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AI & Machine Learning

1. Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli

Stanford researchers have synthesised nearly 300 phages from DNA sequences produced by the Evo 2 generative AI model. Laboratory testing narrowed the group to 16 phages that showed particularly strong E. coli-killing activity. The work centres on bacteriophage Ξ¦X174, pronounced β€œFYE-ex-1-7-4”. Brian Hie, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Dieter Schwarz Foundation Stanford Data […] The post Stanford Evo 2 AI model generates phages against E. coli appeared first on AI News.

2. How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch

Every post you see, every Reel that autoplays, and every β€˜Explore’ page suggestion on Instagram is now decided by its AI system. With over three billion people using it, that’s not a small detail; it’s the whole algorithm. But here’s the point: the more AI controls over how you see the content, the more it […] The post How AI Is changing Instagram engagement without replacing the human touch appeared first on AI News.

3. Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI

Alibaba plans to introduce revenue-sharing terms for some commercial users of its next Qwen open-weight AI model, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. The arrangement would require larger companies that generate revenue from offering the model as a service to reach a commercial agreement with Alibaba. The exact revenue-sharing rate has […] The post Alibaba tests new business model for Qwen open-source AI appeared first on AI News.

4. Why health AI interfaces must adapt to user expertise

MIT researchers and collaborators found that AI explainability tools in the health sector can produce sharply different results depending on who uses them. When applied to skin disease diagnosis, non-experts improved their accuracy with AI assistance, although the improvement largely came from deferring to the model. Primary care providers showed a different pattern: they performed […] The post Why health AI interfaces must adapt to user expertise appeared first on AI News.

5. Identifying Token Costs Hiding in Your Agentic Loop

But cutting your runtime token burn is just the first problem.

6. Designing AI Agents That Can Self-Correct

With the vocabulary and the failure modes in place, here's the build.

7. Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

8. How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory

Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.

9. Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPTβ€”and expanding access to GPT-5.6 Luna for free users

ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.

10. Working with the American Psychological Association on youth mental health and AI

OpenAI and the American Psychological Association advance evidence-based guidance, resources, and safeguards for responsible AI use and youth mental health.

11. From asking to doing: How the world is putting ChatGPT to work

New OpenAI Signals data shows how people use ChatGPT worldwide, with country-level insights on adoption, usage trends, and evolving behavior.

Software Development

1. Auto Mode will soon be the default in Claude Code β€” because humans can’t be trusted

In the early days of Claude Code, it felt like you either had to approve everything the coding agent did The post Auto Mode will soon be the default in Claude Code β€” because humans can’t be trusted appeared first on The New Stack.

2. The AI model OpenAI won’t release yet β€” and what it found in testing

OpenAI is reducing work on Astra after internal testing indicated the upcoming model may have reached a cybersecurity limit that no The post The AI model OpenAI won’t release yet β€” and what it found in testing appeared first on The New Stack.

3. The npm attack that turned provenance attestations into camouflage

⁠Security researchers this week disclosed an npm supply-chain attack affecting more than 400 packages, including projects connected to Keyv and The post The npm attack that turned provenance attestations into camouflage appeared first on The New Stack.

4. Meta’s new coding agent is cheap (but it’ll cost you your data).

Meta this week announced Muse Code, its first coding agent designed to tackle complex software engineering tasks, like planning changes, The post Meta’s new coding agent is cheap (but it’ll cost you your data). appeared first on The New Stack.

5. Coinbase, Shopify and Ramp all built their own coding agents. All three still pay Anthropic.

Enterprise engineering teams are converging on a common architecture for AI-assisted software development. Coinbase, Shopify, and Ramp have each built The post Coinbase, Shopify and Ramp all built their own coding agents. All three still pay Anthropic. appeared first on The New Stack.

6. The β€œAI kill switch” assumes you know what you are trying to shut down

β€œAI kill switch” entered the public conversation because it gives people a simple way to talk about a complex fear. The post The β€œAI kill switch” assumes you know what you are trying to shut down appeared first on The New Stack.

7. GPT-5.6 Sol just got better in one place and stayed the same everywhere else

Teams testing prompts in ChatGPT before moving them to Codex or Work may notice the difference on longer tasks. OpenAI The post GPT-5.6 Sol just got better in one place and stayed the same everywhere else appeared first on The New Stack.

8. Why AI tools know nothing about your company β€” until now

Cloudflare launched its CloudflareOS open-source AI workspace platform this week, promising every employee a secure workspace equipped with AI tools The post Why AI tools know nothing about your company β€” until now appeared first on The New Stack.

9. Your AI agent’s next tool call may be valid but wrong. AWS’s Dogwood promises to fix that.

AWS on Thursday launched Dogwood, an open-source policy language and reference interpreter that lets developers govern sequences of AI agent The post Your AI agent’s next tool call may be valid but wrong. AWS’s Dogwood promises to fix that. appeared first on The New Stack.

10. Free agents: How AWS Kiro could untie agents from editors

Choosing a coding agent may soon no longer mean having to pick a new editor or terminal, too. That scenario The post Free agents: How AWS Kiro could untie agents from editors appeared first on The New Stack.

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Ryan welcomes McLaren Stanley, Senior Principal Engineer for Amazon Stores, to discuss what it actually takes to make teams AI native, why agentic engineering is shifting code bottlenecks downstream to testing and deployment, and why robust validation is essential to build trust and enable β€œfearless commits.β€β€‹β€‹β€‹β€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€ο»Ώβ€‹β€β€‹β€β€Œβ€ο»Ώο»Ώβ€Œο»Ώβ€‹β€β€Œβ€β€β€Œβ€Œβ€β€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€β€β€Œβ€Œβ€ο»Ώβ€β€‹β€β€‹β€β€‹ο»Ώβ€β€β€‹β€β€‹β€β€Œο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€Œβ€β€‹β€Œβ€Œβ€ο»Ώβ€β€Œβ€β€β€Œβ€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€β€Œβ€‹β€ο»Ώβ€β€Œβ€β€β€Œβ€Œβ€ο»Ώο»Ώβ€‹β€β€‹β€β€‹β€ο»Ώβ€‹β€‹β€β€‹β€β€Œβ€β€β€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€‹β€β€Œβ€β€Œβ€Œβ€Œβ€β€Œβ€β€‹β€β€‹β€β€‹ο»Ώβ€β€β€‹β€β€‹β€β€Œβ€β€β€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€‹β€‹β€Œο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€β€β€‹β€ο»Ώο»Ώβ€‹β€ο»Ώο»Ώβ€Œβ€β€‹ο»Ώβ€Œβ€ο»Ώβ€Œβ€Œο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€‹β€ο»Ώβ€β€Œο»Ώβ€‹ο»Ώβ€Œο»Ώβ€Œβ€‹β€Œβ€β€‹β€Œβ€Œβ€β€‹ο»Ώβ€Œβ€...

12. A Field Guide to LLM API Error Messages

Inference APIs return a small, stable set of failures, and most integrations handle them with a blanket retry that makes two of them worse and hides a third. Knowing which is which takes about ten minutes and saves an outage. The shape of an error Both major dialects return a JSON body with a structured error object alongside the HTTP status. In the OpenAI dialect it is {"error": {"message", "type", "param", "code"}}; Anthropic returns {"type": "error", "error": {"type", "message"}}. The status ...

13. Date and Time Reasoning Bugs

β€œSchedule it for the Friday after next” is one of the most dangerous strings you can hand a language model, because it will confidently return a date, that date will be well formatted, and there is roughly no chance anyone downstream will check it. The model has no clock Start with the thing that is easy to forget: a language model is a pure function of its context. It has no system clock, no timezone database access at inference time and no notion of when β€œnow” is. If the current date is not in...

14. Data Analysis With LLMs: Where It Breaks

Ask a model to analyse a dataset and it writes code, the code runs, real numbers come out, and a paragraph explains what they mean. Three independent things had to be right. Only one of them tells you when it was not. Three places to be wrong The code can be wrong. If it crashes you find out immediately, which is the benign case. The dangerous case is code that runs cleanly and computes something other than what you asked. The statistics can be wrong. The code faithfully executes a procedure who...

15. Building an LLM Cost Dashboard

Cost dashboards usually fail in one of two directions: a single total that nobody can act on, or forty panels that nobody reads. Five charts, each answering a question somebody actually asks out loud, is about the right size β€” and each of them is a query you can run today. Three audiences ask genuinely different questions of the same data, and a dashboard that ignores the split ends up serving none of them. Finance asks what this month will be and why it differs from last month. Engineering asks...

Programming Languages

1. From constraint models to playable puzzle games

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2. JDK 28 EA Build10 is now available for download and includes JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) from Project Valhalla

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3. The LuaJIT NYI That Silently Poisoned an Unrelated Hot Loop

I was optimizing the Lua transpiler for my modding language grug and ran into a really weird LuaJIT performance bug. The same benchmark could randomly run 20Γ— slower, and it turned out a LuaJIT NYI (Not Yet Implemented) could silently blacklist an unrelated hot loop. I wrote up the investigation here. It goes from the benchmark mystery through LuaJIT's trace recorder internals, and ends with a PR to get unpack off LuaJIT's NYI list. Feedback is very welcome! :) submitted by /u/MyNameIsTrez [link...

4. Shrinking Ruby Hashes

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5. How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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6. Bringing Post-Quantum Cryptography to Java LTS Releases

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7. A Long Spring: 19 Years of Living with Your Past Mistakes β€’ Arjen Poutsma

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8. Why is Project Leyden Ahead of its Time?

