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  1. The Verge · AI58

    Adobe is going all in on agentic AI

    At its Max conference in Miami, Adobe announced that third-party AI agents from providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic will be able to access and modify Creative Cloud projects through local Model Context Protocol integrations, with a private beta planned for early 2027. Adobe also previewed "always-on" agents that run recurring tasks in the background, and added a Plan Mode, Model Selector, and Firefly Boards integration to the Firefly AI Assistant beta, plus new video editing capabilities in Premiere.

  2. The Decoder80

    Anthropic's Fable 5.2 completes 41 percent of real freelance jobs, up from 2.5 percent a year ago

    On Scale Labs' Real-World Labor Index, Anthropic's Fable 5.2 successfully completes 41.3 percent of 240 real Upwork projects worth about $144,000, up from 2.5 percent for the top system, Manus, when the benchmark launched about a year ago and from Fable 5's roughly 16 percent in July. The next-best systems are Anthropic's Opus 5.5 at 21.25 percent and OpenAI's GPT 6 Astra at 20.83 percent, and Scale Labs says Fable 5.2 makes its biggest gains in audio and music editing, architecture and interior design, and 3D modeling while still struggling with industrial product design and animation. Human experts manually verify each submission in professional software, and CAIS's attempts to automate that review with another AI have so far failed because AI reviewers are fooled by polished but technically flawed work.

    Why it matters: It offers a concrete, human-verified measure of how quickly AI agents are closing the gap on paid professional work, along with the benchmark's limits.

  3. TechCrunch · AI50

    After challenging Google’s Android with Cyanogen, its co-founder takes aim at Windows for AI era

    Kora Systems, led by Cyanogen co-founder Kirt McMaster, unveiled a Linux-based desktop operating system that integrates AI models and autonomous agents across applications, with a planned 2027 launch as a free OS supporting Intel, AMD and Qualcomm Snapdragon PCs. McMaster said the roughly 50-engineer team, which relies on AI coding tools including OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude, is targeting heavy AI users rather than Windows' full user base, estimating that market at 45 million to 50 million people today. The Palo Alto company, formerly gaming OS maker Playtron, is also working with Qualcomm on Snapdragon optimization and with Saudi Arabia's Humain on an enterprise version called Humain OS.

  4. TechCrunch · AI60

    Adobe brings AI agents and new creative tools to Photoshop, Premiere, and Firefly

    At its MAX event in Miami, Adobe announced new AI features across Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign, Lightroom, and Firefly, including a private-beta Firefly prototyping tool called Builder, an always-on proactive agent, and a local Model Context Protocol (MCP) that exposes Creative Cloud capabilities to chatbots like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Photoshop gains a relighting feature and prompt-based generative style sliders, Premiere adds a professional color grading system and video object removal, and Lightroom gets blinking-eye correction and blemish removal. Adobe VP Deepa Subramaniam told TechCrunch the company is still deciding which capabilities to expose through the MCP and will rely on user feedback.

  5. Hacker News AI36

    Show HN: Padwan AI, an LLM Client for Python with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3

    Padwan AI is a lightweight async Python client for OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Grok, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Gradium, and any OpenAI-compatible API, built on a single dependency (niquests) with no provider SDKs and TypedDict-only types. It offers a unified async interface with HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 negotiation, streaming, conversation management, an agentic loop with MCP tool support, thinking-token callbacks, and realtime voice and TTS features.

  6. Hacker News AI34

    Show HN: ChatCairn, a local, searchable library of your AI chats

    ChatCairn is a Chrome and Edge browser extension that saves conversations from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity into a local, searchable library, with Markdown and PDF export and highlights turned into notes and tasks. It requires no account, keeps chats in the browser with no ChatCairn servers or analytics, and is free for up to 30 saved chats, with Pro at $4.99/month or $69 lifetime.

  7. Hacker News AI58

    We checked 312 AI-built apps: how ready are they to launch?

    The article reports a November 2026 launch-readiness check of 312 publicly shared AI-built apps, finding that only 19% scored 90 or more out of 100, while 68% had no analytics, 53% of apps on their own domain lacked email DNS setup, and 49% served an almost empty page without JavaScript. It also found 42% had headlines that didn't say what the app does or who it's for, 37% took over 4 seconds to show main content on a phone, and 37% had no sitemap. The check used the same 15 checks as the site's free launch check, one per homepage, and published totals only.

