Today so far 2026-09-04 · 00:00 UTC

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, described as the closest AI model yet to AGI, marking a significant milestone in artificial intelligence development. Meanwhile, Tesla is expanding its autonomous vehicle ambitions by asking people if they want to buy and run Cybercab fleets, while policy makers are taking different approaches to AI and technology regulation, with Bernie Sanders pushing a bill to ban advanced AI development and Utah becoming the first state to target VPNs in age-verification crackdowns.

Elon Musk becomes world's first trillionaire as SpaceX soars in stock market debut

Musk is now worth $1.11tn according to the Bloomberg rich list, while SpaceX listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange with a value of $2.2tn.

2026-06-12 · 21:20 UTC
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Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine

2026-06-12 · 20:39

Mmorpg World of ClaudeCraft, vibe coded with Fable 5

2026-06-12 · 20:34

World of ClaudeCraft is a free browser-based MMORPG set in the Claudemoon world that offers both online multiplayer…

/architect: Reduce Fable tokens by 80%, Fable orchestrates/reviews, Codex builds

2026-06-12 · 20:33

Architect-loop is an autonomous software factory that uses AI agents (Fable/Codex and Claude) to automate development…

SpaceX Hits $2.1T on Debut Day, Making Elon Musk the World’s First Trillionaire

2026-06-12 · 20:30

SpaceX priced the largest IPO in history Thursday night and spent Friday proving investors meant it.

Can I Buy Your KV Cache?

2026-06-12 · 20:14

Researchers propose a marketplace for precomputed key-value (KV) caches in large language models, where publishers can…

Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType Hinting Interpreter

2026-06-12 · 19:54

Apple rewrote the TrueType font hinting interpreter from C to memory-safe Swift for its Fall 2025 releases to address…

SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint at a Tesla merger

2026-06-12 · 19:28

A SpaceX-Tesla merger seems inevitable.

PeopleSoft 0-day affecting hundreds of organizations steals gigabytes of data

2026-06-12 · 19:26

Vulnerability in the Oracle-owned PeopleSoft software is about as critical as they come.

AI Agents Still Can't Stop Prompt Injection Attacks, Researchers Warn

2026-06-12 · 19:22

A new benchmark study found AI agents remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks as companies increasingly roll out…

Being an old school web-based sports sim dev in the era of vibe coded games

2026-06-12 · 18:52

Here's what Jeff Bezos' new startup Prometheus will do

2026-06-12 · 18:45

It isn't the only startup tackling physical AI, but it's one of the best-funded.

Moonshot AI's Kimi Work Brings 300 AI Agents to Your Desktop

2026-06-12 · 18:40

Kimi Work lets an AI agent loose on your local files, your browser, and your schedule—without routing everything through…

Americans Fear Job Losses Due to AI But Hope for Cancer, Alzheimer’s Cures: Anthropic Survey

2026-06-12 · 18:14

Anthropic's AI survey showed Americans are afraid of job losses, hopeful for health breakthroughs, and distrustful of…

"Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"

2026-06-12 · 17:52

A freelance translator recounts being told by a gym acquaintance that she should simply upload her documents to ChatGPT…

Tesla Full Self Driving uses bicycle lane in official Denmark approval video

2026-06-12 · 17:49

Tesla's Full Self Driving system made multiple errors in an official approval video released following Danish regulatory…

Mistral is rumored to be raising €3B at €20B valuation

2026-06-12 · 17:38

The funding round would value the company at around €20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double its Series C…

Write for One Person

2026-06-12 · 17:36

How to Setup a Local Coding Agent on macOS

2026-06-12 · 17:34

A developer successfully set up a local coding agent on macOS using Gemma 4 26B model with llama.cpp and Metal…

Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts

2026-06-12 · 17:26

The tech giant said a group called "Outsider Enterprise" used AI to scam hundreds of thousands of victims, sending 2.5…

Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?

2026-06-12 · 17:22

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48506575Clearly seems like something dodgy and most like a scam, why would it be on…

$130 billion in data center projects blocked by protests so far this year

2026-06-12 · 17:18

Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a "taste of political power."

Pirates, a naval warfare game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates

2026-06-12 · 17:07

Robinhood sees ‘record-breaking’ traffic after SpaceX stock debuts

2026-06-12 · 17:05

The trading platform says some customers experienced intermittent disruptions, but that those issues have resolved.

Gauntlet AI will fly you to Austin, train you in AI, give $200k+ job

2026-06-12 · 17:00

Gauntlet AI is a ten-week, all-expenses-paid immersive program that trains software engineers in AI development and…

Launch HN: BitBoard (YC P25) – Analytics Workspace for Agents

2026-06-12 · 16:58

We’re Connor and Ambar from BitBoard (https://bitboard.work). BitBoard is an agentic analytics workspace.

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

2026-06-12 · 16:51

Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.

Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time

2026-06-12 · 16:44

Postgres 19 is introducing native temporal table support, finally implementing a feature formalized in the SQL:2011…

New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

2026-06-12 · 16:41

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

2026-06-12 · 16:34

The fraudsters allegedly targeted hundreds of thousands of people with Gemini-coded scams sites.

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