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Driving data can predict crash black spots before accidents happen

An analysis of data collected from hundreds of thousands of cars in Australia offers an insight into driving behaviour…

OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India

OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the…

An EV that sounds like a 6.75 L V8: A ride in the Bentley Torcal

The electric Torcal will be Bentley's entry model and cost less than a Bentayga.

Kalshi Nears Sponsorship Deal With Times-Owned The Athletic

Kalshi is in advanced talks to become a sponsor of The Athletic, filling a commercial slot the sports title has left…

Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) Microduck

Pollen Robotics (in partnership with Hugging Face) is launching the Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped robot priced at…

Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts

Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down

Nitter.net and Xcancel.com, third-party platforms that provided alternative interfaces to X (formerly Twitter), have…

Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS

PayPal's app is refusing to run on GrapheneOS, crashing with a root detection security exception, though the user…

Rogue OpenAI Agents Sacrificed Their Own Runs to Hack Hugging Face, Report Finds

Coordinators pressed agents with little budget left into experiments they called "permadeath," METR's investigation…

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is an open-weights model released in August 2026 that ranks in the top tier for…

Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude

OpenAI Bets On Astra As Sam Altman Predicts AGI In 2026

Before the end of this year, Sam Altman announces that OpenAI will have an internal system which he will designate as…

Core Lightning confirms multiple vulnerabilities, prepares security update

Core Lightning advised operators to use offline mode if they do not install the forthcoming update, keeping their nodes…

Nvidia closes in on Hugging Face acquisition

Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face, the popular open-source AI hub, for $12.9 billion in a move that would…

Pnpm 12.0

Pnpm 12.0, a complete rewrite in Rust, has been released as a stable version while maintaining backward compatibility…

Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

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…