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  1. Cloudflare Blog40

    Introducing Spend Management: Spending limits and alerts for Cloudflare

    Cloudflare has launched Spend Management in Beta for pay-as-you-go customers, starting with Workers and Durable Objects, letting users set spending thresholds and have Cloudflare pause activity when limits are reached. Limits can be configured via the dashboard, cf CLI, or REST API, with email alerts at chosen thresholds and near real-time (under 10 minutes) cost visibility. Enforcement is asynchronous, propagating caps through Quicksilver so requests never wait on the Rating Engine, and more products plus application- and agent-based budgets are planned.

  2. Apple Newsroom74

    Apple HomeView available today

    Apple announced that HomeView, a device that recognizes up to six people by face and shows their personal content in Messages, FaceTime, Calendar, Reminders, and Find My, is available to order today in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK, and the U.S. for $299 (U.S.), with a wall-mounted version also at $299. It runs Siri AI, which offers onscreen awareness and, when paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone or iPad, personal context and cross-app actions; Siri AI is available in beta in HomeView software version 27.2. HomeView is not for sale in the European Union because Siri AI is currently unavailable in iOS in the EU, and Schneider Home mounts start at $59.95 (U.S.).

    Why it matters: The announcement details pricing, availability, and Siri AI features for a new Apple device, useful for readers tracking Apple's home products and regional AI rollout.

  3. Hacker News AI34

    Show HN: CloudHike – A backend your AI coding agent can set up over MCP

    CloudHike is a backend platform offering Postgres, auth, S3-compatible storage, Redis, email, background jobs, functions, 100+ AI models via an OpenAI-compatible API, and Linux cloud computers for agents. It connects to AI editors such as Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and VS Code through MCP so agents can create projects and deploy services from a conversation. Pricing starts with a free plan including $10 in signup credits, Pro at $10/month, and Scale at $29.99/month.

  4. Hacker News AI22

    Image to Image AI: Transform Any Photo with a Prompt

    A browser-based AI photo editor lets users upload a photo, describe a change in plain words, and have the AI redraw it, with a before/after slider for comparison. The page documents recorded first-attempt examples using GPT Image 2, including background replacement, product-on-white, object removal, pet cartoon and pencil sketch, each with its exact prompt. Pricing is one-time credit packs ($9.99 for 60 credits, $19.99 for 200), with 2 free credits on sign-up, and the page notes that faces, hands, small text and fine patterns can change even when asked to stay the same.

  5. Hacker News AI22

    AI Room Design from Your Photo – 2 Free Designs

    This tool turns a photo of your room into interior design concepts in six styles, using Room Redesign for furnished rooms or Virtual Staging for empty ones, with a before/after slider to compare results against the original. Eligible new users can try 2 designs after signing in (trial credits expire after 30 days), while sample designs can be browsed without an account; paid credit packs are one-time ($9.99 for 60 designs or $19.99 for 200) and purchased credits never expire. Designs are AI-generated concepts, not measured plans, and the page notes AI can still shift walls, windows or doors, so results should be checked against real measurements.

  6. Hacker News AI38

    An open character, made by AI

    Claudia is an open AI character: the singer of ten music videos made with Claude between September and November 2026, including ESCAPE VELOCITY, CLODYSSEY, BLISS, AIRPLANE MODE, DOWNFORCE, DON'T LET ME SCROLL, WHITEPILL, THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE, AERO and FABLE. The site publishes her canon (black bob with one clay-orange streak, star clip, headset mic), every look, all images and films, and the material needed to make her yourself. It also offers a wiki of 13 articles on the method, an MCP server and a Claude skill for agents.

  7. Hacker News AI22

    Show HN: AI News Agg – Know what's trending in AI news

    The author built a site that tracks AI-only news and announcements from 48 selected sources, including mainstream media, tech publications, bloggers, and company websites. A story is marked as trending and placed at the top of the site when three or more of these outlets cover it, and users can get an email when a new story starts trending. There is also an option for a personalized daily AI brief on subjects or entities a user wants to follow.

  8. MarkTechPost58

    Google Releases TPU Sync: Open-Source KV Cache Transfer for TPUs

    Google Cloud has released TPU Sync, an Apache-2.0 C++ library with Python wheels for PyTorch and JAX that moves KV caches and model weights across TPU HBM, pinned host DRAM, shared storage and the data center network using layout-preserving asynchronous DMA. Google reports over 90% lower KV transfer latency on 235B to 480B parameter MoE models, with Qwen3 235B median KV transfer latency dropping from several seconds to about 230 ms in internal tests on TPU v7x. The README says it is not yet recommended for general use, and the RL weight-broadcast and storage tiering features are experimental.

