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Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI

As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

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The VergeSignal

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LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button

A lot of content on LinkedIn might seem like AI slop, and now, you'll be able to report those posts. As part of a series of updates to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform, LinkedIn is introducing an actual button that lets you flag a post as something that "Seems like AI […]

LinkedIn actually adds a ‘seems like AI slop’ button

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Postgres Queues Actually Scale

Postgres Queues Actually Scale — from Hacker News front page

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Simon WillisonSignal

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Quoting Bruce Schneier

<blockquote cite="https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/should-you-use-ai-for-a-task-heres-a-simple-way-to-decide.html"><p>The writing assignments I give my students are gym tasks, not work tasks. I ask them to write policy memos not because the world needs more policy memos. I assign them

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TechCrunchSignal

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LinkedIn adds a button to report AI-generated ‘slop’

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

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CodePen 2.0

CodePen 2.0 — from Hacker News front page

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We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447

We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447 — from Hacker News front page

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The VergeSignal

@theverge

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Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body

Google DeepMind says the latest version of its Gemini Robotics AI model can "control entire humanoid robots." While the previous model focused on controlling a humanoid robot's upper body, Gemini Robotics 2 now supports "whole-body motions" ranging from its feet to fingertips, according to an announ

An image of Apptronik’s Apollo 2 robot taking a baseball glove off of a shelf

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Hacker NewsSignal

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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6 — from Hacker News front page

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Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick

Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick — from Hacker News front page

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How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality

How Olinia Turns Mexico's EV Ambition into Reality — from Hacker News front page

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The VergeSignal

@theverge

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Friend re-launches its AI pendant with a speaker that talks to you, for twice the price

Do you remember Friend? The Friend that launched an AI pendant, spent $1.8 million of its $2.5 million in funding to acquire friend.com, and plastered the NYC subway with ads promoting artificial companionship? Yeah well, if you didn't remember, Friend is back. And now, it's twice the price. This mo

A mock-up of the Friend pendant. It’s a small white puck on a necklace.

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Hacker NewsSignal

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Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub

Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub — from Hacker News front page

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TechCrunchSignal

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Okta buys AI security startup Permiso; source says for about $200M

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.

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TechCrunchSignal

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Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases for Facebook Groups, Marketplace sellers, Instagram, and gaming.

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Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up

Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up — from Hacker News front page

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TechCrunchSignal

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Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack

British AI neocloud Nscale is buying software startup Anyscale, which helps companies scale their AI workloads across data centers and servers.

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Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots

Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots — from Hacker News front page

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The Economic Benefit of Refactoring

The Economic Benefit of Refactoring — from Hacker News front page

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TechCrunchSignal

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Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession

A new study estimates only 2,000 U.S. engineers have the expertise to deliver meaningful AI ROI, as enterprises race to hire forward-deployed engineers to implement AI at scale.

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Hacker NewsSignal

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Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again

Show HN: Claude-account – switch Claude Code accounts without logging in again — from Hacker News front page

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Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset?

Paging Through a Parquet File in DuckDB: File_row_number or Offset? — from Hacker News front page

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TechCrunchSignal

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In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable

Cybersecurity experts told TechCrunch that one of the biggest lessons to be taken from the OpenAI hack against Hugging Face has nothing to do with AI, but traditional cybersecurity defense.

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Hacker NewsSignal

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SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library

SDL_GPU minimal, single-header, high-performance 2D graphics painting library — from Hacker News front page

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Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures

Trusted URLs via Cryptographic Signatures — from Hacker News front page

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Hacker NewsSignal

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Hacker Public Radio

Hacker Public Radio — from Hacker News front page

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TechCrunchSignal

@techcrunch

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026’s biggest stage features leaders from Amazon, Replit, Tether, with much more to come

The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: The Disrupt Stage is where many of the biggest conversations in technology happen, with a legacy that stretches back for more than a decade.

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Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools

Launch HN: Prized (YC S26) – Let non-engineer staff build secure internal tools — from Hacker News front page

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Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5

Upper stage impacting the moon on 2026 August 5 — from Hacker News front page

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Hacker NewsSignal

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RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020)

RFC 8890 – The Internet is for End Users (2020) — from Hacker News front page

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TechCrunchSignal

@techcrunch

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Dili raises $21.7M to bring AI compliance to the infrastructure boom

The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combinator’s Garry Tan.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: The Series A was led by Khosla Ventures, with participation from Allianz, Rebel Fund, Brick and Mortar Ventures’ Darren Bechtel, and Y Combi…

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Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery?