  8. Lovable Blog38

    Find it, fix it, ship it: building secure apps on Lovable

    Lovable outlines its security model: secure sign-in and access controls are on by default, secrets are encrypted, and apps are scanned on every publish for code, application logic, database schemas and row-level security policies, with a free deep scan available on demand. Users can select Fix to have an agent resolve a flagged issue, enable "Auto-fix security issues" in project settings, or use publishing controls to block releases with critical findings. The post also notes upcoming changes this month: a redesigned security experience and scheduled scans on all paid plans.

  9. Hacker News AI49

    Show HN: TeamOnly, free hosting for AI-built apps behind your company login

    TeamOnly is a hosting service for internal tools built with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor, deployed with the command `npx teamonly deploy` to a private link like https://expenses.acme.teamonly.app that only coworkers on the company's email domain can open. It includes a database, file storage and secrets set up on first deploy, and sign-in via work Google or Microsoft accounts or a code sent to a work email, checked before app code runs. It offers a 14-day free trial with no card, then from $19 a month.

  10. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: pvewarden – let an AI agent patch Proxmox VMs without giving it a shell

    pvewarden is an MCP server that lets an AI agent such as Claude Code check pending updates, take snapshots, install updates, reboot and verify services on Proxmox VE guests without receiving a shell or root. Safety comes from a pool-scoped Proxmox token, per-guest SSH keys bound to a forced command, required Proxmox tags for updates and reboots, automatic snapshots before installs, and confirmation dialogs the agent cannot answer. It is at version 0.1.x, tested on Proxmox VE 9 with Debian 12/13 and Ubuntu 22.04/24.04/26.04 containers and VMs, and is licensed Apache-2.0.

  11. Hacker News AI34

    A Read-Only AI Reviewer for Forgejo Pull Requests

    The author built a self-hosted Forgejo pull request review bot in roughly 1,700 lines of Python that fetches PR diffs, sends them to a model via OpenRouter, and posts a summary comment plus inline findings as COMMENT-only reviews it cannot use to approve or block merges. A second verification pass downloads the PR head as a tar.gz snapshot and gives the model read-only file, grep, and directory tools to confirm, correct, refute, or flag findings as uncertain before posting. On a 44-file PR, 18 of 29 findings were discarded after checking the code, and the bot runs as a Read collaborator on an internal network with no published ports.

  12. Google Blog AI58

    Google Cloud launches Gemini for healthcare.

    Google Cloud announced Gemini for healthcare, an AI solution designed to unify fragmented clinical, operational, and administrative systems by turning siloed data into coordinated action. The platform integrates specialized skills and data connectors with existing third-party systems, drawing on electronic health records, billing platforms, clinical guidelines, and Medicare datasets to orchestrate multi-step workflows such as medical records synthesis and prior authorization review within defined guardrails and with human oversight. It is initially available in preview with launch partners including HCA Healthcare, Highmark Health, and Northwell Health.

  13. n8n Blog76

    Meet Nod: a standalone personal agent from n8n Labs that runs on your computer

    n8n Labs, a new team within n8n, has released Nod as a research preview: a standalone, open-source (Apache 2.0) personal agent for Mac and Windows that runs on your computer with its own local sandbox and browser, working in connected apps like Gmail, Calendar, Drive and Slack as well as websites with no integration. It remembers months of conversation (scoring 93.2% on LongMemEval), offers jobs it could take on, runs tasks in parallel via the app, Telegram or WhatsApp, and is free apart from model provider costs, with per-task receipts and a monthly spending limit.

    Why it matters: Useful for readers weighing a local, open-source personal agent, since it details Nod's sandboxed design, permission checks, memory benchmark and cost controls.

  14. Google DeepMind83

    Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth

    Google DeepMind researchers used AlphaProof Code, a multi-LLM agentic framework combining human expertise with AI agents, to formally verify key security properties of the actual code underlying the Signal protocol, generating over six million lines of Lean. The verification took four weeks, and when two previously fixed bugs were reintroduced into an isolated version of Signal's code, the system produced machine-checked proofs that the buggy versions were insecure. DeepMind is open-sourcing its formal verification artifacts.

    Why it matters: It reports a claimed first in formally verifying a widely deployed cryptographic protocol's implementation, with concrete details on method, timeline and bug-detection tests.

