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Visit website →Too Dangerous, or Too Expensive? The Real Reason Anthropic Is Hiding Mythos
We examine the background of Anthropic's limited release of Mythos from both the security and cost angles.
Welcome to the Strip-Mining Era of Open Source Security
LLM-based code scanning tools have begun uncovering security vulnerabilities in open source projects en masse
Access to Frontier AI Will Soon Be Restricted Due to Economic and Security Constraints
Due to security and economic constraints, access to frontier AI models is expected to become increasingly selective and restricted.
LLM Policy for the Rust Compiler
A policy for LLM usage in contributions to the Rust compiler has been formalized.
Ontario Auditor Points Out Frequent Factual Errors in AI Note-Writing Tools for Doctors
An Ontario audit found that AI scribe systems for doctors showed serious hallucinations, including errors in medication information and missing patient information.
arXiv's New Policy: One-Year Posting Ban for Citing Hallucinated References
arXiv has announced a policy that holds authors accountable and imposes a one-year posting ban when AI-hallucinated references are cited.
Microsoft Begins Revoking Claude Code Licenses
Microsoft is starting to revoke Claude Code licenses in order to consolidate on its own AI coding tool, GitHub Copilot CLI.
Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged
Bun used AI to rewrite about 600,000 lines of code into Rust and successfully merged it.
What Does GGUF Contain Beyond Weights, and What's Still Missing?
This explains in detail the structure of the GGUF file format and the role of metadata it includes, such as chat templates and special tokens.
Cracks in Apple-OpenAI Relationship, Possibility of Legal Dispute Raised
OpenAI has considered legal action, citing poor performance of its ChatGPT integration with Apple.
Open-source PyTorch curvature library rewritten from scratch after 8 years
The PyTorch library for Hessian/GGN analysis has been rewritten as v1.0.0a1.
Arena AI Model ELO History
Introduces a methodology for tracking ELO score changes and performance degradation trends of major AI models based on LMSYS Arena data.
The Other Half of AI Safety
AI safety policy is pointed out as strong at blocking catastrophic risks but inadequate at responding to users' mental health crises.
Medicare's new payment model is designed for AI, and most of the tech industry doesn't know it
The US Medicare's new payment model, ACCESS, has laid the economic foundation that enables the spread of AI agent-based healthcare services.
Meta Sets Up Its AI Account on Threads So It Can't Be Blocked
Meta is testing a feature on Threads that prevents users from blocking the Meta AI account, sparking user backlash.
Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes built in seconds without migrations
Ardent launched to create Postgres replicas in seconds so AI coding agents can safely test against production data.
Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW Found an Unauthenticated RCE in Exim
XBOW discovered a critical RCE vulnerability in the Exim mail server through AI-based autonomous exploit development technology.
Reimagining the Mouse Pointer for the AI Era
Google unveiled a Gemini-based AI pointer experiment and its rollout in Chrome.
Googlebook
Google has unveiled new features that integrate Gemini AI into laptops to deliver an innovative user experience.
Show HN: An Agentic Interface for Mainframe and COBOL
Hopper, an AI agent-based environment for mainframe development, has been unveiled.