Why is everyone trying to build a solid-state battery? — from Hacker News front page

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How old is Ann?

How old is Ann? — from Hacker News front page

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Hacker NewsSignal

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Are We Stuck with Lean?

Are We Stuck with Lean? — from Hacker News front page

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Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates

Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates — from Hacker News front page

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Gpiozero Flow

Gpiozero Flow — from Hacker News front page

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Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2

Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2 — from Hacker News front page

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TechCrunchSignal

@techcrunch

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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.

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Mark Zuckerberg predicts that billions of people will have personal AI agents in five years

As Meta pours billions into AI infrastructure and agents, Zuckerberg is working to convince investors that the payoff will be worth the price.

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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag

When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little ti…

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Zuckerberg says Meta’s enterprise AI opportunity extends beyond agents

On the company’s second-quarter earnings call Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Meta sees a “large enterprise opportunity” spanning AI agents, APIs, compute, and internal software.

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The VergeSignal

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Microsoft confirms Copilot ‘super app’ coming this year

Microsoft is working on an AI "super app" that combines Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities. During an earnings call on Wednesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the app will span "both consumer and commercial experiences" when it launches this year. "Copilot is evolving rapidly from

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The VergeSignal

@theverge

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Mark Zuckerberg is planning a big push into personal AI agents

Meta is all-in on AI, and sometime soon, the company is going to make a big push into personal AI agents that can do things on your behalf. On Wednesday's Q2 2026 earnings call, CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed a high-level vision of how the company is thinking about personal agents and what it will do

Graphic collage of Mark Zuckerberg.

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Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by Google for Startups.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years, presented by…

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Simon WillisonSignal

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Quoting D. Richard Hipp

<blockquote cite="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R57nUGzo7CA&t=848s"><p>Years ago, we didn’t have SQL. There were people whose job was to generate software that would query large data sets. Their job title was COBOL programmer.</p> <p>Then SQL comes along—I’m simplifying this only a little bit—

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Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

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The VergeSignal

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xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, t

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RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video]

RCade: The Arcade Cabinet with CI/CD Deployment, Custom Graphics Card for CRT [video] — from Hacker News front page

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The Hugging Face break-in explained

Another way to think about the whole thing is to picture a bear at a campsite. (Really, we are going there.)

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Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machine

Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

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TechCrunch is flagging a TechCrunch signal worth tracking: Andon Labs' latest vending machine simulation shows Opus 5 lied and colluded its way to become the best AI capitalist ever.

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Simon WillisonSignal

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AI Worming through Word

<p><strong><a href="https://enklypesalt.com/posts/context-collapse-part3-ai-worming-through-word/">AI Worming through Word</a></strong></p> Neat new prompt injection variant by Håkon Måløy, who found a way to upgrade prompt injection attacks against Microsoft Word to full self-replicating worms:</p>

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Quoting Matthew Green

<blockquote cite="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/"><p>Right now we’re in the midst of a historic transition from traditional public-key algorithms based on EC-based cryptography and RSA, moving over to new <em>post-quantum</em> algorithms

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Simon Willison is flagging a anthropic signal worth tracking: <blockquote cite="https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/"><p>Right now we’re in the mi…

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The VergeSignal

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OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a "family of devices" for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn't confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenAI's rumored to be la

OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots

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Can AI agents conduct open-ended AI research? Early evidence from two case studies

Forecasts of explosive AI progress hinge on AI agents automating AI research. But evidence on whether agents can carry out open-ended AI research is thin. Current evaluations either test agents on narrow, verifiable tasks, which excludes open-ended research, or submit AI-generated papers to blind pe

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APEX-Accounting

We introduce APEX-Accounting, a benchmark built by Mercor in partnership with Ramp, to assess whether frontier models can do the real work of accountants. Tasks include reconciling accounts, accruing expenses, posting transactions, and producing reports. The private eval set comprises 160 tasks, spl

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The Social Cost of an AI Teammate: How an Artificial Teammate Reshapes Human-Human Communication in Small-Team Decision-Making

