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SpaceXAI Unveils Grok 4.5 AI Model – EU Users Must Wait

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, its new flagship model trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. It targets complex coding, agentic workflows and knowledge work, delivering strong benchmark results at lower cost tha…

heise Developer · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Georg

AI · Security

Symlink Vulnerability in Six Coding Agents Allows Arbitrary File Access

Wiz researchers discovered GhostApproval, a critical flaw in Amazon Q Developer, Claude Code, Augment, Cursor, Google Antigravity, and Windsurf. Attackers can exploit symbolic links in malicious repositories to trick AI …

heise Developer · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue states that open source AI is gaining strong momentum. The platform functions as a central hub for sharing and accessing AI models and datasets, comparable to GitHub, and is now used by rou…

TechCrunch (AI) · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Georg

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Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft by former employees

Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming that former Apple employees transferred proprietary technology and confidential information to OpenAI without authorization. The suit alleges breach of employment agreem…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Heiko

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GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition

OpenAI announces GPT-5.6, emphasizing improved token efficiency, cost-performance ratio, and on-demand capability for complex tasks. The model targets developers seeking higher intelligence density and better economics f…

OpenAI News · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Introducing GPT-Live

OpenAI unveiled GPT-Live, a new voice model generation enabling natural human-AI conversation. The technology now powers ChatGPT Voice, advancing real-time spoken interactions with AI assistants and expanding multimodal …

OpenAI News · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Heiko

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China's MiniMax Plans 2.7-Trillion Parameter Model

MiniMax is developing M3 Pro, a 2.7-trillion parameter LLM expected to launch and be open-sourced in Q3 2025. The model represents a major scaling up from the current M3 flagship (428B parameters) and aims to improve com…

r/LocalLLaMA (Top) · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Local LLMs need RAG for accurate technical answers

Developer benchmarked local models (Gemma, Qwen, Apple Intelligence) on 7,648 technical QA questions from popular documentation. Standalone models scored poorly; adding RAG with document retrieval dramatically improved a…

r/LocalLLaMA (Top) · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Hy3 generates full flight simulator in single HTML page

Hy3, a free model accessible via OpenRouter, demonstrated strong code generation by creating a functional, visually polished flight simulator from a natural language prompt in a single HTML file. The output showcases the…

r/LocalLLaMA (Top) · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Heiko

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Apple sues OpenAI, accusing it of stealing company secrets

Apple has initiated legal proceedings against OpenAI. The complaint alleges that OpenAI misappropriated proprietary company information and trade secrets. The suit underscores growing friction between major technology fi…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Jul 10, 2026 curated by Georg

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We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps

A side-by-side test tasked Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5 and Claude with building identical applications. The experiment measures differences in code quality, feature completeness and developer experience across the three models on …

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Georg

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Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

OpenAI says a new analysis points to reliability and accuracy issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used coding benchmark. The findings raise questions about how well current evaluations measure real model performance and wh…

OpenAI News · Jul 8, 2026 curated by Charlie

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GPT-5.6

OpenAI has released GPT-5.6. The announcement is accompanied by a deployment safety report and updated developer documentation covering the latest model. The story attracted strong interest on Hacker News, with 1500 poin…

Hacker News (AI, ≥100 P.) · Jul 9, 2026 curated by Georg