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Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent

Article URL: https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189075 Points: 238 # Comments: 58…
TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In

Article URL: https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/time-serves-ai-bots-a-different-website/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182041 Po…
OpenAI brings unlimited ChatGPT text chats to free users

OpenAI brings unlimited ChatGPT text chats to free users

OpenAI said that ChatGPT free and Go users are also getting a new think button for complex queries.…
Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Article URL: https://github.com/denoland/celld Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185430 Points: 260 # Comments: 46…
Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185983 Points:…
OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case

OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case

Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — …
How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

Article URL: https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/08/xibalba64-making-of Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49168622 Points: 263 # Comments:…
Mario Meets Pareto

Mario Meets Pareto

Article URL: https://www.mayerowitz.io/blog/mario-meets-pareto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195231 Points: 305 # Comments: 53…
SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library just months before federal data center deal

SoftBank donated $50 million to Trump’s library just months before federal data center deal

SoftBank contributed $50 million to the Trump Presidential Library in January, just months before announcing that it's leasing land from the federal g…
Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting

Trump admin "aware" of deaths in explosive diarrhea outbreak, delays reporting

Federal officials will update the outbreak sometime "this week," a spokesperson said.…
Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it

Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it

Congress set ownership limit at 39%, but FCC claims authority to kill the rule.…
Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits

Texas halts new data centers as governor calls for audits

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has paused new data center development until an audit has been completed.…
Our favorite memories at the movies

Our favorite memories at the movies

It's a great time to go back to theaters! The Odyssey is currently making believers in IMAX. And combined with the power of Spider-Man, it's also brea…
The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab

The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE’s DNA grab

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. …
How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

How One Startup Built a (Mostly) China-Free Robot

Ati Robotics assembles its robots in India and uses just a few Chinese parts—a strategy that could pay off as the Trump administration cracks down on …
Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

Is This Poker Player Bluffing? The AI Thinks So

ESPN unveiled an “AI tells detection” tool during broadcasts of the 2026 World Series of Poker. Is it a neat computer-powered party trick, or a real t…
Show HN: ssh ssh.place

Show HN: ssh ssh.place

Article URL: https://ssh.place Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149805 Points: 173 # Comments: 106…
Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

House spending records show OpenAI's ChatGPT dominates paid AI use on Capitol Hill, with congressional offices relying on the chatbot to draft memos, …
Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic

Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Snubs OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open vs. closed source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot lo…
New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

Plus, a new deprecation policy ensures features aren't removed suddenly.…
Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.…
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions,…
The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left

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 con…
Agent swarms and the new model economics

Agent swarms and the new model economics

Article URL: https://cursor.com/blog/agent-swarm-model-economics Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982535 Points: 236 # Comments: 1…
The Great Peptide Cash Grab Has Begun

The Great Peptide Cash Grab Has Begun

The FDA could decide whether to loosen rules around peptide production this week. Some telehealth players are already seeing dollar signs.…
8 Best Smartwatches (2026): Apple, Google, and Hybrid Watches

8 Best Smartwatches (2026): Apple, Google, and Hybrid Watches

These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.…
Abdul El-Sayed Is an Epidemiologist Running for Senate. His State Is a Public Health Disaster

Abdul El-Sayed Is an Epidemiologist Running for Senate. His State Is a Public Health Disaster

Michigan has been at the epicenter of the wildfire smoke and explosive diarrhea outbreaks. The progressive Democrat talks to WIRED about how he would …
Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign

Article URL: https://hyperallergic.com/guerrilla-london-bus-ads-mock-kylie-jenners-meta-glasses-campaign/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i…
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol

Article URL: https://www.tryai.dev/blog/ai-music-video-arena-claude-vs-gpt-5.6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939524 Points: 224…
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models

Article URL: https://lmstudio.ai/blog/introducing-lm-studio-bionic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939662 Points: 218 # Comments:…