▸ BIS removed Fable 5 and Mythos 5 from the AI Diffusion Rule's covered-weights list, effective immediately.
▸ Researchers assembled a functioning cell from purified molecular components — no parent cell required — and it grew and divided on its own.
▸ A UBC-led global review pulled together evidence from billions of doses and confirmed mRNA vaccines are safe, effective, and adaptable — with serious ...
▸ Anthropic is rumored to be approaching its first profitable quarter, driven by coding agents that burn 10-100x more tokens than chat workflows.
▸ Z.ai shipped ZCode, an open harness that drives Zhipu's GLM-5.2 model through the same tool-use loop Claude Code and Codex use.
▸ A short blog post titled 'Can we have the day off?' hit 1,018 points on Hacker News — the highest-scoring labor-culture post of the quarter.
▸ @sindresorhus/awesome (444k), freeCodeCamp (438k), and public-apis (412k) hold the top of GitHub — none of them are libraries you can import.
▸ A long-time engineer publicly retired from software to live offline, framing it as a values choice rather than burnout.
▸ The European Commission fined Temu €200M under the Digital Services Act after finding that more than half of audited listings violated EU product safe...
▸ Anthropic's Claude Code CLI silently prepends every user prompt with a run of invisible Unicode Tag characters (U+E0000 range) that decode to plaintex...
▸ The EU Council is attempting to pass Chat Control via closed-door procedural votes on Friday and Monday, after the open-vote version stalled.
▸ OpenAI's first custom chip — codenamed Jalapeño — is an inference-only ASIC designed with Broadcom and fabricated at TSMC, taped out in roughly nine m...
▸ DeepSpec delivers 60-85% faster generation via speculative decoding, released as a full training and eval codebase, a paper, and V4 weights with the d...
▸ The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that plaintiffs can't sue over warrantless NSA surveillance unless they prove they were specifically targeted — a stand...
▸ The Commerce Department cleared Anthropic to redistribute Mythos — but only to a pre-vetted list of U.S. organizations it calls 'trusted.'
▸ Meta secured an emergency arbitration order forcing former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams to sit in literal silence on stage at the Hay Festival.
▸ California's Assembly passed AB-2426-adjacent 'Protect Our Games Act' requiring publishers to provide a path to keep games playable after server shutd...
▸ Obelisk's pitch: a single SQLite file replaces the Postgres+Kafka+orchestrator sprawl that Temporal and Restate ship with.
▸ Meta is rolling out badge and presence tracking across its offices — and offering employees a 30-minute opt-out timer as the concession.
▸ The Supreme Court ruled that geofence warrants — which compel platforms to hand over every device in a geographic radius — are searches under the Four...