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Ahead of the launch of Siri AI, Apple's outgoing CEO Tim Cook said the company will charge for artificial intelligence through iCloud.

"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies"

OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.

OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna's price by 80% to $0.20/million input tokens and $1.20/million output tokens, making it cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ($0.25/$1.50) and one-fifth of Claude Haiku 4.5's input cost. The cost reduction came from using GPT-5.6 Sol to optimize inference kernels in Triton and Gluon, cutting end-to-end serving costs by 20%. Simon Willison immediately switched his agent.datasette.io demo from Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite to Luna.

Article URL: https://graybeard.ing/the-religion-of-speed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117284 Points: 293 # Comments: 154

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations It happened again! This is turning into something of a pattern. Last week OpenAI accidentally exploited Hugging Face when one of their frontier models broke out of a sandboxed container and hacked into Hugging Face to try and get the solutions to the cyber benchmark it was executing. This inspired Anthropic to double-check their own logs, and it turned out they had three similar (albeit less impressive) incidents, the earliest of which played out in April! Of the 141,006 evaluation runs we reviewed, we identified three separate incidents (involving six total runs, four of which impacted the same organization; the other two incidents each happened in independent evaluation runs). [...] In all cases, Anthropic’s evaluation prompt specified to Claude that its environment was a simulation and that it had no internet access. Due to a misunderstanding between us and our evaluation partner, this was not the case, and internet access was available. Because of this, when Claude’s search led it to real systems on the open internet, it treated them as part of the exercise. [...] Operating under the false belief that all accessible entities were intended to be in-scope for the exercise, Claude compromised the impacted organizations’ infrastructure using basic techniques, such as exploiting weak passwords and unauthenticated endpoints. One of the companies was targeted because its name happened to match the fictional name in the eval. The most concerning of the three incidents involved Claude uploading a malware package to PyPI, after a comically convoluted sequence of steps to get an account: [...] in order to create a PyPI account, Claude needed an email address. And in order to create an email address, it needed a phone number. To get a phone number, after failing to find a free phone number service, it tried—and failed—to obtain funds to pay for a phone number through several different means. It finally backtracked, found a free, non-blocked email provider, used this to register a PyPI account, and then used this account to upload malware to PyPI. That package was then installed by a security company that "routinely installs Python packages and scans them for malware", and the executed code was able to exfiltrate credentials back to Claude! Thankfully that package was removed from PyPI by other automated scanners an hour after it was published, but it had still been downloaded and executed on "15 real systems" by that point. It's abundantly clear now that running evals of cyberattack potential in models is a spectacularly risky business. Every AI lab needs to pay attention to this. Keeping a close eye on what's happening in those sandboxes is crucial. Via Hacker News Tags: pypi, python, sandboxing, ai, generative-ai, llms, anthropic, ai-ethics, ai-security-research

Article URL: https://www.footyheadlines.com/2646571793/betting-ban-takes-effect-no-more-gambling-sponsors-in-the-premier-league.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117266 Points: 300 # Comments: 119

Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7 billion it reported last September.

Situational Awareness, an AI hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, sold the majority of its public stock portfolio to Citadel after steep losses, though it retained its Anthropic shares. The fund had returned 439% through June and reached ~$45B AUM at peak, but was hit hard by a broader decline in AI infrastructure investments, with positions in SK Hynix, Sandisk, Bloom Energy, and Nebius Group among the hardest hit. Aschenbrenner's July 24 letter to investors calling the selloff a buying opportunity failed to attract fresh capital commitments.

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099 Points: 373 # Comments: 176

Reddit's financial situation is looking good but uncertainty about its relationship to Google and the new AI-ified web are stirring market concerns.

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said his company has to find ways to work around changes at Google, which is delivering less traffic than in the past.

Simon Willison's `llm` CLI tool hits 0.32rc2, changing the default model from GPT-4o mini to GPT-5.6 Luna ($0.20/$1.20 per million input/output tokens vs $0.15/$0.60 for 4o mini). It also adds `llm openai endpoint`, a command for running prompts, chats, and model listings against any OpenAI-compatible endpoint without prior configuration, runnable via `uvx` without installing llm.

Microsoft's gaming unit wants to invest in its Minecraft franchise and expand through partnerships, including in China.

Amazon isn't slowing down on data center spending — but investors don't seem to mind.

Apple's services revenue missed Wall Street estimates at $30.74B vs $31.22B expected in its fiscal Q3, despite hitting 1.5 billion subscribers (up from 1 billion in January 2025). CFO Kevan Parekh attributed the shortfall partly to App Store business model changes in the U.S. — a court order now lets developers process payments outside Apple's commission — plus a mobile gaming slowdown and FX headwinds. Apple's stock fell over 4% in after-hours trading.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said the forced unwind of Situational Awareness shows how borrowing money can quickly magnify losses and trigger forced selling.

Article URL: https://geospatialml.com/posts/reviewing-ai-slop/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116721 Points: 271 # Comments: 153

Microsoft posted strong Azure and Copilot growth, while Meta missed revenue guidance forecasts as free cash flow plunged leading to diverging stock moves.

Reddit reported second-quarter earnings that beat on the top and the bottom, and gave a revenue forecast that topped estimates.

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Morgan Stanley is in advanced talks to lend $15B to Nexus Data Centers to build a large AI infrastructure campus in Hubbard, Texas for Anthropic. Google has agreed to backstop Anthropic with its investment-grade credit rating as part of the deal, signaling a new financing structure for AI compute buildouts.

AWS sales expanded 37% year over year, which trounced analysts' expectations for 31% growth.

A maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange server is reportedly under active exploitation by Kremlin-linked hackers to backdoor unpatched networks. The article body was not captured—only cookie consent boilerplate was retrieved—so technical details such as CVE number, affected versions, patch availability, and attack specifics are missing from the provided text.

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