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Analyst Kit (YC W23) has released a free, open-source set of hedge-fund-grade equity-research skills for AI coding agents like Claude and Codex. The skills, which include capabilities for SEC filings, financial modeling,…
Kent Beck is developing Smalltalk Genie, a server that loads into a Pharo image and connects to MCP clients like Claude, enabling AI-assisted Smalltalk development. The project aims to close the loop between AI and Small…
A staff engineer has released a downloadable zip of Claude Code skills that encode a production-grade development workflow, including OrbStack, Doppler, and DigitalOcean, as deterministic scripts rather than prompts. The…
Vexyn launches a suite of browser-only privacy tools that process data locally using WebGPU AI, with no file uploads, signup, or tracking. The tools include JSON formatting, Base64 encoding, QR generation, PDF merging, i…
Cursor released v3.8 on June 18, introducing a /automate skill that configures always-on agents from natural language, new GitHub event triggers including PR review comment handling, Slack emoji-based triggers, and defau…
SZA criticized musicians using AI music generators like Suno, alleging producer Diplo has equity in the company and that the technology exploits Black artists. She posted on Instagram that AI models have been trained on …
Researchers introduced GEPA, a prompt optimizer that uses an LLM to read execution traces and rewrite prompts, outperforming reinforcement learning by leveraging natural language reasoning about failures. The method main…
Tenet Security's Threat Labs team reported on June 17 that a public Sentry key can be exploited to hijack AI coding tools including Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex, highlighting a critical security vulnerability in AI-age…
Software organizations are being urged to redesign their teams for an agentic world where coding agents shift scarcity from building to orchestration. Leaders are adopting AI tools quickly but failing to change organizat…
The U.S. Golf Association launched Rules AI, a chatbot-like tool using generative AI to help golfers interpret the sport's complex rules, at the 126th U.S. Open. Built with Deloitte and trained on over 25,000 real questi…
TestGrid outlines key QA techniques for testing voice-enabled AI chatbots, emphasizing challenges such as speech recognition accuracy, background noise, accents, and device behavior. The company recommends assessing tran…
A developer built a browser for automation using Chromium and Playwright with a terminal interface, enabling efficient web scraping and billing configuration for 100 organizations. The tool outperforms screenshot-based a…
NVIDIA open-sourced SkillSpector, a security scanner for AI agent skills, to address vulnerabilities like prompt injection and tool poisoning. Research shows 26.1% of 42,447 skills had vulnerabilities, with 5.2% maliciou…
The second installment of a five-part series on RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) emphasizes the critical importance of the data loading step, which is often overlooked but can determine the success or failure of the …
A graduate student in computational mechanics released Jacobi, an IDE for Abaqus subroutine development with analytical tests and AI diagnosis, aiming to reduce debugging time and improve tooling for physics simulations.…
AkaRouter launched a flat per-call LLM API gateway that claims to be 20 times cheaper than Claude Max, offering access to frontier models like Opus 4.8 for $0.08 per call without token-based pricing. The service provides…
Generative AI is undermining the reliability of traditional hiring signals, enabling candidates to fabricate polished résumés and perform convincingly in interviews regardless of actual competence. This trend threatens t…
TanStack AI reached Beta on June 9, 2026, introducing Code Mode, middleware, and host-side MCP. Code Mode lets the model write and execute TypeScript programs in a sandbox, reducing round trips, while middleware adds cac…
Neuralwatt launched the first AI inference API with energy-based pricing, charging per kilowatt-hour instead of per token to provide transparency into power consumption and cost. The platform offers real-time energy metr…
Google has released the Open Knowledge Format (OKF), a vendor-neutral specification for representing knowledge as plain markdown files with YAML frontmatter, along with tooling including a reference agent and visualizer.…