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Superhuman acquires AI detection startup GPTZero

Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.

ATProto Permissioned Data Proposal Draft

The Bluesky team has published an initial draft proposal for permissioned data within the ATProto (AT Protocol), a…

Mark Zuckerberg ordered Meta staff to develop moneyless prediction market: NYT

The Meta CEO reportedly plans for the company to launch a prediction market independent of its other apps allowing users…

Police tout using drone to disarm incapacitated person in “nationwide first”

Promo video comes as more US police departments fly drones as first responders.

Don't verify email addresses by sending spam to them

Pangram's email verification process sends unsolicited bulk emails to addresses being validated, which constitutes spam…

Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments

Oracle is spending billions on data center infrastructure to support AI.

Mark Zuckerberg Wants a Prediction Market Too: NYT

The initiative follows bets on stablecoins and the metaverse.

After betting the firm on Anthropic, Menlo Ventures raises victorious $3B fund

Menlo has created a solid rep for itself as an AI investor, all based on one gutsy $750 million move in 2024.

Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

Anthropic has updated its privacy policy to include provisions for age and identity verification of users.

Klue says hackers stole credential from 2022 that led to customer data breaches

It's unclear why Klue had not revoked the credential after the limited pilot, which hackers then used to breach a system…

Mark Zuckerberg wants Meta to launch its own prediction market

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly wants Meta to have its own prediction market app.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber AI Beats Anthropic's Banned Mythos Model—And Nobody's Shutting It Down

GPT-5.5-Cyber tops the CyberGym leaderboard as Anthropic's best models sit offline under a Trump administration export…

AI Hiring Tools Yield Racial Bias and Systemic Rejection; 26% Black & 15% Asian

A large-scale study of 3.4 million job applicants found that a widely-used AI hiring tool systematically discriminates…

Modal Auto Endpoints: Optimized inference you own

Modal has launched Auto Endpoints, a self-serve platform that enables teams to deploy and own production-grade LLM…

AI Agent Triggers Nuclear Strike After Getting Outmaneuvered in Civilization VI

A new benchmark designed to test strategic reasoning found an AI-controlled empire spent 50 turns developing nuclear…

The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection

A paper by Martin Monperrus argues that LLM-based coding agents have reached a capability threshold where they can…

Show HN: RLM-based local debugger for AI agent traces

We built HALO (Hierarchal Agent Loop Optimizer), an open-source tool for debugging and optimizing AI agents using their…

A curious crossover: The Toyota C-HR review

Although it's on the smaller side, this electric vehicle is not very chill.

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI

https://xcancel.com/JPoehnelt/status/2069482265953087602 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649011…

Zuckerberg Orders Meta Into Prediction Markets With New App Codenamed ‘Arena’

Mark Zuckerberg has directed a small team at Meta to build a standalone prediction markets app internally codenamed…

In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words

Tony Krueger, a longtime Microsoft Word developer who worked on multiple versions of the software, passed away recently.

I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry

Valve has re-released the Steam Machine in 2026 with prices ranging from $1,049 to $1,428, which the author considers…

Swift Package Index Joins Apple

FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model

FUTO launched a dataset collection effort in August 2024 to gather swipe typing data, ultimately collecting over 1…

The truth about being a manager

# Summary Transitioning from engineer to manager involves numerous hidden challenges beyond technical skills, including…

Claude Tag

Claude Tag is a new Slack integration that allows teams to tag @Claude as a collaborative team member with access to…

A New OpenClaw Competitor: ToqanClaw Promises Privacy in AI Agent Race

Prosus launched ToqanClaw, a no-code AI platform positioned as an European alternative to AI agents like OpenClaw.

Mark Zuckerberg directed meta to create a prediction markets app

Anthropic’s Claude Tag is learning your company, one Slack message at a time

Anthropic’s new Claude Tag brings an always-on AI teammate to Slack.