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AI & Machine Learning

1. How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China

Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov. The Hong Kong-listed company’s fastest programme reached candidate nomination in nine months, while its typical timeline is about 13 months, Zhavoronkov said. He said […] The post How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China appeared first on AI News.

2. America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy

America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining investment stories in the United States, and the numbers continue to grow. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet are collectively committing hundreds of billions of dollars to AI infrastructure, while demand for advanced chips has turned NVIDIA into one of […] The post America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy appeared first on AI News.

3. 5 Architectural Patterns for Persistent Memory and State in AI Agents

Memory & State For AI Agents Building an AI agent can be tricky. Keeping it on track over a six-month deployment is incredibly hard. LLMs...

4. How AI is expanding what people do at work

New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.

Software Development

1. The 24-hour experiment that helped Anthropic find its identity

If you’re building traditional software, you write the product requirements document. If you’re building frontier AI, you run an evaluation. The post The 24-hour experiment that helped Anthropic find its identity appeared first on The New Stack.

2. Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it

Moonshot AI has released the open weights for Kimi K3 on Hugging Face, giving developers access to one of the The post Moonshot opens Kimi K3 weights — but few can run it appeared first on The New Stack.

3. Microsoft is racing to make OpenAI optional

AI is changing the technology game so quickly that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella can’t stop long-posting on Twitter. Microsoft has The post Microsoft is racing to make OpenAI optional appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Dynatrace’s new agents can reveal the single hardest part of AI operations

Observability platform company Dynatrace announced a set of advancements to its Dynatrace Intelligence service on Monday that aim to take The post Dynatrace’s new agents can reveal the single hardest part of AI operations appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Cloudflare open-sources a debugger for privacy protocols used by Apple and Microsoft, with AI agents in mind

Every time you use a privacy service like Apple’s iCloud Private Relay, you’re trusting a system designed so that no The post Cloudflare open-sources a debugger for privacy protocols used by Apple and Microsoft, with AI agents in mind appeared first on The New Stack.

6. “Developers see this as the future”: Pilot Protocol launches to power the agent economy

When we created software agents, we built them in the shape of humans, as solitary individuals. Today, agents created by The post “Developers see this as the future”: Pilot Protocol launches to power the agent economy appeared first on The New Stack.

7. Nvidia, Palantir, Hugging Face join 34 others in race to defend open-weight AI from cyber threats

The current maelstrom of discussion surrounding the use of open-source software and open-weight AI models appears to be splitting opinion The post Nvidia, Palantir, Hugging Face join 34 others in race to defend open-weight AI from cyber threats appeared first on The New Stack.

8. MCP’s biggest update removes the machinery many servers were built around

The biggest update to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) since its launch is almost here. Lead maintainers froze the release The post MCP’s biggest update removes the machinery many servers were built around appeared first on The New Stack.

9. Microsoft and Google DeepMind agree on AI control — but not on who holds it

Over two days this month, two of the most credible people in the industry published framework manifestos on X. Microsoft The post Microsoft and Google DeepMind agree on AI control — but not on who holds it appeared first on The New Stack.

10. 5 ways SRE AI agents are set to augment human capabilities

In digital operations management, AI agents give organizations a competitive edge by reducing incident volume and accelerating recovery. The potential The post 5 ways SRE AI agents are set to augment human capabilities appeared first on The New Stack.

11. Ego-Lite: The Open-Source Browser Built for Humans and AI Agents

Parallel Web Automation: Meet Ego-Lite AI coding agents are increasingly taking on web-based tasks—such as filing bug reports, checking deployment dashboards, and scraping documentation. However, traditional browsers were built strictly for human interaction. When an AI agent automates Chrome via Playwright or Selenium, it often steals focus, moves your mouse, or requires complex login workarounds. Ego-Lite is an open-source browser developed by CitroLabs to solve this interaction bottleneck. De...

12. Usando o Claude como um recrutador técnico pessoal para encontrar minha próxima vaga

Introdução Percebi que gastava mais tempo procurando vagas do que realmente me candidatando. Todo fim de tarde era a mesma rotina: abrir o Indeed, digitar "desenvolvedor PHP", rolar dezenas de resultados quase idênticos, abrir cinco ou seis em novas abas, ler a descrição, comparar mentalmente com meu currículo e, na maioria das vezes, fechar a aba sem me candidatar porque "não parecia ser bem o meu perfil". No dia seguinte, repetir. O problema nunca foi encontrar vagas. Era descobrir quais realm...

13. My LLM Kept Making Stuff Up on Resumes. Here’s How I Shut It Down.

I'm building NextStep — an AI thing that scores your resume against a job and rewrites it to fit. Two features, both completely dependent on the model not lying. And GPT-4o loves to lie. Two bugs made me stop trusting it: Score the same resume twice → 87, then 79. Cool, so the number means nothing. Ask it to "optimize for this DevOps role" → it adds "Managed production Kubernetes clusters" to a guy who's never opened a terminal. That's not a typo, that's getting someone caught lying in an interv...

