China Giving Away Frontier AI Models Poses a Problem For OpenAI, Anthropic
Maybe the closed-loop business model just doesn't work.
Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners
AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.
The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser
At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display board, and it was running a web browser. Definitely an achievement. Lest you imagine that...
Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system
Article URL: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2026/7/14.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098803 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs
Article URL: https://www.reinvent.science/p/the-scientific-literature-is-poisonous Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098728 Points: 18 # Comments: 2
A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/business/economy/data-center-electricians-training.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098198 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
Google will let Mac users talk to Gemini simply by pressing the ‘fn’ key
Users only have to long-press the 'fn' key on the bottom left corner of their keyboard to talk to Gemini on Mac.
MinIO pitches persistent memory for agents with work to finish
Conventional chatbots respond to individual prompts and often retain only limited context. AI agents may carry out longer, multi-step jobs that span sessions, making persistent memory more important. Object storage vendor MinIO claims it can provide that memory. AI...
Cesium DevCon 2026 talks are up, including a keynote from SQLite’s creator
Article URL: https://cesium.com/events/cesium-developer-conference/2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098599 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
DoorDash unveils its own drone delivery service after FAA approval
The company developed the DoorDash Air drones in-house.
Inflation is still high. Will it be enough for the Fed to raise its benchmark rate?
Federal Reserve policymakers are losing patience with inflation, but they may not be ready to turn their frustration into action — not this week anyway.Meeting in Washington Tuesday and Wednesday, the Fed is expected to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged....
AI shopping is coming to your favorite brand’s website
I’m searching for a fun, professional outfit for a panel I will moderate this fall, and I mosey over to Alice + Olivia’s website. Until now, my only real option has been to scroll through thumbnails of dresses or fiddle with standard category filters. But there’s...
Open weights vs. closed: An AI civil war’s afoot, and the stakes are existential
It started as China vs. the US, but it's become a face-off between two fundamentally different ways of building LLMs. And the safety of everything is on the line.
Perplexity employee who worked on Comet launches an AI browser aimed at knowledge work
Polar has come out with an AI-first browser aimed at knowledge workers, and it has now raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona.
The VMware deadline that could reshape your IT strategy
Turn VMware’s mandate into an opportunity with Nutanix Many VMware customers assumed the most disruptive effects of Broadcom’s acquisition were already behind them. Licensing changes and pricing shifts required attention, but infrastructure strategy largely stayed the...
Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls
The startup analyzes calls, messages and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.
Nine-Year Fraud Campaign Clones Russian Company Sites to Steal Advance Payments
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale fraud campaign that involves creating lookalike websites of major Russian companies with an aim to siphon funds from international firms for more than nine years. According to Russian cybersecurity...
Coordinated Cyberattack Targets 30+ Minnesota Water Systems as One Plant Goes Offline
A coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 Minnesota community water systems on July 26 and 27, triggering a statewide cybersecurity response. Braham, Plymouth, South St. Paul and Maple Plain have publicly described a plant outage,...
Choose DuckDB rather than SQLite
Article URL: https://tracewayapp.com/blog/sqlite-vs-duckdb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097730 Points: 16 # Comments: 1
NASA Swift rescue mission spins into trouble during commissioning
Katalyst Space's LINK spacecraft is having some attitude problems on its way to rescue NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, resulting in a multi-axis spin and loss of communications. LINK has three reaction wheels for attitude control, pointing, and stability, but...
ChatGPT Blocks Requests to Mimic Famous Authors’ Styles
Writing styles fall within a legal and editorial gray area, making them a risk for generative AI companies prone to copyright lawsuits.
Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks
I recently found myself in the market for a few IP cameras to keep an eye on my Prusa 3D printers, and quickly found that the options on the market weren’t exactly ideal. Prusa does offer up an official camera, but the price for a pair of them was a bit more than I...
Iran-linked CyberAv3ngers suspected in attacks on Minnesota water systems
Security researchers at Tenable suspect the Iran-linked faux hacktivist outfit CyberAv3ngers was behind the cyberattack that disrupted more than 30 Minnesota water facilities. Neither state-level nor federal officials have made any claims regarding attribution for the...
Netflix edges past the BBC in latest UK audience survey
The BBC has so many structural benefits that it's unthinkable it could be usurped by anyone else in the UK.
Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25398 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096969 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Echologue – the private AI voice journal I built for myself
I have tried journaling many times but nothing stuck. So I decided to make my own app for myself with these features:* Voice first * Private first * AI chat * Automatic tagging, meaning extraction, and semantic retrieval using embeddings stored locally * Export to...
Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
Article URL: https://github.com/SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096917 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Serena Williams wants to find the next trillion-dollar company
Serena Williams doesn’t just defy convention on the tennis court. She’s also applying her competitive mindset to entrepreneurship and venture investing, recently rebranding her firm from Serena Ventures to Starfire Ventures. Williams discusses the investment strategy...
Shared Claude Chats Appeared in Search After Google Indexed Public Links
Google's defense is that it can't control what other site owners make publicly available.
US Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots, Targeting China Over National Security
The agency said imports of advanced robots pose cybersecurity and other national security risks. The post US Bans Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots, Targeting China Over National Security appeared first on SecurityWeek.