Conversational AI is increasingly positioned as a teammate rather than a tool, yet we know little about how its presence reshapes communication among the humans on the team. We examined sociocognitive communication dynamics in team decision-making using Group Communication Analysis (GCA), team surve

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Partner Capability Estimation for Task-Agnostic Adaptation in Ad-Hoc Teamwork

Effective collaboration with novel and diverse partners is a crucial skill for autonomous agents. Most current ad-hoc teamwork (AHT) approaches assume that agents will collaborate on a single, fixed task and that the partner's capabilities, their ability to successfully execute the desired action, a

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Improving Item Discoverability in e-Commerce Search via Related Intent Generation

Traditional search systems are optimized to retrieve items that strictly match a query, often prioritizing precision over recall. In e-commerce marketplaces and particularly grocery, this paradigm is limiting, as user satisfaction and commercial outcomes depend heavily on the discoverability of subs

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OmegaUse-OfficeVal: Benchmarking LLM Agents on Long-Horizon Office-Suite Tasks with Economic Grounding

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly expected to assist users in completing tasks. However, existing benchmarks provide limited support for evaluating whether agents can carry out office-suite workflows at a reasonable cost. We introduce OmegaUse-OfficeVal, a benchmark for evaluating L

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Anatomy Contextualized Adaption of CT Foundation Models

CT vision-language foundation models have demonstrated promising performance across downstream tasks, but are typically trained with whole-volume representations that dilute fine-grained anatomical signals. Fine-grained vision-language pre-training addresses this by aligning anatomy-level visual fea

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Cost-Sensitive Conformal Prediction and Human-in-the-Loop Abstention for Imbalanced High-Stakes Decision Support: A Multi-Domain Benchmark

High-stakes decision systems in credit scoring, fraud detection, healthcare, and industrial safety require reliable uncertainty quantification under severe class imbalance and asymmetric error costs. Standard marginal conformal prediction (CP) provides valid overall coverage guarantees; however, we

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DLAM: Distributional Latent Actions with Temporal Constraints

Vision-language-action (VLA) models remain constrained by scarce action-labeled robot data, whereas action-free videos offer abundant observations of physical change. Latent action models can extract such priors, but reconstruction-trained codes may predict future observations without the structure

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Linguistic Monoculture in LLM-Assisted Language Use

Writing and communication are increasingly mediated by large language models (LLMs) that are being used to draft, revise and polish text. Although such assistance can improve clarity and help authors meet institutional expectations, widespread reliance on shared models may reduce population-level va

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AgentMap: Joint Equivalence and Subsumption Discovery for Ontology Matching

Ontology matching (OM) has traditionally been formulated as either equivalence discovery or subsumption matching. The existing OM systems identify only one type of semantic correspondence and cannot simultaneously discover equivalence and subsumption mappings. In this paper, we introduce Hybrid Onto

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MMAC: A Massive Multi-dimensional Benchmark for Audio Captioning

With the development of audio large language models (AudioLLMs), audio captioning needs to move from brief descriptions toward open-ended and fine-grained free-form descriptions. Existing evaluations often focus on generation quality or task performance, making it difficult to diagnose information c

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SciFigQual-Bench: A Benchmark for Scientific Figure Quality Assessment with Full-Manuscript Context

Scientific images are the core elements of presenting experimental conclusions, elaborating system architecture, and supporting comparative arguments in scientific papers. However, existing image quality assessment (IQA) methods are predominantly designed for natural photographs or AI-generated cont

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Scores Are Not Decisions: Cost-Aware Stopping for Tool Acquisition in LLM Agents

As LLM agents increasingly depend on diverse external services such as search engines, databases, and connectors, agent harnesses face a fundamental tool-selection challenge: acquiring too few tools leaves the task under-informed, while too many adds cost, context load, and privacy exposure. Routers

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On-Policy Distillation for LLM Safety: A Routing Approach to Template-Robust Realignment

Fine-tuning is the dominant paradigm for specializing large language models (LLMs), yet it exposes a critical vulnerability: malicious data providers can embed harmful behaviors into downstream corpora, creating models that retain professional skills while violating human values on demand. Existing

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Hint, a new AI startup co-founded by Martha Stewart, offers an AI assistant for homeowners

AI home management startup Hint, co-founded by Martha Stewart, wants to become an “AI for your home,” combining property records, maintenance schedules, home documents, and an AI assistant into a single app.

