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Today: OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro · Daniel Moreno-Gama is facing federal charges for attacking Sam… · AI: ChatGPT voice mode is a weaker model.
Top 10 — News
- OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.
- Daniel Moreno-Gama is facing federal charges for attacking Sam Altman’s home and OpenAI’s HQ Daniel Moreno-Gama is now facing federal charges after allegedly traveling from Texas to California with the intent to kill OpenAI CEO Sam…
- Retro Rewind re-creates the glorious drudgery of working a ’90s video store What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm.
- You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot on AliExpress Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets.
- Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug Article URL: https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759709 Poin…
- Why it’s impossible to measure England’s coastline https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ion-Andronache/post/Wha...
- SnapState - Persistent state for AI agent workflows Article URL: https://snapstate.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759400 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
- Measles takes a plane to Idaho, which has worst vaccination rate in US In the 2024-2025 school year, only 78.5% of kindergartners had measles vaccination.
- Google shoehorned Rust into Pixel 10 modem to make legacy code safer Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust.
- NZXT agrees to let customers keep their rental PCs in class-action settlement
NZXT will forgive up to $5,000 in debt for customers of the Flex program.
AI tools & model updates
- ChatGPT voice mode is a weaker model I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model - it feels like the AI that you…
- ChatGPT for operations teams Learn how operations teams use ChatGPT to streamline workflows, improve coordination, standardize processes, and drive faster execution.
- OpenAI’s leaked memo says new “Spud” model will make all its products “significantly better” An internal OpenAI memo lays out five strategic priorities for the enterprise business - including a new model codenamed "Spud," a platform…
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.19.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-python: v0.94.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- MiniMax M2.7 Advances Scalable Agentic Workflows on NVIDIA Platforms for Complex AI Applications The release of MiniMax M2.7 adds enhancements to the popular MiniMax M2.5 model, built for agentic harnesses,...
- anthropics/anthropic-sdk-typescript: vertex-sdk: v0.16.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon.
- ollama/ollama: v0.20.7 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Redshift introduces key performance optimization for Top-K queries
Amazon Redshift further optimizes the processing of top-k queries (queries with ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses) by intelligently skipping irrel…
Full list — News (30)
The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.
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Daniel Moreno-Gama is now facing federal charges after allegedly traveling from Texas to California with the intent to kill OpenAI CEO Sam…
What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm.
In the 2024-2025 school year, only 78.5% of kindergartners had measles vaccination.
Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust.
NZXT will forgive up to $5,000 in debt for customers of the Flex program.
Fake it till you make it.
This past Saturday at the Coachella music festival, Justin Bieber played the first of two headlining sets in a deal reportedly worth $10 mi…
Though Amazon has faced issues with warehouse safety, the company said that the death was not work related.
Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.
Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and re…
Chicago-based music superfan Aadam Jacobs has been recording the concerts he goes to since the 1980s, amassing an archive of over 10,000 ta…
IBM entered into a $17 million settlement agreement on Friday with the U.S.
The new features would be geared toward enterprise customers, with better security controls than the famously risky open source OpenClaw ag…
Stanford’s latest AI Index shows a widening gap between experts and the public, with rising anxiety over jobs, healthcare, and the economy.
A year ago, Mercedes-Benz did the prudent thing and paused its EQ lineup of electric vehicles in the US.
Microsoft just raised the prices across its line of Surface devices amid the global RAM shortage.
NZXT and its business partner Fragile have agreed to pay $3.45 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused the companies of attem…
Coachella kicked off on Friday, and as usual, it's the place to be for online influencers looking to show off their memorable experiences a…
Unitree is bringing its R1 to international markets.
Article URL: https://kirancodes.me/posts/log-who-watches-the-watchers.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759709 Poin…
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ion-Andronache/post/Wha...
Article URL: https://snapstate.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759400 Points: 6 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/fabienmillet/WiiFin Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759341 Points: 62 # Comments: 20
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-ai-revolution-in-math-has-arrived-20260413/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
N-Day-Bench tests whether frontier LLMs can find known security vulnerabilities in real repository code.
Article URL: https://github.github.com/gh-stack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757495 Points: 446 # Comments: 257
Article URL: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/chimera-install-zfs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756876 Points: 45 # Comm…
Article URL: https://amd-gaia.ai/docs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756772 Points: 101 # Comments: 24
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
I think it's non-obvious to many people that the OpenAI voice mode runs on a much older, much weaker model - it feels like the AI that you…
Learn how operations teams use ChatGPT to streamline workflows, improve coordination, standardize processes, and drive faster execution.
An internal OpenAI memo lays out five strategic priorities for the enterprise business - including a new model codenamed "Spud," a platform…
OpenAI is opening a new office in London with space for more than 500 employees - more than double its current headcount of around 200 in t…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Cloudflare brings OpenAI’s GPT-5.4 and Codex to Agent Cloud, enabling enterprises to build, deploy, and scale AI agents for real-world task…
Explore how OpenAI products like ChatGPT, Codex, and APIs bring AI into real-world use for work, development, and everyday tasks.
Release update (see link for changelog).
The release of MiniMax M2.7 adds enhancements to the popular MiniMax M2.5 model, built for agentic harnesses,...
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Amazon Redshift further optimizes the processing of top-k queries (queries with ORDER BY and LIMIT clauses) by intelligently skipping irrel…
A single image becomes a talking character: LPM 1.0 generates real-time video with lip sync, facial expressions, and emotional reactions.
Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Google is rolling out a new video generation option for Ultra subscribers that won't cost them any additional credits.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Surging demand for AI agents is colliding with limited compute capacity.
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast coll…
The developers of Pixel Societies are using AI agents to simulate social interactions.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Videos of fake relationship guru podcasters are reinforcing gender tropes and racking up millions of views, all the while driving sales to…
Release update (see link for changelog).