The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
‘ChatGPT for the win’: Parents are using AI to skip out on children’s school photo day
With a new school year underway, kids everywhere are saying cheese for school picture day—but some penny-pinching parents are cutting photographers out of the equation. In their place, those parents are employing artificial intelligence to generate picture day-style...
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
Imagine a prompt injection that keeps replicating itself like a worm. It's not just the stuff of bad dreams. “We have found instances of our GPT models being susceptible to an AI-version of a worm attack that we call ‘self-replicating prompt injection,’” OpenAI said...
Trump launches America.gov with AI chatbots at its core
If you want accurate information about life-changing government services, a potentially hallucinating chatbot might not be your first choice. However, the Trump administration is rolling out a new digital portal for access to federal government tasks that puts AI...
OpenAI tries disarming AI angst with cute graphics and always-on agents
OpenAI, among those sounding the alarm about existential AI risk as its models run riot on third-party websites, on Tuesday introduced dots, which are cute-looking, hosted AI agents. When dots take visual form in mobile, desktop, or web applications, they look like...
FBI to ShinyHunters: ‘We know how to find you’
The FBI’s cyber chief has a message for the criminals that hacked the bureau’s jobs portal last week: "We know how to find you," so turn yourself in. In a video message following the Dutch National Police’s arrest of a 24-year-old whom the FBI described as “one of the...
Your car and its mobile app are probably handing over all kinds of data to tech companies
Researchers at Northeastern University found vehicles and their companion apps regularly shared detailed data with some of the largest tech companies.
Thingway: Analogue Modernism, and Untying Everyone From the Damned Desk
I hate computer. You hate computer. We all hate computer. More specifically modern subscription-based, or “Free” (definitely not data harvesting) tools made available almost exclusively via the web for a computer (the phone’s are indeed included), but i digress....
Does Being a GTM Engineer Beat Being an Engineer? The Truth
I have a joke in my stand-up act: We spent 20 years telling coal miners to learn how to code, and now AI is doing all the coding and needs more electricity, so… back to the mines they go! It’s a joke, but it belies an underlying truth. Coding boot camps became a...
Amaze Holdings (NYSE: AMZE) Executes Binding LOI to Acquire BullionFX | Alchemy for US$155 Million
NEWPORT BEACH, California, September 29th, 2026, ChainwireProposed acquisition would bring a gold-backed decentralized financial ecosystem, including decentralized financial infrastructure targeting retail, institutional, and blockchain markets. A retail and...
The Strange Programming Language That Helped Build WhatsApp
The curious story of Erlang, told from inside the head of the man who built it. A note on form. Joe Armstrong, co-creator of the Erlang programming language, died in April 2019. What follows is a work of narrative nonfiction told in an imagined first-person voice. The...
Fabrice Bellard: The Genius Behind the Internet’s Hidden Infrastructure
Fabrice Bellard wrote the code that carries the world's video, spins up its clouds, and speaks to its cell towers. He does not give interviews. For nearly forty years he has been in conversation with one thing only, a machine, in a quiet room, with no one else...
Dodge AI Raises $2.65M From Accel and Google Ventures to Build Self-Healing ERP Systems
A truck sits at a warehouse dock and cannot be loaded, because a Goods Receipt Note is printing the wrong information, with the fault hiding somewhere between SAP, a Kinaxis supply-planning system and a piece of in-house warehouse software that three different teams...
Vana Completes Expanded Staking as Part of the Vega Upgrade, Publishes Expanded VANA Token Economics
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, September 29th, 2026/Chainwire/--Network fees from personal data reads now fund staking rewards, buybacks and ecosystem development under a fixed protocol split; public dashboard launches at token.vana.org The Vana Foundation today...
21X LLC Seeks Regulatory Approval to Operate as a US Broker Dealer and Appoints Ray Tierney as CEO
Frankfurt/New York, United Kingdom, September 29th, 2026/Chainwire/--21X LLC is seeking US regulatory approvals to be a US broker-dealer that will operate an alternative trading system (ATS) offering subscribers the ability to trade tokenized securities. Ray Tierney,...
