AI agents

Show HN: Get your coding agent off ~2019 JavaScript, onto modern web primitives (opens github.com)

A Google Chrome team repo of guidance that steers coding agents toward modern browser primitives instead of 2019-era JavaScript.

Amazon saves millions by replacing Sonnet 4.6 with Strands Decider (opens strandsagents.com)

Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.

ByteAsk: Your AI C++ engineer, and a swarm of them (opens ycombinator.com)

Hand it a C/C++/CUDA bug and get a tested pull request back, at what it claims is 68% lower cost.

AI Agents are too good at marketing now (opens youtube.com)

Cody Schneider walks through the data and tool setup an agent needs to do marketing work; 64k views.

Anthropic launches Claude Meetings to turn workplace discussions into plans and tasks (opens techcrunch.com)

Anthropic also announced Claude Whiteboards, Sheets and Data the same day; Claude Meetings drafts plans and timelines as participants talk.

AMD introduces Epyc 6 processors for AI agent workloads (opens siliconangle.com)

Ten Zen 6 server CPUs in two groups; Tom's Hardware's benchmarks say a dual 9996 is up to 93% faster than a dual Zen 5 9965.

Graphon Labs raises $35m to give AI agents a memory that lasts (opens thenextweb.com)

Graphon builds memory for AI agents by mapping connections across docs, videos and images; RRE led.

Cowbell unveils AI liability insurance for small businesses that deploy AI agents (opens siliconangle.com)

A standalone policy for US small and midsized businesses covering losses caused by the AI agents they deploy.

AI security startup Bay launches with $50M to vet agent actions before they run (opens siliconangle.com)

Bay lets enterprises vet each action an AI agent tries to take before it runs.

Zendesk moves to pay-per-result AI pricing with its new Outcome AI Platform (opens thenextweb.com)

Zendesk will charge for problems solved rather than per seat, one of the first large SaaS vendors to move its AI to outcome pricing.

Vorflux 2.0: Autobots (opens ycombinator.com)

Always-on AI coworkers that live in Slack; 22 votes on YC Launches.

HitPay Agentic Discovery (opens producthunt.com)

HitPay, the Southeast Asian payments company, wants merchants' stores to be findable and buyable by AI agents.

Boxes.dev - Move your AI coding to the cloud (opens ycombinator.com)

Run Claude Code and Codex on parallel cloud machines from laptop, phone or terminal; 50 votes on YC Launches.

Volaren – Your Personal Investing Agent (opens ycombinator.com)

Same as the top 1%, you can finally have your "money guy"

Axiomat – Agents that cannot hallucinate (opens ycombinator.com)

Formally verified data queries

DeepSeek says its open-source agent app Harness hit 1.54M DAUs on November 4, less than three months after launch (opens bloomberg.com)

DeepSeek says Harness reached 1.54 million daily users within three months of launch and processes about 92 trillion tokens a day, roughly 60 million per user.

Goodbye Claude, hello Pi (opens caleb.software)

Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment (opens lorekit.io)

Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic capabilities (opens bloomberg.com)

Sources: John Ternus wants more urgency in Apple's AI efforts, pushing Craig Federighi to move beyond Siri AI tweaks to agentic and other advanced capabilities — The company wants to turn Siri into a true AI agent. … Apple's new CEO is pressing software chief Craig Federighi …

I built my restaurant’s whole ops platform with Claude Code instead of paying for five different apps (opens reddit.com)

A restaurant owner with no development background says they built their restaurant's operations software with Claude Code instead of paying for five apps.

Agent Clan (opens producthunt.com)

Command your Claude Code and Codex agents with gestures

Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files (opens apiiro.com)

JPMorgan and Mastercard back Seattle startup Firmly’s bet on AI shopping agents (opens geekwire.com)

Firmly raised $15 million, backed by JPMorgan and Mastercard, for software that lets online retailers sell through AI shopping assistants and marketplaces without a separate integration for each.

The Components of Agent Memory (opens anthropic.com)

GitHub’s Growth: 225M Developers, 34.3B Commits — Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI, Microsoft (opens youtube.com)

GitHub’s next scaling challenge is the agent workload. The platform has 225 million developers and handled 34.3 billion commits over the past year. Jay Parikh, EVP of CoreAI at Microsoft, joins us straight after his GitHub Universe keynote to talk about rebuilding the software-development stack for…

Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent (opens techcrunch.com)

Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.

Trepo: The agentic grocery shopper that knows what you have and need. (opens ycombinator.com)

Trepo is building agents that shop for you, starting with groceries.

Atomicwork launches certified AI coworker marketplace for enterprise IT and security (opens siliconangle.com)

Information technology service management startup Atomicwork Inc. today announced the launch of an Artificial Intelligence Coworker Marketplace that will give enterprise IT and security teams access to prebuilt, certified AI coworkers that can work alongside employees.

Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy AI agent security startup Clutch for $500M (opens techcrunch.com)

Clutch, backed by Lightspeed and SignalFire, was last valued at $85 million, according to a source.

Show HN: Agentic Identity Broker, OAuth Delegation for AI Agents (opens github.com)

An MIT-licensed OAuth2 broker from the Zalando Incubator that lets a user give an AI agent scoped access.

After blocking Muse, Amazon now lets users text Alexa to help them shop (opens techcrunch.com)

Amazon will let millions of users text Alexa to search, compare and order products, after blocking Meta's Muse agent.

Dropbox acquires Tigris Data for $350M, releases new AI productivity features (opens siliconangle.com)

Dropbox is buying cloud storage startup Tigris Data alongside DBX Agent Cloud, a storage service for AI agents.

Launch HN: Rivet (YC W23) – Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3 (opens github.com)

Hey HN, this is Nathan and Nicholas from Rivet (https://rivet.dev) – a fast, high-density, and scalable orchestrator for agentic workloads using the actor model. Rather than running a heavyweight sandbox per agent, each agent gets a lightweight actor backed by S3.

Airbnb says it’s launching an AI travel agent in the first half of 2027 (opens techcrunch.com)

In its Q3 shareholder letter Airbnb said the agent will help travelers plan trips, compare options and manage bookings.

Hesper AI: AI agents that work every insurance claim end to end (opens ycombinator.com)

Every claim worked, not just processed. The full workup on every claim in minutes, with proof behind every output

Perplexity launches its own take on AI agents for work (opens theverge.com)

Perplexity is taking on OpenAI and Anthropic with its own work-focused AI agents. The startup's new always-on "Teammates" can take on multiple roles within a workspace, while pulling existing projects, skills, and memory from the Perplexity tools you already use.

Inside GitHub’s new Git storage architecture (opens github.blog)

GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works.

Ocient raises $100 million as agentic AI drives growth in large-scale analytics (opens siliconangle.com)

Ocient Inc., the maker of a speedy data analytics platform, today said it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding to expand its agentic artificial intelligence analytics business.

Phaze raises $8.75M to give AI agents remote access to powerful workstations (opens siliconangle.com)

Built by the founders of remote desktop firm Parsec, Phaze gives AI agents remote workstations of their own; a16z wrote up its investment.

Insurer Guardian hands 1 million dental calls a year to Sierra’s AI agents (opens thenextweb.com)

Guardian Life signed a multi-year deal with Sierra to use its AI agents for about 1 million dental benefit verification calls a year, plus payments and claim status checks. It is Guardian’s third AI partnership in a year, after HCLTech and Avantos.