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Artificial intelligence dominates the bulletin, with OpenAI unveiling a Decisions API, NVIDIA introducing OpenShell for autonomous agents and a proposal to donate agent skills to a foundation. Public unease over AI also stands out, as a poll finds most Americans think it is bad for society and oppose more data centres, while reports from education and science document concerns over its spread into schools and research. In health, AI analysis of CT scans has identified coronary inflammation in a large share of patients, and culture coverage includes award-winning AI-generated literature.
De Staat released a new official music video for “Freedom,” with visual effects credited to Matties Grooten of Fake it or Leave it. The post highlights an unusual animated sequence that appears at 00:44.
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
• Published: October 23, 2026
The piece discusses AI-generated literature and whether machine-produced writing can win recognition or prizes.
Source: Hacker News: AI
• Published: October 22, 2026
Anthropic said it will donate its Agent Skills standard to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation, aiming to keep it open, community-driven and vendor-neutral. The move follows its earlier donation of the Model Context Protocol and reflects broader efforts to place AI standards in shared governance.
Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
• Published: October 23, 2026
A survey finds that most Americans view AI as harmful to society and oppose building more data centres.
Source: Hacker News: AI
• Published: October 22, 2026
The Decisions API offers fast, focused and low-cost decision-making tools for applications. It is positioned as a way to make apps more responsive.
Source: OpenAI News
• Published: October 22, 2026
The piece explains how to identify low-quality science writing generated or heavily shaped by AI.
Source: Hacker News: AI
• Published: October 22, 2026
A developer describes Project Hedra, an open-world RPG and game engine built from scratch in high school, with features spanning procedural generation, rendering, modding, and scripting support.
Source: Hacker News: AI
• Published: October 22, 2026
A demo shows AI-generated prompts for small interface interactions, aimed at improving product design workflows.
Source: Hacker News: AI
• Published: October 22, 2026
NVIDIA's OpenShell provides a sandboxed runtime for autonomous AI agents, with policy controls, runtime isolation, and verified permission changes to limit access to files, networks, and credentials.
Source: Hacker News: AI
• Published: October 22, 2026
A report examines Google's push to bring AI tools into schools and the growing backlash from students.
Source: Hacker News: AI
• Published: October 22, 2026