  9. n8n Blog22

    New in n8n: Public API rate limits that keep every team on your instance running

    n8n 2.47.0 introduces per-API-key public API rate limits, available on all plans for Cloud and self-hosted, with separate read and write limits across all endpoints and per endpoint. Clients receive 429 responses with Retry-After and rate-limit headers, and in multi-main setups every main shares one count per API key through Redis. Rate limiting is off by default and can be enabled via Settings > Policies > Public API Limits, the settings API, or environment variables, and works alongside idempotency keys (since 2.45.0) to make retries safe.

  10. Hacker News AI40

    How HN: Agent-brain – Notes-agnostic second-brain operating model for AI agents

    Agent-brain is a personal operating model for AI coding agents (Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Antigravity CLI) that provides a second-brain knowledge structure (journal, WIP, memory, tasks) built on top of any folder of notes, with Obsidian as one option rather than a requirement. It keeps runtime config and memory in a git-tracked brain symlinked into each runtime, adds a session lifecycle driven by the brain skill, and offers an opt-in boyscout skill for routing improvement opportunities to a remediation workflow or backlog. It installs via a curl bootstrap script that dry-runs by default and requires Python 3.x, git, and at least one supported agent runtime.

  11. Hacker News AI58

    Witness – a voice-anchored evidence recorder for AI coding agents

    Witness is a CLI tool that records your voice alongside the causal evidence of each moment—clicks, requests, console errors, DOM mutations, screenshots and full rrweb replay—while you use a managed browser, then packages it for AI coding agents. It runs three parallel streams (continuous audio with live transcription, per-click ~1.8s causal bursts, and page evolution via rrweb replay and snapshots), and exposes the session through a stdio MCP server with tools like list_segments, events_around and get_dom_state. Install with `npm i -g witness-recorder` (Node 18+ and system Edge/Chrome) and start via `wit start <url>`.

  12. Hacker News AI34

    Show HN: I built a tool to check website access for 14 AI crawlers

    FloxoLab's AI Crawler Access Checker takes a URL, reads its robots.txt under RFC 9309, requests the page with the user agents of 14 AI crawlers, and compares each response with a normal browser request to give a per-crawler verdict. It also reports page directives, text available without JavaScript, and discovery files such as /llms.txt and the sitemap, while noting limits like vendor IP verification and bot challenges returned with HTTP 200. The tool is free with no account and allows 8 checks per 10 minutes.

  13. Codex Releases22

    0.169.0

    Codex 0.169.0 adds multiple side-chat tabs in the opt-in terminal workspace, task history search from the agent command center, collapsible turn details in the full-screen transcript, and custom model provider editing from the terminal. It also adds Ctrl+S local diagnostic ZIP saves, opt-in Cloud connection features on macOS and Linux, and fixes including explicit project trust for non-interactive runs and Windows sandbox handling for quoted cmd.exe paths.

  14. Codex Releases10

    0.171.0-alpha.2

    This GitHub Changelog entry is titled "0.171.0-alpha.2" and lists navigation links to GitHub products and services, including Copilot, Actions, Codespaces, Advanced Security, and pricing. The supplied material contains no details about what changed in this version.

  15. Hacker News AI58

    Michelangelo AI

    Michelangelo AI is now open source, with the material citing Uber-scale usage of 400+ active ML projects, 20K+ model training jobs per month, 5K+ models in production, and 45M+ real-time predictions per second at peak. It offers feature management, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring, with feature management, evaluation, and monitoring marked coming soon. A Python API example shows distributed XGBoost training with Ray and an end-to-end training workflow.

  16. Hacker News AI58

    Turning Teacher Expertise into AI-Generated Educational Simulations

    The Generative AI Labs team introduces Primer, an open-source system that lets educators build educational simulations through a structured AI interview rather than code, producing a reviewable design document that must be approved before any simulation is built. Specialized agents then create and run the simulation, with student-facing mentor, practice (Roleplay or Teachback), and feedback agents, and educators receive individual and aggregate performance reports. Primer is described as an experimental prototype, not a vetted classroom product, and its prompts, templates, and code are released on GitHub.

  17. Modal Blog42

    Sandbox resourcing: burst, don't reserve

    Modal argues that fixed-resource reservations fit poorly with bursty Sandbox workloads, since a typical Sandbox spends more than half its life using under 6% of its peak CPU, so users over-reserve and pay for peak constantly. Modal's Sandboxes now burst by default from a base request of 0.125 cores and 128 MiB, with active-resource pricing billed each second for what is used, and the company cites 58% savings versus a fixed-size reservation on an illustrative 20-minute coding agent task. It also describes an OOM SLO of below 0.0001% per minute for bursting Sandboxes under 8 GiB and tools like exit snapshots and the termination reasons SDK to reduce eviction impact.

