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Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

Audited accounting shows growing revenues being dwarfed by R&D, other expenses.

GateGPT: 56k tokens per second Transformer (KV cache) on FPGA at 80 MHz

Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues, an accessibility feature introduced in 2024, uses moving dots on the screen's periphery to…

UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

The UK government will ban social media for under-16s starting spring 2027, requiring age verification through ID…

Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple

African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as…

CJEU: Social networks are the 'publishers' of algorithmically-altered feeds

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that social networks functioning as algorithmic feed curators…

After AI Takes Everything

# Summary Software engineers are increasingly anxious about AI replacing their roles, with the author arguing that…

Google Chrome's Next Update Will Mark the End of Popular Ad Blockers

Google is removing the final workaround that allowed legacy ad blockers based on Manifest V2 to function in Chrome,…

DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’

The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.

Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers

Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.

Subquadratic – Introducing SubQ 1.1 Small

Subquadratic has released SubQ 1.1 Small, an AI model using Subquadratic Sparse Attention (SSA) technology that enables…

Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most…

Show HN: Metiq: a real time 3D globe for 100 public datasets

The concept for metiq.space came after playing Global Magnates with friends and realizing how fragmented live global…

Running local models is good now

Local AI models have reached a practical maturity level, with recent releases like Google's Gemma 4 family now capable…

Robinhood Cuts 290 Jobs at Record Volume, HOOD Shares Jump 5%

Robinhood Markets cut roughly 290 full-time positions on June 16, 2026, absorbing an estimated $28 million in…

I Fired Google

The author ditched Google Home after it was upgraded to Gemini, which has become worse at its core function: providing…

Mobileye is entering the US robotaxi market with standalone service

The service will leverage its Moovit platform to launch in an a US city in 2027.

Show HN: Hackers for Granny (defense against industrialized elder fraud)

Organized crime syndicates operating from Southeast Asia extract over $64 billion annually from elderly people using…

NVIDIA’s $25B Bond Sale Signals Deepening AI Debt Supercycle

AI demand drives record oversubscription as Big Tech turns to debt markets to fund infrastructure expansion.

Why a ‘safe’ AI can turn dangerous in the wrong organization

A 15-day AI agent simulation shows why short tests may miss long-term risks shaped by tools, rules and other agents.

SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Google Chrome is finalizing its transition to Manifest V3 by removing the last technical workarounds that allowed users…

The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!

Tell us how you read Ars, and what you'd like to see more (or less!) of on the front page.

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with…

Is Fable 5 Back?

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model has been restored and is now available through the API after the U.S.

Show HN: Voice Age Verification

I miss the old web.

SpaceX Is Buying Cursor

SpaceX has overtaken Amazon to become the world's fifth most valuable company, valued at $2.78 trillion following its…

Robinhood cuts 10% of workforce as Tenev touts business strength

Robinhood cuts about 10% of staff as CEO Vlad Tenev says business “has never been stronger” despite weak Q1 trading.