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Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with […]

Developers & Open Source · ollama/ollama Releases

v0.31.0

launch: check for min version for hermes desktop ( #16912 )

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Malicious Perplexity Chrome Extension Intercepted Searches and Address Bar Input

Microsoft has found a malicious Chrome extension that posed as the AI search engine Perplexity and quietly logged what people searched for. It routed every query and every character typed into the address bar through an attacker-controlled server before redirecting users to real results. Microsoft says Google removed it from the store after responsible disclosure. The extension was called "

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

Count the number of Safari tabs

Tiniest TIL, using AppleScript to count the number of open browser tabs in Safari: osascript -e 'tell application "Safari" to count tabs of every window' Tags: safari , til , applescript

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Google warns EU's plans to weaken its monopoly could expose user data

The EU wants Google to share search data with competitors and open up AI on Android, but Google alleges major privacy risks.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

AI · TechCrunch AI

South Korean tech giants commit over $550B to ease ‘RAMageddon’

The world's two largest memory chip companies vow to build more memory lab fabs as South Korea positions itself as an AI tech powerhouse country.

AI · The Decoder

Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in

Amazon engineers are already distilling Anthropic models into smaller, cheaper versions for internal use. Starting next year, Amazon will pay by tokens processed rather than compute hours, which could push costs up sharply. The company is also exploring alternatives like OpenAI. The article Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in appeared first on The Decoder .

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Base44 bets a narrow model beats frontier AI for vibe coding

Base44, an AI-powered app-building platform, has launched its first proprietary AI model, dubbed Base One. It is a fine-tuned open-source The post Base44 bets a narrow model beats frontier AI for vibe coding appeared first on The New Stack .

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions

Hugging Face Blog published: DiScoFormer: One transformer for density and score, across distributions

AI · MIT Technology Review AI

AI agents are not your “coworkers”

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI tool—one that your company nonetheless calls Alex, an…

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody

But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

JetBrains kills Kotlin Notebook months after Microsoft’s Polyglot exit. But Jupyter is doing just fine.

JetBrains, the Czech developer tools company behind the IntelliJ IDEA IDE, announced Monday that it’s sunsetting Kotlin Notebook, the interactive The post JetBrains kills Kotlin Notebook months after Microsoft’s Polyglot exit. But Jupyter is doing just fine. appeared first on The New Stack .

AI · The Decoder

EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe

Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He's responding to the U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The initiative is likely unrealistic, though. And the alternative floating in the background, Chinese AI models, would just trade one dependency for another. The article EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe appeared first on The Decoder .

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Palantir and Nvidia want to change who owns government AI

Building with AI has, until recently, meant calling up someone else’s model. But wiring an app to an API from The post Palantir and Nvidia want to change who owns government AI appeared first on The New Stack .

Society · The Guardian Society

Resident doctors in England accept government offer on pay and jobs

Pay will be 35.2% higher on average compared with four years ago after series of strikes that have cost NHS £1bn Resident doctors in England have voted to accept a new government deal on pay and jobs, bringing an end to strike action that has cost the NHS £1bn since last summer. The British Medical Association had called off a strike at the last minute earlier this month to put the offer to members. Continue reading...

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

At $499, Apple’s M3-powered iPad Air is a good deal

Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $500 right now. The 128GB iPad […]

Cybersecurity · BleepingComputer

WhatsApp rolls out usernames to help users hide their phone number

WhatsApp is finally allowing users to reserve usernames, a privacy feature that lets them hide their phone numbers from people not in their contact list. [...]

Products & Consumer Tech · Ars Technica

Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets

Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business

The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding

Article URL: https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722052 Points: 243 # Comments: 45

Cybersecurity · BleepingComputer

Microsoft extends Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027

Microsoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027, one year after the mainstream end date of October 2026. [...]

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development

Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721903 Points: 991 # Comments: 644

AI · TechCrunch AI

Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go

Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.