2026-09-01 刊号

Larry Page’s flying car company Pivotal loses its CEO ↗

The efficient frontier of LLM inference ↗

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses ↗

Improving our alignment and security efforts ↗

Reliance’s JioHotstar takes its streaming empire global — without sports ↗

The ColorChecker, photography's most important 24 squares, turns 50 ↗

Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI

Google has reportedly been reaching out to a number of Hollywood's biggest studios, hoping to strike licensing agreements that would allow it to train its AI models on copyrighted material in exchange for massive piles of cash. In theory, these deals would be a win-win: a huge financial boon to the studios that would also […]

AI Coding Agent Skills for Real Engineers ↗

What's within a 10-minute walk in 50 European cities ↗

TikTok CEO says over two dozen Jewish organizations are telling them who to ban ↗

I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf] ↗

Decompiler Explorer ↗

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac Mini ↗

Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name ↗

AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B ↗

Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos ↗

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work

Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing […]

Much Ado About Adenoids ↗

AI is making back-office work extinct ↗

BenchMIRT: What are LLM benchmarks actually measuring? ↗

Show HN: OwnTime – a chess clock for your day's priorities ↗

Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ ↗

Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario

Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada. The Canadian version of Apple Maps still shows "Lake Ontario" […]

Fluorescent lamps (don't) have ears ↗

OpenAI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems ↗

A docs page is a search query to find AI agents and route them to your company ↗

Lenovo’s 2-in-1 Yoga 7i is a great Labor Day deal at $750

Best Buy is celebrating Labor Day all week long with big deals, including a deep discount on the Lenovo Yoga 7i 2-in-1, taking its original $1,1199.99 price down to $749.99. It’s a capable configuration for the price, with a Core 7 Ultra 256V processor, 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, and a 512GB SSD. The IPS touchscreen […]

Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?" ↗

Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more ↗

The Nerd Reich wants to destroy democracy, and its mask has slipped ↗

X says attackers are targeting user accounts after the launch of X Money ↗

A PCB business card with a batteryless LED, powered by the phone that taps it ↗

OpenAI delayed its new model’s development after the Hugging Face hack

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into […]

The latest AI news we announced in August 2026 ↗

Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush ↗

Hang on to Your Firefox ↗

Topologist's Map of the World ↗

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards ↗

Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit ↗

On first listen, the Sonos Beam Ultra sounds great

Sonos unveiled a bunch of new stuff today at its open house event. There's the $699 Beam Ultra soundbar and the $449 Ace Ultra headphones, plus several under-the-hood app updates (some coming sooner than others). While the show floor was a less than ideal venue to judge audio quality of either new product, a private […]

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice ↗

The EU's repair policies are changing the way tech is designed ↗

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope ↗

Getting Started with AT Protocol ↗

RecurseCenter.return() ↗

John Ternus hypes ‘huge launch next week’ in first memo as Apple CEO ↗

Tim Cook did alright by the environment — but AI could upend his climate legacy

As he steps down from his post as Apple CEO today, Tim Cook leaves behind a mostly positive environmental record. As far as billionaire tech moguls and the environment go, Cook will likely be remembered as one of the better ones - certainly far from the worst. But it will become harder for the company […]

Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive ↗

Thrive’s Kushner defends involvement in FIFA mess, hires Elon’s go-to lawyer ↗

The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility

Depending on who you ask, developer platform Hugging Face was recently attacked by OpenAI - after it lost control of its own AI tools - or by a succession of AI "civilizations." Welcome to the linguistic battlefield of AI safety, where word choices can shift responsibility for a massive cybersecurity incident from a company to […]

The largest electric aircraft just flew [video] ↗

Xanadu was waiting for agents ↗

Industry Standard Tools ↗

James Dyson Sold Us on a $400 Hair Dryer. Now He's Trying a $499 Toothbrush ↗

What's the Scam? ↗

Working to Make Python Lazy ↗

I used Fable to rewrite 65kLoC of Go in Rust. It cost $400 ↗

How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been? ↗

John Ternus sends first memo as Apple CEO teasing a ‘huge launch next week’

New Apple CEO John Ternus sent out his first staff memo, thanking his predecessor Tim Cook, and quickly turning to what the company will do next, reports Bloomberg. "We have a huge launch next week that's going to be phenomenal. Thanks for everything you've all done to make it possible," writes Ternus, referring to the […]

Apple accuses OpenAI of destroying evidence

Apple is pushing for "expedited discovery" in its legal battle against OpenAI over concerns the company is actively destroying evidence, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In a filing on Monday, Apple alleges OpenAI only just handed over a MacBook used by a former employee at the center of the lawsuit, which contained discussions about "destroying […]