AI’s ‘USB-C’ Standard Faces a Developer Rebellion
The headline on a Hacker News thread in late May was blunt: MCP is dead. The Model Context Protocol, the open standard that was supposed to let AI agents talk…
GitHub Bans Security Researcher Who Published Windows Zero-Day Exploits
The researcher known online as Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare-Eclipse has spent months at war with Microsoft. This week, the company, which owns GitHub, cut off one of their accounts, deleting…
CNN Sues Perplexity, Widening News Industry’s Fight Over AI Search
CNN filed a lawsuit this week against Perplexity AI, accusing the AI search company of scraping and reproducing copyrighted news content at scale, according to the complaint. The suit is…
Altman Says the AI Jobs Apocalypse He Once Predicted Probably Won’t Happen
In 2023, Sam Altman told audiences that “jobs are definitely going to go away” as AI improved. By 2025, he was warning that entire categories of white-collar work, especially entry-level…
Anthropic Ships Claude Opus 4.8 on a Day of Two Wins
The announcement hit the top of Hacker News within hours, drawing more than 1,500 points and over 1,000 comments, the kind of reception developers reserve for releases that change how…
SEC Moves to Lure Companies Back to Public Markets
The number of publicly traded companies in the United States has fallen by roughly half since the mid-1990s, from more than 8,000 to about 4,000 today. Regulators have blamed the…
Dell’s AI Server Surge Lifts Shares Nearly 40%
Michael Dell spent the 1990s convincing corporate buyers that cheap, standardized servers could replace mainframes. The sequel to that story played out after the closing bell Thursday, when Dell Technologies…
Anthropic’s $65 Billion Raise Pushes It Past OpenAI in AI’s Valuation Race
The chipmakers who supply the memory inside artificial-intelligence data centers rarely write checks to software startups. This week, three of the world’s largest memory makers made an exception. Micron Technology,…
Snowflake Commits $6 Billion to AWS in AI Expansion
Snowflake’s founders built the company on Amazon Web Services in 2015, and on Wednesday the data-cloud company deepened that bet by an order of magnitude. Snowflake said it signed a…
HP’s Profit Climbs as AI PCs Lift Sales
The call came on a Wednesday afternoon, and the interim chief executive led with the word that has become HP’s most important sales pitch: AI. Bruce Broussard, who is running…
