A new open-source tool, find-dup-defs, identifies duplicated and near-duplicated Python code using structural AST analysis and a normalized "Thickness" score to rank refactoring urgency. The tool claims to be 2-12 times …
Creators who built their careers on trust and authenticity, including dating coach Matthew Hussey and author Gabby Bernstein, are using AI to create digital twins for personalized fan interactions while refusing to outso…
Uber president Andrew Macdonald said the company is struggling to justify its AI spending after exhausting its annual AI budget four months into 2026, citing no clear link between rising token consumption and delivery of…
A Hacker News user questioned whether YAML and other declarative configuration languages remain necessary in a post-LLM world, arguing that AI models could replace complex YAML files with simpler natural language command…
A developer is building Extensio.ai, an AI-powered browser extension designed to enhance developer productivity and automate workflows by transforming the browser into a smart workspace. The project is open-source on Git…
AI voice assistants remain largely inadequate, with most models suffering from slow speeds or limited intelligence, according to a user assessment. Grok Voice emerged as the clear winner across key metrics including spee…
Two models have tied the all-time record on agent coding benchmarks, scoring 90% with zero hard fails. Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B achieved the score in 28 seconds at $0.0004, while DeepSeek Chat (original) reached 90% in 59 sec…
The AI bubble differs fundamentally from the internet bubble because no one had to force-feed web tools to workers, who eagerly adopted them to bypass restrictive IT policies. In contrast, companies are now mandating AI …
Voicebox, an open-source AI voice studio with 28,500 GitHub stars and an MIT license, runs entirely on local hardware and combines voice cloning, dictation, and text-to-speech across 23 languages. The project ships seven…
Federal law enforcement agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and FBI, have begun surveilling a newly designated category of "anti-tech extremists" following attacks on AI executives, protests at data c…
Persistent Systems and Kong have formed a partnership to help enterprises securely scale artificial intelligence deployments. The collaboration integrates Kong's API management platform with Persistent's AI and cloud exp…
Nvidia's latest earnings report exceeded analyst expectations, with the AI chipmaker posting record revenue driven by surging demand for its data center processors. The company's strong financial performance signals cont…
Claude Code's `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag is actually safer than the default permission-requesting mode, according to founding engineer Jim Fisher. The default mode creates "approval fatigue" that leads users t…
Google's new "Modern Web Guidance" tool, designed to help AI coding agents build accessible web experiences, produced a non-conformant accordion component that fails to work in Firefox and does not meet WCAG accessibilit…
CliGate, an open-source local AI gateway, has evolved into a "local control plane" for agent work that can operate desktop applications through the operating system's accessibility tree. The tool, which started as a loca…
Google's May 2026 product launches, including Gemini 3.5 Flash as the default for AI Mode and Information Agents that continuously scan the web, have transformed search from a directory of blue links into an autonomous o…
Large language models possess a limited but real form of language understanding, according to a new analysis of John Searle's Chinese Room argument. The argument, which claims computer programs can never truly understand…
SS&C Technologies built an AI cloud-as-a-service platform for real-time and batch processing of GPU workloads inside its private data centers, enabling engineers to consume GPU resources without breaking compliance or re…
A critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-48710 (BadHost) in Starlette versions prior to 1.0.1 allows attackers to bypass path-based authentication middleware by injecting a crafted Host header that manipulates the `r…
A 10-year-old remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-46529) was discovered in the Linux PDF viewers XReader, Evince, and Atril, which share the same codebase. The flaw, found with the assistance of the AI model Cl…