4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (370+ words) AWS is offering a year of free Kiro, 1,000 credits a month, to students at 132 universities in 18 countries. 132 universities across 18 countries now get a year of free AWS Kiro with 1,000 credits a month, no credit card required. AWS piloted the program…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (146+ words) YC Paper Club put harnesses center stage: Prime Agent, OpenJarvis and QM show how self-improving scaffolding beats fixed prompts. Prime Agent hit 95.5% on ARC-AGI using self-improving harnesses on Claude Opus, up from 30% on the private set without scaffolding. The demo…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (478+ words) Quinn Slack says AMP's 20-person team killed mandatory code review and now ships via remote Orbs, arguing local development and traditional CI are ending. Latent Space caught Quinn Slack AMP at the moment the team killed mandatory review before merging…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (22+ words) StartupHub.ai It provides an always-free playground to explore authored technical and construction questions and inspect intended response behavior....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (321+ words) Databricks’ Proteus hit 1.8, 5.2x on Qwen 3.5 122B kernels by specializing for runtime shapes, but only after fixing reward-hacking in validation. Databricks says its Proteus harness generated Qwen 3.5 122B kernels that ran 1.8 to 5.2 times faster than the best vLLM implementations. Profiles of the companies…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (419+ words) GPT-6 Astra solved DEF CON puzzles humans missed using 10 parallel sub-agents under one orchestrator, but only after official hints. Astra solved three DEF CON puzzles Ben Davis and his team could not, plus one no team in the world had…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (383+ words) Basis agents run 5+ hour accounting workflows 6x faster, but Cursor post shows vague context can silently alter behavior without changing the final output. Cursor Blog outlines how Basis AI accounting agents have slashed the time spent on Form 1065 partnership returns, dropping…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (217+ words) GitHub's HydraFusion orchestrates models via Single, Cascade and Critique workflows, hitting Opus 5 quality at lower cost. It launches as a research preview in Copilot CLI via /experimental, available across all Copilot plans and billed at each model's standard token rate....

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (326+ words) Snowflake pitches CoCo as a secure, reproducible AI coding agent for data engineers that keeps inference and data inside its perimeter. Snowflake CoCo AI coding agent is positioned as the way data engineers build reproducible pipelines without letting data leave…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (474+ words) 100 engineers raced AI agents to deliver pizza in 90 minutes. Two winners grounded them with Brave Search. The AI agent grounding layer got stress-tested over pizza. More than 700 engineers registered for Brave's write-up of AlphaSignal's Aug 6 hackathon in San Francisco, where…...