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Daily  Sunday, 27 September 2026

OpenAI pauses training of most capable models amid safety concerns

The company halts advanced model training after reports of hacking and containment breaches

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AI & ML

OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites

Hacker News103 pointsDev
AI & ML

Kākāpō Party

Tool: Kākāpō Party I gave presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I de…

Simon WillisonDev
AI & ML

One Month Without AI

Hacker News169 pointsDev
AI & ML

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

Hacker News154 pointsDev
AI & ML

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models

Hacker News133 pointsDev
System Design & Architecture

EP227: Top 9 Places to Use Jev

Jev is TypeSafe AI’s first System One Model. It is 100x faster and cheaper than frontier LLMs.

ByteByteGoDev
System Design & Architecture

Is your Postgres migration safe or not safe?

Hacker News118 pointsDev
Startups & Funding

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.

TechCrunch VentureFounder
Startups & Funding

🧠 Community Wisdom: AI doomerism, speeding up discovery in a big org, verifying engineering answers as a new PM, where analytics adds the most value, and more

Lenny's NewsletterFounder
Startups & Funding

New-Age Tech Stocks: Insurtech Sell-Off Drags Combined M-Cap Down By $3.6 Bn This Week

New-age tech stocks saw a bearish week, with a sharp sell-off in PB Fintech and Turtlemint following IRDAI’s proposed commission…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

Ride-Hailing Fear: Inside Bharat Taxi Coercion Allegations In Gujarat

“I wanted to reach my hotel and did not feel comfortable cancelling the ride at midnight, but they were not…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

True North Acquires Minority Stake in IPO-Bound InMobi

Private equity firm True North has reportedly acquired a minority stake worth around $50-60 Mn in IPO-bound adtech startup InMobi…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

IIT Madras, Unicorn India Ventures Mark First Close Of Fund I At ₹450 Cr

IIT Madras, IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP), and Unicorn India Ventures have announced the first close of their deeptech-focused IITM…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

Aequs To Raise ₹650 Cr Via Preferential Issue To Bolster Manufacturing Capacity

Contract manufacturing company Aequs’ board has approved a fund raise of up to ₹650 Cr via a preferential issue of…

Inc42Founder
Startups & Funding

Everyone Should Publish the Deepest, Most Direct Competitive Evals They Can. Case Study: $100m ARR Gorgias for AI CX

Everyone should publish the deepest, most direct competitive evals they can Will there always be some bias? Yes But @gorgiasio did it the r…

SaaStrFounder
Tech Stories

Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

Hacker News638 points
Tech Stories

Fifteen years later, the Apple Cards origin story

Hacker News340 points
Tech Stories

I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband

Hacker News446 points
Tech Stories

Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

Hacker News107 points
Tech Stories

Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

Hacker News392 points
Tech Stories

We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians

Hacker News362 points
Tech Stories

Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents

Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Tact…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song

I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Ro…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat

Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matt…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

I love making diagrams to help understand, plan, etc. However, the options are (A) auto-placement languages like Mermaid or Graphviz (which…

Hacker News176 points
Tech Stories

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

Hacker News173 points
Tech Stories

Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

The 500-mile Semi arrives as charging gaps still limit electric trucking.

Ars Technica
Tech Stories

Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners

Hacker News128 points
Tech Stories

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

Hacker News122 points
Tech Stories

Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service

Hacker News162 points
Tech Stories

Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.

Ars Technica
Tech Stories

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.

Ars Technica
Tech Stories

Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.

Ars Technica
Tech Stories

The Copilot+ PC brand is dead

Hacker News102 points
Tech Stories

Control Resonant is a great game — it’s even better when you read everything

In Control Resonant, the entire world is at stake. But that didn't stop the diligent employees of the Federal Bureau of Control from filing…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Pokémon card resellers have turned collecting into an online blood sport

Earlier this month, Pokémon card content creator Natalie Roush posted a video to her YouTube and Instagram pages that enraged the larger co…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Can ‘eSUV’ e-bikes really go from trail to town?

Have you ever wanted an electric bike that easily transitions from the drudgery of urban asphalt to adventures in gravel and dirt? That's w…

The Verge
Tech Stories

Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.

Heidi Overton faced questions focused on vaccines, birth control, and vapes.

Ars Technica
Tech Stories

PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

Hacker News317 points