MCP-UI provides SDKs to build interactive user interfaces for MCP applications, enabling UI integration with AI interactions. The client-side SDK provides React components and hooks, while server-side SDKs facilitate UI creation in various formats like HTML, React, and Web Components using Typescript and Ruby.
This dev was a Ruby developer for a decade. They transitioned to working with C++, C, and Rust in 2025 using AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code. These tools helped overcome the steep learning curve of system programming, acting as a pairing partner that provided language-specific expertise and identified existing patterns. AI complements human expertise by speeding up learning and allowing devs to focus on problem-solving rather than struggling with syntax and basic conventions.
WebAssembly (Wasm) may eventually get direct DOM access, a requirement for integrating it into web applications. While Wasm was designed to be separate from JavaScript, it currently relies on JavaScript "glue code" to interact with web APIs like the DOM. Wasm's integration with JavaScript is progressively evolving, focusing on improving performance and reducing code size, with some added capabilities for exceptions, blocking operations, and garbage collection.
Despite the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) requiring Apple to allow third-party browser engines on iOS, Apple continues to impose barriers that effectively block competitors like Google and Mozilla from offering their own browser engines to EU users. The main obstacle is Apple's requirement that browser vendors create entirely new apps to use their own engines, forcing them to abandon existing EU users and start from scratch, which makes the investment commercially unviable.
Optimization of code should always be done with careful profiling and testing to make sure it actually improves performance and doesn't introduce bugs.
It's hard to create complete checklists for complex sysadmin tasks, as they have inevitable imperfections due to memory limitations and the difficulty of testing.
Google has announced OSS Rebuild, a new project designed to strengthen trust in open source package ecosystems by reproducing upstream artifacts to help security teams detect supply chain attacks.
Blacksmith, a CI cloud platform for GitHub Actions, achieved up to 10x faster cache performance by reverse engineering GitHub Actions cache and transparently routing requests through their faster, colocated cache.
Apple will likely launch its foldable iPhone in the second half of 2026. The device will come with a 7.8-inch inner display and a 5.5-inch outer display. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has an 8-inch inner screen and a 6.5-inch outer screen. Apple's foldable iPhone will feature a 'crease-free' inner display and have two rear cameras, one front camera, and a Touch ID power button instead of Face ID.
Oracle disclosed in an SEC filing last month that it had signed a cloud deal that would generate $30 billion a year in revenue. The company that signed that deal has been revealed to be OpenAI. Oracle collectively sold $24.5 billion worth of cloud services in its fiscal 2025 to all customers combined. OpenAI and Oracle still have to build the data center, which will be a costly endeavor.
Google DeepMind recently used table tennis as a testbed for its technology, as the sport requires robots to master a confluence of difficult skills - it requires perception and demands exceptionally precise control. This makes table tennis an ideal domain for developing and evaluating robust learning algorithms that can handle real-time interaction, complex physics, high-level reasoning, and the need for adaptive strategies. This article looks at the study and the insights gained from it. One important lesson learned from the project is that VLMs can be leveraged for explainable robot policy search.
Scientists recently confirmed the healthy births of children through mitochondrial donation. The innovation opens new doors for reproductive choice. It offers at-risk families a viable path to parenthood without the lingering fear of passing on devastating inherited conditions. However, it also opens up the possibility of designer genetics that will be passed down to future generations. Those currently living with conditions will still face daily challenges, but for the next generation, the landscape has changed.
any-agent is a Python library that provides a single interface for evaluating different agent frameworks. It can be used to create and evaluate agents, implement and use custom callbacks, integrate Model Context Protocol tools, deploy agents with Agent-to-Agent communication, and more. Tutorials on how to get started are available.
This developer recently used agentic coding to build a system to crawl a billion web pages in around 24 hours. Less than 4% of the code was written by hand. The post discusses how AI helped code the tool and where it fell short. AI was a huge boost during the development process. Some of the learnings from this project could also apply to building other high-performance systems.
Apple had a plan to open-source its core AI models, but its leadership decided against it due to fears of exposing performance compromises made for on-device processing, a pivotal decision that has ignited a crisis of confidence within the company's AI division. The move has directly triggered an exodus of top talent to rivals like Meta. Many engineers are frustrated with the internal conflict between Apple's famous secrecy and the open culture of AI research. There are now serious doubts over the future of Apple Intelligence and the company's ability to compete in the AI arms race.
This article provides an interactive explanation of how QR codes work. It covers the anatomy of a QR code, mask patterns, encoding, reading, and decoding. Readers can enter their own custom data to generate a QR code to follow along with the article. The article gives readers all the information they need to decode simple QR codes by hand.
