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Top 10 — News
- Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066
- The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders i…
- Under-16 social media ban announced by UK government The UK is the latest country to follow Australia in implementing a total social media ban for children under 16, Prime Minister Keir Starme…
- Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformat…
- Amazon and five other companies reportedly triggered the government crackdown on Anthropic’s Fable model Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and executives from other tech companies reportedly warned the Trump administration about security vulnerabilities in…
- Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026 Article URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48537165 Point…
- Redistricting from the Bottom Up: Sampling Communities of Interest with Differential Privacy arXiv:2606.14453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Independent Redistricting Commissions (IRCs) are a promising tool for bottom-up redistricti…
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- Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers
Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.
AI tools & model updates
- vllm-project/vllm: v0.23.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Google Cloud’s Open Knowledge Format turns scattered docs into Markdown files for AI agents Google Cloud's new Open Knowledge Format (OKF) standardizes scattered organizational knowledge as Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, mak…
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University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066
What makes this combustible: at the very moment that tens of thousands of workers are being shown the door, a small cohort of AI insiders i…
Orbio announces $21 Million Series A in round led by Dawn Capital.
JPMorgan can't be pleased by any of this.
Startups are trying to "ride that SpaceX IPO wave."
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The UK is the latest country to follow Australia in implementing a total social media ban for children under 16, Prime Minister Keir Starme…
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OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformat…
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Mirage, a video world model from Microsoft Research and several universities, stores scene information directly in latent space instead of…
KPMG published a report on AI in business that contained fabricated case studies involving UBS, the NHS, and other organizations.
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arXiv:2606.14377v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Freedom of Information (FOI) laws aim to increase government transparency, yet existing ass…
arXiv:2606.13688v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bias in human judgment and artificial intelligence systems poses critical challenges across…
arXiv:2606.13690v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper,from the perspective of a collaborative intelligent computing system formed by c…
arXiv:2606.13691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While the Natural Language Processing community has dedicated significant resources in deve…
arXiv:2606.13693v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated scoring of ESG narrative disclosures with large language models (LLMs) is gaining…
arXiv:2606.13696v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transit network design depends not only on the optimization algorithm but also on who shows…
arXiv:2606.13704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This position paper argues that contemporary AI paradigms are insufficient for supporting c…
arXiv:2606.13739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper examines trade-offs between AI safety and well-being relative to (i) one of the…
arXiv:2606.13755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We argue that aligning AI to aggregated human preferences is the wrong target.
arXiv:2606.13760v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study explores the stability and ideological orientation of political responses produc…
arXiv:2606.13988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine collectives increasingly coordinate, reciprocate, and form shared conventions on th…
arXiv:2606.13997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce the Minimum Effort to Consensus (MEC), a measure that quantifies polarization…
arXiv:2606.14315v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The ML literature contains many distinct concepts falling under the heading of 'AI alignmen…
arXiv:2606.14358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synchronous online teaching environments pose specific challenges for the analysis of pedag…
arXiv:2606.14462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study investigates demographic differences in cybersecurity culture in a large global…
arXiv:2606.13686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous web agents are increasingly deployed to perform real-world tasks, ensuring…
arXiv:2606.13967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper develops a finite certificate calculus for ambient release systems, staged pro…
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TLDR: I had 2,207 GoPro videos, and I need to rewatch them to find interesting moments from my cycling journey.
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Full list — AI tools & model updates (3)
Release update (see link for changelog).
Google Cloud's new Open Knowledge Format (OKF) standardizes scattered organizational knowledge as Markdown files with YAML frontmatter, mak…
AI coding agents like Claude Code or Codex reliably find the right file but miss most of the critical lines within it.