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Meta says its AI chatbot is going beyond just answering questions and generating images. | Image: Meta Meta is upgrading its AI chatbot with new productivity features in a bid to compete with rivals like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. The update will allow Meta AI to tap into your calendar to help you plan events … Read more
Weeks after Anthropic’s latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 “comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains” and is much … Read more
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The window for US lawmakers to address a comprehensive crypto market structure bill before the 2026 elections is closing, and industry organizations are calling for action.
The offline messaging app surged in popularity in India amid protests in New Delhi.
Twenty-five companies signed a letter defending open-weight models days after a Chinese AI helped Hugging Face survive a hack triggered by OpenAI’s own systems.
The firm says its “digital credit” shift needs new yardsticks that strip out debt and preferred claims to show what common shareholders own.
BlackRock’s IBIT led the exit as Bitcoin briefly dipped under $65,000 and stocks fell on renewed US-Iran hostilities—though the week still closed in the green.
How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 24, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, Apollo 11 Returns to Earth in 1969, Google Launches the Chromecast in 2013, Machu Picchu was Discovered in 1911, and we present you with these top quality stories. … Read more
The digital rights group says India’s order to remove Jack Dorsey’s BitChat repositories from GitHub exceeds the government’s legal authority and threatens free speech.
Welcome to HackerNoon’s Projects of the Week, where we spotlight standout projects from the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon, HackerNoon’s competition designed to measure what actually matters: real utility over hype. Each week, we’ll highlight projects that demonstrate clear usefulness, technical execution, and real-world impact – backed by data, not buzzwords. This week, we’re excited to share … Read more
AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as Washington debates responses to Chinese AI and alleged model distillation.
Building a deep learning-based explainable next-best-product recommendation system helps banking institutions predict which product a customer needs next. Banks hold vast amounts of customer data, including transaction histories, product ownership records, demographic profiles, and behavioral patterns. Translating this data into actionable, personalized product recommendations remains a significant challenge. Traditional rule-based systems and collaborative filtering approaches … Read more
This post is co-written with Chris Dickens from OpenAI. Developers building agentic coding, long-horizon reasoning, and high-volume inference workloads want frontier models they can call through familiar APIs, without operating separate model infrastructure. OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock. The three models cover workloads from autonomous coding agents … Read more
The carmaker has said it’s owed a refund in the “tens of millions of dollars.”
Bitcoin ETF inflows, cooling AI momentum and potential regulatory progress under the CLARITY Act are fueling speculation that capital is rotating back into crypto.
A door handle on a Tesla Model Y at a charging station in San Francisco, California, US, on Monday, Nov. 10, 2025. | David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Tesla’s electronic door handles that have been linked to several deaths could lead to tougher safety rules for the entire auto industry. In a notice published … Read more
Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.
The Spin 514 has a 16:10 aspect ratio IPS touchscreen with a 120Hz refresh rate — impressive specs for a sub-$600 Chromebook. | Image: The Verge Most Chromebooks ship with only 8GB of RAM, which is enough for some people, but certainly not enough for me. Multitaskers who want more memory in their next Chromebook … Read more
The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.
The organization sold locked WLD tokens to strategic investors as it seeks to grow its biometric identity network amid rising demand for human verification online.
U.S. Senate Democrats got President Donald Trump to accept potential limits on his lucrative crypto dealings, but they say the Clarity Act’s restrictions aren’t enough.
Pantera Capital leads the round on World‘s third anniversary, as World ID expands across Vercel, Okta, and Tinder and enterprise demand for human verification accelerates. How do you price the ability to prove you exist? For most of the internet’s history, the answer was zero, because nobody needed to ask. A click was a person. … Read more
Boox’s new Tile lineup will take on Xteink’s popular e-readers that are small enough to stick on the back of an iPhone with MagSafe. As spotted by Good E-Reader, the first one is the Picco, which will feature a 3.97-inch front-lit, black-and-white e-paper display and expandable storage with an SD card slot. Boox confirmed to … Read more
The project is moving away from basic network expansion to focus entirely on integrating its biometric screening devices across enterprise software suites.
Pantera Capital led the one-year locked token sale, joined by Bain Capital Crypto, as World scales its ID network for AI agents.
Trump’s science adviser Michael Kratsios has no science background. | Image: Getty / The Verge The Trump administration unveiled the first “Genesis Mission” grants on Thursday, directing $5 billion toward hundreds of AI-driven science projects in an effort the White House has described as “comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project.” At roughly … Read more