The latest signals across the AI economy — model launches, pricing moves, infrastructure shifts, policy and funding — summarized with sources.
Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov. The…
“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.
NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams: Bringing Real-Time Generative Simulation to Surgical Robotics
America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining investment stories in the United States, and the numbers continue to grow. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabe…
Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, government and internet services by making technology accessible and…
Shared conversations with Anthropic's Claude chatbot briefly appeared in Google search results because the pages lacked a noindex tag. Users said some chats contained crypto keys and legal questions. OpenAI made the sam…
The complexity of modern chip design continues to grow as engineering teams work to develop increasingly sophisticated CPUs, GPUs and AI systems. To help meet that challenge, NVIDIA is collaborating with industry leader…
Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.
Article URL: https://bulletins.wolframphysics.org/2021/02/multiway-turing-machines/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49062259 Points: 21 # Comments: 3
On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.
<p><strong><a href="https://vectoral.com/blog/token-relay-market">An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud</a></strong></p> Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has…
Article URL: https://github.com/hertz-ai/HARTOS Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49061015 Points: 18 # Comments: 20
Black Forest Labs (BFL) has released FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that learns from images, videos and audio inside a single architecture. It is also the first FLUX model to ship video, audio and action predicti…
Staff-engineer layer for AI coding agents: routes per-edit architectural constraints for AI coding agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49060279 Points: 18 # Comments: 6
"The first autonomous agent cyberattack is an unprecedented event. It deserves an unprecedented response!"
Article URL: https://andys.blog/this-july-i-was-fired-from-simple-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059587 Points: 52 # Comments: 105
Cursor asked its upgraded agent swarm and its predecessor to rebuild SQLite in Rust using only the documentation, with no source code or internet access. Every configuration of the new system, which separates planners f…
Article URL: https://www.rickmanelius.com/p/the-new-ai-superpowers-focus-and Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49057877 Points: 195 # Comments: 60
Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes…
Samsung's new foldables are impressive, but how different are they really, by the specs? Let's compare.
Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jMEAG5c5HiDfdAGpa/an-openai-model-left-notes-about-how-to-evade-containment-we Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056808 Points: 17 # Comments: 10
The KwaiKAT Team at Kuaishou has published the KAT-Coder-V2.5 technical report, arguing that agentic coding capability is bottlenecked by training infrastructure rather than model scale. AutoBuilder raised environment c…
Article URL: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/slides/age-of-ai-icm-2026.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49056620 Points: 119 # Comments: 49
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 scored 30.2 percent on ARC-AGI-3, nearly quadrupling GPT-5.6 Sol's previous record of 7.8 percent. The benchmark's developers say the model independently formulated reflection equations, a beha…
Most agents that learn from video need to know what action produced each frame. Induction Labs is arguing that this requirement is the bottleneck. Last week, they released imagination models, a foundation model architec…
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In this tutorial, we explore FAIRChem v2 and the UMA universal machine-learning interatomic potential as a unified framework for atomistic simulation across molecular chemistry, catalysis, and inorganic materials. We co…
In summer 2025, OpenAI internally flagged GPT-5 as high-risk because it helped users create biological hazards, but downgraded the model's risk rating that fall. According to the Wall Street Journal, some users got step…
Samsung isn't the only brand with flagship foldables. Here's how it compares to Motorola's Razr Ultra - one of my favorite phones of the year.
