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June 20 · Today
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The VergeSignal
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Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode earlier this yea

Claude voice mode running on a phone.
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opu…

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.ai/from-evaluation-to-guardrails-what-we-brought-to-acm-facct-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026059 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Building on ATProto

Building on ATProto — from Hacker News front page

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Building on ATProto

Article URL: https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025984 Points: 21 # Comments: 1

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025984 Points: 21 # Co…

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The VergeSignal
@theverge
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Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI has "fundamentally transformed the tech in

An illustration of the Patreon logo
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon C…

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

Article URL: https://pme.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/cleaner-route-purifying-rare-earth-elements Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025831 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
Should you care? · 10
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Geekbench 7

Geekbench 7 — from Hacker News front page

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
Should you care? · 38
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Geekbench 7

Article URL: https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/07/geekbench-7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025812 Points: 11 # Comments: 5

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/07/geekbench-7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025812 Points: 11 # Co…

1 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
Should you care? · 38
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Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a deve…

2 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Show HN: Claude-thermos – keeps your Claude session warm for you

Article URL: https://github.com/izeigerman/claude-thermos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024882 Points: 16 # Comments: 15

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://github.com/izeigerman/claude-thermos Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024882 Points: 16 # Comments:…

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The VergeSignal
@theverge
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OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of

OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tra…

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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all US users

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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What happened to TheNumbers.com

What happened to TheNumbers.com — from Hacker News front page

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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What happened to TheNumbers.com

Article URL: https://stephenfollows.com/p/what-just-happened-to-thenumberscom-should-worry-us-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024691 Points: 122 # Comments: 35

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
Should you care? · 50
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The arguments against open source AI are bad

The arguments against open source AI are bad — from Hacker News front page

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2 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
Should you care? · 38
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The arguments against open source AI are bad

Article URL: https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024643 Points: 57 # Comments: 30

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://tombedor.dev/arguments-against-open-source-ai-are-very-bad/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49024643…

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
Should you care? · 38
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Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Power your agents by your 24/7 screen recording

Hi Hacker News, I'm Louis. I built Screenpipe ( https://screenpipe.com ), an app that records your screen and audio locally (only!), and gives AI agents a searchable memory of what you've seen, said, and heard. This makes it easier to automate your repetitive tasks, turn them into SOPs (Standard Ope

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Hi Hacker News, I'm Louis. I built Screenpipe ( https://screenpipe.com ), an app that records your screen and audio locally (only!), and giv…

2 hours ago
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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction

David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years…

3 hours ago
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)

JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator) — from Hacker News front page

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3 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)

Article URL: https://openjdk.org/jeps/540 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023809 Points: 56 # Comments: 40

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://openjdk.org/jeps/540 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023809 Points: 56 # Comments: 40

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts

Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Free way to get your data out of ChatGPT Business accounts

Article URL: https://github.com/Conradqh/scrapemychats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023486 Points: 50 # Comments: 4

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://github.com/Conradqh/scrapemychats Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023486 Points: 50 # Comments: 4

3 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Show HN: OneCLI – OSS credential gateway that keeps secrets out of AI agents

hey HN, Jonathan and Guy here, creators of OneCLI ( https://onecli.sh/ ). OneCLI is an open source vault for AI Agents. Traditional vaults are used to store your secrets and, on demand, provide them to you all in a secure way, trusting the person to keep them safe. We figured that in the agent's wor

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: hey HN, Jonathan and Guy here, creators of OneCLI ( https://onecli.sh/ ). OneCLI is an open source vault for AI Agents. Traditional vaults a…

3 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023019 Points: 62 # Comments: 42

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/wsff.md Comments URL: https://news.ycomb…

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI

https://littletech.org/ https://static.politico.com/4a/bf/9c4021d8404386b0a311dcccf0... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023016 Points: 420 # Comments: 433

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: https://littletech.org/ https://static.politico.com/4a/bf/9c4021d8404386b0a311dcccf0... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI

Hi HN, we are Marcos and Harrison, cofounders of Palmier ( https://palmier.io ). We are building Palmier Pro, an open source macOS video editor, with built-in AI generation and a local MCP server that connects to your agent. Here are a few demos: - Making some AI transitions: https://www.youtube.com

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Hi HN, we are Marcos and Harrison, cofounders of Palmier ( https://palmier.io ). We are building Palmier Pro, an open source macOS video edi…

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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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Nvidia is sending GPUs to the moon

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs re…

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: E2EE and the "Going Dark" Debate

Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6959699 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022668 Points: 35 # Comments: 14

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6959699 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022668 Points:…

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Learn WebGPU for C++

Learn WebGPU for C++ — from Hacker News front page

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Learn WebGPU for C++

Article URL: https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022663 Points: 42 # Comments: 8

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://eliemichel.github.io/LearnWebGPU/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022663 Points: 42 # Comments: 8

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

Article URL: https://learnopengl.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022634 Points: 107 # Comments: 56

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://learnopengl.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022634 Points: 107 # Comments: 56

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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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Google’s Gemini nears billion-user milestone

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

TechCrunchStartup

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig

Article URL: https://yamafaktory.github.io/whetuu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022371 Points: 35 # Comments: 19

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://yamafaktory.github.io/whetuu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022371 Points: 35 # Comments: 19

4 hours ago
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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone

Article URL: https://github.com/h3nock/remux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022284 Points: 55 # Comments: 18

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://github.com/h3nock/remux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022284 Points: 55 # Comments: 18

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Writing by hand is good for your brain

Writing by hand is good for your brain — from Hacker News front page

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HN (RSS)Signal
@hnrss
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Writing by hand is good for your brain

Article URL: https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022152 Points: 543 # Comments: 270

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HN (RSS) is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: Article URL: https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022…

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Fields Medals 2026

Fields Medals 2026 — from Hacker News front page

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++ — from Hacker News front page

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The VergeSignal
@theverge
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Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on order…

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency

Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency — from Hacker News front page

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Emacs Is a Lispboard

Emacs Is a Lispboard — from Hacker News front page

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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Astronomers may have found the first exomoon

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

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The VergeSignal
@theverge
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Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16 — from Hacker News front page

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Hacker NewsSignal
@hn
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What happens when the information runs out

What happens when the information runs out — from Hacker News front page

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@hn
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AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt — from Hacker News front page

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The VergeSignal
@theverge
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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat - the Hernando County commission had unanimously approved a on

The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
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The Verge is flagging a The Verge signal worth tracking: On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to prote…

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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good

"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: "I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunchSignal
@techcrunch
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ServiceNow bets $40 million on Indian banking software specialist to expand its financial services push

ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: ServiceNow's investment gives BusinessNext a strategic partner to expand its AI-powered banking software globally.

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Simon WillisonSignal
@simonw
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Quoting Seth Larson

<blockquote cite="https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-07-22-releases-now-reject-new-files-after-14-days/"><p>The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was <a href="https://github.com/pypi/warehouse/pull/19727">put in p

Blogpackagingpythonsupply-chain

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Simon Willison is flagging a packaging signal worth tracking: <blockquote cite="https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2026-07-22-releases-now-reject-new-files-after-14-days/"><p>The Python Package Index (PyPI) no…

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Simon WillisonSignal
@simonw
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Quoting Thomas Ptacek

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/2080045032162173329"><p>I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 2025 and built a pentest harness for it, it could do this kind of sandbox escape and scan/hack in most networks. This is only surprising because you assume OpenAI

Blogthomas-ptacekopenaisecurity

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Simon Willison is flagging a thomas-ptacek signal worth tracking: <blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/2080045032162173329"><p>I genuinely believe that if you took an open weights model from 20…

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OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

<p>This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model's guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the model broke its way out of OpenAI's sandbox, then found exploits to break <em>in</em> to Hugging Face, all s

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After shocking quarter, IBM insists that AI isn’t killing the mainframe

After IBM's stock crashed last week on warnings of poor mainframe sales, the CEO explained that AI wrecked corporate hardware budget, temporarily.

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Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?

<p><strong><a href="https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html">Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?</a></strong></p> Excellent piece of work by Dylan Castillo, who took a deep-dive into the frequently pondered question of whether the AI labs have been deliberately training models to draw pelicans ri

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Google justifies its massive AI spending with a booming cloud business

Google's cloud business is thriving, as companies adopting its AI and AI infrastructure services help the tech giant to report record profits.

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How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.

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Travis Kalanick’s robotics company raises $1.7B, led by a16z

Uber is also investing in Travis Kalanick's company Atoms, which has made gauzy claims about using industrial AI to modernize the world.

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Yope raises $12.3M to build a private social network without algorithms or ads

Yope, a fast-growing social app focused on private groups of friends and family, has raised $12.3 million in seed funding. Instead of chasing creators and algorithmic feeds, the startup is betting that the future of social networking lies in small, private communities powered by messaging, photo sha

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Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.

