Investing in Vals
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Vals, a startup building an evaluation platform that tests AI models on real-world tasks rather than academic benchmarks, aiming to become an independent scorekeeper for AI mode…
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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested in Vals, a startup building an evaluation platform that tests AI models on real-world tasks rather than academic benchmarks, aiming to become an independent scorekeeper for AI mode…
Google is testing a Gemini-powered 'Change it for me' option in Chrome Canary that automatically fixes weak and reused passwords, as spotted by browser tipster Leopeva64 on X. The feature, controlled by a hidden 'Passwor…
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) reported that the European Union has passed two milestones in implementing its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and AI Act, with the European Commission publishing guidance on the CRA and most …
Anthropic plans to embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into text generated by supported Claude models, including Claude, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork, to support transparency and provenance require…
Woot is offering Lenovo's IdeaPad Slim 3x Snapdragon X Copilot+ PC for $499.99 shipped, down from its original $750 price, with promo code 50LAPTOP. The deal matches the 2026 low and takes $185 off the usual going rate, …
Anthropic's business AI adoption is growing faster than OpenAI's, driven by the general availability of Structured Outputs on its Claude Developer Platform and integration with AWS Bedrock for Claude 4.5 models. The feat…
Users report that Claude.ai cannot access private GitHub repositories through its connector, which only lists public repos, while Claude Code has full access. The issue stems from the connector's permission scope, and a …
A developer has open-sourced the Unified Latent-State Memory Fabric (UL-SMF), a hardware-software co-designed architecture that compresses standard FP32 KV caches into a 16-dimensional discrete latent space using Finite …
Zoom patched CVE-2026-53413, a zero-click remote code execution flaw in its screen annotation feature that allowed any meeting participant to take over other participants' devices without user interaction, affecting Wind…
A developer built a reusable career system using Cursor, an AI-powered code editor, after a Riot Games recruiter reached out with a short deadline. The system separates structured career facts from application-specific w…
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains added persistent memory across sessions and repositories, plus Ollama as a local model provider, on August 11. The update brings JetBrains users features already available in VS Code since Ju…
A software developer seeking to self-host an AI-generated website asked for recommendations on services that provide code rather than hosting plans, citing poor UI/UX skills and an upcoming master's degree in UI as motiv…
A new reverse-engineering technique using inverse language models can reconstruct proprietary system prompts from generated outputs, exposing the 'secret sauce' of commercial LLM agents. This vulnerability enables intell…
A new study from arXiv (2608.11338v1) argues that programmatic skill learning, where skills are represented as executable programs, achieves the best cost reduction for LLM agents adapting to novel domains. The authors p…
A developer tutorial advises using `git reset` to undo uncommitted AI-generated commits and `git revert` for pushed ones, emphasizing that developers must know how to reverse AI-written code. The guidance follows a scena…
A developer advocate argues that building a quick visual prototype with mock data is superior to writing a design document for product specification, as it eliminates misinterpretation and yields more practical feedback.…
Z.ai's open-weights coding model GLM 5.2, featuring a 1M-token context window, is available free for eve agents through August 27, served by Blackbox AI on Vercel's AI Gateway. New eve agents default to GLM 5.2, and exis…
Anthropic launched Claude for Chrome, a browser extension available on all paid plans that reads the page a user is signed in to and can click, type, and fill forms while the user decides what happens next. The extension…
A developer with over a decade of experience in software development and technical writing describes using LLMs as a structured interview partner during the documentation extraction phase, rather than as an autocomplete …
A developer found that running their evaluation suite through Anthropic's Claude Code CLI costs $0 per run, while the same 27 calls via the API would bill $9.14. The CLI prints a total_cost_usd receipt for money not spen…