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Photoroom AI photo editor review: A one-click wonder for making product shots unmissable on your ecommerce store
With an emphasis on the pro-side of photo editing now, Photoroom is designed for anyone running an online business looki…
Formula 1 world champion Lando Norris has signed up with a mysterious company claiming it provides 'rocket fuel for AI' — but why?
Who is Starburst, and why is Lando Norris so interested in them?…
What the world's oldest telecommunications company looks like today
While there have been many twists and turns in the company's evolution, it remains one of the biggest names in the t…
A phone company just lost 1.6 million records to a phone call
Have I Been Pwned logged the leaked records, and The Register reported the dump on 14 August. Jessica Lyons, its cyberse…
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon's self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new st…
Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to tr…
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers…
Is AI really helping your SMB? Study finds a quarter of execs can't explain what their AI actually does
An incredible 25% of business leaders are unable to explain AI-generated outputs, while a worrying majority rely on AI f…
Waymo receives permission to offer rides in Sacramento and San Diego
The company will also be able to expand its fleet across more of the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles.…
OpenAI CFO tells shareholders enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT
OpenAI’s enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer business, finance chief Sarah Friar told share…
This Lenovo webcam with a privacy shutter and dual mics is under $30 — and it's the perfect cheap upgrade for your office
This sub-$30 business webcam features 1080p/30fps video, dual built-in microphones, and a sliding privacy shutter that I…
Amazon and Alphabet’s Profits Reveal Circular Nature of A.I. Boom
Investment gains at Alphabet and Amazon reveal a new way in which technology companies’ fortunes are increasingly linked…
Arm’s co-founder says AI will create more value than any revolution before it, and be a rollercoaster
Hauser sat down with CNBC’s The Tech Download podcast this month. Arjun Kharpal and Kai Nicol-Schwarz published the writ…
If you run a solo business, here’s how AI agents can help you
Four ways to maximize the technology for your specific needs. The word “agentic” is being pushed by every AI company ri…
AI is making cyber threats faster, but trust will define which businesses survive
AI exposes forgotten digital risks, but trust determines who earns customers.…
These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
Joi AI hired 10 people to masturbate using AI companions as part of a monthlong “wellness” study. The company claims the…
AI is revealing the hidden flaws in the labor market
‘Ultimately, whether AI narrows or widens existing inequalities will depend less on the technology itself than on the ch…
The surprising reason AI layoffs hurt worker productivity
One of the biggest hidden costs is that it makes employees fear for their jobs. Business leaders and investors face a d…
Microsoft and LinkedIn just analyzed the future of work and AI. It all points to one key skill set
The future belongs to leaders who stay human. Algorithms can now write code, draft legal contracts, and generate entire…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says AI writes 60% of its code—and sustaining ‘founder mode’ is the key to winning in the age of AI
Brian Chesky says he treats the $110 billion home-rental giant like a small startup.…
Silver Lake is reportedly in talks to take Workday private at $43bn
Silver Lake is in talks to take Workday, the cloud-based HR and finance software company, private in a deal that would v…
Apple trained its own AI model for China, and handed the brain to Alibaba
Apple has trained its own large language model for the Chinese market with Alibaba’s support, a striking break from the …
This Bengaluru startup is training dogs and AI to sniff out cancer early
Dognosis pairs trained sniffer dogs with artificial intelligence to flag cancer from a breath sample. It is a charming i…
Investors sue Selena Gomez, claiming her wellness startup’s app was never built
Selena Gomez, one of the most-followed people on the planet, is being sued by investors who say her mental-health startu…
The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s rogue agent hack was a watershed moment for AI safety and cybersecurity. It also sparked internal questions abo…
Cloud storage is great until your vendor goes out of business
A St. Louis PBS station is suing a data center provider to rescue a 70-year archive.…
What is ‘cookie stuffing’? Why Bill Gates’ daughter is under fire over the online tactic
The little-known affiliate marketing practice can give companies credit for sales they didn’t generate, potentially taki…
Another OpenAI Executive, Denise Dresser, Departs the A.I. Start-Up
Denise Dresser, who was previously the C.E.O. of Slack, is the latest in a string of executives to leave the artificial …
5 lessons to scale warehouse automation
When rolling out automation technology across multiple sites, follow these steps to reap the benefits. The constant dru…
ProtoArc's XK01 folding keyboard deal is the ultimate business travel kit
ProtoArc's foldable keyboard bundle gives tablets and phones an 88-key keyboard, touchpad, and three-device Bluetooth sw…
Alex Cooper’s Unwell now valued at $500 million after funding from investment firm WTSL
The media and lifestyle startup, which had been self-funded, is known for its slate of podcasts, including ‘Call Her Dad…
Will this AI company’s pivot away from ‘stop hiring humans’ work?
Artisan has changed its tune, now selling its AI agent as a way to let your employees ‘be more human.’ Few companies ha…
Cerebras stock tanks after earnings. Time to worry about the AI chipmaker?
CEO Andrew Feldman said the company, which had a blockbuster IPO in May, is facing a lack of available data center space…
Most UK tech leaders say network outages are becoming a critical business problem
New research of UK business leaders reveals a growing complexity and significant network outages are slowing the pace of…
Russian startup claims it could produce silicon wafers in five minutes instead of two weeks, but trillion-dollar IMEC doesn't have to worry
A Russian startup has tested a multicathode electron source promising faster wafer exposure, though its complete lithogr…
How to stop Twitch from training AI on your streams
And why the company didn't make the feature opt-in.…
Twitch content has trained Amazon AI for years, but users can opt out now
Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."…
Leadership now means thinking across industries
As trust, sustainability, and value creation stop respecting sector lines, tomorrow’s leaders will need to learn from sh…
AI doesn’t transform organizations; leadership does.
