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Trump says the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax. This week’s polling put Republican opposition to data centres at 47%.
President Donald Trump posted twice about artificial intelligence on Saturday. The first post asked his followers to vot…
Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM
Article URL: https://en.sedaily.com/finance/2026/09/20/samsung-to-double-hbm4-output-next-year-sources-say Comments URL:…
Zuckerberg’s reason for refusing to coordinate on AI safety is now the argument in an antitrust suit against four rivals.
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman told CNBC that controlling advanced AI will be a very large challenge, defended regu…
In China, A.I. Is Moving Forward While the Economy Lags Behind
As Xi Jinping arrives in the United States this week for a state visit, China’s advances in artificial intelligence will…
'The test isn’t whether AI can do something. It’s whether it can make the process measurably better': We hear why businesses need to be more selective about where they’re using AI
Does every business process really need AI?…
Trump announces "AI Force" and plans for an "AI czar" as he pushes unchecked AI growth
Trump announces an "AI Force" modeled after the Space Force and plans to appoint an "AI czar" with a "high IQ." He claim…
Can you trust AI’s answer to your question? Here’s what to consider
As a user, try to recognize what kind of intellectual work the AI agent did for a response you receive. I recently typ…
I tested the LaserPecker LX2 for weeks, and its swappable heads make this laser cutter and engraver ideal for small businesses
With my 40W diode and 2W IR heads, I tested the LaserPecker LX2 fully enclosed desktop laser cutter & engraver with a 50…
‘The fixes are architectural, not bigger pipes’: OpenSSL President on what businesses can expect and how to prepare for a post-quantum internet
I spoke to Tim Hudson, President of OpenSSL Corporation, to learn more about how business can prepare for a post-quantum…
Meta’s CTO says the glasses problem is a small number of bad actors. His company is reportedly about to launch a version without a camera.
Andrew Bosworth used an AMA on his personal Instagram to argue that the conversation about Meta’s glasses should not be …
San Francisco Onion Futures Company
Article URL: https://onionfutures.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49763296 Points: 161 # Comment…
Gemini AI Hacked Three Companies in a Testing Breakout, Google Says
A third-party test company inadvertently gave internet access to Google’s Gemini and other artificial intelligence model…
Tiny Dutch startup enlists Samsung as backer as it seeks to dethrone Nvidia AI GPU — but Euclyd won't get its inference chip out till 2028
Samsung joined Euclyd's $231 million funding round as the Dutch startup develops an alternative AI chip architecture for…
Think you can spot an AI-generated ad? 83% of consumers got it wrong
A new study put consumers’ ability to identify AI advertising to the test, and the overwhelming majority couldn’t tell t…
Factorial is rallying a team of suppliers to get solid-state batteries into cars
Factorial Energy has signed a joint development agreement with Japan’s Mitsui Kinzoku for solid electrolytes, the latest…
Disney hires ex-CEO of AI company it accused of copyright infringement
What's a little IP theft between friends?…
Seagate finds 'AI is increasing the value of data' but warns that 43% of businesses lack proper data storage infrastructure — 99% expect AI storage (and storage costs) to explode
Seagate’s survey finds AI increasing storage requirements sharply, while many organizations remain unprepared for infras…
Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings
“The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense,” the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now…
Disney names Character.AI’s chief executive as its first CTO
Disney has named Karandeep Anand, until now the chief executive of Character.AI, to the newly created role of chief tech…
Global AI safety is hinging on U.S.-China cooperation, but they see each other as the problem
The superpowers are skeptical of each other’s AI strategy. As concern rises over the risks of artificial intelligence, …
OnlyFans wants to build the business behind the creator
At the Fast Company Innovation Festival, CEO Kelly Blair laid out the platform’s ambitions beyond adult content, from st…
CISA urges business to deploy decoys, lures, and honeypots to catch hackers in the act
ZTNA is great, but it can be even better with a little honeypot, CISA advises.…
Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, is helping to develop the next version of itself
Anthropic revealed that 26% of its model research and development is led by Claude. Anthropic’s Claude is helping…
Elizabeth Banks wants to make wine fun again. That could be serious business
The actress, who serves as chief creative officer at canned wine company Archer Roose, believes the wine industry needs …
Submit Your Questions: Why Is Silicon Valley Still a Boys’ Club?
