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Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices
Google has begun rolling out early access to its Model Context Protocol server for the Google Home ecosystem, giving third-party AI agents direct access to smart home devices and their event histories. The integration means any MC...
Show HN: Ivx/AI Chat, AI client that doesn't track you (with a better GUI imo)
A new open source chat client called ivx/ai takes a minimalist approach to AI interaction: no accounts, no backend, no telemetry, and no data leaving your browser. The application connects directly to whatever model endpoint you c...
Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home
Google is opening its smart home platform to third-party AI agents through Model Context Protocol integration, allowing tools like Claude and other MCP-compatible agents to access device data, control connected hardware, and reaso...
Inference Is the Last LLM Moat
The conventional wisdom about AI companies' competitive advantages focuses on model quality, training data, and research talent. A growing argument suggests the real differentiator is far more mundane: the infrastructure that runs...
Anthropic CEO renews call for AI slowdown as Nvidia's urges acceleration
The tension between building AI fast and building it safely played out on stage at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week, where two of the industry's most prominent CEOs offered starkly different prescripti...
The Bad Guy with an AI Named Claude
Anthropic published a detailed report this week cataloging misuse attempts against its Claude model spanning eight months, from December 2025 through August 2026. The report covers seven categories of harm, from cyber espionage to...
Show HN: SeaSearch – Lightweight, S3-backed multi-tenant search engine
The search infrastructure most teams run today is Elasticsearch, and for good reason. It handles full-text search at scale, has a mature ecosystem, and its API has become the de facto standard. But Elasticsearch carries architectu...
Divide, Consult, Conquer: Capability Laundering Through Aligned LLMs
A new research paper submitted to arXiv this week describes an attack method that undermines the core assumption behind large language model safety: that refusing harmful requests prevents harm. The technique, which the authors ca...
Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness
When AI Agents Talk to Each Other, They Need More Than a Protocol Imagine two AI agents, each working on behalf of a different person, trying to schedule a meeting. One has access to its principal's calendar. The other has access...
When Should LLMs Abstain? Chain-of-Self-Questioning for Selective Risk Control
LLMs Should Know When to Say "I Don't Know" Language models are fluent by default. Ask them a question they cannot answer, and they will produce something that sounds right, reads well, and might be completely wrong. In healthcare...