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Top 10 — News
- Report: China approves import of high-end Nvidia AI chips after weeks of uncertainty Over 400,000 H200 chips coming to tech giants as China tries to balance tech needs with self-reliance.
- What AI “remembers” about you is privacy’s next frontier The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents.
- Microsoft gained $7.6B from OpenAI last quarter Microsoft, one of OpenAI's major investors, is benefiting greatly from the AI lab's growth.
- Halide co-founder Sebastiaan de With is joining Apple’s design team Sebastiaan de With, known for his work on apps like Halide, Kino, and Orion as the co-founder of Lux, is joining Apple's design team, he an…
- China greenlights 400,000 Nvidia H200 chip imports for tech giants, according to Reuters China has authorized ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase Nvidia's H200 AI chips, Reuters reports, citing four people familiar with…
- Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new re…
- How Clean-Energy Firms Adapt Messaging in the Trump Era As the Trump administration doubles down on its energy and AI dominance agenda, U.S.
- Assessing metadata privacy in neuroimaging arXiv:2509.15278v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ethical and legal imperative to share research data without causing harm requ…
- I reverse-engineered Netflix’s 4K restrictions Article URL: https://github.com/Pickle-Pixel/netflix-force-4k Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803451 Points: 59 # Comm…
- Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k
Article URL: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/sporting/a70171886/ross-stevens-american-olympians-donation/ Comments URL: https://n…
AI tools & model updates
- openai/openai-node: v6.17.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- OpenAI’s Prism combines LaTeX editor, reference manager, and GPT-5.2 in one tool OpenAI has launched Prism, a free AI workspace for scientific writing.
- openai/openai-python: v2.16.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.0-patch Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon EKS and Amazon EKS Distro now supports Kubernetes version 1.35 Kubernetes version 1.35 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic K…
- ICE Is Using Palantir’s AI Tools to Sort Through Tips ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Ho…
- Updating Classifier Evasion for Vision Language Models Advances in AI architectures have unlocked multimodal functionality, enabling transformer models to process multiple forms of data in the s…
- [AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.5 - Beats Sonnet 4.5 at half the cost, SOTA Open Model, first Native Image+Video, 100 parallel Agent Swarm manager China takes another huge leap ahead in open models
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Over 400,000 H200 chips coming to tech giants as China tries to balance tech needs with self-reliance.
The ability to remember you and your preferences is rapidly becoming a big selling point for AI chatbots and agents.
Congress recently grilled the acting chief on mass layoffs and a failed polygraph.
AI is driving unprecedented investment for massive data centers and an energy supply that can support its huge computational appetite.
From the Gemini Calendar prompt-injection attack of 2026 to the September 2025 state-sponsored hack using Anthropic’s Claude code as an aut…
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.
Mark Zuckerberg's social media platforms are assisting the Trump administration.
One of the last holdouts for ransomware discussions, RAMP is taken down.
Anti-vaccine Kennedy may be "enacting a self-fulfilling prophecy," expert says.
TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.
Microsoft, one of OpenAI's major investors, is benefiting greatly from the AI lab's growth.
The reported financial losses follow a series of layoffs at the VR unit.
ServiceNow partners with Anthropic just a week after announcing a partnership with OpenAI as the company takes a multi-model approach.
30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from…
The new rules apply to nuclear reactors built on Department of Energy property, which includes several currently being developed by startup…
The deal’s purpose is primarily to acquire talent, aka an acqui-hire, adding nine key Cleanlab employees to Handshake’s research organizati…
More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent.
For the Mac versions of pro apps, things aren't actually changing much (yet).
“We need to think about food and shelter.
SpaceX won't make specific promises on Starlink network capacity or subscribers.
Plaintiffs called Norfolk's Flock camera network a “dragnet."
Despite proof-of-concept video, EA's Frostbite Engine servers are difficult to pick apart.
"This is an attempt to learn more..."
The Auto Browse agent is available to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but there are some limits.
Since start of the year, South Carolina's outbreak has accelerated dramatically.
The tradeoffs in the $499 9850X3D make it hard to get excited about.
A 5,500-year-old fossil from Colombia has scientists rethinking syphilis origins.
The open source "Jarvis" chats via WhatsApp but requires access to your files and accounts.
Imagine: You lost your car's cargo rack, but didn't notice until you reached your destination.
Abusing Microsoft's reputation may make scam harder to spot.
Mark Zuckerberg says 2026 will be "a big year for delivering personal super intelligence."
The company will stop making the pioneering EVs in the second quarter of 2026, CEO Elon Musk announced Wednesday.
Take Zuckerberg's outlook with a grain of salt.
Elon Musk's AI company xAI disclosed earlier this month it had raised $20 billion.
Elon Musk says X will begin identifying "manipulated media" but doesn't share details.
paceX is reportedly lining up four major Wall Street banks for a 2026 IPO that could provide the reset the market needs.
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Outtake makes an agentic cybersecurity platform to help enterprises detect identity fraud.
The company's sales fell for a second year in a row, as Tesla looks to AI and robotics, including a new $2 billion investment in CEO Elon M…
An unidentified bidder submitted a Hail Mary offer that was "substantially higher" than the winning bid at auction.
WhatsApp plans to charge developers of AI chatbots per message.
The organic kids' snack food company may debut as soon as next week.
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Google Chrome is adding Gemini in the sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users.
Patreon isn’t happy about Apple’s new subscription billing mandate, arguing Apple’s shifting rules create uncertainty for creators.
SpaceX eyes June for IPO to align with Musk's birthday and the planets.
