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Top 10 — News
- KKR eyes multibillion-dollar sale of data centre cooling company Private capital firm seeks big return on investment in CoolIT Systems as AI boom boosts valuations
- Why an Iran war inflation shock could wreck global economic recovery Central bankers and economists warn prolonged conflict could raise retail prices and rip up growth forecasts Middle East crisis – live upda…
- Why holiday meal money for cash-strapped parents is back on the menu The school holiday food grant was axed by the Department of Education in 2023 due to a lack of money.
- OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense,…
- Hunting for elusive “ghost elephants” Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.
- OpenAI’s hardware and robotics chief quits over military deal she says lacked enough deliberation OpenAI's head of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, is leaving the company over its Pentagon deal, citing concerns about mass surveillance and l…
- Military AI Policy Needs Democratic Oversight A simmering dispute between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and Anthropic has now escalated into a full-blown confrontation ,…
- Lisp-style C++ template meta programming Article URL: https://github.com/mistivia/lmp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292029 Points: 51 # Comments: 6
- Notes on Writing WASM Article URL: https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-on-Writing-Wasm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295837 Point…
- I’m Not Consulting an LLM
Article URL: https://lr0.org/blog/p/gpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295670 Points: 29 # Comments: 12
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI offers open-source maintainers six months of free ChatGPT Pro and Codex access OpenAI supports open-source developers with free access to ChatGPT Pro, Codex and security tools.
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.16.4 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-node: v6.27.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.26.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.14-stable.gpt-5.4-patch5 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Introducing GPT‑5.4 Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro , also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI.
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.8.9 Release update (see link for changelog).
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.17.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain==0.3.28 Release update (see link for changelog).
- KernelAgent: Hardware-Guided GPU Kernel Optimization via Multi-Agent Orchestration
Summary Recently, the PyTorch team released KernelAgent, an open agentic system achieving 100% correctness across all 250 L1/L2/L3 KernelBe…
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Private capital firm seeks big return on investment in CoolIT Systems as AI boom boosts valuations
Should the regime survive, hardliners believe the IRGC’s influence will be ever greater
The son of the ousted shah and a longstanding rebel group spend big in Washington in hopes of ruling in Tehran
Foreign minister Wang Yi says Beijing ‘positive and open’ on this month’s summit between the US and Chinese presidents
Data centres, energy projects and hotels move to limit potential losses
Failure to defend their ideology has created an intellectual vacuum on the American left
However this conflict concludes, the US and Iran’s new leaders will have to revisit the same issues that sparked hostilities
Papers allegedly belonging to deceased crime boss Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera suggest he bribed police and other organisations
Collapse in enrolment at Glasgow Caledonian University outpost reflects upheaval in sector as ministers curb migration
VFS boss Zubin Karkaria is confident global migration will remain resilient despite new tensions
Tehran’s missiles are key to its retaliation against Israel and the US.
Murders have fallen in Fortaleza in the north-east, but that may be because one mob is dominant and can extort at will
A merger between two big ride-hailing companies could make life harder for drivers
Self-service kiosks make us buy more stuff and feel more lonely
Iran targets infrastructure in Bahrain and Kuwait as Middle East conflict enters ninth day
Korean giant’s device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools
Central bankers and economists warn prolonged conflict could raise retail prices and rip up growth forecasts Middle East crisis – live upda…
The school holiday food grant was axed by the Department of Education in 2023 due to a lack of money.
From Gates to Musk and Altman, today’s ultra-rich steer AI and tech, raising questions about who decides the future When Bill Gates became…
Self-styled ‘punk’ beer company bought land in 2020, pledging to plant Scotland’s ‘biggest ever forest’ The self-styled “punk” beer company…
The closing of a cluster of leading creative venues has led to dismay and intensified fears the hubs that fostered Glasgow’s celebrated art…
Tech firms condemned for lack of controls with Meta AI and Gemini even offering advice on how to bypass UK gambling and addiction checks AI…
Founder of family-owned firm says it will pause acquisitions after takeover of 15 Compass Coffee stores in US Caffè Nero will continue open…
Rogue operators draw in customers by advertising low prices, but when the work is done they invoice 10 times that sum Late on a Sunday nigh…
Plastic, textiles, e-waste and more end up at the vast Dandora site, where waste pickers spend all hours sifting through toxic debris looki…
It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only ser…
Government says new rights for parental leave and sick pay will increase equality and economic growth Women will disproportionately benefit…
Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI's controversial agreement with the Department of Defense,…
Werner Herzog directed this evocative NatGeo documentary of an ornithologist's quest to find a new species.
The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week's Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on…
A coalition of telecom operators and device makers is pushing $40 smartphones to bring up to 20 million people online, but rising component…
Most of it is tied to performance, including new stock incentives linked to Waymo and Wing, its drone delivery venture.
A recently-added feature in Grammarly purports to improve users’ writing with help from the world's great writers and thinkers — and some t…
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OpenAI's head of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, is leaving the company over its Pentagon deal, citing concerns about mass surveillance and l…
A simmering dispute between the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and Anthropic has now escalated into a full-blown confrontation ,…
A large-scale study shows that AI agent development focuses almost entirely on programming tasks, ignoring the vast majority of the labor m…
Article URL: https://github.com/mistivia/lmp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292029 Points: 51 # Comments: 6
Article URL: https://notes.brooklynzelenka.com/Blog/Notes-on-Writing-Wasm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295837 Point…
Article URL: https://lr0.org/blog/p/gpt/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295670 Points: 29 # Comments: 12
I know there are companies that are highly productive with AI including ours.
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47295537 Points: 42 # Comments: 3
A DIY Newtonian reflector telescope with dobsonian mount.
Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/HQTueNS4mLaGy3BBL/here-s-to-the-polypropylene-makers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
Article URL: https://github.com/ataraxy-labs/sem Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294924 Points: 9 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293682 Points: 81 # Comments: 50
Article URL: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/17643 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293415 Points: 186 # Comments:…
Article URL: https://devblog.ecuadors.net/cloud-vm-benchmarks-2026-performance-price-1i1m.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…
Article URL: https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292522 Points: 170 # Comments: 49
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Article URL: https://github.com/0x0mer/CasNum Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291292 Points: 282 # Comments: 35
Article URL: https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291123 Points: 120 # Comments: 33
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
OpenAI supports open-source developers with free access to ChatGPT Pro, Codex and security tools.
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Introducing GPT‑5.4 Two new API models: gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.4-pro , also available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Anthropic and the Pentagon This piece by Bruce Schneier and Nathan E.
Accepted papers at leading AI conferences contain hallucinated references: citations that don't point to any real publication.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Bytedance researchers say Helios is the first 14-billion-parameter video model to hit 19.5 FPS on a single GPU while generating minute-long…
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Summary Recently, the PyTorch team released KernelAgent, an open agentic system achieving 100% correctness across all 250 L1/L2/L3 KernelBe…
Photos of animals being identified by the SpeciesNet AI model
Descript uses OpenAI models to scale multilingual video dubbing, optimizing translations for both meaning and timing so dubbed speech sound…
See how Balyasny built an AI research system with GPT-5.4, rigorous model evaluation, and agent workflows to transform investment analysis…
Agentic Engineering Patterns > The defining characteristic of a coding agent is that it can execute the code that it writes.
Clinejection — Compromising Cline's Production Releases just by Prompting an Issue Triager Adnan Khan describes a devious attack chain agai…
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ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright com…
Release update (see link for changelog).