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FINNOVEX Saudi Arabia 2026 Confirms InterContinental Riyadh by IHG as Premium Venue Partner

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia | August 2026 With less than a month to go before FINNOVEX Saudi Arabia 2026, InterContinental…

ATG (YC F25) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff (Data Platform)

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Twitch Turns On Amazon AI Training by Default: 'Nobody Would Opt In'

Twitch's chief product officer says he does not know whether content had already been used for training before the…

Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible — for now

The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.

DeepSeek V4 Pro Cuts AI Costs While Closing The Performance Gap

DeepSeek has just reminded the AI industry that a high-performance model does not necessarily have to cost a fortune.

Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent

Bullet is a new AI coding agent from Y Combinator that prioritizes speed by routing simple tasks to faster models,…

Pepperstone Appoints New CTO to Drive AI-Native Proprietary Tech Push

Former Xero engineering executive Nigel Fernandes will lead Pepperstone's push to own more of its technology as the…

ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Celld is an open-source, self-hosted implementation of Cloudflare's Durable Objects that uses S3 buckets for…

Twitch users can now block Amazon from using their content to train AI

The streaming platform's users criticised the move to allow the use of channel content for AI training.

Show HN: Ballet – Workflow automation that writes integrations against any API

Ballet is a workflow automation platform that uses AI to build integrations and automations across multiple business…

Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT

On August 12, 1981, IBM launched the Personal Computer (IBM PC), fundamentally transforming the computing landscape by…

What's New in Flutter 3.47

Flutter 3.47 introduces the 1.0 release of standalone material_ui and cupertino_ui packages, decoupling design systems…

Build Wide, Ship Narrow

The article argues that traditional software development practices of pre-planning work into small, sequential tasks are…

Why Japanese firms are being so slow to use AI

Japanese risk aversion and conservatism blamed for slow AI take-up by the country's business sector.

I built a browser-native SysEx librarian for 80s/90s synthesizers

A developer has created a browser-based SysEx librarian that allows musicians to back up, organize, and search patches…

Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them cheating at their jobs, classes

Is Anthropic's new watermarking system a travesty? Some have taken to social media to complain that it is.

AI nuclear power firm Fermi finally has a new CEO

Lee McIntire, an independent member of Fermi's board, has been hired as CEO, more than three months since the company…

The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font

“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.

Process as a Proxy for Motivation

When faced with difficult or abstract goals like "study more" or "make fewer decisions," establishing fixed processes or…

Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack

The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.

The AI-Generated Pattern Hides You From Surveillance Cameras—Including Flock

A Kansas City security researcher ran 31 million tests to teach a model how to paint camouflage for the algorithm age.

Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now

Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."

Northrop’s robot space mechanic is a new way to keep satellites at work longer

The Mission Robotic Vehicle is making the first attempt to attach a new thruster to an aging satellite.

'Inner Thoughts' of Every Major AI Model Exposed in Massive Exploit

Researchers found every major AI provider encrypts reasoning tokens with a single global key—and exploited it to decode…

Trump sued over "brazen" scheme to sell Truth Social API access for $100K a month

With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."

Trump’s Truth Social Faces Lawsuit Over Early Access to Posts

Trump faces a lawsuit over paid Truth Social access as Trump Media expands its data business and faces growing…

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers’ content by default, unless they opt out

"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback.