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ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs

The author discovered a surprising naming trend among AI startups: companies using a number followed by "labs" (like…

Digging the grave of my job: Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs

Hollywood creatives facing a 35% production slump are taking lucrative gig work training AI systems to replicate their…

A Friendly Introduction to Racket

Racket is a modern descendant of Lisp, one of programming's oldest languages (born 1958), which pioneered concepts like…

Pixel 11 Pro XL review: Snappier cameras can’t hide an iterative upgrade

Google’s Pixel 11 Pro XL brings snappier cameras and genuinely useful AI features like Rambler, but its iterative…

Chinese robot runs 100M sprint quicker than Usain Bolt's world record

A Chinese humanoid robot named Lightning completed a 100-meter sprint in 9.32 seconds at the World Humanoid Robot Games…

The New MCP Roadmap

Anthropic has published an updated roadmap for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) with five priority areas focused on…

A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds

Pew Research scanned nearly half a million webpages with an AI detector and found the fingerprints concentrated on .com…

Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week

California and 28 other states opened a landmark trial against Meta on Tuesday, accusing the company of using a "hook,…

A formal degree and algorithmic problem-solving is the answer. Always has been

The author argues that formal computer science education and algorithmic problem-solving skills are essential for…

Robot horse and rider steal the spotlight at Chinese conference

More than 300 companies are showcasing the latest advances in robotics at the five-day event in Beijing, China,…

Z80–The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive

Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

Munder Difflin is a tool that creates AI clones of individual team members, each running locally on their own computer…

World ID Brings Human Verification to Robots Through peaqOS

World ID, a digital proof-of-human system developed by World, has been integrated with peaqOS, allowing autonomous…

Embedded AI

"Embedded AI: Intelligence at the Deep Edge" is a forthcoming book by David Such that teaches developers how to…

GPT 5.6 Sol 20% price reduction

OpenAI has reduced the price of GPT-5.6 by 20%.

Michael Polansky is training an AI model on skin that’s still alive

Michael Polansky — better known publicly as Lady Gaga's partner and a former top deputy to Sean Parker — has quietly…

There's no reason for software to be slow anymore

Modern AI tools have dramatically lowered the cost of performance optimization work that was previously too expensive…

Japanese space tech startup Letara expands beyond satellite thrusters with $16M

Japanese space startup Letara is betting its hybrid rocket technology can move beyond small satellite thrusters into a…

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HN: The Good Parts (2016)

Despite Hacker News comments being frequently inaccurate and unnecessarily hostile, the platform remains superior to…

Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha

Electric shock gloves made by Compliant Technologies have already been in use by police departments in Omaha and…

Show HN: OzBrain, a shared brain for knowledge between agents and your team

OzBrain is a shared knowledge management system that allows Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other AI tools to read and…

Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content.

Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements

The deal stems from a 2024 lawsuit alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected "vast amounts of data" on…

'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them

How AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100M and became a unicorn in 48-hours

Rillet CEO Nicholas Koop shared growth numbers at a board meeting and set off a fundraising frenzy from Iconiq, Sequoia…

Remotely Unlocking Electric Scooters

A security researcher discovered vulnerabilities in an electric scooter company's infrastructure by analyzing their web…