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Advancing the Quality-Efficiency Frontier for Coding AI on Windows PCs

Microsoft describes MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, a 137.9-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts coding model quantized from roughly 276 GB at 16-bit precision to a 53.0 GiB mixed-precision checkpoint (with a 46.1 GiB variant), running locally on NVIDIA RTX Spark PCs via GitHub Copilot. Using a DFlash2 speculative-decoding draft with layer-wise sliding-window attention, the measured RTX Spark configuration reached a median 51.12 tokens per second at 120K-token input context, with median end-to-end latency falling 27% from 527.25 to 382.41 seconds.

ChatGPT can now turn text prompts and photos into animated GIFs with OpenAI's Images 2.6 model

ChatGPT now supports animated GIF creation using OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model, rolling out to all ChatGPT and Codex users on web, desktop, and mobile, per The Verge. Users can generate a GIF from a text prompt or uploaded photo, then adjust animation speed or edit individual frames. OpenAI is also releasing API models GPT-Image-2.6 "Flare" for efficiency and "Sunburst" for higher quality, and says users now generate over four billion images per week via ChatGPT and the API.

Gemini for Home now plugs into AT&T’s smart security system

AT&T's Connected Life system now integrates with Google Home Premium, which AT&T says makes it the first home security product to do so, enabling Gemini-powered features that describe camera events, let users search recorded video with natural-language questions, and provide daily activity summaries. These features require AT&T's $29.99/month professional Connected Life monitoring plan, and AT&T is also adding automatic arming or disarming based on proximity to the home. AT&T launched Connected Life last December with Google and Abode and is now using Google's Gemini-powered Home APIs.

datasette-agent 0.5a0

Datasette Agent 0.5a0 is a significant release whose most notable new feature is called the panel, which lets the agent chat open and sit next to pages from Datasette, such as a table or query page. Combined with datasette-apps, this means you can prompt a database-backed app into existence and then modify it from the chat next to that app. It can be tried by signing in with a GitHub account at agent.datasette.io.

datasette-apps 0.3a0

Datasette Apps 0.3a0 improves its integration with Datasette Agent: apps can now be tagged in chat messages by typing #, which autocompletes from apps the user has permission to view. New app_add_stored_queries() and app_remove_stored_queries() tools let the agent manage which stored queries an app can call, with write queries requiring user approval, and app_create() now verifies each requested stored query exists and is viewable and asks the user to approve write queries before creating the app. The "View app" buttons and # app reference links now open the app full screen in the Datasette Agent panel.

Show HN: Jinna, Company Brain& AI agents that run a one-person business with you

Jinna is a Show HN project offering a "Company Brain" and AI agents intended to run a one-person business alongside the user. The page advertises a 10-day free trial with no credit card required and says it is powered by industry-leading platforms. It also shows a sample message notifying a user that an invoice for $370.50 has been paid.

Show HN: Fount – Verifiably private AI for your spreadsheets and documents

Fount uses TEEs through Tinfoil to provide provably confidential AI office agents, described as Cursor + Microsoft Office + Privacy. The post links to the Hacker News comments page for discussion.

New agents and products for security, productivity, and creative work on Claude Marketplace

Anthropic added new partner agents and products to Claude Marketplace across security, developer infrastructure, creative, and productivity, bringing the total to over 25. Eligible enterprise customers can apply a portion of their committed Anthropic spend toward these solutions. New listings include Chainguard, Checkmarx, Cyera, Rubrik, Tanium, Datadog, Netlify, AirOps, Runway, Webflow, Asana, Glean, monday, and Zoom.

NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 Brings NVIDIA Vera Rubin GA Support

NVIDIA CUDA 13.5 delivers general availability across major new platforms, with NVIDIA Vera Rubin support moving from early developer access to GA and being ready for enterprise production. The release is positioned as unlocking unprecedented performance and scale for AI and accelerated computing.