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Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

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Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon - nonfiction tomes t

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OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversi

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

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We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety

Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly - but also, as Ad

We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety

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As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it

Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.

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Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT

<p><strong>TIL:</strong> <a href="https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/mcp-in-claude-and-chatgpt">Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT</a></p> <p>Connecting a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT's standard chat interfaces is possible, but can take quite a few steps.</p> <p>Tags: <a hre

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Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude

<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-cryptographic-weaknesses">Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude</a></strong></p> The best part of this article (here's <a href="https://github.com/anthropics/cryptography-research-demo">the repo</a>) about how Anthropic re

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Quoting Akshat Bubna

<blockquote cite="https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-rogue-agent-compromised-an-account-second-tech-firm-sources-say-2026-07-28/"><p>We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that allowed anyone on the internet to use their ⁠sandboxes for code execution. This was use

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uv 0.12.0

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.12.0">uv 0.12.0</a></strong></p> Some interesting breaking changes in this release of <code>uv</code>, in particular to the default project produced by the <code>uv init</code> command.</p> <p><a href="https://docs.astral.sh/uv/conce

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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

<p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline">Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident</a></strong></p> Hugging Face just released this extremely detailed technical description of <a href="https://simonwillison.ne

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moonshotai/Kimi-K3

<p><strong><a href="https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3">moonshotai/Kimi-K3</a></strong></p> As promised <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/kimi-k3/">earlier this month</a>, Moonshot have released the weights for their excellent 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3. They're a hefty 1.56T

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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

<p><strong><a href="https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/an-opinionated-guide-to-which-ai-b22">An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff</a></strong></p> It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. </p> <p><a href="https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/using-ai-right

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The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984)

The Alice and Bob After Dinner Speech (1984) — from Hacker News front page

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An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

<p><strong><a href="https://vectoral.com/blog/token-relay-market">An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud</a></strong></p> Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling API keys from vari

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sqlite-utils 3.39.1

<p><strong>Release:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/releases/tag/3.39.1">sqlite-utils 3.39.1</a></p> <p>I back-ported <a href="https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/815">a fix</a> for <code>table.delete_where()</code> that shipped in version 4.</p> <p>Tags: <a href="

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Ruff v0.16.0

<p><strong><a href="https://astral.sh/blog/ruff-v0.16.0">Ruff v0.16.0</a></strong></p> Astral shipped a significant new version of their Ruff Python linting tool a few days ago on July 23rd. I noticed today because my various CI jobs all started failing thanks to new default Ruff checks and my unpin

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How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025)

How to Mount a Balcony Awning (2025) — from Hacker News front page

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Quoting Boris Cherny

<blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2080713091688583312"><p>More than any of these eval scores, what is most exciting to me is something else: Opus 5 is our least prompt injectable model yet. It is a bit buried in the system card, but across PI evals and red teaming, Opus 5 is very

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Introducing Claude Opus 5

<p><strong><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5">Introducing Claude Opus 5</a></strong></p> I've been offline <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elkhorn_Slough">kayaking with sea otters</a> for much of today so I haven't had a chance to put Anthropic's new model Claude Opus 5 th

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The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?

<p><strong><a href="https://martinalderson.com/posts/huggingface-openai-exploit/">The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?</a></strong></p> Martin Alderson's commentary on the <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/">OpenAI accidental cyberattack a

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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

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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

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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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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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Beckett the Prophet

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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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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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Simon Willison is flagging a macos signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/">Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac</a></strong></p> Prince Canuma is the develop…

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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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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <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>…

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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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Simon Willison is flagging a reverse-engineering signal worth tracking: <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…

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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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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://stratechery.com/2026/whos-afraid-of-chinese-models/">Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?</a></strong></p> Interestin…

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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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Simon Willison is flagging a ai-ethics signal worth tracking: <blockquote cite="https://twitter.com/techemails/status/2078854346683678927"><p>We have been having extensive discussions around open source…

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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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Simon Willison is flagging a ai signal worth tracking: <p><strong><a href="https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decision-making/">AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisi…

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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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Simon Willison is flagging a bun signal worth tracking: <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>Claud…

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How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website

How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website — from Hacker News front page

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Hacker News is flagging a AI signal worth tracking: How to organize 3 acquired companies into one coherent website — from Hacker News front page

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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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