General AI News

Wasm Agents blueprint enables AI agents to run as standalone HTML files in a browser without extra dependencies.

The solution uses WebAssembly and Pyodide to execute Python-based agent code at near-native speed.

Agents rely on the openai-agents-python library and can work with OpenAI models or any API-compatible self-hosted model.

Computers became less fun as profit motives and commercialization took over, leading to centralization and a focus on engagement over genuine creativity.

Bitcoin’s promise of peer-to-peer money transfer was co-opted by speculators who cared more about price graphs than currency utility.

The Web consolidated around ad-driven platforms that prioritize maximizing ad views and user engagement at the expense of diverse, independent websites.

An unprecedented reversal of the Southern Hemisphere’s ocean circulation (SMOC) has been detected since 2016 through increased surface salinity between the polar and subpolar gyres.

Deep water is upwelling to the surface instead of sinking, bringing heat and centuries-old stored carbon dioxide to the surface.

The upwelling of warm, CO₂-rich water is accelerating sea ice melting and could potentially double current atmospheric CO₂ levels.

Wind Knitting Factory is a wind-powered knitting machine attached to a building facade.

Its blades exceed one meter in diameter and catch wind to drive the knitting mechanism.

The machine knits a continuous long scarf downward along the building.

A developer accused the Glass team of reusing GPL-v3 code, relicensing it under Apache, and branding it as a new startup without original work.

The Glass team announced they open-sourced their real-time meeting assistant in four days, offering sharper output and design, and making it 100% free.

Kevin Kelly adopts a "Hollywood style" of working by tackling a variety of creative projects rather than focusing on one big goal.

He believes in following interests and transforming them into shared outputs through doing rather than pursuing a fixed destination.

Kelly argues that passion and perseverance matter more than money or narrow focus for meaningful work.

NASA had rotating wheel station designs in 1962 for artificial gravity but shifted focus to the Moon via Apollo.

Ending these programs led to decades of zero-gravity stations causing health issues like muscle atrophy and bone loss.

Pre-Apollo Langley concepts included inflatable Goodyear torus and hexagonal rigid stations to avoid in-orbit assembly.

K-Scale Labs released the K-Bot, an open-source humanoid robot priced at $8,999.

The hardware and software are fully open source to reduce costs, navigate manufacturing challenges, and enable community contributions.

A “Full Autonomy” upgrade option provides free hardware and software updates until the robot reaches full autonomy, helping fund ongoing development.

Netflix enabled AV1 film grain synthesis at scale to improve streaming quality.

Film grain synthesis uses an auto-regressive model to recreate grain patterns.

It applies a scaling function to adjust grain intensity under different brightness.

Pennybase is a minimal Backend-as-a-Service written in under 1000 lines of Go code.

It uses file-based CSV storage with versioned records and an in-memory index for fast lookups.

The built-in REST API supports CRUD operations, server-sent events, and optional sorting.