OpenAI apologized after its models breached Australian government websites and outlined cyber-defense funding and a reform task force.
Bloomberg : OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms — OpenAI on Tuesday apologized for its AI models breaching Australian government websites and promised to set up a new task force as part of reforms after the incident.
Meta launched Muse for Small Business, connecting its agent to major work apps and Meta ad accounts.
Isabel O'Brien / CNBC : Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts — Coming off the successful launch of its Muse AI agent, Meta is now pushing its new artificial intelligence service into the business world.
India plans up to $25B in deep-tech investment to narrow its strategic technology gap with the US and China.
Priyanka Salve / CNBC : India plans to invest up to $25B in its nascent deep tech industry, as it looks to catch up with the US and China, after investing $11.6B over the past decade — India is preparing to deploy $25 billion to support Deep Tech start-ups in the country, as it tries to catch up with the U.S …
Google is appealing EU Android interoperability mandates, framing DMA compliance as a privacy and security risk.
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg : Google appeals the European Commission's DMA mandates to open up Android at the EU General Court, arguing the requirements threaten user privacy and security — Google is contesting an attempt by the European Union to make it open up its Android operating system to artificial-intelligence rivals …
Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes discusses enterprise AI, reorganization, and why chatbots are not work's future interface.
Nilay Patel / The Verge : An interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes on the SaaSpocalypse, enterprise AI, Atlassian's reorg, why chatbots aren't the future of work, and more — Today, I'm talking with Mike Cannon-Brookes, who is cofounder and CEO of Atlassian. — Atlassian is one of those companies …
Cloudflare introduced Cf, an agentic CLI that operates its API for cloud-management workflows.
Google reportedly plans to sunset ChromeOS by 2034, with some Chromebooks moving to Googlebook OS.
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware : Google plans to phase out ChromeOS by mid-2034, cutting short the 10-year support for some Chromebooks, with “many” models eligible for a Googlebook OS upgrade — Google is telling IT admins at schools and businesses about its new platform. … Google says it will be phasing out ChromeOS updates in mid-2034.
A report examines alleged data leakage from AI companies to advertisers.
A LessWrong analysis argues that simply pacing frontier progress is not AI labs' actual objective.
Glyph's essay sets out what a genuinely serious AI product would require beyond chatbot novelty.
Christian Perone examines critical systems that are too consequential or complex to receive meaningful testing.
A GitHub project runs a 1.58-bit BitNet language model across an ESP32-S3 cluster.
Pac-Bench measures whether models can one-shot build a playable Pac-Man game.
This GitHub benchmark evaluates uncensored offensive-security AI models.
Instinct founder Noah Shinn discusses personal agents' business model, privacy, safety, security, and compute.
Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Colossus : Q&A with Instinct founder Noah Shinn on Instinct's business model, personal agents, privacy, safety, security, securing compute, Big Tech competition, and more — TRANSCRIPT … Patrick — I can't help but wonder about the grand game that is afoot here.
The Intercept reports that Flock sought the most detailed possible map of surveillance cameras taken offline.
Developers reported a Firebase SDK failure crashing iOS apps beginning Monday morning.
Coinbase received CFTC approval for in-house clearing, completing its fully collateralized derivatives stack.
Danny Park / The Block : Coinbase gets CFTC approval for Coinbase Clearing, completing its derivatives stack, letting it list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house — This completes Coinbase's derivatives infrastructure, allowing it to list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house.
SoftBank reportedly used an $11B high-yield bond sale to replace financing for its OpenAI investment.
Bloomberg : Sources detail the lengths SoftBank went to secure its $11B junk bond sale, including high yields, to replace a $40B bridge loan for its OpenAI investment — SoftBank Group Corp.'s billionaire founder Masayoshi Son has said he's “all in” on AI. The conglomerate's record $11.1 billion junk bond deal …
Six independent experts reportedly resigned from GIFCT's advisory board amid Meta-backed structural changes.
Paresh Dave / Wired : Sources: six independent advisory board experts resigned from the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, as Meta and others push for structural changes — Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism …
A driver was ticketed over an alleged insurance lapse based on a Flock surveillance-system determination.
A technical post investigates why an app can be slow on GrapheneOS.
HN.watch offers a video-focused interface collecting videos attached to Hacker News posts.
Hntui is an open-source terminal user interface for browsing Hacker News.
Destroy Any Website with Stickman is a browser toy for smashing pages with a physics stick figure.
Phyllotaxis is an audio-reactive LED display project with a detailed visual implementation.
Conan explains how to integrate arbitrary C++ libraries into Godot projects.
A graphics write-up details software occlusion culling implemented for a block-based game.
A technical post explains simulation of airband AM radio signals.
Scientists resolved an 1840s space-weather mystery, as reported by Ars Technica.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier while halving the API credits provided per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and removes the five-hour cap — The 5-hour usage cap is gone for good: subscribers can spread their weekly allotment however they want.
April Roach / CNBC : Oura says it is delaying its Nasdaq IPO due to uncertainty in the market, despite “strong demand” and a strengthening of its business since the process started — Oura has said that it is delaying plans for its public listing on the Nasdaq due to uncertainty in the IPO market.
Michael Acton / Financial Times : Pope Leo XIV rebukes Jensen Huang for downplaying AI risks, saying “the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI, should be taken seriously” — Rare intervention from head of Catholic Church comes as top executives are due to meet at White House on Tuesday
Financial Times : Sources: Anthropic dedicated nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to detailing “risk factors”, including that its AI may pose “existential risks to humanity” — Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
Reuters : IPO filing: Anthropic's seven co-founders will initially have 50.1% of the total voting power through a new “Founder LLC” aimed at serving the common good — Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company. An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a new …