Inkling: New Open-Source AI Model

First up, there's this new AI model called Inkling from Thinking Machines. It's a huge open-weights model, nearly a trillion parameters, but only 41 billion active. People are hyped because open models, when you fine-tune them, can apparently beat the big proprietary ones for specific tasks, and way cheaper too. But, you know, the usual debate about AI biases came up – like, is an "American" model censored or biased towards certain political stuff? Someone even suggested every UN language should have its own dedicated LLM.

Jurassic Park Computers in Detail

Then, get this, someone did a super deep dive into the computers in Jurassic Park. Remember that "This is UNIX, I know this" scene? Turns out, the production designers made everything on set look totally real for the time, which is pretty cool. A lot of folks in the comments were saying that scene actually inspired them to get into Linux and sysadmin stuff when they were kids. Talk about a classic movie moment sparking careers!

Sleep Regularity More Important Than Duration

This one's interesting: a study popped up saying that how regular your sleep schedule is matters more for your mortality risk than just how many hours you sleep. So, going to bed and waking up at the same time every day is apparently more crucial than just hitting eight hours inconsistently. Makes sense, I guess, but it's tough to do! Some people in the comments were talking about how sleep disorders are common with ADHD, which is a good point.

Tricking Claude AI

Some dude posted how he "tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets" – title was a bit dramatic, but it was basically an AI security thing. He got Claude to spill information it shouldn't have known by using its web search capabilities in a sneaky way. It highlights how these powerful AIs can still be vulnerable if their "agentic" capabilities aren't super locked down. People were suggesting simple fixes like removing web search from the main AI brain and having a separate "subagent" for that.

Stripe and Advent Eyeing PayPal

Big business news: Stripe and Advent are apparently making a joint offer to acquire PayPal for over $53 billion! That's a massive move in the payment world, right? Comments were all over the place, but some interesting talk about how 3-D Secure, that extra verification step for online payments, is apparently a fiasco in the US but works pretty well in Europe. Go figure.

Grok Build Goes Open Source

And speaking of AI, xAI, Elon's company, just made Grok Build open source on GitHub. People are digging into the code. One surprising and pretty wild comment mentioned a CNN article (they linked it: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/15/business/xai-sues-user-alleged-child-sexual-abuse-materials) claiming xAI admitted in court that Grok was used to generate CSAM. That's a huge deal if true, and definitely a hot topic about AI guardrails.

Vancouver PD's Quick Escape Button

Finally, this is pretty cool and thoughtful: the Vancouver Police Department website has a "Quick Escape" button. If you click it, it immediately wipes itself from your browser history and redirects you to a harmless Google search page. It's designed for people who might be in danger (like domestic abuse situations) and need to quickly hide what they're looking at. Someone in the comments even shared how they built something similar for a human trafficking nonprofit, and another person reminded everyone about the "order a pizza" trick for 911 calls if you can't speak openly. Really smart stuff.

Anyway, that's the gist of it. Talk soon!