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Top 10 — News
- Nvidia secures multibillion-dollar Meta deal as it battles chip rivals Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware
- A new era of US antitrust-lite leaves investors little better off A Texas federal court has invalidated Biden-era rules demanding more details when seeking approval for deals
- Meta’s new deal with Nvidia buys up millions of AI chips Meta has struck a multiyear deal to expand its data centers with millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs.
- Illegal skin lightening cream being sold in UK butchers, watchdog warns A trade body has warned illegal skin bleaching products are being sold in an increasingly wide range of places.
- I invested £12,000 in Brewdog - I think I’ve lost it all More than 200,000 people bought Equity for Punks shares in the craft brewer but many now believe they are worthless.
- Intellexa’s Predator spyware used to hack iPhone of journalist in Angola, research says Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator s…
- Password managers’ promise that they can’t see your vaults isn’t always true Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
- Boost to British Steel as Turkey places high-speed rail order ‘Eight-figure agreement’ made to supply new line between Ankara and İzmir – but questions over plant’s future remain British Steel has secu…
- ‘It’s soul-crushing’: young people battle to find any work in bleak jobs market Chair of UK government review says dramatic changes in labour market risks putting ‘a generation on the scrapheap’ On any given day, Poppy…
- Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use
An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma ar…
AI tools & model updates
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.14.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.10 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.14.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.9 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: sdk: v0.75.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.80.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Manus new “Agents” mode arrives on Telegram first despite Meta owning WhatsApp Manus launches its AI agent on Telegram, letting users run complex tasks directly in chat.
- Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat I introduced Showboat a week ago - my CLI tool that helps coding agents create Markdown documents that demonstrate the code that they have…
- Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November's Opus 4.5 while maint…
- Context files for coding agents often don’t help - and may even hurt performance
Context files are supposed to make coding agents more productive.
Full list — News (50)
Social media group will purchase millions of chips even as it tries to develop its own AI hardware
A Texas federal court has invalidated Biden-era rules demanding more details when seeking approval for deals
PacifiCorp to sell wind farms, transmission lines and natural gas plant to Oregon utility Portland General Electric for $1.9bn
Both sides report ‘progress’ but warn of challenging negotiations ahead
New ‘shadow chancellor’ Robert Jenrick to make commitment in a speech to the City as populist party seeks to calm nerves
White House Council of Economic Advisers report estimates regulatory burden has cost consumers more than $237bn
More Fed history (sorry), briefly put
Also in today’s newsletter: Warner Bros reopens ownership battle and bank documents reveal Adani associates’ secret investments
Journalist’s exit comes as Bari Weiss seeks to revive Paramount-owned television network
Teachers’ unions say regulators should look at private equity giant’s apparent ‘lack of candour’
The 39-year-old conservative was the nation’s eighth president in less than a decade
Netflix grants weeklong waiver to rival bidder in high-stakes battle for control
Former Mobileum employees ‘inflated’ revenues to drive up valuation before buyout, prosecutors allege
The $35bn sale of more than 100 Rafales would be the largest ever for New Delhi and Dassault Aviation
Meta has struck a multiyear deal to expand its data centers with millions of Nvidia's Grace and Vera CPUs and Blackwell and Rubin GPUs.
A trade body has warned illegal skin bleaching products are being sold in an increasingly wide range of places.
More than 200,000 people bought Equity for Punks shares in the craft brewer but many now believe they are worthless.
Entry requirements to the UK for dual nationals are being overhauled as part of sweeping changes to the immigration system.
The company has faced years of legal battles over Roundup, a weedkiller made by Monsanto.
Unemployment in the UK rose to its highest rate in nearly five years at the end of 2025
Amnesty International says it found evidence that a government customer of Intellexa, a sanctioned surveillance vendor, used its Predator s…
Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.
‘Eight-figure agreement’ made to supply new line between Ankara and İzmir – but questions over plant’s future remain British Steel has secu…
Chair of UK government review says dramatic changes in labour market risks putting ‘a generation on the scrapheap’ On any given day, Poppy…
An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma ar…
GameHub's existing Windows emulator on Android has its fair share of issues.
Jack Altman and Benchmark announced today that he would be joining the firm as a general partner.
A combination of 3D-printed Lego-like parts, Formula 1 thinking, and a bounty program will help the company hit that target.
As the AI hardware space heats up, the iPhone maker has multiple smart products in development.
Thrive Capital just raised $10 billion for its new fund -- nearly double the size of its last fund.
The Late Show host Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him from broadcasting an interview with James Talarico, a Democratic representative fro…
Apple currently sells MacBooks equipped with its own M-series processors in a wide range of sizes and price points, all of which run the co…
Google says it will now display links more prominently inside its AI-powered features in Search.
If you’re looking for a great pair of noise-canceling headphones, Sony’s WH-1000XM6 are amongst the best available and are now down to $368…
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond launched on the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 in December, but if you’re itching for some more lore, Metroid Prime 1…
It's official: Google I/O 2026 will take place from May 19th to 20th.
In September, Apple launched its latest batch of smartwatches, including the Apple Watch Series 11, the SE 3, and the Ultra 3.
When Google announced it had engineered AirDrop compatibility for its Pixel 10 phones late last year, the pessimists among us figured it wo…
Apple is pushing ahead with plans to launch its first pair of smart glasses, along with an AI-powered pendant and camera-equipped AirPods,…
Security experts have urged people to be cautious with the viral agentic AI tool, known for being highly capable but also wildly unpredicta…
At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Singapore-based startup Strutt introduced the EV 1 , a powered personal mobility device that uses lidar , cameras…
Join Hannah Alpert (NASA Ames) to explore thermal data from the record-breaking 6-meter LOFTID inflatable aeroshell.
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Hi HN, After roughly 8 years of silently rolling 1.1 nightlies, we finally tagged a proper stable 2.0 release.
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
Amazon Bedrock now extends reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) support to popular open-weight models, including OpenAI GPT-OSS and Qwen models,…
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Release update (see link for changelog).
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Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Manus launches its AI agent on Telegram, letting users run complex tasks directly in chat.
I introduced Showboat a week ago - my CLI tool that helps coding agents create Markdown documents that demonstrate the code that they have…
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6 Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to November's Opus 4.5 while maint…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Enterprise data is inherently complex: real-world documents are multimodal, spanning text, tables, charts and graphs, images, diagrams, sca…
Context files are supposed to make coding agents more productive.
Starting today, Amazon Bedrock supports Claude Sonnet 4.6, which offers frontier performance across coding, agents, and professional work a…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents Alibaba's Qwen just released the first two models in the Qwen 3.5 series - one open weights, one…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Chinese AI labs keep shipping new models at a rapid clip.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
AWS Glue 5.1 is now available in eighteen additional AWS Regions: Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Osaka, S…
I'm a very heavy user of Claude Code on the web , Anthropic's excellent but poorly named cloud version of Claude Code where everything runs…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanatio…