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★ Must ReadOpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates

Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.

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Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI

Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah. I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them.

Hacker News · 1 min
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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom

Surging demand for AI training data is driving rapid growth for the startup and its rivals.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
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Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels

Slack is introducing dedicated channels where teams can vibe-code together with AI agents instead of jumping between different tools and conversations. The Slack Code launch includes open, project-specific code channels with dedicated user tabs, alongside features that compare coding changes and preview HTML output before the project is shipped. "With Slack Code, when you have an idea or need to build a new feature, update a web page, or fix a bug, you simply tag in a coding agent like Anthropic's Claude or Cognition's Devin, and that agent then spins up a code channel to tackle the task," Slack said in its press release.

The Verge AI · 2 min
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The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief

Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI

Platformer · 2 min
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Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM

Trending on Hacker News with 195 points and 211 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plug-in
TechCrunch AI

Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.

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Show HN: I trained a 125M model to autocomplete piano on-device
Hacker News

I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a MIDI piano. The model then continues what you played, entirely on-device.

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★ Must ReadOpenAI is becoming a surveillance company

It’s not even really trying to hide it

Leopold’s Folly

How what one young man did might come to symbolize an entire era

[AINews] Death of Params: Z.ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5.3 and the new Post-training Scaling Law

Latent Space — [AINews] Death of Params: Z. ai CEO Jie Tang on GLM 5. 3 and t...

Qwen3.8 27B and Muse Glimmer Benchmarks: Accuracy, Token Efficiency and Memory Use

Qwen3. 8 is remarkably capable, while Muse Glimmer reveals a very different approach to reasoning and memory efficiency.

Kimi 3 ~ New Seminar Recording

AI by Hand — Kimi 3 ~ New Seminar Recording

Context Engineering in 2026

Louis Bouchard — Context Engineering in 2026

★ Must ReadThe /wayfinder Skill: Navigating the “Fog of War” of Planning

Matt Pocock tells us about his /wayfinder skill, for greenfield projects or for when the way forward is unclear.

OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
Julie Bort, TechCrunch AI
Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels
Jess Weatherbed, The Verge AI
The website that created an AI clone of its editor in chief
Casey Newton, Platformer