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Today so far 2026-08-12 · 17:13 UTC

Google has unveiled its Pixel 11 lineup along with new AI-powered Gemini features and an AirTag rival at its Made by Google 2026 event, marking a major product refresh from the tech giant. Meanwhile, AI-related concerns are mounting across the industry, with booksellers suspecting AI firms of buying and destroying rare books and a German advocacy group filing a criminal complaint over Meta's AI glasses, while Facebook has rolled out its standalone Creator Studio app with AI tools. On the security front, a researcher published a Windows zero-day vulnerability after Microsoft threatened legal action, and Tailscale traced database corruption to a 16-year-old SQLite bug.

The AI Demand Bubble

The article argues that reported AI revenue growth at major cloud providers (Amazon, Google, Microsoft) is largely illusory, driven primarily by unprofitable AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic that are…

2026-08-04 · 15:51 UTC
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Bitdeer expands AI infrastructure with long-term $4.7B data center lease

2026-08-04 · 15:50

A 16-year agreement secures 121 megawatts of AI computing capacity in Norway, highlighting how crypto mining companies…

Spotify expands AI remix and covers project with Merlin partnership

2026-08-04 · 15:50

Spotify says Merlin, which represents more than 30,000 independent labels and distributors, has joined Universal Music…

Perspec 1.0

2026-08-04 · 15:40

Perspec 1.0, a desktop application for correcting image perspective primarily designed for photos of documents and…

Walmart completes its acquisition of TV advertising company Vibe.co

2026-08-04 · 15:38

The acquisition, which was first announced in June, brings Vibe.co into Walmart Connect, Walmart's connected TV…

Elon Musk spends half his time talking robots and AI on Tesla earnings calls

2026-08-04 · 15:20

An analysis of the last seven years of Tesla earnings calls shows just little attention Musk pays to Tesla's car…

Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones

2026-08-04 · 15:16

A developer created a custom color space and procedural generation algorithm designed to generate diverse and inclusive…

Most tech revolutions made work worse for employees

2026-08-04 · 15:10

Previous technological revolutions like the PC, email, and smartphones increased work speed and efficiency but…

Amazon Surpasses $3 Trillion on Cloud Growth and the AI Boom

2026-08-04 · 15:05

Amazon crossed the 3 trillion dollar market capitalization mark for the first time on Monday, August 3, driven by strong…

Host a Side Event during TechCrunch Founder Summit Week in Boston

2026-08-04 · 15:00

Want to tap into the energy of 1,100+ startup founders, investors, and tech leaders descending on Boston for the Founder…

FFmpeg 9.0

2026-08-04 · 14:49

FFmpeg 9.0 "Lei" has been released with major improvements including a complete rewrite of the swscale library that…

2027 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport X proves code is as important as hardware

2026-08-04 · 14:45

Chevy's 721-hp hybrid ups the ante with few compromises, but at a steep cost.

Agent skills that bring team coding standards to Claude Code and Codex

2026-08-04 · 14:38

Anthropic has released ADLC Team Skills, an open-source framework that enables AI coding agents like Claude Code and…

It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism

2026-08-04 · 14:07

The article argues that major AI companies' fears stem not from ideological concerns about "AI communism," but from…

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

2026-08-04 · 14:03

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened.

Spotify now has over 300M subscribers

2026-08-04 · 13:52

Notably, the company saw its subscriber base swell by 9% in the second quarter despite raising prices in several regions…

OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal"

2026-08-04 · 13:38

“We do not have, nor want, any of their trade secrets,” the ChatGPT maker says.

Apple's AI Slop Problem Left a $200K macOS Exploit Unreported

2026-08-04 · 13:36

A Milan start-up says it found a full-takeover flaw in macOS using ChatGPT, then hit Apple's new submission cap before…

Is the future of data centers portable? Runware builds a pod to find out

2026-08-04 · 13:00

On Tuesday, AI infrastructure company Runware announced the launch of its own modular data center called Sonic Inference…

Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc

2026-08-04 · 12:01

An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening prevented players from playing even disc-based games, highlighting how…

Roame (YC S23) Is Hiring Lead Engineer

2026-08-04 · 12:00

Roame, a Y Combinator-funded flight and hotel search engine that uses credit card points and miles, is hiring a Lead…

EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers

2026-08-04 · 12:00

Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.

Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B

2026-08-04 · 11:30

At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading…

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog

2026-08-04 · 11:30

A blogger expresses frustration with AI-generated images appearing in personal blogs, arguing they undermine trust in…

Show HN: Fine-tune an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU

2026-08-04 · 11:17

Soup is a CLI tool that simplifies fine-tuning large language models on consumer GPUs by automating infrastructure setup…

Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack

2026-08-04 · 11:01

On August 4, 2026, attackers compromised the GitHub account of the keyv library maintainer and injected a…

Safe Lock-free Primitives with iceoryx2's ByteAtomic

2026-08-04 · 10:35

iceoryx2 introduces ByteAtomic, a byte-wise atomic wrapper that safely implements lock-free primitives like sequence…

Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction

2026-08-04 · 10:07

A new study by Garnelo and Czarnecki identifies why large language models consistently underperform on tabular data…

Learning-Rust.Github.io: Rust Programming Language Tutorials for Everyone

2026-08-04 · 10:03

Learning-Rust.Github.io is a free tutorial resource designed to teach Rust programming to beginners through practical…

DeepSeek V4 Flash on a Single AMD MI300X

2026-08-04 · 10:00

A developer has successfully configured DeepSeek V4 Flash to run on a single AMD MI300X GPU in production, achieving 168.

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