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Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them

Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business

<a href="https://archive.ph/rlAbY" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/rlAbY</a><p><a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-us-bid-force-ad-tech-sale-2026-09-02/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/google-defeats-us-b...</a>

Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?

<a href="https://status.openai.com" rel="nofollow">https://status.openai.com</a><p><a href="https://status.claude.com" rel="nofollow">https://status.claude.com</a><p><a href="https://status.x.ai" rel="nofollow">https://status.x.ai</a><p><i>ChatGPT outage – Resolved</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49550614</a> (315 comments)<p><i>Claude outage – Resolved</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49549676</a> (146 comments)<p><i>Grok outage</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551589">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49551589</a> (142 comments)

Muse Spark 1.3

<a href="https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3" rel="nofollow">https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3</a>

Audacity 4.0

.name Termination

.name Termination

GPT-6 Astra

System Card: <a href="https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra" rel="nofollow">https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra</a><p>Related ongoing threads:<p><i>OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691</a><p><i>GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556147">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556147</a>

GPT-6 Astra

System Card: <a href="https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra" rel="nofollow">https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astra</a><p>Related ongoing threads:<p><i>OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49555691</a><p><i>GPT-6 Astra makes major gains in the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556147">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556147</a>

True Rate of Unemployment

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS

A note on subscription prices from LWN

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

<a href="https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/" rel="nofollow">https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/</a>

Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber

<a href="https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/" rel="nofollow">https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-8-flash/</a>

Hang on to Your Firefox

Terence Tao explains 6 essential mathematical concepts [video]

I trained a small transformer in 1.5hrs and it beats many LLMs

Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates