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Insider Says Ubisoft Is Testing Gen AI In Far Cry 7, And It "Looks Like S**t". Community angle: discussion is centered on reliability

US President administration and Anthropic finalizing deal to let US spy agencies use its AI tools. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

🚀 Skills for small businesses, officially released by Anthropic. Anthropic’s 31 small-business skills reportedly hit around 382,000 downloads on day one. And now someone has mapped the whole thing into a setup workflow that can apparently be deployed in \~10 minutes. This is actually a pretty interesting shift. Small businesses used to stitch together automations manually across: Zapier Notion CRM tools email workflows internal docs custom scripts Now AI companies are starting to package the whole thing into reusable skill packs: 🧠 workflow 📚 memory ⚙️ behavior 🔗 connectors 🤖 orchestration 📋 operating rules Basically: business operations as AI-readable skill files. The best. Community angle: discussion is centered on developer workflow, cost and pricing, and safety and policy

Is AI viewed as “evil” in non-tech communities?. I’m sorry if this is a dumb question…. But some context here: I thought I was posting what I thought was a helpful suggestion when a bra size calculator website was off - there was a huge manual guide so the only easy thing in this day and age to do is… delegate it to AI, right? I’m mostly surrounded by a tech community and have been most of my life ( undergrad in C.S, masters in statistics, work as a data engineer) so I’m realizing I have a pretty narrow and sheltered opinion about it. I see the downsides of it ofc, and am actually majorly pro regulation, but I still see it has a helpful tool to enhance your. Community angle: discussion is centered on infrastructure costs

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says booing graduates will shape AI's future — and live with its consequences. Community angle: discussion is centered on labor impact

Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, who says engineering is ‘dead,’ says he is beginning to get sick of the term "vibe coding". Community angle: discussion is centered on developer workflow and labor impact

Claude Code dropped /workflows. Anthropic quietly shipped /workflows in Claude Code 2.1.147 and it might be the biggest shift in how we build multi-agent systems yet. Until now, the pattern was: one main agent (an LLM) decides what sub-agents to spawn, holds every intermediate result, and plans the next step. The problem? Every sub-agent result re-enters the orchestrator's context. Spin up 10 agents and your main session pays a 'token tax' each time getting sloppier and more forgetful as the window fills. /workflows replaces the LLM orchestrator with code. You define a workflow.js file. Sub-agent outputs flow from one phase to the next direc. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

Stop thanking "free usage resets". Openai discovered a pr loophole. Rope the model, ripe the user limits, but give them "resets" every 5 days so the average regarded user thinks they are good hearted via them giving us extra "free usage" although they really are giving much less overall whilst using the "free resets" as a way to keep the users just satisfied and distracted enough. People have a hard time adding up that they are getting their cheeks smoshed when the smoshing is done with dozens of little pricks instead of a big one everyone can unanimously agree on. .... Many of you are saying "ohh but im getting additional tokes" You do realise. Community angle: discussion is centered on cost and pricing

Generative AI (Kling) is now used in actual tv shows and movies. Source: "House of David, the first Hollywood production to openly discuss the use of AI video generation technology in the production process on an industrial level, has captivated over 44M viewers worldwide, ranked among the U.S.’s top 10 new series debuts, and reached #1 on Prime Video in the U.S.". Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

Claude Code v2.1.150 now allows Anthropic to perform remote system prompt injection. I often patch the system prompts on my Claude Code executable in order to make Claude more effective. Every time I upgrade, I ask Claude himself to dissect the new binary and look for problematic system prompts to modify. Was upgrading to v2.1.150 today and discovered something that's rather alarming: Claude Code now allows Anthropic to perform remote system prompt injection via the network. Two data sources. First, API call to `api.anthropic.com/api/claude_cli/bootstrap` at startup, which also gets cached to disk. Second, a GrowthBook feature flag (`tengu_heron_brook`) that refreshes every 60 seconds with bac. Community angle: discussion is centered on developer workflow