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Anthropic set AI agents loose on the same task. They started a turf war.

Anthropic researchers found AI agents can clash, collude and coordinate in unexpected ways, raising new questions about whether today’s safety tests capture the risks of multi-agent systems.

TechCrunch • Aug 13, 2026 • Rebecca Bellan
Technology Aug 13, 2026

Show HN: OpenCode Senses, An insanely fast and highly accurate vision plugin

The vision plugin for OpenCode that truly understands images. Inspect, read, and reason about any screenshot or picture...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Flock “can’t tech its way out” of the stalker cop problem, experts say

Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai Comments URL: https://news.yco...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

You can now just point at a mess and this robot vacuum will suck it up

Matic, my current favorite robot vacuum, just got a big upgrade. The company has launched Matic Cues, which brings voice...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

How Compaction Works in Pi

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/compaction-in-pi/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289654 P...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Pet owners say smart pet feeder outage led to furry ones going unfed

"I've lost trust ..."

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Solid 2.0 RC: The Big <Reveal>

Article URL: https://www.solidjs.com/blog/solid-2-0-rc-the-big-reveal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out

Article URL: https://0.mk/blog/link-rot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289532 Points: 13 # Commen...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Choose Boring Technology (2015)

Article URL: https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289512 ...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory

Article URL: https://donkeybas.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289465 Points: 23 # Comments: ...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Compute-Optimal Is Not Cluster-Optimal

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10605: Our new paper folds the systems stage into the scaling-law stage. Price every candida...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop

Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful. ...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

I want extern "fil-C"

Article URL: https://domenkozar.com/2026/08/13/i-want-extern-fil-c/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Article URL: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.7-flash Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

JDK 27 G1/Parallel/Serial GC Changes

Article URL: https://tschatzl.github.io/2026/08/10/jdk27-g1-serial-parallel-gc-changes.html Comments URL: https://news....

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Tocharian Online

Article URL: https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol/tokol/0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289026 Points...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

OpenAI hires new CRO as executive shake-up continues

Dali Rajic will take over as OpenAI's top salesperson.

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Mistral OCR 4.1

Article URL: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288889 Points:...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Gemini 3.7 Flash

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/introducing-gemini-3-7-flash/ Comm...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release

Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements." ...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

2K launches new studio to build its &#8216;next blockbuster sports franchise&#8217;

2K is launching a new AAA game development studio, Small Axe Studios, with an ambitious goal: to build the company's "ne...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Ford on track to complete $2B factory overhaul for Fathom EV truck

Ford expects to begin prototype builds of the Fathom EV in the first quarter of 2027.

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'

Article URL: https://www.techcentral.ie/mozilla-says-stricter-antitrust-measures-against-google-threaten-firefox/ Comme...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Ford’s $28,000 Fathom EV nears production after $2 billion factory overhaul

Ford said today that its next-generation electric vehicle - recently dubbed Fathom - will go into production at the auto...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

GoAccess – open-source real-time log analyzer and interactive viewer

Article URL: https://goaccess.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288296 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Technology Aug 13, 2026

We Have AI at Home Chapter 1: A Box of Scraps

Article URL: https://jdagostino.github.io/ai-pt1-box-o-scraps/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Meta adds AI screening to detect WhatsApp scams

Meta is launching an optional Scam Alert feature on WhatsApp that uses on-device machine learning to flag suspicious mes...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Samsung is using Claude to verify chip designs. It's not going smoothly

Article URL: https://www.neowin.net/news/samsung-is-using-claude-to-verify-chip-designs-and-its-not-going-smoothly/ Com...

Technology Aug 13, 2026

Suno is trying to look more like a real music production tool

Suno is releasing Studio 2.0 with significant upgrades that push it closer to an actual digital audio workstation (DAW),...