Arena AI Model ELO History

🔥 Explore this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Why this exists? AI labs frequently update their models post-launch. These updates sometimes introduce "nerfs" such as aggressive censorship, excessive quantization (to save compute costs), or behavioral degradation. This chart exposes these hidden trends. Note on Web UIs vs. API: LMSYS Arena tests model performance via API endpoints (the "raw" model). Consumer chat interfaces (like gemini.com or chatgpt.com) often add system prompts, safety filters, and UI-specific wrappers not present in the raw API. Providers may also silently switch to quantized (lower-precision) versions of models to…
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Clio’s $500M milestone hits as Anthropic ups the ante

Clio’s $500M milestone hits as Anthropic ups the ante

✨ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Startups,Clio,legal tech 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: While AI is now being applied to everything from healthcare to customer support, no single use case has been as popular or lucrative as writing code. Jack Newton, co-founder and CEO of Clio, a Canadian law firm management software company, is convinced that legal technology is poised to be the next big winner in the MBA era. That's a self-interested claim — 18-year-old Clio is a legal technology company — but the numbers are hard to dismiss. Clio saw its revenue growth accelerate sharply…
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Introducing Claude for Small Business \ Anthropic

Introducing Claude for Small Business \ Anthropic

🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: We're launching Claude for Small Business—a package of connectors and ready-to-run workflows that put Claude inside the tools small businesses depend on—to help small business owners take full advantage of AI and cross off items on the to-do list.Small businesses account for 44% of U.S. GDP and employ nearly half the private-sector workforce, but their adoption of AI has lagged behind larger enterprises. Tools and training are rarely tailored to the ways small businesses operate, and as a result their use often stops at…
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Ransomware hackers claim a breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google and Nvidia.

Ransomware hackers claim a breach at Foxconn, a major electronics manufacturer for Apple, Google and Nvidia.

💥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Apple,cybercrime,cybersecurity,Foxconn,Google,hacking,In Brief,nvidia,ransomware 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes devices and components for Apple, Google, Nvidia and Sony, among other tech giants, confirmed on Monday that it had been hit by a cyberattack that may have affected some of its factories. Foxconn said in a statement sent to the media that the cyberattack affected facilities in North America, and that "the affected factories are currently resuming their normal production." Ransomware gang Nitrogen claimed responsibility for the Foxconn hack in a statement on its dark web leak site,…
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Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

Microsoft BitLocker-protected drives can now be opened with just some files on a USB stick — YellowKey zero-day exploit demonstrates an apparent backdoor

💥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There's nothing more dangerous than a bored engineer with a screwdriver, and hell hath no fury like a security researcher scorned. Last month, Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) published two zero-day exploits, BlueHammer and RedSun, that made Windows Defender offer up system administrator privileges. They did this after their disclosure reports were allegedly dismissed by Microsoft's security team, resulting in a vendetta of sorts. Eclipse has now done it again, posting two new zero-day exploits, the first one an extremely serious BitLocker exploit…
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Man is attracting a new type of customer: small business owners

Man is attracting a new type of customer: small business owners

🚀 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Anthropic,Claude,SMBs 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic is looking to take small companies to court. To that end, the company on Wednesday announced the launch of Claude for Small Business, a new suite of services designed for customers who look less like Walmart and Starbucks and more like your local hardware store or coffee shop. To date, most AI adoption has been done at the enterprise level. In the recent past, studies have shown that most companies that have scaled AI systems beyond experimental or experimental integration tend to be…
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Disgruntled researcher releases two more Microsoft zero-days

Disgruntled researcher releases two more Microsoft zero-days

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Security Security pros warn YellowKey claim could make stolen laptops a much bigger problem The anonymous security researcher who has already maliciously exposed three Windows zero-days this year has revealed two more, dropping them just after Microsoft's monthly Patch Tuesday update. Nightmare-Eclipse, or Chaotic Eclipse, depending on which of their aliases you prefer, released details about YellowKey and GreenPlasma - respectively a BitLocker bypass and a privilege escalation flaw, handing SYSTEM access to attackers.Experts speaking to The Register warned that both vulnerabilities present serious security concerns, especially…
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Who trusts Sam Altman? | TechCrunch

Who trusts Sam Altman? | TechCrunch

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Elon Musk,OpenAI,sam altman ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: In May 2023, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, was sworn in and testified before Congress about regulating AI. Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana heard his thoughts on advanced modeling licensing and asked if Altman was qualified to run a hypothetical AI regulatory agency. “I love my current job,” Altman said with a laugh. “You make a lot of money, don't you?” Kennedy asked him. “No, I get paid enough money for health insurance,” Altman assured him, “and I don’t have any shares in…
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Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain

🚀 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: tl;dr In the US, can get a domain name like somename.city.state.us for free. If your town has its own domain, you can get nameservers from Amazon Lightsail, send the Interim .US Domain Template to the delegated manager for your locality to register one, then point DNS entries at your webhost. What’s a locality domain? A locality domain is a domain name that’s associated with a location in the United States, such as frederick.seattle.wa.us (which currently redirects to fredchan.org). Locality domains were first created in 1992,…
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Instagram’s new “Instants” feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal

Instagram’s new “Instants” feature combines elements from Snapchat and BeReal

✨ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Social,bereal,Instagram,Meta,Snapchat 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Instagram announced on Wednesday that it is launching “Instants” globally, a new feature for sharing original and disappearing photos after testing it with select users. This feature allows users to share disappearing photos with their close friends or common followers which can be viewed only once and remain available for 24 hours. The app borrows ideas from social media platforms like Snapchat, Locket, and BeReal, focusing on original and ephemeral content. Unlike Instagram, which is all about curated, polished content, Instants are designed for…
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