PrimeXBT Adds 15 New Crypto Futures, Taking The Total to Over 170
Castries, Saint Lucia, September 29th, 2026/Chainwire/--PrimeXBT, a global multi-asset broker and crypto assets service provider, has added 15 new Crypto Futures to its PXTrader 2.0 platform, bringing the total selection to more than 170. The expansion gives traders...
Inside Dogear’s SwiftUI Architecture
In the last post, I said I was happy to go deep on the tech stack. This is that overview: the APIs Dogear calls, and the logic that turns them into a library.Building Dogear Taught Me to Validate Before I Ship was about the pivot. Dogear is a personal library. You...
BTSE Bhutan Receives Financial Services License for Digital Asset Trading Services
Gelephu, Bhutan, September 29th, 2026/Chainwire/--BTSE Exchange Pte Ltd ("BTSE Bhutan") today announced that it has been granted a Financial Services License (FSL) by the Gelephu Financial Services Office (GFSO), the financial regulator of the Gelephu Mindfulness City...
An Audio-First Workflow for AI Video Dialogue Shots
I generated the same four-second line of dialogue nine times before I noticed what I was actually doing wrong. The line was right. The face was right, locked from a reference sheet I built for exactly this reason. What kept breaking was the timing: the model either...
156 Real-World Examples of How to Use GPT-6 Luna and Sol
One week after launch, GPT-6 Luna and Sol are already running in clouds, code editors, invoice pipelines, trading agents, whisky classifiers and CI bots. Here are the real ones, sorted by what you are trying to build.OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on...
Designing AML Pipelines for Data Quality, Lineage, and Drift Detection
A few months ago, I was investigating an unexpected spike in AML false positives. Every dashboard looked healthy. Every ingestion job had completed successfully. Infrastructure monitoring showed no issues. Initially, I assumed something was wrong with the pipeline....
Model Integrity Is Not Model Provenance: Understanding the Limits of OMS
Model signing became real infrastructure this year. NVIDIA has been cryptographically signing every model it publishes to its NGC Catalog since March 2025, using a specification called OMS, and it's the first major model hub to do so. Google is prototyping the same...
How do translation earbuds actually work?
Translation earbuds are gaining momentum, but actually using them may not be quite the experience you're expecting.
a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B
EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation in a year.
‘My rogue AI agent texted my ex’: The new meme that lets you pass the blame for your worst behavior
It seems that every other day a new frontier model has made its way somewhere it shouldn’t—so much so that it’s now a meme. In recent months, OpenAI’s agents have managed to hack software company Hugging Face, a German website, and coding website RubyGems. Anthropic’s...
Excel Breaks a 40-Year Rule: Microsoft Lets One Cell Hold Multiple Values
Microsoft is changing a 40-year-old Excel rule by allowing a single cell to hold multiple values using new lists, arrays in cells, and nested arrays. The post Excel Breaks a 40-Year Rule: Microsoft Lets One Cell Hold Multiple Values appeared first on TechRepublic.
Google Workspace Lets Admins Set Role Expiration Dates
Google Workspace now lets admins time-limit role assignments for users, security groups, and service accounts. See how expiration works and its key limits. The post Google Workspace Lets Admins Set Role Expiration Dates appeared first on TechRepublic.
Disney cuts hundreds more jobs for third round of layoffs under new CEO
Hundreds more layoffs just hit Disney, as workers had been anticipating. On Tuesday, Deadline was the first to report that the company’s most recent cuts would impact several hundred employees. A spokesperson for Disney told the outlet that the layoffs primarily...
YC employee blocks Jews from hackathon
Article URL: https://twitter.com/realAdamLevi/status/2104921647081799899 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49900878 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Tesla secures $30B in new credit lines as it looks to scale Cybercab, Optimus
The company says it won't draw on the new debt facilities this year, as it has already planned at least $25 billion in capital expenditures.