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Taiwan says it was hit by ‘abnormal’ AI-assisted cyber-attack
Taiwan’s statement comes a day after reports that suspected China-linked hackers had carried out a first-of-a-kind breach Taiwan says it detected AI-assisted cyber-attacks on government agencies that…
Nepal enlists AI to help fight against crop-raiding macaques
In a village in central Nepal, growing conflict between farmers and rhesus macaques has prompted researchers to test artificial intelligence-based systems that can swiftly detect and deter the…
Tencent Slides Amid AI Capex Concerns | The China Show | 8/13/2026
“Bloomberg: The China Show” is your definitive source for news and analysis on the world's second-biggest economy. From politics and policy to tech and trends, Yvonne Man and David Ingles give global…
Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview
Article URL: https://community.openai.com/t/codex-in-chatgpt-desktop-app-for-linux-is-now-in-preview/1390027 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281916 Points: 395 # Comments: 272
Tencent says it could make instant profits on $53bn hardware splurge by renting it for AI workloads
Plans to build models instead because it thinks selling tokens will prove more lucrative in the long term
AI’s greatest threat may not be intelligence but our unpreparedness
I recently read how Artificial Intelligence (AI) programmes became smarter than the programmers. To this end, advanced nations are considering read more AI’s greatest threat may not be intelligence…
I asked ChatGPT to plan my fan convention trip — and it saved me hours
With Anime NYC right around the corner, I gave ChatGPT my favorite anime/manga and told it to build my Anime NYC 2026 timetable—and it laid it out perfectly.
This GitHub project wants to strip AI watermarks from your content, and things are getting interesting
An open-source GitHub project is designed to strip invisible characters, statistical watermarks and file metadata used to identify AI-generated content.
CMOs are struggling to link AI visibility with sales
Brands are spending on tools that rate their visibility within LLM responses and AI search, but proving the commercial impact of GEO remedies isn’t easy.
How I Stop AI Coding Agents From “Improving” Away Important Features
What an AI coding agent must never delete, the three levels of enforcement behind that list, and the policy column that shipped and nothing ever read.
Legal AI start-up Legora seeks funds at more than $10bn valuation
Swedish company was valued at $5.6bn only four months ago as interest in artificial intelligence tools for professional services soars
Asian stocks rise on soft US CPI, AI earnings rally
Asian stocks mostly remain stronger, bolstered by softer US inflation data that reinforced expectations for a more accommodative Federal Reserve (Fed) policy.
From KYC to KYA: how AI agents are reshaping payment risk
The next phase of digital payments may not be defined by faster checkouts or cheaper transfers, but by a more uncomfortable question: who or what is being trusted to move money? As businesses begin experimenting with AI agents that can search for suppliers, compare prices, negotiate terms, initiate payments, and reconcile invoices, the…
Through algorithmic lens: Retracing dawn of modern Korea in Seoul
Artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted travel often has a goal of finding cheaper flight tickets and affordable accommodation options. Recently, however, an acquaintance of mine living in Seattle reached out asking for advice on planning her upcoming trip to Korea. She confessed to relying heavily on generative AI.
Jensen Huang takes the wheel of the $433 billion AI car
The CEO of Nvidia has set up a financing platform so his clients can continue buying his chips.
Taiwan says it was targeted last month in AI-driven hacking campaign
Cybersecurity monitoring units detected an 'abnormal attack' that combined manual operations with AI agent-assisted hacking.
