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OpenAI is scared of open-weight models. Should the US be?

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled

ChatGPT disproved Erdős' Unit Distance conjecture in May 2026 using a number theory theorem, and within weeks, AI…

Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models

Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

Nativ is a free, open-source macOS application that allows users to run advanced AI models locally on Apple Silicon Macs…

An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement

A study of 2,116 statements from 84 instruction files in popular AI agent repositories reveals that 64% contain…

The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency

Agent swarms and the new model economics

Researchers developed an improved agent swarm system that decomposes complex tasks into hierarchical trees, with planner…

RIP bargain bin: The price impact of Sony's disc-free PlayStation plan

Used discs are often cheaper than even deep digital discounts.

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Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files

Hyprland 0.55 marks a major update featuring a switch from Hyprlang to Lua for configuration files, with existing…

Kimi Work

Kimi Work is an AI desktop application that functions as a local intelligent agent for knowledge workers, capable of…

Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls

Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library that applies soft-body physics effects to native HTML form…

Over 30% of new ArXiv submissions now read as AI-written

Over 30% of new ArXiv paper submissions are now flagged as machine-written, with the share rising sharply since…

Launch HN: Bloomy (YC S26) – AI-powered mastery learning for K-12

Bloomy, a YC S26 startup founded by former teacher Alex Southmayd, is an AI-powered mastery learning platform for K-12…

I Stopped "Creating Content"

The author argues that the term "content" has become a dehumanizing catchall for all creative work, reducing…

Ziggity – A terminal UI for Git, written in Zig

Ziggity is a lightweight, keyboard-driven terminal UI for Git written in the Zig programming language, offering a…

Adobe camera app’s new feature will critique your photos using AI

Adobe's Project Indigo can now remove all kinds of backgrounds from photos you snap using the app

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk

Two critical security flaws in WordPress’ software have given hackers the chance to remotely take over tens of millions…

Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)

Jaron Lanier argues that the term "artificial intelligence" is misleading and potentially dangerous, as it encourages…

Show HN: Wheesper – Start an anonymous discussion with a link

Wheesper is a platform that enables anonymous discussions through shareable links, allowing creators to gather candid…

YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting videos

YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos…

IREN jumps 16% after raising AI cloud revenue target above $4B

The Bitcoin miner raised its year-end AI cloud revenue target to more than $4 billion after signing $2.8 billion in new…

The Voice of Google

The author describes starting at Google in 2007 as a communications associate and attending the company's iconic weekly…

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers

AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors…

Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling

Two new state-of-the-art AI models—Moonshot Labs' Kimi K3 and Alibaba's Qwen 3.8—were recently launched and will have…

Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)

Sean Barrett argues that screenspace ambient occlusion (SSAO), a popular rendering technique in games, produces…

Hackers stole ‘significant’ amount of data from tech firm relied on by thousands of US hospitals and pharmacies

Edinburgh-based tech firm Craneware said customer data was stolen during a cyberattack.

I Tracked 997 Chrome Extensions That Changed Their Titles

A developer analyzed 997 Chrome extensions that changed their titles and found that title changes made rankings 4x more…