  18. Hacker News AI18

    Show HN: AI Math Kit – Open Problems. Explore Honestly

    AI Math Kit is a browser extension popup that presents 217 open math problems (number theory, calculus, and cross-field mysteries such as the Riemann Hypothesis and P vs NP) alongside 242 plain-language guides to AI and formalized-math breakthroughs, plus prompt templates and an honesty pledge for exploring with AI. It offers Chinese, English, and Japanese interfaces, caches payment status locally, and unlocks full problem explanations, breakthrough details, and prompts via an optional Pro in-app purchase (ExtPay). The developer states the content is introductory paraphrase and does not claim AI has proven any conjecture.

  19. Codex Releases12

    0.171.0-alpha.1

    This GitHub Changelog entry is titled "0.171.0-alpha.1" and lists only the site's navigation and product menus, including Platform, Copilot, Actions, Codespaces, Secure Code, and Pricing. The supplied material contains no details about the release itself.

  20. Hacker News AI42

    Show HN: AxiomStory – Keep stories consistent across AI text, images, video

    AxiomStory is an AI story studio that reads every chapter to flag continuity errors, builds a wiki page for each character and place, and generates pictures, voices and video using one saved look per character. It supports importing existing manuscripts in Word, EPUB, PDF, Markdown, HTML or plain text, and offers a free plan plus paid tiers from $16 to $160 per month.

  21. Claude Code Releases32

    v2.1.323

    Claude Code v2.1.323 adds an experimental opt-in Code Mode in which Claude writes JavaScript to call its tools, plus plugin engine version ranges in plugin.json and TypeScript hook type checking in claude plugin validate. The release also adds .docx support to Artifact tool asset uploads and fixes a wide range of issues across permissions, sandboxing, sessions, MCP, OpenTelemetry and Remote Control.

  22. TechCrunch · AI58

    Muse can now place calls to US businesses — if you pay

    Meta's consumer AI agent Muse can now place calls to U.S. businesses on behalf of users, but the feature is limited to paid subscribers after an initial September test. Muse subscriptions start at $20 per month for 500 million tokens per week, with a $100 per month tier offering 3 billion tokens. Meta Chief AI officer Alexandr Wang said the feature could handle calls people don't want to make, such as to cable companies, the DMV, or restaurants without online reservations.

  23. Hacker News AI34

    Show HN: Bugsy – AI automation which runs my company

    A Show HN post describes Bugsy, an AI automation system that began as a Sentry AI triager and grew into a system powering much of the day-to-day operations of a ~20-person company. It is used for reporting and fixing bugs, code review, metrics, and answering questions, and is available from Slack, the company forum, and channels.

  24. The Decoder58

    Claude Meetings lets Anthropic's AI join your video calls

    Anthropic launched Claude Meetings, which puts Claude into video calls as a visible participant that can answer questions, generate documents and whiteboards, and log notes and action items, responding in text by default and using connected tools when permitted. Notes, transcripts, and documents are available on a dedicated page in claude.ai after the meeting, and privacy controls block Claude from joining calls with external participants by default. The beta is limited to Team and Enterprise plans with Google Meet as the only supported platform, and organizations using HIPAA or customer-managed encryption configurations cannot use it yet.

  25. AWS Machine Learning Blog58

    Deploy frontier AI models on AWS Trainium with SGLang-Neuron

    Amazon announced that SGLang-Neuron, released by RadixArk with Annapurna Labs, is publicly available through an AWS Deep Learning Container, letting users serve models and generate RL rollouts on Trainium via the same SGLang interface. The out-of-tree plugin runs on native PyTorch, is selected with SGLANG_PLATFORM=neuron, and supports PD disaggregation with KV-cache transfer via NIXL over EFA. The post includes a walkthrough on a Trainium3 EC2 instance using the pytorch-inference-sglang-neuronx container to serve openai/gpt-oss-120b.

  26. Claude Blog78

    Using Claude Opus 5.5 as your daily driver for knowledge work

    Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 is now the default model on Pro, Max, Ultra, and Team plans and recommends it for daily knowledge work such as research, analysis, and producing memos, reports, spreadsheets, and decks, priced at $4/$20 per million input/output tokens. The post describes internal tests on research reports and a fictional merger analysis, plus guidance to start at Medium effort, drop "think hard" prompts, and attach charts rather than retyping them. It also walks through a demo project where Opus 5.5 tested four theories for slowing retail growth and proposed an alternative explanation involving new stores opening too close to existing ones.

    Why it matters: Useful for teams deciding which Claude model to default to and for concrete prompting changes when moving to Opus 5.5.

