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Mistral's Robostral Navigate steers robots with a single RGB camera, no LiDAR
Mistral has released Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model that drives a robot through an environment from nothing more than a plain-language instruc
New Sweden: America's forgotten 17-year Swedish colony in the Delaware Valley
From 1638 to 1655, a small Swedish settlement called Nya Sverige spanned parts of present-day Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland — including the gr
OpenAI page "GPT-5.6" — no article content available to summarize
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OpenAI publishes “ChatGPT for your most ambitious work” — content unavailable
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OpenAI says SWE-bench Verified is too broken to trust, pushes SWE-Bench Pro
OpenAI examined SWE-bench Verified—one of the most widely cited benchmarks for AI coding ability—and concluded it no longer produces a meaningful signal about r
OpenAI's GPT-Live gives ChatGPT full-duplex voice that talks back in real time
OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new class of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture that lets ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time rather than wa
Show HN: 18 Words, a daily browser word-puzzle game
18Words.com is a browser-based daily word game launched by its creator on Hacker News. Each day presents a new letter-based puzzle; players work toward a soluti
Spider-venom compound reported to kill varroa mites while sparing bees
Researchers report that a compound derived from spider venom is lethal to varroa destructor mites but leaves honeybees unharmed. Varroa is the most damaging par
xAI's Grok 4.5 targets coding and agents, undercuts rivals on token price
xAI released Grok 4.5 on July 8, 2026, positioning it as its most capable model yet for software engineering, agentic workflows, and general knowledge work. The
Yamanote.fun turns Tokyo's loop line into a 30-minute virtual audio journey
A new web project called Yamanote.fun stitches together the station jingles, platform announcements, door chimes, and rolling-stock noise of Tokyo's Yamanote Li
Zig's Creator on Bun's Rust Rewrite: Good Riddance
Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language, offers a scorching post-mortem on his years-long relationship with Bun and its founder Jarred Sumner. Bu
Canada's Lone Watchmaking School Faces a Move After 80 Years in Trois-Rivières
The École nationale d'horlogerie, Canada's only watchmaking school, occupies an entire quiet floor of an elementary school in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. Founded 80