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xAI sued for firing an engineer who raised alarms about Grok safety

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/10/xai-fired-an-engineer-who-raised-alarms-about-grok-safety-new-lawsuit-claims/
4•reasonableklout•2d ago

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reasonableklout•2d ago
Interesting bit blaming Jimmy Ba for much of the cultural issues:

> Interestingly, the lawsuit doesn’t implicate Musk himself as a reason for a lack of safety. Rather, Kim’s lawyers describe Musk as having directed xAI to follow the law and implement appropriate safety and testing processes. Instead the claim targets Kim’s supervisor, xAI co-founder Jimmy Ba — who left the company earlier this year — saying that Ba ignored Musk’s directives and retaliated against Kim for pushing for safeguards, in an effort to “silence his repeated complaints about AI safety and biases.”

naimishomar11•2d ago
Interesting

Show HN: Created On-Page SEO Tool – AI Action Plans for Search Console Data

https://blogr.ai
1•karakhanyans•2m ago•0 comments

Show HN: APK-interceptor – Android deeplink, Intent assessment helper

https://github.com/sterrasec/apk-interceptor
1•tkmru•5m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Local automation runner with built-in LLM steps – YAML pipelines

https://rorlikowski.github.io/stepyard/
1•rorlikowski•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: WhatsKept – Searchable,agent-queryable WhatsApp history from iOS backup

https://github.com/alkait/whatskept
1•tenthead•14m ago•0 comments

Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara on Her 100th "Little People, Big Dreams" Book

https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=36753
1•zeristor•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: F1l0 – Fitness Logger

https://f1l0.nickyreinert.de/
1•y42•21m ago•0 comments

Data Center Warfare: Defending AI Infrastructure

https://mwi.westpoint.edu/data-center-warfare-defending-the-key-terrain-of-ai-infrastructure/
1•Alien1Being•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I'm building a free TradingView alternative

https://www.aulico.com
1•rendernos•25m ago•0 comments

Banned

https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2026/06/19/banned/
2•ColinWright•33m ago•0 comments

Most indie devs build the wrong features. Here's one pattern that helps

https://featurebuddy.com/
2•dvanach•34m ago•1 comments

Nvidia Vera CPU Performance Compares to the Ampere Altra Max

https://www.phoronix.com/review/ampere-altra-nvidia-vera
1•rbanffy•34m ago•1 comments

EPEX: Matrix-free coefficient expansion for low-memory LWE experiments

https://zenodo.org/records/20743190
1•TomIRN•38m ago•0 comments

QuEra's Libra Fault-Tolerant Quantum System Heading to Amazon Braket Service

https://www.nextplatform.com/compute/2026/06/16/queras-libra-fault-tolerant-quantum-system-headin...
1•rbanffy•38m ago•0 comments

Fli -a tiny (18KB) easy to read file listing tool. Rust no_std and Libc

2•tracyspacy•40m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SciCollab – A platform where research happens, together

https://www.scicollab.org/
1•pixelatedRudy•42m ago•0 comments

Maptap.gg – Daily Geography Game

https://maptap.gg/
1•Gathering6678•43m ago•0 comments

Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/microsoft-spots-new-self-propagating-malware-for-stealin...
1•rbanffy•43m ago•0 comments

Nigeria's Babylon System [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vlmEuIPRIs
1•daesorin•44m ago•0 comments

Taste and judgement are lies we tell ourselves

https://technotes.substack.com/p/taste-and-judgement-are-lies-we-tell
3•mkagenius•47m ago•0 comments

"Show HN" " alternative to dark matter, tested across galaxy to cosmic scales"

2•SPruynIDR•50m ago•0 comments

Trump administration to phase out HIV funding

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/18/pepfar-south-africa-white-afrikaners-hiv-aids-00968479
6•Alien1Being•55m ago•1 comments

'Politically naive': The fight behind Anthropic's export controls

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/19/he-has-to-find-a-way-to-be-friends-the-political-fight-b...
3•Alien1Being•56m ago•0 comments

Getting Back to Basics by Abusing AI

https://blog.unitedheroes.net/5752
2•simonebrunozzi•1h ago•0 comments

Solved and Unsolved: The Status of Hilbert's 23 Problems in Mathematics

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2•nill0•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Aastro – Extendable API Gateway in Go

https://starwalkn.github.io/aastro-docs/
2•starwalkn•1h ago•0 comments

An empirical fit to 171 galaxy rotation curves with zero free parameters

https://github.com/SPruynIDR/Galaxy-Rotation-Curves-SPARC-Validation-Test
4•SPruynIDR•1h ago•0 comments

Stop Naming Your Variables "Flag": The Art of Boolean Prefixes

https://thatamazingprogrammer.com/posts/stop-naming-your-variables-flag-the-art-of-boolean-prefixes/
1•theanonymousone•1h ago•0 comments

James Burrows, legendary director of Cheers and Friends, dies aged 85

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8k07x523eo
2•mellosouls•1h ago•0 comments

Stop Saying Half of 2026 US Datacenter Capacity Is Canceled

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/stop-saying-half-of-2026-us-datacenter
1•alecco•1h ago•0 comments

It's Time to Clean Up Human Slop

https://thenewstack.io/ai-code-review-self-review/
2•fatliverfreddy•1h ago•0 comments