Meet ‘AutoAgent’: The Open-Source Library That Lets an AI Engineer and Optimize Its Own Agent Harness Overnight
There’s a particular kind of tedium that every AI engineer knows intimately: the prompt-tuning loop. You write a system prompt, run your agent against a benchmark, read the failure traces, tweak the prompt, add a tool, rerun. Repeat this a few dozen times and you might move the needle. It’s grunt wo...
Inside the Creative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Stack: Where Human Vision and Artificial Intelligence Meet to Design Future Fashion
Fashion has always been about anticipation, determining what one would prefer to wear before they know it themselves. It’s meant in terms of intuition, presentation, experience, and the “good eye”. Today, it can be conveyed through algorithms, neural networks, and machine learning. Artificial Intell...
AI Weekly Issue #479: 100 years from now : what happens when every living thing carries an AI inside it
This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip ahead a century and imagine ordinary life in a world that's had a hundred years to absorb the things we're only beginning to build. No predictions — just honest speculation about where our choices lead.
This week: what happens when ev...
Netflix AI Team Just Open-Sourced VOID: an AI Model That Erases Objects From Videos — Physics and All
Video editing has always had a dirty secret: removing an object from footage is easy; making the scene look like it was never there is brutally hard. Take out a person holding a guitar, and you’re left with a floating instrument that defies gravity. Hollywood VFX teams spend weeks fixing exactly thi...
Google DeepMind’s Research Lets an LLM Rewrite Its Own Game Theory Algorithms — And It Outperformed the Experts
Designing algorithms for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) in imperfect-information games — scenarios where players act sequentially and cannot see each other’s private information, like poker — has historically relied on manual iteration. Researchers identify weighting schemes, discounting ...
Dean Price, assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, sees a bright future for nuclear power, and believes AI can help us realize that vision.
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
The following article originally appeared on Drew Breunig’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In 1998, Eric S. Raymond published the founding text of open source software development, The Cathedral and the Bazaar. In it, he detailed two methods of building software: Th...
TII Releases Falcon Perception: A 0.6B-Parameter Early-Fusion Transformer for Open-Vocabulary Grounding and Segmentation from Natural Language Prompts
In the current landscape of computer vision, the standard operating procedure involves a modular ‘Lego-brick’ approach: a pre-trained vision encoder for feature extraction paired with a separate decoder for task prediction. While effective, this architectural separation complicates scaling and bottl...
AI Weekly Issue #478: The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else
An AI agent went rogue at Meta and triggered a Sev 1. Anthropic shipped its own source code to npm by accident — then accidentally DMCA'd 8,100 GitHub repos trying to clean up. A Chinese state group weaponized Claude Code to run an espionage campaign with 90% autonomy. And a Nature Communications pa...
Arcee AI Releases Trinity Large Thinking: An Apache 2.0 Open Reasoning Model for Long-Horizon Agents and Tool Use
The landscape of open-source artificial intelligence has shifted from purely generative models toward systems capable of complex, multi-step reasoning. While proprietary ‘reasoning’ models have dominated the conversation, Arcee AI has released Trinity Large Thinking. This release is an open-weight r...
Defeating the ‘Token Tax’: How Google Gemma 4, NVIDIA, and OpenClaw are Revolutionizing Local Agentic AI: From RTX Desktops to DGX Spark
Run Google’s latest omni-capable open models faster on NVIDIA RTX AI PCs, from NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, GeForce RTX desktops to the new DGX Spark, to build personalized, always-on AI assistants like OpenClaw without paying a massive “token tax” for every action. The landscape of modern AI is shiftin...
This is the third article in a series on agentic engineering and AI-driven development. Read part one here, part two here, and look for the next article on April 15 on O’Reilly Radar. The toolkit pattern is a way of documenting your project’s configuration so that any AI can generate working inputs ...
OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.
IBM Releases Granite 4.0 3B Vision: A New Vision Language Model for Enterprise Grade Document Data Extraction
IBM has announced the release of Granite 4.0 3B Vision, a vision-language model (VLM) engineered specifically for enterprise-grade document data extraction. Departing from the monolithic approach of larger multimodal models, the 4.0 Vision release is architected as a specialized adapter designed to ...
MIT researchers developed a testing framework that pinpoints situations where AI decision-support systems are not treating people and communities fairly.
Z.ai Launches GLM-5V-Turbo: A Native Multimodal Vision Coding Model Optimized for OpenClaw and High-Capacity Agentic Engineering Workflows Everywhere
In the field of vision-language models (VLMs), the ability to bridge the gap between visual perception and logical code execution has traditionally faced a performance trade-off. Many models excel at describing an image but struggle to translate that visual information into the rigorous syntax requi...