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Today so far 2026-09-15 · 18:00 UTC

Major tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have been in talks on AI safety for several weeks, signaling increased industry collaboration on critical AI governance issues. Meanwhile, the AI sector continues to see significant funding momentum with startups like Profound reaching unicorn status and securing a $180M Series D, while Wonder scored a $425 million partnership with DoorDash to expand its food delivery operations. On the regulatory front, X has taken fresh legal actions against alternative platforms, resulting in Nitter and XCancel going down again, and the open source community faces challenges with development lagging frontier technologies by over four months.

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app

Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.

2026-08-11 · 17:46 UTC

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What’s Scaleup Europe, the $5.7B fund that just backed satellite company ICEYE?

2026-08-11 · 17:41

Scaleup Europe, a public-private fund with a $5.7 billion target, made its first investment by backing Finnish satellite…

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI’s longtime COO, is leaving to ‘start something new’

2026-08-11 · 17:41

One of OpenAI's longest serving executives is headed out the door, although the longtime COO told staff that he was…

General Catalyst leads $1.1B round into 2-month-old River AI

2026-08-11 · 17:41

River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has a fascinating vision for personal agents and secured…

DECTA Partners With OpenPayd to Enhance Global Treasury Operations

2026-08-11 · 17:30

To improve its worldwide treasury capabilities, DECTA, a multinational payment technology firm with over ten years of…

Grok Bot

2026-08-11 · 17:23

Grok Bot is an AI teammate tool that can sign into user applications and complete work autonomously, learning from…

CSS properties you should know for better text designs

2026-08-11 · 17:16

The article highlights five CSS properties that enhance text design on the web beyond basic font selection.

Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch

2026-08-11 · 17:02

A Wisconsin woman was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week after a Flock camera system mistakenly flagged her…

Why Go Is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering

2026-08-11 · 16:57

Go is ideally suited for AI-assisted software engineering because the focus has shifted from writing code quickly to…

Mojo 1.0 Is Here

2026-08-11 · 16:56

Mojo has officially reached version 1.0, marking a stable, production-ready foundation for long-term development after…

FlightAware sues Kalshi over flight cancellation data

2026-08-11 · 16:55

The legal action against Kalshi focused on trademark infringement and injury to its reputation in addition to citing…

Nasdaq to acquire LeveL Markets in push toward ‘always-on’ markets

2026-08-11 · 16:34

Nasdaq’s acquisition of the third-largest US alternative trading system comes as the exchange operator expands into…

An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems

2026-08-11 · 16:25

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics.

A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals

2026-08-11 · 16:07

Claire Stapleton's new book, Don't Be Evil, recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident.

Joby Aviation builds out defense business with $500M acquisition

2026-08-11 · 16:06

Joby Aviation reached an agreement to acquire Resonant Sciences, which will kick off its new defense business.

Delta investigating after someone set up fake Wi-Fi network mid-flight

2026-08-11 · 15:40

The Delta flight crew switched off the aircraft's legitimate Wi-Fi network for around 30 minutes due to the incident,…

Anthropic Emerges as ‘Frontier AI Lab’ Behind Riot’s $9.1B AI Deal

2026-08-11 · 15:40

Anthropic has agreed to take 191 megawatts of computing capacity at Riot Platforms’ Rockdale campus in Texas.

2025’s most downloaded game, Block Blast!, is going ad-free on Apple Arcade

2026-08-11 · 15:33

Block Blast!, the most downloaded mobile game of 2025, is coming to Apple Arcade in September where it will be ad-free.

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe is betting on EVs, robots, and autonomy all at once — he’ll explain why at Disrupt 2026

2026-08-11 · 15:30

Rivian's CEO RJ Scaringe is speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 to detail his journey, and the lessons it’s bestowed.

Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet

2026-08-11 · 15:09

Git-knife is a new desktop GUI tool that allows users to edit git commit metadata—including messages, author…

OpenAI's Only Dedicated Ethicist Has Left With No Replacement: FT

2026-08-11 · 15:05

Chloé Bakalar joined from Meta last August and departed in July without any announcement, one of several safety exits in…

WEEX Brings AI Trading Off the Screen and Into the Hands of Global Users

2026-08-11 · 15:00

From Miami to Milan, and from Paris to the Netherlands, WEEX’s AI Trading emerged as the standout on-site activation…

Kyoto Fusioneering starts work on key fusion power plant device

2026-08-11 · 15:00

Fusion power startups are turning to Kyoto Fusioneering to supply components for future power pants.

Apple Silicon and macOS VMs: 11–16× Faster LLM Inference with Llama.cpp

2026-08-11 · 14:50

Researchers achieved 11–16× faster large language model (LLM) inference performance on Apple Silicon macOS virtual…

Launch HN: Keet (YC S24) – An app to create video courses on anything

2026-08-11 · 14:48

Keet is a YCombinator-backed app that generates personalized video courses on any topic in a Duolingo-style format,…

Federal vendor with $50M in contracts leaves portal broken for a month

2026-08-11 · 14:32

The Office of Personnel Management's FOIA portal, operated by a federal vendor that has received over $50 million in…

Zuckerberg Says Everyone Will Soon Have AI With Invention Superpowers

2026-08-11 · 14:31

Meta plans to give billions of people a free personal AI agent that writes code, builds businesses and manages the…

Manus will return to operating as an independent company

2026-08-11 · 14:14

Manus is transitioning back to operating as an independent company and will delete data generated by certain users after…

Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data

2026-08-11 · 14:04

Surveillance company Flock developed plans to partner with dashcam company Nexar to collect license plate data from Uber…

Why Did OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leave?

2026-08-11 · 14:03

Chloé Bakalar, OpenAI's Head of Ethics, has left the company after less than a year, joining other departures from the…

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