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Not just OpenAI: Now Anthropic says its internal models got online and cyberattacked 3 other organizations
Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI's top U.S. rival Anthropic tonight revealed that — lo and behold — it has also had models surreptitiously access t…
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Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
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★ Temu Is a Comically Bad App
Cabel Sasser on Mastodon: the temu app will be studied for generations. i opened the app, and recorded this unedited, nearly two minute, launch sequence. it somehow just gets funnier and more absurd I agree with this sentiment, right down to the fact that Temu doesn’t deserve cap…
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The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward  As of this week in Montana, biotech companies whose drugs have been …
MIT Technology Review
Sam Raimi to Produce New Stephen King Adaptation From ‘Final Destination’ Directors
Raimi and King will team up for the first time on an adaptation of King's 1996 novel 'Desperation.'
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Fresh off its Wiz payout, Index Ventures raises $2B across three funds
The new funding brings Index's total available investing capital to $3.5 billion.
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Psychology says the weird little habits that people have quietly judged you for your entire life may actually turn out to be the clearest signs of a highly intelligent mind
You know the ones. The muttering under your breath while you work. The chronic doodling in the margin of every notebook you have ever owned. The tendency to overthink a two-line email for the better part of an afternoon. The occasional swear word that arrives, fully formed, in th…
siliconcanals.com
Can Aequs Build A Consumer Engine Under Its Aerospace Wings?
Earlier this week, listed manufacturing company Aequs reported its Q1 FY27 earnings. As usual, most of the investor attention focused…
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ByteDance launches Seedance 2.5 video-generation model
ByteDance has released Seedance 2.5, the latest version of its Seed video-generation model. The model can generate a 30-second high-quality video clip in a single run and supports multi-turn extension for longer sequences. Users can provide up to 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio…
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DeepSeek puts V4-Flash API into public beta
DeepSeek has put the formal version of its V4-Flash API into public beta, with an upgrade focused on agent tasks. The company says the model scored 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 54.4 on DeepSWE, among other benchmarks. The release adds support for the Responses API and is adapte…
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ByteDance Seedance 2.5 Released: 30-Second Single-Generation Video With Breakthrough Long-Narrative Capability, Multi-Modal Reference, and Precise Editing
ByteDance Seed team launches Seedance 2.5 with 30s single generation, multi-round extension, 30 images plus 10 videos plus 10 audio references, and timestamp-controlled editing.
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Psychology says the reason the most generous person you know goes home to a silent phone isn’t bad luck — it’s that giving without ever asking for anything back reads to other people as self-sufficiency, and nobody reaches out to someone who seems fine
The generous person’s phone is rarely silent because nobody knows their number. People know it very well. They use it when the relationship ends, the parent becomes ill, the job feels impossible or the decision cannot be made alone. The generous person replies, remembers the deta…
siliconcanals.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals
Another week, another bevy of big rounds. The largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia-backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe Superintelligence, followed by a $1 billion investment in Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
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Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some
Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When Brody was around two …
MIT Technology Review
Authorities Investigating Mysterious Deaths of 15 Elephants at Kenyan National Park
The animals may have been poisoned from pesticides on nearby farms.
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qm
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 380: 3D Printing the Rainbow, IR and IP Camera Hacks, and Americium 241 on the Loose
Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to compare notes on the most interesting posts this week on the site. As usual, there are just too many choices, so you’ll …read more
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Tiny Desktop Robot Has Radar
One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like. [solitary dev] is helping to rectify that problem by building a little robot …read more
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This Week in Security: What’s in a name, the AI Bugpocalypse Hits Everyone, OpenWRT flaws, and Duress Passwords
The great thing about standards is there’s so many to pick from, right?. (Insert obligatory XKCD #927 here.) Several companies have developed naming schemes to refer to groups of attacks, …read more
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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The End of an Era
Article URL: https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121980 Points: 376 # Comments: 413
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Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI
We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 Points: 497 # Comments: 274
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Elevators
Article URL: https://john.fun/elevators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124218 Points: 722 # Comments: 186
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