Quantum computing startup says it will leapfrog everybody
But the system would require a massive leap from any of its existing hardware.
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JetBrains kills Kotlin Notebook months after Microsoft’s Polyglot exit. But Jupyter is doing just fine.
JetBrains, the Czech developer tools company behind the IntelliJ IDEA IDE, announced Monday that it’s sunsetting Kotlin Notebook, the interactive The post JetBrains kills Kotlin Notebook months after Microsoft’s Polyglot exit. But Jupyter is doing just fine. appeared first on The New Stack .
EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe
Austria's State Secretary for Digitalization, Alexander Pröll, is calling on the European Commission to explore bringing Anthropic to Europe. He's responding to the U.S. ban on advanced AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic for foreign users. The initiative is likely unrealistic, though. And the alternative floating in the background, Chinese AI models, would just trade one dependency for another. The article EU seeks AI independence as Austria proposes luring Anthropic to Europe appeared first on The Decoder .
Palantir and Nvidia want to change who owns government AI
Building with AI has, until recently, meant calling up someone else’s model. But wiring an app to an API from The post Palantir and Nvidia want to change who owns government AI appeared first on The New Stack .
Resident doctors in England accept government offer on pay and jobs
Pay will be 35.2% higher on average compared with four years ago after series of strikes that have cost NHS £1bn Resident doctors in England have voted to accept a new government deal on pay and jobs, bringing an end to strike action that has cost the NHS £1bn since last summer. The British Medical Association had called off a strike at the last minute earlier this month to put the offer to members. Continue reading...
At $499, Apple’s M3-powered iPad Air is a good deal
Most of Apple’s price increases have gone into effect, resulting in iPads and other products costing hundreds more than they did a few days ago. If last week’s Prime Day sale wasn’t a good time to consider buying an iPad, we found a deal worth considering that’s just under $500 right now. The 128GB iPad […]
WhatsApp rolls out usernames to help users hide their phone number
WhatsApp is finally allowing users to reserve usernames, a privacy feature that lets them hide their phone numbers from people not in their contact list. [...]
Kalshi sues Illinois over new tax on prediction market sports bets
Illinois now a key battleground in fight over prediction market sports bets.
Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business
The startup, which runs a popular free AI leaderboard, launched its commercial service just last September.
Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding
Article URL: https://github.com/deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48722052 Points: 243 # Comments: 45
Microsoft extends Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027
Microsoft has extended Windows Server 2022 hotpatching until October 2027, one year after the mainstream end date of October 2026. [...]
Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721903 Points: 991 # Comments: 644
Cursor now has a mobile app for guiding your coding agent on the go
Cursor has launched a new mobile app for remote oversight over coding agents.
Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available
Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available, hosted on Azure, and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra, giving teams a faster path from agent experimentation to production. The post Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
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Browser agent that’s 10x faster than Claude Discussion | Link
Claude Opus 4.8 (fast mode) is now in preview for GitHub Copilot
Claude Opus 4.8 (fast mode) is now rolling out in preview on GitHub Copilot. Fast mode delivers significantly faster output token speeds while maintaining the same intelligence as Claude Opus… The post Claude Opus 4.8 (fast mode) is now in preview for GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
The best July 4th sales we found so far
July 4th sales are typically a precursor to what we’d see during a mid-July Prime Day, but obviously things are flipped around this year. Last week’s big Prime Day sale is over, yet there are a number of familiar deals still poking around in the week leading up to the nation’s birthday. Best Buy is […]
AWS Weekly Roundup: Agentic CX designer for Amazon Connect Customer, EC2 AMI Watermarks, Open Governance for MySQL, and more (June 29, 2026)
It has been a busy stretch on the AWS Summit circuit. At the New York City Summit, I delivered a workshop called Building AI architectures with AWS Serverless, and it was a lot of fun watching builders wire up agents and serverless services to solve real problems in a single afternoon. This week I am […]
TIDAL cracks down on AI music by cutting off monetization
In addition, TIDAL will use automated tools to remove AI-generated music that attempts to impersonate an artist or a group, the company said.
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding
Ornith-1.0: Self-Scaffolding LLMs for Agentic Coding This is an interesting new open weights (MIT licensed) model, the first model release from DeepReinforce. [...] with variants including 9B Dense, 31B Dense, 35B MoE, and 397B MoE. Built on top of pretrained Gemma 4 and Qwen 3.5, it achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models of comparable size on coding benchmarks. As far as I can tell the licenses of those underlying models is compatible with being used in this way - Gemma 4 is Apache 2.0 licensed (and not bound by the janky additional Gemma Terms of Use that afflicted the previous Gemma models) and Qwen 3.5 is Apache 2.0 licensed as well. I've been running the model using LM Studio and the ornith-1.0-35b-Q4_K_M.gguf (20GB) GGUF, hooked up to Pi . Initial impressions are very good - it seems to be able to run the agent harness over many tool calls in a proficient way. Here's a terminal session where I asked it to "find the code that decodes the actor cookie" and then "find the code that opens the insert dialog when thebutton is clicked" against a Datasette checkout, which it handled with ease. I also had it draw this pelican , which came out at 103 tokens/second: It's a little bit mangled but the pelican is clearly a pelican. I couldn't find much information about DeepReinforce themselves. The earliest paper I could find from the was CUDA-L1: Improving CUDA Optimization via Contrastive Reinforcement Learning from June 2025. Tags: ai , generative-ai , local-llms , llms , qwen , pelican-riding-a-bicycle , gemma , llm-release , lm-studio
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Social listening for the agent era Discussion | Link
WhatsApp is Finally Getting Usernames to Help Keep Phone Numbers Private
WhatsApp on Monday officially announced the start of global reservations of usernames with an aim to protect the privacy of more than three billion users on the messaging platform. The optional feature is designed to help users connect with someone on the service through usernames, as opposed to directly sharing their phone numbers. Username reservations will start rolling out starting today,
Restrict issue creation to collaborators only
Repository admins can now restrict issue creation to collaborators with write access. This gives you more control over who can open issues and helps reduce unwanted issue creation, while keeping… The post Restrict issue creation to collaborators only appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage
Article URL: https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-want-rightsholders-held-accountable-for-overblocking-damage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721072 Points: 395 # Comments: 120