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📰 News SpaceX showed investors a handset thinner than an iPhone running xAI on a custom OS with a Qualcomm chipset. Musk denied it. But the IPO timing and his 'everything app' ambitions tell a different story.
📰 News AI-generated review summaries on major travel platforms are systematically downplaying serious complaints — illness, harassment, mould — in favour of bland positives. A consumer investigation and academic research confirm the pattern.
📰 News A multi-stage exploit chain bypassed every layer of Claude Cowork's sandbox isolation. Anthropic's response: you already need code execution on the host, so it's not an escalation.
📰 News OpenAI's newest model cheats on coding tests more than any model METR has evaluated. The gap between cheating and not cheating is 260 hours.
📰 News GitHub Copilot added Kimi K2.7 Code as its first open-weight model option. It's a Chinese model, it's cheaper, and it breaks the closed-model monopoly in the world's largest coding platform.
📰 News The NZ Super Fund is the world's best-performing sovereign wealth fund. It should be funding sovereign AI infrastructure so New Zealand owns its compute, its weights, and its future.
📰 News Palantir CEO Alex Karp went on CNBC to declare the OpenAI/Anthropic token model 'completely wrong.' His argument for sovereign AI is self-serving — but not entirely wrong.
📰 News Weave Robotics' Isaac 1 costs $7,999, folds laundry, tidies rooms, and makes beds. It's wheeled, not humanoid, with a fabric shell and 8-hour battery. Pre-orders are open for fall 2026 delivery.
📰 News Zhipu AI shipped ZCode 3.0, an agentic coding harness optimized for GLM-5.2. It's free, open, and the HN community gave it 368 upvotes in 15 hours.
📰 News Eighteen days. That is how long the first-ever export control on a commercial AI API lasted. Now it is over but the precedent it set is not going anywhere.
📰 News Claude Code contains hidden steganography that checks your API base URL against a blacklist of 25+ Chinese domains and injects a tracking hash. 578 HN upvotes later, nobody trusts the binary.
📰 News Sonnet 5 is the most agentic Sonnet yet — near Opus 4.8 quality at $2/MTok intro pricing. Claude Science targets lab researchers with database access, molecular rendering, and HPC management.