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DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-21447.pdf

People are using AI to make their smart TVs dumb again

Fed up with ads, tracking and sluggish interfaces, some smart TV owners are turning to AI agents to strip away bloatware and take back control of their TVs.

AI companies are coming for the plumbers

Launch HN: Laminar (YC S24) – We trained a model to catch silent agent failures

Hi HN, we’re Robert and Din from Laminar (https://laminar.sh). We’ve been building open-source observability for AI agents since 2024. Recently, we released flow-1, a model trained with RL to find err…

Nvidia launches new open models to run agents in the enterprise and on PCs 

Nvidia is leaning hard into the trend of enterprise companies wanting to run their own open models in their own data centers and also trying to make on-device, private AI agents a thing.

Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier

CERN and Mistral join forces to accelerate AI for science

Agentic Monitoring

Detecting model weight tampering in GPU memory (Rome attacks)

JB Pritzker thinks AI could help us live to 100 — or threaten us like nukes

Today, I’m talking with Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, who has a lot of thoughts about AI, tech, and privacy. If you’ve been listening to the show, you know that one of my running theories is that tho…

A hacker broke into John Deere and SharkNinja with an army of AI agents

A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn't name the targ…

Maxwell: A new kind of model that sits between code and hardware

Hi HN, I'm Gal from doubleAI. We've built Maxwell, a new kind of frontier model we call a Code Execution Model.It sits between your code and the hardware. No humans in the loop! Maxwell makes the code…

Cairn: Open windows into AI-driven cyber operations

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/how-one-hacker-used...https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1013643/...

Show HN: Qwen3-4B with the AI writing tics trained out

"Rails Magic" Isn't Magic. How a Request Actually Travels Through Rails.

A visual, 10-minute deep dive into how Ruby on Rails actually runs under the hood. From Rack middlewares and Zeitwerk autoloading to ActiveRecord schema reflection and the view_assigns bridge.

Harness Engineering 101: The LLM is the brain, the harness is the body

The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO

Democrats think cracking down on AI could give them an edge

Democrats could win back control of Congress this November, and if they do, they'll need to decide how to approach one of the country's newest and thorniest political issues: AI. Polls predict Democra…