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SoftReason: A Fully Differentiable Neuro-Soft-Symbolic Deductive Reasoning Architecture over High-Dimensional Perceptual Data

In many reasoning problems, the premises are not observed as discrete symbols, but must be inferred from high-dimensional inputs. Further, the predicate vocabulary, argument structure, and trusted evidence are supplied by a Knowledge Graph (KG), or rule definitions. Classical neuro-symbolic pipeline

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Persian Pixel: A large-scale synthetic OCR dataset for Persian language

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Persian remains substantially less mature than for Latin-script languages despite Persian being spoken by more than 110 million people across multiple countries. This gap arises from two fundamental challenges: the intrinsic complexity of the Perso-Arabic writ

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FMRP-LEAN: A HIPAA-Compliant AI-Augmented LIMS Architecture for End-to-End Clinical Assay Workflow Optimization

Clinical biomarker workflows in translational research settings often rely on spreadsheet-driven tracking, manual quality control (QC) reconciliation, and loosely integrated systems, resulting in limited state visibility, delayed reporting, and increased operational risk. These challenges are partic

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Train the Model, Not the Reader: Decodability Supervision for Verifiable Activation Explanations

Natural-language autoencoders score explanations of hidden activations by reconstruction: an explanation is deemed faithful if the activation can be regenerated from it. The test is structurally insensitive to individual false claims: if flipping a claim does not change the reconstruction, the claim

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Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like

Samsung has given us our first chance to check out its upcoming smart glasses in person, revealing two new designs and the first specs in the process, including an impressive 9-hour battery life. The glasses, developed in collaboration with Google and the eyewear brands Gentle Monster and Warby Park

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Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books

Generative AI can produce book-length works of fiction at near-zero cost. These books are often dismissed as low-quality ``slop'' that buyers will ignore, and are assumed to carry little commercial weight. We test that assumption with full-text AI detection across 14,419 self-published genre-fiction

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Closing the Lab-to-Store Gap: A Data-Efficient Post-Training and Experience-Driven Learning VLA Framework for Retail Humanoids

Closing the gap between benchmark performance and reliable real-world operation remains a central challenge for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) humanoid robots, which must handle execution errors, distribution shifts, and environmental variability. This paper presents DEED (Data-Efficient Post-Training

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Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous

As Chinese AI models grow in capability and popularity among U.S. companies, the arguing over what should be done about them has reached a fever pitch.

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Substack’s new tool tells you who’s been writing their newsletters with AI

Substack is giving readers a way to estimate how much of a newsletter was written by AI, signaling a broader shift toward transparency around AI-assisted content.

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Understanding Generative AI-mediated User Engagement with Academic Library Resources

This study empirically analyzed generative AI as an emerging discovery pathway to academic library resources. Utilizing web analytics from August 2023 to October 2025, the research identifies a significant increase in AI-mediated traffic, particularly following the integration of linked citation fea

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OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B

OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.

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Toward Reliable RGB-D Semantic Segmentation: Handling Missing Modalities via Condition Dropout

RGB-D semantic segmentation has achieved remarkable progress, yet most models assume that RGB and depth are always available. In practice, failures or occlusions of surveillance sensors often remove one modality. Although RGB or depth alone can contain sufficient cues, models trained only on full-mo

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Don't Trust the Label: License Laundering in AI Supply Chains

AI artifacts move through a multi-platform supply chain, spanning datasets and models on Hugging Face and applications on GitHub. While each artifact carries a license whose obligations should propagate through redistribution, no study has yet measured whether those obligations survive the chain or

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Courteous Anticipation: Improving Long-Lived Task Planning in Persistent Shared Environments

We consider a task planning scenario in which robots sharing a persistent environment are assigned tasks one at a time from a held-out sequence. Standard task planners, lacking foresight of future tasks and inconsiderate of others' constraints, solve each task in isolation, leaving terminal states t

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Sound Probabilistic Safety Bounds for Large Language Models

We propose a novel framework for computing rigorous bounds on the probability that a large language model (LLM) generates harmful output to a given prompt. We study a new application of the Clopper-Pearson confidence intervals to obtain probably approximately correct (PAC) bounds for this problem. A

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Self-supervision drives representational convergence in medical foundation models more than clinical supervision

Medical image encoders from different groups are increasingly treated as interchangeable, on the assumption that scale and clinical supervision concentrate their representations onto a shared structure. Whether this convergence is real, what produces it, and whether it is clinically usable are untes