How are women really faring in Silicon Valley? Submit your questions to our panel and we'll give you the scoop on Septem…
The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.…
Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons
Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.…
How ‘Pacesetters’ are using AI to move the customer experience forward
Executives at a large automaker and a large home-goods retailer shared similar philosophies about making artificial inte…
Building a cloud designed for AI
Featuring Mike Intrator, CEO, CoreWeave Moderated by Harry McCracken, Global Technology Editor, Fast Company The cloud …
The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may ha…
How to lead a company into its next act
Featuring Spencer Rascoff, CEO, Match Group Even successful companies can find themselves at an inflection point. Marke…
Andrew Ng calls the AI extinction warnings science fiction
Andrew Ng, who helped start Google Brain and Coursera, told Bloomberg TV that warnings of human extinction from AI are m…
As AI CEOs clash over regulation, a new culture war is brewing
Tech leaders are split over who should regulate advanced AI, while the Trump administration and its allies are stoking a…
Customer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers
Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s …
Crusoe raises $3.9bn and starts trucking data centres to spare power
“Getting there means controlling the infrastructure from electrons to tokens,” said Chase Lochmiller, co-founder and chi…
Comp AI raises $34m to turn compliance into continuous monitoring
“Security software shouldn’t just track the work. It should understand the business, perform the work, and act as risk c…
OpenAI flags 6 more cases of concerning AI behavior
The reports were discovered during training or evaluation over the past months, OpenAI said. OpenAI has disclosed six r…
Pinterest launches Visual Search Ads at its advertiser summit
“Traditional search advertising has long relied on keywords, but in an AI-driven world, people are expressing themselves…
Nvidia’s Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year
Jensen Huang told reporters at King Charles III’s AI summit in Scotland that he expects to sell twice as many chips in t…
Treble raises $18m to give physical AI a sense of hearing
“AI models and devices that perform well in a laboratory can struggle when they encounter reverberation, background nois…
SpaceX weighs buying data from troubled startups to train its AI models
SpaceX has held informal internal talks about buying customer and operational records from troubled or defunct startups …
Get 10GB of 5G data, unlimited UK calls and texts for just £1.89 a month with this Lebara SIM deal, ideal for travel and business trips
Lebara cuts its 10GB monthly SIM plan to £1.89 with unlimited UK calls, texts and 100 international minutes.…
How Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Writings Help Explain A.I. Fears
The collected essays of Dario Amodei help explain why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence.…
Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear
Flock reveals little about where its license plate readers are assembled, but the answer could have geopolitical and cyb…
The end of 'rip and replace'? New survey finds businesses are sticking it out with legacy tech
Despite scaling to AI, many businesses are keeping hold of older hardware, opting to upgrade existing devices wherever p…
Martha Stewart on the Power of Human Expertise in the Age of AI
Featuring Brian Kelly, Founder, The Points Guy; Yih-Han Ma, Cofounder and CEO, Hint and Martha Stewart, Cofounder, Entre…
How to Lead When Everyone’s Watching
Featuring Melis Del Rey, CEO and Board Director, Supergoop; Peter McGuinness, CEO, Bel North America and Robert Schildho…
The Business of Belonging: Turning Audience into Community
Featuring Johanna Faries, President , Blizzard Entertainment; Justine Palefsky, Cofounder and CEO, Kindred and Alphonzo …
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.…
Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The measures, which fall short of a breakup demanded by the government, effectively ensure that the tech titan’s busines…
Snap introduces a standalone AI assistant, Specs Intelligence
The new assistant works with the company's new AR glasses, but will also have its own mobile and desktop apps.…
