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Nineteen New AI Billionaires Worth $59.3 Billion. Will the Boom Make You Rich?

Nineteen new American AI billionaires now hold a combined $59.3 billion, a second wave following the founders of OpenAI,…

Defense tech is flooded with money, but who’s built to last?

Defense tech is red hot right now. Anduril and Mach Industries just doubled and quadrupled their valuations,…

AI Lawyers Are Already Better Than Law Professors at Reasoning—Say Law Professors

Researchers found professors preferred AI-generated answers over those written by their peers, raising questions about…

Ableton Extensions SDK

Ableton has introduced an Extensions SDK for Live 12 Suite that allows users to build custom JavaScript tools to modify…

Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)

Mnemo is a local-first AI memory layer that runs as a standalone Rust service to add persistent knowledge graph…

Hermes Ends AI Agent Terminal Era With Release of Official Desktop App

Until now, the only way to run Hermes was through a terminal—or one of several unofficial GUIs the community had cobbled…

Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

Google must change AI Overviews after claiming users don't want "lots of sources."

Uber to put 500 data-collection vehicles on the road this year

The modified Ioniq 5 will be loaded with sensors to capture data for Uber's new AV Labs division.

Dashlane issues opaque advisory warning 20 encrypted vaults were stolen

Security advisory leaves out key details. Dashlane maintains complete silence.

Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)

Sandboxd is an open-source, self-hosted platform that allows users to build and run applications in isolated Docker…

Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synth for the CM5

Brume is a 24-voice multi-timbral desktop synthesizer designed for the CM5 platform, featuring advanced FM synthesis…

Alphabet’s record-breaking $85B raise for Google’s AI business is a helluva good signal

If Alphabet's record-breaking, $85 billion stock sale signals investor appetite for AI-related offerings, we can see…

Perplexity Wants Your Laptop to Do Part of the AI Work—So It Doesn't Have To

The company's new hybrid inference system routes AI tasks between your device and the cloud automatically.

Building iOS Apps with Doom Emacs

A developer successfully built a complete iOS app development workflow in Doom Emacs by orchestrating Apple's…

Meta mercifully spun out VR fitness game Supernatural instead of just killing it

Meta appears to have listened to the Supernatural users who protested the app's sad fate after sweeping layoffs.

Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM

Gemma 4 12B uses a new encoding scheme and token prediction to punch above its weight.

Substack’s new ‘Reply Rules’ feature lets creators control how people respond

Substack's new Reply Rules feature is currently available for all English-language publications and is designed to give…

Google’s Dreambeans, its weirdest-named AI tool to date, will turn your life into a cartoon

Dreambeans is a curated list of AI-illustrated "stories" culled from the personal data in your Google account.

Elixir v1.20 released: now a gradually typed language

Elixir v1.20 introduces a gradually typed language system that performs type inference and checking without requiring…

Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland

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Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE

Critics say Trump plan to test AI models is short-sighted, performative.

Superintelligent machines may well need us after all

Despite AI's dizzying improvements in mathematical ability, its successes show just how integral human mathematicians…

An encyclopedia formed from AI hallucinations – what could go wrong?

Feedback discovers Halupedia, an online encyclopedia that is 100 per cent generated by AI, offering such delights as the…

Agentic payment activity tops 100M transactions on Base

New data suggests AI-driven payment rails are evolving beyond experimentation as users are making more higher-value…

Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang

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Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time

Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development

Hey HN, we’re Shalin Kanyes, best friends who've been hacking together for 10+yrs, and now founders of Hyper…

New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business

Plex is increaingly focusing on content discovery and streaming rentals.

Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers’ wellness data via internal tool

The breach at wearable ring maker Ultrahuman stemmed from credentials stolen from a malware-infected employee laptop.