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Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices
Google has begun rolling out early access to its Model Context Protocol server for the Google Home ecosystem, giving third-party AI agents direct access to smart home devices and their event histories. The integration means any MC...
Show HN: Ivx/AI Chat, AI client that doesn't track you (with a better GUI imo)
A new open source chat client called ivx/ai takes a minimalist approach to AI interaction: no accounts, no backend, no telemetry, and no data leaving your browser. The application connects directly to whatever model endpoint you c...
Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home
Google is opening its smart home platform to third-party AI agents through Model Context Protocol integration, allowing tools like Claude and other MCP-compatible agents to access device data, control connected hardware, and reaso...
Ask HN: Might complex software have infinitely many vulnerabilities?
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Sam Altman says world 'right to be afraid' but 'should trust' AI firms
Sam Altman stood before a crowd of business leaders at a Salesforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday and delivered a message that split the difference between reassurance and alarm. The world has every reason to fear artific...
Ask HN: How do you put together a technical engineering team?
A developer on Hacker News posed a question this week that resonated with hiring managers and team leads across the industry: how do you actually put together a strong engineering team when the process itself seems designed to dri...
Inference Is the Last LLM Moat
The conventional wisdom about AI companies' competitive advantages focuses on model quality, training data, and research talent. A growing argument suggests the real differentiator is far more mundane: the infrastructure that runs...
We struggled with DevOps, so built a open source agentic platform just for this
DevOps remains one of those disciplines where experience does not guarantee comfort. A developer with 150 completed projects described the breaking point this week: endless compatibility fixes, mysterious server failures, and vuln...
Anthropic CEO renews call for AI slowdown as Nvidia's urges acceleration
The tension between building AI fast and building it safely played out on stage at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week, where two of the industry's most prominent CEOs offered starkly different prescripti...
The Bad Guy with an AI Named Claude
Anthropic published a detailed report this week cataloging misuse attempts against its Claude model spanning eight months, from December 2025 through August 2026. The report covers seven categories of harm, from cyber espionage to...