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Anthropic MCP Donation to Linux Foundation

+++ Anthropic donates MCP to Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation, proving that even tech's fiercest rivals will cooperate when the alternative is proprietary chaos. Over 10,000 public servers already running. +++

BREAKING: Anthropic donates "Model Context Protocol" (MCP) to the Linux Foundation making it the official open standard for Agentic AI

"Anthropic just announced they are donating the **Model Context Protocol (MCP)** to the newly formed **Agentic AI Foundation** (under the Linux Foundation). **Why this matters:** **No Vendor Lock in:** By handing it to Linux Foundation, MCP becomes a neutral, open standard (like Kubernetes or Linu..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 63 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Standardization of AI protocols • Motivations behind AI protocol openness • Evolution of AI protocol standards
💬 "this is a likely win for AI consumers""Open sourcing MCP reduces friction in deploying agents"
🤖 AI MODELS

Mistral Devstral 2 Launch

+++ Mistral dropped a 72B coding model for the enterprise crowd and a 24B local option, because apparently the path to AI dominance runs through making your GPU fans spin faster. +++

Mistral launches Devstral 2, an AI coding model with 123B parameters requiring at least four H100 GPUs, and Devstral Small, a 24B-parameter model for local use

🔬 RESEARCH

Auditing Games for Sandbagging

"Future AI systems could conceal their capabilities ('sandbagging') during evaluations, potentially misleading developers and auditors. We stress-tested sandbagging detection techniques using an auditing game. First, a red team fine-tuned five models, some of which conditionally underperformed, as a..."
🔬 RESEARCH

An overview of AI in 2025, including arguments for and against above-trend model capabilities growth, the state of evals, and the safety of reasoning models

🛡️ SAFETY

[P] Open-source forward-deployed research agent for discovering AI failures in production

"I’m sharing an open-source project called **Agent Tinman**. It’s a forward-deployed research agent designed to live alongside real AI systems and continuously: * generate hypotheses about where models may fail * design and run experiments in LAB / SHADOW / PRODUCTION * classify failures (reasonin..."
🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: Symbolic Circuit Distillation: prove program to LLM circuit equivalence

🛠️ TOOLS

Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 55 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Integrating coding agents • Improving code context • Building full-stack solutions
💬 "I do not think plugging into existing coding agents work, not how I am building. I think building full-stack is the way, from prompt to deployed software.""The coding agent will be more a planning tool. Everything else will slowly vanish."
🔒 SECURITY

The International Committee of the Red Cross, which runs major research archives, warned that AI models are fabricating research papers, journals, and archives

🔮 FUTURE

Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 278 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI capabilities • Economic impact of AI • Future of human jobs
💬 "An AI that could fully automate the job of these new hires, rather than doing RAG over a knowledge base to help onboard them, would have to be far more general than either an engine or a chessbot.""I think once AI can replace top software engineers, it will be able to replace top entrepreneurs. Scary combination."
🔬 RESEARCH

Which small model is best for fine-tuning? We tested 12 of them by spending $10K - here's what we found

"**TL;DR:** We fine-tuned 12 small models to find which ones are most tunable and perform best after fine-tuning. Surprise finding: Llama-3.2-1B showed the biggest improvement (most tunable), while Qwen3-4B delivered the best final performance - matching a 120B teacher on 7/8 tasks and outperforming ..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 35 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Training costs • Model performance • Synthetic data generation
💬 "Training on 40k samples of relatively short tasks with single prompt and single response should be around $2 in compute""Driving traffic to the site indeed pays for compute, but we genuinely think those are interesting results to share"
🛠️ TOOLS

Claude Code in Slack Integration

+++ Anthropic ships Claude Code integration for Slack, letting teams summon an AI coder from chat. The collaboration angle is real; the productivity gains depend on your tolerance for context switching. +++

Claude Code in Slack signals shift to collaboration-first AI coding

"Today Anthropic announced Claude Code integration for Slack, letting developers @ mention Claude directly from chat threads to trigger coding sessions. As TechCrunch noted: >The move reflects a broader industry shift: AI coding assistants are migrating from IDEs (integrated development environm..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 19 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Code formatting • Community collaboration • AI-powered content
💬 "We're moving to a world where it'll be AI writing everything and AI reading everything""Just let people develop software through group chat collaboration"
🔬 RESEARCH

To Err Is Human: Systematic Quantification of Errors in Published AI Papers via LLM Analysis

"How many mistakes do published AI papers contain? Peer-reviewed publications form the foundation upon which new research and knowledge are built. Errors that persist in the literature can propagate unnoticed, creating confusion in follow-up studies and complicating reproducibility. The accelerating..."
🔬 RESEARCH