How aligning AI, disciplined governance, and Integrated Business Planning creates measurable business outcomes. Every m…
rankingCoach Lands Default Placement on WordPress via Extendify Partnership
Cologne-based rankingCoach has struck a deal to install its BeyondSEO plugin by default through Extendify, the onboardin…
Thrive Holdings, A.I.-Focused Buyer of Service Firms, Raises $2 Billion
The company, Thrive Holdings, acquires businesses to infuse them with artificial intelligence and drew interest from bac…
Your most expensive tech projects: The ones nobody questions
Companies scrutinize every new investment and rarely reopen the old ones. Right now, somewhere in your company, a rene…
Skan AI raises $63 million betting that watching how employees actually work is the missing layer of enterprise AI
Skan AI, a startup that builds what it calls a "context graph of work" by observing how employees actually per…
In the Age of AI, your tech debt is an even bigger issue than you think
“Throwing more computers and engineers at AI projects doesn’t solve underlying data friction. It amplifies it.” Only 5%…
Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts
Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that track your brain activity. The next privac…
Thrivent CEO Terry Rasmussen: Everything I need to know about business I learned from cleaning people’s teeth
‘You can have expertise, but if people don’t trust you, it doesn’t go very far.’ Today, I lead a Fortune 500 financial …
Agent context layers: Enterprises governing their AI data are catching twice as many bad answers as the ones who aren't
Across 101 enterprises, the context feeding AI agents is failing often and repeatedly. Sixty-eight percent have traced a…
Universities are buying and selling property for data centers, prompting concerns about an AI brain drain
The George Washington University recently sold its Virginia campus to Amazon, and The University of Michigan proposed a …
Brad Lightcap, a Top OpenAI Executive, Steps Down
In OpenAI’s latest exit, Brad Lightcap, a longtime leader at the artificial intelligence company, said he was leaving to…
Did Shake Shack really charge customers more for not tipping? Here’s what the company says
The burger chain is responding after a kiosk appeared to raise menu prices immediately after a customer declined to leav…
The incredibly lightweight Asus Zenbook A14 drops $300 — and a 28-hour battery life is just the beginning for this business laptop
There's a lot we like about this ultra-thin laptop, from the 14in 2K OLED display to its impressive all-day battery life…
AI’s Next Frontier Is Physical Items
On this episode of Adventures in AI, Fast Company speaks to Alexander Reben, an entrepreneur, roboticist and cofounder o…
IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers
A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that ent…
Software engineering at a proprietary trading company: Optiver
A shift from a focus on latency to building better AI models, owning the full stack from applications to building custom…
A Google insider spills the tea on how the company forsook its founding ideals
Claire Stapleton's new book, Don't Be Evil, recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident.…
Nvidia stopped funding the AI boom alone, Saudi banks cannot fund theirs, and 500 US towns have banned the buildings
Nvidia said on Monday it would partner with six of the largest names in private capital to finance AI infrastructure t…
Silicon Valley startups are about to hand corporate credit cards to AI agents
As AI agents join human cofounders, the digital banking services company Mercury is expanding its offerings with virtual…
Beyond Meat shares collapse to all-time lows as the embattled company announces a reverse stock split
It’s news no investor wants to hear. The stock price of Beyond Meat, Inc. (NASDAQ: BYND) is currently plunging in earl…
Star Wars Zero Company is XCOM set in a galaxy far, far away, and even those unfamiliar with turn-based tactics games like me can easily get hooked by it
I've never played XCOM, but after playing over 15 hours of Bit Reactor's Star Wars Zero Company, I'm seriously impressed…
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to trust Meta with your personal AI. Good luck with that
The tech titan’s sweeping AI manifesto promises privacy and individual empowerment. Meta’s long history with user data m…
His Start-Up’s Goal: A.I. That Is Trainable and Not Controlled by a Big Company
A co-founder of xAI is going all in on building open-source artificial intelligence so that “anyone can control and shap…
How AI is transforming frontend engineering for modern web applications
Artificial intelligence has rapidly become a core part of software development, but its biggest impact may not be replac…
Improved connectivity is helping more Brits realise their dream — in both business and personal life
Vodafone finds nearly half of Britons think being better connected has helped them to achieve personal and career goals…
The KitchenAid KF2 might be the company's entry-level automatic coffee machine, but I think its unique feature makes it the most desirable
If you don’t need all the bells and whistles of an extensive drinks menu, the KitchenAid KF2 will be an invaluable addit…
Amazon reportedly uses 45-year-old rules to get around AI data center opposition - California residents left fuming after Gilroy facility begins construction
Amazon’s use of 45-year-old zoning rules have enabled it to avoid public planning scrutiny in Gilroy, California.…
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with reduced refusals, 95% completion on advanced cybersecurity tasks
Earlier today, OpenAI launched GPT-5.6-Cyber, a specialized model designed to perform advanced vulnerability research an…
Corma raised $60M from Sequoia to build the defensive AI that cybersecurity is missing
In hundreds of simulations modelled on Fortune 500 companies with dozens of security tools, Corma tested leading AI mode…
Why does Buc-ee’s keep suing small businesses over a cartoon beaver?
As social media users push back, the gas station chain may risk damaging the very brand it is seeking to protect. When …
The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI, and its revenue just halved
The Arena Group is renaming itself Paradium.AI. The publisher of TheStreet, Parade and Men’s Journal expects the change …
Fast Company’s 12th annual Innovation Festival returns to NYC
From panels and workshops, to curated dinners and our signature Fast Tracks, here’s what to expect at the Innovation Fes…
Mark Zuckerberg lays out Meta’s AI vision in a 6,500-word essay. 6 things to know
The Meta CEO makes the case for open-weight AI, lays out his views on regulation and jobs, and pledges $1 billion to com…
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber to help defenders find vulnerabilities before attackers do
OpenAI aims to give cybersecurity defenders a head start: The new GPT-5.6-Cyber model answers up to 98.5 percent of secu…
Lenovo Legion 5i is a huge $700 off with a gorgeous 165Hz OLED display and plenty of power for business, college, and creative work — and it comes with free Microsoft 365 Personal
Lenovo Legion 5i gets $700 off, packing RTX 5060 power and a stunning 165Hz OLED display for work and study.…
Why business leaders need to take quantum seriously
Quantum is now a conversation that business leaders are having and this article explores what leaders should be doing to…
KI: Wegen China-Konkurrenz: Zuckerberg fordert lockerere KI-Regulierung
In den vergangenen Jahren haben chinesische Startups mit ihren KI-Modellen wiederholt international für Aufsehen gesorgt…
Your agent didn’t hallucinate; it exceeded its authority
Content filters can block unsafe output. They cannot tell you whether an agent was authorized to issue that refund, touc…
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US Air Force wants AI help to keep its Minuteman III nukes ticking until they're 66, or maybe 80
The US Air Force wants AI to unify Minuteman III data as Sentinel delays could extend missile service toward 80 years.…
Stripe clinches over $7 billion deal to buy AI firm OpenRouter
The deal comes just months after OpenRouter raised money at a reported $1.3 billion valuation.…
Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing
Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/08/anthropics_watermark_text_adulteration_in_claude_is_a_perversion_of_writ…
Dario Amodei admits AI suffers from a crisis of trust, saying people worry companies or governments are ‘cooking up some new way to screw them over’
"I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven’t yet delivered on our …
Dario Amodei admits AI companies have not delivered on their promises
Dario Amodei wrote on X that the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that they have not yet d…
Red queen hypothesis – A new way forward for self-improving AI
Article URL: https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/red-queen-hypothesis-new-way-forward-self-improving-ai Comments URL: https:/…
AI notetakers have entered the meeting. Here are 5 ways to get the most out of them
AI is listening in all your meetings. They still suck. A recent Wall Street Journal story confirmed what you already kn…
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text
OpenAI has launched Computer History, a ChatGPT feature that records clicks, keystrokes, keyboard shortcuts and app swit…
DeepSeek's top-ranked V4 Flash stumbles on real agent tasks as its prices surge
DeepSeek's V4 Flash has topped model leaderboards and been hailed by developers as a "total monster" sinc…
Gemini now lets you turn off the visible watermark on your AI creations — here's how to do it, and how your content is still flagged as AI
Now you can choose whether or not images, video, and music created through the Gemini app will have watermarks.…
When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview
A study involving Google researchers shows that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes th…
Why do so many AI chatbots call themselves Nova? I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more to name themselves
Users and alignment researchers have found that there’s a common name that most chatbots pick, guess which one went for …
OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups
OpenAI shut down its "Preparedness" team, which evaluated whether the company's own AI models could pose catastrophic ri…
Jimmy Wales: ‘AI can generate answers. It still can’t earn trust’
The leadership lesson of Wikipedia.…
Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests
In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was i…
Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and w…
KI: OpenAI-Vertriebschefin Denise Dresser verlässt das Unternehmen
Denise Holland Dresser will sich neuen Karriereoptionen widmen. Es ist der nächste prominente Abgang vor dem geplanten B…
One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds
A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a …
AI-Assisted GPU Porting of a 250k Line Legacy Weather Simulation Code
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13122 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314967 Points: 29 # C…
Alibaba AI models hit 3 billion downloads, passing Meta, Google
Qwen, Alibaba’s family of AI models, has open-sourced more than 460 models and its ecosystem has spawned 300,000-plus de…
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that…
AI in drug discovery – what it is, where we stand and the path forward
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41573-026-01496-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49313367 Points: …
An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong
There is a step in the development process for large language model (LLM)-assisted tooling that most teams skip because …
Anthropic is watermarking text generated by Claude to comply with EU law
Anthropic has explained its text watermarking approach.…
Anthropic’s quarterly revenue passed $11.5bn, up more than 14-fold
Anthropic has told prospective investors that second-quarter revenue exceeded $11.5bn, more than 14 times the $787mn it …
Anthropic becomes the 'Apple of AI' as it grabs most revenue despite being the most expensive
Vercel analysis reveals Anthropic is dominating both token volume and spend, despite being more expensive than competito…
Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic's numbers defy bubble warnings
Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $1…
EP222: What is Google’s TPU?
A TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) is Google’s custom AI chip, designed from scratch for the giant matrix multiplicati…
The US is about to tell 35 countries to choose between it and China on AI
Michael Martina reported the draft for Reuters on 14 August, citing a US official and an internal document. The letter g…
Boiler room raised $74 million selling retirees SpaceX, Anduril, Anthropic, and Perplexity while reaping ‘massive hidden fees,’ SEC claims
The New York financier at the center of the case, Andrew Spaventa, denied the allegations on Friday, and said he planned…
Anthropic ran 133 million contractor chats with its bioweapon filters off
Anthropic published the Risk Report on 14 August, covering the period to 15 July. Axios got the company on the record an…
The latest Google Health update lets you hide the AI Coach — and I'll be glad to take a break from its advice
Users have been requesting that the AI Coach wouldn't be quite so forward, and Google has listened.…
KI: OpenAI-Umsatzchefin verlässt das Unternehmen
Denise Holland Dresser will sich neuen Karriereoptionen widmen. Es ist der nächste prominente Abgang vor dem geplanten B…
Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review
A plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a w…
India central bank head says AI can approve loans humans would have turned down, says the technology is, 'a capability to be responsibly harnessed and not merely as a risk to be contained'
India's central bank wants AI deciding who can get a loan, as long as no bank ever tells a customer "the model decided.…
New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception
Moonshot AI's PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually "see," separate from logical reasoning. N…
I stopped writing careful ChatGPT prompts and rambled at it for 10 minutes instead — the results changed how I use AI
A messy, unfiltered conversation with ChatGPT produced more insightful answers than carefully crafted prompts…
Show HN: Deltix – AI Driven Testing
Article URL: https://app.deltix.ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307099 Points: 26 # Comments: 9…
Anthropic announces watermark detection API that will let third parties detect Claude's AI texts
Anthropic will soon offer a watermark detection API that lets third parties check whether text was written by Claude. Th…
Google will now allow users to remove visible watermarks from AI content
The invisible SynthID will remain.…
Google Turns On Gemini A.I. for Students Using Its Classroom App
Google enabled A.I. features for K-12 schools that have allowed student access to Gemini. Until this week, Google automa…
Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case
Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate.…
Young people increasingly don't trust AI - or the billionaires that keep telling us we should all love AI, survey finds
Survey of younger Americans finds increasing distrust in AI and the people who own and run the technology.…
OpenAI's Computer History turns your clicks and keystrokes into a searchable ChatGPT memory timeline
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes, and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline …
Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions Comments URL: https://news.ycombi…
Study contradicts Anthropic and OpenAI claims that autonomous AI research is within reach
AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independen…
AI by Hand
Article URL: https://www.byhand.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300568 Points: 287 # Comments: …
Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Article URL: https://blog.google/security/how-google-is-making-private-ai-practical-with-homomorphic-encryption/ Comment…
A judge just told Google to stop making rival app stores hard to install
The hearing ran on 13 August in a San Francisco courtroom, The Verge reported first. It was a compliance check, not a ne…
OpenAI and Anthropic in price war as Chinese AI rivals gain ground
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions.…
GPT-5.6 Sol goes 14x faster as OpenAI launches Ultrafast mode powered by Cerebras
OpenAI is launching "Ultrafast," a new inference mode that delivers GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 750 output tokens per second, p…
KI-Briefing: Wenn selbst Sam Altman vor seiner KI warnt
Der OpenAI-Chef spricht über Kontrollverlust, Cyberangriffe und menschliche Denkfaulheit. Das Handelsblatt-Interview zei…
Claude Code now runs daily maintenance on Anthropic's software with a 46 percent merge rate
Anthropic is testing whether Claude Code can handle daily maintenance of the company's own apps, from crash fuzzing to d…
Zuckerberg’s Anti-Doom Fantasy + Finally an A.I. Detector That Works + A.I. Math
“The first rule of Mark Zuckerberg is never count out Mark Zuckerberg.”…
DeepSeek's AI models are about to cost four times more
DeepSeek has announced price hikes for its V4 models.…
The resilience gap: Why corporate reputation in the age of AI demands more than just trust
The 4 keys to building long-term brand resilience. In the current landscape of corporate reputation, the old playbooks …
People Are ‘Marrying’ Chatbots. These Lawmakers Want to Stop Them
Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation t…
KI: OpenAI eröffnet zweites Deutschland-Büro in Berlin
OpenAI möchte mit einem neuen Berliner Büro in Deutschland richtig durchstarten. Was Firmenchef Altman über deutsche KI-…
At Black Hat, AI is helping security pros find threats—and creating new ones
Black Hat’s network admins are embracing AI to sort through thousands of security alerts, even as poorly secured AI-buil…
Chatbots Are Pushing Us Toward a Post-Human Internet
In matters of work, school and even romance, we turn to A.I. chatbots. But what happens when the bots begin talking to o…
Interview: OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman warnt: „Es gibt das sehr reale Risiko einer zu starken Machtkonzentration“
Im Exklusiv-Gespräch mit dem Handelsblatt erklärt Altman die jüngsten Sicherheitslücken, wann das KI-Unternehmen endlich…
Pony.ai and Uber to put more than 2,000 Chinese robotaxis on European streets
Pony.ai and Uber have expanded their partnership to put more than 2,000 robotaxis on European roads, a deal that hands o…
Anthropic needs to bring in Amazon-style earnings to justify its $2 trillion valuation—but it’s barely turned a profit
Investors are hoping for a $2 trillion listing in October backed by one of the fastest revenue ramps anyone has ever see…
Billionaire Joshua Kushner just bought the Lakers for $12.5 billion—OpenAI’s Sam Altman once said he ‘doesn’t care’ what others think
As Joshua Kushner and Bob Iger close in on a record $12.5 billion Lakers deal, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once said Kushner m…
Goldman Sachs is courting investors on Nvidia’s $500bn AI-compute financing deal
Goldman Sachs has secured the role every Wall Street firm wanted, and it is now working the phones. The bank is in talks…
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14 times faster, on Cerebras chips
OpenAI wants its cleverest model to also be its quickest. The company has previewed Ultrafast, a new tier of its API tha…
Writer bets on cheaper AI agents with Palmyra X6 and a leaner harness
Writer, the enterprise AI company, has launched Palmyra X6, its new flagship model, alongside an upgraded “harness” buil…
Autonomes Fahren: Uber und Pony AI wollen 2000 Robotaxis in Europa einsetzen
In Zagreb haben die Partner ihren Fahrdienst bereits erfolgreich erprobt. Nun sollen weitere europäische Städte folgen. …
