The Frontier edition

The Frontier · 26 Oct 2026

26 Oct 2026 · 15 articles

No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector

Article URL: https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50224463 Points: 616 # Comments: 653

Summary published by Hacker News - Newest: "AI" · 24 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗

battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map

Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two. Here's the initial prompt I used: Add a new map for a four player battle - four way rotational symmetry, up to four AI players, works with the WebSocket non-audio based multiplayer mode so up to four human players can join (any spare slots use AI) Claude…

Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 24 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗

Quick Study

Tool: Quick Study Prompt to Claude Opus 5.5 High : Build an artifact where you open a photo and it rapidly (in a few seconds) paints a version of that photo using a canvas element and simulated paintbrush See also my previous experiment getting Claude Fable to simulate a watercolor illustration with P5.js. Quick Study uses Sobel edge detection , with no external libraries beyond Google Fonts.…

Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 23 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗

The Hackening

Last week at a small conference, there was talk about a future event referred to as The Hackening.

Summary published by Don't Worry About the Vase · 23 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗

Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro

Kimi K3.1 Pro landed on the Kimi API today - it's not yet open weights, but Moonshot promise "Full model weights will be released by Nov 4, 2026". They're also offering a "Highspeed" version that's 2-3x faster, at twice the price (except for input token cache hits, which are priced the same). The US dollar pricing is $2.00/million tokens for input and $10/million for output - the same as GPT-6.1…

Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 23 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗

DE STAAT - FREEDOM (Official Music Video)

) OK well this is a first for me... at 00:44 in this new music video by Dutch alternative rock band De Staat : The visual effects are credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it . Via flir on Hacker News Tags: music , ai , generative-ai , pelican-riding-a-bicycle

Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 22 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗

Donating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation

News today from Anthropic: We’re committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral. Today, we are donating the standard to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation, which we co-founded with Block and OpenAI last year, and to which we donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP). I'm pleased to note I called this one last December , when Anthropic first…

Summary published by Simon Willison's Weblog · 22 Oct 2026 · Read the original ↗