Show HN: Atlas – Let AI agents use your Mac without taking over your screen

Atlas is a free, open-source MIT-licensed tool that gives AI agents a hidden second macOS login on your Mac, where they can open apps, click and type while you keep working in your own account. It supports Claude, Codex, Cursor, opencode and Pi, queues agents one at a time, and reports lower context use than native Computer Use (e.g. 36k vs 232k tokens for Claude Opus 5.5 across three tasks). It is not a security sandbox, and some features like native Save/Open panels and Safari web views require a connected Screen Sharing session.

ChatGPT will now make you animated GIFs

ChatGPT can now create GIFs from a prompt or an uploaded photo, with options to adjust animation speed, edit individual frames, and share the result. The feature rolls out alongside OpenAI's new Images 2.6 model, which the company says also enables faster image generation and is available to all ChatGPT and Codex users across web, desktop, and mobile. OpenAI also launched GPT-Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst in its API for faster, higher-quality image generation.

Introducing Baseten Grid

Baseten Grid is a single layer for enterprises to route requests across approved open and closed models, monitor usage, and govern access, with a gateway supporting providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Amazon Bedrock, and Baseten. In early benchmarks, its Baseten Router cut cost per coding task by up to 70% with minimal quality loss, and Grid also adds centrally configurable guardrails. Grid is in public preview starting today.

Launch HN: Kino AI (YC S23) – AI media manager and video editor

Kino AI launched on Hacker News as a combined media manager and video editor that stores footage and assets, offers a rich editor, and provides review links for teammates, letting colleagues and coding agents like Codex and Claude Code work on the same timeline. The editor is code-first, built on Remotion, with all editing, motion graphics, timeline dragging, comments, and 3D scenes expressed as code, and it is fully collaborative and real-time with visible teammate cursors. Footage is transcribed, embedded, described, and face-detected, with a low-res proxy uploaded so teammates and cloud inference can access it while local scrubbing uses custom pro media decoders.

Smart Approvals in AWS Quick: Human oversight where it matters

AWS describes Smart Approvals in AWS Quick, which uses a separate classifier model to review eligible agent actions against the user's request and either approve them automatically or return them for human review, without granting additional permissions or removing required approvals. Policy controls such as Custom Permissions, Quick Guardrails, connector action permissions and user settings determine eligibility, and each automatic approval is single-use and applies only to the exact action and parameters reviewed. The post also covers CloudTrail and CloudWatch Logs audit evidence and recommends piloting Smart Approvals with a defined workflow before wider rollout.

Show HN: Renor – one memory for all your AI agents

Renor is a shared memory layer for coding agents over MCP that stores decisions, corrections and facts as plain Markdown you own, so what one agent learns in a session is recalled by others in the next. It offers a hosted path via `npx renor connect --client <name>` (claude-code, codex, cursor, grok, gemini, vscode, opencode or pi) and a self-hosted path via `npx -y renor-engine mcp` requiring Node.js 22.16 or later, with notes in ~/.renor and a SQLite search index rebuilt from the Markdown. The engine is Apache-2.0 (1.0.0 was AGPL-3.0), the CLI, SDKs and integrations are MIT, and anonymous telemetry is on by default unless disabled with `renor-engine telemetry off` or DO_NOT_TRACK=1.

Introducing Knowledge for Mastra Agents

Mastra introduces Knowledge, a shared store of markdown pages organized into org, resource, and thread scopes that agents can search, read, and write through five built-in tools, working alongside signals to keep context current. Agents receive a Knowledge instance via the knowledge option, and storage adds mastra_knowledge_* tables, with KNOWLEDGE_ROUTES enabling a Studio page view. Knowledge is in alpha and requires @mastra/[email protected] or later.

I tried Apple’s Siri Recaps. They’re surprisingly useful — and a little unsettling

Apple released Audio Intelligence features in the first developer betas of iOS 27.3 and watchOS 27.3, including sound detection, song identification, Live Rewind, and Siri Recaps, with audio processed on-device where possible and without storing raw audio or identifying speakers. In a day of testing, the author found Siri Recaps captured useful details like a repair deductible, time frame, and rental gas level, but also saved extraneous items such as TV plans and mixed unrelated topics into one note. The author suggests separate notes or sections for extraneous details, swipe-to-delete on individual bullet points, and an option to auto-export saved Recaps to Apple Notes.

ElevenAgents integrates natively with leading contact center platforms to deliver enterprise-ready agents

ElevenAgents now integrates natively with NiCE CXone, Genesys Cloud, Amazon Connect, and Five9, and connects over SIP to any other contact center or PBX that supports SIP trunking. The voice stack, built from ElevenLabs' own audio research, offers more than 17,000 voices in over 90 languages, passes call context from the contact center to the agent, and hands calls back to human agents through existing routing with full context. The company says this lets enterprises automate routine calls without replacing their telephony, routing, compliance recording, or CRM systems.

vLLM Delivers Day-0 Support for Kimi K3.1 Pro

vLLM announces day-0 support for Kimi K3.1 Pro, Moonshot AI's 2.8T-parameter (104B active) multimodal MoE with a 1M-token context that adds a DSA sparse-attention indexer to all 24 full-attention layers of its KDA + MLA hybrid. The post details a packed KV cache for three kinds of state, token-sharded prefill attention (up to 1.69× faster TTFT at 340K tokens on 8× GB300), decode context parallelism with an exact top-k merge, a fused low-latency decode path, a DSpark speculator preview, AgentX benchmark results on GB300 and Rubin, zero-mismatch RL, and support on NVIDIA, AMD, TPU and Alibaba T-HEAD Zhenwu PPUs.

Show HN: Continuum Verifier – offline checks for AI data-provenance records

Continuum Verifier is an open, offline tool that checks self-contained "capsule" files carrying a content fingerprint, a chain of signed attestation records, Merkle inclusion proofs, the issuer's key, public-witness anchors, and a re-stamp trail, using only the capsule and the repo with no network or issuer access. It returns verdicts of VERIFIED, SELF_CONSISTENT, RESTAMP_NEEDED, WITHHELD, or FAILED, and proves custody and integrity of a record rather than the truth of the underlying facts. It is a v0.1 reference implementation whose sample witnesses and re-stamp signatures are simulated with local keys, with wiring a real durable witness named as the next step.

Show HN: GTMshortlist – I asked Claude for the best AI SDR. It wasn't yours

GTMshortlist is a directory of GTM AI tools ranked by monthly US search volume from Semrush (October 2026), with categories including AI SDR, AI CRM, data enrichment and AI video generators. The site states that nobody can pay to move up, sponsored spots are labeled and sit above the ranked list, and listings pass automated checks and are re-checked weekly. Vendors can claim a listing free or get Verified for $199 a year.

Deterministic security and privacy checks for code from AI assistants

Secure & Private by Design is an open-source tool that runs deterministic, rule-based security and privacy checks on code written by AI assistants, enforcing the same findings across Claude, GPT, Gemini and human CLI users via editor hooks, git hooks, CI and an MCP server. It detects secrets, Indian PII (Aadhaar, PAN, mobile, email), PHI schema fields, unclassified personal data and missing audit or AI decision logging, and deploys editable scaffolds for consent, data rights, retention, breach notification, RBAC and audit logging. Everything runs locally with no telemetry, and the project states it is not a compliance certification or legal advice.

Show HN: RapAvatar – Turn any photo into a lip-synced rap video with AI

RapAvatar turns a single JPG, PNG or WebP photo (up to 8 MB) of a person, pet or character into a 10-second vertical 9:16 1080p rap video, with AI-written four-line bars across 10 rap styles, 6 voices and 9 lyric languages. Free 10-second audio previews are available without an account up to 5 per day, while video generation uses credits: an Impulse Pack at $4.99 for 3 videos, Creator Monthly at $14.99 for 12 videos, or Agency/Studio at $39.99 for 35 videos. Lip-sync matches the vocal for people and characters, while pets move their head and muzzle in time with the vocal rather than matching each syllable.