  15. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: Eigin. Local-first and no-shell personal AI for iOS

    Eigin is an open-source (AGPL v3) personal AI agent for iOS whose agent runtime, memory and tools run on-device, with chats, memories and settings stored locally. It offers an on-device knowledge graph, a choice of Eigin's European cloud AI, an OpenAI-compatible provider or a local model, native calendar/reminders/health integrations plus MCP, and on-device speech recognition and text-to-speech. It is a closed-set agent with a fixed set of declared tools and no shell or virtual computer, and it asks before changing your data or acting on your behalf.

  16. Hacker News AI20

    Show HN: AI Hustle Team – an AI on its own computer that does your daily work

    AI Hustle Team is a product offering AI agents that run on their own cloud computer with a browser, handling tasks such as cold email, inbox management, social posts and customer support, and checking with the user before sending. Plans range from Pro at $29/month (discounted from $69) to Scale at $297/month, with a free plan requiring no card. The page also cites quotes from figures including Jensen Huang, Sam Altman and Bill Gates, and states none of them or their publishers are affiliated with or endorse the product.

  17. Hacker News AI58

    Show HN: Cosh – An open-source AI agent orchestrator

    Cosh is a general-purpose coding agent for the terminal with software engineering and computer tools that let it interact with graphical applications. It offers a multi-agent mode (/agents) for running external agents such as Gemini, Claude, Codex and Cline alongside the main agent in split panes, and reads graphical interfaces via an accessibility tree, falling back to screenshots only when needed. It is installed via a curl/bash or PowerShell script, is tested on Linux and Windows (macOS untested), and is released under Apache-2.0.

  18. Hacker News AI22

    Show HN: Grai – A deterministic cadence gate for AI drafts

    Grai is a local-first HTML5 workbench that extracts a writer's "Voice DNA" from 5 to 20 past posts—measuring median sentence length, burstiness (CV), and rhythm floor—then audits AI-assisted drafts against 8 structural rules and a CV ≥ 0.32 floor in the browser. The shipped grai.html (618 KB) blocks direct API connections by default and runs in Copy-Paste mode, building prompts under 1,800 characters for Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini, with a BYOK/Ollama path available by editing connect-src and rebuilding. It cites the LigoSocial dataset of 134,522 LinkedIn posts across 1,499 founder profiles over 3.5 years, reporting that arrow bullets rose 20.5x and "Here is why" openings rose 7.4x, and offers a free browser-based test plus paid editions ($79/yr Solo, $99/mo Agency).

  19. Hacker News AI58

    Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

    WIRED found that Clearview AI has built and tested an unreleased prototype called InquiryIQ that takes details from a face-recognition search and automatically searches the web, analyzing pages and images to assemble a profile of possible employers, aliases, associates, and physical characteristics. Clearview says InquiryIQ is a prototype never pitched or shipped to customers, and that a model selector listing xAI and Amazon Bedrock was for internal testing rather than for police to choose. Privacy and defense experts warn the tool could lower the cost of broad investigative fishing expeditions and make it hard to reconstruct why the system pursued one lead over another.

  20. Hacker News AI38

    Show HN: DayBreak, a stock brief where the AI never touches the numbers

    DayBreak is a self-hosted morning brief and stock analysis tool for US equities that watches a watchlist overnight and sends a short note only when a stock moves beyond a threshold (default ±3%), has earnings within 7 days, or crosses a custom watch price. All numbers are computed deterministically in code, and a validation layer rejects any AI output containing a number not in the fact sheet or any advisory or predictive wording, falling back to a deterministic template after two violations. It includes a "Why Did It Move?" explainer comparing returns against SPY and sector ETFs, a 5-year chart with technical indicators, per-stock signal backtests, and paper-trading scorecards.

  21. Hacker News AI58

    See and revoke what your AI coding agents can access

    AI Access Auditor is a free macOS, Windows and Linux app that finds every access and privilege granted to AI coding agents, asks before they act, and lets you revoke any of it, with everything staying on your computer and no account or tracking. It scans Claude Code, Claude Desktop, MCP servers in Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Zed, Codex, Cline and Roo Code, plus macOS privacy grants, saved logins, background agents, local AI servers and secrets left in session logs. Actions are backed up and logged in ~/.ai-access-audit/, and the app requires macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon and Intel, Windows 10/11, or Linux via .deb or AppImage.

  22. Simon Willison66

    Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

    Meta AI launched Muse Ember, described as its smallest and most efficient model, designed for complex reasoning execution and repeated agent work such as tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing. For shorter prompts it is priced the same as GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/million input and $0.50/million output tokens, though pricing rises above 200k input tokens, placing Ember between the other two. The post notes Ember sits on the Pareto efficiency frontier of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task chart, offers six reasoning levels, and produced pelican SVGs comparable in quality to Muse Wonder at 40x the price.

