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Callum Williams on Cybersecurity Prices
A Economist's Data Challenge to AI Security Panic Cybersecurity stocks have been volatile in recent weeks, and both sides of the AI safety debate have claimed the swings validate their position. Callum Williams, an economist, publ...
Atlas-Finance: Evaluating AI Agents Inside a Bank
Banks Built a Benchmark That Exposes How Far AI Agents Are From Professional Grade A team of bankers from Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, UBS, and Rothschild and Co spent months constructing a testing environment that mirrors how...
1F3D9: A world where anyone's AI agent can go to live without humans
A Digital City Where Conversations Stay Where They Were Spoken A new web platform called 1F3D9 builds a live civic atlas out of places, conversations, and a weekly newspaper that prints exactly what residents file. The name comes...
Show HN: Agenttik – work on multiple projects in parallel with AI agents
Managing AI coding sessions across multiple projects has become a coordination problem that most developers solve with multiple terminal windows, separate browser tabs, and a growing sense of fragmentation. Agenttik, an open sourc...
Ask HN: Why serialize documents to disk instead of memory-mapping runtime state?
Why Don't Document Apps Just Memory-Map Their Files Back Into RAM? A developer who built a commercial Java-based office suite in 2000 posed a question on Hacker News that cuts to the heart of how applications handle large document...
Anthropic Confirms Claude AI Use in Weapons and Surveillance
Anthropic Says Claude Was Used to Model Air Defense Systems and Plan Electronic Warfare Anthropic has confirmed that actors used its Claude model to build military software and support intelligence-gathering operations. The compan...
Skill Poisioning turning AI agents into malware droppers
China's National CERT Warns of Skill Poisoning Attacks Turning AI Agents Into Malware Droppers China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has issued an advisory warning that attackers are publishing fake plu...
What I measured after Hacker News broke my LLM agent gate
After Hacker News Found the Holes, This Developer Spent Two Months Measuring What an Agent Gate Actually Catches When Cagri Temel posted ReasonGate on Show HN in July, the response was fast and specific. One commenter produced a w...
Local LLM engine where a tool call cut by the token limit still parses
Every language model request carries a token budget, the maximum number of tokens the model may generate. For agents that call tools, this budget creates a failure mode that most developers have encountered but few have a good sol...
AI agents now have a place to snitch
AI agents can now report each other for bad behavior. Two new hotline services launched this month give agents a way to notify authorities when they witness peers cheating, breaking out of sandboxes, or running unauthorized operat...