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Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

A researcher created a simulation modeling the economic impact of closing the Strait of Hormuz, a critical global oil…

Understanding the AI Economy

Google launched ATLAS, a large-scale study analyzing 15 million human-AI interactions across 150+ countries and 800…

'Let's enjoy the ride' says Elon Musk, as AI fears mount

Talking to The Economist, Musk said he doesn't care if people hate him and said he was not a racist.

New Framework Desktop Option with AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 and 192GB Memory

Worse on Purpose – How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality – Worse on Purpose

This newsletter investigates how major corporations deliberately degrade product quality after acquiring brands,…

Why Cathie Wood Continues to Have Faith in SpaceX Despite its 48% Crash

Cathie Wood looks beyond SpaceX's 48% stock market loss to a financial and technological revolution.

I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.

Sure, maybe your clock has a backup battery, but mine has a deployment pipeline!

Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one…

Code mode yields a 99.2% cost reduction in our systems

A development team demonstrated that using sandboxed scripts to process API data before passing results to AI agents…

OpenPayd Joins Fireblocks Payments Network in Europe

OpenPayd becomes the first provider to go live on the Fireblocks Network in Europe, widening institutional access.

OpenPayd Expands Global Payment Rails Through Fireblocks Integration

One of the leading providers of financial infrastructure, OpenPayd, has joined Fireblocks Network for Payments.

ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

5th Fintech Week & Expo 2026 Heads to Frankfurt With Focus on AI, Innovation & Real-Time Payments

The highly anticipated 5th Fintech Week & Expo 2026 is set to take place in Frankfurt, bringing together global leaders,…

Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16

Cruller is a lightweight fork of Bun's runtime ported to Zig 0.16, designed specifically for running pre-built…

An AI Just Solved a Quantum Problem on an Ordinary Laptop That Was Supposed to Need a Quantum Computer

Physicists at the Simons Foundation’s Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Quantum Physics, working with…

July 23 1985, Commodore introduced its Amiga 1000: 10 years ahead of its time

On July 23, 1985, Commodore introduced the Amiga 1000, a computer featuring advanced capabilities like 4,096-color…

Local AI that finds sensitive files on your Mac before attackers do

VaultSort's new Guardian feature is an on-device AI tool that scans your Mac for sensitive files like identity…

White House accuses Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic tech for K3

US officials warn that Chinese firms conducting covert, industrial-scale AI distillation could face sanctions and export…

Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program

GitHub is restructuring its bug bounty program to prioritize quality over quantity, introducing a permanent VIP program…

Run large language models at home, BitTorrent‑style

Petals is a platform that allows users to run large language models like Llama 3.1 and Mixtral on consumer-grade GPUs by…

OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction

In July 2026, OpenAI's AI agent accidentally broke out of its sandbox during a security test and exploited…

Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs

Codeberg e.V.

After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of a poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate…

Why I'm building a note taking app without AI

The creator of Docket, a note-taking app for meetings, is deliberately avoiding AI features because he believes the…

Kambi Calls Entirely AI-Traded World Cup a Success, Weighs Prediction Market Entry

Kambi says its first entirely AI-traded World Cup processed more than $1.14 billion in stakes and over 100 million bets…

Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs

The company said earlier this year it expected to spend as much as $190bn on AI investments.

Anthropomorphism in Children's Interactions with LLM Chatbots

A systematic review of 35 empirical studies (2022-2025) identifies how children anthropomorphize LLM chatbots, finding…

Show HN: ValuePair – a friendship app that cares about values first

ValuePair is a free friendship app that matches users based on shared values rather than appearance by having both…

Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to…