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Getting video models to learn better, faster

Recent improvements in image and video models stem primarily from three data-focused strategies rather than…

Laion Big Video Dataset

Researchers released LAION-BVD, a large-scale open video dataset containing 1.3 billion video URLs and 80 million…

CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO

After a CEO fired developers to make room for AI, developers created "Open Executive," an open-source AI system that…

FBI Seizes Chinese Hacking Platforms Used to Target US Agencies

Federal authorities shut down two online tools that Chinese government-backed hackers allegedly used to attack major U.S.

The Performance Inequality Gap, 2026

Modern websites have grown dramatically larger—the median mobile page now weighs 2.6 MiB, surpassing even the classic…

Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

Nvidia is in talks to acquire Hugging Face, a major open-source AI platform, for over $13 billion, though no deal has…

Viral AI startup Instinct has raised $350 million at a $2.5 billion valuation

The startup is only a year old but it has already generated a massive amount of hype (and money) while also spurring…

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

Amazon will permanently shut down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing marketplace, on September 30, 2026.

Amazon just tripled its order of Nvidia chips over ‘surging demand’

Amazon is adding another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to its data centers over the next two years.

Meta’s $18B child-safety deal hinges on age verification tech that doesn’t work well

The historic settlement reignites ongoing concern around how age-verification technology puts privacy at risk.

Russian Influence Network Used ChatGPT to Masquerade as Academic Experts

The operation promoted a purported Israeli think tank that published copied scholarship under academics’ names and…

Progress Linux 7.2 – Asahi Linux

Asahi Linux released version 7.2 and made progress on power management for Apple Silicon, a complex challenge involving…

Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax and Jobs Humans Can't Be Fired From

Gates is calling for AI tokens and robots to be taxed so firms think twice before swapping out workers, plus a bracket…

Nvidia Shares Surge in After-Hours Trading After Record $96.2 Billion Revenue

The chipmaker doubled quarterly revenue while disclosing $366 billion in future commitments and up to $108.5 billion in…

Anthropic continues compute-gobbling streak in $45 billion deal with Nscale

The new deal with the infrastructure provider is the latest example of Anthropic's white-hot compute-gobbling streak.

AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

Reuters report shows Meta's challenges replacing people with AI agents.

Clerky Is Joining Stripe

Clerky, an online legal service platform for startup formation and paperwork, has agreed to join Stripe.

WebMCP Challenge – OpenAI

New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name

Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead

Show HN: Every push-up becomes an attack in a camera-counted RPG game

A camera-based RPG game counts push-ups in real time using on-device pose detection to power combat against 48…

What will be left for us to work on

Arvind Narayanan argues that despite rapid AI advances, researchers and developers will have substantial work ahead,…

Show HN: We built the smallest dual-band aircraft tracker

We've been building open source embedded ADS-B receivers for a while, and spent the past 8 months smallifying our…

mold: A Parallel Linker

Mold is a new Unix/Linux linker that uses data parallelism across its entire pipeline to dramatically speed up the…

Product Development is being Rewritten

Coding agents are advancing rapidly and becoming efficient enough for production use, fundamentally changing how…

IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor

IBM has unveiled a dual-architecture processor that will enable IBM Z and LinuxONE mainframes to run both Arm-native and…

76% of 623 EU software vendors have no security.txt ahead of the CRA 24h rule

A scan of 623 European software vendors found that 76% lack a security.txt file, leaving researchers without a standard…

Meta settles states' child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as "peanuts"

Meta to impose daily limit on child social media use in deal with nearly every state.

Serve Markdown to AI Agents with Accept Headers

Websites can serve Markdown versions of their content to AI agents using the Accept: text/markdown header, allowing…

The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023)