14. Fix Your Search, Fix Your RAG Output

I watched a customer demo their new RAG application last month. They had spent three months building it. The interface was beautiful. The LLM responses were eloquent and well-formatted. And almost every answer was subtly, confidently wrong. “The model keeps hallucinating,” they told me, frustrated. They had tried three different LLMs. They had adjusted temperature settings. They had rewritten their prompts a dozen times. But here is what nobody had looked at yet: the search layer feeding context...

15. How well is your company actually adopting AI right now?

I grew up in a house in Rawalpindi where a book was not a small thing. We did not have money for many of them. The ones we had got read twice, three times, passed to a cousin, read again. A book was slow proof that something was worth keeping. So when a story went around today about rare books being pulled apart to feed a scanner, then shredded once the pages were digitized, I did not read it as a tech story. I read it as a story about what a fast system decides is disposable once it has extract...

Programming Languages

1. PGSimCity - How PostgreSQL Works

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2. Why Redis wasn't enough to survive a traffic spike, and what actually was

Postmortem after several rounds of performance work on a Laravel site, trying to push concurrent user capacity up. Ended up putting Varnish in front of Nginx. submitted by /u/noweh95 [link] [comments]

3. Building a Fast Lock-Free Queue in Modern C++ From Scratch

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4. Approximating Softmax for FPGAs with Taylor Series and Pade Approximants in Python

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5. Writing arenas in Rust from scratch

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6. A simple clustering algorithm for lists

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7. How we make Luau fast

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8. Let the Browser Do the Math or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM

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9. Modeling Facts and Reactions with Domain Events

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Game Development

1. Atari and Universal to create movies based on classic properties including Asteroids and Missile Command

Atari boss Wade Rosen said the company hopes to bring the 'spirit of our iconic brand and games to a new medium.'

Gaming News

1. Meccha Chameleon Players Are Getting Malware From User-Made Maps

Meccha Chameleon--a multiplayer prop-hunt game that's been blowing up on Steam lately--seems to have hit its first real road bump since it launched in early June. As pointed out by a player who goes by Feint, some of the game's player-made maps are basically just Trojan horses containing malware. One of Feint's friends had mentioned briefly seeing a command prompt appear while they were downloading the map. Curious, Feint dug into the files and concluded that the map known as Lazer Tag Zero cont...

2. Best Loadouts In Call Of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 5 Multiplayer

Call of Duty Season 5 is live in Black Ops 7, bringing more guns and new attachments to the game. You'll definitely want to consider updating your loadouts for this new season of Call of Duty. In this guide, we provide you with some recommended weapon builds to try in Season 5 of multiplayer. Black Ops 7's Gunsmith includes the weapon build code feature. Weapon build codes are unique to each weapon and a specific set of attachments, making it easy to share and receive custom weapon builds. We'll...

3. Best Loadouts In Call Of Duty: Warzone For BO7 Season 5

Season 5 of Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is live in Warzone. The big update brings new guns in the battle pass and more attachments to unlock, so this is a good time to update your existing loadouts. In this guide, we will recommend some of the best weapon builds for Warzone in Season 5. Black Ops 7's Gunsmith includes the weapon build code feature. Weapon build codes are unique to each weapon and a specific set of attachments, making it easy to share and receive custom weapon builds. We'll list th...

4. You Might Need A Face Scan To Buy Pokemon Cards Soon, Thanks To Scalpers

Pokemon card scalpers are generally regarded as the worst part of the hobby, and in Japan, The Pokemon Company is taking steps to address the problem. As part of its crackdown to create a safe shopping environment, The Pokemon Company is introducing a facial recognition system for adult shoppers and children of a certain age. According to its website, this will be a mandatory measure for gaining access to a Pokemon Card Store, and customers may only enter a shop once per day. Preschoolers are no...

5. The Best Way To Remake More Final Fantasy Games Is Staring Square Enix In The Face

With the Final Fantasy 7 remake trilogy reaching its conclusion next year, franchise fans are already asking which game will be next for a modern-day glow-up. The subject was brought up during the Final Fantasy Fan Festival in Berlin on the weekend, and Final Fantasy 14's Naoki Yoshida said that some of the most-requested titles for a remake would need multiple games to pull off successfully. Final Fantasy 6 appears to be at the top of the list--with Final Fantasy 8 and 9 also in contention--but...

6. Beast of Reincarnation – Everything to Know

Game Freak, the legendary studio behind the Pokemon series, is making its foray into the action RPG genre by blending real-time and turn-based combat. Here’s everything you need to know about Beast of Reincarnation.

7. Stalker 2’s First Major Expansion Arrives Very Soon

Stalker 2 has been out for nearly two years, and if you've been itching to jump back into the post-apocalyptic hellscape, you'll have a great reason to do so. The game's first expansion, Stalker 2: Cost of Hope, releases in just a few weeks across PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Cost of Hope puts you back in control of Stalker 2 protagonist Skif, with the character following a "mysterious PDA signal" as the dangerous Zone's Duty and Freedom factions come into conflict. GSC Game World promises "doz...

