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Running local models is good now

Local AI models have reached a practical maturity level, with recent releases like Google's Gemma 4 family now capable…

Robinhood Cuts 290 Jobs at Record Volume, HOOD Shares Jump 5%

Robinhood Markets cut roughly 290 full-time positions on June 16, 2026, absorbing an estimated $28 million in…

I Fired Google

The author ditched Google Home after it was upgraded to Gemini, which has become worse at its core function: providing…

Mobileye is entering the US robotaxi market with standalone service

The service will leverage its Moovit platform to launch in an a US city in 2027.

Show HN: Hackers for Granny (defense against industrialized elder fraud)

Organized crime syndicates operating from Southeast Asia extract over $64 billion annually from elderly people using…

NVIDIA’s $25B Bond Sale Signals Deepening AI Debt Supercycle

AI demand drives record oversubscription as Big Tech turns to debt markets to fund infrastructure expansion.

Why a ‘safe’ AI can turn dangerous in the wrong organization

A 15-day AI agent simulation shows why short tests may miss long-term risks shaped by tools, rules and other agents.

SpaceX passes Amazon as valuation balloons to $2.7T

SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers

Google Chrome is finalizing its transition to Manifest V3 by removing the last technical workarounds that allowed users…

The Ars Technica 2026 Reader Survey: Let your voice be heard!

Tell us how you read Ars, and what you'd like to see more (or less!) of on the front page.

Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with…

Is Fable 5 Back?

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model has been restored and is now available through the API after the U.S.

Show HN: Voice Age Verification

I miss the old web.

SpaceX Is Buying Cursor

SpaceX has overtaken Amazon to become the world's fifth most valuable company, valued at $2.78 trillion following its…

Robinhood cuts 10% of workforce as Tenev touts business strength

Robinhood cuts about 10% of staff as CEO Vlad Tenev says business “has never been stronger” despite weak Q1 trading.

Mechanical Watch

Mechanical watches operate without batteries through an intricate system of purely mechanical components centered around…

This startup’s super metals could soon be in military drones, luxury watches, and chef’s knives

Instead of heating metals, Foundation Alloy beats them into submission.

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division.

Critical Copilot vulnerability allowed hackers to seal 2FA code from users

SearchLeak exploit shows why the industry's approach to LLM security fails over and over.

Unicorn – The Ultimate CPU Emulator

Unicorn Engine, an open-source CPU emulator released over seven years ago, received the Asian Star 10x10 Award from…

DuckDB Internals: Why Is DuckDB Fast? (Part 1)

DuckDB is an in-process analytical SQL database that has rapidly become one of the most widely adopted databases due to…

Threads adds new personalization and community features as it reaches 500M monthly users

The Meta-owned social platform announced a series of new features launching today, including a "Your Algo" tool that…

SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by…

SpaceX Surges 63% to Above $220 in Overnight Trading, Hits $2.9T Valuation 

SpaceX was trading above $220 per share in overnight trading, up 63% from its $135 IPO price and valuing the company at…

Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2

Slay the Spire 2 has a correlated randomness issue where different random number generators produce predictable outputs…

India’s NHRC Raises Alarm Over Digital Arrest Scams

India’s National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has expressed serious concern over the rapid rise of digital arrest…

Trinket.io shutting down, so we saved it and hosted it a trinket.strivemath.org

Trinket.io is shutting down, but Strive Math has preserved the open-source coding platform and relaunched it as a free,…