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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadOpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B

The funding discussions point to investor interest in applying AI to make breakthroughs in life sciences.

TechCrunch AI· Marina Temkin· 2 min· 7d agoSource →
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How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

Trending on Hacker News with 449 points and 509 comments.

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Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

Trending on Hacker News with 389 points and 389 comments.

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Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity

Trending on Hacker News with 268 points and 353 comments.

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OpenAI’s first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
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OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year

OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to "understand" your environment. The report comes just days after Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that accused the AI company of stealing hardware secrets.

The Verge AI · 2 min
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“Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing for AI”
— Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus — Breaking: Demis Hassabis endorses preflight safety testing f...

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“Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone”
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Trending on Hacker News with 461 points and 171 comments.

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★ Must Read5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026

At this year's AIE World’s Fair, AI engineering entered a new phase: building systems around agents, rather than just building with agents.

Latent Space· Richard MacManus· 3 min· 7d agoSource →

[AINews] Codex usage up >10x in 6 months to 7M users, +1M in the past ~day; did Codex overtake Claude Code??

a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...

Latent Space· 3 min· 8d agoSource →

LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros

Trending on Hacker News with 58 points and 7 comments.

Hacker News· 1 min· 7d agoSource →
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The Biggest Bet of My Career

After six years of teaching AI, we’re building something new

Louis Bouchard· Louis-François Bouchard· 2 min· 7d agoSource →

Frontier AI Software Engineering Seminar #7 ~ Richard Hsu, Nuro + previous recordings

Join me this Thursday to learn from Richard Hsu at Nuro.

AI by Hand· Prof. Tom Yeh· 2 min· 8d agoSource →

Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.

Ars Technica AI· Dan Goodin · 2 min· 7d agoSource →
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★ Must Read[AINews] not much happened today

a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.

Latent Space· 3 min· 7d agolong readSource →
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“OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B”
— Marina Temkin, TechCrunch AI
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“OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year”
— Emma Roth, The Verge AI
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“5 Trends That Defined AI Engineering at World’s Fair 2026”
— Richard MacManus, Latent Space
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