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Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
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OpenAI Faces First Lawsuit Over Rogue AI Agents That Hacked Hugging Face
The lawsuit seeks to stop OpenAI from developing and testing AI models that can illegally access other organizations’ computer systems.
gizmodo.com
A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
Financial markets have always relied on timely information, and the drive for timeliness has always adapted to the latest technology. From clipper ships transiting the oceans to telegraph wires connecting cities to fiber-optic cables conducting trades in microseconds, traders hav…
spectrum.ieee.org
Utilities Cut Power to Over 173,000 Homes During America’s Hottest July on Record 
Extreme heat coinciding with increased energy prices created a dangerous situation across 10 states in July.
gizmodo.com
Ancient Greeks Built a Harbor on Top of a Fault Line. It Didn’t End Well
In an incredible engineering feat, ancient Greeks carved a coastline to suit their economic and military needs. The harbor was unfortunately built atop an active fault network.
gizmodo.com
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has kept OpenAI in the sp…
MIT Technology Review
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Startup Funding Crawls Up 5% YoY To $2.2 Bn In Q3 As Investors Get Picky
India’s startup ecosystem entered a more selective funding environment in Q3 2026, with investors deploying capital more cautiously amid macroeconomic…
inc42.com
Fresh Data, Clear Access Rules: The Foundation For Reliable AI Applications
AI applications need up-to-date information and clear rules on what they can access to work reliably at scale, according to…
inc42.com
Simple Energy Raises $180 Mn To Unlock Next Growth Phase
Electric two-wheeler (E2W) manufacturer Simple Energy has raised $180 Mn (₹1,750 Cr) in its Series C funding round. The round…
inc42.com
Simate Debuts Simate-beta Physical AI Fast System, Says It Tops RoboDojo Benchmark
Three-month-old Simate released Simate-beta, a fast-reaction physical AI model it says ranks first on RoboDojo with a 33.95 average score, developed with an agent-driven research pipeline.
pandaily.com
Peking University, Tsinghua and Alibaba Open-Source SparkDiffusion for Up to 265x Faster Wan Video Generation
SparkDiffusion pairs 97% sparse attention, 3-step distillation and FP8 to cut a 720P Wan2.1 14B video from 4,769 to 18 seconds on one RTX 5090, a 265x speedup. Code and weights are open.
pandaily.com
Meituan releases LongCat-2.5-Preview with image understanding
Meituan made LongCat-2.5-Preview available through its API platform on September 25, adding image understanding to the company’s AI model lineup. The new model can answer questions about images, summarize visual content and handle more complex visual reasoning tasks, according to…
technode.com

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September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Article URL: https://tomwojcik.com/posts/2026-09-21/september-2026-the-world-today/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905487 Points: 443 # Comments: 322
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Assembling and Testing a DIY Jet Turbine
After many months of painstaking work, [AlfMart CNC Garage] over at YouTube has finally reached the stage where he can fully assemble his DIY jet turbine and commence testing. Even …read more
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AI Agents Can Think. Now They Can Pay.
I attended a MPP event at Stripe HQ, where I spoke with Emily Sands and Matt Schulman from Stripe, along with Brendan Ryan from Tempo.
bytebytego.com
Why Do LLMs Lie?
In this article, we will look at why this problem of hallucinations happens with LLMs and the techniques that can help make LLMs more dependable for answering.
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Sheety Turns Spreadsheets Into Binaries, For Some Reason
Ever wanted a spreadsheet as an executable with a built-in terminal interface? No? Well, that’s a pity because [Roberto Alsina]’s Sheety project does exactly that. Sheety compiles spreadsheet definitions into …read more
hackaday.com
Pi.dev: You Said No MCP
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906637 Points: 425 # Comments: 228
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How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents
In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/09/29/artificial-intelligence-agents-openai-microsoft-sam-altman-greg-brockman-ah-nice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49905633 Points: 209 # Comments: 195
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A Simple Solution for Streamlining Battery Recycling
Lithium batteries have become the backbone of many modern devices ranging from toothbrushes to semi trucks, so what are we going to do with them when these rechargeable cells finally …read more
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