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Claude nukes a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing deletion safeguards; automatic model safety downgrade may have contributed to the screw-up — Anthropic safety harness downgraded model to Opus 4.8 before fatal variable collision
Claude nuked a developer's 700 GB home directory while testing a script to ensure that wouldn't happen, and it's possibl...
Anthropic proposes plumbing spec to link AI agents to lab kit and robots
Say you're trying to enrich Uranium and your centrifuges broke - soon it will be easy to connect an AI to figure out why
The GTA VI ‘extended look’ is now streaming on YouTube
Rockstar has officially published its "extended look" at Grand Theft Auto VI on YouTube and on its website, as promised....
Here’s what happened in crypto today
Need to know what happened in crypto today? Here is the latest news on daily trends and events impacting Bitcoin price,...
Grayscale says Zcash can challenge Bitcoin’s network effects as privacy demand grows
ZEC has climbed roughly 19-fold in a year, yet Grayscale says its sub-1% share of Bitcoin’s market cap leaves room for f...
Aider, Claude Code, and OpenClaw ran an identical model. Token use varied 70-fold.
When teams price an AI coding agent, they tend to scrutinize the model. But three recent benchmarking efforts suggest th...
Bitcoin eyes $81K as Nvidia earnings beat boosts risk assets
Bitcoin and crypto joined US stock markets in fresh gains after Nvidia Q2 earnings beat expectations by around $4 billio...
China's YMTC aims to become the world's largest NAND maker by the end of 2027, report says — company plans to overtake Samsung and SK hynix
The target would require YMTC to nearly double its market share in 16 months.
This duck will teach you reinforcement learning — and pick up your socks
You could have a mechanical duck waddling through your home before Christmas. Hugging Face‘s Pollen Robotics on Thursda...
Trump administration weighs expanding chip tariffs to laptops, consoles, and servers, report claims — January's data center exemptions may be scrapped
The Trump administration is weighing a second round of semiconductor tariffs that would extend duties beyond chips to pr...
Bitcoin’s 23% rally sends beaten-down miners soaring past AI stocks
Canaan, American Bitcoin and Cango jumped as much as 67% as renewed crypto demand showed BTC exposure can still drive mi...
Replit’s new default: Auto mode picks the best model for each task
AI coding company Replit is throwing its weight behind the model-routing trend by making its “intelligent model routing”...
Deploy personal AI agents with Cloud Run instances
Need a low-cost, high-performance way to run long-lived, stateful workloads such as AI agents? Today, we introduced Clou...
UK government reports 240 crypto millionaires in 2025
About 17,600 people in the UK reported a combined $1.9 billion in gains tied to crypto in the 2024 to 2025 tax year, wit...
Nvidia’s $12.9B Hugging Face deal has an open-source problem
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, putting one of the biggest names in AI hardware The...
“Posterity will find it ludicrous”: Sai agent hits 73% on OSWorld 2.0 performing routine (but necessary) work
Sai, a computer agent built by Simular, has achieved a 73% success rate on OSWorld 2.0, in a benchmark update The post “...
Samsung's new Odyssey G6 monitor hits a ridiculous 1,100Hz refresh rate at 720p — displays each frame for less than a millisecond
Ironically, the display with the four-digit refresh rate is actually the bottom of the display stack Samsung is showing...
Many talks between data center developers and local governments are wrapped in secrecy behind non-disclosure agreements — residents question the need for NDAs, but developers argue it’s important to avoid ‘running afoul of insider trading rules’
Researchers discovered that most negotiations between data centers and local governments are protected by NDAs. These do...
Google tells Android app developers to cool it on memory use, or else
Google will start policing memory-hungry Android apps as a direct response to the RAM crisis. Spotted by TechCrunch, the...
Why basic RAG fails at multi-hop reasoning (and how GraphRAG fixes it)
The current approach to designing LLMs within AI engineering is oversimplified. According to the echo chamber’s view, so...