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FTC settlement forces John Deere to open repair tools to farmers and indie shops

The FTC and attorneys general from Arizona, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin have reached a right-to-repair settlement with Deere & Co. that requires

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GitHub's outages and AI push drive some open-source projects to Codeberg

GitHub still looks dominant—600 million-plus repositories, a new user every second, and nearly a billion commits in 2025—but a handful of notable open-source pr

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aitech-culture

Grok 4.5 wins on speed and cost in a four-model coding build-off

TryAI ran a head-to-head test of four frontier models — xAI's newly launched Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and Claude Fable 5 — giving each identical one-

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Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 targets agentic coding and computer use with 1M-token context

Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model aimed squarely at agentic work — planning, tool use, and computer control

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Microsoft posts Flint, a 'visualization language for AI agents,' to Show HN

Microsoft has published Flint, described as a visualization language for AI agents, and shared it as a Show HN submission. The project lives on GitHub Pages und

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Mistral's Robostral Navigate steers robots with a single RGB camera, no LiDAR

Mistral has released Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model that drives a robot through an environment from nothing more than a plain-language instruc

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New Sweden: America's forgotten 17-year Swedish colony in the Delaware Valley

From 1638 to 1655, a small Swedish settlement called Nya Sverige spanned parts of present-day Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland — including the gr

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aitech-culture

OpenAI page "GPT-5.6" — no article content available to summarize

The supplied source contains only the headline "GPT-5.6" and no article body, so there is nothing substantive to summarize. No release details, capabilities, be

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OpenAI publishes “ChatGPT for your most ambitious work” — content unavailable

No article body was provided to summarize. The input contained only a headline fragment ("ChatGPT Work") and a link to an OpenAI announcement page titled "ChatG

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OpenAI says SWE-bench Verified is too broken to trust, pushes SWE-Bench Pro

OpenAI examined SWE-bench Verified—one of the most widely cited benchmarks for AI coding ability—and concluded it no longer produces a meaningful signal about r

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aitech-culture

OpenAI's GPT-Live gives ChatGPT full-duplex voice that talks back in real time

OpenAI has launched GPT-Live, a new class of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture that lets ChatGPT listen and speak at the same time rather than wa

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Show HN: 18 Words, a daily browser word-puzzle game

18Words.com is a browser-based daily word game launched by its creator on Hacker News. Each day presents a new letter-based puzzle; players work toward a soluti

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