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Qualcomm is raising phone chip prices starting September 1st
RAMageddon won't be the only reason your next phone costs more - Qualcomm is about to raise prices on all its processors, as well. Qualcomm CEO Cristi…
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 Wednesd…
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, Micros…
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,…
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…
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.…
New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck
Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates.…
The Ferrari Luce has at least 500 fans
Just two months after a bumpy launch earlier this year, Ferrari has reportedly already hit its 2026 sales goal for its polarizing, Jony Ive-designed L…
Mac Mini Availability in 2026: Why Wait Times Are Long and Prices Keep Climbing
Thanks to the surge in local AI processing and the ongoing memory shortage, it’s incredibly difficult to buy a Mac Mini.…
Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always openi…
Cyera Agrees to Acquire Oasis Security for $1B to Safeguard Proliferating AI Agents
The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.…
Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away
Analysis of 15 million real AI interactions finds most tasks at most jobs are unaffected.…
AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous
It's earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion - from th…
Fish Audio raises $50M seed to build AI voice models for creators and enterprises
Since launching last year, the startup today has more than 8 million people using the open-source or hosted version of its models, and now generates a…
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Hacker News Best 7.1 Earthquake in Japan
Article URL: https://www.data.jma.go.jp/multi/quake/quake_detail.html?eventID=20260728163528&lang=en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sul…
A Two-Person Startup Has Fixed One of the Most Hated Sounds in Modern Life
Beeeep. Beeeep. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.…
Silicon Valley’s Next IPO Billionaires Are Coming. Nonprofits Are Ready for Them
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit lea…
An Extreme Solar Storm May Be Even More Devastating Than Previously Imagined
Scientists have long assumed that there’s an upper limit to the intensity of the solar winds that reach Earth. New research suggests there’s not—and t…
Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench
Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md Comments…
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Using an open model feels surprisingly good
Article URL: https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078583 Po…
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Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/netflix-company-retreat-sp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076923 Points: 242 # Comments: 19…
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show…
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH
Article URL: https://microsoft.ai/news/introducing-mai-cyber-1-flash-inside-mdash/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072361 Points:…
Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing
Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.…
Ray-Ban Promo Codes: Save 50% in July 2026
Upgrade your frames with major savings on classic shapes, custom designs, and prescription lenses using these verified Ray-Ban discounts.…
PSA: Your Claude shared chats and Artifacts may have ended up on Google
The issue appears to have originated from Claude’s “share chat” feature, which allows users to create links that enable anyone with the assigned URL v…
Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Telecom expects AI revenue from dark fiber deals and retrofitted data centers.…
Power up your AI infrastructure! A first look at the Smart Systems Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the Smart Systems Stage will be where energy, infrastructure, and technology collide, covering everything from fusion brea…
How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?
Article URL: https://lockwood.dev/ai/2026/07/27/how-is-the-bun-rewrite-in-rust-going.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49067854 …