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Today: Google’s AI search and Gemini push, NVIDIA’s infra cadence, and fresh model/research tooling dominate the cycle, while security and platform shifts continue in the background.
Top 10 — News
- After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process o…
- Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
- This is the James Bond game we’ve been waiting for Hi, friends!
- OpenAI’s Codex can now operate your Windows PC autonomously, hunting bugs and testing apps on its own OpenAI's Codex app now runs on Windows 11 with "Computer Use": the AI can independently control programs, test apps, and hunt for bugs.
- Do You Actually Need to Pay for Transcription Software? I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.
- MCP is dead? Article URL: https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330436 Points: 272 #…
- Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain Plug-in solar panels (no electrician needed) have just become legal in the UK and will go on sale soon.
- Leo’s first encyclical attacks technological messianism Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism Comments URL: https://news.…
- Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.
- Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks
Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass national standards.
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI is giving away its life sciences AI model to help governments prepare for the next pandemic OpenAI is offering its life sciences model GPT-Rosalind for free through the new Rosalind Biodefense program, aimed at pandemic preparednes…
- [AINews] Founders and Forward Deployed Engineers a quiet day lets us highlight the new AIE WF focuses
- DynoSim: Simulating the Pareto Frontier Modern LLM serving is hard to tune because each deployment is a stack of interacting choices: model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill…
- Hands-On With Gemini Spark: I Gave It Access to My Life and It Friend-Zoned My Boyfriend Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most imp…
Full list — News (56)
Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process o…
The botnet was reportedly tied to a Russia-based residential proxy network.
Hi, friends!
A new book looks into the long history of people who have opposed vaccines.
Trump admin wants to rely on states for coal ash monitoring, enforcement, allow them to bypass national standards.
It's the world's worst kept secret that Nvidia is about to announce its own Arm-powered laptop chips at Computex this weekend, and now Micr…
The US has previously built specialized facilities just for this purpose.
About 1 in 5 cases were hospitalized and most of those developed complications.
"The crown is a weight that crushes.
ABC says early renewal for all stations is unprecedented, has no legitimate purpose.
DOJ keeps accusing ICE monitoring sites of doxing, but evidence remains scarce.
The latest twist in paying humans to wear head cameras for robot training data.
The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.
The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a ne…
Slots & Daggers, a low-key, fantasy-themed slot machine roguelike, was one of my favorite games last year.
I haven't seen anything as stupid as the WeWork IPO document in a very long time - that is, until Elon Musk filed to take SpaceX public.
SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.
While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn.
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang.
The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Bo…
A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing s…
The Pentagon awarded SpaceX a $4.16 billion contract to build missile-tracking satellites linked with President Donald Trump's planned "Gol…
The Acer Nitro Blaze Link might run on Linux, but it's no Steam Deck.
This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free.
High school graduation is a time of change that might be felt more deeply by family members than by the grads themselves.
Microsoft has delayed its upcoming Fable reboot once again.
I pondered the other day what's next for Microsoft's Surface PC lineup, and it looks like we're about to find out.
OpenAI's Codex app now runs on Windows 11 with "Computer Use": the AI can independently control programs, test apps, and hunt for bugs.
Attackers are exploiting the chat-sharing features in ChatGPT and Claude to spread malware through shared conversations.
OpenAI is updating GPT-5.5 Instant for more natural responses and dropping the Canvas feature from its latest models.
Meta has poured billions into AI with little commercial payoff so far.
Mathematician Terence Tao describes how AI could reshape math research by enabling division of labor for the first time.
Salesforce says it moved its entire dev org to Anthropic's Claude Code with no token limits and reports massive productivity gains for Apri…
I tested Wispr Flow and various AI-powered transcription software to see whether you should bother subscribing or stick with free services.
Loryn Brantz created The Good Advice Cupcake for BuzzFeed years ago.
A bug in Google's Gemini app caused just one or two Omni videos to eat up the entire usage quota.
An unnamed company allegedly blew half a billion dollars on Claude licenses in a single month because nobody set usage limits.
A book about how AI shapes perceptions of reality came under fire for using AI-generated quotes.
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Article URL: https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330436 Points: 272 #…
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/the-office-of-management-and-budget-tries-again-to-cripple-us-science/ Comments URL: h…
Plug-in solar panels (no electrician needed) have just become legal in the UK and will go on sale soon.
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/05/28/leos-first-encyclical-attacks-technological-messianism Comments URL: https://news.…
Article URL: https://pandoc-templates.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334515 Points: 94 # Comments: 7
Article URL: https://www.deadcarl.com/p/the-kaiser-and-a-mediocre-man-theory Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334283 Po…
Article URL: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-26 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334048 Points: 142 # Comments…
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/danish-pension-fund-excludes-spacex-citing-governance-valuation-2026-05-29/ Commen…
Article URL: https://openrct2.io/blog/2026/05/openrct2-v0.5.1-released Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48333096 Points:…
Article URL: https://www.perryts.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332151 Points: 107 # Comments: 83
Article URL: https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02783/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48331786 Points: 131 # Comment…
Hey everyone, I previously introduced an open source private home security camera in 2024, which uses OpenMLS for end-to-end encryption: ht…
Article URL: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48…
Article URL: https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328184 Points: 155 # Comments: 13
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/939765/ai-training-data-startup-shift-free-cleaning Comments URL: https://…
Article URL: https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4832680…
Article URL: https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325340 Points: 397 # Co…
Article URL: https://www.liquid.ai/blog/lfm2-5-8b-a1b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325306 Points: 199 # Comments: 75
Full list — AI tools & model updates (4)
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OpenAI is offering its life sciences model GPT-Rosalind for free through the new Rosalind Biodefense program, aimed at pandemic preparednes…
a quiet day lets us highlight the new AIE WF focuses
Modern LLM serving is hard to tune because each deployment is a stack of interacting choices: model backend, tensor-parallel shape, prefill…
Google’s new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most imp…