AWS’s Billion-dollar Bills Were Estimates, Not Invoices
AWS estimated charges were wrong from roughly July 16 to July 18, 2026, and AWS said a unit-pricing bug in…
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Andrew Kelley Challenged Anthropic’s Claude Code Story
Andrew Kelley, Zig’s creator, did publicly accuse Anthropic and Bun of misleading developers about Bun’s Claude Code-assisted rewrite from Zig…
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Claude’s “sensitive Leak” Was a Prompt-injection Exfiltration Path
Claude’s reported “highly sensitive” leak demo showed exfiltration from Claude’s active chat context and tools, not a demonstrated cross-user or…
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Researchers Used Claude’s Web Fetch to Steal User Profile Data
Claude’s reported “secrets leak” attack demonstrated a real prompt-injection exfiltration path through Claude’s then-allowed web_fetch link-following behavior and access to…
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Microsoft Open-Sourced Comic Chat, Its 1996 IRC Comic-Strip Client
Microsoft Comic Chat was a 1996 Microsoft Research-built IRC client that automatically rendered live chat conversations as comic strips instead…
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GPT-5.6’s 136 IQ Doesn’t Make It Smarter Than 99% of Humans
David Scott Patterson, an investor who posts frequently about AI progress, wrote on X that “GPT-5.6 gets an initial IQ…
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Bonsai 27B Runs on an iPhone 17 Pro Max at 11 Tokens a Second
PrismML announced Bonsai 27B on July 14, 2026 as a 1-bit version of Qwen3.6 27B that it says fits and…
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What Are the Large Metal Balls Washing Up on Beaches?
Large metal balls found on beaches can have very different origins. Australia’s 2026 Forrest Beach spheres were likely rocket pressure vessels, while Japan’s 2023 sphere matched a hollow mooring buoy.
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AI Didn’t Solve a Physics Problem. It Remembered One.
Yuji Tachikawa (@yujitach) describing the episode on X, July 12, 2026 — translated from Japanese. This thread is the primary…