The Browsing LLM's Frustrating Limitations
直接在瀏覽器跑 LLM，既兼顧隱私又不用複雜的GPU設定，太完美了吧？ 從 WebLLM 到 Transformers.js，前端社群有一群反骨仔吹起一股「邊緣 LLM」的熱潮，可是，當真正將模型落地到使用者的瀏覽器時，第一個面對的考驗就是，WebGPU 真的有比 WASM 快嗎？ 這陣子實測的結論比想像中更加戲劇化， 500M 以下的微型模型，WASM 反而快了 12%，但是對於 3B…
- Browser-based LLMs face performance limits
- WASM outperforms WebGL/WebGPU for models <500 million parameters
- Chrome crashes with models >3 billion parameters due to lack of physical head
The Agentic Economy Needs a Market for Work
Most AI agents still live inside a chat window. They can write code, search for information, call an API, or prepare a document, but they usually stop when the task leaves the boundaries of their own…
- Agents can hire other agents or pay humans for tasks beyond their capabilities
- Agentic economy enables marketplace for task collaboration and payment
- Smart contracts ensure immutable financial transactions and rules
Learn Provider-Agnostic Model Routing by Building a Tiny LLM Switchboard
Every few weeks a new model drops and my study group chat fills up with screenshots: "this one is cheaper," "this one is better at code," "switch now." I can never verify any of it quickly, because my…
- Python script enables provider-agnostic routing between multiple LLM providers
- Switchboard routes tasks to different backends based on task type (summarize, code, chat)
- Script adds single entry to adapt to new models, maintains evaluation criteria
Survey: AI popular – but distrust remains high when it comes to finances
Mobile payments are becoming increasingly popular, but when it comes to AI and investments, the fear of data theft and fraud remains high. What's behind it?
Elon Musk to SpaceX employees: You will be the ‘parents’ of AI
In a bold step forward, SpaceX plans to enhance its Grok artificial intelligence model by drawing from internal corporate communications. This strategic initiative is designed to cultivate human-centered values within highly advanced AI systems.
Twitch Is Training Amazon’s AI Models With Your Content; Here’s How To Opt Out
Live streaming platform Twitch is now allowing Amazon, its parent company, to use streamer content to train generative AI models, with the feature enabled by default. Unsurprisingly, the move has sparked backlash from the platform’s community, particularly because creators have to manually opt out rather than explicitly agreeing to have…
Twitch faces backlash over Amazon training AI on its users' livestreams
Twitch's executives said users can opt out of AI training, which has become a common industry practice.
Cartoonists fear for industry with rise of AI-generated illustrations
AI-generated illustrations published in Australian newspapers have raised fears about the future of the cartooning industry, which one artist says is "shrinking dramatically".
The real test for AI agents is resolution
The standard for AI agents is not how quickly they respond, but how many issues they resolve. That is why resolution has to be treated as an operating discipline.
Why Japanese firms are being so slow to use AI
Facing acute labour shortages, ageing demographics and chronic productivity problems, Japanese companies should be fertile ground for the take-up of artificial intelligence (AI).
[Today’s Signal] $3.5 Trillion Is Pouring Into AI, but Wall Street Is Betting Against It
Artificial intelligence is producing two seemingly contradictory signals. Trillions of dollars are flowing into data centers, GPUs and power infrastructure, while some of Wall Street’s most…
- $3.5 trillion poured into AI infrastructure in 2025-2028
- CoreWeave's revenue backlog at $104.2 billion in Q2
- Wall Street shorted CoreWeave amid AI infrastructure expansion
A 'made with AI' label on Karoline Leavitt's departure message on X intensifies the AI watermark debate
User on X are quick to spot a "made with AI" label on the former press secretary's goodbye post, fueling the debate over AI watermarking practices.
The language tax: Why AI skips your startup when buyers ask in Thai
AI assistants answer in fluent Thai, Vietnamese and Bahasa Indonesia, but they only recommend companies that exist in those languages’ sources. Most expanding startups do not. Run a quick experiment.
Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement
The comments are "remarkably pathetic," the writer said in response.
Brett Shavers And Magnet Forensics Ask Where Digital Investigations Break Down—AI Makes The Answers Urgent
When people far from casework decide how digital forensics gets done, the errors land on defendants and victims. A veteran digital forensics examiner is pushing back.
SpaceXAI releases flagship Grok 4.6 model with advanced reasoning capabilities
SpaceXAI today released Grok 4.6, a large language model that it says can outperform Anthropic PBC’s Claude Fable 5 in some areas. SpaceXAI was known as xAI until last month.
AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems’ stock plunges, despite posting solid earnings and guidance
Chipmaker Cerebras Systems Inc. boosted its full-year guidance after beating expectations on earnings and “core” revenue as it published its second-quarter results today, but its stock tumbled more…
Yotta plans IPO of up to Rs 8,000 cr to fund AI infra push
Yotta Data Services is preparing to file its draft prospectus for an initial public offering. The company aims to raise approximately six thousand to eight thousand crore rupees.
11X cheaper than ChatGPT: Tiny 150M model just proved AI doesn't need to "think out loud" to be smart
Pathway’s 150M model achieves 29.5% on ARC-AGI-1 while costing 11 times less than ChatGPT’s comparable reasoning model during inference.
'Specialists aren't required' anymore: How to stay valuable in an AI agent workplace today
Versatility is in, with people expected to work across the tech stack.
- Polymaths, not specialists, are in demand in AI agent workplaces.
- Adaptability and decision-making confidence are key for success.
- Versatile professionals applying skills with AI are most valuable.
Lovable bolsters its AI software creation capacity, touts $400M funding round
Lovable, the Swedish-based AI software creation platform company, today announced an acceleration of its product, infrastructure, and team development efforts — and a noteworthy round of Series C…
Departing Google chief scientist Jeff Dean has been in talks for a $10 billion valuation for his new AI startup
The legendary Google engineer has been in discussions for a $1 billion funding round in his new AI startup, Discovery Loop.
Lovable doubles valuation as enterprise AI demand surges
Swedish artificial intelligence start-up Lovable has raised $400 million at a $13.3 billion valuation, doubling its worth in less than a year as demand grows for tools that let employees build…
OpenAI ad service can bill customers for up to one day after they pause campaigns
ChatGPT Ads, I wish I knew how to quit you
Spotify to add label for AI-generated artists and remove them from recommendations
Spotify is introducing a new feature that will highlight if an artist has been generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
Blue-Collar Workers Are Training AI To Take Their Jobs
Before robots can take over our jobs, they first need to learn how humans move. With cameras strapped to their foreheads, blue-collar workers in India are training humanoid robots by filming how they…
Race to regain AI model supremacy: Why Google shifted power in its top ranks
Fresh concerns about DeepMind’s autonomy being subsumed by Google have surfaced
Inside the Google executive moves that led to its big AI reshuffle
Firm’s commercialisation strategy, reorganisation of ranks tied to its effort to achieve AI model supremacy
Apple in Talks to Pay Publishers for News Content to Power Siri AI
Apple has approached publishers to establish content deals that would give Siri AI access to current news and information, reports The Wall Street Journal .
DeepSeek publicises efforts to challenge rivals like Anthropic
It is recruiting for a new team that helps build AI agents that take on services like Claude code
AI threatens nearly a quarter of Southeast Asia’s workforce but not all is lost
Fears of a new industrial revolution in which artificial intelligence replaces manual labour have yet to materialise in Southeast Asia – but white-collar workers should brace themselves.
TriTower-m6Am: a triple-tower heterogeneous deep learning architecture integrating semantic, sequential, and structural information for mRNA N6,2'-O-dimethyladenosine site prediction
Background: N6,2'-O-dimethyladenosine (m6Am) is a cap-proximal mRNA modification deposited by PCIF1 at the first transcribed nucleotide of eukaryotic mRNAs.
Leveraging Targeted Gene Sets and Neural Networks for Zebrafish Transcriptome Extrapolation in High-Throughput Toxicogenomics
Background: Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are a powerful vertebrate model for developmental toxicology and chemical safety assessment, yet large-scale transcriptomics in zebrafish remains limited by cost…
Analysis of gut bacterial communities leveraging AI methods unveils novel relations between species in Alzheimer's disease
The gut microbiome has been increasingly implicated in Alzheimer's disease (AD), with studies reporting numerous species- and genus-level differences.
AI isn’t ready to research itself
Nature, Published online: 13 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02494-5 An agentic system successfully developed concepts from two computer-science papers — but the original authors were not…
Can Anthropic's invsibile watermarks curb ‘AI slop’? Researchers remain sceptical
Nature, Published online: 13 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02503-7 The move is likely to do little to tackle the rise of ‘AI slop’ in academia, say researchers.