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Apple escalates OpenAI trade-secrets suit, eyes 11 more former staff
Apple has widened its trade-secrets case against OpenAI, filing for a preliminary injunction that would block OpenAI from building an AI device or other product
Bradbury's Automated House Outlives Its Owners on the Date He Set: August 2026
Ray Bradbury's 1950 short story, widely known from The Martian Chronicles, is circulating on Hacker News because the date stamped in its opening lines — August
City of Munich pays libexpat maintainer for a 6-month security sprint
Sebastian Pipping, the longtime maintainer of libexpat—one of the most widely deployed C XML parsers alongside libxml2—has landed a paid contract to work on the
Clojure gets DuckDB: joining 1.4B rows on a laptop in 2.5 seconds
The tech.ml.dataset (TMD) library gives Clojure an in-memory, column-major engine for functional data science, but it hits a wall once datasets outgrow RAM — th
Databricks and Shopify tests back Pi's bet that a leaner coding agent wins
Earendil argues that its coding harness Pi beats heavier rivals by doing less: it ships with only four tools and a system prompt plus tool definitions totaling
DeepGrove's Maple-Preview: a ternary 20B MoE that runs on-device at 200+ tok/s
DeepGrove has released Maple-Preview, an open-source reasoning language model built around two aggressive efficiency bets: a sparse mixture-of-experts design an
GenAI's Coding Boost Hits a Wall: Devs Only Write Code 14% of the Time
Six researchers—including several from Microsoft—argue that generative AI's real effect on software engineering is governed by the system around the developer,
Google AI Heavyweights Form Discovery Loop to Automate the Scientific Method
Discovery Loop is a new startup that aims to automate the full experimental loop of science and engineering — proposing hypotheses, running experiments, evaluat
Google DeepMind reshuffle: Hassabis moves to Chair, Koray takes helm, Jeff Dean exits
Sundar Pichai has reorganized the leadership of Google DeepMind. Demis Hassabis is stepping back from day-to-day operations, moving from CEO to a strategic role
Gwern ends pseudonymous full-time writing to launch 'Guardian Angel'
Gwern Branwen, the long-pseudonymous essayist known for deep-dive writing on AI, statistics, and internet culture, has announced he is stepping away from full-t
Interpol: AI Now Behind 55% of African Cybercrime as Losses Hit $484M
Interpol's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 finds that artificial intelligence is now a component of 55% of reported cybercrime across the continent,
Mistral open-sources Shieldstral, a 3B moderation model that beats 7x-larger rivals
Mistral has released Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter multimodal safety classifier under an Apache 2.0 license. Its central bet is that content moderation sho