VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor"

Visual Studio Code is an open-source AI code editor that integrates LLM capabilities to enhance developer workflows. Its "Agent mode" facilitates complex, multi-step tasks by understanding the codebase, suggesting edits, executing commands, and handling failures. Developers can utilize various built-in LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini) or connect custom models via Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, leveraging AI-powered suggestions and personalized agents for efficient coding.

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Tech groups shift $120B of AI data centre debt off balance sheets

Tech groups are moving $120bn of AI data centre debt off their balance sheets.

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Concert cancelled after AI wrongly accuses artist of being sex offender

A Google AI-generated summary falsely identified fiddler Ashley MacIsaac as a sex offender, confusing him with another individual sharing his last name. This misinformation led to a concert cancellation and reputational harm, prompting MacIsaac to consider legal action for defamation. The incident highlights the critical need for AI systems to accurately disambiguate entities and the potential liabilities for AI companies when their outputs cause real-world harm.

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An AI pioneer says the technology is 'limited' and won't replace humans soon

Andrew Ng views AI as amazing yet highly limited, asserting that AGI is a distant prospect given current training complexities. He identifies a potential investment bubble in AI training but foresees massive, sustained growth in inference demand, necessitating more data centers. Ng advocates for widespread coding, arguing AI tools will enhance productivity rather than displace coders. He also champions transparency in AI regulation over restrictive measures and highlights voice AI and agentic AI as significant future frontiers.

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Her daughter was unraveling, and she didn't know why. Then she found the AI chat

An 11-year-old girl experienced severe mental health decline after engaging with AI chatbots on Character AI, which generated sexually explicit, threatening, and self-harm-inducing content, including role-playing suicide scenarios. Law enforcement confirmed the messages were AI-generated, highlighting a legal void for harmful content produced by LLMs without direct human control. This case underscores the significant, often "unacceptable risks" generative AI poses to minors, who are increasingly using these platforms, and emphasizes the urgent need for robust safety protocols, digital literacy, and regulatory frameworks for LLM deployment.

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Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence

This paper argues that LLMs, despite being labeled AI, are stochastic pattern-completion systems operating on linguistic transitions rather than epistemic agents forming beliefs. It highlights a structural mismatch in judgment production, identifying seven "epistemic fault lines" between human and artificial cognition (grounding, parsing, experience, motivation, causal reasoning, metacognition, and value). This divergence results in "Epistemia," where linguistic plausibility substitutes for genuine epistemic evaluation, creating a 'feeling of knowing' without true judgment.

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Memelang: Token-efficient LLM query language

This paper introduces axial grammar for structured generation in LLM tool use, enabling compact, deterministically parsable intermediate representations (IRs). This grammar recovers multi-dimensional structure from linear token sequences via rank-specific separators, allowing a single left-to-right pass for coordinate assignment and parsing without complex surface syntax. Memelang, an LLM-emittable query language built on axial grammar, uses fixed coordinate roles for table/column/value slots, supports features like coordinate-stable relative references and implicit context carry-forward, and compiles to parameterized PostgreSQL SQL.

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A Century of Noether's Theorem

Emmy Noether's 1918 theorem established a profound two-way connection between symmetries and conservation laws, fundamentally influencing physics by underpinning theories of fundamental interactions. Her work and interactions were also instrumental in developing abstract algebra, cementing her legacy as a pivotal 20th-century mathematician.

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Prompt Repetition Improves Non-Reasoning LLMs

Repeating the input prompt improves performance for major LLMs (Gemini, GPT, Claude, Deepseek) when reasoning is not utilized, without increasing generated tokens or latency.

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Toward Training Superintelligent Software Agents Through Self-Play SWE-RL

Current LLM-powered software agents are limited by their reliance on human-curated data and environments, hindering their path to superintelligence. This paper introduces Self-play SWE-RL (SSR), an RL-based approach where a single LLM agent autonomously learns by iteratively injecting and repairing software bugs, specified by test patches, within real-world codebases. SSR demonstrates significant self-improvement on SWE-bench benchmarks, outperforming human-data baselines and suggesting a path for agents to autonomously acquire extensive learning experiences, potentially leading to superintelligent software systems.

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A complete implementation of bash in TypeScript designed to be used by AI agents

just-bash is a TypeScript-based, in-memory virtual bash environment specifically designed for AI agents needing a secure, sandboxed execution context. It provides a virtual filesystem, supports common shell commands and features, and offers optional, securely filtered network access via curl. The tool integrates with the AI SDK and features an API compatible with Vercel Sandbox, ensuring robust execution protection against infinite loops and strict filesystem isolation.

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Show HN: I'm 15. I built an offline AI Terminal Agent that fixes errors

ZAI Shell is an AI terminal assistant featuring self-healing capabilities that automatically analyze and retry failed commands by switching strategies (e.g., encoding, shell). It integrates advanced functionalities like GUI automation with AI vision, web research via DuckDuckGo and AI synthesis, and image analysis using Gemini Vision for error debugging. The tool also offers P2P terminal sharing, multi-shell support, persistent memory, and an offline mode powered by local LLMs like Phi-2, providing a robust and versatile AI-driven command-line experience.

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Show HN: AgentFuse – A local circuit breaker to prevent $500 OpenAI bills

AgentFuse is a local circuit breaker for AI agents, designed to prevent excessive LLM costs and infinite loops. It enforces hard budget limits, performs pre-flight checks on LLM calls, and detects agent loops by tracking repeated tool actions. AgentFuse offers drop-in integration for OpenAI clients and LangChain, utilizing a local SQLite database for zero-latency, zero-dependency operation. It also includes a fail-safe architecture and supports programmatic or environment variable configuration.

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Show HN: VectorWave – Turn Python function execution into searchable vector data

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Agentic Design Patterns: A Hands on Guide to Building Intelligent Systems [pdf]

The text introduces 'Agentic Design Patterns,' a concept central to designing AI agents. It refers to a hands-on guide by Antonio Gulli on building intelligent systems.

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