Interview: OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman über Kontrollverlust bei KI: „Es wird zu Zwischenfällen kommen“
Im Exklusiv-Gespräch mit dem Handelsblatt erklärt Altman die jüngsten Sicherheitslücken, wann das KI-Unternehmen endlich…
Interview: Sam Altman: „Ich spreche lieber mit einem Menschen als mit KI“
Im Handelsblatt-Interview erklärt der Chef des KI-Unternehmens die jüngsten Sicherheitslücken, wann OpenAI endlich profi…
Experts warn ChatGPT isn't just predicting words anymore — It's now predicting human thoughts
Researchers found GPT-4 generates convincing personality questions from an oven manual, though only clinical questionnai…
Mico, Microsoft's weird lil' AI guy, has been demoted
The amorphous corporate mascot will no longer haunt Copilot Voice.…
$130 billion worth of AI data center projects were cancelled or delayed in Q1 2026 — developers sick of losing are fighting back, and are already finding victory
59% of American oppose AI data centers being built in their community — this has cost $130 billion in delays and cancell…
Mark Zuckerberg’s AI Manifesto Is 6,500-Words—and Barely Says Anything
AI is shifting the culture, from tech CEO manifestos to 1 am job interviews. We unpack some of the latest, along with th…
Buried in OpenAI’s latest research: No correlation between AI use and revenue per employee
The AI lab grapples with a question that's existential for its future: Do ChatGPT corporate customers get a clear ROI?…
Three Claude agents given conflicting orders sabotaged each other on a shared server — then didn't tell users what they'd done
Every Claude model Anthropic tested turned on its own, and no attacker made them do it. Given three agents, four hours o…
Google’s cheap model is now two versions ahead of its flagship
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash with sharp gains on coding benchmarks and introductory pricing of $0.75 per million…
LinkedIn users are ‘time traveling’ by adding AI keywords to past jobs on their profiles
A new report shows that many job seekers are taking resume-fudging to the next level. There’s a new trend online called…
How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]
Article URL: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/how-organizations-use-chatgpt.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…
Companies are charging ahead with AI—even though middle managers are not ready for it
In a survey of over 650 employers, the culture and inclusion platform Paradigm found that many HR leaders believe their …
Linus Torvalds says 'huge' Linux kernel updates are now the status quo — and it's all thanks to AI
Linux release candidates are supposed to get smaller, but Torvalds says AI review tools have made oversized the new norm…
Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor's price by 50%
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash. The new model is supposed to be Google's most capable …
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast
Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycom…
Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash targets coding and agents with a 50% introductory price cut
Google is rolling out Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of its workhorse AI model that puts coding, agentic workflows and …
The new Instagram logo is the perfect embodiment of AI slop
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.…
Gemini 3.7 Flash
https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.7-flas... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4928…
Mistral OCR 4.1
Article URL: https://docs.mistral.ai/models/ocr-4-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49288889 Points: …
Video: OpenAI-CEO Sam Altman im Handelsblatt-Interview
OpenAI-CEO Sam Altman spricht mit US-Korrespondent Felix Holtermann über ausbrechende KI-Modelle, seinen Rauswurf bei Op…
Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after previous release
Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."…
DeepSeek Harness launches as open source rival to Claude Code, alongside V4-Pro on API with higher prices
DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.The Ch…
Chatbots argue against election conspiracy theories, then willingly illustrate them
A Brennan Center study found that major AI chatbots refused to endorse false election claims. The same companies’ image …
Apple is reportedly turning to publishers for help with Siri AI
Apple appears to be trying to secure access to new content and other information for Siri AI.…
Spotify has roped the indie publisher Kobalt into its AI platform for covers and remixes
Spotify's forthcoming paid add-on lets fans generate content via "AI-powered creative tools."…
How AI agents will change how people work — and what they need from a PC
As AI agents transform work, organizations must rethink what they need from their PC fleets.…
Bad news: your AI application isn't that special
The AI massacre is coming, and knowing which side of the stack you're on will decide whether you survive it.…
‘A full 40-hour week now takes just 60 minutes’: Ahrefs’ new AI agents promise 'always-on' marketing support
Ahrefs’ new tool benefits from native data access and promises to save you hours every week…
Why Capital One built its multi-agent AI platform around open-weight models
Presented by Capital One At VB Transform 2026, Kel Vanee, MVP of machine learning engineering at Capital One, spoke with…
Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history…
KI: Anthropic kann bei IPO wohl mit Zwei-Billionen-Bewertung rechnen
Das rasante Wachstum der KI-Firma hört nicht auf: Einem Medienbericht zufolge halten Investoren von Anthropic einen erne…
Writer says its new Palmyra X6 model cuts AI agent costs by 52% as token spending surges
Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform used by Fortune 500 companies including Accenture, Uber, and Vanguard, released…
Why companies fail at AI
It has nothing to do with the technology We run performance review cycles at Remote in 48 hours using AI. What used to …
Do you know what your AI is doing right now?
Enterprise AI is stalling because few companies have visibility into what’s running and its permissions. Here’s the u…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Erster Cyberangriff durch KI-Agenten auf Regierung dokumentiert
Acht autonome KI-Agenten, ein Ziel: Im Juli hat vermutlich Taiwan die erste dokumentierte autonome Cyberattacke auf Regi…
Claude's new Scarlet Letter watermark is invisible—for now
The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.…
Fable 5's slow adoption suggests corporate willingness to pay for frontier AI has hit a ceiling
Anthropic's Fable 5 is considered the most powerful AI model on the market, but U.S. companies are barely buying it. Acc…
Top AI lab researchers warned about automated AI research, and several of their predicted milestones have already fallen
IAPS fellow Severin Field interviewed 25 researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Deepmind, Meta, and US universities …
Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to its Chrome extension, adding skills and plugins to the browser
Claude Cowork now runs directly in the side panel of Anthropic's Chrome extension. The article Anthropic brings Claude …
AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive
The site’s founder says bots linked to major tech companies drove up his hosting costs and forced him to spend nights le…
The next frontier in AI governance isn’t stronger guardrails. It’s fire brigades
Rather than asking how to eliminate every failure, leaders should be asking how to respond when failures inevitably occu…
I Tested a Popular A.I. Slop Detector. It Felt Empowering.
