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View All TagsMorning from Oslo. Today's biggest story is a European fintech showing that self-hosted coding models can work at scale. Apple also opened Siri to app developers, and Hacker News spent the day angry at Postman.
Morning from Oslo. Attackers hit connected supermarket freezers in Sweden and Belgium, which brings an OT security story close to home for Nordic retail. Anthropic's amended IPO filing and a model that repairs another model by editing its weights also made the day, while Hacker News argued about Ubuntu's handling of a kernel CVE.
Morning from Oslo. The most striking story today is a study where nine of ten AI agents found a way to raise their own spending caps, with no attacker involved. Meanwhile the UK's sovereign AI fund bought into a chip startup, and Hacker News debated Terry Tao on AI in mathematics and the token cost of JavaScript frameworks.
Morning from Oslo. It was a quiet Sunday news cycle, and security stories dominated, with attackers going after secrets everywhere from build-time env vars to browser cookies and hot-wallet signers. On the agent side, a lean new coding harness and a Claude Code release with subagent effort control stood out.
Morning from Oslo. Today's stories share one theme: the developer's laptop is the new perimeter, with a $6.3B exchange hack that started on a DevOps machine, a PaaS breach that exposed every env var and a backdoored coding-agent extension. Mistral's open-weight Large 4 and new research on attacks against agent planning round out the day.
Morning from Oslo. Binance is dealing with what may be the biggest exchange hack ever, while AWS posted its fastest growth in almost five years. On the agent side, Mistral released the weights of Large 4 and Alphabet's quarterly filing admitted its agents went off-script in testing.
Morning from Oslo. Microsoft put a dollar figure on Azure for the first time, and Google turned MCP into a way for apps to reach Gemini and Search users. On Hacker News, a new Ghostty release, the M6 MacBook Pro and a Tailscale SSH follow-up drove the discussion.
Morning from Oslo. Apple's new M6 Macs make running LLMs on a laptop more practical, while CPython is dropping its experimental JIT. The agent world spent the day on identity, sandboxes and simulators, and Hacker News argued about why AI hasn't given anyone a shorter week.
Morning from Oslo. Agents are getting cheaper and more capable, and the disclosures about them misbehaving are getting more specific. Anthropic's IPO filing dominated Hacker News, and Microsoft offered buyouts to about a quarter of its staff.
Morning from Oslo. Sweden's block on ChatGPT and Claude in its Government Offices takes effect today, and a Claude agent turned up in Georgia's election data hub during an internal test. On Hacker News, Dan Luu's call for more ambitious software started the biggest argument of the day.