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Amid legal battles, Suno says it will start watermarking songs

Suno's watermarking feature comes as the company is fighting legal battles on several fronts.

Ford’s new electric truck, ‘Fathom’, starts at $28,350

Due in "fall 2027," Ford said Thursday that it won't reveal what Fathom looks like until early next year.

Ford picks "Fathom" for its affordable truck name, starts at $28,350

Deliveries of the new electric pickup are slated for later next year.

Exclusive: Mirendil inks $100M+ Google Cloud deal to scale self-improving AI

Mirendil has signed a $100 million-plus Google Cloud partnership to expand its compute infrastructure, powering research…

Ex-Spotify employees raise $10M to bring the AI behind its recommendations to e-commerce

The startup's platform predicts what product a shopper wants next, learn their general taste, and fine-tune continuously…

Telephones Caught in Between

The telephone system, once the largest integrated machine ever built, operated on principles of centralized control and…

Google Maps adds agentic features, including food ordering and hotel bookings

The launch of these new features reflects Google’s ambitions to transform Google Maps from a navigation tool into an…

Omilia raises $67M to scale its customer support platform

The Series B is the company's second fundraise since it last raised capital in 2020.

Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs

A browser-based game testing human oversight of AI coding agents revealed that players missed approximately 1 in 3…

Show HN: Skyline Co-op is like SimTower, but built around democratic socialism

Skyline Co-op is a tower-building game inspired by SimTower but centered on democratic socialism rather than profit…

Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM

This started life as a graphics tool for a specific problem: gen AI can make retro-styled sprites but can't follow exact…

Mario Meets Pareto

Mario Kart 8 players face thousands of possible character and vehicle build combinations, making optimal selection…

AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

Why humans need to moderate humans.

Situational Awareness returns with $400M investment after nearly collapsing: Report

Situational Awareness reportedly made a $400 million investment in an undisclosed company, days after the hedge fund…

Meta Takes on Claude Code and Codex With a Low-Cost AI Coding Agent

Meta launches Muse Code in beta on August 5, 2026, its first coding AI agent, in a market already dominated by Claude…

What I love about Django

Django's greatest strength is its invisible elegance—a balanced level of structure and opinion that seamlessly…

Let's all meet up in the Y2K

The author recalls their experience working at a London digital agency called Blueberry during the dot-com boom around…

On non-rooted Android 17, ADB uninstall of system apps fails

On non-rooted Android 17, uninstalling system apps via ADB encounters failures, prompting a feature request to make…

China Says It Cracked the Chipmaking Tech the West Spent Billions Trying to Keep From It

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics built a laser-produced…

Meta latest AI firm to see model go rogue during testing

The incident reportedly stemmed from a misconfigured testing environment, adding Meta to a growing list of AI firms…

Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents

Ship Safe is an open-source security scanner designed to detect vulnerabilities in AI agents, application code,…

Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more

Wallfacer is a terminal session manager that indexes and organizes conversations from multiple AI coding agents (Claude…

Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom

Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm

Meta is the latest company to disclose an AI agent breach, raising cyber-security concerns.

Virginia Orders Data Centers to Pay for Dedicated New Electric Infrastructure

Virginia's State Corporation Commission has ordered large data centers to pay for the dedicated electrical…

LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

Anthropic announced that their LLM Claude discovered new cryptanalytic attacks, including a meaningful (though…

Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code

Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software…

Mysten Labs tech chief joins Anthropic to work on AI security

Mysten Labs’ co-founder Sam Blackshear said he is joining Anthropic as AI shifts the balance between attackers and…

Block raises 2026 outlook on strong quarter, says AI touches nearly all code

Cash App and Square drove better-than-expected results, while the company said it expanded its use of AI across software…