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https://www.interpol.int/Media/Documents/Publications/Cyberc... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175826 Points: 292 # Comments: 245

Fire experts warn such markets could incentivize arson.

$1.25 billion program restored, but judge ruled race provision unconstitutional.

Nearly 10 tok/s and it's mostly coherent — What's not to like?

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The purchase illustrates just how interconnected Elon Musk's universe of companies are.

New plugins for K-12 teachers, university instructors, and college kids? Read the room, guys

https://twitter.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768, https://xcancel.com/willdepue/status/2084750925013434768https://gwern.net/guardian-angel Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174900 Points: 314 # Comments: 232

SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.

New React framework lowers memory usage by 90%, team claims

Governor who touted Texas as AI “epicenter” pauses data center grid connections.

New findings by the Electronic Frontier Foundation aim to warn app developers that some of the third-party code they place in their apps may also collect their users' location data when they grant permission to the app.

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1795071/000179507126000002/xslFormDX01/primary_doc.xml Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49174407 Points: 255 # Comments: 187

A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.

"Our customers have declined to become vassal states of the language labs," Palantir's co-founder and CEO Alex Karp said after blowout second-quarter earnings.

Anthropic has reportedly signed a $10 billion, six-year compute deal with Volta, an AI cloud startup founded earlier this year. Volta will build a 133-megawatt data center in Norway with crypto-mining company Bitdeer, powered by Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin GPU architecture.

Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.

The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 two days ago - they describe it as a "a general-purpose, omni-modal generative system", which in practice means it accepts text, images, audio and video and can use them to generate up to 15 second video clips with audio included. This Python package ports it to MLX for running on Apple Silicon. I got it running on my M5 Max MacBook Pro. I cloned the repo and ran the model like this: # First download the models uvx --from huggingface_hub hf download MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 \ --include 'FL2VA/*' --exclude 'FL2VA/transformer/*' uvx --from huggingface_hub hf download pipenetwork/MiniMax-H3-MLX-8bit # Now run the prompt uv run --with mlx-vlm \ --with-requirements requirements.txt python scripts/generate.py \ "a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket" \ -o skunk.mp4 \ -c ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--MiniMaxAI--MiniMax-H3/snapshots/fa9c8ab1eaa21c8ae25e7e40b83b2e6002f340af/FL2VA \ -t ~/.cache/huggingface/hub/models--pipenetwork--MiniMax-H3-MLX-8bit/snapshots/3ac52081470b0488921c3ec3ba84a39097bf2361 Here's the video I got for the prompt: a rainbow colored skunk leaps over a mossy log in a supermarket Your browser does not support HTML5 video. It downloaded ~115 GB of model files, and the video generation took just under 45 minutes. The video is impressive, but the audio is weird speech-like garbage, because I didn't provide any prompt guidance as to what the audio should be. The prompting guide (which I didn't read prior to this experiment) has a whole bunch of information on how to get this to work. Tags: ai, generative-ai, mlx, text-to-video, minimax

OpenAI explains recent third-party cybersecurity evaluation incidents and outlines new safeguards to strengthen AI model testing and evaluation.

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OpenAI released ChatGPT Work on July 9th, 2026 as an agent for knowledge work that connects to Slack, email, Drive, CRMs, and hundreds of plugins, running on the Codex harness inside a cloud computer. It reportedly crossed 10 million users in three weeks, and Greg Brockman confirmed Work and Chat modes will merge by end of year—making Work a preview of how ChatGPT's ~1B weekly users will soon interact with the product. The article is an external reconstruction of Work's architecture: Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills, and Tools, with the author poking around inside the product to reverse-engineer its design choices and tensions.

Japanese technology supplier and distributor confirms that the Gigabyte graphics card will cost between 20% and 40% more due to a new price increase.

Tesla's Shanghai factory is busier than ever but might be cut loose.