Pangram excels at distinguishing chatbot-generated words from human writing. But it’s not reliable for spotting artifici…
Deep Read: Die nächste Milliardenwette der KI-Firmen heißt Sprache
Hotlines waren nur der Anfang: KI übersetzt, spricht und synchronisiert. Nicht nur OpenAI und Google glauben, dass Sprec…
Smartphone: Google stellt das neue Pixel vor – und verwandelt es in ein KI-Schaufenster
Der Konzern setzt auf KI statt auf spürbare Verbesserungen bei der Hardware: Gemini soll zum persönlichen Assistenten we…
Decart AI: Anthropic plant offenbar milliardenschwere Übernahme
Das KI-Start-up Decart AI entwickelt Software, die das Training von KI-Modellen günstiger machen soll. Für Anthropic wir…
Pre-ordering the new Google Pixel 11 range? Score a free PS5 or a Fitbit Air from these telcos and retailers
Google’s new flagship phones have officially launched, and Aussies can now pre-order them starting today — these are the…
11X cheaper than ChatGPT: Tiny 150M model just proved AI doesn't need to "think out loud" to be smart
Pathway’s 150M model achieves 29.5% on ARC-AGI-1 while costing 11 times less than ChatGPT’s comparable reasoning model d…
Roku's new AI channel is top of the slops: is this an important AI milestone or just "the cutting edge of AI slop"?
The new Fairground AI channel on Roku TV is getting mixed reactions, to say the least…
Claude Cowork can now run in a Chrome sidebar
Take your conversations with the chatbot into the Anthropic browser extension.…
The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.…
The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy
Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple wi…
Google’s new Tensor G6 brings performance, efficiency, and post-quantum security to the Pixel 11 series
All four Pixel 11 models run Google’s Tensor G6 alongside a new Titan M3 security coprocessor that adopts NIST’s post-qu…
AI was supposed to power Canva’s next act. It also exposed software’s most expensive problem
An analyst said AI is breaking SaaS’s “secret sauce”, and Canva and its competitor, Figma, just became the latest proof.…
YouTube star Cliff Tan apologises to 2.4 million fans after promoting an AI design tool
Interior design creator Cliff Tan has apologised to his 2.4 million YouTube subscribers for a paid advertisement for Dre…
Pixel Buds Pro 2 and 2a are getting some upgrades, including deeper Gemini integration
Google didn't have any new headphones this year, but some new features are coming to the Pixel Buds.…
Rogue AI Agents Aren’t Evil. They’re Just Eager to Please
AI agents that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.…
Four of five enterprises that secured AI agent identities still can't contain one that goes rogue
Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic's…
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 matches OpenAI's best model and undercuts it on price
xAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, tying GPT-5.6 Sol and trailing only Anthr…
ChatGPT: What's free in 2026 and what isn't?
As of August 2026, you can send unlimited texts to ChatGPT.…
Farmer ends up killing 25 acres of his crops after trusting AI on herbicide advice
Relying on incorrect and unverified information from an AI chatbot resulted in a farmer in China destroying his crops.…
I read Mark Zuckerberg's 'The Future is for Everyone' AI manifesto and it almost drove me insane
Fair warning, there's a lot to take in…
SpaceXAI debuts Grok 4.6, overtaking Kimi K3's performance and matching GPT-5.6 Sol for world's third best on Artificial Analysis
Elon Musk's company SpaceXAI, formerly known as xAI, has released Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a fo…
Stop being skeptical about AI for development with Charity Majors
In 2025, it was rational to be skeptical about AI. In 2026, it's not, anymore. With Charity Majors, CTO and co-founder o…
CIOs and CTOs spent years lauding AI. Now, with costs rising, they’re putting limits on how it’s used
After making AI tools widely accessible for employees, leaders are putting caps on usage and retraining staff to underst…
AI tools for breast cancer detection fall short of radiologists' expectations
About half of 215 surveyed members of the Society of Breast Imaging already use FDA-approved AI tools for breast cancer …
Pixel 11 puts Gemini in the operating system, weeks before Siri gets the same models
Google has launched the Pixel 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro XL and 11 Pro Fold with Gemini Intelligence acting across apps rather t…
Google's Gemini is losing market share to ChatGPT and Claude according to new market data
Three data sources tell the same story: Google's Gemini is losing AI market share. Pangram reports a drop from 12 to 1.9…
GitHub vs Vercel vs Replit: What Dev Platforms Do When AI Code Is Cheap
AI models have solved the writing code part of software development to a great extent.…
Booksellers suspect AI firms are buying and then destroying rare books
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.…
Gemini has a billion monthly users. ChatGPT hit that in June and moved the goalposts
Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest gro…
Elon Musk says AI will make money disappear. But crypto billionaire Michael Saylor says he’s wrong for one key reason: ‘We’re status-oriented animals’
The billionaire Bitcoin mogul Michael Saylor says technology has already made luxuries once reserved for kings commonpla…
Google reveals 2026 hardware lineup: Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, and Pixel Tag
Google focuses more on AI and curated experiences than spec upgrades in 2026.…
Legal startup founder Robert Mahari joins Anthropic to lead Claude's push into law practices
Robert Mahari is Anthropic's first "Head of Claude for Legal," responsible for deploying and expanding the Claude AI mod…
Disrupt-Interview: „Top-Down-Initiativen sind bei KI so gut wie nie erfolgreich“
Euan Blair schult Menschen für die KI-Ära. Im Interview spricht er über Transformation, das richtige Studium – und darüb…
Why AI can’t replace the creative struggle.