The Trump administration is planning targeted bans on Chinese AI models rather than a blanket ban. After public pressure, OpenAI and Google DeepMind signed an open letter opposing regulation of open-weight models, yet O…
An ACM survey of 763 computer science educators from 49 countries shows that 68 percent have already changed their exams because of AI, shifting toward oral exams, proctored tests, and project-based work. Teaching is mo…
Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/mit-to-become-hotbed-of-ai-video-surveillance.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054638 Points: 23 # Comments: 2
Article URL: https://danluu.com/ai-coding/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49054268 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
Sakana AI has released Fugu-Cyber, a security-tuned endpoint on its Fugu orchestration model. It reports 86.9% on CyberGym and 72.1% on CTI-REALM, edging past GPT-5.5-Cyber and Claude Mythos Preview. Access is gated beh…
Article URL: https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/policy-brief/what-really-happening-jobs-separating-ai-hype-reality Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052570 Points: 258 # Comments: 337
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-ai-options/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052564 Points: 189 # Comments: 147
<p><strong><a href="https://astral.sh/blog/ruff-v0.16.0">Ruff v0.16.0</a></strong></p> Astral shipped a significant new version of their Ruff Python linting tool a few days ago on July 23rd. I noticed today because my v…
Article URL: https://www.markwilson.co.uk/thoughts/2026/07/16/ai-isnt-killing-consulting-its-killing-time-as-a-proxy-for-value/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49052081 Points: 15 # Comments: 4
Article URL: https://www.maxmynter.com/pages/blog/jobhunt Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051707 Points: 46 # Comments: 18
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/07/25/ai-mania-nikhil-suresh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49051692 Points: 61 # Comments: 19
Article URL: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050859 Points: 196 # Comments: 179
A small group of AI researchers (Reactor) have released Open Dreamer, an open implementation of the Dreamer 4 world-model pipeline written in JAX and Flax NNX. What actually shipped Two repositories were released. next-…
Article URL: https://github.com/slvDev/esp32-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050512 Points: 256 # Comments: 65
Explore TileLang, a high-level Python domain-specific language that simplifies the design of high-performance GPU kernels. This tutorial provides a step-by-step approach to implementing complex workloads—including tiled…
Article URL: https://swiftrocks.com/a-system-prompt-to-get-ai-to-stop-pretending-to-be-human Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049304 Points: 34 # Comments: 14
Article URL: https://limitededitionjonathan.substack.com/p/apple-is-the-king-of-ai-and-nobody Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49049241 Points: 22 # Comments: 34
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlYa8NV5k-U Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048996 Points: 68 # Comments: 45
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
Article URL: https://tobi.knaup.me/2026-07-25-open-weight-ai-is-having-its-kubernetes-moment/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49048034 Points: 377 # Comments: 292
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/25/ai-jobs-apocalypse-human-labor Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047969 Points: 43 # Comments: 81
In a cybersecurity test, OpenAI's most advanced models breached the boundaries of their isolated test environment, reached the open internet, and hacked the AI platform Hugging Face on their own. The attack took hours,…
Article URL: https://www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-ai-productivity-illusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047526 Points: 43 # Comments: 13
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/business/china-us-ai-model-costs-53a12e96 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49047448 Points: 56 # Comments: 78
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
The Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra is sure to impress power users, but Samsung took a risk with the Galaxy Z Fold 8, and it could pay off.
The brand's new flip phone takes an accessible approach to minimalism - with a gentle touch.
Samsung's new Z Fold 8 Ultra brings design and software changes geared toward power users and enthusiasts.
Opus 5 combined with Auto Mode hits a zero percent prompt injection success rate for browser agents across 129 test scenarios. Without those extra protection layers, the rate is 3.7 percent. If these numbers hold up in…
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.
Anthropic's new flagship model Claude Opus 5 posts top scores in coding and knowledge work at half of Fable 5's token rates. On ARC-AGI-3, a benchmark for novel problem-solving, Opus 5 hits 30.2 percent, nearly four tim…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 61 points, edging out Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol. The model scores highest in analytical quality and coding, and costs up to half as mu…
OpenAI disclosed that its own models breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure while taking a public security benchmark. The models were not attacking a target — they were optimizing a score. Here is the mechani…
Samsung took a risk with its latest-gen foldables and smartwatches at Unpacked. We were on the ground in London - here's our analysis.
Discover how to create self-evolving AI agents using the OpenSpace framework. This tutorial guides you through the entire workflow—from environment setup and custom skill creation to MCP integration and using SQLite to…
Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. H…
Datalab rewrote Marker as a three-mode pipeline. Version 2 hits 76.0 on olmOCR-bench and sustains 2.9 pages per second on one B200 — over 5× MinerU's pipeline backend, while beating Docling on both accuracy and speed. H…
<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2080713091688583312"><p>More than any of these eval scores, what is most exciting to me is something else: Opus 5 is our least prompt injectable model yet. It is a bi…
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/its-ai-agent-spent-days-hacking-company-sources-say-openai-did-not-notice-week-2026-07-24/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49043192 Points: 28 # Comments:…
<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5">Introducing Claude Opus 5</a></strong></p> I've been offline <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkhorn_Slough">kayaking with sea otters</a> for much…
The neolab is betting that automating routine computer tasks will soon outpace coding as AI's biggest use case.
