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Black Forest Labs Unveils FLUX 3 AI: Ditches Stills for Video—And Robot Hands

FLUX 3 is the German AI lab’s first video model, and the same system is already teaching robots to work an Audi assembly…

Namecheap Gave My Account to an Unverified Third Party Just Because They Asked

A Namecheap customer of 13 years lost control of his account when an unverified third party called customer support and…

Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B

Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows

App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this…

Patreon lays off off 20% of its workforce

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte the company's core business is strong, but that the platform has to…

Big Tech Isn't Hiding $1.65T of Debt

A viral article claiming Big Tech companies are hiding $1.65 trillion in debt conflates future contractual obligations…

Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in eight weeks

Corgi had announced a B1 round of $106 million at a $2.6 billion valuation at the end of May.

Tesla’s door handles may spur new US safety rules

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck…

Mourning Dan Williams

Dan Williams, a prominent Linux kernel developer and longtime member of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board,…

Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year.

Fil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out [video]

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Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

Echo is an AI system that combines multiple open-weight models (like GLM-5.2 and Kimi K2.7) dynamically, allocating…

Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.

Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification.

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

Selfie for sign-in: a new, easy way to access your Google Account

Google has introduced a new sign-in method that allows users to verify their identity using a selfie video, providing an…

Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email

AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

The Series A was led by Battery Ventures, bringing AegisAI total funding to $49 million.

From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026

Researchers presented a tutorial at ACM FAccT 2026 arguing that guardrails—mechanisms filtering LLM inputs and…

Building on ATProto

Luke Kanies advocates for building decentralized review applications on Bluesky's ATProto (Atmosphere Protocol), which…

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Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models

A former Sony Walkman engineer explains why the company cannot simply revive its classic cassette, CD, or MiniDisc…

US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers

An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.

Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server

https://xcancel.com/fried_rice/status/2080059356322918777 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024938…

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

Runway no longer wants to be just another AI model company.

Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you

Claude-thermos is a tool that prevents Claude Code's prompt cache from expiring during long sessions, saving…

OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

TheNumbers.com, a highly authoritative film industry database tracking box office data for over 78,000 films, suddenly…

The arguments against open source AI are bad

The article argues that common objections to open source AI from frontier AI labs are flawed, drawing parallels to open…