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An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI…

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Ask HN: Can we please limit the AI news flood?

Over past couple months I noticed that HN feed is almost exclusively AI or AI-adjacent news. Meanwhile the legitimately, broadly-hacker stuff gets left out for the most part. I noticed that because the things I find genuinely interesting that I post here now get zero traction, which is the stuff…

PromptForge — version control and evals for prompts

PromptForge treats prompts like code: versioned, diffed, and tested in CI against a golden set before they reach production.

Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence

The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative

SketchPilot — turn wireframes into production UI

SketchPilot converts sketches and Figma frames into token-aware React components, aimed at design-to-code handoff.

This incredible accessibility tool was coded with help from AI, and you can try it here

Claude is no longer available for minors

Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year

Nvidia has its finger in every pie, and sees another year of plenty in its future, Jensen Huang says. But, he insists, its deals are not circular.

InboxAgent — an email assistant that drafts in your voice

InboxAgent drafts email replies trained on your own sent mail, with an on-device option for privacy-sensitive users.

9/11 hero’s legacy lives on 25 years later as son unveils new tech lifeline for those facing grief

New open-weights model matches frontier labs on coding benchmarks

An open-weights 70B model now sits within striking distance of closed frontier models on coding tasks while fitting on one GPU. Weights and eval harness are public.

Why it matters: Teams that could not send code to third-party APIs get a credible self-hosted option for the first time.

Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his

Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.

New Research Shows One in Four Irish Adults Have Bought a Product Following Advice from AI

OpenAI puts Pro subscriptions on hold due to Astra demand

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

OpenAI Agents API

Alteryx launches new AI capabilities to bring governed analytics anywhere work happens

Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleges persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated in recent months as competition in the space has intensified.

Agent orchestration startup raises $40M Series B

A multi-agent framework vendor raised $40M to expand its hosted runtime, betting that enterprises want managed agents rather than DIY orchestration.

Why it matters: Signals investor conviction that the agent layer, not the model layer, is where application value accrues.

9/11 hero’s legacy lives on 25 years later as son unveils new tech lifeline for those facing grief

Meta’s AI agent Muse is now the No. 2 app in the US

Meta's newest app Muse is off to a slower start than the company's other apps, like Meta AI or Threads.

Major image model switches to commercial licence, forks appear within hours

A widely used image model tightened its licence for new releases, prompting rapid community forks of the last permissive version.

Why it matters: Anyone shipping image generation should audit which checkpoint they depend on before upgrading.

An AI tool aims to catch harder-to-detect heart attacks in EKGs

Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you

Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.

UAE launches AED 1bn fund for applied AI startups

A new AED 1bn UAE fund targets applied AI startups from seed to Series A, paired with founder visas and pilot access to government buyers.

Why it matters: Regional founders get capital plus a route to first customers, which is usually the harder part.

Using AI to stay one step ahead of dementia

India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content

Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.

Open-source eval harness adds agentic and tool-use test suites

A popular eval harness now measures agentic tool use separately from reasoning, making it easier to compare models on real workflows.