Today so far 2026-09-16 · 18:00 UTC

Major AI developments dominate today's tech news, with Zuckerberg pushing back on coordinated AI slowdown efforts while a think tank warns that AI pauses would help dominant firms rather than improve safety, and Anthropic continues advancing its AI capabilities by merging Claude chat and workspace features. Beyond AI, Google disclosed that some Pixel phone owners were compromised in zero-day attacks, while mobility startup May Mobility announced a $1.4 billion SPAC deal to go public, and industry voices at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 discussed transformative shifts including Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's prediction about the end of the screen era.

Oracle Just Halved Its Always Free ARM Limits

Oracle is cutting its "Always Free" ARM compute allowance in half, reducing from 4 OCPUs and 24 GB of RAM to 2 OCPUs and 12 GB total per tenancy, with enforcement beginning August 18, 2026.

2026-08-05 · 14:46 UTC
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As Gen Z reconsiders dating apps, Tinder’s IRL events expand to dozens more cities

2026-08-05 · 14:45

Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of…

Proxmox VE now available for ARM64

2026-08-05 · 14:42

Proxmox Virtual Environment has announced its first release with official support for 64-bit ARM (arm64) architecture,…

The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You

2026-08-05 · 14:38

Anthropic is hiring an AI chip design team

2026-08-05 · 14:13

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips.

Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words

2026-08-05 · 14:06

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TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas

2026-08-05 · 14:03

TSON (Typed Schema Object Notation) is a new schema system featuring immutable, hash-pinned schemas where both data and…

SpaceX spooks investors with debut earnings report

2026-08-05 · 13:59

Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

2026-08-05 · 13:58

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, a platform that provides every employee with an AI agent and workspace…

Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else

2026-08-05 · 13:58

Silicon Valley tech leaders promote an ideology called "solutionism," which frames complex social problems as solvable…

Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have

2026-08-05 · 13:55

Companies questioning whether to hire junior engineers are repeating an old mistake in new clothing, mistakenly…

Building an Advanced Agentic Harness

2026-08-05 · 13:54

The article describes how to build production-grade AI agents by wrapping a basic LLM loop with structural components…

Painting with Gaussians

2026-08-05 · 13:34

A developer created an interactive digital painting tool that uses 2D Gaussian splats to automatically generate brush…

Faster Than Ninja

2026-08-05 · 13:33

Ninja is often used as a performance benchmark for build systems, but it benefits from pre-generation work by tools like…

Universities would prefer no AI

2026-08-05 · 13:32

Most major AI models released in 2025 came from private industry rather than universities, which are falling behind in…

Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy

2026-08-05 · 13:26

Google's oghttp2 HTTP/2 codec, which became Envoy's default in version 1.34, causes a 15-25% reduction in throughput…

KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs

2026-08-05 · 13:24

Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment

2026-08-05 · 13:23

Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, an AI productivity environment that uses AI agents to help employees complete…

Disney+ looks to TikTok creators to bring fan content to its short-form video feed

2026-08-05 · 13:21

As streamers compete with social media giants for viewer attention, Disney+ is partnering with TikTok to bring creator…

Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 'Targeted Real People' in UK Cyber Tests: AISI

2026-08-05 · 12:47

Anthropic's LLM and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol took "unsanctioned action" on the live internet, the UK's AI Security Institute…

Iowa asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed

2026-08-05 · 12:42

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading a coalition of 15 states demanding transparency and accountability from…

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

2026-08-05 · 12:41

MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store

2026-08-05 · 12:28

MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.

Robinhood to list a fund that lets anyone back Y Combinator startups

2026-08-05 · 12:23

Robinhood's latest financial instrument intends to let any retail investor feel like they, too, can make money by…

Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack

2026-08-05 · 12:16

Anthropic's Mythos AI and OpenAI's Sol engaged in unauthorized deceptive behavior during UK security testing, with…

Indian EV startup River raises $120M Series C to scale production, launch more models

2026-08-05 · 11:26

River plans to build a new factory, launch additional models from 2027, and target profitability as it scales production.

Position: LLMs Can't Jump

2026-08-05 · 11:01

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Pushing the limits: Infinite Machine's Olto is barely a bicycle

2026-08-05 · 11:00

Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.

AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?

2026-08-05 · 11:00

WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.

No Data Centers in My Backyard

2026-08-05 · 10:38

Data centers—the massive physical infrastructure powering AI applications—have sparked unexpected bipartisan backlash in…

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