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AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.

Ars Technica 1w ago Cristina Criddle and Tom Wilson, Financial Times
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MeBeMe’s new ‘interrupter’ app helps you become your best self instead of doomscrolling 

MeBeMe delivers small tasks to help users become their best selves instead of endlessly scrolling.

Technology 1w ago

How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?

Article URL: https://ourworldindata.org/how-much-energy-do-data-centers-and-artificial-intelligence-use Comments URL: h...

Technology 1w ago

Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig

Article URL: https://yamafaktory.github.io/whetuu/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022371 Points: ...

Technology 1w ago

Show HN: macOS menu-bar manager for SSH port forwards

is a tiny native macOS menu-bar app for local SSH port forwards. It has no external dependencies and runs natively. Co...

Technology 1w ago

Show HN: Remux – an open-source tmux workspace designed for iPhone

Article URL: https://github.com/h3nock/remux Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022284 Points: 13 # C...

Technology 1w ago

Writing by Hand is Good for your Brain

Article URL: https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/writing-by-hand-is-good-for-your Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology 1w ago

Fields Medals 2026

Article URL: https://www.mathunion.org/imu-awards/fields-medal/fields-medals-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology 1w ago

Show HN: I made YAFL – a E2EE file handoff for AI agents

Article URL: https://yafl.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022040 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Technology 1w ago

Software rendering in 500 lines of bare C++

Article URL: https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022038 Points: 10 # Com...

Technology 1w ago

Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle th...

Technology 1w ago

You can now run same OCI images as containers or Firecracker microVMs

Article URL: https://github.com/pullrun/pullrun Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021880 Points: 10 ...

Technology 1w ago

Hybrid-Electric Aicraft Engine Targeting 30% Fuel Efficiency

Article URL: https://www.rtx.com/news/news-center/2026/07/21/rtxs-pratt-whitney-canada-advances-hybrid-electric-technol...

Technology 1w ago

I Regret Migrating to Codeberg

Article URL: https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology 1w ago

I Think You Might Be Fooling Yourself with AI

Article URL: https://louwrentius.com/i-think-you-might-be-fooling-yourself-with-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycom...

Technology 1w ago

Emacs Is a Lispboard

Article URL: https://en.andros.dev/blog/06bfd107/emacs-is-a-lispboard/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology 1w ago

Astronomers may have found the first exomoon

Article URL: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2610/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021783 Point...

Technology 1w ago

Your backstage pass to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is waiting 

Volunteer at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 and get a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world's biggest startup conferen...

Technology 1w ago

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsu...

Technology 1w ago

Ford bets on Apple for its next-generation of EVs

Ford is the first automaker to use a new set of developer tools that will let it embed Apple Maps navigation and mapping...

Technology 1w ago

Brow6el: A full-featured web browser for the terminal using Chromium

Article URL: https://tangled.org/janantos.tngl.sh/brow6el Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021647 P...

Technology 1w ago

DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

Article URL: https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-us-air-force-fly-ai-controlled-f-16 Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology 1w ago

Ford picks Apple Maps for its next EV platform and updated BlueCruise

Ford plans to embed Apple Maps directly into its Universal Electric Vehicle Platform, which will start with a $30,000 mi...

Technology 1w ago

Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change

Article URL: https://werd.io/private-healthcare-makes-industries-less-innovative-its-time-for-change/ Comments URL: htt...

Technology 1w ago

What happens when the information runs out

Article URL: https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/06/30/what-happens-when-the-information-runs-out/ Comments URL: https://news...

Technology 1w ago

Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alphabets-cash-burn-raises-alarm-big-tech-ai-spending-cli...

Technology 1w ago

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

Article URL: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet Comments URL: https:...

Technology 1w ago

OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/openai-anthropic-open-models-trump-china Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology 1w ago

The sci-fi movie that imagines AI isn’t so dystopian after all

Imagine you are the parent of an inquisitive seven-year-old who loves his family, playing baseball, and hanging out with...

Technology 1w ago

Show HN: I simulated closing the Strait of Hormuz on real oil trade data

OP here: I created this visualization tool as the byproduct of a supply chain class I taught at Columbia. The pedagogic...