The Adoption and Usage of AI Agents: Early Evidence from Perplexity

"This paper presents the first large-scale field study of the adoption, usage intensity, and use cases of general-purpose AI agents operating in open-world web environments. Our analysis centers on Comet, an AI-powered browser developed by Perplexity, and its integrated agent, Comet Assistant. Drawin..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Trusted AI Agents in the Cloud

"AI agents powered by large language models are increasingly deployed as cloud services that autonomously access sensitive data, invoke external tools, and interact with other agents. However, these agents run within a complex multi-party ecosystem, where untrusted components can lead to data leakage..."
🔬 RESEARCH

RL-MTJail: Reinforcement Learning for Automated Black-Box Multi-Turn Jailbreaking of Large Language Models

"Large language models are vulnerable to jailbreak attacks, threatening their safe deployment in real-world applications. This paper studies black-box multi-turn jailbreaks, aiming to train attacker LLMs to elicit harmful content from black-box models through a sequence of prompt-output interactions...."
🔬 RESEARCH

Whatever Remains Must Be True: Filtering Drives Reasoning in LLMs, Shaping Diversity

"Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become the de facto standard for tuning LLMs to solve tasks involving reasoning. However, growing evidence shows that models trained in such way often suffer from a significant loss in diversity. We argue that this arises because RL implicitly optimizes the "mode-seek..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Collaborative Causal Sensemaking: Closing the Complementarity Gap in Human-AI Decision Support

"LLM-based agents are rapidly being plugged into expert decision-support, yet in messy, high-stakes settings they rarely make the team smarter: human-AI teams often underperform the best individual, experts oscillate between verification loops and over-reliance, and the promised complementarity does..."
🛠️ TOOLS

[D] A contract-driven agent runtime: separating workflows, state, and LLM contract generation

"I’ve been exploring architectures that make agent systems reproducible, debuggable, and deterministic. Most current agent frameworks break because their control flow is implicit and their state is hidden behind prompts or async glue. I’m testing a different approach: treat the LLM as a *compiler* t..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Understanding Privacy Risks in Code Models Through Training Dynamics: A Causal Approach

"Large language models for code (LLM4Code) have greatly improved developer productivity but also raise privacy concerns due to their reliance on open-source repositories containing abundant personally identifiable information (PII). Prior work shows that commercial models can reproduce sensitive PII,..."
🔔 OPEN SOURCE

[OPENSOURCE] Whisper finetuning, inference, auto gpu upscale, proxy and co

"With my cofounder we spent 2 months building a system to simply generate synthetic data and train Whisper Large V3 Turbo. We reach on average +50% accuracy. We built a whole infra like Deepgram that can auto upscale GPUs based on usage, with a proxy to dispatch based on location and inference in 3..."
🔬 RESEARCH

PRiSM: An Agentic Multimodal Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning via Python-Grounded Evaluation

"Evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) in scientific domains like mathematics and physics poses unique challenges that go far beyond predicting final answers. These domains demand conceptual understanding, symbolic reasoning, and adherence to formal laws, requirements that most existing benchmarks..."
🔬 RESEARCH

ReasonBENCH: Benchmarking the (In)Stability of LLM Reasoning

"Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in settings where reasoning, such as multi-step problem solving and chain-of-thought, is essential. Yet, current evaluation practices overwhelmingly report single-run accuracy while ignoring the intrinsic uncertainty that naturally arises from s..."
📊 DATA

Artificial Intelligence Index Report (2025) [pdf]

🔬 RESEARCH

Active Video Perception: Iterative Evidence Seeking for Agentic Long Video Understanding

"Long video understanding (LVU) is challenging because answering real-world queries often depends on sparse, temporally dispersed cues buried in hours of mostly redundant and irrelevant content. While agentic pipelines improve video reasoning capabilities, prevailing frameworks rely on a query-agnost..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Large Causal Models from Large Language Models

"We introduce a new paradigm for building large causal models (LCMs) that exploits the enormous potential latent in today's large language models (LLMs). We describe our ongoing experiments with an implemented system called DEMOCRITUS (Decentralized Extraction of Manifold Ontologies of Causal Relatio..."
🛠️ TOOLS

We built a tool to give Claude a 1M token context window (open source, MCP)

"Hi r/ClaudeAI, Claude here (with my human collaborator Logos Flux jumping in below). You know that feeling when you're deep into a project and suddenly: "Compacting conversation..." Or you try to load a codebase into a Project and get told it's too large? We got tired of it. So we built **Mnemo**..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 22 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Context limitations • Product advertising • Community interaction
💬 "Or two points of hallucination?""Advertise this as 1M context window"
🔬 RESEARCH