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PoTRE: Test-Time Reasoning inspired by Cognitive Heterogeneity

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many tasks, they frequently struggle with complex reasoning that requires long-horizon planning and iterative error correction. Furthermore, standard single-stream prompting proves brittle when models encounter novel abstractions or rigorous domain constra

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The Maskability Index: Predicting Task-Objective Alignment in Pretrained Language Models

Large-scale pretrained language models such as T5 and BERT have demonstrated strong capabilities for generating structured knowledge. However, their performance depends on how closely the prompting strategy matches the objectives used during pretraining. We introduce the Maskability Index (MI), a qu

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The Ethics of Autonomous AI Agents for Offensive Security

LLM-driven autonomous agents are reshaping offensive security. Unlike traditional penetration-testing tooling -- deterministic, narrowly scoped, and operated by trained practitioners -- agentic security tools exhibit \textit{indeterminacy} along three independent dimensions. First, their actions are

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Orchestrions

<p>San Francisco tip: it only costs around $15 ($10 in quarters plus a $5 bill for the self-playing violin) to activate every single Orchestrion in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musée_Mécanique">Musée Mécanique</a>.</p> <p>And because most people are bad at allocating their funds you may we

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AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic

AMD says it's going to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic, while helping to expand the AI company's computing power, according to an announcement on Wednesday. As part of the new partnership, Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's Instinct MI450 AI GPUs using the chipmaker's new Helios r

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Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy explains what AI startups founders must do differently

Anthropic leaped to a $47 billion revenue run rate by May, compared to $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500M Series

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Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s

IIn March, Meta's Oversight Board called on the company to "meet its public commitments and employ its own tools" to help quell the spread of deceptive generative AI content across platforms. Meta responded in July by introducing Content Seal - an invisible watermarking technology that flags images

A screenshot of Meta’s Content Seal detector tool on a blue background.
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Utility companies promise to spare us from AI’s energy bill

In the face of backlash to concerns the AI boom will increase consumer electricity bills, the largest utility companies and data center developers in the US are now promising to do something about it. The Wall Street Journal reports that nearly 200 organizations have signed President Donald Trump's

Photo collage of a data center with data visualizations.
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California Sea Lion

<p><img src="https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/702321069/large.jpg" alt="California Sea Lion"></p><p><img src="https://static.inaturalist.org/photos/702321114/large.jpg" alt="California Sea Lion"></p><p>California Sea Lion, in San Francisco County, US, CA</p><p>We took some visiting family to Pi

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Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

<p><strong><a href="https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/">Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac</a></strong></p> Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent <a href="https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm">MLX-VLM</a> Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac.</p> <p>I'm really ex

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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

<p>Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the <a href="https://www.ai.engineer/worldsfair/2026">AI Engineer World's Fair</a> with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, a

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Reverse-engineering is cheap now

<p>I keep hearing anecdotes from people who used coding agents to reverse-engineer and automate devices in their homes.</p> <p>I think this is an interesting illustration of the impact of the reduced cost of writing code.</p> <p>Prior to agents, it was entirely possible to reverse-engineer home devi

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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?

<p><strong><a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/">Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?</a></strong></p> Interesting proposal from Ben Thompson that both addresses the hypocrisy of labs outlawing distillation against their models despite training on unlicensed data, and coul

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Quoting Sam Altman

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/techemails/status/2078854346683678927"><p>We have been having extensive discussions around open source strategy. We will discuss it more at our next board meeting, but one thing we’d like to do soon is to create a language model with the approximate capability o

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OpenStreetMap: Admin_level for All Countries

OpenStreetMap: Admin_level for All Countries — from Hacker News front page

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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

<p><strong><a href="https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/">AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making</a></strong></p> Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It

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Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

<p>In <a href="https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust">Rewriting Bun in Rust</a> Jarred Sumner made the following claim:</p> <blockquote> <p>Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster on Linux but otherwise, barely anyone noticed. Boring is good.</

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SQLite Query Explainer

<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/sqlite-query-explainer">SQLite Query Explainer</a></p> <p>Julia Evan's, in <a href="https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/">Learning a few things about running SQLite</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Maybe one day I’l

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Claude make Fable 5 permanent

<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2078302415804379218">Claude make Fable 5 permanent</a></strong></p> An update from the <code>@claudeai</code> account on Twitter:</p> <blockquote> <p>Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% o

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nascheme/quixote

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/nascheme/quixote">nascheme/quixote</a></strong></p> A certain vintage of Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was <a href="(https://github.com/nascheme/quixote/commit/7f775cf9d1e7e80fcbb2706b4a1d97

