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An engineer detailed how to set up routines, background agents, and stacked skills in Claude Code, sharing a repo-health check routine that runs scheduled cloud agents to verify README instructions. The routine uses a se…

SWE-rebench's latest leaderboard shows frontier coding models within 2.2 points of each other on resolved rate, with Fable 5 (Anthropic) at 64.5%, Grok 4.5 (xAI) at 63.8%, Opus 5 (Anthropic) at 63.4%, GLM-5.2 (Z.ai) at 6…

OpenAI has banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to a large-scale romance-baiting scam operation in Cambodia that used AI to generate and translate conversations in Japanese, Chinese, and English, targeting men ove…

Octane Security has discovered a heap overflow vulnerability in Oracle VM VirtualBox's streamOptimized VMDK parser, assigned CVE-2026-60161, which allows a malicious virtual appliance to write up to 65,536 attacker-contr…

NXP Semiconductors NV is in talks to acquire TTTech Auto, a designer of camera chips for self-driving cars, in a deal valued at more than $3 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The acquisition would b…

A coalition of 19 government agencies from nine countries, including the United States, South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom, warned on Friday that North Korean IT workers are using artificial intelligence to expan…

Google's new Nano Banana AI image generator in Google Earth can create realistic satellite and aerial images that are ripe for misuse, as demonstrated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, who generated images of refugees n…

Chevrolet confirmed that an 'officially licensed' AI-designed Silverado shirt sold at TJ Maxx and Marshall's is fake and did not go through GM's official licensing approval process. A Chevrolet spokesperson said the comp…

Apple CEO Tim Cook said during the company's earnings call on Thursday that Apple will offer "upgrade possibilities on iCloud+" for users who want higher access to Siri AI and Apple Intelligence features, potentially int…

A $2 million publishing deal for Jerry Falade's debut crime novel *Call Me, I'll Hide the Body* collapsed after his agents, Marc Gerald of Europa Content and Sandy Hodgman of Hodgman Literary, said they could no longer a…

Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI-focused hedge fund, Situational Awareness, lost approximately 67% of its value in July 2026 and then liquidated its entire public equities portfolio, selling the positions to Ken Griffin's Cita…

Miso (YC S16), a Korean home services marketplace, announced it is hiring its first full-time employee in the Bay Area to lead U.S. expansion for Miso Motion, a new company supplying real-world robotics data to frontier …

The European Union launched a new team on Friday to enforce its AI Act, which takes effect Sunday, requiring AI companies to label AI-generated content and comply with regulations addressing systemic risks. The EU's AI O…

Four families filed a lawsuit Thursday in Delaware Superior Court against Meta, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube, alleging the platforms' addictive algorithms contributed to the suicides of four teenagers. The complaint, br…

Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds faces skepticism from residents and opponents over his claims to oppose data centers, with critics noting his campaign has accepted millions from the industry. Republican can…

Vercel's AI Gateway now supports spend budgets scoped to teams, projects, or API keys, allowing dollar limits that halt requests when exceeded. Budgets can be set via the dashboard or CLI, with optional email alerts at 5…

A developer reports that replacing 400 lines of hand-rolled GLUE code with a single MCP server for Claude Code saved 93 minutes versus a two-day budget, and shares seven productivity hacks for Claude Code with MCP, notin…

A developer created a tool that generates concise, technically precise summaries of GitHub pull requests by grounding them in the actual diff rather than the PR description. The tool resolves the PR from a URL, number, o…

Two years after the UK government published its AI whitepaper, no binding legislation has been enacted, leaving the promised regulatory framework unrealized. The whitepaper, released in March 2023, proposed principles-ba…

Antora Energy, a San Jose-based thermal battery startup, closed a $550 million Series C co-led by G2 Venture Partners and Eclipse, bringing total funding to $770 million since 2017. The oversubscribed round included new …