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Top 10 — News
- US opens refund portal to start paying back Trump’s illegal tariffs Importers can now request refunds, two months after Trump's Supreme Court loss.
- Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in 7 new countries Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam.
- Tim Cook will still be Apple’s Trump whisperer Though Tim Cook is shedding his CEO title for the role of Apple's executive chairman, it appears he'll keep one of his most important dutie…
- OpenAI ad partner now selling ChatGPT ad placements based on “prompt relevance” Article URL: https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-leaked-deck-reveals-stackadapts-playbook-for-chatgpt-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.yc…
- [AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world’s leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?) Yay Kimi!!!
- A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.
- KV Cache Compression 900000x Beyond TurboQuant and Per-Vector Shannon Limit Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15356 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843715 Points: 26 # Comments: 3
- How to Make a Fast Dynamic Language Interpreter Article URL: https://zef-lang.dev/implementation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194 Points: 53 # Comments: 2
- Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic.
- Pentagon pulls the plug on one of the military’s most troubled space programs
Problems with the ground system would have "put current GPS military and civilian capabilities at risk."
AI tools & model updates
- Open-weight Kimi K2.6 takes on GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 with agent swarms Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6 as an open-weight model.
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.1.15 Release update (see link for changelog).
- OpenAI helps Hyatt advance AI among colleagues Hyatt deploys ChatGPT Enterprise across its global workforce, using GPT-5.4 and Codex to improve productivity, operations, and guest experi…
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.19.3 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Maximizing Memory Efficiency to Run Bigger Models on NVIDIA Jetson The boom in open source generative AI models is pushing beyond data centers into machines operating in the physical world.
- NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM: v1.2.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against d…
- run-llama/llama_index: v0.14.21 Release update (see link for changelog).
- microsoft/onnxruntime: ONNX Runtime v1.25.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.83.7-stable
Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (30)
Importers can now request refunds, two months after Trump's Supreme Court loss.
Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam.
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic.
Problems with the ground system would have "put current GPS military and civilian capabilities at risk."
Cook will be executive chairman, but will no longer run the company day to day.
Experts point out a series of flaws, including small size and no control group.
Starting on September 1, Ternus will lead one of the world's most valuable companies, but if you're not a dedicated Apple enthusiast, you'v…
The transition has been expected for some time and ends one of the longer and more impactful runs a CEO has had at any company.
You can use the new tools to remove blemishes, refine skin texture, brighten eyes, or whiten teeth in photos.
This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue…
Though Tim Cook is shedding his CEO title for the role of Apple's executive chairman, it appears he'll keep one of his most important dutie…
You can still find the Asus Xbox Ally X and the MSI Claw 8 AI Plus for $999 and $1,049 respectively, but Lenovo's Legion Go S has seemingly…
The multitrillion-dollar home of the iPhone, Mac, and so many other tech gadgets is getting a new leader this fall, as Apple has announced…
Apple CEO Tim Cook has written a letter to the community as he prepares to step down from his role in September.
Apple has appointed Johny Srouji as its new chief hardware officer, "effective immediately," according to an announcement on Monday.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down and will be succeeded by John Ternus, currently Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering.
On Monday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta revealed the evidence of alleged price-fixing by Amazon.
One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery…
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WhatsApp users are getting some new customization features - for a price.
Though it's very common for entertainment writers to describe some narrative elements of the films and shows that they're covering, a Japan…
Article URL: https://www.adweek.com/media/exclusive-leaked-deck-reveals-stackadapts-playbook-for-chatgpt-ads/ Comments URL: https://news.yc…
Yay Kimi!!!
An autonomous robot from the company Honor ran a half marathon in 50:26, beating the human record by 7 minutes.
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.15356 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843715 Points: 26 # Comments: 3
Article URL: https://zef-lang.dev/implementation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843194 Points: 53 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://ccs.getmonero.org/ideas/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841149 Points: 63 # Comments: 35
Article URL: https://isaaccorbrey.com/notes/jujutsu-megamerges-for-fun-and-profit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478411…
Article URL: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/ Comments U…
Article URL: https://warontherocks.com/cogs-of-war/the-f-35-is-a-masterpiece-built-for-the-wrong-war/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato…
Article URL: https://github.com/gizmo64k/soulplayer-c64 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839645 Points: 82 # Comments:…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2.6 as an open-weight model.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Hyatt deploys ChatGPT Enterprise across its global workforce, using GPT-5.4 and Codex to improve productivity, operations, and guest experi…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
The boom in open source generative AI models is pushing beyond data centers into machines operating in the physical world.
Release update (see link for changelog).
The NSA, the US intelligence agency responsible for electronic surveillance, is using Anthropic's most powerful AI model, "Mythos Preview."…
Claude Token Counter, now with model comparisons I upgraded my Claude Token Counter tool to add the ability to run the same count against d…
Anthropic are the only major AI lab to publish the system prompts for their user-facing chat systems.
Research: Claude system prompts as a git timeline Anthropic publish the system prompts for Claude chat and make that page available as Mark…
Coding agents are starting to write production code at scale.
Agents are evolving from question-and-answer systems into long-running autonomous assistants that read files, call APIs, and drive multi-st…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
As LLMs transition from simple text generation to complex reasoning, reinforcement learning (RL) plays a central role.
Release update (see link for changelog).
AI tools are significantly accelerating software development and changing how developers work with code.
The software giant is responding to growing pressure from AI-native competitors with a new enterprise agent platform.
Wall Street worries AI could make traditional enterprise software obsolete.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Agentic Engineering Patterns > Here's an example of a deceptively short prompt that got a quite a lot of work done in a single shot.
Amazon SageMaker HyperPod now supports flexible instance groups, enabling customers to specify multiple instance types and multiple subnets…
Today, AWS Deadline Cloud announces an AI-powered troubleshooting assistant that helps you quickly diagnose and resolve render job failures.
The development of socially acceptable nuclear reactors requires that they are safe, clean, efficient, economical, and sustainable.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
SageMaker JumpStart now offers optimized deployments, enabling customers to deploy foundation models with pre-configured settings tailored…