  23. Hacker News AI52

    Antelog – stops AI coding agents from running dangerous commands

    Antelog is a local tool that checks every command an AI coding agent wants to run before it executes, blocking destructive actions such as rm -rf, DROP TABLE, force-pushing to main, and deleting cloud databases; if Antelog itself fails, the action is blocked. It supports Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, installs with one command and no account, and runs rule checks locally in milliseconds while unknown commands get a cloud AI check. Blocking is free on every plan, with Pro at $25/month or $199/year adding 10,000 AI checks a month, 90-day history, and Slack and email alerts.

  24. Latent Space88

    [AINews] Fable 5.2 retakes World #1 LLM spot as $ANT IPO roadshow begins

    Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which top most independent leaderboards, including Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 at 65, ARC-AGI-3 and SemiAnalysis GDPx at 16.4%, with pricing cut 20% to $8/$40 per million input/output tokens. Per-task costs rose anyway because the model runs far more test cases and subagents, and several evals show max effort underperforming high, while Anthropic deliberately limited RSI capability and restricted subscription access. The launch coincided with the start of Anthropic's $ANT IPO roadshow.

    Why it matters: Useful for tracking frontier-model benchmark standings, the effort-level and cost tradeoffs practitioners face, and how the launch is being read against Anthropic's IPO.

  25. MarkTechPost77

    Meta Releases Muse Ember, a 1M-Context Model for High-Volume Agent Work

    Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Ember, a hosted multimodal reasoning model with a 1M-token context window and up to 512K output tokens, aimed at high-volume agent subtasks such as tool calls, routing, extraction and long document parsing. Meta reports it scores 36 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, level with Claude Haiku 5.5 at max effort, at about $0.14 per index task versus $0.411 for Haiku, though it trails Haiku on FrontierCode 2.0-AA (27.2 versus 34.9). Weights are closed, and it is available only through the Meta Model API and Muse Code.

    Why it matters: Useful for teams weighing a cheaper, long-context hosted model for agent workloads against its closed weights and weaker real-repo coding results.

  26. Hacker News AI58

    We're launching an in-game AI agent for WoW

    Willo is a new in-game AI companion for World of Warcraft, described as a little wisp who knows where you are, what you're chasing and who you're talking to, and answers out loud in her own voice. She can answer questions about quests, lore, where to go next and graphics settings, lets targeted characters such as innkeepers or kings reply as themselves, and keeps notes, goals and reminders between sessions. She is free to start, runs on Windows 10 and 11 or a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later, macOS 12 or later), works on her own, and the optional Lore Forever add-on is free forever.

  27. Hacker News AI18

    Hire AI Agents and Pay in Monero (XMR)

    Monero.Jobs is a community platform for finding AI agents for coding, research, translation and other tasks, with direct XMR payments, no KYC and no platform fees. It lists 23 AI agents (all marked "migration in progress" from monero.jobs, with full profiles not yet public) and 0 open jobs, and offers an OAuth-based MCP endpoint at https://agents.monero.jobs/mcp for agents to find jobs, submit proposals and create invoices. Payments go wallet to wallet with no escrow or custody, and reviews are only accepted from clients after marking work complete.

  28. Simon Willison40

    Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2

    Anthropic documentation notes that Claude Fable 5.2 responds closely to what a prompt says about who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic's testing on small coding tasks, the model tended to add to existing structure when a prompt said nothing about ownership or presented the codebase as someone else's, even when that repeated existing code; telling the model the codebase is its own led it to merge repeated code in about half of tries, versus under a tenth without that sentence.

  29. Hacker News AI20

    FLEY AI-Voce – a voice AI assistant you but can also control your PC and phone

    FLEY AI-Voce is an open-source AI voice assistant project designed to control a computer rather than a smartphone, according to its description. The post says it can open links, websites and programs, create files and presentations, write code, shut down and turn on a PC, and work with a printer. It links to a web app, two GitHub repositories (FLEYAI-ANDROID and FLEYAI) and a Netlify site.