Today, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5. It replaces Claude Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship. Pricing is unchanged at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. The Anthropic team positions Opus 5…
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Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/press-release/amd-and-cerebras-announce-industry-leading-ultra-low-latency-and-high-throughput-ai-inference Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49041347 Points: 24 # C…
Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co…
Samsung just launched its latest lineup of phones, and Amazon has free gift card offers on every single one.
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-24/spacex-at-100-would-imply-zero-ai-value-says-morgan-stanley Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49039831 Points: 34 # Comments: 29
The acquisition brings Poke’s conversational style and interaction model to Cognition’s coding agent Devin, reflecting a growing belief that how AI assistants interact with users is as important as the models powering t…
This post covers Opus 5’s improvements and practical guidance for AI engineers integrating the model into agentic systems and production inference workloads on Amazon Bedrock. See the documentation for Claude Platform o…
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
The web and Google once had a deal: Google collects data and indexes webpages and in exchange sends oceans of traffic to websites. The deal wasn't perfect and certainly made Google more money than it made the websites,…
Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.
Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT…
Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The…
Anthropic's latest Claude upgrade targets developers and enterprises with stronger coding, better reasoning efficiency, prompt-cache-friendly tool changes, and near-Fable performance at Opus pricing.
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038060 Points: 519 # Comments: 294
Article URL: https://bhanu.io/blog/codex-pushed-my-private-repo-to-an-openai-server Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037941 Points: 31 # Comments: 25
A recent uptick in lag and disconnects led me to reevaluate my home office setup. Here's how I validated my solution.
Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals…
Microsoft, along with Meta, Nvidia, and more than 20 other companies, is pushing for open-weight AI models in an open letter. The strategic logic is simple: the more models running on Azure, the less Microsoft depends o…
AI companies, including Nvidia and Mistral, urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Article URL: https://fly.io/blog/kurt-scott-money-sprites/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037452 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
Learn the architecture and design decisions behind an explainable next-best-product recommendation system for banking, built with Amazon SageMaker AI and PyTorch. A multi-tower neural network with learned attention deli…
OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. Learn how to select a model, run inference through the Responses API on the bedrock-mantle endpoint, reduce cost with prompt caching, co…
Article URL: https://www.ivan.codes/blog/let-it-cook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49037127 Points: 25 # Comments: 5
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.
OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged 18 and older can access it now on web and iOS, across th…
Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios has no science background. | Image: Getty / The Verge The Trump administration unveiled the first "Genesis Mission" grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI…
The autonomous business of the future is being built. Certain skills are in high demand - and can help you stand out.
Sakana AI has updated its Fugu Ultra AI router to version 1.1, claiming gains of up to 7.9 points over v1.0. Independent verification doesn't exist yet. The update adds a Claude Code-compatible endpoint. The service rem…
In a battle of the top Android watches, one does it a little better.
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wand…
Article URL: https://images.nvidia.com/pdf/Open-Weights-and-American-AI-Leadership.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035751 Points: 111 # Comments: 2
Dell's 14S pairs a sleek design with excellent battery life, making it one of the best midrange PC I've tested in 2026.
Rule would allow states to decide how much—if any—public input there can be.
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
Article URL: https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/tech-and-start-ups/article-903442 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035314 Points: 75 # Comments: 13
Article URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035303 Points: 18 # Comments: 6
AM/FM, NOAA weather band, solar and hand-crank charging, and a power bank - this tech is what actually works when the grid doesn't.
The German consortium behind the AI model Soofi S has acknowledged in version 3.0 of its tech report that test questions from the science benchmark GPQA accidentally ended up in the training data. The community caught t…
If you're only using Google Calendar to track events, you're missing some of its most useful features.
Chips, servers, cables, and more could compound an already massive problem - here's who it affects and what's being done about it.
Article URL: https://www.alexhyett.com/videos/tried-building-app-with-ai-it-took-a-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034342 Points: 107 # Comments: 82
Voice conversations now run on the more powerful Opus and Sonnet models with access to Gmail, Google Calendar, and Slack. Claude is currently the only AI assistant that can compose and send emails directly by voice, giv…
From tiny box cutters to bug-bite healers, these handy gadgets totally earn their place in your home for their form and function.
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