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GM and Ford are talking less and less about EVs

The leading U.S. automakers are mentioning EVs on their investor calls at pre-pandemic rates, according to new data from TechCrunch and Hudson Labs.

Samara Weaving Is Marvel’s New Emma Frost

The 'Ready or Not' star is becoming a mutant for the upcoming 'X-Men' movie.

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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Snapchat no longer rewards fully AI-generated Spotlight content

Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.

AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward cost

To quote an ancient Jedi Master "Begun, the AI price wars have!" OpenAI is sharply reducing the prices of two models in its GPT-5.6 frontier series, cutting GPT-5.6 Luna, the smallest and fastest model in the series, by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra, the mid-tier model, by 20%, while add…

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Samsung expects memory shortage to worsen through 2027 and last until 2028

AI data center demand is fueling a multi-year chip shortage, pushing up component costs and retail device prices.

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E2W Registrations Dip 1.7% MoM In July, TVS Motor Defies Trend With 10% Growth

Electric two-wheeler (E2W) registrations declined 1.7% to 1.91 Lakh units in July from 1.94 Lakh units in June, with TVS…

UPI’s Monetisation Moment: Why MDR Is Back On The Table

For nearly six years, Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions in India have carried a zero-cost promise: no Merchant Discount Rate…

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.

A federal judge is about to decide whether Washington can punish AI vendors for saying no

A federal judge signaled deep skepticism this week that the Trump administration has produced enough evidence to justify designating Anthropic a supply-chain risk and barring the federal government from using its AI technology.

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CRED After Kunal Shah: Can The ‘Walled Garden’ Business Model Pay For Itself?

For the first five years of CRED’s existence, the question on everyone’s minds was: how will CRED even make money.…

Xiaomi opens pre-orders for N90 Max extended-range SUV at RMB299,900

Xiaomi has opened pre-orders for the N90 Max, an extended-range SUV under its Pengcheng vehicle line, at RMB299,900. The company said the model will be formally released in September. The N90 Max combines Xiaomi’s HAD assisted-driving system and XLA cognitive model with Nvidia’s …

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Hack Urgently Needs Federal Investigation, AI Safety Researchers Warn

“The administration should act before a warning shot becomes a preventable disaster.”

Apple Releases iOS and MacOS 26.6, MacOS 15.7.8, and More

Samuel Axon, Ars Technica: Apple has released iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS 26.6. Apart from potential security hotfixes, these are likely the last updates before the arrival of iOS 27, macOS 27, and so on. All of today’s releases include minor bug fixes, and there are nu…

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IEEE Publishing Ethics Team Upholds Research Integrity

Given a rising number of publishing misconduct allegations, IEEE in 2022 created the Publishing Ethics Team as a centralized department to assist in handling claims. The group also works to increase the organization’s visibility in the broader publishing ethics area and helps IEE…

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

Article URL: https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120097 Points: 402 # Comments: 391

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

Article URL: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 Points: 393 # Comments: 215

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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

Using the Chimney Effect to Drop Passively Cooled PC Temperatures

The stack effect — also known as the chimney effect — is the basic principle that hot air not only rises, but if guided through a tube, the rising hot …read more

Hacking a Commercial Colorimeter to add RAL Color Code Support

When you need to match paint colors, one of the tools you’ll reach for is a deck of reference colors. Another might be a colorimeter. But what if you want …read more

How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference

To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119559 Points: 541 # Comments: 259

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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: 287 # Comments: 325

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