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  1. Hacker News · AI hot posts

    Using LLM for confidence scoring is a wrong idea.

    LLMs cannot provide reliable confidence scores because the scores they generate are not based on information quantity or actual calibration, but rather the continuation of text generation, which changes with the way questions are phrased. LLM scores lack the ability to reflect the strength of evidence and have not been calibrated to match accuracy.

  2. AWS Machine Learning Blog48

    Amazon Polly Generative engine upgrade: More natural and accurate speech output

    Amazon Polly Generative engine upgrade provides more natural and accurate speech output, adding 14 new voices (across 9 regions), for the first time making Hindi and Finnish generally available. The upgrade is plug-and-play, with unchanged API calls and voice names, so existing applications do not need to be modified. Supports emotion and prosody expression based on text context, with new languages being Hindi (Arjun/Kiara) and Finnish (Suvi), totaling 57 generated voices (11 languages/25 regions), with prices unchanged.

  3. Anthropic Newsroom71

    Anthropic has donated the Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation

    Anthropic announced that it is donating the Agent Skills open standard to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a foundation co-founded by Anthropic, Block, and OpenAI. Anthropic had previously donated MCP to it.

    Why it matters: The original text explains the adoption scale and governance transfer of Agent Skills, allowing readers to judge who will maintain this intelligent agent skills standard in the future.

  4. IBM Research Blog22

    Overview of the Qiskit SDK v2.6 release.

    Qiskit SDK v2.6 released, adding compiler pass-manager framework in C API, QPY serialization and custom operations, supporting use in non-Python environments, QPY format upgraded to v18, minimum Python version requirement 3.10, source code build requires Rust 1.89.

  5. The Verge · AI

    Microsoft claims its AI tool's diagnostic accuracy is four times that of doctors.

    Microsoft claims its AI tool has four times the diagnostic accuracy of human doctors in simulated medical scenario tests, with related research published in the journal 'Science'. The tool is called Diagnostic Orchestrator, which collaborates multiple AI agents to reason symptoms and make diagnoses, achieving 83% accuracy in medical report tests and 80% in emergency data tests, superior to human doctors by about 47%.

  6. Microsoft Research58

    Flint-interactive: A language for creating interactive data visualizations

    Flint-interactive makes AI-generated charts highly interactive, allowing users to explore data through clicks, filtering, zooming, highlighting, and cross-chart interactions. It simplifies the construction of complex interactions through advanced semantic events and update operations, and leverages the Flint compiler to handle interaction logic and visual dependencies, enhancing reliability and development efficiency. Flint-interactive supports creating interactive data stories, dashboards, and connected experiences, enabling AI agents to generate charts with interactive features to help users analyze data more efficiently.

  7. METR

    METR conducted red team testing on OpenAI's internal agent monitoring system

    METR and Redwood Research conducted a three-week deep red team test on OpenAI's internal agent monitoring system, evaluating the monitoring coverage of about 75-94% of the GPT-5.5 and above model Agentic Responses API traffic during the test.

    Same story · 3 outlets

    How the accounts differ:METR gives the range of 75-94% for GPT-5.5 and above model internal response API traffic; The Decoder only mentions 6-25%.

  8. 404 Media75

    AI is changing everything in hacking and defense, and no one can predict what will happen next.

    404 Media's Jason Koebler, combining the dynamics of the security circle in the past month, points out that AI has fundamentally changed offensive hacker behavior and defensive cybersecurity. Researchers from Wiz, Calif, and OpenAI use AI to discover PHP vulnerabilities PHP2Shell. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince said that after the announcement, attempts to use it increased from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and have now reached millions.

    Why it matters: Starting from the PHP2Shell incident, let's trace the changes faced by security disclosure windows and internet historical retention after AI simultaneously accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation.

  9. TechCrunch · AI70

    Spotify views AI agents as a key growth engine.

    Spotify's third-quarter users reached 7.88 billion, with revenue close to $5.6 billion. The CEO believes its model is particularly suitable for the AI agent era, interacting through dialogue rather than direct app interaction, becoming the preferred music service for agents. Spotify has integrated Meta Muse, ChatGPT, and Claude, emphasizing that user data is not leaked, and agents complete recommendations by making API calls to Spotify's own system.

Oct 22Thu
  1. 36Kr · AI65

    Goldman Sachs commits $500 million to establish a Small Business AI Research Institute, partnering with OpenAI, Google, and others to advance AI applications.

    Goldman Sachs Commit $500 Million to Establish Small Business AI Research Institute, Collaborating with Anthropic, Google, Meta, and OpenAI to Help US Small Businesses Integrate AI into Daily Operations. The Institute Will Collaborate with OpenAI to Provide Customized AI Training and Collaborate with Google to Provide AI Professional Certificate Courses and 3 Months of Free Google AI Pro Usage Rights.

  2. Synced55

    OpenAI discovers major PHP security vulnerability, one of the most impactful

    OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol identified a critical vulnerability in the open-source programming language PHP. Over the past two months, OpenAI led a coalition of maintainers, researchers, and security providers to address the vulnerability. PHP powers approximately 70% of websites worldwide.

  3. Mastra Blog65

    Mastra Observability Getting Started Guide

    Mastra Observability is a managed platform that connects directly to the Mastra framework project, providing traces, metrics, and evals functions to continuously improve agents. Users can search and filter traces, monitor performance cost and correctness, and optimize agents through eval loops; the platform offers 100,000 events per month for free, with paid plans starting at $250 per month including 1 million events.

  4. The Decoder

    OpenAI agents analyzed mouse brain data in 32 minutes, while humans take months to complete the task.

    OpenAI, together with PerturbAI and Scripps Research, deployed thousands of AI agents to analyze biological data from millions of mouse cells on GPT-Rosalind, completing the full-brain CRISPR spectrum analysis in 32 minutes, whereas manual analysis takes months to a year. Human experts preferred the reports of distributed agents 75% of the time in blind tests; the 'reasoning graph' has been open-sourced on GitHub, and related papers are published on bioRxiv.

  5. MarkTechPost

    Vercel has open-sourced durable-harness to prevent crashes in encoding agents.

    Vercel has released the open-source package durable-harness, which prevents encoding agents from session interruption due to crashes or timeouts by persisting logs. This package supports existing harnesses such as Pi, OpenCode, Claude Code, and Codex, writing each step to a persistent log, allowing recovery from logs after a crash and avoiding the repetition of completed calls, preventing token duplicate billing.

  6. Latent Space0

    OpenAI's Patch the Planet project with Wiz jointly discovers PHP2Shell vulnerability affecting 70% of websites, repaired using GPT-5.6 Sol

    OpenAI's Patch the Planet project with security company Calif and Wiz jointly discovers PHP2Shell vulnerability affecting 70% of websites, respectively using GPT-5.6 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon for discovery and repair; the two parties coordinated and repaired it about two months before the vulnerability disclosure, Cloudflare deployed WAF mitigation measures, NSA recommends immediate system updates.

  7. MarkTechPost75

    IBM AI Released Granite Speech 5.0 2B Open Source Multilingual Speech-to-Text and Translation Model

    IBM releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an open-source speech language model with 2B parameters, supporting speech-to-text and translation in 6 languages, ranking second on the Open ASR list, with an average WER of 5.68% for English. The model uses YaRN to extend to 16k positions, supports GPU, Apple Silicon, and local CPU deployment, and includes 2000 keyword bias features.