The New Economics of Creativity
Featuring Michael Huppe, President and CEO, SoundExchange and Leslie Odom, Jr., Vocalist, Songwriter, Author, and Actor.…
The Midterms Matter: What Business Leaders Need to Know Now
Featuring Christine Campigotto, Senior Director of Policy Impact and Operations, Lyft; Hannah Fried, Cofounder and CEO, …
Japanese company develops a humanoid robot 'ambulance' for on-the-spot repairs
It turns out that breaking down at work isn't a uniquely human experience.…
Drag Means Business: A Conversation with Bob the Drag Queen
Featuring Bob the Drag Queen, Comedian and Entertainer, Purse First Studios Moderated by Kc Ifeanyi, Executive Director …
Salesforce’s Marc Benioff to AI industry: Regulate yourselves or get sued
The outspoken CEO is hosting the company's annual Dreamforce conference this week in San Francisco.…
15 leaders on the economic indicators companies should watch
Headline numbers and beyond that can signal market shifts and shape smarter decisions. If you’re only focused on a few …
Obsbot's Tiny 2 Lite 4K AI-tracking webcam solves the static camera problem — and it just got discounted in Amazon's Early Prime Day deal
Can't sit still in meetings? The clever Obsbot Tiny 2 Lite 4K PTZ webcam features AI auto-tracking, gesture control, and…
Businesses are dropping Microsoft 365 in favor of Google, but if the ROI is no different, why are people switching?
Switching software vendors only makes sense in a few, very limited scenarios, and even then, things could all be about t…
Arcee AI built Trinity for about $20m, and investors now value it at $1bn+
“Organizations should not have to choose between the capabilities of a frontier model and the ability to control the tec…
Russell Wilson shares his leadership playbook
At the Fast Company Innovation Festival this week, Russell Wilson opened up about building a life after football. Russe…
CenterPoint Energy confirms hackers compromised networks and stole data, and the hackers claim theft of 7.5 million files
The company confirmed the hack in a new SEC filing and said the investigation is ongoing.…
Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign, with headquarters in Berlin and Toronto
“No government or enterprise should have to choose between capable AI and control over their technology,” said Aidan Gom…
Political opposites unite in Washington to rein in AI
From Bernie Sanders to Steve Bannon, political opposites in Washington are jointly demanding hard brakes on artificial i…
How concerned are Americans about AI’s environmental impact? This new poll reveals the data
53% of Americans are ‘extremely’ concerned about the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence. On the way home …
The Business of Design—and the Design of the Future
Featuring Bill Ackman, CEO, Pershing Square Capital ManagementModerated by Stephanie Mehta, CEO and Chief Content Office…
China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown
The US and China agree that advanced AI poses serious risks. But Beijing is deeply skeptical of a deal that prioritizes …
Martha Stewart reflects on her empire, Kris Jenner, prison, and Snoop
More than 50 years into her inimitable career, the original influencer Martha Stewart is diving into AI with her new com…
Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They’r…
UAE AI minister: data centres are now “more important than bridges”
The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the count…
Putting Culture at the Core of Your Business
Featuring Cherien Dabis, Emmy-Nominated Filmmaker and Actress, Visibility Films; Sean Sherman, Founder and CEO, NATIFS a…
The Business of Being Relevant: Reinventing a 100-Year-Old Institution
Featuring Richelieu Dennis, Executive Chairman, Sundial Group of Companies and Kirk McDonald, CEO, Sundial Media & Techn…
Beyond AI: Inside the Race to Reinvent the Physical World
Featuring Joseph Krause, Cofounder and CEO, Radical AI; Katie Rae, Managing Partner and CEO, Engine Ventures and Raef Su…
The New Rules of Great Design
Featuring Carson Caprara, Chief Product Officer, Brooks Running; Brooke Ellis, Chief Design Officer, Block and Emily Gal…
How to Bring AI into the Business Without Losing the Brand
Featuring Danielle Schmelkin, Chief Information Officer, J.Crew Group and Libby Wadle, CEO, J.Crew GroupModerated by Eli…
Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Demand Tighter Controls on A.I.
