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Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV,…

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Pi, a minimalist AI coding framework with only 4 tools and under 1,000 tokens in its system prompt, outperforms larger,…

How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices…

AI Enthusiast Bugs His Toddler's Sleepover and Feeds It to Claude—The Internet Bugs Back

Nicholas Charriere turned an hour of nonsense into a family website with named tracks.

'I feel like I dug my own grave': The workers caught in the AI transition

AI is reshaping the Philippines' outsourcing industry, raising questions over the future of the industry.

DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)

DuckDB, a powerful in-memory column-major data processing platform, has been integrated into Clojure through tmducken to…

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as digital scams surge: INTERPOL

AI is now powering over half of reported cybercrime cases across Africa, enabling criminals to conduct faster and more…

Security Incident INC-2026-07-28-01 – UK AI Security Institute [pdf]

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OpenAI Dumps Apple Employees' Text Messages to Fight Trade Secret Suit

The ChatGPT maker released emails and text messages it says expose factual errors in Apple's lawsuit and undercut claims…

Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi Says $2 AI Audit Could Have Caught Coldcard Flaw

Dragonfly’s Haseeb Qureshi says the Coldcard vulnerability shows how artificial intelligence (AI) is rewriting…

Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished

The author received an SMS claiming to be from FedEx about unpaid duties on a parcel and identified seven red flags…

SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year

SpaceX has ramped up its purchases of Tesla Megapacks for its xAI data centers.

Gwern reties from fulltime writing to launch Guardian Angel Inc

SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

Android app developers may be unwittingly sharing their users’ location data with advertisers

Developers may not realize they are sharing their users' location data with advertisers, per new research.

Oxide Computer raises $445M (SEC Form D)

Oxide Computer, a Delaware corporation based in Emeryville, California, filed a Form D with the SEC indicating an exempt…

Waymo CEO explains why Tesla's camera-only self-driving falls short

Waymo CEO Dmitri Dolgov argues that camera-only autonomous driving systems, like Tesla's approach, cannot achieve the…

Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. 

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety…

Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta

Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal…

Show HN: Maple-Preview – ternary 20B MoE running at 120 tok/s on a iPhone

Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden…

Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out…

Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts

Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research

EdotEnv (YC S26) develops reinforcement learning environments derived from real market data to train AI agents on…

Waymo – Dallas Open to All

Waymo has expanded its autonomous ride-hailing service in Dallas to all residents starting August 4, 2026, following a…

Web security is too hard

A security researcher nearly fell for what appeared to be a phishing attack on Cloudflare's new Wallet feature,…

Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt

cMCP is a secure gateway that enforces tool-call policies for AI agents by running policy evaluation inside a hardware…

The Judgment Reservoir

A company achieved record execution metrics and shipped three times more than usual following AI investments, yet…