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Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever

Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.

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Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents

I have been pushing up to 90 commits a day on a MacBook Air via 4-5 parallel agents. As you can imagine when all the ag...

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Sell Your AI Skills?

Article URL: https://capabase.ai/learn/sell-your-ai-skills Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104611 ...

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The Productivity Mirage

Article URL: https://frantic.im/mirage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104335 Points: 8 # Comment...

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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 wi...

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Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC)

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/mancomputerbyjoh0000john Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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LLM Honeypot

Article URL: https://llm2human.pages.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104117 Points: 7 # Comme...

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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 i...

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GitHub is the wrong shape for this new world

Article URL: https://depot.dev/blog/github-is-the-wrong-shape-for-this-new-world Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator...

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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 oppo...

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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 earn...

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Mythos attack on 3rd-round PQC algorithm candidate puts it out of commission

HAWK withstood years of testing that had yet to uncover a fatal weakness found through Mythos. ...

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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 thi...

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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...

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AI's top startups are barely publishing their research

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research Comments UR...

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Discover what’s next for AI, from the SaaS reckoning to the agent security gap, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few ...

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Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI

Weng previously served as the VP of AI Safety Research at OpenAI.

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xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law

xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" ...

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The Cold Email

Article URL: https://zachholman.com/posts/cold-email Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103089 Points...

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Cyberpunk 2077 packs a lot of fun into its discounted $20 price

Over the last few years, CD Projekt Red put a ton of work into fixing Cyberpunk 2077, squashing bugs, polishing content,...

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Winamp aims for a comeback with a new music player powered by Deezer

Winamp is preparing to relaunch with a Deezer-powered premium music service, betting its nostalgic brand and a new a...

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SalesPatriot (YC W25) Is Hiring FDEs

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/salespatriot/jobs/M46X6YX-forward-deployed-engineer Comments URL: ht...

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It Looks Like Nothing Can Dent MAGA’s Support for ICE

Despite weeks of renewed press coverage and controversy around ICE, Donald Trump’s supporters appear to be standing by...

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Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper

Advertisers agreed to “reset” relationship with X.

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Save Up to $100 on Apple’s Newest AirPods (2026)

Save up to $100 on Apple’s latest AirPods models before prices go back up.

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The coolest use for the Vision Pro

Article URL: https://christianselig.com/2026/07/vision-pro-house/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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Xbox revenue drops 10 percent as Microsoft’s cloud and AI business surges

Xbox is having yet another tough quarter, as revenue from its Game Pass subscription and other services dipped 10 percen...

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Theo Conjecture solves 35-year-old math problem, finds a term no one predicted

Article URL: https://firstprinciples.com/blog-article/ai-system-theo-conjecture-solves-35-year-old-math-conjecture Comm...

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A Trampoline

Article URL: https://dogdogfish.com/blog/2026/07/29/a-trampoline/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?

Government ban on foreign-made robots may hinder instead of help US robotics. ...