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Google announced leadership changes at DeepMind with Demis Hassabis moving from CEO to Chair and Jeff Dean departing, per the HNS title. The article text itself is almost entirely Google blog navigation boilerplate with no substantive detail on the changes, their rationale, or their impact.

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184746 Points: 297 # Comments: 9

Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.

The Investing Club holds its "Morning Meeting" every weekday at 10:20 a.m. ET.

But bobbing bit barn may be becalmed by state governor's moratorium on connecting to the grid

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered more than half-a-dozen services advertisements for illegal access to artificial intelligence (AI) models on underground cybercrime forums and messaging platforms. One such service, Poison Claude, claims to offer access to Anthropic's large language models (LLMs), including Opus 4.8, Opus 4.7, Opus 4.6, and Sonnet 4.6. "Advertisements for Poison Claude

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

Article URL: https://weli.dev/blog/the-valley-of-webhooks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184216 Points: 221 # Comments: 92

Police in Wisconsin used Flock's license plate reader network to track a man's interstate travel to Michigan (where marijuana is legal) and back to Wisconsin (where it is not), then cited his frequent Michigan travel as probable cause to search his car for weed. Court records show the man was ultimately convicted only of marijuana possession; the bail jumping charge was dismissed.

Two security flaws in Paperclip could let attackers execute commands on a network server or a developer's computer. Paperclip is an open-source control plane for teams of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, and both paths rely on importing a malicious agent and starting it. A third flaw could expose sensitive data and control-plane details through application programming interface (API) routes

Redmond wants results from Copilot, not impressive-looking consumption figures

This marks the official launch of Zoox's commercial operations.

On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.

SPONSORED POST: The AI factory concept encompasses the new AI stack, explain HPE’s Thierry Pienaar and NVIDIA’s Kaushik Shirhatti

The upcoming Xbox Helix is starting to feel more like a PC than any console before, and Microsoft's latest efforts to unite all Xbox generations under one roof, according to a new leaked memo, seem to signal that very explicitly.

Nvidia cancelled a Redditor's Asus ROG Astral RTX 5090 BTF GPU order, originally priced at $4,429, because of a $500 price rise, with Nvidia blaming Asus for the confusion.

Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of September.

Climate nonprofits can again access their federal funding more than a year after the Trump EPA ordered Citibank to freeze their accounts.

MBSB Bank customers can now add their Visa Debit Card-i to Samsung Wallet and Google Pay, allowing them to make contactless payments on their Android smartphones instead of a physical card. MBSB Bank customers can use Samsung Wallet and Google Pay at participating Visa merchants both in Malaysia and overseas. For Apple users, MBSB Bank confirmed that Apple Pay […]

ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) began considering building its sixth DRAM fab in China to boost memory output in the coming years. If all announced projects proceed as planned, the company's production capacity could more than double in the mid-term future.

HashiCorp, Veeam, and the Django Software Foundation have patched 11 vulnerabilities across Terraform MCP Server, Veeam Service Provider Console, and Django. The three most serious: An unauthenticated flaw in Veeam's console that hands over a managed agent's credentials, rated 9.5 A cross-tenant flaw in HashiCorp's MCP server that lets one user's Terraform token be reused for later users'

Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B

Anthropic is building a team for designing its own custom AI chips. The Claude maker said it would co-design hardware and models to help its technology run faster and more efficiently.

Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.