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Show HN: AirmailAI, a BYOK LLM chat app with a browser extension backend
A new open-source chat interface called AirmailAI launched this week with a single design principle: your conversations and API keys should never leave your browser. The project supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and OpenRouter A...
Health benefits platform Thatch reaches $1B valuation as healthcare costs surge
Thatch, a platform that helps employers manage healthcare benefits through individual plan marketplaces, raised $108 million at a $1 billion valuation this week. The round came from existing investors The General Partnership, Inde...
AI-Assisted Discovery Helps Microsoft Patch More Than 1,000 Vulnerabilities in a Month
Microsoft's September 2026 security update patched more than 950 vulnerabilities, bringing the company's total for the year to roughly 2,750, more than double its previous annual record of about 1,250 set in 2020. The numbers refl...
AI is now leading driver of new cybersecurity spending
Artificial intelligence is now the primary reason organizations are increasing their cybersecurity budgets, according to the 2026 Security Budget Benchmark Report from IANS and Artico Search. Seven out of every 10 chief informatio...
Show HN: Chronicle – Local-first, open-source authoring software for writers
A new open-source tool called Chronicle is challenging the paid subscription model that dominates the novel-writing software market. The application, created by developer Petre Popescu, bundles a WYSIWYG editor, timeline planner,...
Neurogrid the Community Cloud for LLMs
A new platform called Neurogrid is trying to redistribute the economics of AI inference by turning idle consumer GPUs into a distributed compute marketplace. Rather than routing language model workloads through centralized data ce...
A Blender BPY skill that helps smaller LLMs build better 3D models
A new open-source skill file is trying to answer a question that gained urgency after GPT-6 ASTRA's 3D capabilities made headlines: can a small, cheap language model with no specialized 3D training produce usable Blender scenes if...
OpenAI DevDay 2026
OpenAI has announced DevDay 2026, its annual developer conference, scheduled for September 29 in San Francisco. The one-day event brings developers into technical sessions with the teams building OpenAI's tools, with an opening ke...
Show HN: Sunk Cost – How long until a local LLM rig pays for itself?
A new web tool called Sunk Cost attempts to answer a question every developer running local language models eventually asks: how many API calls does it take before the GPU you already bought starts saving you money? The calculator...
Show HN: Chess Cheater Detector
A web tool called ChessCheaterDetector is offering players and tournament organizers a way to quantify how engine-like a chess game looks from a statistical perspective. The site at chesscheaterdetector.com takes a PGN file, runs...