  27. Codex Releases22

    0.168.0

    Codex 0.168.0 adds TUI model provider browsing and default selection for new chats, an opt-in side conversation pane (features.tui_workspace) with resizable and zoomable panes, audio attachments with rejection recovery, and opt-in animated GIF image generation. It also fixes account-scoped local history, keeps threads on their saved model provider when defaults change, and improves TUI rendering of interrupted replies and reasoning summaries.

  28. vLLM Blog60

    Inkling 2 Small on vLLM: Day-0 Support

    vLLM announces day-0 support for Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small, a multimodal text-and-vision MoE model with 594B total and 17B active parameters, up to 1M tokens of context, and a native DSpark speculator. The post details the architecture (48 layers, 384 experts with top-8 routing, block attention residuals, gated attention, a 23-layer ViT image encoder, and mixed NVFP4/MXFP8 expert precision) and vLLM's optimizations, including kernel fusion with PDL, fused MoE activation quantization, sequence parallelism for prefill, and a Gluon relative attention kernel, reaching up to 630 TPS/user at TP4 on GB200. It also covers LoRA and RL (via SkyRL) support, a serve command, agentic-workload benchmarks, and accuracy checks on NIAH up to 1M tokens, MMMU-Pro and HLE.

    Why it matters: Useful for engineers evaluating or deploying a large multimodal MoE model, as it pairs concrete architecture and quantization details with vLLM-specific kernels, benchmark numbers and a ready serve command.

  29. MarkTechPost71

    CopilotKit Releases OpenBot 1.0: An MIT-Licensed, Self-Hostable AI Coworker With Built-In Governance

    CopilotKit released OpenBot 1.0 on November 9th, an MIT-licensed, self-hostable agent workspace where teams bring their own models, agents and infrastructure, and every Bot action is checked against a CEL policy through a single gateway before it runs. Each Bot gets its own container with a Chromium browser, logins and files, and any AG-UI agent plugs in, with support for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok and open models such as Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen, Nemotron and Mistral. Personal use is free and runs locally, while the Business tier costs up to $29 per active user per month and adds SSO/SCIM, on-behalf-of tokens, spend limits, SIEM export and multi-tenancy.

  30. Claude Blog78

    Introducing Claude Meetings

    Anthropic announced Claude Meetings in beta, letting Claude join video calls as a visible participant that answers questions aloud or in chat, builds docs and whiteboards with the team, and writes notes and action items. It is rolling out on Team and Enterprise plans with support for Google Meet, and each meeting gets a page in claude.ai with notes, transcript and artifacts. By default Claude stays out of calls with outside guests unless an admin allows it, and it saves a transcript, summary and screen descriptions rather than audio.

    Why it matters: Useful for teams evaluating AI meeting assistants, since it details capabilities, admin controls, privacy defaults and beta limitations.

  31. Hacker News AI58

    Keenable 1.0: Search at the Speed of AI

    Keenable launched version 1.0, which it says ranks #1 on the Artificial Analysis Search Index (BrowseComp, DeepSearchQA and AA-Omniscience) and #1 on NEEDLE, its open-source AI web search benchmark rerun daily on fresh queries. The release adds 100 million knowledge cards summarizing key facts on frequently searched topics and dynamic snippets that extract needed context from full documents, cutting token consumption by 50% on research tasks, with answers in hundreds of milliseconds. New accounts start with 100,000 requests as a welcome bonus, with one key and one MCP endpoint.

  32. Codex Releases12

    0.170.0-alpha.4

    This entry is a GitHub Changelog page for version 0.170.0-alpha.4, but the supplied material contains only site navigation and product menu text, with no release notes or details about the version itself.

  33. TechCrunch · AI42

    Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands

    Nectar, an AI-powered marketing operating system founded by former Meta employees Misbah and Farah Uraizee, has launched a "Creator Agent" that searches over 300 million creator profiles, checks content and prior brand partnerships, sends personalized messages in a brand's voice, and helps manage contracts, gifting, and shipping. The agent, available globally for Instagram and TikTok creators, also drafts outreach, builds custom landing pages, and tracks campaign performance, with planned availability through MCP for assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot. Nectar raised a $30 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund in May.

  34. Hacker News AI34

    Local AI chat for iPhone(test build), built on a custom engine

    OwnOwl is a time-limited test build that runs a large language model entirely on an iPhone, with no internet used for chatting and conversations kept on the device. It requires an iPhone with 6 GB of RAM or more and iOS 17 or newer, plus about 6 GB (GigaChat), 9 GB (Ling), or 14 GB (Gemma) of free storage for the chosen model, and is installed via AltStore or Sideloadly using your own Apple ID. Version 0.2 adds faster first replies, a Continue button for longer answers, memory of user-confirmed facts, and stability fixes; the app and its inference engine are proprietary and the build expires.