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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitig...
Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden hist...
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out f...
Web security is too hard
Article URL: https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could ou…
Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.
Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
Web security is too hard
Article URL: https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/04/security-is-hard-yall/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172834 Points: 106 # Comments: 38
Waymo – Dallas Open to All
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836 Points: 45 # Comments: 35
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Waymo – Dallas Open to All
Article URL: https://waymo.com/blog/shorts/dallas-open-to-all/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172836 Points: 45 # Comments: 35
Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/04/investors-in-situational-awareness-deserved-to-lose-their-shirts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
We are Rui and Michael and we’re building EdotEnv ( https://edotenv.com ): self-improving RL environments from Quant Trading workflows. With all the benchmaxxing around, evals satu…
Man Utd set to appoint ex-Hearts boss Olid as women's manager
Manchester United are set to appoint former Hearts boss Eva Olid as their women's manager to replace Marc Skinner.