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Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models — from Hacker News front page
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Hacker News is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models — from Hacker News front page
Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will become the chair of Google DeepMind and the chief scientist at Alphabet, CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Wednesday. Hassabis will continue to lead Alphabet's Isomo
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis. Hassabis will be…
Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on LLMs to help mods manage their communities, and it's expanding who can use those tools today ahead of a full launch later this year. The compan
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation to…
Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing list of previously unknown incidents that have alarmed AI safety experts and intensified pressure for greater oversight of frontier systems.
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveri…
Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.
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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its…
MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking — from Hacker News front page
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Hacker News is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking — from Hacker News front page
The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing open models. Axios reports that not only do the voluntary guidelines outright exclude open models - meaning anyone can download them and inspect their core comp
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: The Trump administration's framework for assessing potential cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI reportedly has no interest in testing…
<p>I released <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-32">LLM 0.32</a> this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side provider tools, redesigned content-ad
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Simon Willison is flagging a projects signal worth tracking: <p>I released <a href="https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html#v0-32">LLM 0.32</a> this morning, the most significant new version…
<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.26">llm-anthropic 0.26</a></p> <p>Includes new features enabled by <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/4/new-release-of-llm/">LLM 0.32</a>:</p> <blockquote> <ul> <li>New models: <code>claude-fable-5<
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Simon Willison is flagging a llm signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.26">llm-anthropic 0.26</a></p> <p>Includes new…
Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period a year ago. During Tuesday's earnings ca
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 bi…
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing con…