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Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated

Article URL: https://samwilkinson.io/posts/2026-06-09-anthropics-model-naming-extrapolated Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480852 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

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Fable won’t answer basic biology questions

Anthropic just released Claude Fable 5, calling it the most powerful AI model it has ever made widely available and prai...

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Policy on the AI Exponential

Article URL: https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

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The Best USB-C Cables (2026): for Smartphones, Tablets, and Laptops

Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.

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The Dynamo and the Computer: The Modern Productivity Paradox (1989) [pdf]

https://gwern.net/doc/economics/automation/1989-david.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479996 ...

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Microsoft, like, totally gets why students are booing AI-pilled graduation speakers

New college graduates around the country have been booing and heckling commencement speakers who hype up AI. Microsoft w...

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Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely

Article URL: https://www.matteast.io/spacex-escape-velocity.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484...

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GeoLibre 1.0

Article URL: https://geolibre.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479852 Points: 18 # Comments: 0...

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The future of AI regulation is courting the strangest, most anxious bedfellows

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about tech politics, tech influence, and tech shenani...

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Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)

Article URL: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurers-arent-the-main-villain-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

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We managed to glean some interesting details about the Artemis III mission

"I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the w...

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How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/curiosity-rover-jpl-mars-science Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

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Google won’t just admit it’s feeding YouTube creators to its music AI

If you've uploaded a song to YouTube, Google almost certainly considers your video fair game for training its Lyria musi...

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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry. ...

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Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/04/meta-steals-a-tactic-from-tesla-and-builds-data-centers-in-tents/ Commen...

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Netflix expands revamped mobile app across Asia and doubles down on kids’ gaming

The media giant is pushing to expand its mobile and gaming business.

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Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/29045 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

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‘AI-pilled’ firms spend $7,500 per employee each month on AI

The most AI-obsessed firms are spending roughly $7,500 monthly per employee on AI, per Ramp AI Index. That's not more th...

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You can just tell the Instagram algorithm what you want now

Instagram is going to let you tweak what its algorithm shows you on your main feed. With the Your Algorithm feature, "yo...

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Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance

The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike. ...

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Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/kids-reading-less-lower-levels-department-education-study-rcna348987...

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Donald Trump Is Ready for Fight Night. So Are Donors

The UFC event on the White House’s South Lawn is the president’s birthday gift to himself. Sources expect it to be a...

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Textbooks Should Be Free

Article URL: http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html Comments URL: https:/...

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Amazon’s Echo speakers can now help kids wind down and fall asleep

Amazon has launched a new feature for its Echo and Echo Kids smart speakers called Sleep Studio that's designed to make ...

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OB-GYNs release their own vaccine schedule, rejecting RFK Jr.'s meddling

Thirteen other medical groups have already endorsed the independent schedule. ...

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Microsoft restricts Claude Fable for employees over data retention concerns

Anthropic released Claude Fable, its first Mythos-class AI model, yesterday and it's already causing concerns inside Mic...

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The Indian government got cold feet on Starlink just before SpaceX’s IPO

Problems with Starlink's India expansion could challenge SpaceX's IPO growth story.

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Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/cybersecurity-researchers-arent-happy-about-the-guardrails-on-anthropics...

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Valve kills its retail gift card program due to scammers

Move also cuts off a massive market of legit users who buy cards with physical cash. ...

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Babel-USB: USB drive with every file

Article URL: https://github.com/p2r3/babel-usb Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48478766 Points: 6 # ...