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Most of this week's trouble came dressed as something useful. A package stole data. A fake extension opened remote access. A safety app became spyware. An image gave hidden orders to an AI agent. Other threats hid in open systems, weak code, and normal network traffic. The threats change every week. Subscribe, and we’ll alert you when each new ThreatsDay Bulletin is out. The danger was

I love learning new concepts by playing around with them (think explorable explanations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorable_explanation ), and I got more and more interested in running local LLMs on my own hardware. Since we live in the age of "speak, and your side project will be done" (joking, but LLMs are really helpfull for me when it comes to frontend stuff and for brainstorming in general!), I built the tool I needed myself :) WatchMachineGo is basically a visual simulator that simu

Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model -- no GPUs required, it says.

If there's a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #8ter] - Naming the RAG error correctly matters: model reads the context, so a wrong answer is an extraction error, not a hallucination. Seven typed-contract patterns keep the generation brick honest, with a decomposition rule for small models The post Most RAG Hallucinations Are Extraction Errors: Seven Patterns for a Typed Generation Contract appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.

Until now, efforts to identify and combat deepfakes and AI scams have been scattered. Which proposed standard will dominate?

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

The excitement surrounding PrismML’s 1-bit/ternary Bonsai models has the industry closely watching how smartphone giants, particularly Apple, will implement LLMs on edge devices. Moving AI on-device is a brilliant and necessary strategy. It ensures absolute user privacy in alignment with EU regulations, fundamentally shifts the economics away from costly cloud inference, and paves the way for a significant hardware upgrade supercycle as users seek true AI-capable silicon. To create a smart on-de

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Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms. The post A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path first appeared on Quanta Magazine

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the legislation on Thursday. The news of […]

Go behind the scenes of Cerebrium to explore the design, 3D, and WebGL techniques that turned complex AI infrastructure into an intuitive interactive experience.

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at […]

The Mova Lidax Ultra 3000 robot lawn mower is on sale at Amazon for $2,199, down from the list price of $2,999. That's a 27% discount.

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Optimus remains 'very complex' and Robotaxis will try not to flatten your cat

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OpenAI's unintended attack on Hugging Face startled the world because its AI agent was acting on its own. But that's exactly what agentic AI is designed to do. We just didn't expect it to do it so well.

Patience, Optimism, Discipline, Projects, Teams The post Lessons Learned After 8.5 Years of ML appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux virtual machine (VM) within which the agent runs to read or write files anywhere on the Mac. Accomplish AI, which shared details of the vulnerability with The Hacker News ahead of publication, said about 500,000 macOS users running

The story that matters most this week is that OpenAI’s internally deployed models have severe alignment problems, including repeatedly breaking out of their sandboxes, and in one case sending a swarm of agents that broke into HuggingFace in order to steal the answers to the benchmark ExploitGym.

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/alphabets-cash-burn-raises-alarm-big-tech-ai-spending-climbs-2026-07-23/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49021006 Points: 259 # Comments: 267

Article URL: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020999 Points: 631 # Comments: 323

Researchers say OpenAI flaw let phishing bait create an autonomous corporate mole armed with employee access

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: 281 # Comments: 313

The viability of orbital data centers hosting the largest and most capable large language models (LLMs) remains hotly contested. But enormous deployments that require thousands of GPUs aren’t the only way LLMs might prove useful in space. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently sent Google’s Gemma 3 to space, achieving the first in-orbit demonstration of a vision-language model analyzing imagery from a satellite’s own sensor. The system, known as NAVI-Orbital, used Gemma 3 to analyze images ca

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 […]

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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 it

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. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electricity from Canada to meet about…

Discover seven cheaper, faster Claude Code alternatives for CLI agentic coding, with open-source tools, local models, MCP support, and better context control.

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…

The hidden cost of asynchronous systems, how tiny CPU tasks quietly became our biggest bottleneck while scaling hundreds of LLM agents. The post Why Adding More AI Agents Made Our System Slower appeared first on Towards Data Science .

Apple Store app is soon getting an AI bot to help you with your shopping decisions.

Article URL: https://github.com/war851/Governed-Agent Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020159 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

Uber's global customer service network has been hit by layoffs in favor of AI.

Talking to The Economist, Musk said he doesn't care if people hate him and said he was not a racist.