Two Hugging Face Spaces

How an Agent Built a 3D Paris Gallery by Chaining Two Hugging Face Spaces (via Hugging Face Blog)

Migrating Your GitHub CI to Hugging Face Jobs

Migrating Your GitHub CI to Hugging Face Jobs (via Hugging Face Blog)

For the 2nd time in weeks, Microsoft packages laced with credential stealer

73 packages run self-replicating stealer as soon as they're opened by an AI agent.

How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies

A year ago at London Tech Week, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer made a declaration: the U.K. would be an AI maker, not an AI taker. At this year’s event,...

NVIDIA and LG Group Build an AI Factory to Advance Physical AI, Mobility and AI Infrastructure

NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate LG Group’s next wave of AI-driven businesses, spanning robotics, autonomous driving, data center technologies and GPU cloud services. The...

The Open Source Community is backing OpenEnv for Agentic RL

The Open Source Community is backing OpenEnv for Agentic RL (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA and Doosan Group Collaborate to Advance Physical AI and AI Factory Infrastructure

NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their collaboration to advance new opportunities across physical AI, robotics and AI factory infrastructure, spanning Doosan Robotics, Doosan Bobcat, Doosan...

NVIDIA, KRAFTON, NC and Reigning ‘League of Legends’ Champions T1 Celebrate RTX Spark at Korea’s PC Bangs

At GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX last week, NVIDIA unveiled RTX Spark, the superchip that reinvents Windows PCs for the era of personal AI agents. On the heels of this announcement, NVIDIA founder and CEO...

The latest AI news we announced in May 2026

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

Seoul Purpose: How NVIDIA and South Korea Are Building the Future of AI

Home to cutting-edge sovereign AI infrastructure and robotics innovators, as well as one of the world’s most passionate gaming communities, South Korea is one of the world’s centers of AI. NVIDIA...

Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI

Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI (via Hugging Face Blog)

Forecast: Fun Ahead — 18 Games Join in June to Stream on GeForce NOW

June’s forecast with GeForce NOW: 100% chance of gaming. GeForce NOW is lining up new adventures for the month, from big-name blockbusters to quirky indies ready for the spotlight. Members can dive...

Designing the hf CLI as an agent-optimized way to work with the Hub

Designing the hf CLI as an agent-optimized way to work with the Hub (via Hugging Face Blog)

NVIDIA Research Unlocks Advanced Grasping, Smarter Autonomous Driving and Agent Training at Scale

What makes a robot gripper useful isn’t that it can pick up one object — it’s that it can pick up the next one, and the one after that, with a tool it’s never held before. What makes an autonomous...

NVIDIA Enables the Next Era Of Physical AI Research With Agent Skills For Autonomous Vehicles, Robotics And Vision AI

At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in...

5 ways Google Search can level up your thrift and vintage shopping

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Google_Thrifting_Header.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Uncover second-hand scores with AI tools in Google Search and Shopping.

Direct Preference Optimization Beyond Chatbots

Direct Preference Optimization Beyond Chatbots (via Hugging Face Blog)

Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini

Adding MCP Tools to Reachy Mini (via Hugging Face Blog)

Industrial Software Leaders Build Secure, Autonomous AI Engineers With NVIDIA NemoClaw

Accelerated computing has revolutionized industrial engineering, compressing simulation times from weeks to hours. Today’s remaining challenges sit in the end-to-end workflow surrounding the...

NVIDIA Partners With Microsoft on Unified Stack for Agentic AI Deployment, From Windows Devices to Cloud to Local

The agentic AI moment has arrived, but delivering on its promise requires more than good models. It also takes fast hardware, secure runtimes, a responsive data layer and models tuned for...

Holo3.1: Fast & Local Computer Use Agents

Holo3.1: Fast & Local Computer Use Agents (via Hugging Face Blog)

How we used Gemini to build Google I/O 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_IO.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Learn how Googlers used AI to produce Google I/O 2026.

Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains

Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains (via Hugging Face Blog)

Beyond LLMs: Why Scalable Enterprise AI Adoption Depends on Agent Logic

Beyond LLMs: Why Scalable Enterprise AI Adoption Depends on Agent Logic (via Hugging Face Blog)

Take our I/O 2026 quiz, vibe coded in Google AI Studio.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/IOQuiz2026_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We used Google AI Studio to vibe code a quiz about our top I/O 2026...

9 demos of Gemini Omni and Gemini 3.5 in action

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Gemini_Omni_and_Gemini_3.5_hero.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Watch 9 videos showing the capabilities of Gemini Omni and...

Check out real-life AI prototypes from the Futures Lab.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/FutureLabs_social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">University of Waterloo students develop AI prototypes like sign language...

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler

Profiling in PyTorch (Part 1): A Beginner's Guide to torch.profiler (via Hugging Face Blog)

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.

Catch up on 12 major I/O 2026 moments

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/KW_KNH.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Here are 12 of the biggest Google I/O 2026 keynote moments, including news about Gemini...

Reachy Mini goes fully local

Reachy Mini goes fully local (via Hugging Face Blog)

Shipping a Trillion Parameters With a Hub Bucket: Delta Weight Sync in TRL

Shipping a Trillion Parameters With a Hub Bucket: Delta Weight Sync in TRL (via Hugging Face Blog)

Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package

"BadHost" was found in Starlette, a package with 325 million weekly downloads.

Catch up on the Dialogues stage at Google I/O 2026.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/IO26_Dialogues_3z680sK.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">A recap of the 2026 I/O Dialogues, where leaders discuss the future of...

We’re announcing new community investments in Missouri.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/MissouriSocial.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We’re helping build the state’s next-generation workforce and investing in...

100 things we announced at I/O 2026

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/100_things_Social.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">We've been busy! Here’s a rundown of the top announcements, launches and...

A new experiment brings better group meetings to Google Beam

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/Screenshot_2026-05-15_at_4.21.2.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">See and hear your colleagues in true-to-life size and sound,...

How AI Mode is changing the way people search in the U.S.

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/AI_Mode_US.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">One year after launch, see how AI Mode’s users are shifting from keywords to natural...

New ways to create and get things done in Google Workspace

<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/images/GoogleWorkspace-IO.max-600x600.format-webp.webp">Announcing new voice capabilities in Gmail, Docs and Keep, a new design tool...

Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.

For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On...