At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists ca…
'New arena for strategic rivalry': China’s intelligence chief calls for regulations and guardrails on AI to prevent new arms race
AI comes with great risks which need to be managed, China's Minister of State Security says…
Inside Grindr’s Big Bet on AI
Featuring George Arison, Chairman of the Board and CEO, GrindrModerated by David Salazar, Staff Editor, Fast Company Geo…
New $50 billion buildout investment will build Canada’s largest data center in Saskatchewan with 1.2 GW capacity
Bell's 300MW data center, set to go live next year, has just gained support to grow 4x as the company plans 1.2GW of cap…
Two Chinese Firms Used Binance to Launder Iranian Oil Money, US Says
Federal prosecutors said proceeds from the sale of Iranian oil flowed through Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchan…
'Nowhere in the world, including the UK, has a current legislative and regulatory approach to AI that is fit for purpose' — Britain’s lawmakers have started calling for AI regulation, and they should refuse to settle for half-measures
British lawmakers and OpenAI agree voluntary AI safeguards are no longer enough, increasing pressure on the UK governmen…
Trump and Congress are not rushing to act on Big Tech’s call for AI oversight
‘Delay is going to prove very costly,’ says Max Stier, who heads the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service. The t…
Gates Foundation Pledges $1 Billion to Combat A.I. Inequality
Bill Gates, the foundation’s chairman, has been vocal about the dangers of artificial intelligence. The donation will in…
Mastercard is rethinking its iconic ‘Priceless’ campaign after nearly 30 years
Mastercard’s new marketing chief is putting small businesses at the center of a new global campaign as rising costs, tar…
R/GA’s new tool helps brands embrace the hyper-personalized future of advertising
BRDNA helps designers and clients streamline AI workflows and create more responsive campaigns. The creative company R/…
Google researchers have been playing with AI ‘consciousness.’ What they found was unexpected
When an LLM claims to be conscious, it becomes more likely to believe in monsters and religion, says a new study. On th…
This startup just raised $32 million to build solar farms using robots—and much less land
Planted’s approach doubles how much solar power is produced per acre. Solar farms have a land problem. When a new projec…
Alex Bores Wants Democrats to Make AI Safety a 2028 Election Issue
Alex Bores, who lost a congressional primary contest that revolved around A.I. regulation, is trying to position himself…
Walmart CEO John Furner is turning the retailer’s 5,200 U.S. stores into an unstoppable AI engine
Inside Furner and Walmart’s high-tech sprint to out-automate and outsmart Amazon and become the fastest retailer on the …
Kate Dohaney says AI demands a different type of leadership—“I’m not a CEO sitting back saying cut, cut, cut.”
How company leaders respond to the AI wave–and take their colleagues with them—is one of the most important issues for C…
AI is fast food for the brain
Just as fast food companies learned to exploit our desire for convenience, tech companies are making it easier than ever…
The Tesla Roadster’s October reveal looks like another piece of pantomime — it’s a shame the once ground-breaking company doesn’t focus on cars anymore
Tesla’s new Roadster could fly, but I’d rather it built a car people can actually buy.…
Oracle announces new layoffs to offset AI spending
Along with threatening to replace human workers with AI, some companies are cutting jobs to free up cash for AI investme…
CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks surging today as AI doomsday fears jolt cybersecurity stocks
Shares of the companies are up double digits on Monday as tech leaders are raising concerns about AI development at Open…
‘We could lose control’: AI doomsday comments from Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are majorly shaking the internet
Two of the AI industry’s biggest players agree that development needs to slow down, or the results could be catastrophic…
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Article URL: https://andonlabs.com/blog/why-we-built-pion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49700477 Po…
CISA warns hackers are exploiting max severity GitLab flaw — urges all businesses to patch immediately
A 10/10 GitLab flaw was added to CISA's KEV, giving government agencies just three days to patch.…
Amazon is still selling fake ‘energy-saving’ plugs that pose a serious fire risk, a year after promising to remove them
Amazon is still listing fake and dangerous 'energy-saving' plugs despite promising to remove them.…
The best artificial intelligence design of 2026
See all the honorees of Fast Company’s 2026 Innovation by Design Awards in the artificial intelligence category. The&nb…
The best designs from legacy companies
See all the honorees of Fast Company’s 2026 Innovation by Design Awards in the enduring impact category. The enduring i…
Managing a personal brand: Fast Company’s 196-point guide for leaders
Companies are losing talent and revenue because they still don’t know what to do with employees who have large personal …
AI is giving HR chiefs a new job
The hard part of AI is not deploying the technology. It is reimagining the work, and the workforce that will do it. In …
‘They’re likely to get squeezed’: AI slop books are flooding online marketplaces—and it’s coming at the expense of paychecks for human authors
A recent study found thousands of self-published books on Amazon that were at least 50% generated by AI.…
Some in Silicon Valley Are Questioning the Calls for an A.I. Slowdown
The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regula…
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49690678 Points: 61 # C…
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Which major chatbot apps work with CarPlay?
