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Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models

Article URL: https://neon.com/blog/how-castform-neon-beats-frontier-models-on-price-and-efficiency Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186762 Points: 89 # Comments: 17

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Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49186720 Points: 32 # Comments: 14

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Celld: Self-hosted, distributed Durable Objects

Article URL: https://github.com/denoland/celld Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185430 Points: 62 # Comments: 1

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I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy

Article URL: https://naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepathy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185370 Points: 51 # Comments: 88

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Stop sending me your errors

Article URL: https://kramkow.ski/article/2026/08/05/stop_sending_me_your_errors.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185215 Points: 20 # Comments: 2

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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs

https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa... https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders... https://www.discoveryloop.com/ , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034

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Reddit aims to make ‘karma’ less important for first-time posters with shift to AI moderation tools

Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it easier for legitimate newcomers to participate.

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Lucid Motors just delayed its affordable EV. Now what?

The Cosmos EV is now slated for release in the second half of 2027. CEO Silivo Napoli said he's focused on getting the EV right as well as its nearer-term robotaxi project with Uber and Nuro.

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Meet the eight startups pitching at Startup Battlefield Australia

The applications are in, and the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield team made their decisions!

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PSA: Apple’s Private Relay can leak your real IP address

A bug in how Apple implements its Private Relay feature, which in theory masks users’ IP addresses from the sites they visit, can reveal users’ real IP addresses.

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After jacking up prices, Disney+ and Netflix consider offering free alternatives

Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.

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EVgo starts building Tesla Superchargers under license

The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.

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D-Wave shows off its new entry in quantum computing race

Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.

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Google plans to kill Assistant on your phone on September 4

Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.

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Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls

Article URL: https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/atlassian-rovo-exfiltrates-data Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185983 Points: 3 # Comments: 0