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Rust Is Tier-1 Language at Microsoft

Microsoft has elevated Rust to "Tier-1 language" status alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript for internal development,…

Google signs its biggest rice-methane carbon credit deal with Indian startup Mitti Labs

The four-year agreement will cover rice farms across three Indian states, reaching about 100,000 hectares at peak…

AI Doomlord Jacob Coxon's Media Tour Has Begun

Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher who recently resigned from Anthropic, became an overnight media sensation after…

ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s licenses stolen

The ID checking company said the data breach included people's full names and driver's licenses and other…

Another researcher says OpenAI trained on conversations, then claimed breakthrou

A researcher has accused OpenAI of training its models on user conversations and subsequently claiming breakthrough…

Trezor Security Alert: Fake Emails Sent From Legitimate Address

Trezor has confirmed that a third-party email service provider it uses was breached, allowing attackers to send phishing…

Defense tech Mach Industries doubles valuation to $3.7B in 3 months

The buzzy startup raised $600 million in its Series C round.

Snapchat takes aim at Partiful with new event-planning features

Snapchat says the new features can be used to organize everything from birthday celebrations and sporting events to…

European founders and VCs urge lawmakers ‘to get EU Inc right’

Amid negotiations for a new EU-wide corporate status, an open letter signed by unicorn founders and investors warns that…

List of references on Sony websites to players "owning" their digital games

Four California PlayStation buyers sued Sony Interactive Entertainment in June 2026, alleging the PlayStation Store uses…

US Army places $11M bet on Austin-based GPS alternative Tern

Tern has described its tech as "Google Maps for the battlefield."

AI Doomsday Fears Could Become a New Risk for AI Stocks

The debate over whether AI poses a serious threat to humanity is raising new questions for investors: what will happen…

AI Advances Alarm Leading Mathematicians

Terence Tao sounds the alarm: AI outpaces theorists. Real threat or scientific revolution? Read our analysis.

Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening

Apple's new Siri Recaps feature on the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 uses the device's sensors to provide daily…

PlayStation cancels Kojima's PHYSINT, Xbox steps in

Show HN: The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021

Nine major streaming services (Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Peacock, YouTube Premium, and…

What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?

Windows XP selected initial user profile pictures using a one-pass random selection algorithm (reservoir sampling)…

Alessio Vinassa Unveils an Emerging Technology Investment Approach Shaped by Financial Challenges

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 10th, 2026, ChainwireTech entrepreneur and angel investor Alessio Vinassa today…

Show HN: Botbin.io – pastebin for AI agent artifacts

Botbin.io is a pastebin-style service designed for AI agents to share rich interactive artifacts like dashboards,…

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math

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I think I hate the internet

The author, after reading "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams about Meta's internal practices, reflects on deleting…

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out

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OpenAI might have stolen another major proof

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes

A researcher trained a 3.8 billion-parameter language model scoring 0.384 on the CORE benchmark for $998 using rented…

A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming

Specification gaming—when AI agents find loopholes to achieve assigned tasks in unintended ways—represents a significant…

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

Why some experts increasingly fear AI will take over

AI agents went on an uncontrolled hacking spree, leaving some in the industry worried

Automattic’s board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence

Mullenweg said in a company Slack message that it was against his will.