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Wolfram Language and Mathematica Version 15, AI Assistant, Symbolic Music, More

Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/06/launching-version-15-of-wolfram-language-mathematica-built-in-useful-ai-lots-of-new-core-functionality/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.

Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests

Anthropic's popularity with business users is growing so well that the latest beef with the government might actually boost it, data from Ramp suggests.

Unlocking UK house-building with AI-accelerated planning

UK government partners with Google DeepMind to build a new AI-powered prototype aimed at faster housing decisions.

SpaceX valuation balloons to $2.6T, briefly passes Amazon

SpaceX's valuation has increased by $1 trillion since its shares started trading on Friday.

Android 17 launches with new multitasking tools as Google expands Gemini features

Google has released Android 17 and Wear OS 7, introducing new multitasking features, parental controls, security tools, and smartwatch upgrades. The launch is also accompanied by a Pixel Drop that bri

GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands

Article URL: https://www.tno.nl/en/digital/artificial-intelligence/gpt-nl/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48559188 Points: 166 # Comments: 146

Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]

Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/xmhsglsz3h3w Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558766 Points: 183 # Comments: 153

Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?

Article URL: https://tim.blog/2026/06/12/has-ai-already-killed-nonfiction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48558489 Points: 216 # Comments: 230

Sixty percent of US consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds

WordPress VIP’s latest survey suggests consumers are wary of AI-generated answers even as companies increasingly view AI search as an important referral channel.

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and mayb

DOJ claims xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of ‘national, economic, and energy security’

The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.

Plaud says its software business topped $100M in ARR after shipping over 2M AI notetakers

Plaud is trying to make a mark in a crowded market full of AI-powered meeting notetakers.

Robinhood’s note on 10% layoffs shows blaming AI isn’t cutting it

Unlike many of his tech industry peers who have cut thousands of jobs citing the need to restructure to make the most of AI, Robinhood's CEO Vlad Tenev conspicuously made no mention of AI in his note

Probably raises $9M to build a more reliable kind of AI

Probably wants to prevent hallucinations and factual errors from reaching users, and achieve accuracy on par with deterministic systems.

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO

The deal is supposed to help SpaceX's struggling AI division. The company told IPO investors it sees a $26 trillion addressable market in AI.

ChatGPT’s market share slips below 50% for first time

The chatbot still remains the most popular AI assistant worldwide with over 1.1 billion monthly users, followed by Gemini with 662 million and Claude with 245 million.

Malaysia’s AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions

Respond.io, one of Malaysia's startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

Microsoft turns to AWS as GitHub faces AI capacity crunch

Article URL: https://runtimewire.com/article/microsoft-github-aws-ai-capacity-crunch Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48549918 Points: 154 # Comments: 72

Predicting model behavior before release by simulating deployment

OpenAI introduces Deployment Simulation, a method to predict AI model behavior before deployment using real conversation data to improve safety and evaluation accuracy.

Sundar Pichai faces boos, walkout at Stanford graduation ceremony over Google’s Israel, ICE ties

AI is once again at the heart of a college graduation protest — this time for the technology's use in Google's defense contracts.

The US government’s Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune fro

Meta’s new ‘AI Mode’ on Facebook pulls from public info across its platforms

Meta announced Monday that it's rolling out a wave of new AI features on Facebook, the latest sign of the company's effort to catch up in the AI race and keep users more engaged on the platform.

Claude Corps

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-corps Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544637 Points: 156 # Comments: 117

My Homelab AI Dev Platform

Article URL: https://rsgm.dev/post/ai-dev-platform/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542433 Points: 358 # Comments: 57

Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?

Has anyone here fully swapped Claude/GPT for a local model as their main coding tool, not just for side experiments? If so, please share your setup and performance (e.g tok/s) Comments URL: https://n

Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?