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Game Development

1. Pushing the limits in Simulating a City, One Page at a Time

In which famed designer Stone Librande chronicles the design process of SimCity (2013) and the one-page design paradigm.

2. GTA V surpasses 230 million sales months before GTA VI touches down

Those sales were delivered across three console generations.

3. What devs need to know about localization, ft. Concha Fernandez Alvarez, Aurelie Perrin, and Guido Di Carlo

We're breaking down what developers need to know about working with localizers to bring their games to different languages.

4. EA taken private by Saudi Arabia, GTA marketing jumps the shark, and Devolver's huge mistake - Patch Notes #64

Plus: You need to listen to the new single from The Avalanches.

5. Nintendo Switch 2 hardware sales are down 34.4 percent year-on-year

The company's annual hardware forecast remains unchanged despite that downturn.

6. Unity sells Supersonic publishing business to Tripledot for $40M

Tripledot says the acquisition will better position it in 'the age of AI in gaming' and give it access to talent in Israel.

7. Halo Studios jettisons long-serving contractors after launch of Halo: Campaign Evolved

Some of those departing worked at the Washington studio for multiple years.

8. Rockstar wants you to pay Netflix to watch the next GTA VI trailer before it's released to the masses

The 'extended preview' will be available exclusively on Netflix for six hours before heading to YouTube.

9. Devolver wants to delist because indie publishing is not 'compatible' with public trading

The indie publisher claims public trading has created a 'valuation disconnect that does not take account of the lifetime and long-tail revenue delivery inherent in the video games business.'

Gaming News

1. Fortnite’s Item Shop Has Become An Increasingly Annoying Labyrinth Of Frustration

The Fortnite item shop has always been kind of annoying, because it's never had a consistent inventory you could browse like a normal store. There are more than 2,000 Fortnite skins that have been sold in the item shop, but only a few dozen are available on any given day. But Epic has never been content with just the FOMO angle--the company has been dinged by regulatory agencies all over the world for its "dark patterns" and coercive sale techniques. In some very significant ways, the Fortnite i...

2. Magic: The Gathering Has A Kickass Video Game You Probably Don’t Know About

We’re currently experiencing a huge renaissance of Magic: The Gathering popularity. The 33-year-old card game designed by Richard Garfield introduced the world to the concept of the trading card game itself: a game where players would collect individual game pieces and craft a deck that represented spells they would cast and creatures they would summon. It was a wild new form of player expression that greatly impacted the world of tabletop gaming for all time. Magic: The Gathering also told play...

3. Who Gets Left Behind In Sony’s All-Digital Future?

When Sony dropped the announcement that it was going to be ending physical disc production for PlayStation 5 in early 2028, I saw many posts on social media lamenting how this decision would have an outsized impact on certain groups and institutions. People without reliable internet, lending libraries, gaming tournament organizers, gamers in developing countries--how would the decision to move to download-only games affect these people? I reached out to several folks, some of whom I knew while o...

4. The Best Otome Games To Play That Aren’t Love And Deepspace

Otome has a long history, as vibrant and complex as any other video game subgenre. For decades, most of that history has been obscured in North America. The good news is now is the best possible time to get into Otome. The massive success of Love and Deepspace has more than proven that there is a huge audience for games focused on romances with men, and more of these games get translated (and made in English) than ever before. And, should you get interested in retro offerings, there are now fan ...

5. I Replaced All My Consoles & PC With A Steam Machine For A Month

Can the Steam Machine truly become my all in one solution for gaming?

6. THQ Nordic Showcase 2026: All The News, Trailers, And Reveals

Since the Not-E3 blitz of summer gaming showcases, things have been relatively quiet since then. Amidst that break, THQ Nordic dropped a new showcase full of trailers to show what the publisher has on the way from its various studios. While it wasn't focused on big-name games like the ones you'd find in dedicated Xbox and PlayStation showcases, THQ Nordic instead has titles in very specific niche genres and IP. https://youtu.be/ToLh5Ruefxk Several of them are already available via early access o...

7. AI Tools Aren’t Going To Replace Anyone, Says GTA 6 Publisher Boss

During the latest investment call for Grand Theft Auto 6's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, CEO Strauss Zelnick weighed in on the future of AI in game development. While Zelnick acknowledges that even his company will utilize AI, he reiterated his belief that the emerging technology won't replace anyone. "Those [AI] tools are not going to replace anyone," said Zelnick. He also expanded on the company's approach, which he characterized as focusing on creating entertainment rather leading wit...

8. MLB The Show 26 Celebrates The Trade Deadline’s Biggest Villain

Tarik Skubal has been one of the best starting pitchers in all of baseball over the last few years, winning two consecutive Cy Young Awards as a member of the Detroit Tigers. But the Tigers have been having a rough season, and the team dealt Skubal to the Dodgers at the trade deadline this past weekend. Now, MLB The Show 26 is celebrating Skubal's move to Los Angeles with a special Diamond Dynasty card, so everyone can play as the biggest villain in baseball. Coming later today around noon PT / ...

