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Top 10 — News
- OpenAI’s latest product lets you vibe code science OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to.
- Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs condemn ICE violence, praise Trump Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one address…
- OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.
- Meta is spending millions to convince people that data centers are cool and you like them Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washin…
- OpenAI reportedly launches ChatGPT ads at premium TV prices OpenAI is reportedly charging around $60 per 1,000 impressions for ChatGPT ads, pricing that matches premium TV spots like NFL games rather…
- SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned Article URL: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SoundCloud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782930 Points: 130 # Comment…
- Amazon Alexa+ Is Now Available to Everyone. Here’s How to Turn It Off (2026) Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn’t ask for it.
- Between Search and Platform: ChatGPT Under the DSA arXiv:2601.17064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article examines the applicability of the Digital Services Act (DSA) to ChatGPT, argui…
- How Norway Accomplished a Near-Total EV Transition More than 97 percent of the new cars Norwegians registered in November 2025 were electric, almost reaching the country’s goal of 100 percen…
- TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g8v6qr1mo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786237 Points: 96 # Commen…
AI tools & model updates
- [AINews] Anthropic launches the MCP Apps open spec, in Claude.ai Open Standards for Rich generative UI is all you need.
- modelcontextprotocol/servers: Release 2026.1.26 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.16.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.11.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Adaptive Inference in NVIDIA TensorRT for RTX Enables Automatic Optimization Deploying AI applications across diverse consumer hardware has traditionally forced a trade-off.
- Allen AI’s SERA brings open coding agents to private repos for as little as $400 in training costs Allen AI's new SERA coding agents can be trained on private code bases for as little as $400, putting custom AI development tools within re…
- One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor's FastRender browser project…
- ollama/ollama: v0.15.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Bedrock now supports 1-hour duration for prompt caching Amazon Bedrock now supports a 1-hour time-to-live (TTL) option for prompt caching for select Anthropic Claude models.
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OpenAI just revealed what its new in-house team, OpenAI for Science, has been up to.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman spoke out against ICE enforcement tactics following Minneapolis violence, with one address…
Unusually detailed post explains how OpenAI handles the Codex agent loop.
When Elon Musk was at Davos last week, an interviewer asked him if he thought aging could be reversed.
“International partners, I have not been allowed to talk to yet because of the trade wars."
Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places.
A loss could cost social media companies billions and force changes on platforms.
This is the first major upgrade since Apple introduced AirTags five years ago.
Bruce of Drain Cleaning Australia wants everyone to share his deep abiding love for a free-flowing drain.
"That's why we're here, that's why we're building what we're building."
Over the last few months of 2025, Meta spent $6.4 million on an ad campaign running in cities across the country, from Sacramento to Washin…
OpenAI has launched a new scientific workspace program called Prism, which integrates AI into existing standards for composing research pap…
Anthropic looks to raise $20 billion at more than $300 billion valuation, according to reports.
European governments are looking to move away from U.S.
This is a race series for software programmers and the brainchild of founder Palmer Luckey, he tells TechCrunch.
Jury selection begins Tuesday as this case moves closer to trial.
TikTok says some of the glitches continue but it's making "significant progress" in recovering its U.S.
Abusing Microsoft's reputation may make scam harder to spot.
"A thorough investigation will be conducted by NASA into the cause."
Significant discounts come with committing to 1- to 3-year rental periods.
AI Overviews may get it right more often with the move to Gemini 3.
The EX60 senses a passenger's size and weight, determining how much force to use.
Apple renews certificates for old iOS versions to keep the lights on longer.
IMSA Labs will use the vast amount of race car data collected during a race to improve simulations.
These chemical oddities may explain why Earth seems to be deficient in certain elements.
Kirk Milhoan's comments come as federal vaccine policy slides to insignificance.
Company's autodiscover caused users' test credentials to be sent outside Microsoft networks.
Staffers warn DOT's use of Gemini to draft rules could cause injuries and deaths.
The colossal winter storm that swept across 34 states left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity.
When Netflix first acquired cozy game developer Spry Fox in 2022, it made a lot of sense.
Bluesky is teasing new features and improvements ranging from the Discover feed to video support.
The lawsuit, filed in 2023, alleged that Amazon caused "substantial unjustified monetary losses” for consumers who returned an item but wer…
Gemini 3 Pro and other AI tools are now available globally through the Google AI Plus plan, which is $7.99 per month in the United States.
A trip in a Waymo robotaxi still costs more, on average, than a comparable ride in a human-driven Uber or a Lyft.
Pornhub parent company Aylo will restrict access from U.K.
Strict Account Settings adds restrictions like automatically blocking media and attachments from unknown senders, and silencing calls from…
The tech giant also announced that it's making Gemini 3 the new default model for AI Overviews globally.
Google says Android devices will get new security features, like stronger authentication safeguards and enhanced recovery tools.
Any move to restrict children's access to social media in India would carry significant implications for global technology companies, for w…
Upon closing down some stores in 2024, an Amazon spokesperson said that the company "couldn't make the economics work with the lease cost."…
"Our special sauce is the prompt libraries, the eval suites, and the thousands and thousands of real-world examples that the AI gets traine…
The phone's display unfolds twice to reveal a 10-inch display, which is the largest screen ever on a Galaxy phone.