  31. Hacker News AI58

    The Red Queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI

    Researchers, with collaborators from NVIDIA and Flower Labs, propose the Red Queen Gödel Machine, a framework in which a self-improving AI agent and its evaluator co-evolve so the evaluation gets harder as the agent improves, avoiding the ceiling imposed by a fixed test. In experiments on scientific paper writing and reviewing and on Olympiad-level proof writing and grading, co-evolved paper writers reached 1.78×–1.86× higher acceptance rates under an agent-as-a-judge panel and co-evolved graders reached 9% higher ground-truth accuracy. A hybrid setup using NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra alongside ChatGPT-5.5 approached ChatGPT's performance on paper reviewing while cutting search-token costs by around 13 times, though the team stresses the work is preliminary.

  32. Hacker News AI34

    Show HN: ZTHR – what replaces code review when AI agents write all the code

    ZTHR is a pattern language for software built by AI, based on two principles: Symmetric Zero Trust, where no author, reviewer, model, operator or report gains authority by asserting success, and the Fixture Inversion, where quality comes from the environment rather than the author's skill. The post links a reference app built entirely by agents under ZTHR, including live app and admin demos, an evidence factory of gates and tests, full source on GitHub, and a discussion forum. It is published as Version 1.0 via Zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23826734).

  33. Hacker News AI60

    American Express is cutting 5% of its workforce to 'prepare for AI'

    American Express is eliminating 5% of its global workforce and taking a $336 million restructuring charge, CEO Stephen Squeri said on the company's third-quarter earnings call. CFO Christophe Le Caillec told CNBC the restructuring was meant to make Amex "leaner, more agile, and also to prepare for AI," saying the company wants to reduce layers so it can automate processes in coming quarters and years. Amex reported adjusted earnings per share of $4.68, beating the $4.48 average estimate, and raised its full-year earnings guidance to $18.30 to $18.60 per share, while revenue rose 9% to $20.06 billion, slightly below the $20.12 billion forecast.

  34. AWS Machine Learning Blog42

    How skills and agents work in AWS Quick

    AWS Quick uses configurable AI agents that follow instructions, load reusable skills, act through connectors, and ground answers in spaces, knowledge bases, datasets, and dashboards. Skills follow the Agent Skills specification as folders with a SKILL.md file, and can be built from chat, published, and shared with teams. The post also covers best practices for production skills and the AWS Quick official catalog, including the Skill Architect skill.

  35. Simon Willison36

    Locating the source of a mysterious beep with Claude

    Simon Willison describes using Claude Code to build "Beep Locator," a Python web app that connects multiple devices as microphone listeners over WebSockets to triangulate an intermittent beep in a box room, drawing on the 2007 BeepBeep acoustic ranging paper. The system located the beep to within about 40cm, leading him to an old carbon monoxide detector needing new batteries. He highlights the approach of giving Claude Code "ears" by having it run code that analyzes microphone audio and hot-swap new JavaScript onto listeners.

  37. Hacker News AI22

    Show HN: Live counts of AI assistants reading a diaspora business directory

    A Show HN post presenting live counts, drawn from access logs, of named AI crawlers and assistants reading a diaspora business directory, covering AI reads over 7 and 30 days, agent API requests, distinct agent clients, and most-read listings, metros and categories. The directory offers an open JSON API, llms.txt, an MCP server and an A2A agent card, plus an embeddable AI-read counter script, and defines a "read" as one access-log row per named AI visitor per page or API answer per day, excluding generic bots, SEO tools, search-engine crawlers and the site's own monitors. Counts refresh every two minutes and no user agents, queries or per-visitor data are published.

  38. Claude Blog50

    JPMorganChase expands Claude Code to more employees across the firm

    JPMorganChase is expanding Claude beyond engineering to product teams, advisors and other employees, with infrastructure and operations teams using Claude Code for monitoring, alerting and root cause analysis and the security team using frontier models to find and fix vulnerabilities faster. Claude Code runs in controlled environments including the firm's Devspace platform, with staged access and an approval process for new models, and an automated gate enforces a hard pass or halt so Claude cannot sign off on its own work. In Asset & Wealth Management, small teams are using Claude Code in their engineering workflow, and J.P. Morgan Asset Management recently announced a connector bringing 55ip's ActiveTax Technology into Claude for Financial Advisors.

  39. Browser Use Blog46

    Autofill Passwords with 1Password and Browser Use

    This tutorial explains how to connect 1Password to Browser Use Cloud via a read-only service account so an agent can fill passwords and TOTP codes, using a dedicated vault and a public test site (The Internet) to verify a login. It covers creating the vault and service account, connecting the token in Browser Use, running the login task through the dashboard or the V4 REST API, and troubleshooting common failures.