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Open-source sandboxes to run AI code, browser agents and computer-use

SmolVM is an open-source tool that provides AI agents with secure, disposable virtual machines that boot in 500 milliseconds for running untrusted code and browser automation. The lightweight sandboxes offer hardware-level isolation stronger than containers, allowing agents to safely execute AI-generated code, control browser sessions, and maintain state across multi-step workflows. Each virtual machine...

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Netflix's Void AI can remove objects from video and show how scenes evolve without them

Netflix's Void AI tool removes objects from videos and intelligently adjusts scenes to show how they would appear without the interaction. In testing, this open-source framework outperformed competitors 65% of the time.

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“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI Insiders don’t trust CEO

OpenAI released policy recommendations about AI benefiting humanity, but a New Yorker investigation reveals insider distrust of CEO Sam Altman, suggesting the company is addressing mounting public safety concerns.

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AI Products Have Terrible UX: Here's Why

AI products suffer from terrible user experiences because the people who understand machine learning can't design intuitive interfaces, while designers don't understand AI systems well enough to create effective solutions. Common...

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Block secrets before they enter LLM's Context with Agentmask

Agentmask protects code repositories from AI assistants accidentally exposing secrets through file blocking, request redirection, and behavioral training. It automatically scans for sensitive data like API keys and prevents AI...

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The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company"

The New York Times praised Medvi as an AI success story, but the $1.8 billion company faces lawsuits for spam violations and deceptive marketing practices.

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Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents

Hippo is a biologically-inspired memory system for AI agents that solves the problem of agents forgetting everything between sessions by implementing seven mechanisms of the human hippocampus, including automatic memory decay,...

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Graphify: An AI skill for turning any folder into a queryable knowledge graph

Graphify transforms any folder of mixed files into a queryable knowledge graph using AI, reading code, PDFs, images, and documents to extract hidden relationships and architectural reasoning. The tool reduces query tokens by...

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Turning sound to sight with the Audio-To-Waveform AI Model

A Replicate AI model converts audio files into customizable visual waveform videos with simple code. This tool eliminates specialized software needs for music producers, video editors, and developers.

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Where is it like to be a language model?

Philosopher Robin Sloan explores "what is it like to be a language model?" by arguing that the model's true identity lies in the "forward pass" — the milliseconds-long calculation that processes input tokens and outputs...

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Hacking with multimodal Gemma 4 in AI Studio

Google released Gemma 4, an open-source AI model with Apache 2.0 licensing, 256K context window, and multimodal capabilities. Users can prototype in AI Studio and export code directly for production deployment.

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OpenClaw Changed How We Use AI. KiloClaw Made It Effortless to Get Started

OpenClaw revolutionized AI agents by connecting to real chat apps and performing actual tasks like email management and browser automation, but its complex setup prevented widespread adoption. KiloClaw solves this barrier by...

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How to Build and Secure a Personal AI Agent with OpenClaw

OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI agent that gained 100,000 GitHub stars in its first week by enabling AI assistants to take real-world actions like managing emails, checking bills, and filing insurance claims through a...

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Target puts customers on the hook for AI shopping assistant errors

Target's new AI shopping assistant can suggest products and complete purchases, but customers are responsible for any incorrect orders the AI places under updated terms and conditions.

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Running Google Gemma 4 Locally with LM Studio's New Headless CLI and Claude Code

Google's new Gemma 4 model is turning laptops into surprisingly powerful AI workstations. The 26-billion parameter model uses a clever mixture-of-experts architecture that activates only 4 billion parameters per task, letting it...

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The Design of AI Memory Systems

AI memory systems make chatbots more conversational by storing past interactions, but face challenges like performance drops, temporal errors, and transparency issues when implementing storage solutions.

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Onepilot – Deploy AI coding agents to remote servers from your iPhone

Onepilot is a mobile-first development environment for iPhone that transforms smartphones into complete coding workstations by enabling users to SSH into remote servers and deploy AI coding agents directly from their device. The...

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Building an AI Image Creator Skill for Claude Code

A developer built a custom Claude Code skill that generates AI images directly from the terminal, eliminating the need to switch between coding and browser-based AI tools like DALL-E or Midjourney. The skill includes advanced...

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apfel: Free AI already on your Mac

MacOS Tahoe includes a built-in 3-billion parameter AI language model that typically only powers Siri, but a new open-source tool called apfel now provides command-line and API access to this on-device AI through a simple...

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Generalist GEN-1 Model Gives Robots a New Kind of Skill

Generalist AI's new GEN-1 model dramatically improves robot automation by training on 500,000 hours of human hand movements captured through special wrist devices, requiring only one hour of robot-specific practice per task. The...

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The Hidden Audio Bias Inside Audio-Visual Speech Recognition

Researchers used Dr. SHAP-AV to reveal that audio-visual speech recognition systems have a hidden "audio bias," over-relying on corrupted sound instead of switching to lip-reading during noise.

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Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required

Google launched Gemma 4, an open-weight AI model that runs offline on smartphones and consumer devices. It offers four versions: lightweight 2B and 4B variants for mobile, plus powerful 26B and 31B versions.

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'The farmer isn't disappearing — they're moving up the stack': How AI is reshaping the role of modern agriculture

Agriculture faces a growing crisis as labor shortages collide with rising demand in a global market expected to reach $11.2 trillion by 2033. AI and robotics are emerging as solutions that augment rather than replace human...

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AI animation studio Toonstar will turn books into digital shows for HarperCollins

HarperCollins partnered with AI studio Toonstar to turn books into animated shows, starting with "Friendship List." Toonstar's AI creates animation 80% faster and 90% cheaper than traditional methods.

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