[ai]April 29, 2026
Gaussian Splat as a Videogame: The AI Trick Changing Game Dev Forever
A developer turned a Gaussian Splat into a fully playable videogame level and posted it on Hacker News — and it's a bigger deal than it sounds. Here's why the game development industry should be paying close attention.
[ai]April 29, 2026
Silent AI failures: the reliability gap nobody is measuring
The most expensive AI failures don't throw errors — they just confidently produce wrong answers. Here's why enterprise monitoring is completely blind to them.
[tech]April 29, 2026
CVSS said these Palo Alto CVEs were fine. Chained, they handed root to 13,000 devices
Two Palo Alto CVEs scored as separate, manageable risks. Attackers chained them together and got root access across 13,000 exposed management interfaces. This is a triage problem, not a patching problem.
[ai]April 29, 2026
DeepSeek-V4 hits frontier AI performance at 1/6th the cost of Opus 4.7
DeepSeek-V4 is a 1.6-trillion-parameter open-source model that nearly matches the world's best closed AI systems at a fraction of the price. The second DeepSeek moment is here.
[ai]April 28, 2026
Amateur Armed with ChatGPT Solves an Erdős Problem
An amateur mathematician used ChatGPT to crack an open problem left by Paul Erdős. No PhD, no institution — just curiosity and an AI chatbot.
[startups]April 28, 2026
China Blocks Meta's $2B Manus Deal — Zuckerberg's AI Agent Bet Unravels
China has ordered Meta to unwind its $2B acquisition of Manus AI after a months-long probe. Zuckerberg's boldest AI agents move just hit a wall.
[ai]April 28, 2026
Why SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
SWE-bench Verified was the gold standard for AI coding benchmarks. It isn't anymore — and that should change how you read every model leaderboard out there.
[startups]April 28, 2026
Itron hacked: critical infrastructure giant confirms breach
Itron, the tech company behind water and energy monitoring for hundreds of millions of homes, confirmed it was hacked. This one's bigger than a typical data breach.
[startups]April 27, 2026
Lachy Groom to Back India's Pronto Startup at $200M Valuation
Ex-Stripe exec Lachy Groom is reportedly set to invest in Indian house-help startup Pronto at a $200M valuation — doubling it in just weeks.
[startups]April 27, 2026
Cohere and Aleph Alpha merge to build a transatlantic AI powerhouse
Cohere and Aleph Alpha are joining forces to create a transatlantic AI powerhouse targeting regulated industries and governments. Here's why this deal matters beyond the press release.