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Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups

In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the…

New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs,…

Slate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck

Slate has an answer for owners who have always want to drive a truck with bright crayon colors.

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation

A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October.

Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI

While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or…

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia

The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its…

GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

GLM 5.2, an open-weights AI model, achieved near-human accuracy in preparing UK VAT tax returns for small businesses,…

How to Start a Ruby Meetup

Starting a Ruby meetup requires securing a venue (ideally an office with meeting space), creating an event listing with…

How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."

Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos

Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts.

Show HN: I built a web tool to see and edit what an AI thinks before it answers

A developer created Lucid, a web tool that visualizes what language models are "thinking" before they generate responses…

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Sol: Here’s How It Stacks Up Against Other AI Models

OpenAI's new flagship model is out, after spending two weeks locked behind a government-approved preview.

Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI…

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of popular infrastructure tools like Terraform and Vagrant, built Ghostty, a fast and…

Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created

Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in —…

GPT-5.6

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ChatGPT Work

Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer

Wildcard, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring a Founding Engineer to build its agentic commerce optimization…

AI 2040: Plan A

AI companies are racing to develop superintelligent AI by the late 2020s, which could result in extinction or dangerous…

AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

AI-generated content is proliferating across social media platforms, with one in four longform posts flagged as fully…

Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

Context.dev, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has launched an API that extracts structured data from any website to power…

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Show HN: Policy enforcement for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex

Show HN: Runtime authorization for Claude Code, Cursor, and CodexHi HN, Fernando and I built Kastra.

Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration

LazyPi is a one-command configuration tool that instantly sets up the Pi coding agent with 60+ community skills, 67…

Block reaches $45M settlement with 46 states over Cash App fraud probe

State attorneys general said they found that Block misled users by falsely advertising that Cash App provided bank-like…

Elon Musk Claims Grok 4.5 Is Closing In on Anthropic’s AI Performance 

Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, unveiled its new artificial intelligence (AI) model, Grok 4.5.

TLS certificates for internal services done right

The article explains how to properly implement TLS certificates for internal services by using "split-horizon DNS"…

My burner email blocklist blocked me

The author, who created a burner email blocklist in 2018, now regrets this practice and recommends against automatically…