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Leanstral 1.5

Leanstral 1.5 is an updated Lean 4 formal proof engineering model with 119B total parameters (6.5B active) designed for…

Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more

Tenor still connects to Google apps, but other platforms must look elsewhere for GIFs.

The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500…

Apple takes Epic fight over app store fees to the Supreme Court

Supreme Court will weigh if Apple contempt finding in Epic case is “erroneous.”

New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea

Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.

The best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?

Amazon's announcement that AWS GameLift will now provide free egress bandwidth for game servers represents a major cost…

Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google is updating its image generator to make it faster and cheaper, making it a more useful tool for creators looking…

Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails

Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet

They may not look as good, but Nano Banana 2 Lite images only take a few seconds to create.

Clicks shows off its BlackBerry-inspired phone in a new hands-on video

A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that…

Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings

Just hit this today and I'm furious.

Nvidia competitor Etched hits $5B valuation, $1B in sales for AI chip

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered…

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 brings stronger agentic capabilities, lower pricing, and improved safety, positioning the…

Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, a new model designed for autonomous agent tasks that matches the performance of…

Acti puts AI agents directly into your smartphone keyboard

Startup Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants.

I built a mmWave material classification radar

The author built a millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar prototype designed to detect asbestos in building materials,…

Claude Science

Claude Science is a beta research application designed to assist scientists with data analysis, database searching, and…

Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists

Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving…

Threads adds new features to Live Chats as it expands access

The updates include translations, new tools for hosts, and more.

Trump's plan to redesign every .gov website leads to AI-designed horrors

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.

We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works

The author argues that while modern AI assistants and user-friendly technology preserve computational knowledge, they…

Xsnow "protestware" in Debian

The xsnow desktop application for Linux contains hidden "protestware" that displays Ukrainian flags with significantly…

Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker

He's 13 years old. He wanted to track his own ant colonies — growth, feeding, humidity, and other metrics.

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Google has introduced Nano Banana 2 Lite, a new lightweight AI image generation model designed for fast, cost-efficient…

Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code

BMW iX5 Blows Away the Competition with 460-KW Charging, 435-Mile Range

BMW unveiled the iX5, its first fully electric SUV to be manufactured in the U.S., featuring 460-kW ultra-fast charging…

County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'

Henrico County, Virginia is asking its employees and schools to conserve electricity due to a 25% rate increase…

Scammers Sell Seeds for Exotic AI-Generated Flowers That Don't Exist

Scammers are selling seeds for non-existent plants using AI-generated images depicting fantastical flowers with colorful…

Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

Claude Code contains steganographic markers embedded in the system prompt's date string that encode information about…