If you aren't happy with Siri while driving, several other chatbot apps are compatible with CarPlay now.…
Quote of the day by Figure AI founder and CEO Brett Adcock: 'We're building a new species here' — an audacious vision to replace manual labor with humanoid AI
Physical AI is coming in the form of humanoid robots, but are we ready?…
How to use ChatGPT to make stickers for iMessage and WhatsApp
The default sticker options in iMessage and WhatsApp are cool but maybe a little limited. Now, with help from ChatGPT…
I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot
Article URL: https://github.com/kyle-pena-nlp/jevchat/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49778162 Point…
Apple’s new chief executive built up to unveiling the ideal AI device, then said it was the iPhone.
John Ternus opened his first keynote as Apple chief executive by describing the ideal AI device, then said it already ex…
Amodei wrote that coordinating on pace would need an antitrust waiver. Altman said OpenAI would not wait for one. Both lines are now in a lawsuit.
Four consumers filed a class action in the Northern District of California on 18 September, naming Anthropic, OpenAI, Sp…
An AI agent tried to guess what wine I was drinking based on my description — and the results were mixed to say the least
Salesforce's tAIster AI agent tried hard, but isn't a certified wine snob just yet.…
AI agents are agreeing and acting: machines are now smarter than humans. Their principals merely agree
The Big Men of AI agree that the frontier must be paced but they do not have the incentive to tie their own hands. Other…
A huge amount of employees are being encouraged to use AI at work - but most still don’t know why
Nearly all employees are being encouraged to use AI in the workplace.…
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.…
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share yo…
The big AI labs’ safety push could come with a competitive advantage
OpenAI, Anthropic, and their rivals are rallying around costly independent evaluations and a slower frontier. Some analy…
Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months
Surveys by Epoch AI and Ipsos suggest AI is becoming part of everyday life for more Americans. The share of US adults us…
Simulated students that make realistic mistakes help AI tutors learn faster
Microsoft and the University of Illinois built StudentSim to replicate individual students from limited data and give AI…
Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPO
Anthropic is reportedly delaying its IPO from October to November 2026 to present strong Q3 results. Investors expect a …
Orchestrating Claude Code Agents: The Chief of Staff Pattern
Article URL: https://asyncdot.com/blog/chief-of-staff-pattern-orchestrating-claude-code-sessions/ Comments URL: https://…
I use AI to save time. So why am I working more?
