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Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance

Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."

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Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity

Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incid...

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Americans' Drinking Remains at Record Low: Gallup Poll

Article URL: https://news.gallup.com/poll/713534/americans-drinking-remains-record-low.aspx Comments URL: https://news....

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Claude Opus 5.5

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803892 Poin...

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Claude Opus 5.5

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/ClaudeForFoundationModels/commit/5180901338a50bef050d5e9464583753ed3869a3 Co...

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Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report

First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.

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Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why

Hi HN, I built ai·rete·rag because I kept seeing teams put an LLM in charge of decisions that need to be auditable (l...

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16-bit Intel 8088 chip

Article URL: https://allpoetry.com/16-bit-Intel-8088-chip Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49803635 P...

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Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/09/shuffling-the-deck-chairs-xbox-continues-its-reset-with-dramatic-re...

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Rivian’s R2 beat its own climate goals four years early

Rivian always planned for its all-important R2 vehicle to be less expensive than its pricey R1 predecessors, but also le...

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Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’

In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, "globalists," climate change, ...

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Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App

Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform age...

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Stolen passwords are exposing America’s water providers to hackers

Researchers say another looming threat hangs over some of America's most important critical infrastructure.

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Writing Rust code that's fast by asking agents to make the code faster

Article URL: https://minimaxir.com/2026/09/agentic-iteration/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498030...

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Shuffling the deck chairs: Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring

Activision gets Halo, Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups. ...

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How Meta's Muse works, revealed by the 6.8 GB filesystem it sent me

Article URL: https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802871 Po...

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Show HN: InstinctFlash – Run 5B world-action models in real time on Jetson Thor

Hey HN, Guanming here, cofounder of General Instinct. We just released InstinctFlash, a high-performance serving framew...

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If you start writing today, there's no way to know if you can write without AI

Article URL: https://www.ssp.sh/brain/ai-writing/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802619 Points: 4...

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Vacate a Drone Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/dc-circuit-must-vacate-drone-flight-restriction-criminalized-recordi...

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AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft

Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.

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Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders...

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Noble Carbon will show how it’s making EV charger installs painless at TechCrunch Disrupt

Noble Carbon has developed a smart circuit breaker that allows households to electrify without the pain of a main panel ...

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Xbox is barely Xbox anymore

Xbox has become a shell of its former self - and things are only getting worse. As part of its planned cuts impacting ar...

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OpenAI is about to eat Jev's lunch – Arcturus Labs

Article URL: https://arcturus-labs.com/blog/2026/09/21/will-openai-eat-jevs-lunch/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinat...

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Jev – a curation of Jev demos on X, tools, skills, and integrations

Article URL: https://github.com/Amal-David/awesome-jev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49802160 Poin...

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Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom

A combination of Chinese competition and US tariffs is causing problems in Germany. ...

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Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/muse-metas-extraordinarily-privileged-ai-assistant-has-a-serious-...

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Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/phones/iphone/i-wish-apple-would-just-stop-that-crap-apple-has-added-persistent-...

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TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Aaron Edsinger brings Hello Robot’s Stretch 4 to life onstage

Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will bring Stretch 4 for a live demo on the Real World AI Stage at TechCru...

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Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent

Trump adopts Scalia’s ire for feds protecting populations of endangered animals. ...