Sebastiaan de With, known for his work on apps like Halide, Kino, and Orion as the co-founder of Lux, is joining Apple's design team, he an…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse dreams seem to have been replaced by a new vision: an AI-generated social feed.
Windows 11 now has 1 billion users.
Tesla will discontinue the Model S and Model X in the second quarter of 2026, Elon Musk said in an earnings call with investors today.
If you’ve been holding off on getting a new iPhone, now’s the perfect time to size up your options.
We live in a golden age of controllers.
Google is launching a new "auto browse" feature inside Chrome that can perform multi-step tasks on your behalf.
In its earnings report, Tesla says that the third-generation version of its Optimus humanoid robot "meant for mass production" will be unve…
Microsoft just posted the second quarter of its 2026 fiscal financial results.
Tesla just reported its second consecutive year of declining revenue and profits, further complicating Elon Musk's $1 trillion effort to tr…
China has authorized ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent to purchase Nvidia's H200 AI chips, Reuters reports, citing four people familiar with…
Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new re…
As the Trump administration doubles down on its energy and AI dominance agenda, U.S.
In the 1990s, astronomers confirmed the first planets orbiting stars beyond our sun.
arXiv:2509.15278v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The ethical and legal imperative to share research data without causing harm requ…
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum ’s careers newsletter.
Catastrophic risks are increasing, cooperation is declining, and swift action is needed from global leaders to correct course.
People are letting the viral AI assistant formerly known as Clawdbot run their lives, regardless of the privacy concerns.
The US company Figure AI has presented a system that controls a humanoid robot via a single neural network.
Alexa+ has been rolling out to everyone with a Prime membership, even if you didn’t ask for it.
arXiv:2601.19886v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The race for artificial intelligence (AI) dominance often prioritizes scale over efficien…
arXiv:2601.19837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: European digital identity initiatives are grounded in regulatory frameworks designed to e…
arXiv:2601.12946v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly populating medical records with synt…
arXiv:2510.15303v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large web-scale datasets have driven the rapid advancement of pre-trained languag…
Article URL: https://github.com/Pickle-Pixel/netflix-force-4k Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803451 Points: 59 # Comm…
arXiv:2601.18899v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-powered Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems achieve stron…
arXiv:2601.18799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As digital twins (DTs) evolve to become more agentic through the integration of artificial…
arXiv:2601.18802v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Augmented Reality (AR) is a powerful perceptual technology that can alter what users see, h…
arXiv:2601.19062v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Although AI assistants are now deeply embedded in society, there has been limited empirical…
arXiv:2601.19342v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Job scams have emerged as a rapidly growing form of cybercrime that manipulates human decis…
arXiv:2601.18979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Extended Reality in early childhood education presents high-risk challenges due to childr…
arXiv:2601.19376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents the web-based platform Machine Learning with Bricks and an accompanyi…
arXiv:2601.19778v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The software engineering research community faces a systemic crisis: peer review is faili…
arXiv:2601.19814v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intricate interactions among firms, institutions, and spatial structures shape urban econ…
arXiv:2508.13187v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Homelessness is a persistent social challenge, impacting millions worldwide.
arXiv:2601.11699v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier AI is becoming critical societal infrastructure, but outsiders lack reliable w…
arXiv:2601.17011v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background: Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a disruptive innovation in medi…
arXiv:2505.23785v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This position paper argues that large language models (LLMs) can make cultural co…
arXiv:2601.03156v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As generative AI systems become integrated into real-world applications, organiza…
arXiv:2601.11527v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to provide support and a…
Article URL: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/sporting/a70171886/ross-stevens-american-olympians-donation/ Comments URL: https://n…
Article URL: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/please-dont-say-mean-things-about-the-ai-that-i-just-invested-a-billion-dollars-in Comment…
Article URL: https://mahadk.com/posts/ai-skills-hub Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46803119 Points: 144 # Comments: 43
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Article URL: https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/contributing/llm-policies/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801976 Point…
I’ve been experimenting with embedding an Claude Code/Cursor-style coding agent directly into the browser.
Article URL: https://www.approachwithalacrity.com/how-to-turn-sfo-jfk-into-a-beautiful-photo/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
I built this out of curiosity about what Claude Code was actually sending to the API.
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (17)
Release update (see link for changelog).
OpenAI has launched Prism, a free AI workspace for scientific writing.
Release update (see link for changelog).
This post introduces Dynamic Context Parallelism (Dynamic-CP), a scheduling approach in NVIDIA Megatron Core used for LLM post-training or…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Kubernetes version 1.35 introduced several new features and bug fixes, and AWS is excited to announce that you can now use Amazon Elastic K…
Why the time is right to start the world's first dedicated AI for Science podcast, and why AI Engineers should care
ICE has been using an AI-powered Palantir system to summarize tips sent to its tip line since last spring, according to a newly released Ho…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Google’s latest addition to its Chrome browser puts generative AI behind the wheel and you in the passenger seat.
NVIDIA Run:ai v2.24 introduces time-based fairshare, a new scheduling mode that brings fair-share scheduling with time awareness for over-q…
Advances in AI architectures have unlocked multimodal functionality, enabling transformer models to process multiple forms of data in the s…
AI startup Decart has unveiled Lucy 2.0, a real-time video transformation model.
Google Deepmind is adding a new capability called "Agentic Vision" to its Gemini 3 Flash model.
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Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.5, which the company says is the most powerful open-weight model available.
China takes another huge leap ahead in open models
Release update (see link for changelog).