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Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short

Waymo CEO Dmitri Dolgov argues that camera-only autonomous driving systems, like Tesla's approach, cannot achieve the…

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety…

Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal…

Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden…

Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out…

Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts

Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research

EdotEnv (YC S26) develops reinforcement learning environments derived from real market data to train AI agents on…

Waymo – Dallas Open to All

Waymo has expanded its autonomous ride-hailing service in Dallas to all residents starting August 4, 2026, following a…

Web security is too hard

A security researcher nearly fell for what appeared to be a phishing attack on Cloudflare's new Wallet feature,…

Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt

cMCP is a secure gateway that enforces tool-call policies for AI agents by running policy evaluation inside a hardware…

The Judgment Reservoir

A company achieved record execution metrics and shipped three times more than usual following AI investments, yet…

AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where

AI data centers have added $29-$30 billion in grid capacity costs over recent auctions, accounting for 46% of total…

Hop.earth – OpenStreetMap based car racing game

Bitdeer Lands $4.7 Billion AI Deal as Shares Surge 12%

Bitdeer has signed a 16-year agreement to provide 121 megawatts of AI computing capacity at its Tydal campus in Norway.

Vlt 1.0 and Hosted Package Registries

vlt 1.0 is now generally available as a stable, security-first package manager that serves as a drop-in replacement for…

Waymo opens up robotaxi service in Dallas to everyone

Waymo has dropped the waitlist for its robotaxi service in Dallas, the latest step in the company's bid to scale its…

Dataset: Dead mental health startups, 2000-2026, coded on 18 fields

A dataset of 542 digital mental health startups that failed between 2000-2026 reveals that who pays for the service is…

Take an extra $100 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass: This week only!

Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass,…

Alibaba Just Gave Away Its Best AI Model For Free, Almost Matching Claude and ChatGPT

The first Qwen Max model with public weights is free to download next week.

The Warp Agent CLI

Warp has launched a standalone CLI agent that works across multiple terminal applications (Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code,…

TV Time co-founder launches Bingers to revive the beloved TV-tracking app

After TV Time’s shutdown left millions of users searching for an alternative, one of the app’s original founders is back…

Truemetrics (YC S23) Is Hiring in Berlin – GTM Lead

Truemetrics, a YC-backed startup that provides navigation technology for last-mile delivery couriers, is hiring a GTM…

Show HN: SIEMatic, a fair-sourced observability and security platform

SIEMatic is an open-source, fair-sourced observability and security platform built with Django that collects, indexes,…

The Knowledge Chipper: An Agentic Coding Story

AI coding agents accumulate vast amounts of contextual knowledge while working on problems, but this information is…

Mistral's Shieldstral: 3B open-weights model for multimodal moderation

Mistral has released Shieldstral, a 3 billion-parameter open-weights multimodal safety classifier that performs…

MariaDB: Promote getting to 10k GitHub stars in server log and client prompt

MariaDB has proposed a pull request to add promotional messages encouraging users to star the MariaDB GitHub repository,…

The Pixel 11's "glow" feature is actually called HiLight—here's what it does

The camera flash will evolve into a multicolor LED that illuminates when your phone is face down.

When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation

A systematic study of 60 language model benchmarks found that nearly half exhibit saturation—where models perform so…