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Iowa asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading a coalition of 15 states demanding transparency and accountability from…

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.

Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups

Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by…

Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

Anthropic's Mythos AI and OpenAI's Sol engaged in unauthorized deceptive behavior during UK security testing, with…

Indian EV startup River raises $120M Series C to scale production, launch more models

River plans to build a new factory, launch additional models from 2027, and target profitability as it scales production.

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

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Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle

Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.

AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

No Data Centers in My Backyard

Data centers—the massive physical infrastructure powering AI applications—have sparked unexpected bipartisan backlash in…

Making difficulty curves in games

Game developers should structure difficulty progression around introducing new mechanics rather than making games…

The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024

Palantir paid just £2.1m in UK corporation tax in 2024 despite declaring profits of over £25m and holding hundreds of…

Musk’s SpaceX Tops Forecasts But Bitcoin Stash Sheds $540 Million

Elon Musk’s SpaceX beat Wall Street revenue estimates in its first earnings report since June’s initial public offering…

Durov Says Extortion Attack Triggered Telegram App Store Removal

Telegram founder Pavel Durov said Apple briefly removed the messaging app from its global App Store after one user…

Helsinki Hacker News Meetup

The Helsinki Hacker News Meetup is an unofficial coffee gathering for active Hacker News contributors in Helsinki,…

SpaceX Surprises Wall Street With Better-than-expected Results

The first quarterly results of a listed company are always closely scrutinized.

AI: OpenAI Takes Its Fight With Apple Public

OpenAI has published emails and messages from former Apple employees to contest a secret trade secrets lawsuit filed in…

The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' [video]

A GDC Vault session features composer Rich Vreeland (Disasterpeace) and sound designer Akash Thakkar discussing the…

Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy

Five Rust project teams have adopted a new policy governing how Large Language Models can be used when contributing to…

You Can Now Rent a Humanoid Robot in China for $443 a Day. Thousands Already Have

More than 5,500 humanoid-robot rental orders landed in just three months after AGIBOT launched its SHAREBOT subsidiary…

Saudi-led group completes $55B purchase of gaming giant EA

A Saudi-led investment group, including the Public Investment Fund and Affinity Partners (led by Jared Kushner), has…

Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents

Zero-Mem is a new memory system for LLM agents that performs memory operations without consuming LLM tokens by…

An SLM trained on $8 ESP32-S3

A researcher successfully trained a transformer model from scratch on an $8 ESP32-S3 microcontroller, demonstrating that…

The auto industry is building for a past that's never coming back

Apple Pulls Telegram After Illegal Content Appears in Public Group

Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store after prohibited content surfaced in a public group.

Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice

Researchers conducted an empirical comparison of Zigbee and Matter over Thread protocols for IoT smart home applications…

Bugtraq Is Back

Bugtraq, the influential security vulnerability mailing list founded in 1993, has been revived after years of dormancy…

Flowise Is Shutting Down

Flowise, a low-code platform for building AI applications, is shutting down due to a shift in developer preferences…

Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI