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Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

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.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020868 Points: 271 # Comments: 313

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

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 his friends. It's the life you've always wanted. And then the worst thing that ever could happen happens: A freak accident takes your son away. But as it turns out, you don't have to live with […]

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Can prompt caching tame RAG costs without sacrificing accuracy?

The AI ecosystem is drowning in tutorials on how to build a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) app in five minutes. The The post Can prompt caching tame RAG costs without sacrificing accuracy? appeared first on The New Stack .

Cloud & Infrastructure · CNCF Blog

Sustaining OpenTelemetry: What a 10-week contributor cohort actually looks like

A follow-up to our earlier post: “Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship” *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, and Bloomberg’s Open Source Program Office came together...

World · BBC Middle East

Trump's nuclear deal with Saudis jettisons longstanding US demands

Signing a nuclear pact in the Middle East is a bold move that has drawn criticism in the US and in Israel.

World · Al Jazeera

‘Our fight is to fix the system’: India protesters demand accountability

India's Cockroach Janta Party led weeks of protests over exam paper leaks.

World · Deutsche Welle

Nigeria: Armed 'bandits' kill more than 20 in Zamfara state

Armed gangs, known locally as "bandits," are a constant threat in northwestern and central Nigeria. They typically raid villages, steal livestock and kidnap residents for ransom.

World · Al Jazeera

Which Middle East nations have nuclear programmes, and how were they built?

Saudi Arabia aims to join the region's nuclear club after it signs a deal with the US.

Developers & Open Source · vercel/next.js Releases

v16.3.0-preview.9

Misc Changes [Bench] Add client-trace attribution pass and document metrics to render-pipeline: #95828 Turbopack: Split up turbo-tasks-fs/src/lib.rs into smaller modules: #96030 Turbopack: Use Arc and Box to make InvalidatorMap slightly more efficient: #95987 Turbopack: Use swc_core::ecma::utils::prop_name_eq for a couple of the next-custom-transforms : #96035 [Cache Components] Exclude dynamic params from prerenders when no generateStaticParams values is provided: #95872 Gate partialFallback behavior behind partialPrefetching flag: #96074 [turbopack] Fix deployment skew protection for component chunks: #96079 Turbopack: stop copying sourcesContent into every serialized source map: #95934 Upgrade React from 81e442ea-20260721 to 711c445b-20260722 : #96066 fix: cache miss in App Shell for cached pages with gSP: #95665 skill(cc-adoption): add dev-only validation sweep reference: #96057 Refine Cache Components and Partial Prefetching adoption skills: #95817 [test] Move the dev-only use cache test suite to test/development : #96023 Fix stale dev 'use cache' for cookieless requests and route handlers: #96022 [test] Add failing tests for stale route handler and page cached data: #96021 Add a dedicated HMR message for static params changes: #96020 Emit the static paths HMR update after updating the cache: #96019 [test] Add source-mapping coverage of React's fake stack frame scripts in use cache : #95945 Fix basePath fallback parameter parsing: #95966 Restore canary version 16.3.0-canary.93 after v16.3.0-preview.8 preview release Credits Huge thanks to @gaearon , @bgw , @gnoff , @acdlite , @sampoder , @vercel-release-bot , @lubieowoce , @aurorascharff , @unstubbable , and @timneutkens for helping!

Cybersecurity · SecurityWeek

Nuclear-Sabotage Malware Benchmark Trips Up Most Frontier AI Models

SentinelOne’s new benchmark, built on the Fast16 case, shows which AI models can sustain a malware investigation and which cannot. The post Nuclear-Sabotage Malware Benchmark Trips Up Most Frontier AI Models appeared first on SecurityWeek .

Society · NPR Top Stories

Get into med school in the graphic memoir 'See One, Do One, Teach One'

Grace Farris' book brings readers behind the med school scenes — documenting anxiety over loans, bouts of impostor syndrome, friendships forged in stress, and the ever-impossible work-life balance.