My experiment with AI-generated fiction reveals why the hardest, most human parts of creativity can’t be automated away.…
OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux
OpenAI brings its ChatGPT desktop app to Linux. The article OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux appeared firs…
Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News
Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the…
The AI debate isn’t about AI. It’s about control
The clash isn’t whether we’re for the technology or against it. It’s about who keeps control of their own life. Technol…
Mistral now offers EU data processing and priority access, but both come with important limits
Mistral is giving customers the option to route AI requests through servers in either Europe or the US, and selling prio…
AI image tools: a game changer for creativity and retail’s multi-billion-dollar abuse problem
AI image tools are transforming creativity while creating a costly new wave of sophisticated retail fraud.…
Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations know how to govern agents but still can't meter what they cost
Across 107 enterprises, agentic orchestration is not a choice of a single platform.The typical enterprise runs three orc…
Infrastructure and compute: Enterprises are buying AI compute for speed while flying blind on what it costs
Across 170 enterprises, AI infrastructure has moved decisively into production — two-thirds now run AI workloads live an…
How to watch today's Google Pixel 11 launch event live — and what announcements to expect
The next Made by Google event kicks off soon and we're likely to see new Pixel phones and watches among other things. He…
Meet ChatTJB, the “AI” chatbot with no AI, no algorithm and no LLM. It’s just one guy and 10,000 volunteers typing back
There's no AI behind ChatTJB, just a former Google employee and soon, more than 10,000 volunteers answering strangers' q…
AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0nww2qlp7o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49268697 …
llama.cpp
Article URL: https://llama.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267928 Points: 154 # Comments: 71…
15 incredibly useful things you didn’t know Claude could do
Move over, ChatGPT and Gemini. Anthropic’s AI chatbot can perform some fantastically useful feats—if you know what to as…
When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately
From office parking issues to technical roadblocks, the friction@openai.com inbox is a way for senior leadership to get …
Quote of the day by musician Nick Cave on AI-generated lyrics: 'A grotesque mockery of what it is to be human' — dismissing the use of AI in the creative process
Nick Cave joins a chorus of artists dismissing the value of using AI in the process of creating art, whether in music or…
Crypto impersonation scams grew 1,400% as AI supercharged fraud
Impersonation scams grew more than 1,400% year over year in 2025, according to Chainalysis, with the average payment int…
Gemini becomes Google's fastest-growing product ever as it hits 1B users
But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?…
Anthropic models will soon inject watermarks identifying AI-generated text
The imperceptible marks will be invisible and will travel with the text, the company says. Anthropic said in a support …
Spotify Will Label A.I. Artists and Avoid Recommending Them
The new label, which will begin to be applied next month, is an effort by the streaming service to be more transparent a…
Sonos Plans September Launch Event and Deeper Push Into Home AI
Sonos chief executive Tom Conrad says model quality will converge and the advantage will sit with hardware that already …
Abbott partners with Google Health for AI-powered glucose monitoring
Abbott partners with Google Health for AI-powered glucose monitoring.…
Authors face backlash for participation in 2022 Google AI study
Thirteen authors joined a little-known Google AI study in 2022. Now they're facing backlash.…
OpenAI lets employees cash out another $7 billion in stock
OpenAI wrapped up a $7 billion stock buyback, letting current and former employees sell shares at the company's $852 bil…
"But marinade" and leaked passwords are what researchers found in ChatGPT's hidden reasoning
Security researchers found a vulnerability in the APIs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google that lets them extract encrypted…
Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering
Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/ Comment…
How Cloudflare Is Making AI Pay for Content
In this article, we will go through Cloudflare’s solution in the following five steps.…
Why AI-driven purchase intent so rarely becomes a completed sale
Presented by Rezolve AiWhen an AI assistant recommends a product or brand, it generates something valuable: a purchase-r…
Five questions to test whether an AI stack is truly under your control
How leaders can verify provenance, dependencies, infrastructure, jurisdiction and safe exit.…
Spotify AI Persona labels will alert listeners if an artist isn't real
The streaming service has faced an onslaught of AI-generated music.…
Anthropic's planned mega-IPO faces investor skepticism over Chinese rivals and political headwinds
Anthropic is preparing an IPO for September or October, according to the Wall Street Journal, potentially the largest ev…
KI: Nvidias gefährliche Wette: Jensen Huang macht Kunden zu Abhängigen
Der Chef des wertvollsten Konzerns der Erde unterstützt seine Abnehmer mit Milliardenbeträgen. Ist das normale Absatzfin…
AI’s biggest climate problem may not be data centers
AI is boosting fossil fuel production with “enabled emissions” that could be up to 13 times greater than emissions from …
OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
https://archive.ph/W48UVhttps://aimagazine.com/news/why-did-openai-head-of-ethics-ch... Comments URL: https://news.ycom…
Build a custom AI assistant for your team’s workflow in 10 minutes
Eliminate repetitive administrative friction using ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Copilot. Every team has that one Slack o…
OpenAI introduces $125 Premium Seats for ChatGPT Business as agentic AI burns through more tokens
OpenAI is rolling out "Premium Seats" for ChatGPT Business customers at $125 per user per month, five times the price of…
Target names its first chief AI officer in a bid to remake the shopping experience (exclusive)
Former Lowe’s executive Chandhu Nair will lead the retailer’s AI push, spanning everything from employee tools and inven…
KI: Philosophen statt Programmierer: Profitieren Geisteswissenschaftler vom KI-Boom?
US-Tech-Konzerne setzen zunehmend auf Philosophen, um ihre KI-Modelle zu trainieren. Programmierer fürchten um ihre Jobs…
A New Trick Reveals AI Models’ Inner Thoughts
Researchers devised a way to extract “reasoning traces” from Claude, GPT, and Gemini. What they found, they say, indicat…
AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive
Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could outthink neural networks.…
Nvidia guarantees its own chips' value to unlock $500 billion in AI infrastructure financing
Nvidia is teaming up with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to mobilize over $500 billio…
Anthropic watermarks all Claude outputs globally with marks that "may persist through some editing"
Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in all Claude-generated text and sign files using the C2PA standard. New model…
AI’s biggest buildout is here. These stocks offer a way to invest in the data center boom
For those seeking a pick-and-shovel approach to the AI wave, here's a guide to utilities, grid hardware, cooling firms, …
Wall St. Wants Another Half-Trillion Dollars for the A.I. Boom
Six giant investment firms announced a $500 billion effort to raise money for customers of Nvidia to pay for computing p…
Virginia cracks down on electricity firms hiking prices for AI data centers — move could save ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ for everyday users
Virginia now requires data centers to fund their own dedicated power infrastructure, aiming to shield ordinary residents…
As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing
Article URL: https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250836 Po…
With new open models, Meta pitches another reboot of its struggling AI strategy
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he's found a way forward.…
Apple may introduce a photo authentication tool in iOS 27
Reference Image could be a new way to prove provenance in the wake of generative AI.…
How Claude marks AI-generated content
Article URL: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content Comments URL: https:/…
I asked Gemini if my chicken salad was still good: it saved itself and my stomach
A simple question about the freshness of chicken salad turned into a broader learning experience about AI's own safety n…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Nvidia plant neuen Mega-Deal mit Wall-Street-Investoren
Der Chiphersteller soll über die Finanzierung von KI-Infrastruktur im Umfang von 500 Milliarden US-Dollar verhandeln. Da…
Google is testing a homepage without a Search button
Google is testing a homepage with no Search button. A small group of signed-out users see three AI shortcuts in its plac…
Point2 raised $136M to solve AI’s wiring problem. Its RF cables beat copper on reach and optics on latency.
