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Netflix is developing a new spinoff of its supernatural drama 'Manifest,' which centers on a fresh group of mysterious arrivals and a new central mystery. The move comes not long after the original series concluded, extending the franchise's universe rather than simply continuing its prior storyline.
A Washington Post analysis found that conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles, not electric cars, account for most of the 3.4 million vehicles under active 'park outside' recalls due to fire risk while parked and off. NHTSA has issued 93 such recalls since 2021, with incidents including Kia Tellurides with overheating seat switches and Ford Expeditions with faulty circuit boards linked to at least 16 fires.
The 2026 US Open Tennis Championships will run from Sunday, August 30 through Sunday, September 13 at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, New York. The tournament, the year's final Grand Slam, will be broadcast across ESPN, ABC and The Tennis Channel, with the ESPN app offering the most convenient streaming access for fans.
Tencent has released Hy4 preview, a large language model with 770 billion total parameters, 49 billion active parameters, and a context window over 1 million tokens, aimed at coding, office and research tasks. The model is open-source and also accessible via Tencent's WorkBuddy, CodeBuddy, Yuanbao and ima apps, plus API access through Tencent Cloud TokenHub and OpenRouter, with free trials offered for two weeks.
An Entrepreneur contributor recounts how a brain tumor diagnosis at 25, discovered while studying architecture under mentor Thom Mayne at UCLA, forced him to leave his program and face mounting medical debt. He taught himself day trading from scratch, eventually building it into a career now verified as generating seven-figure returns.
Laytr is a new iPhone app that lets users save links, screenshots, and other content via the native share sheet, then organize them into Now, Timeline, and Library tabs for later reference. Unlike most bookmarking tools, it stores everything locally on-device with no accounts or iCloud syncing involved.
A software engineer describes how LLM coding assistants perform well on new, small projects but degrade sharply on older codebases burdened with technical debt and inconsistent naming conventions. The core problem, he argues, isn't the AI model itself but that legacy systems lack a clear, shared vocabulary for concepts, forcing the model to guess and often introduce duplicate or wrong abstractions. He proposes incrementally building clarity into codebases—using domain-driven design principles—so AI agents have unambiguous context to work from.
An engineer upgrading a MySQL database via a replica discovered that a table's auto-incrementing primary key was assigned in a different row order on the replica than on the source. Because six related tables had been migrated to reference these new IDs, one of them ended up pointing to completely wrong rows after the switchover, while the other five happened to remain correct.
Anthropic announced it will permanently raise Claude Code's standard weekly usage limits by 25% for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans starting September 14. However, this replaces a temporary 50% boost currently in effect, meaning users will actually see a 17% reduction in usage compared to what they have today. Anthropic initially framed the change as an increase before deleting the post and issuing a clarification acknowledging the cut.
OpenAI said it will stop supplying its AI models to coding startup Cursor, effective Nov. 12, 2026, after SpaceX completed a $60 billion acquisition of Cursor earlier this month. Cursor CEO Michael Truell said OpenAI models handle about 5% of Cursor's user traffic and that talks are underway to resolve the dispute.
The Washington Post reports that private conversations users have had with AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are increasingly surfacing as evidence in court proceedings. In one case, a financial executive facing federal fraud charges tried to shield his Claude conversations from prosecutors, but a judge ruled that attorney-client privilege did not apply since the chatbot is not a lawyer and his own attorneys hadn't directed him to use it.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have filed a joint lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally torrented and scraped thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train its Claude models. The publishers are seeking a jury trial and statutory damages of up to $150,000 per infringed work plus $25,000 for each removal of copyright management information, a total that could reach into the billions.