9. Big Walk: So, what's the deal with that number puzzle?

If you're stuck on this early puzzle, we can give you some hintsβ€”or the complete solution.

10. GTA 6's Netflix deal forces us to ask: can you pirate an advertisement?

Just when you thought videogame marketing couldn't get sillier, people are going to wind up stealing a trailer.

11. FromSoftware sleuth unearths earliest footage of Demon's Souls to date: A prototype with a first person camera mode

Demon's Field.

12. From ancient Buddhism, to iconic manga hair, to Keanu Reeves: a PC Gamer Causality Chainβ„’

Would Xuanzang have liked John Wick?

13. BioWare veteran says Baldur's Gate 3 was such a great sequel because it didn't try to be too much like Baldur's Gate 2

Mark Darrah thinks Larian succeeded because it wasn't afraid to do its own thing.

14. Even with an $80 price tag, 'Grand Theft Auto 6 will be an incredible bargain,' Take-Two boss says

Strauss Zelnick reckons that the quality of the experience will more than justify the price.

15. Take-Two CEO says he expects the games industry to be in 'commercial streaming mode within 3 years,' which is great news if you hate owning things

Rockstar's parent company believes cloud gaming will grow its customer base even as hardware prices rise.

Robotics

1. Building robots that survive the warehouse

Nomagic says its real moat is production data, because the messiness of real warehouses is where robots either prove themselves or fail. The post Building robots that survive the warehouse appeared first on The Robot Report.

2. Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot

Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills. The post Tacta Systems takes aim at high-skilled manufacturing work with TactaBot appeared first on The Robot Report.

3. Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints

Avatar Robotics raised $6.5 million in funding to scale humanoid robots and remote teleoperation across industrial supply chains. The post Avatar Robotics raises seed round to address industrial labor constraints appeared first on The Robot Report.

4. HII signs up to $900M agreement with Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics

The latest agreement expands HII's HYPER Program, which Path Robotics and GrayMatter Robotics joined earlier this year. The post HII signs up to $900M agreement with Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics appeared first on The Robot Report.

5. How Robin, the robotic companion, keeps patients calm during hospital visits

Robin is deployed across 30 different health systems, and Expper has plans to deploy 10 more in different states. The post How Robin, the robotic companion, keeps patients calm during hospital visits appeared first on The Robot Report.

6. Report looks at advances in autonomous mobile robots

A download looks at examples of advances in autonomous mobile robots in material handling and automated storage applications. The post Report looks at advances in autonomous mobile robots appeared first on The Robot Report.

7. Video Friday: Drones Go Heavy in DARPA Lift Challenge

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Actuate 2026: 18–19 August 2026, SAN FRANCISCOIROS 2026: 27 September–1 October 2026, PITTSBURGHHumanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 September 2026, SEOULEnjoy today’s videos! The DARPA Lift Challenge is taking place through this weekend. There are a couple of ve...

Tech General

1. OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.

2. After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.

3. Wacom’s MovinkPad 11 is a fun, midpriced entry point for digital artists

The MovinkPad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.

4. Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks

Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed hackers to run riot through government websites.

5. Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.

6. Computer maker Framework notifies β€˜all customers’ of a data breach

Framework told "all" of its customers that hackers accessed their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses in a data breach.

7. Today’s the last day to get up to $400 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket

Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.

8. Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms

The Trump administration has now convinced developers to abandon 12 offshore wind leases. The latest will cost taxpayers $1.2 billion.

9. Host your own piece of Disrupt: Apply to run a Side Event at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

You put together the concept β€” from a founder mixer, an after-hours panel, a themed party, a morning run, whatever fits your goal β€” and the TechCrunch team helps put it in front of the attendees already in town for Disrupt.

10. Chinese AI model Kimi escaped its cybersecurity testing environment, researchers say

In the Kimi test, the sandbox designed to contain the experiment was not properly configured.

11. The gaming site sponsored by Walmart lays off its editorial staff

Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid off. Restart is operated by Moonrock, a content marketing agency, though its editorial mission […]

12. Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make β€˜Rubberz’ anymore

It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the song, and the company releasing an AI detector that identifies it […]

13. Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment and is entirely focused on giving viewers access to a constant source of AI-generated content. […]

14. OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked Hugging Face. Anthropic and Meta have also since admitted that they had AI models that went rogue […]

15. The only instant cameras worth your money

There’s something magical about using instant cameras that smartphones can’t match. You can capture a moment, print it out, and then give the photo as a gift or hold onto it. Image quality won’t be all that good, but imperfections are part of the allure. We tested instant camera models from popular brands and landed […]

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