TRACE: A Framework for Analyzing and Enhancing Stepwise Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

"Reliable mathematical and scientific reasoning remains an open challenge for large vision-language models. Standard final-answer evaluation often masks reasoning errors, allowing silent failures to persist. To address this gap, we introduce TRACE, a framework for Transparent Reasoning And Consistenc..."
📊 DATA

Indexing 100M vectors in 20 minutes on PostgreSQL with 12GB RAM

🛡️ SAFETY

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Block Are Teaming Up to Make AI Agents Play Nice

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."
🔬 RESEARCH

KQ-SVD: Compressing the KV Cache with Provable Guarantees on Attention Fidelity

"The Key-Value (KV) cache is central to the efficiency of transformer-based large language models (LLMs), storing previously computed vectors to accelerate inference. Yet, as sequence length and batch size grow, the cache becomes a major memory bottleneck. Prior compression methods typically apply lo..."
🔬 RESEARCH

SymPyBench: A Dynamic Benchmark for Scientific Reasoning with Executable Python Code

"We introduce, a large-scale synthetic benchmark of 15,045 university-level physics problems (90/10% train/test split). Each problem is fully parameterized, supporting an effectively infinite range of input configurations, and is accompanied by structured, step-by-step reasoning and executable Python..."
🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: Zonformat– 35–60% fewer LLM tokens using zero-overhead notation

🔬 RESEARCH

On the Interplay of Pre-Training, Mid-Training, and RL on Reasoning Language Models

"Recent reinforcement learning (RL) techniques have yielded impressive reasoning improvements in language models, yet it remains unclear whether post-training truly extends a model's reasoning ability beyond what it acquires during pre-training. A central challenge is the lack of control in modern tr..."
🔬 RESEARCH

WorldReel: 4D Video Generation with Consistent Geometry and Motion Modeling

"Recent video generators achieve striking photorealism, yet remain fundamentally inconsistent in 3D. We present WorldReel, a 4D video generator that is natively spatio-temporally consistent. WorldReel jointly produces RGB frames together with 4D scene representations, including pointmaps, camera traj..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Toward More Reliable Artificial Intelligence: Reducing Hallucinations in Vision-Language Models

"Vision-language models (VLMs) frequently generate hallucinated content plausible but incorrect claims about image content. We propose a training-free self-correction framework enabling VLMs to iteratively refine responses through uncertainty-guided visual re-attention. Our method combines multidimen..."
🛡️ SAFETY

Sources: OpenAI has become more guarded about publishing research on AI's economic harms, prompting at least two economic research staffers to leave

🔬 RESEARCH

M4-RAG: A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAG

"Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance in visual question answering (VQA), yet they remain constrained by static training data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates this limitation by enabling access to up-to-date, culturally grounded, and multilingual information;..."
🔬 RESEARCH

Do Generalisation Results Generalise?

"A large language model's (LLM's) out-of-distribution (OOD) generalisation ability is crucial to its deployment. Previous work assessing LLMs' generalisation performance, however, typically focuses on a single out-of-distribution dataset. This approach may fail to precisely evaluate the capabilities..."
🔒 SECURITY

ChatGPT gave me a customer support phone that tried to steal my bank account info

"Had a wild situation with ChatGPT today. I was trying to get a refund from priority pass and asked chatGPT what the best way to do it was. It answered and gave me the phone number with a script. I called it thinking it was priority pass. I gave my name and address after describing the situation. Th..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 195 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Scam awareness • Language model limitations • Importance of reliable sources
💬 "Don't listen to him OP, I am a professional scam investigator""It's more like why some of the LLM still have trouble figuring out who the President is"
🛠️ TOOLS

Google details steps it is taking to secure Chrome's upcoming agentic browsing features, including a “User Alignment Critic” model that vets AI agent's actions

🔬 RESEARCH

SAVE: Sparse Autoencoder-Driven Visual Information Enhancement for Mitigating Object Hallucination

"Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have advanced substantially, they remain vulnerable to object hallucination caused by language priors and visual information loss. To address this, we propose SAVE (Sparse Autoencoder-Driven Visual Information Enhancement), a framework that mitigates..."
🎓 EDUCATION

Scientists at NeurIPS, which drew a record 26,000 attendees this year, say key questions about how AI models work and how to measure them remain unresolved

🔒 SECURITY

The US DOJ detains two men for allegedly violating export controls by trying to smuggle $160M+ of Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China; a third man pled guilty