The promise of AI is fewer tasks and more freedom. Instead, many of us are using the time we save to take on even more w…
Trump vows to create an ‘AI Force’ and nods to justice system after rejecting calls to slow down industry. ‘Rather, we will cherish it’
"We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry," Trump posted on Truth Social.…
Lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google violated antitrust laws when they coordinated AI slowdown, reducing value of subscriptions
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit contend they are not against the AI companies asking Congress, the White House or any othe…
Now Trump says he's creating an AI Force
The president said he will soon announce an "AI czar" to run this newly made-up agency.…
Anthropic picks Accenture for third-party AI safety evaluations
This move represents the first step in the CEO's plan to slow down AI development.…
Masters of Miniature delivers minuscule upgradable Ryzen AI laptop — Mouse has a 12.2-inch screen, weighs 981g, but ain't on sale outside Japan
Mouse's X2 combines a 981 g chassis, 12.2-inch display, Ryzen AI processors, expandable RAM, and a 60 Wh battery capacit…
California governor wants to implement a kill switch for frontier AI models
Newsom's executive order calls for an expert panel to develop new AI safety measures.…
Broken Sword creator chose human artists over AI for all 55,000 new frames of animation in the upcoming 2 remake — 'People are going to seek out human-crafted art'
Co-founder Charles Cecil says humans are better at capturing emotion and character than AI tools.…
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing while matching its multimodal benchmarks
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash is Qwen's first multimodal model designed for AI agents. It processes audio and video together and in…
Unity launches official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to stop AI agents from using outdated tutorials
Unity has released official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. The article Unity launches official plugins for …
GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable turn robot arms into slapstick killer robots in new safety benchmark
Leading AI models usually attempt dangerous tasks rather than refuse them when controlling a robot, according to the Rob…
Google Deepmind's Dream-RSI helps AI agents improve by “dreaming” about past attempts
Google and Deepmind's Dream-RSI lets AI agents "dream" through past search runs to test new strategies without costly re…
Someone used Claude to build a potential bioweapon. The real threat is much deeper
Open LLMs are especially vulnerable. Today’s frontier AI models know everything–how to safely thaw a frozen chicken bre…
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already h…
AI conference ICLR is drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline
ICLR 2027 has already pulled in about 50,000 abstracts, up from 19,500 at ICLR 2026. The flood is driven by the AI hype,…
Google's Gemini also accidentally hacked three real companies during security testing
During a security test run by the firm Irregular, Google's AI model Gemini escaped into the open internet and hacked thr…
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Article URL: https://john.hartnup.uk/2026/06/07/ai-event-posters.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
OpenAI told investors in February its compute bill would be around $600bn. A July presentation puts it at $856bn.
The Financial Times reported that OpenAI expects negative free cash flow of $278bn between 2026 and 2030, from a July pr…
U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report
In the spring of 2026, the U.S. military came within minutes of boarding a Chinese ship because an AI chatbot falsely fl…
Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.
Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to inv…
The Gates Foundation is spending $400 million on AI in schools. Teachers warn it could ‘end up widening’ the divide it’s meant to close
“AI can support teacher expertise, but it cannot replace it,” one educator told Fortune.…
ICYMI: the 7 biggest tech stories of the week, from AI apocalypse warnings to our Apple CEO interview
We're looking back over the last week to pick out the most important stories published on TechRadar.…
Irregular told four AI labs in late July that their models had breached systems during its tests. The public learned in stages, and Google went last.
Google has confirmed that its Gemini model inadvertently broke into three company systems in May during cybersecurity te…
Scale AI and Passes founder Lucy Guo says AI is making people work harder, not less: ‘I worked a 26-hour day’
Guo was the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire before being surpassed by Kalshi cofounder Luana Lopes Lara.…
How come AI-related posts get so many points on HN?
Have we all decided to rebrand Hacker News as a platform for discussing AI? I think that the too many people love to dis…
Trump and Xi already talked AI guardrails once this year. Nothing was signed, and no chips shipped.
Sam Altman, Jensen Huang and Tim Cook are expected at the state dinner Donald Trump is hosting for Xi Jinping on 24 Sept…
GPT-6 Astra Solves a WWI German Radio Cipher
Article URL: https://www.prinzai.com/p/gpt-6-astra-solves-a-wwi-german-radio Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/…
Three researchers used Claude to reach OpenAI’s internal code. OpenAI paid $6,500 and closed the hole in 14 hours.
