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The 2026 El Niño Is on Track to Be the Strongest on Record

The 2026 El Niño Is on Track to Be the Strongest on Record

This climate phenomenon could cause a massive global temperature spike and cause economic losses of $10 trillion by 2032.…
Claude Cookbook

Claude Cookbook

Article URL: https://platform.claude.com/cookbook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49031409 Points: 265 # Comments: 132…
Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models

Article URL: https://bfl.ai/blog/flux-3-mimic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49033127 Points: 274 # Comments: 45…
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

Article URL: https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034292 Points: 340 # Comments: 130…
Em dashes are fucking amazing

Em dashes are fucking amazing

Article URL: https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034747 Points:…
Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-system-card Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038433 Points: 537 # Comments: 293…
Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

Why Cognition bought Poke: AI personality is becoming a competitive advantage

AI coding startup Cognition has acquired Poke, the AI assistant you text like a friend, in a deal valuing the startup in the low nine figures. The acq…
Nothing confirms layoffs, but calls market exit rumors ‘fake news’

Nothing confirms layoffs, but calls market exit rumors ‘fake news’

In response to a report that Nothing is planning to "exit 12 markets as global shipments decline," Nothing cofounder Akis Evangelidis said the company…
TikTok’s protection of minors should not be opt-in, warns EU

TikTok’s protection of minors should not be opt-in, warns EU

TikTok has attracted the ire of the European Union over its protection of children who use the video sharing platform. The European Commission announc…
Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending

Google continues to report big quarterly revenue, but its AI spending has skyrocketed.…
Tesla’s robotaxi promises are clashing with reality

Tesla’s robotaxi promises are clashing with reality

In an earnings call yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk did his best to paint a positive portrait of the company's robotaxi program. New cities are being a…
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to l…
AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it…
The new Halo remake is a reminder of what Xbox used to be

The new Halo remake is a reminder of what Xbox used to be

It's impossible to talk about a new Xbox game without also talking about the state of Xbox. Microsoft's gaming division is in freefall: Recent headlin…
Google hit with $1 billion fine for breaking EU antitrust rules

Google hit with $1 billion fine for breaking EU antitrust rules

The European Union has fined Google's parent company Alphabet €890 million (about $1 billion) for two separate violations of the bloc's Digital …
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop

https://book-prize-index.vercel.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007247 Points: 250 # Comments: 97…
ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.…
Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending

Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending

Q2 2026 was profitable, but barely.…
After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of a poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.…
Tesla’s revenues are bouncing back after a dismal two years

Tesla’s revenues are bouncing back after a dismal two years

After a dismal two years of weakening demand, falling sales, and damage to its brand by Elon Musk's political activities, Tesla's road to recovery con…
Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample

Article URL: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010345 Points: 228 # …
Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.…
Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently

Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the …
OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.…
The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter

The Anthropic-Physical Intelligence rumor roiling AI Twitter

Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.…
OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 Poi…
This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light

This Former Intel CEO Wants to Jumpstart Moore’s Law With Light

Pat Gelsinger wants to pave the way to ever more powerful artificial intelligence using tiny beams of light.…
Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

Taylor Farms Spent Big on MAGA and Anti-Regulatory Lobbying Before Diarrhea Outbreak

The company donated more than $3.6 million to conservative groups between 2020 and 2025, including $1 million to the MAGA Inc. super PAC.…
Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May's price hike

Steam Deck sales are losing steam since May's price hike

Analysis of bestseller charts shows an 80 percent dip from 2025's sales rate.…
Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding

Article URL: https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding Comments URL: https://ne…