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Top 10 — News
- OpenAI CEO apologizes to Tumbler Ridge community In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law…
- Artemis II broke Fred Haise’s distance record, but he is happy to pass it on "It wasn't a big deal.
- Trump fires the entire National Science Board Multiple sources are reporting that the Trump administration has dismissed the entire National Science Board (NSB).
- Google pours up to $40 billion into ChatGPT rival Anthropic Google is investing up to 40 billion dollars in Anthropic.
- Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a r…
- Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem https://www.erdosproblems.com/1196 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903126 Points: 368 # Comments: 232
- APL is more French than English Article URL: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/perlis78.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908166 Points: 14 # Comment…
- The Knight Programming Language Article URL: https://github.com/knight-lang/knight-lang/tree/master Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47908158 Points: 4 #…
- Anthropic created a test marketplace for agent-on-agent commerce In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals…
- Maine’s governor vetoes data center moratorium
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AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI unveils GPT-5.5, claims a “new class of intelligence” at double the API price OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, an agentic model designed to work through complex tasks autonomously by switching between multiple tools.
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.2.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egress Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity now provide secure and controlled egress traffic management for your applications, enabling s…
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In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law…
In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals…
"It wasn't a big deal.
Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
Nuclear startup X-energy went public, geothermal startup Fervo is about to.
Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha with support from Lidl’s owner, Schwarz Group.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2026 has four tightly defined technology domains, each backed by live demonstrations, dedicated exhibit floors, and sessio…
It's hard to break the cycle of doomscrolling, but there are plenty of apps that can help you spend more time on content that’s engaging an…
John Ternus, Apple's incoming CEO, is a hardware guy, signaling Apple may be putting devices back at the center of its strategy.
Snabbit has scaled rapidly, crossing one million jobs in March, amid growing investor interest.
Multiple sources are reporting that the Trump administration has dismissed the entire National Science Board (NSB).
Part of what has held back electric cars has been the cost.
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the University of Arizona say that between 2005 and 2019, the number of words we…
I’ve been testing compact, magnetic Qi2 power banks that can snap onto your phone for an upcoming buying guide.
I knew things were not quite right when I had to throw a towel over a broken Ikea lamp to block out its light.
For a while there, it seemed like Double Fine might be struggling under the Microsoft corporate umbrella.
Acclaimed Japanese director Sho Miyake has arrived in the States.
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Apple and Samsung dominate the US phone market, and they've done so for years.
Google is investing up to 40 billion dollars in Anthropic.
Programmers are among the professional groups whose everyday lives have changed the most as a result of generative AI.
Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a r…
Anthropic let 69 AI agents trade on behalf of employees in an internal marketplace for a week.
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A survey shows Claude users earn significantly more than users of other AI services.
GPT-5.5 pushes OpenAI back to the top of the AI benchmarks.
Ace can read the trajectory of a ball, adjust the racket angle, and respond with strokes that keep the exchange alive with real players.
The United Arab Emirates plans to shift half of its government operations to autonomous AI systems within two years.
Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new med…
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OpenAI has announced GPT-5.5, an agentic model designed to work through complex tasks autonomously by switching between multiple tools.
Release update (see link for changelog).
DeepSeek just launched its fourth generation of flagship models with DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, both targeted at enabling highl…
The prodigal Tiger returns...
A new benchmark puts top models like GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 to work on the kinds of tasks junior investment bankers handle every day.
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The popular story goes that AI agents are swallowing up more programming work and developers are headed for obsolescence.
Alibaba's new open-source model Qwen3.6-27B beats its 15-times-larger predecessor across coding benchmarks with just 27 billion parameters.
GPT-5.5 prompting guide Now that GPT-5.5 is available in the API , OpenAI have released a wealth of useful tips on how best to prompt the n…
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Release: llm 0.31 New GPT-5.5 OpenAI model: llm -m gpt-5.5 .
Amazon Quick now integrates with Vee, the AI assistant from Visier's people analytics platform, through the model context protocol (MCP).
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity now provide secure and controlled egress traffic management for your applications, enabling s…
Release update (see link for changelog).