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Quoting Kimi K3

<blockquote cite="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342#48936515"><p>Is there something I can actually help you with today?</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342#48936515">Kimi K3</a>, after refusing to leak its system prompt</p> <p>T

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LLM cliché highlighter

<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-highlighter">LLM cliché highlighter</a></p> <p>I got frustrated reading <em>yet another</em> article that was crammed with the clichés of LLM-generated writing - "no fluff, no filler, no jargon" type stuff - so I had Fable

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Simon Willison is flagging a tools signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-cliche-highlighter">LLM cliché highlighter</a></p> <p>I got frustrate…

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Spot birds not golf

<p>Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use:</p> <p>Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to get the previous members into birdwatching - help them embrace a more sustainable hobby!</p> <p>Google

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Firefox in WebAssembly

<p><strong><a href="https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/">Firefox in WebAssembly</a></strong></p> This is absurdly cool: Puter compiled Firefox to WebAssembly such that the whole browser runs in another browser.</p> <p>Here's my blog, running in Firefox, running in WebAssembly, running in

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Simon Willison is flagging a browsers signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/">Firefox in WebAssembly</a></strong></p> This is absurdly cool: Puter com…

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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

<p>Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI <a href="https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3">announced Kimi K3</a> this morning, describing it as their "most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters". It's currently available via their website and API, but an open weight release is promised "by July 27, 202

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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <p>Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI <a href="https://www.kimi.com/blog/kimi-k3">announced Kimi K3</a> this morning, describing it as their "most c…

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Quoting Thibault Sottiaux

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637"><p>On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. </p> <p>What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when:</p> <ul> <li>Full access mode is enabled and codex i

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Simon Willison is flagging a codex signal worth tracking: <blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/thsottiaux/status/2077630111499882637"><p>On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports w…

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Inkling: Our open-weights model

<p><strong><a href="https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/">Inkling: Our open-weights model</a></strong></p> Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab just released their first open-weights model. Inkling is "a Mixture-of-Experts transformer with 975B total parameters, 41B active" - an Apac

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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/">Inkling: Our open-weights model</a></strong></p> Mira Murati's Th…

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Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii)

<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/mermaid-ascii">Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii)</a></p> <p>After building the <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/grok-mermaid/">Mermaid to ASCII tool based on Grok Build's Rust code</a> I learned that there's an older

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Simon Willison is flagging a go signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/mermaid-ascii">Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii)</a></p> <p>After buil…

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Quoting Linus Torvalds

<blockquote cite="https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/"><p>I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.</p> <p>Linux is not one of tho

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Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)

<p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/grok-mermaid">Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)</a></p> <p>While <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/">exploring the codebase</a> for the newly open-sourced Grok CLI coding agent I came across <a href="h

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Simon Willison is flagging a tools signal worth tracking: <p><strong>Tool:</strong> <a href="https://tools.simonwillison.net/grok-mermaid">Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)</a></p> <p>While…

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xai-org/grok-build, now open source

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build">xai-org/grok-build, now open source</a></strong></p> xAI's <code>grok</code> CLI tool faced severe community backlash yesterday when it became apparent that running the command in a directory could upload that <em>entire directory</em> to xA

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Simon Willison is flagging a open-source signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build">xai-org/grok-build, now open source</a></strong></p> xAI's <code>grok</code> CLI…

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How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets

<p><strong><a href="https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist">How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets</a></strong></p> I've <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/10/claude-web-fetch-tool/">been impressed</a> by the way the Claude <code>web_fetch</code> tool is de

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Simon Willison is flagging a security signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://www.ayush.digital/blog/the-memory-heist">How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets</a></st…

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Quoting GitHub Changelog

<blockquote cite="https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-cooldown/"><p>Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the def

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Simon Willison is flagging a dependency-cooldowns signal worth tracking: <blockquote cite="https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-cooldown/"><p>Dependabot now…

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simonw/pedalican

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/pedalican">simonw/pedalican</a></strong></p> Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were <a href="https://twitter.com/OpenAIDevs/status/2050301642717950166">first announced</a> back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Deskto

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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://github.com/simonw/pedalican">simonw/pedalican</a></strong></p> Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were…

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Conway's Game of Life, in real life

Conway's Game of Life, in real life — from Hacker News front page

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This AI update is part of today’s actionable signal feed for agents, coding, and LLM releases. Use it as a quick decision brief, then open the original source for verification.

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