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Monday, 11 May 2026
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US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/anthropic-claude-military-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145551 Points: 29 # Comments: 4
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The history of knocking on wood
Article URL: https://resobscura.substack.com/p/neolithic-habits-machine-age-tools Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47138213 Points: 14 # Comments: 1
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Spanish ‘soonicorn’ Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's model.
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Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws
Apple complies with new age-assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.
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Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.
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Stripe is reportedly eyeing deal to buy some or all of PayPal
Stripe might be looking to buy PayPal, or parts of it, per early reports.
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WBD says Paramount’s new, higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix's
WBD's board is still reviewing the offer.
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Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid
Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.
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Fed's Cook says AI triggering big changes, sees possible unemployment rise
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/feds-cook-says-ai-triggering-big-changes-sees-possible-short-term-unemployment-2026-02-24/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145088 Points: 26 # Comments: 7
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Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion
Article URL: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144464 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
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Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid
Article URL: https://www.cape.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144325 Points: 24 # Comments: 14
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Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/paypal-stock-stripe-acquisition-report.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144064 Points: 41 # Comments: 25
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Dream Recorder AI – a portal to your subconscious
Article URL: https://dreamrecorder.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143976 Points: 9 # Comments: 9
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Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3
I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively. We're a small startup (six people, sub-$100k monthly GPU budget) so I'm proud of the work the team has done to create streaming STT models with lower word-error
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Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness
Article URL: https://pi.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143754 Points: 101 # Comments: 44