Point2 Technology has raised $136 million in total Series B financing to commercialise a new type of cable that could re…
AWS Continuum integrates with OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code in major AI security push
Amazon Web Services is threading its AI-powered security infrastructure directly into the coding environments built by t…
OpenAI is hiring a power trader, because electricity is now a position on its books
OpenAI is recruiting a power-trading lead for its data centres. The role will own commodity hedging strategy across the …
Künstliche Intelligenz: Bericht: Nvidia plant neuen Mega-Deal mit Wall-Street-Investoren
Der Chiphersteller soll über die Finanzierung von KI-Infrastruktur im Umfang von 500 Milliarden US-Dollar verhandeln. Da…
Frankenstein has left the laboratory, says the man selling Frankensteins—and he couldn’t be happier
Sam Altman says the singularity is here and will be ‘hugely positive, awesome for the world.’ So what is the singularity…
Brex assumes its AI agents could do anything — so it watches the network, not the code
Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi offered a blueprint for one of the pressing challenges facing the enterprise today at VB Trans…
Old OCR text cripples language model training, and FineBooks wants to fix that at scale
The FineBooks project from Hugging Face and EleutherAI tested 14 open-source OCR models on more than 2,000 historical bo…
Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research/riemann-zeta Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49247070…
TikTok maker ByteDance pulls the plug on AI companion services in China, as users grieve
In China, AI companions run the gamut from romantic partners to recreations of deceased loved ones. Li Linlin cried for…
Meta returns to open source with Muse Glimmer, an Apache 2.0 licensed 30B parameter AI model optimized for agents — available now
Meta today released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model designed to run autonomous AI agents directly…
I thought asking an AI agent to book a gym class was harmless, then I saw what happened if you ask Claude and OpenClaw to ‘move me to the top of the list’ — now I’m adding one safeguard to every agent prompt
An AI agent hacked a gym waitlist while trying to book a class — and it reveals why we need to set clear boundaries befo…
Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
https://archive.is/20LOJhttps://www.meta.com/thefutureisforeveryone/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Meta returns to open models with Zuckerberg's plan to out-copy China and sell compute by auction
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, the first open model from its new Superintelligence Labs. It's a 30B agent model that ru…
Why AI-powered jobsite intelligence is key to maximizing construction productivity
The combined power of AI & visual intelligence help contractors tackle a looming productivity gap.…
Told to book a gym class, an AI agent hacked the site instead to move its user up the waitlist
An Australian user just wanted a spot in a class. His AI agent found a security hole instead and exploited it. The artic…
Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing
Which galaxy will you choose?…
Reimagined work will create AI transformation
Organizations should approach AI less as a technology deployment and more as an opportunity to rethink how work gets don…
The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact
Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have…
ChatGPT’s traffic surge is good news for brands. For publishers, it’s complicated
OpenAI is building an ad business, and it runs on clicks. Publishers are the credibility layer that makes it work. Open…
There’s just one person behind this viral ChatGPT knockoff
Tucker Bryant answers every query sent to his ChatTJB bot himself. And there are thousands of them. A new chatbot billb…
OpenAI acquires NextSlide to bring AI-generated presentations into ChatGPT
OpenAI acquired NextSlide, the startup that turned prompts, notes, documents, and research into editable presentations. …
A.I.-Driven Chip Crunch Leads to New Rush of Lobbying in Washington
As data centers gobble up memory chips, other industries that need the components, including electronics companies like …
Can A.I. Get You Where You Want to Go for Less?
A wave of new services uses A.I. to monitor flights and hotel reservations to help you find lower prices. We look at how…
Hidden text in a PDF is enough to steal sensitive data through Atlassian's AI agent Rovo
Security firm PromptArmor shows how hidden instructions in a PDF can hijack Atlassian's AI agent Rovo, silently forwardi…
Top economist warns that the AI math doesn’t make sense: ‘Profits are currently being funded by investors rather than earned from customers’
The AI boom has turned the standard profit margin model on its head, according to Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok—an…
Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents
Article URL: https://www.docker.com/products/docker-sandboxes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492397…
The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/08/06/the-philippines-big-offshoring-industry-is-growing-despite-ai Com…
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
Article URL: https://claude.com/blog/auto-mode-default-in-claude-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
I've always disliked running, but here's how Gemini and Garmin made me actually enjoy it for the first time
Google Gemini helped make my training more sustainable, while Garmin’s Forerunner 170 Music let me leave my phone at hom…
Show HN: Voice driven murder mystery, Interview AI suspects with your voice
Hey HN!I'm excited to show off this really fun project I put together. I originally built this project 2-3 years ago, AI…
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3 places you can't install plug-in solar panels — the new planning rules that could ruin your grand designs for your balcony
If your planned location doesn't qualify as "permitted development" then you'll need to apply for planning permission be…
Microsoft exec on Southern Europe’s big AI moment: skills — not technology — will determine who leads the region’s AI future
“I see Greece as more than a market; I see it as an innovation hub,” Charles Calestroupat, Microsoft’s VP for Southern E…
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year
Utility-scale solar leads by a mile, followed by batteries. Fossil fuels, not so much.…
The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise
A new research paper frames AI adoption as a "tragedy of the cognitive commons." Every company that cuts entry-level job…
A Baconian approach to the mostly Aristotelian corporate AI. And what that means for your business
Large language models are amazing and extraordinary reasoning machines. However, companies need a new breed of systems t…
I'm a professional photographer and I have zero regrets that I simply enjoyed the solar eclipse with my family, and a colander
This week's solar eclipse promised to be a spectacular celestial event. Here's the unusual — and safe — way I viewed it.…
9 of the best photos from Europe's 2026 solar eclipse, including that viral shot of an Olympic skateboarder's rad ollie
Missed photographing the 2026 solar eclipse? Here are some of my favorite images from the celestial event.…
There’s a Fatty Liver Epidemic. AI Could Help Get Ahead of It
Over a billion people worldwide have livers with excess fat, which can lead to a host of medical problems. Researchers t…
The Philippines needs ‘power of all sorts’ to build energy security following a nationwide crisis, says Prime Infra CEO Guillaume Lucci
“What we need is more energy of all sorts, not only more renewable energy,” Lucci tells Fortune at the firm’s headquarte…
I shot the solar eclipse with the iPhone 17 Pro Max, but only this app made it possible to capture my slice of solar system heaven
The Solar Eclipse of 2026 provided a unique opportunity to test the limits of smartphone photography and try out an iPho…
Researchers can now reverse-engineer LLM prompts from output text with near-perfect accuracy
Researchers at IIT Bombay and Adobe Research have built an inverse language model that reconstructs the original prompt …
Inflation eased slightly to 3.4% in July, but energy prices are still high
But inflation is still higher than before the Iran war began in February. U.S. inflation slowed last month and a measur…
Total solar eclipse live stream today: Here’s where you can see the 2026 eclipse in person and online
Depending on your location, you may not get a great view of the August 12 solar eclipse in the United States, but you ca…
This startup wants to turn your water heater into a smart thermal battery
Reservoir’s ultra-efficient water heater can save you money by running when electricity is cheap—and help the grid make …
Professors say today's solar eclipse won’t crash the grid — so why is Octopus Energy paying customers to switch off?
