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Tencent Tests Xiaowei AI Assistant in WeChat as China’s AI Race Intensifies

Tencent has begun limited testing of Xiaowei, a native AI assistant built directly into WeChat, in a significant step in…

Deno Desktop

Deno Desktop, available starting in Deno v2.9.0, allows developers to convert Deno projects into self-contained desktop…

The Flat Curve Society

Canadian government spent $46.8M on a secret Palantir contract

The Canadian government spent $46.8 million on a secret contract with data analytics company Palantir, according to…

Sakana Fugu

Sakana Fugu is a unified API that automatically selects and switches between specialized AI models based on specific…

The Doom Justifies the Valuation

# Summary The author argues that leading AI companies like Anthropic use apocalyptic messaging about AI doom in their…

Claude: Elevated Error Rates for Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic experienced elevated error rates across multiple Claude models (Opus 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5)…

1983 Northern Telecom Commodore Phone

In the early 1980s, Commodore Canada created a uniquely Canadian product—the Northern Telecom Commodore Phone bundled…

Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models

Meta has abandoned its mandatory Model Capability Initiative (MCI) that collected employee data for machine learning…

Good results fine tuning a local LLM like Qwen 3:0.6B to categorize questions

A developer fine-tuned the tiny Qwen 3:0.6B language model (600M parameters) to categorize household questions for a…

Simple hard way to conjugate Japanese verbs

Japanese verb conjugation can be simplified by understanding that it's primarily a system of concatenating a verb's stem…

I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke – Launching CivBench

# Summary Researchers used Civilization VI as a benchmark (CivBench) to test whether AI systems can handle complex,…

The Anatomy of an AI-Native Org

# Summary As AI automates translation tasks—converting requirements into code, tickets into PRs, and business language…

My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992

In this 1992 reflection, programmer Mark Dominus argues that compiler technology—once a major bottleneck in…

Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI

Apertus is an open-source foundation AI model developed by Swiss institutions (EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS) that provides…

PowerFox Browser

PowerFox Browser is a modern web browser designed to bring current security features and web technology support to older…

Stop wasting tokens and re explaining your project between sessions

Recall is a free Claude Code plugin that automatically creates local, offline summaries of coding sessions to eliminate…

There is minimal downside to switching to open models

The author argues that switching from proprietary LLMs (like Claude and GPT) to open-source models now carries minimal…

Show HN: DebugBrief – turn debugging sessions into reports, no AI

DebugBrief is a command-line tool that records debugging sessions and automatically generates evidence-based Markdown…

Elon Musk Says Universal High Income Could Replace Government AI Ownership

Elon Musk says the U.S.

Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects

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JSON-LD Explained for Personal Websites

JSON-LD is a structured data format added to webpages that helps search crawlers understand site content, potentially…

Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Applied ML Engineer

Wildcard, a Y Combinator-backed startup building an "agentic commerce" platform for e-commerce brands, is hiring its…

Burnout Is Real in the OSS World, Says John-David Dalton, Creator of Lodash

John-David Dalton, creator of the widely-used JavaScript library Lodash (which receives over 100 million npm downloads…

The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software

The author argues that while AI/LLMs have made software development significantly cheaper, they haven't made it free,…

Prediction Marketplace Kalshi Said to Be Exploring IPO Path in Informal Talks With Banks

Kalshi has opened informal talks with investment banks about a possible initial public offering, according to a report…

AI Has Broken Hiring

Generative AI is undermining traditional hiring signals by enabling candidates to easily create polished résumés and…

Code duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction

The article argues that creating the wrong abstraction is more costly than tolerating code duplication.

TechCrunch Mobility: A new robotaxi scorecard shows China’s dominance

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.