Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/formal-verification Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50202217 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Attackers began targeting the critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities four days before patches were released, Amazon.com Inc. has disclosed, while exploit attempts seen by Cloudflare Inc. have since climbed into the millions. PHP’s...
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Hey HN, we recently open sourced our Consumer Agent Testing Tool to help teams iterate against proprietary assistants like Muse and Instinct. We built this to reduce our own frustrations with building an MCP/API for these agents...
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Warhound, the brain child of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
For as many sensors, cameras, and computers as there are on modern cars, they ought to be a dream to poke around in and customize to one’s liking. Unfortunately they’re generally plagued by the same locked-down, proprietary...
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Researchers have developed a new exploit that shows how even Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) on an x86-64 server cannot stop the PHP2Shell vulnerability. VulnCheck, which made it available to only the company’s Initial...
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Researchers have administered AI-designed, bacteria-targeting viruses to a person in what they claim is a first, but don’t press them for results: They’re not ready to say how it went quite yet.Radical Numerics, a San...
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Researchers affiliated with Binghamton University in New York have demonstrated the dangers of poisoned LLMs in physical AI by getting them to generate instructions for robots to cut a model hand or put a cat on a stove in a...
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Israeli security operations startup Mave Security Ltd. today revealed it has raised $34 million in new funding to accelerate its frontier artificial intelligence research. Mave offers an agentic platform that pulls an...
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.
Oct 22, 2026 | Google
Article URL: https://resources.arc.net/hc/en-us/articles/20498285812375-Release-Notes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200947 Points: 9 # Comments: 6