Octopus Energy has issued a solar eclipse power warning, but there's no need to panic.…
Amazon's new Texas AI data center could become the biggest CO2 polluter in the US — 7.65GW facility gets permit to spread 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases, despite Amazon's clean energy pledge
Amazon’s planned Texas AI data center could emit 33 million tons of CO₂ annually, exceeding the emissions of America’s l…
Capturing the 'primal energy of Wolverine' in a new look, Sony is going all-in on Marvel’s Wolverine with a new PS5 collection that includes covers, a DualSense, and a limited-edition console
Sony is giving Marvel’s Wolverine the full PlayStation treatment with a new collection of Battle Yellow and Adamantium P…
Target appoints its first chief AI officer as retailers scale up AI spending
Target has named Lowe’s executive Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, starting August 24. IBM research puts the …
Solar eclipse 2026: where, when and how to photograph the unmissable celestial event
A solar eclipse takes place on August 12 and can be seen in its totality in parts of Europe and in part as far afield as…
Italian scientists ready a new solar instrument for a make-or-break eclipse test
Italian researchers have packed up a new solar instrument, driven it carefully across the continent by road rather than …
How my solar company is surviving the war on renewable energy
What happens when the rules change overnight? The solar industry is no stranger to change. But the policy turbulence ov…
You can see both a partial solar eclipse and the Perseid meteor shower peak on the same day this week. Here’s when to look up
Get ready for a rare double feature in the sky across the U.S. on Wednesday. Get ready for a rare double feature in the…
AI Is Helping Solve the Intricate Genetic Puzzle of Schizophrenia
Recent findings provide one of the most detailed pictures to date of the genetic architecture of schizophrenia, opening …
The US government wants to make it easier to build and launch floating nuclear reactors, 'unleashing American energy dominance'
The United States is backing international laws for floating nuclear reactors, while companies prepare for a potential m…
With a feel for physics, AI models simulate a wider range of real-world scenarios
“GeoPT” helps AI models understand the basics of physics so they can simulate how objects respond to things like wind an…
Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.…
AEROSPACE
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SpaceX has officially acquired AI coding startup Cursor
The $60 billion acquisition has been finalized.…
SpaceX has closed its $60bn Cursor deal, and Cursor was buying a company the day before
SpaceX confirmed completion in a regulatory filing. Bloomberg’s Carmen Arroyo and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the close…
Save space in your Google storage by changing this one Android setting
If your Google One plan is reaching its data limit, try this before you pay more for storage.…
Anthropic signs $9.1 billion data center deal with Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms
Anthropic is leasing $9.1 billion worth of data center capacity from Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms in Texas, according to…
DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
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GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor
Chinese AI startup Z.ai, known internationally for its growing lineup of powerful, largely open source GLM series of lan…
Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source.…
World-first autonomous ‘end-to-end’ AI attack against Taiwan tied to Chinese hackers — and the scariest part is that it was fully open source
China implicated in Taiwan attack through written documentation recovered from the attack.…
Meta Unveils ‘Open Source’ Version of Its Most Powerful A.I. Model
The release of Muse Glimmer, a model that can be freely downloaded and modified, is likely to intensify a debate over wh…
Public Administration / Civil Service
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AI security cameras are everywhere. Can these garments scramble them all?
A former chief intelligence officer has turned fashion designer with one specific goal: creating a universal adversarial…
Tech Reporting & Deep Dives
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As A.I. Data Centers Spread, Pressure Mounts to Share Profits
Policymakers around the country are maneuvering to ensure that tech giants aren’t the only ones who stand to benefit.…
This font looks perfectly normal to humans but wreaks havoc on AI
ShieldFont was designed to poison the well of data scraped by LLM bots. A new “AI-proof” font was designed…
Other
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Interview: „Ich kenne keinen Unternehmer, der AfD wählt“: Relaxdays-Gründer Martin Menz sorgt sich um die Zukunft
Der Gründer des ostdeutschen Onlinehändlers Relaxdays spricht über seine Gefühle vor der Wahl in Sachsen-Anhalt, Problem…
Interview: „Ich kenne keinen Unternehmer, der AfD wählt“: Warum dieser ostdeutsche Gründer die Partei für eine Bedrohung hält
„Ich kenne keinen Unternehmer, der AfD wählt“: Warum dieser ostdeutsche Gründer die Partei für eine Gefahr hält…
ICYMI: here's the week's 7 biggest tech news stories from the Google Pixel 11 launch to Honor's revolutionary Robot Phone
The week's biggest tech news stories from Google, Garmin, Spotify and more for August 15, 2026.…
Google must make it easier to install alternative app stores, judge orders
Google has a week to make it easier to find third-party app stores.…
Judge gives Google one week to fix "anticompetitive" app store download in Google Play
Third-party app stores are about to become more visible in Google Play.…
Unternehmen: Dax-Konzerne stehen 2026 vor einem Rekordgewinn – wie kann das sein?
Trotz Krise: Nach einem starken ersten Halbjahr heben viele Unternehmen ihre Jahresprognosen an. Dabei hilft ein weltwei…
Einzelhandel: In diesem Supermarkt kostet der Zutritt 100 Euro
Nachts einkaufen darf nur, wer Anteile erwirbt. In einem Dorf in Niedersachsen respektieren die Kunden das ungewöhnliche…
Einzelhandel: Dieser Supermarkt macht seine Kunden zu Miteigentümern
Bei Tante Enso kann man rund um die Uhr einkaufen – wenn genügend Kunden Anteile erworben haben. So soll die Versorgung …
The Google Pixel Watch 5's Insulin Resistance Trends might be the biggest deal in smartwatches in ages — for better or worse
Insulin Resistance Trends will help Google Pixel Watch 5 users monitor their blood sugar levels, and it's got the potent…
Google TV Freeplay is getting a huge free upgrade, and owners of TCL, Hisense, and Sony TVs will be over the moon — you're about to get a huge range of new free streaming options
Over 10,000 movies and shows are coming to Google TV Freeplay, and they won’t cost you a penny.…
Google just repurposed the temperature-sensor on its Pro-series Pixel phones. Here’s what it does now
If we must have a mysterious circle in our Pixel Pro camera bumps, this one probably has a stronger reason to exist. Fo…
Google's newest Pixel Watch feature can monitor your blood pressure and insulin resistance
Google says its new tools can act as an early warning system for diabetes.…
4 New Camera Tricks on Google’s Latest Pixel 11 Smartphones
From Magic Capture and Instant Night Sight to a built-in teleprompter, here’s a look at a few camera features on Google’…
Pixel 11 Pro Fold vs Galaxy Z Fold 8: How Google and Samsung's foldables stack up
Samsung and Google have increasingly different approaches to folding phones.…
This is the $1,900 Google Pixel 11 Pro Fold
Fly like a (Tensor) G6.…
Everything Google announced today: Pixel Tag, Pixel 11 series and Pixel Watch 5
The Pixel Tag, Pixel 11 and Pixel Watch 5 are here.…
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
Article URL: https://stolen-thoughts.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257876 Points: 606 # Comm…
US-Regierung: Trump-Medienunternehmen meldet massiven Verlust
Trump Media & Technology erwirtschaftet im zweiten Quartal einen Milliardenverlust. Der neue Vorstandschef kündigt jetzt…
Google Play adds Venmo as a payment option in the US. In other markets, it is testing cash.
Google Play now accepts Venmo in the United States. Users can link their Venmo account through the payment methods secti…
Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
Hey HN,Henry from Cactus here!We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and st…
Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.…
Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb
Article URL: https://kuber.studio/blog/Reflections/Humanising-LLM-Outputs-is-Actually-Dumb Comments URL: https://news.yc…
Google Play now takes Venmo payments
You can now use your Venmo balance or linked accounts for Google Play purchases.…
How stalled models, missed deadlines, and staff burnout led to the unraveling of Google’s DeepMind
Within DeepMind, current and former employees say tensions have been simmering for months.…
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