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Slash Stack — October 15, 2026
A ranked daily snapshot of AI, software, systems, infrastructure, agents, blockchain, research, and tools from Discover.
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ClawLoop: Self-Improving Agents via Harness-Native Training Loop
arXiv cs.AI
arXiv:2610.14118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has driven their deployment toward general-purpose harness environments, where LLM-based agents operate in sandbox workspaces and interact directly with file systems and shells. While numerous post-training pipelines exist for tool-use agents, their counterparts for harness-based agents remain scarce and are predominantly one-shot and teacher-dependent: a stronger external model synthesizes tasks and collects trajectories, the target agent is trained once, and evaluation results are consumed by human researchers rather than fed back into the…
What matters today
Gudea leverages AI to help organizations prevent social media crises before they erupt
TechCrunch AI
Every day, conversations unfold across social media and websites around the world. A seemingly insignificant post—whether it involves AI-generated misinformation, hate speech, or a damaging rumor—can quickly snowball into a much larger public controversy. Gudea, a company that tracks how stories and rumors spread online that describes itself as the “storm tracker for the internet,” […]
Ricursive Intelligence is betting on AI-designed chips to help solve the compute crisis
TechCrunch AI
The founders detailed how their startup is developing AI that can design chips, learn from each iteration, and improve subsequent designs, all with the goal of automating and accelerating the chip design process.
HydraFusion updates and new Max option
GitHub Changelog
HydraFusion has an updated model pool, improved orchestration workflows, and introduces HydraFusion Max. Both HydraFusion and HydraFusion Max are available across VS Code, the GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot… The post HydraFusion updates and new Max option appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
AI was great until it was not
Hacker News · 84 pts · 58 comments
Amp puts AI agents to work beyond code with OpenAI models
OpenAI
See how Amp pushes the frontier of what agents can do with GPT-6 Astra, Ultrafast, GPT-Live-1, and Sign in with ChatGPT.
Tools & releases
Show HN: T0: We trained a 256M SOTA open-weights time-series forecasting model
Show HN · 14 pts · 0 comments
Hi everyone, we are excited to share t0-gamma, the latest model in our t0 family. It is a 256M parameter open-weights foundation model for time series (TSFM). It runs on CPU, GPU or Apple chips. https://huggingface.co/theforecastingcompany/t0-gamma t0 leverages historical data to forecast the likely outcomes over a given horizon. It does so zero-shot. It works on almost any time series, as it can pick up small signals like trends and seasonality. It can also leverage future-known information, like holidays, promotions and weather forecasts. Under the hood, t0 is a transformer that alternates attention between time and across the variates of a…
Show HN: Dub Anything – Dub videos in each actor’s own voice
Show HN · 6 pts · 3 comments
There are many movies and shows out there with neither subtitles or dubs in English (or any other language). Pretty much impossible to watch. With SOTA AI now directing the process, you can do it locally on your machine. You basically just clone the repo, open up Codex or Claude and tell it to dub the video you want in the language you want. The repo contains all the scripts and guidance I’ve developed over the past few weeks to create dubs that are watchable, as an added bonus the voices in the dub are the actors own voices which is really nice. Also it’s self improving, each dub may modify the scripts for better fidelity. So feel free to…
Research worth reading
Echo: Error-Compensated 4-Bit Tensor-Parallel Communication for LLM Training and Inference
arXiv cs.AI
arXiv:2610.14277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tensor parallelism ends every layer with an all-reduce that sits between two dependent matrix multiplications, so its cost cannot be hidden and grows as compute outpaces interconnect bandwidth. Sending 4-bit instead of 16-bit values would cut this cost by nearly 4x, but the all-reduce must add the values it carries, and rounding the sum injects an error at every call. Model quality depends on how these errors accumulate over layers, yet existing methods treat each call on its own. We present Echo, a 4-bit all-reduce for training and inference that controls the accumulated error. Echo moves data…
Actionable Meta-Requirements for AI Robustness Auditing
arXiv cs.AI
arXiv:2610.14356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI-enabled systems must remain dependable when the conditions under which they operate change (e.g., due to input perturbations, distribution shifts, or changes in external dependencies). This makes robustness auditing of such systems important for judging whether the available evidence is sufficient to support a defined robustness conclusion. However, designing an AI robustness auditing framework is challenging. A key unresolved issue is determining the requirements such a framework should support; these requirements have not yet been consolidated. We address this gap through meta-requirements:…
Research@ 2026: 10 ways we’re amplifying human ingenuity
Google Research
General Science
Putting Earth AI to work: Geospatial agents for our planet’s biggest challenges
Google Research
Earth AI
Articles
How Tamnoon built AI-powered cloud security remediation with Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning
Learn how Tamnoon built Tami, an agentic cloud remediation orchestrator on Amazon Bedrock that autonomously investigates and safely remediates cloud security findings from CNAPP and cloud-native sources. The approach drove a 90%+ reduction in critical cloud exposure in 90 days with zero production issues.
Generate presentations with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
AWS Machine Learning
This post walks you through building an AI agent system with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that automates PowerPoint presentation creation from enterprise documents. A supervisor agent, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails generate grounded presentations in under 90 seconds.
From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers
GitHub Engineering
Our new repo star history API now provides trends without returning individual identities or requiring unbounded database work. These are the engineering tradeoffs we made. The post From 2,500 requests to 24: Rebuilding star history without the stargazers appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Hacker News signal
Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
Hacker News · 911 pts · 549 comments
Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote
Hacker News · 369 pts · 259 comments
Why do LLM pelicans look like this?
Hacker News · 162 pts · 138 comments
TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material
Hacker News · 147 pts · 83 comments
Has AI tells
Hacker News · 123 pts · 105 comments
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