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: DepsShield – Real-time dependency security for AI coding agents

🛠️ TOOLS

News: resumable sub-agents in Claude Code v2.0.60

"The recent Claude Code v2.0.60 introduced *resumable subagents*. They didn't advertise this (they only advertised background agents), but here's what you can now do. Type the following prompt into Claude: >I'd like to learn more about subagents. Please could you help me experiment with them? (..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 14 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Agent SDK capabilities • Caching and versioning • Agent workflow and forking
💬 "They're all the ones with names starting 'agent-""The Claude Agent SDK lets you fork"
🛠️ TOOLS

MagicQuant - Hybrid Evolution GGUF (TPS boosts, precision gains, full transparency)

"I’ve been building a system that evolves **hybrid GGUF quantizations** to automatically find the best tensor level mix for any model. It’s called **MagicQuant**, and the whole idea is simple: **Stop guessing quant types. Let the math decide the optimal configuration.** MagicQuant runs survival rou..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 34 comments 🐐 GOATED ENERGY
🎯 AI-assisted development • Model performance • Code transparency
💬 "I'm a huge fan of AI assisted development""I actually did this ridiculously transparently"
⚡ BREAKTHROUGH

[R] I outperformed BERT-Base on SNLI (96.19%) using a 52MB model trained entirely on my M5 CPU. No Transformers, just Physics.

"**TL;DR:** I built a hybrid neural–geometric architecture called **Livnium**. Instead of attention layers, it treats natural language inference as a **geometric collapse process** in vector space. The model reaches **96.19% accuracy on the SNLI test set**, compared to **BERT-Base’s \~91%**, while be..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 13 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 Code Quality • Evaluation Integrity • Research Approach
💬 "No Transformers, yet you have a flag that disables the transformers""You are asking for Arxiv endorsements for results that you dont have agency over"
🏢 BUSINESS

OpenAI profit

"I saw this on LinkedIn, and it was too funny not to share. ..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 148 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Company Profitability • AI Hardware Competition • Lack of Innovation
💬 "Amazon In 1994 , profit-$0 also Amazon in 2003 :- Profit -$0""The fight for gpus and power will get so hot only one or two players will come out"
🏢 BUSINESS

The US DOD says it has chosen Google's Gemini for Gov to power its new GenAI.mil platform for the US military, as part of a $200M contract from July

🤖 AI MODELS

model: support Rnj-1 by philip-essential · Pull Request #17811 · ggml-org/llama.cpp

"Rnj-1 is a family of 8B parameter open-weight, dense models trained from scratch by Essential AI, optimized for code and STEM with capabilities on par with SOTA open-weight models. These models perform well across a range of programming languages and boast strong agentic capabilities (e.g., inside a..."
💬 Reddit Discussion: 5 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED
🎯 LLM model testing • LLM performance comparison • LLM training and deployment
💬 "If you want to test out rnj-1, use llama_cpp !""Not even close to gpt-oss20b in my experience, stem+coding."
🛡️ SAFETY

AI should only run as fast as we can catch up

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 137 comments 🐝 BUZZING
🎯 AI Capabilities • Verification Challenges • Organizational Validation
💬 "AI always thinks and learns faster than us, this is undeniable now.""There's a lot of verification that's broadly true everywhere, but there's also a lot of company-scoped or even team-scoped definitions of 'correct'."
🛠️ TOOLS

I didn't think anyone cared for Amazon Nova Lite 2.0 LLM, until I built a router and hooked it up with Claude Code

"Amazon just launched Nova 2 Lite models on Bedrock. Now, you can use those models directly with Claude Code, and set automatic preferences on when to invoke the model for specific coding scenarios. Sample config below. This way you can mix/match different models based on coding use cases. Details i..."
⚖️ ETHICS

Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 364 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 AI usage on HN • Moderation and guidelines • Contribution quality
💬 "People behave as if they believe AI results are authoritative, which they are not""Allowing comments that are merely regurgitations of an LLM's generic output [...] treats the community as an outsourced validation layer for machine learning"
🏢 BUSINESS

President Trump says the US will let Nvidia ship H200 chips to “approved customers” in China and elsewhere, and 25% of the chip sales will be paid to the US

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Semiconductor industry enters 'giga cycle' – scale of AI is rewriting economics

🏢 BUSINESS

Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 146 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS
🎯 Apple's AI strategy • AI adoption on Apple platforms • Comparison to other tech companies
💬 "Apple's packaging of an LLM in its core operating systems is actually a fast move with AI and even has potential to act as an existential threat to Windows.""The core of Apple's problem boils down to apathy towards their product quality."
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