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AWS Introduces Pizza Bot: An Open Source Inbox for Background AI Agents

AWS open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted inbox app for background AI agents with approval gating and multi-provider model support.

AWS released Pizza Bot under Apache 2.0 after earlier versions served over 2,000 Amazon employees for meeting prep, email drafting, and research. The app provides macOS, Windows, and Linux desktop builds plus browser and terminal clients talking to a Hono API server, with LangGraph/DeepAgents checkpoints preserving thread state and approval pauses. It supports Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenAI, OpenRouter, and Ollama, exposes external tools via MCP servers, and lets skill authors gate actions behind approve/edit/reject flows.

MarkTechPostSep 13, 08:10 UTC · 3d agoAI tools & infra

Meet Redis LangCache: A Managed Semantic Cache That Cuts LLM API Costs by Up to 90% and Returns Cache Hits Up to 15x Faster

Redis launches LangCache, a managed semantic cache matching LLM prompts by meaning, cutting API costs up to 90% and returning hits up to 15x faster.

Redis LangCache is a fully managed semantic caching service in public preview on Redis Cloud, accessed via a REST API with Python and JavaScript SDKs. It embeds incoming prompts, vector-searches stored entries, and returns a cached response when similarity clears a configured threshold, skipping the LLM call entirely. Redis claims up to 90% cost savings and up to 15x faster cache hits; a demo run showed 0.37 seconds versus 2.232 seconds direct inference (about 6x) with zero LLM tokens. Customer Mangoes.ai reports a 70% hit rate, 70% lower LLM spend, and 4x faster responses on a patient-care voice app.

MarkTechPostSep 10, 22:34 UTC · 5d agoAI tools & infra

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

A developer released gpu-lexer, a 27.5KB language-agnostic syntax highlighter that uses a tiny WebGPU model to label code tokens in the browser.

gpu-lexer splits source into words, whitespace, and symbols, then a small WebGPU model uses local and whole-file context to assign nine token classes, working on languages never seen in training. On held-out files, 12.57% of token labels differ from Shiki, though this measures agreement with Shiki rather than objective correctness. In benchmarks against Shiki 4.4.3, Prism.js, Highlight.js, Sugar High, and Starry Night, it highlighted 10 concatenated copies of three.min.js (5.56M characters) about 10x faster on an Apple M4 Pro in Chrome 152. The author frames it as an experiment, not a grammar-equivalent highlighter.

Hacker News · securitySep 9, 01:14 UTC · 7d agoAI tools & infra HN 21↑ · 5 comments1

Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization

A developer released a browser-based tool that visualizes which past tokens influence each LLM output token using aggregated, value-weighted attention scores.

A Show HN project presents a React application built on Transformers.js that renders per-token attention influence by aggregating attention weights scaled by value-vector magnitudes across all attention heads and layers. To expose internal tensors, the author instrumented the ONNX computation graph, hosted a modified model on Hugging Face, and pre-generated prompts to avoid long model downloads in the browser. Demos with a 600-million-parameter model show how verbatim copying draws heavily on source tokens and how single outputs blend information from multiple phrases.

Hacker News · AISep 8, 16:59 UTC · 7d agoAI tools & infra HN 41↑ · 9 comments

llm-gemini 0.34

llm-gemini 0.34 adds support for Google's new Gemini 3.8 Flash model with configurable low, medium and high thinking levels.

Simon Willison released llm-gemini 0.34, a plugin for the LLM CLI that adds the gemini-3.8-flash model, including low, medium and high thinking levels, and fixes an issue where async responses failed to record the resolved model version. The release coincided with Google's launch of Gemini 3.8 Flash, plus a Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber variant restricted to trusted defenders. Willison noted the Flash tier's speed, low cost and competence at HTML and JavaScript generation tasks.

Simon WillisonSep 2, 16:39 UTC · 13d agoAI tools & infra

The OpenClaw 2.0 release moves your sessions into SQLite

OpenClaw 2.0 migrates AI agent sessions to SQLite, adds guided credential setup, and flags shared-session controls as not a security boundary.

OpenClaw 2.0, described as the largest update in the project's history, migrates sessions and transcripts into SQLite and adds guided setup that detects existing AI credentials from Codex, ChatGPT, Claude CLI sign-ins, API keys, and local Ollama or LM Studio models. The release expands multiplayer sharing while explicitly stating its permission controls are not tenant isolation or a security boundary, and that revoked access can briefly remain usable. Startup JavaScript requests fell from 140 to 45 and startup time from about 1.6 seconds to 575 milliseconds in simulated tests against a mocked Gateway. Automation wrappers must now inspect reported health because requesting --json does not waive risk acknowledgement.

Help Net SecurityAug 31, 00:00 UTC · 16d agoAI tools & infra1