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The Download: OpenAI’s predictable hack, and an AI stock sell-off

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. OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. —Will Douglas Heaven, senior AI editor Reading OpenAI’s acco…

MIT Technology Review

MCP startup Runlayer accuses Rippling of stealing its product idea

Runlayer is suing Rippling after Rippling evaluated the startup's MCP gateway product and then opted to build one itself.

All American Airlines Flights Not in the Air Were Grounded on Tuesday Due to an IT Problem

American Airlines has posted on X that some flights are taking off again.

Bot-detection startup Spur nabs $200M from Insight

Spur Intelligence has raised a $200 million round from Insight Partners for its tech that can identify legit human traffic from bots.

Snowflake launches Cortex AI Gateway to control AI agents and prevent runaway enterprise costs

Snowflake announced Cortex AI Gateway on Tuesday, a centralized control layer designed to govern how AI agents — including those built by competitors like Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor — access enterprise data, tools, and models. Alongside the gateway, the company unveiled a…

venturebeat.com

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate

His change of position comes after "the first security incident that I have felt very viscerally."

International tech

Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency

Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range.

restofworld.org

People in their seventies who stop buying clothes for the person they used to be, stop keeping the good china for a day that never comes, and stop saving the guest room for visitors who never arrive aren’t shrinking their lives, they’re finally living in the one they actually have

The shift from a life deferred to a life finally lived doesn't look like expansion—it looks like letting go.

siliconcanals.com

Four US tech giants spent roughly $410 billion on capital expenditure last year, much of it tied to AI, and are steering toward roughly $725 billion in 2026

The four tech giants betting their futures on AI are doubling down: nearly three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure spending by 2026, but the payoff remains stubbornly unclear.

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Vishal Mega Mart Doubles Down On Quick Commerce Amid Retail Shift

Amid growing penetration of quick commerce in Indian retail, value retail chain Vishal Mega Mart is looking to double down…

QQ Pet returns as Tencent integrates Hunyuan Hy3 into the classic virtual companion

Tencent on Monday announced the return of its classic virtual pet service, QQ Pet, in a redesigned form. The new version features 3D character models and is powered by Tencent’s in-house Hunyuan Hy3 large language model, which supports more natural interactions and proactive resp…

China Surpasses US With Two-Thirds of Global LLM Calls as Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 Ranks First in Weekly and Monthly Token Usage Worldwide

Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 leads OpenRouter global call volume at 10.5T tokens/week and 31.2T/month, as Chinese models collectively claim 63.5% share vs US 35.5% as of July 2026.

Grok Creator SpaceXAI Sues Minnesota AG to Stop Ban on Nudification

Governor Tim Walz tweeted, "See you in court, creep."

GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests

Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026. GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of the oth…

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Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.

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How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI

Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.

Sharkfin Bites Attack Shark

The Attack Shark is a modern keyboard with fancy magnetic keyswitches, macros, configurable blinky LEDs, and more. The problem is that the configuration software only works on Windows, so [JR …read more

A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants

Article URL: https://blog.doubleword.ai/you-could-have-come-up-with-kimi-delta-attention Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49085909 Points: 282 # Comments: 117

Samsung’s SmartThings API Terminates Free Access

If there’s one constant in the world of commercial home automation solutions, it is that of decreasing availability and higher costs as time goes on. So too with Samsung’s SmartThings, …read more

Donate to GrapheneOS

Article URL: https://grapheneos.org/donate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49088451 Points: 228 # Comments: 76

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089755 Points: 340 # Comments: 102

Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways

In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.

Breaking the Parental Lock on an XBox 360 is Very Much an Inconvenience

There are many ways to soft-brick a device to the point where it cannot easily be used again, and “Cloud locks” or parental locks are probably at the top of …read more

Substack writers, you need a website

Article URL: https://elizabethtai.com/2026/06/10/substack-writers-you-need-a-website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49086788 Points: 415 # Comments: 213

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