8. Xbox Network Is Down Right Now, Microsoft Confirms

It's not just you; the Xbox network--or parts of it, depending on when you read this--is down. After users across the globe began reporting issues with the Xbox Network, Xbox identified several issues affecting its online services today. At the time of writing, the following functions are still experiencing "major issues" on the Xbox network: Account and profile Store and subscriptions Games and gaming Apps and mobile These problems are widespread, and include an inability to sign into network s...

9. With Doomsday Approaching, Grab A Cheap Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Steam Key With This Preorder Deal

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls is exactly what I want from a superhero fighting game. I want it to be energetic. I want it to be packed with familiar faces and lesser-known characters. Most importantly, I want it to be developed by Arc System Works, the developer behind Guilty Gear and Dragon Ball FighterZ. My dream is finally coming true, and with Doomsday right around the corner, it’s arriving at the perfect time - and at the perfect price. There’s nothing like learning new combos and going from...

10. EA is 'a hedge fund with a videogame hobby,' former Dragon Age boss says, and that's why he reckons the series is probably dead and buried

Mark Darrah doesn't think there's anyone left at BioWare who would pitch a new Dragon Age game, and he doesn't think studio executives would let anyone else do it either.

11. Cyan releases teaser for the first new Myst game in 20 years, then breaks the news that it's not actually being made

Project Anglerfish looks great, but publishers apparently aren't interested.

12. This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen

Simply the cat's pyjamas.

13. Framework 13 Pro review

The best laptop Framework's ever produced, and one of the best I've ever used.

14. Blade and Magik lead as Marvel TĹŤkon's most popular characters during its beta

It sure felt like it.

15. The Pokémon Company is turning to facial recognition scans to help combat scalpers

A high price to pay for your chase card.

Robotics

1. NORD expands compact NORDAC VFD family to 200 hp

NORD Drivesystems said its NORDAC PRO VFDs are adaptable to individual application requirements across industries. The post NORD expands compact NORDAC VFD family to 200 hp appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Magmotor makes motors for a changing world for 150+ years

Magmotor has been providing motors for demanding use cases for decades and offers custom systems for robotics. The post Magmotor makes motors for a changing world for 150+ years appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Optical Tech Would Update a Robot’s AI on the Fly

Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes a beat to refresh, then displays an array of squares that resemble a QR code.When you hold your phone camera up to a QR code, light strikes the image sensor as only a first step to revealing the data hidden behind the black-and-white matrix. The receiver here is doing something d...

Tech General

1. Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors

Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.

2. As rivals chase acquisitions, Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube

The deal means content will be integrated into the YouTube experience, allowing viewers to discover and watch Peacock content without leaving the platform.

3. PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google

The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL view a conversation or project.

4. Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system

Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.

5. Apple sued after alleged App Store crypto scam cost users $1.8M

Apple is facing a lawsuit from three users who say they collectively lost more than $1.8 million after downloading a fraudulent crypto wallet from the App Store, challenging the company’s longstanding claims that its app review process keeps users safe from scams.

6. Amazon’s new satellite network for mobile phones could turn up the heat on SpaceX

Amazon is expanding its plans for providing satellite connectivity to mobile phones.

7. Antares raises $470M to build nuclear reactors for the US military

Antares has raised $470 million to build small modular reactors — 100 kW to 1 MW — for U.S. Air Force bases.

8. OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and control

OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited debate over AI alignment and control, exposing competing views on whether increasingly capable AI should be better aligned, better contained, or both.

9. Threads users can now chat with Meta AI in their DMs

Meta on Monday said it is rolling out its Meta AI chatbot within Threads' DMs, giving users a way to chat with the AI assistant.

10. Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows

Google’s AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, underscoring how quickly AI-generated answers are becoming the default way people discover information online.

11. Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc

An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn't just caused issues for people trying to play digital games - it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox's status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it has also prevented people from logging in, launching apps, or finding […]

12. Nanoleaf’s colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off

Nanoleaf’s Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can buy the kit for half off at $99.99 from Nanoleaf, which marks a new low […]

13. Why China is giving away its best AI models

Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Its performance alone would have been enough to intensify the rivalry between […]

14. YouTube Premium will include Peacock starting next year

YouTube's ad-free Premium subscription is getting another perk: access to Peacock. In an announcement on Monday, NBCUniversal says the multi-year agreement will allow Premium subscribers to stream Peacock's ad-supported shows, movies, and live sports directly through the YouTube app in 2027. YouTube will bundle Peacock in its standard subscription, which increased to $15.99 / month […]

15. Amazon’s trying to launch a global satellite cellphone network in 2028

Amazon filed an FCC application on Saturday to launch a new Leo satellite constellation that will provide direct-to-device satellite service for "voice, messaging, data, and emergency services." If approved, Amazon will begin deploying the new constellation of 5,105 satellites in 2028. It says it plans to partner with mobile network operators to offer direct-to-device satellite […]

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