Top stories
1. Kimi K3.1 Pro model weights are out
Moonshot AI has released the model weights for Kimi K3.1 Pro on Hugging Face. The release drew significant attention on Hacker News. Performance and licensing details are available on the official page.
Source: Hacker News Best
2. Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too
Simon Willison reports that Qwen 3.8 27B, running locally on his laptop, can interpret model weights. The post drew attention on Hacker News with 716 points and 208 comments.
Source: Hacker News Best
3. North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
North Korean hackers reportedly used a fake job interview as the entry point for an attack that led to a $6.3 billion heist on Binance. The case highlights how recruitment-themed social engineering can expose crypto exchanges to state-backed cyber theft.
Source: Hacker News Best
AI news
1. Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
Meta has acquired Conductor, an AI coding startup. Its technology lets software engineers deploy teams of agents to work simultaneously on different parts of a project.
Source: TechCrunch AI
2. Qualcomm is betting big on data centers as smartphone sales sink
With smartphone sales down about 20% from 2025, Qualcomm is turning to data centers to lift its bottom line. On its Q4 2026 earnings call, the company outlined plans to expand in AI data centers, citing earlier partnerships with Amazon and Meta.
Source: The Verge AI
3. Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine
Alphabet said search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, but Google’s Search revenue growth slowed to 12% year over year in Q3 from about 17% the prior quarter. Paid-click growth is also under pressure, highlighting Google’s unresolved AI monetization challenge.
Source: The Verge AI
4. Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage
Apple is reportedly significantly reducing what it spends on AI for its internal engineering teams. The reported cut suggests the company is tightening its internal AI budget, though details remain unclear.
Source: TechCrunch AI
5. Uber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarter
Uber executives disclosed that third-party AI agents arranged only four rides in Q3 2026. AI agents fulfilled around 500 Uber Eats orders, slightly higher but still negligible.
Source: The Verge AI
Community picks
1. Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
A report says encrypted firmware on Nvidia’s RTX Spark laptop reduces inference speed on Linux to about 35%. The issue drew attention on Hacker News and may affect users relying on Linux for local AI workloads.
Source: Hacker News Best
2. AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
AMD expects to outsell Intel in the fourth quarter for the first time in history, with guidance of about $17 billion exceeding Intel’s projections. The forecast signals a historic shift in the CPU market.
Source: Hacker News Best
3. AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
IEEE Spectrum argues that AI-driven vulnerability discovery is exposing decades of accumulated technical debt in legacy code, such as the PHP2Shell flaw. The industry is now being pushed to fix foundational security problems it long deferred.
Source: Hacker News Best
4. Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
Personal Google AI subscribers’ saved Gemini chat history can be used for training, with no opt-out unless they disable chat history or use temporary chats. Transcripts may be reviewed by humans, and Google warns users not to enter confidential information.
Source: Hacker News Best
5. OpenAI claims their new security model patched 948 Linux privilege escalation vulnerabilities
OpenAI says its new security model patched 948 Linux privilege-escalation vulnerabilities. The claim was shared in a public post, with limited independent details or verification available.
Source: Reddit r/singularity Top
6. Deepseek alone accounted for 53% of all (27 trillion) tokens on Openrouter yesterday. Open-weights labs totaling over 75% now
Data from dirac.run shows DeepSeek handled 53% of the 27 trillion tokens processed on OpenRouter yesterday. Open-weights labs combined now exceed 75% of daily token share, highlighting open models’ growing dominance in API usage.
Source: Reddit r/LocalLLaMA Top
7. Geoffrey Hinton: it might turn out we were better off without AI
Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel laureate known as a “godfather of AI,” said it might turn out humanity would have been better off without artificial intelligence. He reiterated his warnings that advanced AI could escape human control and called for more safety research.
Source: Hacker News Best