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Thursday, November 5, 2026
Feature
Hideo Kojima Critiques AI's Role in Creative Processes
Kojima argues that AI, while efficient, misses the fun and unpredictability of human creativity.
Why it mattersAI's role in creative processes highlights a tension between efficiency and authenticity. As AI tools advance, developers must address the challenge of maintaining the unpredictability and emotional depth that define human creativity while leveraging AI's strengths.
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Around the Web
AI Stocks Take a Dive
Top Hacker News discussion.
apnews
New AI Models on the Block
Smaller GLM models are coming! GLM 5.5 will have a 32B model!
r/LocalLLaMA
Tools
在 dsh 里装上这个插件即可，无需登录、注册或填 API Key，就能使用包括 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash、Kimi K3 在内的前沿模型——完全免费，不限量。 All you do is install this plugin in dsh: no login, no sign-up, no API key — the frontier m…
github | stars 62,243
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on any consumer hardware: one-click install for Windows / Linux. Strata inference engine, OpenAI/Anthropic API on localhost, optional image input.
github | stars 40,519
Build
Fresh Show HN launch.
github
Context rot in AI agents: How to recognize and fix it
thoughtworks
Research
We introduce LongBanana, to our knowledge the first expert-designed and expert-verified benchmark for long-context multi-reference image synthesis in the age of agent-driven image generation. The task requires retrievin…
arxiv
Efficient benchmarking estimates a system's full benchmark performance from a small number of task executions. Standard approaches rely solely on the binary correctness of executions from a collection of already-evaluat…
arxiv
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables LLM agents to access external tools and data. Studying its software ecosystem requires connecting server interfaces, the projects that configure these servers, and their developm…
arxiv
Playbooks
Async subagents let an agent stay responsive while background workers run long tasks. How the orchestrator, notifications and approvals work in Deep Agents.
langchain
Developers increasingly want to build agents that can reason about code, modify files, execute commands, interact with developer tools, and work across entire repositories. While GitHub Copilot already provides a powerf…
devblogs.microsoft
We developed a two-fold solution to enable the Claude Agent SDK to work effectively across many context windows: an initializer agent that sets up the environment on the first run, and a coding agent that is tasked with…
anthropic
News
Learn how Amazon Marketplace evaluates A+ Content quality at scale on Amazon SageMaker AI by rendering each product page as a single snapshot, scoring it with a vision-language model fused with OCR readability signals i…
aws.amazon
Release: datasette-apps 0.3a0 Datasette Apps adds support for hosting and editing custom HTML applications inside of Datasette. These can be created by hand, but it's easier to create them using LLMs via Datasette Agent…
simonwillison
The agentic launches that stayed with me last week had nothing to do with how capable a model is. They were about reach. AWS Step Functions, which already orchestrates over 220 AWS services, can now be handed to an agen…
aws.amazon