The next chapter of our AI momentum

2026-08-05 · 16:05

Google and Alphabet are restructuring their AI leadership to accelerate progress on artificial general intelligence…

Jeff Dean leaving Alphabet

2026-08-05 · 16:04

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google

2026-08-05 · 15:56

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers.

Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

2026-08-05 · 15:46

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

2026-08-05 · 15:30

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

The Valley of Webhooks

2026-08-05 · 15:22

Developers repeatedly build complex webhook synchronization systems to maintain local copies of data from third-party…

Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

2026-08-05 · 15:20

Wisconsin police used Flock's automatic license plate reader network to track a man traveling between Wisconsin and…

Zoox to start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas

2026-08-05 · 15:06

This marks the official launch of Zoox's commercial operations.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s Real World AI Stage features robots, automated factories, and extinct animals 

2026-08-05 · 15:05

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways…

Qwen 3.0 Image Pro

2026-08-05 · 14:53

Alibaba's Qwen-Image-3.0-Pro is an advanced image generation model that supports up to 4.5k tokens of input and can…

Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits

2026-08-05 · 14:46

Oracle is cutting its "Always Free" ARM compute allowance in half, reducing from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of RAM to 2 OCPUs and…

As Gen Z reconsiders dating apps, Tinder’s IRL events expand to dozens more cities

2026-08-05 · 14:45

Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of…

Proxmox VE now available for ARM64

2026-08-05 · 14:42

Proxmox Virtual Environment has announced its first release with official support for 64-bit ARM (arm64) architecture,…

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

2026-08-05 · 14:38

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

2026-08-05 · 14:13

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips.

Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words

2026-08-05 · 14:06

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TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas

2026-08-05 · 14:03

TSON (Typed Schema Object Notation) is a new schema system featuring immutable, hash-pinned schemas where both data and…

SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report

2026-08-05 · 13:59

Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

2026-08-05 · 13:58

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, a platform that provides every employee with an AI agent and workspace…

Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else

2026-08-05 · 13:58

Silicon Valley tech leaders promote an ideology called "solutionism," which frames complex social problems as solvable…

Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

2026-08-05 · 13:55

Companies questioning whether to hire junior engineers are repeating an old mistake in new clothing, mistakenly…

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

2026-08-05 · 13:54

The article describes how to build production-grade AI agents by wrapping a basic LLM loop with structural components…

Painting with Gaussians

2026-08-05 · 13:34

A developer created an interactive digital painting tool that uses 2D Gaussian splats to automatically generate brush…

Faster Than Ninja

2026-08-05 · 13:33

Ninja is often used as a performance benchmark for build systems, but it benefits from pre-generation work by tools like…

Universities would prefer no AI

2026-08-05 · 13:32

Most major AI models released in 2025 came from private industry rather than universities, which are falling behind in…

Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy

2026-08-05 · 13:26

Google's oghttp2 HTTP/2 codec, which became Envoy's default in version 1.34, causes a 15-25% reduction in throughput…

KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs

2026-08-05 · 13:24

Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment

2026-08-05 · 13:23

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, an AI productivity environment that uses AI agents to help employees complete…

Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content to its short-form video feed

2026-08-05 · 13:21

As streamers compete with social media giants for viewer attention, Disney+ is partnering with TikTok to bring creator…

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