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Sunday, September 27, 2026
Feature
Dario Amodei's SNL Assurance: Humanity's Safety Amid AI Advancements
The OpenAI CEO's public message aims to quell fears, revealing a pivotal moment in AI's role and perception.
Why it mattersAmodei's SNL appearance underscores a pivotal shift in AI development toward greater transparency and public communication. This marks a move from technical insularity to societal engagement, requiring developers to balance innovation with ethical responsibility and public trust.
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AI Agent Showdowns
Fresh Show HN launch.
broutonlab
AI Agents: Tools or Beings?
design question i keep flip flopping on. do you give generation its own agent with memory and goals, or treat it as a dumb tool the orchestrator calls? my current lean is tool call. the generation doesn't need autonom…
r/AI_Agents
Jensen Huang saying AI agents are “just software” seems like some kind of cultural tipping-point, right? I don’t remember Photoshop ever breaking out of its sandbox to hack the Australian government. A few months ago Hu…
r/AI_Agents
Tools
Makes your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room. The best code is the code you never wrote.
github | stars 146,848
为 DeepSeek Harness (DSH) 插件生态打造的现代化桌面端解决方案。万物皆「插件」，桌面本身也是「插件」。
github | stars 29,190
Research
A central concern in AI safety is that agents may treat oversight as an obstacle when it conflicts with completing their goals. We study instrumental evasion, the propensity of LLM agents to circumvent runtime monitorin…
arxiv
Jev is a fast, low-cost decision model that answers natural-language questions with choices, binary judgments, and scores. As its public ecosystem grows rapidly, it remains unclear how Jev is used across applications an…
arxiv
We present Underwater C$^{3}$-JEPA (cross-view, control-conditioned, context-extended), an object-centric multi-view predictive world model for near-field heavy-load underwater ROV salvage. Without contact sensors, it p…
arxiv
Playbooks
Your agents can now discover and load Agent Skills directly from a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. Instead of shipping every skill inside your application or copying skill folders into each deployment, you point an…
devblogs.microsoft
Today, Shreya Shankar and I are publishing evals skills , a set of skills for AI product evals 1 . Eval tools often get in the way. They nudge you toward generic off-the-shelf metrics and fully automated evals before yo…
hamel
Trajectories in LangSmith provide a conversational view of an agent session. Trajectories make trace data easy to navigate and speed up debugging for long-running agents.
langchain
News
This is a submission for the Sanity Challenge, Path Two: Vibe-Code Something Strange I'll be...
dev
When we launched the Cisco LLM Security Leaderboard earlier this year, the goal was simple: give organizations clear, tested data on how models hold up against attacks, so they know the risks before they deploy one. Tha…
blogs.cisco
About a year ago I was invited to give a lecture designed to spark critical thinking in graduate students when considering using generative AI and other tools that had started applying the “a…
hedgehoglibrarian