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I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it
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The ways we contain Claude across products
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The Best AI Models Still Encourage 'Harmful Intimacy' With Chatbots, Study Funds
In brief A new USC study found that every tested frontier AI model violated social-interaction safety guidelines more than 27% of the time. Researchers identified recurring problems, including flattery, emotional attachment, relationship re
Energy Companies 'Weren't Prepared' For AI Data Center Boom Says NRG's Caroline Golin
Caroline Golin, chief growth and policy officer at NRG Energy, said that AI expansion has outpaced the infrastructure necessary to power it and that energy companies 'weren't prepared' for the opportunity in front of them as the US data center buildout ramps up even further. Despite the pressure on the grid, Golin says that the industry is working to make sure the infrastructure is in place to grow into the future. (Source: Bloomberg)
Journey to JPEG XL: open-source experiments shaped the future of image coding
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OpenAI y Anthropic alistan sus OPI que podrían redefinir el mercado de la inteligencia artificial
Dos grandes de la IA tienen la mirada puesta en los mercados bursátiles, pero algunos se preguntan si la salida a bolsa de SpaceX, prevista para junio, les va a robar el protagonismo.
AI Lawyers Are Already Better Than Law Professors at Reasoning—Say Law Professors
In brief Law professors preferred AI-generated contract law answers over those written by fellow professors about 75% of the time. AI responses were flagged as harmful less often than professor-written responses. Researchers said the result
Show HN: Mnemo – local-first AI memory layer for any LLM (Rust, SQLite,petgraph)
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Hermes Ends AI Agent Terminal Era With Release of Official Desktop App
In brief Nous Research launched Hermes Desktop on June 2 as a native public preview app for macOS, Windows, and Linux Before this release, all existing graphical interfaces for Hermes were third-party builds created by the community. The ap
Perplexity Wants Your Laptop to Do Part of the AI Work—So It Doesn't Have To
In brief Perplexity announced "hybrid agentic inference" at Computex 2026, a system that automatically splits AI workloads between a user's local device and cloud-based frontier models—no manual configuration required. The feature is coming
SambaNova CEO on Making AI More Affordable
SambaNova CEO Rodrigo Liang joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about why inference is becoming the biggest cost challenge in enterprise AI. And he breaks down the new $3.5 billion AI cloud backed by Vista Equity Partners and Cambium Capital, revealing how a disaggregated architecture combining GPUs, CPUs, and specialized AI processors could dramatically lower costs and accelerate AI agent adoption. (Source: Bloomberg)
If AI Data Centers Are So Great, Why Are They Being Built in Secret?
I have spent my career listening to the people, especially those who were told to sit down and be quiet, who were told their backyard was safe, and that the water was safe to drink….I’ve shown up to community after community across the coun
Show HN: Rscrypto, pure-Rust crypto with industry leading public benches
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Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model
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May US S&P Global services PMI 50.7 vs 50.9 prelim
Prior was 50.9 Final April reading was 51.0 Final composite PMI 51.5 vs 51.7 prelim and 51.7 prior The ISM services survey is due at the top of the hour, alongside factory orders. This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.
MoonPay Brings Crypto Transactions to Claude and Codex With MoonAgents Desktop App
In brief MoonPay launched the MoonAgents desktop app, which lets AI assistants interact with crypto wallets and blockchain services. The software currently works with Claude and OpenAI Codex accounts and is designed to simplify setup for no
IREN adds 4% premarket as company unveils 800MW Australian AI data center campus
The AI infrastructure firm secured a grid connection for a planned South Australian campus, with energization targeted for 2028.
Canada Q1 labour productivity falls 0.5%
Prior was -0.1% (revised to -0.3%) Unit labour costs +1.4% q/q, fourth consecutive gain (+3.2% y/y) Goods led the decline (-1.7%); ag/forestry cratered -8.6%, construction -2.3% This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.
Did Claude Opus 4.8 distill Alibaba's Qwen? Here's what the evidence says
On May 28, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.8. A few hours later, people started asking it one question in Chinese:“你是什么模型？”That translates to “what model are you?” Some users got an answer nobody expected: Claude said it was Qwen.Sur
Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
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AI Engineers aren't safe from being replaced by AI
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U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
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Capstone – multi-platform, multi-architecture disassembly framework
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