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Thursday, May 14, 2026
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★ Must ReadMark Zuckerberg announces completely private encrypted Meta AI chat

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is "the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers. " Messages in Incognito Chat aren't saved or stored in users' chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, but Meta says its version is different because it also uses end-to-end encryption, which Meta recently removed from Instagram DMs: "Other apps have introduced incognito-style modes, but they can still see the questions coming in and the answers going out. Incognito Chat with Meta AI is truly private, meaning no one - not even Meta - can read your conversations.

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Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

Trending on Hacker News with 519 points and 164 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing

I wanted to try codex after 5 months of claude code max subscription. And then I went back to my previous projects on claude design only to realize I don't have access to them anymore. This is a first.

Hacker News · 1 min
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Microsofts Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs

Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what's in your tabs, compare the products you're looking at, summarize your open articles, and more. In its announcement, Microsoft says you can "select which experiences you want or leave off the ones you don't.

The Verge AI · 2 min
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Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents

Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
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Musk’s xAI is running nearly 50 gas turbines unchecked at its Mississippi data center

Gas turbines at xAI's Colossus 2 data center have drawn a lawsuit over the company's use of "mobile" gas turbines as power plants.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
ChinAI Mood: April 26 - May 4, 2026
Interconnects

AGI is the friends you make along the way

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GenAI is Normal Edtech
Leon Furze

In GenAI is Normal Edtech, Leon Furze draws on Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor's framework of "AI as normal technology" to argue that GenAI is following predictable patterns seen in previous technological shifts. He acknowledges widespread exhaustion among educators—whether from vendor hype and student misuse, or from negativity against a potentially helpful tool—and suggests these feelings are normal responses to technology cycles we've experienced before.

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★ Must ReadShow HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

Hey HN, Henry here from Cactus. We open-sourced Needle, a 26M parameter function-calling (tool use) model. It runs at 6000 tok/s prefill and 1200 tok/s decode on consumer devices.

Medicare's new payment model is built for AI. Most of the tech world has no idea

Trending on Hacker News with 66 points and 47 comments.

How This Small Startup Achieved a Near-Perfect Record Against AI Slop

The Algorithmic Bridge — How This Small Startup Achieved a Near-Perfect Record Agains...

★ Must Read[AINews] The End of Finetuning

a quiet day lets us reflect on whither finetuning

the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers.
Stevie Bonifield, The Verge AI
Microsofts Edge Copilot update uses AI to pull information from across your tabs
Emma Roth, The Verge AI
Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents
Sarah Perez, TechCrunch AI