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Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

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AI Hallucination Nearly Triggers US Military Operation

“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns....

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How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/llms-for-chip-design Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49761432...

Technology 2w ago

US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-troop-deaths-iran-war-exceed-pentagon-count-by-least-four-was...

Technology 2w ago

The US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-iran-school-attack Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

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Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country

Article URL: https://sf.gazetteer.co/y-combinators-pac-is-throwing-money-at-a-bunch-of-republicans-across-the-country C...

Technology 2w ago

Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

Accenture is about to take on its most high-risk consulting engagement ever.

Technology 2w ago

OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web

Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The compa...

Technology 2w ago

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md

Article URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/changelog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49760187 Poin...

Technology 2w ago

AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.

Technology 2w ago

Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures

Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.

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Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation

Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable, by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health i...

Technology 2w ago

World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets

Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from...

Technology 2w ago

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue

Article URL: https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/business/korea-raises-data-breach-fines-to-10-of-revenue/12869899 Comme...

Technology 2w ago

Apple Watch Ultra 4 Review: The Series 12 Is Closing the Gap

The Ultra 4 gets smarter about health tracking and lasts longer between charges. But for most people, the Series 12 gets...

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Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.

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FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout. ...

Technology 2w ago

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Article URL: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117282080803799576 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...

Technology 2w ago

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02852 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758689 Points: 4 # C...

Technology 2w ago

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03215 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49758615 Points: 12 # ...

Technology 2w ago

Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/saving-100-tb-of-ram-with-math/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

Technology 2w ago

A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers

Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.

Technology 2w ago

Apple releases iPhone Duo simulator and Xcode 27.1 beta

Article URL: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-27_1-release-notes Comments URL: https...

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Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers

Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to ...

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Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO

You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but...

Technology 2w ago

Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion

Article URL: https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/the-government-was-entitled-trumps-border-agents-can-now-search-cellp...

Technology 2w ago

Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters

The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's f...

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FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

FCC rejects concerns about repressive governments buying influence over CBS owner. ...

Technology 2w ago

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0

Article URL: https://x.ai/news/grok-voice-transcribe-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49757859 Poin...

Technology 2w ago

Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep

Rare cells with widespread connectivity seem to be able to trigger sleep.