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Top 10 — News
- Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are th…
- RIP Anthony Head: Our 10 favorite moments of Buffy’s Giles Head's true genius—and that of his character, Giles—lay in quietly filling in the gaps in every scene
- Anthropic poaches OpenAI’s second-ever chip engineer as both companies race toward IPOs Clive Chan, by his own account the second hardware employee in OpenAI's custom chip program, is moving to Anthropic.
- NASA will wear high-tech Prada long johns to the Moon We've seen Axiom Space and Prada's collaboration on the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit.
- OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides “Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist.
- Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/65697 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434436 Points: 463…
- DeepSeek V4 Pro beats GPT-5.5 Pro on precision Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/deepseek-v4-pro-beats-gpt-5-5-pro-on-precision Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
- Teenage Engineering: Introducing APC-2 Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/apc-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440383 Points: 68 # Comments:…
- OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’ "Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.
- Notion restores access to Anthropic after service disruption
Notion's head of product said he was "astonished" at “the amount of people RT-ing this."
AI tools & model updates
- OpenAI says “chat is dead” and plans to rebuild ChatGPT as a full-blown agent app OpenAI is planning the biggest overhaul of ChatGPT since its launch.
- datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - thin…
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.88.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime introduces interactive shells for terminal access into agent sessions Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports interactive shells through a new InvokeAgentRuntimeCommandShell API, opening a persistent, PT…
- ollama/ollama: v0.30.6 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-perplexity==1.3.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
- How to Stop Shipping Low-Quality RL Environments (with Examples) Your broken harness is actively making the model worse.
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.22.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (44)
From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are th…
"Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.
Notion's head of product said he was "astonished" at “the amount of people RT-ing this."
Head's true genius—and that of his character, Giles—lay in quietly filling in the gaps in every scene
How accurate does an AI system need to be?
We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Clive Chan, by his own account the second hardware employee in OpenAI's custom chip program, is moving to Anthropic.
We've seen Axiom Space and Prada's collaboration on the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit.
The 2026 edition of Summer Game Fest just wrapped up, and it was surprisingly hectic.
This year's Summer Game Fest turned out to be a good one for fans of Japanese RPGs.
Microsoft has created a special edition Xbox Series X to celebrate 25 years of the console.
Minecraft Dungeons 2, a sequel to Microsoft's dungeon crawler spinoff Minecraft Dungeons, will be released on September 29th.
Just a few days after pushing Fable out of 2026, Microsoft showed off more footage of Fable, the first new entry in the storied RPG franchi…
As part of its Xbox Games Showcase on Sunday, Microsoft revealed new details about Halo: Campaign Evolved, the upcoming remake of Halo: Com…
Apparently, the "return of Xbox" means a retreat from other platforms.
Have you ever wondered what the most indispensable app is for your favorite musician or how the world’s tech CEOs stay focused?
The console industry is in a weird place, and both Xbox and PlayStation have a chance to change the narrative a bit with their showcases at…
“Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist.
Deepseek topped Ramp's trending software vendors in June 2026 as a paid service that US companies send data to directly.
Sakana AI has launched a dedicated research lab for recursive self-improvement: AI that iteratively improves itself.
Elon Musk's xAI used Anthropic's Claude to train its own coding models for months and kept going even after Anthropic cut off access, using…
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have bee…
Microsoft’s AI products aren’t selling, and Github’s been plagued with troubles.
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/65697 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48434436 Points: 463…
Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/deepseek-v4-pro-beats-gpt-5-5-pro-on-precision Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
Article URL: https://teenage.engineering/products/apc-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440383 Points: 68 # Comments:…
Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather-news/articles/as--philippines-earthquake-001322726.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombina…
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Article URL: https://github.com/melastmohican/rust-rpico2-embassy-examples Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440008 Poin…
Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Vulkan-Video-Merged Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48439348 Points:…
Article URL: https://performance.dev/how-is-linear-so-fast-a-technical-breakdown Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4843760…
Article URL: https://gavinray97.github.io/blog/building-from-zero-after-addiction-prison-felony Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
Article URL: https://www.alexself.dev/blog/automated-doubt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437305 Points: 59 # Comment…
Article URL: https://nik.art/making-peace-with-your-unlived-dreams/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48437290 Points: 154…
Article URL: https://github.com/yukiyokotani/office-open-xml-viewer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436863 Points: 120…
Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2026/06/ibm-604-thyraton-tube-module.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48436819 P…
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/proliferate/jobs/L3copvK-founding-engineer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
Article URL: https://blog.podman.io/2025/10/podman-6-machine-usability-improvements/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484…
Article URL: https://human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev/llms-are-eroding-my-software-engineering-career-and-i-dont-know-what-to-do/ Comments UR…
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (16)
OpenAI is planning the biggest overhaul of ChatGPT since its launch.
OpenAI's new Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT disables web access, Deep Research, and Agent Mode to make data theft through prompt injection attac…
OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode OpenAI first teased this in February , but now it's live and "rolling out to eligible personal accounts, includi…
Meta is developing a paid AI agent product called "Hatch" that could cost up to $200 per month.
Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - thin…
Perplexity's new "Search as Code" architecture dumps rigid search APIs and lets AI models write their own search routines in Python.
Small language models fail at rare tasks because frequent ones constantly overwrite what they've learned.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Unlike GPT-4o or Qwen3.5-Omni, Audio Interaction doesn't wait for a recording to end: it translates, transcribes, chats, and picks up every…
a quiet day of RSI.
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports interactive shells through a new InvokeAgentRuntimeCommandShell API, opening a persistent, PT…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Your broken harness is actively making the model worse.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).