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Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That's finally changing.

"The Starship Pez dispenser demonstrates very smart industrial design and scale."

SpaceXAI Enters The AI Race With New Coding Model

SpaceXAI is ready to take a new step in the global race for artificial intelligence.

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

A developer created "colibri," a C-based engine that runs GLM-5.2, a 744-billion parameter mixture-of-experts model, on…

Paradigm Raises $1.2 Billion to Accelerate Its AI Investments

The venture capital market is evolving rapidly, driven by new technological priorities and increasingly distinct…

CollectWise (YC F24) Is Hiring

CollectWise, a Y Combinator-backed startup using AI to automate debt collection, is hiring a Founding Account Executive…

Chat Control Returns to the European Parliament for a New Vote

The EU Parliament revives the vote on the Chat Control text.

AI boom fuels inflation fears, complicating Fed’s next rate move

Ongoing strong demand for AI infrastructure “would likely sustain upward pressure on prices for technology products and…

Wealthy AI workers send San Francisco house prices soaring

The median cost of a home in the city is now $1.7m, a record high, according to the latest figures.

The New Grok 4.5 Is Out. Elon Musk Says It Competes With Last Year's Claude Opus

SpaceXAI's new coding model is cheaper and faster than Anthropic and OpenAI's flagships—and by Musk's own account, at…

Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50%

AI cheating leads to "a failed society," professor says.

Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself

More young girls sue X over Grok CSAM; X accused of shielding child predators.

Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes

Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.

Aussie gov't tells volunteers to throw out thousands of functioning test routers

But the devices could "easily be reflashed."

TikTok users don't have as much agency over their FYPs as they think

The "not interested" feature is your friend, but users must intentionally and constantly curate their FYPs

Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space

"The BOHR mission serves as a pathfinder for future nuclear-powered spacecraft."

Google updates Android Bench with new LLMs, but Gemini still lags behind

Android Bench is evolving, and developers can help guide that process.

Anthropic Removes Hidden Claude Code Tracker After Researchers Raise Privacy Concerns

The company says the tool was designed to stop abuse and AI model extraction, but critics questioned the use of…

All Cars Sold in the EU Now Require a Camera Aimed at Your Face

AI Is Changing the Workplace and Universities Aren’t Keeping Up, Study Warns

A University of Manchester researcher says schools should move beyond AI cheating concerns and prepare graduates for…

Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home

The author argues that bringing AI note-takers to casual meetings and conversations is intrusive and unnecessary,…

Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet

Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs.

Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models

Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.

Bethesda, id Software reportedly hit hard by Microsoft layoffs

As much as 50 percent of some teams affected by reductions, and more could be coming.

China May Be Following US Lead With Quiet Crackdown on AI Exports

China is reportedly building the same power to cut off its AI that the US deployed against Anthropic in June.

Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images

Discord has acknowledged that a bug in its AI moderation system mistakenly banned more than 8,000 users over the past…

Google's Pixel 11 launch event is set for August 12, with possible price increases

Google's new phones could feature glowing LEDs and higher price tags.

Show HN: Davit, a Apple Containers UI

Mostly vibe-coded Apple Containers front-end that I'd like to use myself.

Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?

From time to time, I check that our open-source project is still available to all users, and I've occasionally noticed…

Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12

Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.