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After Google acquired my AR startup, I started thinking about the next interface, this time for AI. Text and voice work fine, just like DOS did before the Mac. But nothing’s more intuitive than face to face.
After two years of research, today we’re launching Atmee v2: a real-time avatar model that makes live video agents feel truly life-like.
• Any character from 1 image + 10s of audio
• Contextual expressions, gestures, even interacting with the environment
• Live video calls, voice only, or video generation
At its core, Atmee v2 is a video foundation model, it can render anything, but it’s built to excel at characters, which is what video models like Seedance 2.5 and Wan 3.0 are mostly used for. In comparison:
Atmee v2
• Up to 50x faster
• 10-100x cheaper
Build tutors, sales coaches, support agents, companions, game characters, even whole living worlds. The interface after text and voice starts today.
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Build your own harness, folks.
This is absolute banger paper from NVIDIA on self-evolving agent harnesses.
(bookmark it)
They introduce SoL-Pi which cuts token traffic by nearly half.
And it matches its baseline harness on GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 5.
More details below:
Instead of tuning a harness by hand, they run auto-research loops at the harness layer across many repository-derived and verifier-driven environments, keeping only the mechanisms that survive selection.
Four mechanisms survived:
> Action Fusion changes how actions execute
> Online Context Compact handles compaction during a run
> ObservationPack reshapes observation handling
> Evidence-Preserving Reducer covers delegated reading
On the 51-task EdgeBench evaluation, the savings translate to about a third off API cost. In dollars that is an estimated $8.75 to $13.50 per hour against native Codex and Claude Code harnesses, and $4.36 to $5.71 against the baseline harness.
Because the search runs across many environments rather than one, the retained mechanisms keep working outside the setting that produced them. Code is on GitHub under NVlabs.
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.20519
Chat with Paper: academy.dair.ai/papers/sol-p…
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A frame-by-frame stop-motion recreation of the Beastie Boys’ iconic “Sabotage” video by independent animator Corduroy Frames.
Five years of work. 4,340 hand-animated frames made from card stock, foam, cardboard, tin foil and cotton balls. No AI. Just pure obsessive craft.
Hank retweeted
If you're still using Swashbuckle in .NET 10, here's what you missed.
Swashbuckle hasn't had regular updates in over a year.
So, Microsoft dropped it from .NET 9+ templates and built their own.
The replacement: `Microsoft.AspNetCore.OpenApi` — built-in, lighter, maintained.
For a UI: Scalar > Swagger UI. It's faster, better looking, and supports dark mode out of the box.
Migration takes 5 minutes: remove Swashbuckle, add `builder.Services.AddOpenApi()`, done.
Read article to help you migrate -codewithmukesh.com/blog/dotn…
Repost this to help a fellow developer.
Hank retweeted
Stanford researchers just published a prompting technique that makes today’s LLMs behave like better versions of themselves.
It’s called “prompt ensembling” and it runs 5 variations of the same prompt, then merges the outputs.
Here’s how it works 👇
Hank retweeted
“AGI is still decades away, calm down”
If this Gemini demo is remotely accurate, it’s showing broader intelligence than a non-zero fraction of adult humans *already* lol
Hank retweeted
Terminal.Gui v1.8.0 is in the can!
"A toolkit for building rich console apps for .NET, .NET Core, and Mono that works on Windows, the Mac, and Linux/Unix."
Thank you @BDisp, @jmelosegui, and others for your contributions!
@migueldeicaza
github.com/gui-cs/Terminal.G…
Hank retweeted
if there's not a one-liner fix I can copy-and-paste from stack overflow, I'm gonna presume this a problem that can't be solved
Hank retweeted
zelensky and johnson walking around kyiv. hell of a message to the ukrainian people…and the world
Hank retweeted
Zelenskyy versus Putin
Ukraine versus Russia
#GloryToUkraine #SlavaUkraini
Hank retweeted
If you are a multi billion dollar company and are concerned about log4j, why not just email OSS authors you never paid anything and demand a response for free within 24 hours with lots of info? (company name redacted for *my* peace of mind)
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It is with heavy hearts we announce that Senator Robert Joseph Dole died early this morning in his sleep. At his death, at age 98, he had served the United States of America faithfully for 79 years. More information coming soon. #RememberingBobDole
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First alien message received
"Humans please stop sending us unsolicited nude pics with directions of how to come to your house. It is kind of creepy"
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If You Own #dogecoin Hit That Retweet. Let’s Get It To .50¢
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C# 9, Orleans and ASP.NET Core in one single Program.cs.
My mind is blown.
github.com/dodyg/practical-a…
#aspnetcore #orleans
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I just published a blog post on how pushing my boundaries by speaking at conferences changed me for the better. This is my first non-technical blog post (also pushing my boundaries) ever so I hope you like. medium.com/@bechbd/from-anxi…
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@CathyLynchWB presents the transformation of Barrio 31 of Buenos Aires at @TDLCen on #affordablehousing. Key lessons: leadership, community mobilization, public space. @WBG_Cities @ivankerr – at Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
