The Rust project has accepted a 2026 project goal to introduce three new auto-traits—Move, Forget, and Destruct—with the eventual goal to deprecate Pin in Rust entirely. Championed by lcnr and Jack Hu…
American Express researchers led by distinguished engineer Andras Ferenczi built a system that migrates COBOL programs to Java while preserving bugs, achieving 96.8% branch coverage on a 430-line prog…
AirLLM, an open-source tool by Gavin Li, can run a 70B-parameter model on a 4GB GPU by streaming layers from disk, but this method is limited by disk bandwidth, resulting in seconds to minutes per tok…
MiniMax released H3, the model behind Hailuo 3.0, on July 31, generating up to 15 seconds of 2K video with native stereo audio in a single pass, with weights on Hugging Face and day-0 ComfyUI support …
JFrog's security research team found that 54 of 55 SQLite advisories filed as critical CVEs were fabricated by an AI language model, including CVE-2026-51302, which was withdrawn four days after publi…
Ankur Sethi, a software developer, advocates manually retyping AI-generated code to avoid 'cognitive debt,' a practice he admits caps AI gains at roughly 2x instead of 10x. His proposal, which went vi…
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, revealed at Y Combinator's Startup School that he set Claude, running in Slack and wired to a macOS runner on GitHub, to rewrite Anthropic's Electron…
Microsoft retired GitHub Models on July 30, 2026, shutting down the playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring-your-own-key endpoints for all users, including paying customers, after only 29 …
The European Commission's AI Office can now investigate providers of general-purpose AI models, demand documentation and model evaluations, force mitigations, pull models off the EU market, and fine p…
MarbleOS, a desktop-metaphor GUI for AI agents, hit the front page of Hacker News this week, but the 78-comment thread that followed argues the product conclusion is wrong. The demo's builders frame c…
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown announced on August 1 that an internal version of Astra, OpenAI's next major model family, solved ten open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, includ…
OpenAI announced that its internal reasoning model disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a problem open since 1946, with the result verified by named mathematicians including Fields Medalist T…
ByteDance's Seed team shipped Seedance 2.5 on July 31, generating 30 seconds of video with synchronized audio in a single pass, double the length of Seedance 2.0 and triple that of Google's current mo…
Three AI model releases in late July 2025 — Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, and Microsoft's MAI models — signal that the competitive axis has shifted from capability to cost, with fr…
Truffle Security scanned all 7.6 petabytes of Hugging Face's public datasets and verified 221,303 working credentials, including 11,496 live AI provider keys and 8,557 GCP service-account keys. The sc…
Randall Hyde's 792-page sequel, The Art of 64-Bit Assembly, Volume 2: Machine-Level OOP, Exceptions, and Concurrency, shipping from No Starch Press in mid-August, argues that LLMs cannot accurately te…
On July 25, Ramana Kumar published a repository containing an AI-assisted 'disproof' of the Collatz conjecture that compiled in Lean 4 and was accepted by the independent checker nanoda, but on July 2…
Anthropic's Claude computer-use tool can now drive a real Chromium browser via Playwright, enabling autonomous web browsing through screenshots, clicks, and typing, as demonstrated in a tutorial by Pr…
Google's Chrome 149 and 150 shipped fixes for 1,072 security bugs, more than the previous 23 major releases combined, and a Gemini-powered agent found CVE-2026-3545, a 13-year-old sandbox escape in Ch…
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a government-gated 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, followed by DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, signaling a strategy to commoditize the…