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Top 10 — News
- Russia blocks Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service Move follows months of pushing users to state-controlled app
- US House votes to overturn Trump’s tariffs on Canada President expected to veto measure in which six Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke trade war on ally
- OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of “Facebook” path Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
- Microsoft says hackers are exploiting critical zero-day bugs to target Windows and Office users Critical security flaws targeting Windows and Office users allow hackers to take complete control of a victim's computer by clicking a mali…
- Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is ‘problematic,’ not addiction Instagram's Adam Mosseri faced questioning about the impact of his platform on minors.
- Scrap proposed England holiday tax, hospitality bosses urge Critics say the proposed tax could force families to shorten trips or spend their money overseas.
- El Paso airport closed after military used new anti-drone laser to zap party balloon "I want to be very, very clear that this should’ve never happened."
- Housing market in England and Wales ‘showing tentative signs of recovery’ Rics surveyors report inquiries from new buyers, agreed sales and house prices were less negative in January There are “tentative signs” th…
- Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents' electricity bills.
- OpenAI disbands mission alignment team
The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the co…
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI says ChatGPT update improves response style and quality OpenAI is now pushing model improvements between major releases.
- Skills in OpenAI API Skills in OpenAI API OpenAI's adoption of Skills continues to gain ground.
- OpenAI upgrades Responses API with features built specifically for long-running AI agents OpenAI is giving its Responses API new tools for autonomous agents that can run for hours, access the internet, and load reusable skill pac…
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.13.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.20.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-node: v6.21.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.19.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-node: v6.20.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.3-stable.opus-4-6 Release update (see link for changelog).
- GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering This is a huge new MIT-licensed model: 754B parameters and 1.51TB on Hugging Face twice the…
Full list — News (50)
Move follows months of pushing users to state-controlled app
President expected to veto measure in which six Republicans joined Democrats to rebuke trade war on ally
Billionaire tells staff he wants ‘self-sustaining city on the moon’ before going to Mars
US attorney-general defends Trump administration’s release of documents and immigration enforcement
Claim that military laser was used without regulatory approval follows assertion of drone activity from Mexican cartels
US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
Agreement with Ministry of Defence intended to steer ‘tens of thousands’ into roles ranging from logistics to healthcare
Treasury appoints HSBC and law firm Ashurst to lead project first announced by Rachel Reeves in 2024
Jim Ratcliffe says Flemish government’s decision to suspend licence of flagship chemical site pushed costs up by a quarter
Ineos founder also says prime minister needs to get the country ‘back on track’
US president backs talks with Tehran while building up military presence in the Middle East
Affordability has emerged as a top concern as economic uncertainty limits household budgets
Executive order also allocates $175mn to upgrade coal power plants in five states
Government says new legislation will curb overseas interference in elections
Also in today’s newsletter: China charges former AstraZeneca executive, and India slashes takedown time on unlawful online content
Food group pauses separation work and unveils $600mn investments to revive growth
St James’s Place leads declines with double-digit slide on FTSE 100
Zoë Hitzig resigned on the same day OpenAI began testing ads in its chatbot.
Critical security flaws targeting Windows and Office users allow hackers to take complete control of a victim's computer by clicking a mali…
Instagram's Adam Mosseri faced questioning about the impact of his platform on minors.
Critics say the proposed tax could force families to shorten trips or spend their money overseas.
The Netherlands has the lowest working hours in Europe, but some say it is harming its economy.
"I want to be very, very clear that this should’ve never happened."
Rics surveyors report inquiries from new buyers, agreed sales and house prices were less negative in January There are “tentative signs” th…
Anthropic is the latest AI company promising to limit the impact its data centers have on nearby residents' electricity bills.
ClickFix bait, combined with advanced Castleloader malware, is installing Lumma "at scale."
The team's leader has been given a new role as OpenAI's chief futurist, while the other team members have been reassigned throughout the co…
PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’ Keir Starmer has said Manchester Un…
The administration's "reasoning" for doing so has little connection to reality.
He became one of the first to visualize personal computing by painting vivid cover art.
"We are in the part of the program where we are doing very nasty things to the engine."
Guano dramatically boosted the production of maize, and the surplus helped fuel the Chincha Kingdom’s economy.
On Wednesday, xAI took the rare step of publishing its full 45-minute all-hands presentation to the X platform, making it widely available.
General Catalyst is in talks to lead the round for the four-year-old startup, according to our sources.
While the new Siri was expected to launch with the upcoming iOS 26.4 update in March, now, the changes are expected to roll out more slowly…
Uber Eats launched a new AI feature, “Cart Assistant,” that can automatically add items to your cart based on text or image prompts.
Enterprise AI is shifting fast from chatbots that answer questions to systems that actually do the work across an organization.
At least nine engineers, including two co-founders, have announced their exits from xAI in the past week, fueling online speculation and ra…
Highguard, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty, launched just over two weeks a…
Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25…
On Wednesday, Apple released its latest iOS 26 update, which includes a new process for switching from an iPhone to an Android phone, as pr…
Valentine's Day is often thought of as the quintessential Hallmark holiday - and why wouldn't it be?
In June 2024, in a dusty TV shop empty of customers save myself, my wife, and my kids, I stared deep into the LG C3 and Samsung S90C.
Aurora, the driverless truck firm founded by former members of Google's pioneering self-driving car team, is branching out.
Apple had been reportedly pushing to introduce some big changes to Siri with iOS 26.4, but now the company is planning to introduce them in…
Inside Boltz, AlphaFold’s Legacy, and the Tools Powering Next-Gen Molecular Discovery
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/covering-electricity-price-increases Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4698105…
Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6155012 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46982792 Points…
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
OpenAI is now pushing model improvements between major releases.
Skills in OpenAI API OpenAI's adoption of Skills continues to gain ground.
OpenAI is giving its Responses API new tools for autonomous agents that can run for hours, access the internet, and load reusable skill pac…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Anthropic's Claude Cowork launches on Windows with full macOS feature parity and the same security risks.
Building robust, intelligent robots requires testing them in complex environments.
Today, AWS Payment Cryptography has become one of the first cloud-based payment cryptography services to obtain approval from Groupement de…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Alibaba's Qwen team has introduced Qwen-Image-2.0, a compact image model that can create and edit images.
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering This is a huge new MIT-licensed model: 754B parameters and 1.51TB on Hugging Face twice the…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Europe (Paris), Canada (Central),…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now enables you to manage individual cluster nodes directly from the AWS Console.
A key challenge working with coding agents is having them both test what they’ve built and demonstrate that software to you, their overseer.
Scientists and engineers who design and build unique scientific research facilities face similar challenges.
Amazon Bedrock now supports six new models spanning frontier reasoning and agentic coding: DeepSeek V3.2, MiniMax M2.1, GLM 4.7, GLM 4.7 Fl…
Amazon OpenSearch Serverless now supports Collection Groups, a new capability that enables you to share OpenSearch Compute Units (OCUs) acr…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Structured Context Engineering for File-Native Agentic Systems New paper by Damon McMillan exploring challenging LLM context tasks involvin…
Amazon Neptune Analytics is now available in Middle East (Bahrain), Middle East (UAE), Israel (Tel Aviv), Africa (Cape Town), Canada (Calga…