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Show HN: CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators

Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

Show HN: Distilling DeepSeek into GPT-OSS doesn't transfer censorship. Try it

We recently used DeepSeek V4 Flash as a teacher for finance tasks with GPT-OSS-120B. Distillation works well on this problem. At a constrained 8k token budget, our self-distilled 120B scores 83.61% o…

Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming

Meta says AI is making it dramatically easier to build and launch new consumer apps, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling investors the company has more new consumer products on the way following a recent wave of releases f…

Go LLM SDK for streaming, tool-calling AI backends (plus frontend React lib)

We Hardened an AI Security Platform Against 16 Critical Vulnerabilities

We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face

10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.

The OlmoEarth Platform: Geospatial inference at planetary scale

Show HN: Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing

I like writing Markdown, but do not like writing it inside a plain textarea. I wanted something I could use anywhere by dropping in a single web component: ``` <writemark-editor name="body"></writema…

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI

The company said it is reducing its headcount by 20%, or about 630 staff, to "support a leaner, more focused operating model" as it focuses on its AI Work Platform.

Synthesia’s AI training platform is moving beyond videos into live coaching

Synthesia launched AI Roleplay Sessions, an interactive enterprise training platform where employees practice workplace conversations with AI avatars that provide feedback, scoring, and analytics to help companies measu…

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

OpenAI says Hugging Face was breached by its own pre-release models

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

Jack Dorsey is taking on Slack with Buzz, a group chat platform for teams and their AI agents

Buzz is a group chat platform for the workplace that puts humans and their AI agents in the same conversation.

Music streamer Deezer says more than 50% of daily uploads are AI-generated

Deezer said more than 90,000 AI-generated tracks were uploaded daily on the platform in June

Show HN: AI Law Tracker – one audited API for US, EU and global AI law

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu

The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.

Show HN: Low-latency local LLM runner via OpenJDK Panama FFM (Java 22)

I wanted to run AI from inside the JVM. I started out with the standard REST sidecar, ripped that out to use Project Panama (Foreign Function & Memory API) in the new JDK versions to interface direct…

Show HN: SirixDB 1.0 Beta – Git-Like Versioning, Diffs, Time-Travel Queries

Hi HN! I've posted SirixDB here before, back in 2019 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19834681 ) and again in 2023 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38252963 ). The core idea behind SirixD…

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as…

Microsoft patches record number of security vulnerabilities, citing its use of AI

Microsoft's monthly release of security fixes, dubbed Patch Tuesday, resolved a record 570 security vulnerabilities across the company's product line, thanks to discoveries with AI.

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence is headed to China after regulators approved Apple’s AI services through a partnership with Alibaba. The long-rumored deal will bring Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to Apple’s operating systems, marking a m…

DeepMind CEO calls for an independent standards body to regulate frontier AI

DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is proposing an AI "standards body" modeled after FINRA, to test frontier models and develop best practices for their release.

Show HN: Sx 2.0 – Share AI skills with your team through a Dropbox folder

Hi all, author here. SX started as a CLI to let developers share skills across AI clients without having to rely on git for storage. This allowed sharing at the Repo/Team/Org and Personal level. Howe…

Show HN: Rubiks Cube Solver

Speedcube is an open-source platform for speedcubers featuring a Rubik's Cube solver, competition timer, algorithm library, and AI-assisted cube recognition directly in the browser. Built with React,…

How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."

TrueBiz (YC S22) – Senior Software Engineer – Remote (US) – Full-Time

TrueBiz (YC S22) is an API that tells financial institutions whether a business is real, what it actually does, and whether it’s risky — in seconds. Today, this process is still manual: underwriters…

GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday

Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator

The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.

Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web

Anthropic’s Claude Cowork is now available on web and mobile for Max subscribers. Until now, Cowork largely lived on a user’s laptop. With the update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their…

Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

My Downloads folder had been left unkept for a really long time and cleaning it up using Finder was quite cumbersome. So I started creating a simple app to help me filter out and delete or move the f…

Top API Automation Testing Platforms for Modern DevOps Teams

Show HN: KiCad in the Browser

KiCad, a PCB EDA suite is now working in a browser, you can try it at the link, there's a demo project or you can bring your own. Firefox is best, Chrome is good, Safari is "working". We’re Emergence…

New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview

MarketFish – Simulate a market with 128 AI consumers before you launch

Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher's new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that powe…

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off

Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.

X now offers an MCP server to make its platform easier for AI tools to use

X has launched a hosted MCP server, making it easier for developers to connect AI applications with the company’s API.

Podcasting platform Riverside enters the newsletter publishing game

Users will be able use AI to create newsletters based on their recordings.

Zluda 6 release (run unmodified CUDA applications on non-Nvidia GPUs)

Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility

Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.

Asian AI startups launch Mythos-like models

U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations

https://archive.md/ArXuF https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/us-government-gives-a...

US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'

Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line

Giftlink: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-... also https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/shopping/apple-to-skip-h...

The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns

penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

Netris raises $15M Series A from a16z to help AI neoclouds go live faster

Netris provides software that runs on network switches, and offers a platform that helps neocloud operators reduce the time it takes to go live.

Facebook rolls out an AI companion app for creators

The new app, which is currently being tested with select creators, will have Facebook's recently-launched AI creator assistant built into it.

Show HN: Pure Effect – Reproduce production bugs on your laptop without a DB

Hi HN, I think it's safe to say that the majority of developers don't give a second thought to writing code with I/O tangled in business logic. It's all too common to see code like: const user = find…

Experimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.js

Show HN: Shumai – open-source Frame.io alternative for creative work

Shumai is an open source platform for uploading creative files, managing projects, collecting precise feedback, sharing work, and collaborating with AI agents, all in one simple creative-first worksp…

Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment

OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation accuracy.

Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop that brings Google’s latest…

Show HN: Vet turned founder, AI lawn diagnosis

I know, it's kind of weird. What is a veterinarian doing creating an analysis tool for lawn problems? Frankly, the idea was born of my own lawn care struggles. Endless lawn care company fees without…

Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms

Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI

Hi HN! Excited to launch machine0, a CLI that makes it easy to create, provision and snapshot persistent NixOS (& Ubuntu) VMs. You can think of machine0 as a modern VPS provider. VMs stay on unless s…

Launch HN: Drafted (YC P26) – Models for residential architecture

I’m Nick, founder of Drafted ( https://www.drafted.ai ). We’re training models that generate residential architecture from structured design constraints. Product demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…

My Homelab AI Dev Platform

Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion

Salesforce says it wants to use Fin's team and technology to improve Agentforce, its existing enterprise platform that businesses can use to build custom AI agents that automate tasks.

Show HN: I built 80 mini-games using Fable before it was shut down

Dear Hacker News, I'm kindly asking for your participation in the open beta for my AI-managed mini-games website. Thank you in advance! For a limited time window, I'm setting the all-free feature fla…