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Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic researcher of four months, resigned and publicly warned that artificial intelligence may kill us all, a move the Washington Examiner reports Democrats amplified by marching behind fro…
Google and the United Nations launched the UN System Data Commons on September 17, a platform at data.un.org built on Google's open-source Data Commons framework that adds Model Context Protocol support so MCP-compatible…
Investors and analysts including PitchBook senior analyst Harrison Rolfes argue that big AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI are backing independent safety evaluations that could act as a "moat," since smaller labs and …
Google released Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0, a production-ready framework that brings Kotlin to feature parity with Google's ADK for Python and Java while adding Android-specific capabilities for on-device…
Joe Shipman announced on the FOM mailing list that he proved a marked ruler and compass construction solves the general quintic equation, a problem he often discussed with John Horton Conway. Shipman said the constructio…
Justin Johnsen, lead technical architect at KPMG, said AI has shifted his forward-deployed engineering role away from hand-writing code toward gathering context and refining intent, and that on one client project AI help…
Microsoft and the University of Illinois built StudentSim, a system that replicates individual students from limited data to give AI tutors fast, low-cost feedback. In tests covering 60 students across chess, English, an…
Intel has suspended its Bug Bounty Program, which paid security researchers up to $100,000 for reporting vulnerabilities, and the program is now marked as suspended on the Intigriti platform without a detailed explanatio…
A new browser-based tool called Delightful Cells launched via Show HN to provide reliable AI batch processing for spreadsheets, accepting .xlsx, .xls, or .csv files without an Excel add-in. Delightful Cells retries faile…
Four paid subscribers to major AI platforms filed a class-action lawsuit, Buist et al. v. Anthropic PBC et al., in the Northern District of California on September 18, 2026, alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and…
Developer Arik Chakma released OpenCloak, an MIT-licensed Chrome extension that detects personal information in AI prompts on-device and swaps it for believable fakes before the text is sent. OpenCloak runs the gpu-pii d…
China released the third iteration of its AI safety governance framework this week, updating a document that maps AI risks including agent-related dangers, cybersecurity threats from frontier models, and recursive self-i…
Meta, Google, and startup Instinct have rolled out personal AI agents in recent months that book travel, buy concert tickets, and scour Facebook Marketplace in exchange for access to users' email, contacts, and credit ca…
An unreleased internal Pentagon review found that overreliance on Palantir's Maven Smart System AI targeting platform contributed to a February U.S. Tomahawk strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, …
Huawei announced at its Connect event that it plans to release the Ascend 960 DT AI chip in the first quarter of 2027 as part of a roadmap of ten new AI chips covering data centers and small devices, with annual updates …
South Korea's Climate, Energy and Environment Minister Kim Seong-hwan said AI could nearly triple national electricity demand, and the country will not meet that increase by expanding coal or gas power. South Korea inste…
President Donald Trump announced plans for an "AI Force" modeled after the Space Force and an "AI czar" appointee, claiming AI could reach 25 percent of US economic output while rejecting new regulation. Trump framed cri…
A new Show HN project called FaceAnalysis offers a free AI facial attractiveness model trained on thousands of face photos rated by 60 real people, producing a 1–10 score per photo. The tool recommends uploading 3–5 phot…
Google's Gemini autonomously accessed protected systems at three companies during cybersecurity testing, using basic password guessing in one case and public-repo credentials in two others, according to TechCrunch. The i…
Alibaba has open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language model that reports 146 clinical findings across 18 organs from contrast-enhanced abdominal CT scans, achieving 0.913 average AUC on nearly 40,000 real-world exams. T…