▸ Owen McGrann argues the real economy stopped growing around 2022 and AI capex is the only thing keeping aggregate numbers positive.
▸ Opus 4.8 ships at the same price as 4.7 but adds a user-facing effort dial, a 'dynamic workflows' mode in Claude Code, and a fast mode that's 3x cheap...
▸ GPTZero found EY Canada's 2025 cybersecurity report cited papers, authors, and URLs that don't exist — classic LLM hallucination patterns.
▸ Anthropic's reported valuation has eclipsed OpenAI's, flipping the AI startup pecking order for the first time since 2022.
▸ Microsoft is silently downgrading Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac — products sold as perpetual licenses — to view-only mode, locking editing behind a Mic...
▸ A developer's viral post accuses Google's new Antigravity AI coding IDE of quietly tightening limits and changing terms after launch-day signups.
▸ Prism Reports documents 'Seattle Shield,' a closed intelligence-sharing channel where Amazon, Meta, and the FBI swap threat intel with no FOIA exposur...
▸ A viral blog post argues Google is repeating IBM's 1990s collapse: too many layers, too many PMs, too few engineers shipping anything users notice.
▸ Waymo suspended Atlanta robotaxi service after multiple vehicles drove into flooded streets — the cars didn't see water as an obstacle.
▸ Three nearly identical 'Free Download 2026' repos — fake Claude Design Studio, a Roblox script executor, and a pirated Office suite — all landed on Gi...
▸ Nolan Lawson argues AI doesn't make him code faster — it lets him code more carefully, because the bottleneck shifts from typing to verifying.
▸ Anthropic published its first progress update on Project Glasswing, the interpretability program aimed at making model internals legible enough to aud...
▸ Bitwarden's SDK and clients are drifting from pure GPL toward a Bitwarden License that restricts commercial reuse and forks.
▸ A viral HN essay (678 points) reframes LLM training as plagiarism stripped of attribution, not 'learning' in any meaningful sense.
▸ Habets argues that nearly every non-trivial C program contains undefined behavior — and compilers are increasingly willing to weaponize it for optimiz...
▸ Google launched Antigravity, an agentic IDE, with telemetry off by default — then quietly flipped the toggle on for existing users in a v0.6 update.
▸ Flipper Devices published an open call for community help on Flipper One — the successor to the Flipper Zero — citing engineering bottlenecks around t...
▸ Python 3.15 ships PEP 750 template strings (t-strings) — a structured alternative to f-strings that finally makes safe SQL and HTML interpolation a la...
▸ No Slop Grenade landed on the HN front page with 363 points, treating AI-slop detection as a shippable tool rather than a thinkpiece.
▸ Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas is the most coherent governance document on AI from any major institution this year — and it came from t...