AWS on Air previews farm tech demos including Carbon Robotics' LaserWeeder, autonomous tractors, and Direct Connect.
“I work on some of the like cutting edge, newest of the new. Can't solve this anywhere else.”
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AI agents could be embedded in games as 'games masters' that drive storylines and assist players.
“almost like a a games master that drive the story line along”
Sakana AI launched a dedicated RSI Lab in Tokyo, formalizing recursive self-improvement as a research program.
“making Claude a chemist”
Simon Willison released micropython-wasm 0.1a2, adding a CLI to the sandboxed MicroPython tool.
“I added a CLI to micropython-wasm, inspired by the first draft of the blog entry when I realized it would be a great way to illustrate the Try it yourself section.”
Simon Willison released micropython-wasm, an alpha sandbox for safely running Python code via MicroPython in WebAssembly.
“I'd love to be able to run plugin-style code in an environment where it is unable to read unapproved files, connect to a network, or generally operate in a way that's risky or harmful to the rest of the application or the user's computer.”
OpenAI's Lockdown Mode is now live, limiting outbound network requests to block prompt-injection data exfiltration.
“Lockdown Mode is designed to help prevent the final stage of data exfiltration from a prompt injection attack by limiting outbound network requests that could transfer sensitive data to an attacker.”
Hugging Face shipped a working multi-agent economy running on a single 3B-parameter model.
Agentic AI's autonomous reasoning has driven compute demand 100-1000x higher, going 'parabolic,' says Jensen Huang.
“One engineer, a really good engineer today is working with an agent, but a really great engineer in the future is going to be orchestrating a whole bunch of agents who are going to be orchestrating a whole bunch of sub aents to do work.”
Harness engineering alone can dramatically improve agent performance without changing the underlying model.
“we moved from 30th to 5th on Terminal Bench just by doing some harness engineering, without even changing the underlying model”
Y Combinator launched Paxel, a free tool that analyzes your AI coding sessions to profile how you build.
“For most of history, building software was a priesthood. AI just kicked the doors open.”
LangChain adds support to deploy Google ADK agents directly on LangSmith Deployment.
“You can now deploy a Google ADK agent straight to Langsmith Deployments.”
DeepMind researchers synthesize code world models that replicate games, then apply planners like MCTS instead of LLM policies.
“This code is not going to tell us how to play. It's going to tell us it's just going to replicate the game.”
Low-quality RL training environments and broken harnesses actively degrade models and ruin training runs.
“researchers don’t want your broken RL environments because they will make our models worse”
Hugging Face kicks off the 'Build Small' hackathon celebrating small, fine-tunable models over large API providers.
Google's Chrome DevTools team launched an MCP server letting AI agents debug and optimize web pages in any MCP-capable client.
“Chrome DevTools for humans is used by millions of web developers on a daily basis to debug web pages.”
Odessia uses LangSmith Engine to debug agent traces and democratize agent development across non-expert team members.
“There's this democratization where a lot more people on the team can now contribute.”
Developers share personal origin stories of how they first got into coding.
“I thought it was the coolest thing ever that like you could actually make something like move around and be almost alive in a way by just like numbers and like letters.”
Model routing is taking off, threatening OpenAI and Anthropic's premium-priced demand assumption.
“the era of picking one model is over”
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DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved 9 previously-unsolved Erdős problems using a novel ELO-ranked judge AI.
“Do not look at where we are. Look at where we will be two more papers down the line.”
Microsoft unveiled Horizon DB for Postgres and a Cosmos DB agent memory toolkit for building AI apps and agents.
“Memory is one of the most important things when building your AI agents.”
Steve Sanderson demos 'Vibe OS,' a fully AI-hallucinated operating system, as a comedy bit at Build.
“It's the world's first completely hallucinated operating system.”
Cassidy Williams built a browser SQL query tool where all querying runs in pure CSS, with no database or query engine.
“There is no database and there is no query engine. It's done with pure CSS.”
Simon Willison demos Datasette agent, an LLM-powered plugin for querying data, model-agnostic and offline-capable.
“the hello world of programming in 2026 is to build an agent”