AI · The Decoder

Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open-weight coding model that punches well above its size

Poolside has released Laguna S 2.1, its third coding model in three months. Rather than rely on raw scale, the company trained it to keep checking its work, revise failed approaches, and avoid giving up too soon during long agentic sessions. The compact model beats several much larger rivals in benchmarks. Poolside says it also solved a math problem that had been open since 1975 for under 10 cents. The article Poolside's Laguna S 2.1 is a small open-weight coding model that punches well above its size appeared first on The Decoder .

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

China-Nexus JadeProx Uses New TriBack Loader in Government and Healthcare Attacks

An exposed Alibaba Cloud server has revealed a China-nexus operation that Group-IB tracks as JadeProx. The cluster has targeted government, healthcare, and education organizations across Asia and Latin America with a previously undocumented Windows loader called TriBack Loader. Group-IB found the server in mid-April 2026 in Alibaba Cloud's Singapore region; it was offline by the time the report

World · Al Jazeera

Cricket: No Ashes 2027 Tests to take place in the north of England

England will not host Australia at Old Trafford or Headingley.

World · Deutsche Welle

Germany seeks energy and trading partners in Africa

Germany wants to boost relations with Africa. During his trip, German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has promoted cooperation on energy, infrastructure and the economy. He also criticized US treatment of South Africa.

World · Al Jazeera

EU hits Google with new $1bn fine, saying it broke digital antitrust rules

The fine is part of a major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels which says it is seeking to ensure fair competition.

World · The Guardian World

Two Russian men jailed in Angola for terrorism and spying

The men were convicted over alleged plan to stage coup and organise deadly demonstrations over fuel prices last year Two Russian men have been found guilty by an Angolan court of terrorism and spying after being accused of planning a coup and helping to organise deadly demonstrations in the southern African country last year. Lev Lakshtanov and Igor Ratchin were sentenced to eight and 11 years in jail respectively. They had denied the charges, claiming they were in Angola for cultural and business activities. Continue reading...

Society · The Guardian Society

‘Why do I feel crappy?’: women are learning about their luteal phases - and Maha is weaponizing it

People have found language for moodiest part of their menstrual cycles, and the right has seized on it Emily Rae Detrick, a health coach, wants women to be more in touch with their menstrual cycle in its entirety. This, she said on an October episode of Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark, a podcast popular among “Make America Healthy Again” (Maha) adherents, is “a way that you honor God and the way we were created”. It also serves her self-assigned mission to help “make America fertile again”. In the episode and on social media, Detrick speaks at length about the luteal phase, the 14-ish days between ovulation and menstruation when women are more likely to experience irritability, bloating and food cravings. If a woman does not get pregnant after ovulating, or so Detrick’s line of thinking goes, her body becomes upset. “During the luteal phase, the reason why your stress threshold is so much lower is because this is the time your body would be incubating a potential baby,” she said. No baby, and you might turn into a frazzled, nagging shrew. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat - the Hernando County commission had unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on such developments in June […]

AI · MIT Technology Review AI

How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…

World · Al Jazeera

Can Iran withstand new pressure from the US?

After a truce, the US has returned to war with Iran. Alex Gatopoulos looks at what’s different this time

World · Al Jazeera

Iraq PM heads to Iran: Can Baghdad redefine its relationship with Tehran?

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaid is visiting Tehran after a high-profile meeting with US President Donald Trump.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

How Synthetic Identity Fraud is Coming for Machine Identities

Most people understand identity theft as an attacker stealing a real person's sensitive information and impersonating them. Synthetic identity fraud is much harder to catch. Instead of stealing a real identity, the attacker manufactures a new one, frankensteining together several real data points with fabricated ones to create a person who doesn't exist. Since no real victim monitors misuse, a

Society · NPR Top Stories

U.S. signs nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia. And, Nolan Wells' independent autopsy results

The U.S. has signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. And, the independent autopsy results of Nolan Wells fuel more questions surrounding his cause of death.