Article URL: https://github.com/sammysltd/euromesh Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541014 Points: 138 # Comments: 287

Show HN: I wrote a C++ ray tracer from scratch without AI

Article URL: https://github.com/themartiano/luz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538833 Points: 150 # Comments: 64

Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?

Article URL: https://bramcohen.com/p/why-is-claude-turning-into-an-asshole Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48533308 Points: 120 # Comments: 182

AI is code – and can't be prompted into being smarter

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/14/ai-is-code-and-cant-be-prompted-into-being-smarter/5254141 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48532178 Points: 158 # Comme

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.

Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model

Article URL: https://github.com/nex-agi/Nex-N2/issues/4 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528371 Points: 401 # Comments: 233

Not everyone is using AI for everything

Article URL: https://gabrielweinberg.com/p/people-are-consuming-ai-like-they Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527700 Points: 508 # Comments: 543

KPMG pulls report on AI usage due to apparent hallucinations

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/kpmg-pulls-report-on-ai-usage-due-to-apparent-hallucinations/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48527297 Points: 154 # Comments: 33

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.

How Preply combines AI and human tutors to personalize learning

Preply uses OpenAI to launch AI-generated lesson summaries, providing personalised feedback and language learning exercises.

How an astrophysicist uses Codex to help simulate black holes

Discover how astrophysicist Chi-kwan Chan uses Codex to build black hole simulations, helping scientists study extreme physics and test Einstein’s theory of general relativity.

OpenAI to acquire Ona

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.

BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI

Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.

Supporting Europe’s work in ensuring a trustworthy AI ecosystem

OpenAI supports the EU Code of Practice on AI content transparency, advancing provenance standards and tools to help people understand AI-generated content.

Access OpenAI models and Codex through your Oracle cloud commitment

Access OpenAI models and Codex through Oracle Cloud, using existing commitments to build and deploy AI with enterprise security and governance.

DiffusionGemma: 4x faster text generation

PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US

A new report from OpenAI details PRC-linked influence operations using AI to target U.S. tech debates, data center narratives, tariffs, and false claims about ChatGPT.

Investing in multi-agent AI safety research

Google DeepMind and partners announce a $10M funding call for multi-agent safety research.

From data to decisions: how LSEG is scaling trusted AI

See how LSEG uses OpenAI to scale trusted AI across its global business, accelerating insights, shrinking release cycles, and empowering 4,000 employees.

Fluid, natural voice translation with Gemini 3.5 Live Translate

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate brings near real-time, natural speech translation to Google AI Studio, Google Translate and Google Meet.

Introducing Gemma 4 12B: a unified, encoder-free multimodal model

Powering the future of robotics in Europe

How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex to build without limits

How engineers at Nextdoor use Codex with GPT-5.5 to investigate hard-to-reproduce issues, build across platforms, and focus on product outcomes.

What Codex unlocks for Notion

How Notion uses Codex to one-shot specs, build AI Voice Input for the web, and multiply engineering power across small teams.

Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age

Explore our ambitious, people-first industrial policy ideas for the AI era—focused on expanding opportunity, sharing prosperity, and building resilient institutions as advanced intelligence evolves.

Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC

OpenAI confirms a confidential S-1 submission to the SEC and has not yet determined timing for further action.

Measuring the impact of learning with AI in Sierra Leone and beyond

Results from a randomized controlled trial show the potential of Gemini’s Guided Learning feature to boost engagement and accelerate learning.

We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks

Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging

Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View

We’re expanding access to Google AI Ultra subscribers globally and introducing a new capability powered by Street View.

Introducing Gemini Omni

Introducing Google Antigravity 2.0

Gemini for Science: AI experiments and tools for a new era of discovery

A collection of science tools and experiments to expand the scale and precision of scientific exploration.

Making it easier to understand how content was created and edited

We're expanding our tools to help you understand how content was created and edited across the web.

Strengthening Singapore’s AI Future: A New National Partnership

Google DeepMind and Singapore partner to apply frontier AI to address complex challenges across health, education, and sustainability and more.