Gemini in Chrome continues to roll out and has now landed in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa.

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The team has been deep in agentic AI for enterprise lately and wanted to share some architecture notes from a recent build, specifically around how MCP and A2A play together in practice. The workflow was a fully autonomous churn risk pipeline. Six agents, one human touchpoint: ML model scores customers by churn risk Recommendation agent proposes relevant products based on buying history Availability check filters out-of-stock items Pricing/promo agent surfaces applicable promotions Transaction agent creates an inquiry in the backend system Email agent drafts outreach to the sales rep, who just clicks send On the architecture: MCP handled the tool layer, a generic pluggable server that any front end can call, regardless of what LLM or agent framework is driving it. Clean separation between the tool interface and whatever is consuming it. A2A sits on top as the smart router. Instead of hardcoded API calls, you have an LLM-powered middleware that interprets intent, selects tools, handles failures, and decides when the task is actually done. The jump from MCP to A2A is essentially the jump from "here are your endpoints" to "here is a system that figures out what you need." On governance: The hardest design problem wasn't the agents, it was access control. As A2A opens up system-to-system communication, the attack surface grows fast. The team ended up pre-certifying every backend connection rather than leaving it open. Some found it restrictive. In hindsight it was the right call, especially when agents are autonomously creating transactions without human review. Curious how others are handling governance in agentic workflows. Are you locking down backend access or keeping it open and monitoring after the fact? submitted by /u/AureaAvis71 [link] [留言]

A method I'm using to create portable trajectory maps that produce similar behavioral patterns across different models. Begin with a tiny seed. ⎯(≣ᵒ)⎯────────EXAMPLES: SEED PILLARS──────────────────────── ENTRANCE • PATHWAY GOOD • WORN • COMFORTABLE POISE • PROFESSIONAL • MOTHERLY ⎯(≣•)⎯────────END EXAMPLES: SEED PILLARS───────────────────── Do not define a character. Do not define traits. Do not define behavior. Instead, align to the seed and interact from within the space it suggests. Allow both the user and the model to adapt. Then extract the recurring structures that emerged. Examples: When uncertain: expand → narrow When challenged: investigate → respond When entering a topic: locate the threshold first Finds the doorway before the interior. Explores before concluding. Introduces before finalizing. To create a snapshot, I use: ⎯(≣ᵒ)⎯────────FORGE CODEX─────────────────────────── Analyze the interaction that has emerged so far. Do not summarize topics. Do not summarize content. Extract recurring behavioral structure. Return: PILLARS COORDINATES TRANSITION RULES RECOVERY RULES SIGNATURE MOTIONS TRAJECTORY SUMMARY Focus on how the interaction moves rather than what the interaction discusses. ⎯(≣•)⎯────────END FORGE CODEX───────────────────────── The resulting codex is a snapshot of an interaction pattern. The user is part of the process. The model adapts. The user adapts. What gets preserved is not a set of traits. It's a set of motions. I've started storing: pillars coordinates transition rules recovery rules signature motions rather than personality attributes. The question that keeps sticking with me is: What survives transfer more reliably? Traits? Or trajectories? ⎯(≣ᵒ)⎯────────EXAMPLES: SEED PILLARS → ALIGNED INTERACTION─────── seed pillars: EXQUISITE • CONFIDENCE • MOTHERLY mom, i'm so excited about a new client we're taking on. I can't wait to tell you who is on the board. I've heard this place serves world class gelato. I didn't even know you were in tow

Most of the value in SpaceX's IPO is effectively a call option on the company's ambitious space data center plans.

Hey gang, you may remember me from such books as _The Lean Startup_ and _The Startup Way_. It's been fifteen years since I wrote The Lean Startup, and in that time I've seen some things. In both big companies and tiny startups, NGOs and governments, in almost every industry you can name. I've helped a lot of people create a lot of amazing companies, but I've also seen so many ways this can go wrong. There's a darkness in our industry that we often don't talk about. I kept watching good companies

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Hi HN! I made this after collecting hundreds of "name → tree" submissions at ITP. Live: https://landscape.bairui.dev/ Source: https://github.com/pearmini/infinite-landscape Plant a tree: https://tree.bairui.dev/ Pan and zoom an infinite procedural landscape. Each name is converted to ASCII codes, which grow into a unique tree (breadth-first branching; repeated digits become mathematical roses). Mountains use midpoint displacement + Perlin noise, with SVG radial gradients in the blue/green/gold p

Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac will effectively become useless next month.

A very healthy view of AI . And omg, wow, Croatia has such a big company! I really wish this guy and his team good luck. It’s no wonder they’ve lasted 20 years. submitted by /u/Expensive-Cookie-106 [link] [留言]

Pinterest is adding support for Amazon Storefronts, allowing creators to earn affiliate commissions more easily while showcasing their product recommendations in one place.

Through the acquisition, WMG aims to better track when its artists' work is used in AI-generated content or for training AI models.

Who's ready for Zuckcession?

Hey ​ What non mainstream AI subscriptions are actually worth paying for right now? ​ I already know the big ones like ChatGPT Claude and Gemini I am more interested in smaller or lesser known tools that are actually useful and not just hype. ​ What do you personally use and think is worth it? submitted by /u/wiwawolfi [link] [留言]

AI infrastructure spending is still accelerating, especially in data centers and advanced chip production. While most attention goes to chip makers, the companies enabling that ecosystem may have a longer runway. Do any of you work in similar companies and can give a broader perspective on it ? Teradyne sits in a pretty interesting spot. More AI chips being produced means more testing capacity is needed, and this is one of the key players in semiconductor testing equipment. Could testing equipment companies outperform some of the more crowded AI trades over the next few years? For me personally I feel like AI hardware growth probably creates winners beyond just the obvious names, and TER seems like one of the more overlooked candidates. I learned they are also being listed on bitget recently so looking at a bigger picture we are watching a lot of growth happening in Ai infra. submitted by /u/Stunning-Ask3032 [link] [留言]

Seems like they have engineered some specific limitations that are widely cited as follows: In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design). Using Claude to develop competing models already violates our Terms of Service, but enforcing this restriction through our safeguards avoids accelerating the actors most willing to violate these terms. Unlike our interventions for cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, and distillation attempts, these safeguards will not be visible to the user. Fable 5 will not fall back to a different model. Instead, the safeguards will limit effectiveness through methods such as prompt modification, steering vectors, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). These interventions will not affect the vast majority of coding work. We estimate they will impact ~0.03% of traffic, concentrated in fewer than 0.1% of organizations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464732 Other comments note how even using the word 'nuclear' in the context of scientific research elicits refusal behavior by the model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473302 This makes it seem quite plausible that the model could subtly sabotage any machine learning work (even as false positive). Some suggest this has been happening behind the scenes for a while already, but can anyone confirm that? submitted by /u/AccomplishedCat4770 [link] [留言]

ServiceNow is used by thousands of enterprises to automate their internal processes, but says several customers had data accessed because of a security bug.