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Today: AI wearables, DeepSeek pricing pressure, ByteDance long-document training, and the debate over how close current models are to real intelligence define the cycle.
Top 10 — News
- Four Russian satellites are now within striking distance of an ICEYE radarsat "This capability is not common for satellites conducting typical missions."
- Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’ This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world.
- I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
- Anthropic may keep supplying Claude to the NSA despite being flagged as a supply chain risk by the Pentagon Anthropic will likely keep supplying AI models to the NSA despite being labeled a "supply chain risk." Intelligence agencies lack Nvidia's…
- These Robots Are Making Meals for a Nonprofit in San Francisco’s Tenderloin A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.
- Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI [video] Article URL: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255593 Points: 1…
- The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/22/seed-oils-healthy-fats-tallow-fact-check-cardiac-health/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi…
- Enhanced Ebola Airport Screening Expands to Atlanta Enhanced Ebola Airport Screening Expands to Atlanta
- DeepSeek to Make Permanent 75% Discount on Flagship AI Model Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-23/deepseek-to-make-permanent-75-discount-on-flagship-ai-model Comments URL: h…
- China’s shark finning could lead to US seafood sanctions
A formal petition to the US government calls for sanctions on Chinese seafood imports.
AI tools & model updates
- Alibaba’s latest AI model ran autonomously for 35 hours to optimize code for its own custom chip Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.7-Max, a proprietary model built for long-running autonomous agent tasks.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.86.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- [AINews] All Model Labs are now Agent Labs a quiet day lets us tie together a few quotes as all model labs become agent labs
Full list — News (56)
"This capability is not common for satellites conducting typical missions."
A formal petition to the US government calls for sanctions on Chinese seafood imports.
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world.
The white whales join the short, contested list of animals that see themselves.
SpaceX has more to prove before flying Starship all the way to low-Earth orbit.
"Two astronauts whose careers embody excellence, leadership, and service."
Ebola outbreak risk level increased as deaths reach 177 with nearly 750 cases.
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
What sets Dreamie apart from all of the other fancy alarm clocks is laughably simple: It can play podcasts.
Hiking is one of life's great joys.
If you’re looking for a laptop that’ll still perform well several years from now, Apple’s latest MacBook Air is hard to beat.
SolarSquare could be valued at up to $500 million in the financing expected to close next month.
Apple, Meta, and Google offer special security modes that provide your devices more secure against targeted spyware attacks.
IBM and Scuderia Ferrari HP take TechCrunch inside how they are redefining the fan experience.
Deep Fission is seeking an IPO that could raise $157 million, though investors may have trouble buying the nuclear startup's story.
Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers.
Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups.
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket…
The company had a mostly successful first launch of its upgraded Starship V3, which it needs to power its many ambitious goals in the years…
Waymo is the undisputed leader in the robotaxi space, operating a fleet of over 3,000 driverless cars in at least 10 cities across the US.
There isn't really a solid equivalent to Goodreads or Letterboxd for music lovers, but Record Club is aiming to change that.
Roger Linn is a legend in the world of musical instruments.
Massive OLED TVs and Sonos speakers might be stealing the Memorial Day spotlight, but there are also plenty of great deals that won’t set y…
Finding a cafe that fits you can be a revelatory experience.
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Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation.
Anthropic will likely keep supplying AI models to the NSA despite being labeled a "supply chain risk." Intelligence agencies lack Nvidia's…
ByteDance Seed shows that a 7B model can answer questions on long, image-heavy documents more reliably than much larger models, even when d…
Yann LeCun says current AI systems aren't genuinely intelligent.
A nonprofit in the city’s most troubled district has turned to robotic meal prep tech to make up for a dearth of human volunteers.
When analyzing data, Microsoft Copilot invents country differences where none exist.
Researchers from UMD, Google, Meta, and other institutions use AutoTTS to let a coding agent independently discover control algorithms for…
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Deepseek is making the 75 percent discount on its top model V4-Pro permanent.
UC Berkeley Law will ban AI from nearly all graded work starting in summer 2026, from outlining and drafting to proofreading.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai now calls links and sources a "part" of search, when in reality, they're its foundation.
Article URL: https://fs.blog/knowledge-project-podcast/greg-brockman/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255593 Points: 1…
Article URL: https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/22/seed-oils-healthy-fats-tallow-fact-check-cardiac-health/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombi…
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-23/deepseek-to-make-permanent-75-discount-on-flagship-ai-model Comments URL: h…
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09/03/microsoft-open-source-historic-6502-basic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombin…
Article URL: https://esengine.github.io/DeepSeek-Reasonix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256953 Points: 55 # Comment…
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06445 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256912 Points: 17 # Comments: 4
Article URL: https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256597 Points: 67 # Comments:…
Article URL: https://apple.github.io/ml-pico/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256565 Points: 15 # Comments: 1
Enhanced Ebola Airport Screening Expands to Atlanta
Statement: Update on Title 42 Order
Article URL: https://mastering.dyalog.com/README.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256475 Points: 71 # Comments: 11
Article URL: https://adaptivesupport.amd.com/s/question/0D5Pd00001YQLdMKAX/why-is-vivado-20261-dropping-linux-support-for-free-tier-?langua…
Article URL: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2026/c64-dead-test-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254236 Points:…
Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-alexander-grothendieck-revolutionized-20th-century-mathematics-20260520/ Comments URL: http…
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-...
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/21/scammers-are-abusing-an-internal-microsoft-account-to-send-spam/ Comments URL: https://news.…
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Article URL: https://hellmood.111mb.de/wake_up_16b_writeup.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253060 Points: 325 # C…
Article URL: https://khz.ac/software/i3-integration.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252535 Points: 94 # Comments:…
Article URL: https://veronicaexplains.net/my-first-writerdeck/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144 Points: 416 # Co…
Article URL: https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247325 Points: 415 # Comments: 121
Article URL: https://kk.org/cooltools/book-freak-210-the-art-of-money-getting/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247208…
Full list — AI tools & model updates (4)
Anthropic's AI model Claude Mythos Preview, working with about 50 partners as part of Project Glasswing, has found over 10,000 critical vul…
Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen3.7-Max, a proprietary model built for long-running autonomous agent tasks.
Release update (see link for changelog).
a quiet day lets us tie together a few quotes as all model labs become agent labs