Lightning AI announces founder departure as CEO after 11 years and confirms a $2.5 billion merger with Voltage Park. The company now runs Lightning 2.0 on its own compute, including a new fleet of 25,000 H200 GPUs.
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Founder leaves CEO role; interim CEO appointed.
Lightning operates over 40,000 GPUs across 9 data centers.
Completed $2.5 billion merger with Voltage Park.
Lightning 2.0 runs on 25,000 H200 GPUs, replacing H100s.
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- Original post
- The Yak is Shaved - Linked page
t3mp3st AI war machine scores 90.1% on xbow suite
t3mp3st AI war machine scores 90.1% on xbow’s 104-challenge suite, higher than xbow’s reported 85%. It turns existing AI coding agents into an autonomous security testing system that runs reconnaissance, vulnerability testing and reporting on authorized targets.
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Benchmark: 90.1% on xbow’s 104-challenge suite, versus xbow’s 85% reported.
Works with Claude code, Codex, Hermes, OpenCode and runs locally on Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM without separate API keys.
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XGBoost-metal on M5 Pro Mac mini speeds training 2.56x
XGBoost-metal on an M5 Pro Mac mini trained up to 2.56× faster on the GPU than stock XGBoost on 18 CPU cores. 5M rows finished in 13.7 s versus 35.0 s on CPU. Accuracy and AUC matched to four decimal places.
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Speedup: up to 2.56× faster on GPU vs CPU for 5M rows.
Runtime: 5M rows 13.7 s GPU vs 35.0 s CPU; 1M rows 3.4 s GPU vs 7.8 s CPU.
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sshhole vulnerability – update required for Alpine, OpenWrt, musl boxes
sshhole is out and affects sshd on Alpine, OpenWrt or any musl-based system with password authentication enabled. Users are advised to update immediately.
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sshhole affects sshd on Alpine, OpenWrt or any musl box with password auth on.
Update now.
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- Original post
- sshhole.com - Linked in the post
LionBio nasal spray GLP-1 backed by $6M pre-seed
LionBio announced a nasal spray GLP-1 product and disclosed a $6M pre-seed investment from SPC. The announcement follows the founder’s move from a16z speedrun to become a founder.
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Funding: $6M pre-seed from SPC.
Product: nasal spray GLP-1.
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LionBio nasal spray GLP-1 gets $6M pre-seed funding
LionBio announced a nasal spray GLP-1 product backed by a $6 million pre-seed round from SPC. The post also shows support from a follower.
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Funding: $6M pre-seed from SPC.
Product: nasal spray GLP-1.
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Minion self-hosted runner launch for device connections
Minion is a self-hosted runner that lets agents connect to your PCs and phones and autonomously complete tasks. It enables playing and testing games on any device and is available for free today.
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Launch: Minion, a self-hosted runner for device connections.
Feature: Play & test games on any device.
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Meta buys coding app, OpenAI buys Codex diffs team
Meta bought an app that runs Claude Code and Codex; OpenAI agreed to buy the team behind Codex's diffs. The post lists agent and tool details.
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Conductor: 4 agents, none Meta's
Pierre: Trees, Diffs, Code Storage