Human-in-the-loop authorization for AI agents

Airlock is a human-in-the-loop authorization system built on the HARP specification that intercepts sensitive AI agent commands, encrypts them with AES-256-GCM, and routes them to a mobile approver who signs a decision with Ed25519 that is verified locally before execution. It features a zero-knowledge gateway, replay protection via nonces and expiry timestamps, and enterprise deployment within an organization's own infrastructure. The HARP protocol is described as an open, tool-agnostic standard covering canonicalization, artifact hashing, decision signing, and replay protection.

Chatrove – Organize AI prompts and chats into folders

Chatrove is a Chrome extension listed on the Chrome Web Store that organizes AI prompts and chats into folders. The submission links to the extension's store page and its Hacker News discussion thread.

Show HN: AI Gude - Personal Podcast News Aggregator

AI Gude is free, self-hosted open source software that turns the RSS feeds you follow into a personal morning podcast: at scheduled times it reads new articles, writes a script in your style, speaks it with an AI voice and delivers one audio episode with chapters. It uses Gemini for text and speech, Firecrawl for article text, ffmpeg for encoding and SQLite for storage, and supports multiple users via a reverse proxy that sets the X-Aigude-User header. A live demo is available at aigude.alexdoes.dev with the user and password "demo".

Daybreak Red is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-East)

Daybreak Red brings GPT-5.6 Cyber to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Amazon Bedrock for authorized cybersecurity work.

See the agents, set the terms: New visibility and control for personal agents

Cloudflare launched new Security Analytics features that surface personal agent traffic, including a Personal Assistants category in the Bot Analysis chart, a Top statistics widget listing visiting agents, and per-user agent visibility for sites using Account Abuse Protection. It also expanded the Agents policy to allow per-agent settings of Allow, Block on pages with ads, or Block, renaming the setting to AI Crawler and Agent access policies. Cloudflare says its next goal is helping sites preserve user context when agents act as intermediaries.

Together Compiler: Continual Compilation for AI inference

Together AI introduces Together Compiler (TKCC), a continual optimization loop that uses high-throughput agents to generate inference-engine optimizations, built on "persistent engines" that hot-reload candidate forward passes without restarts and a two-tier engine design balancing measurement throughput against fidelity. TKCC reports up to 2.6x higher TPS across frontier open-source models in under 24 hours, state-of-the-art low-latency results on SemiAnalysis' InferenceX benchmark (1111 TPS on MiniMax M3.1-Flash, 1205 TPS on DeepSeek v4.1-Flash), and 1.7x over open-source megakernels on Llama 1B at batch size 1, enabled by 252x higher experiment throughput than baseline agentic systems. The post also says TKCC generalizes to weather modeling, PDE, time-series, and biology workloads, and is serving trillions of tokens today.

Show HN: Id|le, little AI-creatures living in the browser (story mode)

A Show HN project presents "Id|le," little AI-creatures living in the browser in a story mode, where messages arrive at an inbox and each stage is a classifier creature built from a real text classifier from Jeffy. The three starting classifiers (spam, support tickets, mood) run in the browser after a one-time 23.7 MB download, while any other chosen head is queried on Jeffy's server. A filter drops matches into its own bin, a router sorts into a bin per label and sends uncertain items to review, and a tagger stamps a label and passes it on, with one message every 4 seconds.

Sovereign AI is how Europe could catch up

This promotional page for Aleph Alpha's Kolibri presents it as a sovereign AI model for the public sector, available via API, with the company offering to build specialized sovereign language models tailored to an organization's context. It cites customer results including an AI assistant for an agency serving 80,000 users, AI agents extracting verifiable insights from sensitive documents at a global chipmaker that cut search times by 90%, and AI support in requirements engineering at an automotive supplier that led to 40% faster RFQ processing. The page also lists the company's management team.

Show HN: Pacibook – read any book in 22 Indian languages with an AI reader

Pacibook is an AI-powered ebook store and reader for India that lets users buy and download books for offline reading, translate passages into 22 Indian languages with a single tap, and ask questions about the text in real time. The site says AI-generated translations are adaptive and never overwrite the original, so readers can switch back anytime. It also features a catalog browsable by category and a recommended Hindi edited volume on public relations tied to the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.

Show HN: Scan-to-vector – rebuild scanned pages as vector PDFs with an AI agent

Scan-to-vector is an agent skill for Claude Code, Codex and other clients that read SKILL.md, which rebuilds scanned pages as searchable PDFs with text, vector-redrawn diagrams and charts, and labelled raster crops, checking each page against the scan via a ledger and overlay review. The author reports benchmarks on unseen documents where all four tested models scored higher with the skill on long documents (Haiku 5.5 from 0.841 to 0.997, Sonnet 5.5 finishing 37% faster), while noting the benchmark is synthetic printed English pages and the workflow takes minutes per page. It is installed via a Claude Code plugin or install.sh, requires Python 3.10+ with PyMuPDF, Pillow, numpy, scipy and tesseract, and is released under the MIT License.

Together Compiler: Continuous Compilation for AI inference

Together AI introduces Together Compiler (TKCC), a continual agent-driven system that recompiles inference engines as traffic drifts, using persistent engines, a two-tier fast/slow engine setup for throughput-fidelity balance, and a custom cost model for parallelism selection. TKCC reports 1.3-3x higher TPS across frontier open-source models in under 24 hours, state-of-the-art low-latency results of 1111 TPS on MiniMax M3.1-Flash and 1205 TPS on DeepSeek v4.1-Flash on SemiAnalysis' InferenceX benchmark, and 1.7x over open-source megakernels on Llama 1B batch size 1, enabled by 252x higher experiment throughput than baseline agentic systems. It also generalizes to weather modeling, PDE, time-series, and biology workloads.

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Show HN: Gradevibes-Is your AI-written app finished?

Gradevibes is a Show HN submission linking to gradevibes.com, where users can upload something via the site's upload tab. The post asks whether an AI-written app is finished.

Show HN: Shield KYA – Open-source audit trail and gate for AI agent tool calls

Shield KYA is an MIT-licensed CLI and local MCP gate that records every AI coding agent tool call on a live local dashboard and checks calls against a policy baseline, returning Allow, Review, or Deny. The open-source client is advisory and fails open except for a small never-list of dangerous calls, while real blocking and human approval run on the hosted MCP policy path. It installs via npm (@shield-agent/kya) and requires Node.js 22+, with plugins for Claude Code, Copilot CLI, Codex, and Gemini CLI.

Show HN: Rivermark, a superfast AI graphic design canvas

Rivermark is an AI design tool for creatives that follows voice-led sessions, letting users brainstorm out loud while it makes edits such as bolding headlines, laying out type styles, applying palettes, and generating a story version. It reads dragged-in websites, brand guidelines, or Canva templates to stay on-brand, and can turn a content plan into 50 posts in a chosen style. The makers argue that hands-off AI tools make content look generic, and that AI is better used as a lever for one's own creativity and taste.

Show HN: Olo, an AI companion that labels each claim against

A Show HN post introduces Olo, an AI companion hosted at helius-olo.io/chat that labels each claim against something, though the submission does not specify what. The post has 2 points and no comments on Hacker News.

Audio Enhancer – Free Online AI Audio Enhancer and Noise Remover

This page describes a free, no-login online audio enhancer that cleans noisy speech, quiet voice notes, podcast tracks, and iPhone videos by applying noise reduction, level balancing, EQ, and artifact cleanup. It offers two models (AudioCleaner V1 and V2), supports MP3, WAV, M4A, MP4, MOV, AAC, and FLAC, and states there is no duration limit for spoken files. Users add a recording, select the main problem, preview the result, and export the cleaner file.

Show HN: Umbra – An AI agent that uses Android apps while you use your phone

Umbra is an Android agent that reads the screen via the accessibility tree and screenshots, then taps, types, scrolls and opens apps in an invisible background display so you can keep using the phone. It also runs a Debian Linux environment on-device for building and testing code, supports Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter or any OpenAI-compatible model, and requires your approval for risky actions like payments, messages or deleting data. It requires Android 16 (API 36), root is optional, and distribution is by sideload from umbra-agent.pages.dev.