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The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

Between November 2025 and May 2026, large language models underwent significant developments, particularly a "November…

An Apple (II) for Teacher

By 1980, the Apple II had become a major success, leading to Apple's IPO and making co-founders Steve Wozniak and Steve…

What political censorship looks like inside an LLM's weights (Qwen 3.5)

Anthropic co-founder to present AI encyclical alongside Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical, "Magnifica humanitas," on May 25, 2026, addressing the safeguarding of…

'FedEx says your parcel has drugs': The scam that trapped an Indian comedian

Ankita Shrivastav is among millions of Indians who fall prey to cybercrimes every year.

Mexican government breached by solo user with Claude, 150 GB exfiltrated

A solo attacker breached the Mexican government in late 2025 using only Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions, exploiting…

Lawyers Apologize After Fake Claude-Generated Quotes Appear in Trump Layoffs Case

Attorneys representing a former Homeland Security official admitted using Anthropic’s Claude Console to help draft a…

SandboxAQ brings its drug discovery models to Claude — no PhD in computing required

Other venture-backed companies like Chai Discovery and Isomorphic Labs have raced to build better models.

Alignment pretraining: AI discourse creates self-fulfilling (mis)alignment

Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

AI Still Can't Beat the On-Call Engineer: Here's Why

The best AI models can't yet beat the engineers they’re supposed to replace at fixing real-world problems, a new…

Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Rejected After Jury Finds Claims Filed Late

A California jury rejected Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and co-founder Greg Brockman after…

No More JetBrains Products for Me

A developer has switched from JetBrains' CLion IDE to Zed, a newer open-source editor, after years of frustration with…

Legal fail: Don’t use AI to sue Facebook users for calling you a bad date

Fake citations dashed a dude’s “Are We Dating the Same Guy” revenge lawsuit.

Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions

Shutterstock has agreed to pay $35 million to settle FTC allegations that it engaged in illegal subscription practices,…

The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

The FBI is seeking to purchase nationwide access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that would enable tracking…

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Stainless, a New York-based startup, will wind down all hosted products as part of the acquisition.

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

This is a side-by-side reference sheet comparing syntax and features across four Lisp dialects: Common Lisp (SBCL 1.2),…

Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS

A developer has created 180db, an audio player for macOS inspired by the nostalgic Winamp player, featuring customizable…

This Open-Source Phone AI Agent Sees, Hears and Acts—All Without Touching the Cloud

Oppo's X-OmniClaw runs directly on your Android device, using the camera, screen, and microphone to execute real tasks…

loopmaster – Livecoding Music IDE

Agora-1: The Multi-Agent World Model

Odyssey has released Agora-1, the first multi-agent world model that enables up to four human or AI participants to…

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

Haiku OS has achieved a working ARM64 port that boots on M1 Macs using virtualization, though early versions have…

Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

We let AIs run radio stations

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Elon Musk took too long to sue OpenAI, jury unanimously agrees

Musk plans to appeal after judge immediately affirmed the jury's decision.

Cutting inference cold starts by 40x with LP, FUSE, C/R, and CUDA-checkpoint

Modal has achieved a 40x reduction in GPU inference cold starts by implementing four key techniques: maintaining cloud…

Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion AI Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI has ended in a win for the company he co-founded, following a jury…

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a…