“We are just at such a prime time of opportunity,” Gates said to explain the new fundraise.
An open-source AI agent that "actually does things" is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they're using the agent to do a w…
Today’s robot vacuums are becoming a bit like cars: with all the features, upgrades, and fancy trimmings available these days, it’s easy to…
Fitness trackers have come a long way from the simple bands that tracked steps and little else.
Razer has announced the beta release of a new online customization tool compatible with several versions of its Huntsman V3 Pro keyboards a…
Amazon Go and Fresh physical store locations will soon be no more, with Amazon announcing on Tuesday that it's closing the majority of the…
Reincubate, which makes the Camo and Camo Studio apps for turning your iOS or Android phone into a webcam for your Mac or PC, is suing Appl…
Buying separate chargers for your phone, watch, and earbuds adds up quickly.
OpenAI is reportedly charging around $60 per 1,000 impressions for ChatGPT ads, pricing that matches premium TV spots like NFL games rather…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns that convenience is leading us to give AI agents too much control without the necessary security infrastructure…
Kevin Weil leads OpenAI's science team and believes GPT-5 is already making researchers more productive.
Dario Amodei outlines the dangers of powerful AI systems in a new essay.
The British government has chosen Anthropic to develop an AI assistant for the GOV.UK website.
Article URL: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/SoundCloud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782930 Points: 130 # Comment…
More than 97 percent of the new cars Norwegians registered in November 2025 were electric, almost reaching the country’s goal of 100 percen…
“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.” Spoken by Sonia Sotomayor , associate justice of the U.S.
Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn’t ask for it.
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sex…
A federal agent allegedly tried to enter Google’s Cambridge campus in the fall, WIRED has learned.
Fauna, a new startup, is betting that humanoid robots will find success as hospitality workers, research assistants, and entertainers.
Just last October, Andrej Karpathy dismissed AI agents: "They just don't work." Now he says 80 percent of his coding is agent-based and cal…
We asked tech CEOs, journalists, entertainers, students, and more about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.
arXiv:2601.17064v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article examines the applicability of the Digital Services Act (DSA) to ChatGPT, argui…
arXiv:2601.17072v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Almost every industry today confronts the potential role of artificial intelligence and mac…
arXiv:2601.17055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This longitudinal pilot study tracked how generative AI reshapes problem-solving over six m…
arXiv:2601.17054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The potential for bias and unfairness in AI-supporting government services raises ethical a…
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c24g8v6qr1mo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46786237 Points: 96 # Commen…
Article URL: https://openssl-library.org/news/vulnerabilities/#CVE-2025-15467 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782662 P…
arXiv:2601.17000v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There has been a growing trend in employing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tech…
arXiv:2601.17001v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Twenty-five years ago, Joel Reidenberg argued that technology itself, not just law and regu…
arXiv:2601.17003v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for mental health support, yet existing…
arXiv:2601.17005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The reliability of survey data is crucial in supply chain decision-making, particularly whe…
arXiv:2601.17011v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a disruptive innovation in medicine…
arXiv:2601.17012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid increase in the world's aging population to 16% by the year 2050 spurs the need f…
arXiv:2601.17013v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this Article, I explore the impending conflict between the protection of civil rights an…
arXiv:2601.17016v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: With the incredible advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), many people have started…
arXiv:2601.17017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving traffic management in case of perturbation is one of the main challenges in today…
arXiv:2601.17018v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The development of Creativity, Communication, Critical Thinking, and Collaboration (the 4Cs…
arXiv:2601.17023v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Career decision-making is a socio-technical problem: individuals exercise bounded agency wh…
arXiv:2601.17024v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has created a pre…
arXiv:2601.17025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Among populations with limited literacy in emerging digital markets, the adoption of mobile…
arXiv:2601.17060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificially intelligent systems have become remarkably sophisticated.
arXiv:2601.17082v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite substantial efforts toward improving the moral alignment of Vision-Language Models…
arXiv:2601.17096v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent scholarship typically characterizes Large Language Models (LLMs) through either an \…
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I grew up on the Infocom games and when microsoft actually open-sourced Zork 1/2/3 I really wanted to figure out how to use LLMs to let you…
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Open Standards for Rich generative UI is all you need.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
One of my favourite features of ChatGPT is its ability to write and execute code in a container.
Deploying AI applications across diverse consumer hardware has traditionally forced a trade-off.
AWS Network Firewall now provides visibility into generative AI (GenAI) application traffic and supports traffic filtering based on web cat…
Recent advances in large-scale diffusion models have revolutionized generative AI across multiple domains, from image synthesis to audio ge…
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Allen AI's new SERA coding agents can be trained on private code bases for as little as $400, putting custom AI development tools within re…
One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch embedding-shapes was so infuriated by the hype around Cursor's FastRender browser project…
Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Vibe 2.0, an upgrade to its terminal-based coding agent powered by the Devstral 2 model.
Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligence Kimi K2 landed in July as a 1 trillion parameter open weight LLM.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Someone asked on Hacker News if I had any tips for getting coding agents to write decent quality tests.
Amazon Bedrock now supports a 1-hour time-to-live (TTL) option for prompt caching for select Anthropic Claude models.