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Satellite imagery reportedly confirms new Iranian strikes damaging Amazon data centers and a Saudi oil facility amid an escalating regional conflict. The article content itself was not captured—only the title and cookie consent boilerplate are available, so details on extent, specific AWS regions, or service impact are missing.

AWS grew nearly 37% in Q2 2026 to $42.23B, beating analyst estimates of $40.54B and marking its fastest expansion since 2021. AWS's AI business and its custom chips each surpassed $25B in annualized revenue, more than doubling year-over-year, while Azure grew 43% and Google Cloud surged 82% to nearly $25B for the quarter.

AI-riddled social network adds button to report sloppy posts, ditches AI rewrite tools, and promises more to come

A U.S. federal judge said the Trump administration has not presented enough evidence to justify labeling Anthropic a 'supply-chain risk' and banning federal use of its AI. The dispute stems from stalled DOD contract negotiations where Anthropic refused to allow its models to be used for mass surveillance or lethal targeting decisions, and the Pentagon argued a private company shouldn't dictate military use terms. Judge Rita Lin called the government's argument that Anthropic's public criticism justifies the ban 'really troubling' and said she saw no proof Anthropic could alter a delivered model or 'flip some kind of kill switch.'

The health tech data giant, which handles vast amounts of patients' medical data, said hackers struck one of its protected health data stores.

Ars Technica reports that physical game discs increasingly ship incomplete, requiring mandatory downloads to be playable, which undermines the long-term preservation promise of physical media. The article text itself was not captured—only the site's cookie consent boilerplate is present.

Strong earnings from Lam Research, Microsoft and Arm boosted hard-hit semiconductor stocks.

Friend, the AI wearable, can now talk to its users — for an enhanced price.

Article URL: https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114639 Points: 329 # Comments: 119

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As experts have warned for the last two years, some companies — like Microsoft and now Google — are finding and patching an exponential number of bugs in their products, thanks to the use of LLMs and AI tools.

The future of AI may be dictated not by who builds the smartest model, but who builds the models everyone runs on. Right now, that's China.

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Oracle is adding Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite and Gemini 3.5 Flash models to its AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications, alongside existing Cohere and Meta model options. The integration also covers embedded AI use cases in Oracle Fusion Applications and NetSuite. Gartner VP Balaji Abbabatulla cautioned that the technology 'doesn't necessarily look as glittery as it sounds' and raised unresolved questions about accountability when AI agents make bad decisions at scale.

Florida wants to use federal EV charger funds to build an air taxi network connecting golf courses, luxury apartment buildings, and airports.

High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows

Simon Willison collects a quote from Bruce Schneier arguing that writing assignments are 'gym tasks'—the act of writing builds critical thinking skills that atrophy without practice, and employers are already noticing the decline. Schneier frames this as a way to decide whether to use AI for a given task.

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been attributed to a sophisticated macOS malvertising campaign that involves redirecting users to fake web pages displaying a full-screen non-existent update sequence to deliver malware as part of a new iteration of the long-running Contagious Interview campaign. The defining aspect of the attack is that bogus macOS software update screen stealthily

LinkedIn is introducing new ways to reduce low-quality AI-generated posts, including a “seems like AI slop” reporting option. It's also replacing its own AI writing feature with a proofreading tool.

Google announced Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety over the prior version. The article body was not available in the source text—only cookie consent boilerplate from Ars Technica was captured, so no technical details, benchmarks, or specific capabilities can be confirmed from this item.

Add another member to the fast-and-furious AI unicorn club: Simile.

Spotify says the new feature is designed to let users add personal captions to their favorite songs, such as noting why a track was added to a playlist or when they first discovered it

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OpenAI cut prices on two GPT-5.6 models roughly three weeks after launch: Terra by 20% to $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens, and Luna by 80%. The move comes as enterprises hesitate to deploy expensive models without clear ROI, and as competition from Chinese startups, Google, and Microsoft pressures OpenAI on cost.