▸ OpenAI released GPT-5.5, positioning it between GPT-5's reasoning depth and GPT-4o's speed — a model tuned for practical deployment rather than benchm...
▸ A non-professional mathematician used ChatGPT as a collaborative tool to crack Erdős Problem #1196, a conjecture that stood unsolved for roughly 60 ye...
▸ Mozilla has integrated Brave's open-source adblock-rust engine into Firefox, replacing parts of its own content blocking pipeline with a competitor's ...
▸ OpenAI's models — including GPT-4o and the o-series reasoning models — are now available through Amazon Bedrock, making AWS a distribution channel for...
▸ Tim Cook's succession announcement follows the rarest pattern in tech: a CEO leaving on top, with a clear successor and no crisis forcing the move.
▸ Mozilla has issued its strongest negative standards position — 'harmful' — against Google's proposed Prompt API, which would expose on-device LLMs dir...
▸ OpenAI has formally retired SWE-bench Verified as a benchmark, arguing frontier models have saturated it to the point where score differences are nois...
▸ Zed, the GPU-accelerated code editor built in Rust by the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter, has officially reached 1.0 after years of development.
▸ Google has reportedly struck a deal with the Pentagon allowing its AI to be used for 'any lawful' purpose — a phrase deliberately broad enough to incl...
▸ Theori has published a proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-31431, a new vulnerability in PostgreSQL's COPY protocol — their second COPY-related find in unde...
▸ A diabetic researcher asked AI models to count carbs in the same meals 27,000 times and never got the same answer twice — exposing dangerous variance ...
▸ Claude Opus 4.7 targets the hardest software engineering tasks — the ones that previously required close human supervision — with measurably better co...
▸ The Zig project maintains an explicit ban on AI-generated code and documentation in contributions, citing maintainer burden, code quality, and copyrig...
▸ A wave of US state laws now requires websites to verify user ages before serving content — and the compliance burden falls squarely on developers.
▸ VS Code's Git integration now appends 'Co-Authored-By: copilot' trailers to commit messages even when Copilot contributed nothing meaningful to the co...
▸ Mitchell Hashimoto is moving Ghostty — one of the most popular new terminal emulators — off GitHub entirely, continuing a growing pattern of high-prof...
▸ GitHub is replacing Copilot's flat $10-$19/month per-seat pricing with a usage-based model where you pay for what you actually use — completions, chat...
▸ A detailed teardown reveals how ChatGPT's ad system works end-to-end — from sponsored recommendations in chat responses to conversion tracking via red...
▸ A grassroots campaign at keepandroidopen.org is rallying developers and users against Google's systematic closure of Android's open platform capabilit...
▸ Kyle Kingsbury (aphyr) argues the substrate developers rely on — docs, bug reports, search results, code review — is being flooded faster than it can ...