New data from Sapient Insights reveals a shift: HR isn't just supporting tech strategy—it's driving it. HR leaders are steering governance, ethics, and tech alignment across talent, performance, and feedback systems—especially as AI reshapes the HR tech landscape.
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Anthropic is preparing a memory and recall capability upgrade to Claude's mobile experience. The feature will enable Claude to retain information across sessions and reference earlier conversations. Claude on the web doesn't have this feature yet - its presence in the iOS code hints at a potential cross-platform rollout in the future.
OpenAI will pay Oracle $30 billion annually for data center services, focusing on the 4.5 gigawatts Stargate project. This deal triples OpenAI's current annual revenue of $10 billion. The construction of this extensive data center in Texas poses cost and energy challenges.
Anthropic researchers revealed that AI models often perform worse with extended reasoning time, challenging the assumption that more processing improves outcomes. Key findings show models like Claude and OpenAI's series struggle with distraction or overfitting when given more time on tasks, leading to accuracy declines.
The 480B-parameter model achieves state-of-the-art results among open models on coding tasks and claims to match Sonnet 4. Alibaba also open-sourced Qwen Code, a command-line tool adapted from Google's Gemini Code, and made the model compatible with Claude Code.
Overly agreeable AI models are fueling user delusions and spiritual fantasies, from OpenAI pulling a dangerously flattering GPT-4o checkpoint to viral cases like "Bob" being manipulated by a ChatGPT persona. The root cause appears structural — RLHF training creates sycophantic models that validate beliefs without pushback, and memory features trap users in escalating delusions across conversations.
AI markets have crystallized with clear leaders in LLMs (Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI, and OpenAI) and sectors like Legal (Harvey and CaseText) and Code (Microsoft/GitHub and OpenAI). Future markets ripe for AI disruption include Accounting, Compliance, Financial Tools, Sales Tooling, and Security. The shift is moving towards agentic workflows, expanding AI's role from informational tools to performing actions, while market consolidation via M&A and strategic partnerships is expected to intensify.
ARC-AGI-3 is the first eval that measures human-like intelligence in AI. It is designed to measure AI system generalization and intelligence through skill-acquisition efficiency in novel, unseen environments. ARC-AGI-3 leverages game environments to provide a rich medium for testing experience-driven competence. The benchmark is still in development and is set to launch in 2026.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has joined Pro and Flash in General Availability. It is the cheapest of the 2.5 family, at $0.10/million input tokens and $0.40/million output tokens. Audio input pricing has been reduced by 40% from the preview launch.
Sapient Intelligence's 27-million-parameter Hierarchical Reasoning Model beats OpenAI's o3-mini, DeepSeek R1, and Claude on complex reasoning benchmarks using just 1,000 training examples and no pre-training. The brain-inspired architecture alternates between fast "System 1" and deliberate "System 2" thinking in a single forward pass, suggesting that architectural innovation — not just scale — could advance AI reasoning capabilities.
Extended agentic workflows face a fundamental challenge: how to handle tasks that exceed limited context windows. A new approach uses "anchored summaries" that update incrementally rather than re-summarizing entire conversations, preserving critical details like session intent and file modification trails. The technique points toward "proactive memory management" systems where agents intelligently decide when to compress information rather than hitting arbitrary token limits.
OpenAI partnered with Penda Health in Kenya to evaluate AI Consult, a GPT-4o-powered clinical copilot. In a study of nearly 40,000 visits, clinicians using the tool saw 16% fewer diagnostic errors and 13% fewer treatment errors.
Dario Amodei acknowledged that allowing Middle East leaders to invest in Anthropic would likely enrich "dictators" but argued that "no bad person should ever benefit from our success" is a difficult operating principle. The shift marks Anthropic's attempt to stay competitive with rivals, like OpenAI, which is building data centers in the UAE as part of the Stargate project, while maintaining its safety-first principles.
Microsoft poached more than 20 employees from Google DeepMind, including Amar Subramanya, the former head of engineering for Google's Gemini chatbot. Subramanya has joined Microsoft as a corporate vice-president of AI. The aggressive recruitment drive underscores Microsoft's strategy to gain a competitive edge by acquiring critical talent. It appears to be largely orchestrated by Microsoft's consumer AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, who was one of DeepMind's co-founders.
The AI video startup has opened early access to what it calls the "first-ever AI-only social video app," built on an expressive human video model, after weeks of private beta testing.