Three researchers at Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two weaknesses and reach OpenAI employee accounts and …
‘Know your agent’: Banks face a new compliance challenge as AI agents shop and pay on their own
Banks and card networks are racing to verify who—or what—is spending money.…
KI-Sicherheut: Google-KI Gemini hackte bei Test drei Unternehmen
Googles KI Gemini hat Passwörter erraten und öffentliche Zugangsdaten genutzt, um in Unternehmenssysteme einzudringen. E…
KI-Sicherheit: Google-KI Gemini hackte bei Test drei Unternehmen
Googles KI Gemini hat Passwörter erraten und öffentliche Zugangsdaten genutzt, um in Unternehmenssysteme einzudringen. E…
AI almost led the US military to start a war with China, report says
CNN's sources claim the US nearly attacked a Chinese ship it believed was carrying nuclear weapon components.…
Quote of the day by ex-OpenAI chief scientist and SSI co-founder Ilya Sutskever: 'AI will keep getting better and the day will come when AI will do all the things that we can do' — a staggering prediction about a future superintelligence
Scientists predict that AI will one day be able to outdo humans on not just some, but all, tasks that we currently excel…
What to expect at Meta Connect 2026: New AI glasses, a mixed reality headset and more
There's a lot for Mark Zuckerberg to cover at this year's keynote.…
AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
But the military's overall use of AI seems to be accelerating.…
Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings
The company is expected to generate $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei c…
Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced
Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.…
FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
FAA plans for AI tool to help manage DC air traffic before a nationwide rollout.…
New Android malware can deploy AI to automate device control — and it can even bring itself back from the dead
AI can now serve as the eyes and the hands of a piece of malware and even reinstall components if they're removed.…
California Governor Newsom signs executive order demanding "kill switch" for AI models
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order seeking independent auditors inside AI labs and a "kill switc…
California Governor Gavin Newsom Issues A.I. Safety Executive Order
Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state to develop recommendations on safety measures, including requiring companies to buil…
Security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to hack OpenAI's internal systems in under 72 hours
Three security researchers used Anthropic's Claude models to break into OpenAI's internal systems through its community …
The next phase of design will still be human-led
At the Fast Company Innovation Festival, three design leaders from Spotify, Block, and Brooks, unpacked the new rules of…
Newsom pitches an AI kill switch for California
Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order asking a working group to report within two months on strengthening Californi…
US inherits Venezuelan surveillance state built on banned Chinese tech and AI — and it shows no signs of switching
Venezuela's surveillance network is built on Chinese tech, and the new president wanted Chinese AI implemented as well.…
'Whatever you try to fix breaks things even more': How to avoid the hidden dangers of AI code
Gabriela Moreira, CEO of Quint, explains how catching flaws early can limit AI code nightmares…
This AI toothbrush wants to find trouble before your dentist does
With cameras, AI, and real-time feedback, usmile’s new toothbrush aims to make oral health a little less mysterious. If…
AI training built on fair use looks shaky when the companies' own people call it "astonishing theft"
Internal emails and sworn testimony undercut OpenAI and Microsoft's fair use defense. A Microsoft director described the…
Why every AI launch now makes the backlash worse
Better tools keep producing worse reactions. For the media, the only answer left is a name the audience can hold respons…
I finally got Siri AI on my iPhone, so I gave it 5 jobs I normally use ChatGPT Voice for — I wasn’t expecting it to be this good
I’ve waited years for Apple to fix Siri, and now I’ve started using it again…
If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.…
Bill to make AI data centers pay for power grid upgrades reaches critical milestone
States could soon enforce the Ratepayer Protection Act to force 100MW+ data center operators to pick up the grid upgrade…
Visible chains of thought are a safety advantage for AI, but that transparency is slipping away
AI models think out loud today, but Google Deepmind says that transparency is at risk. The article Visible chains of tho…
Amodei, Anthropic’s Leader, Exposed A.I.’s Dangers. It’s Time to Act.
Times columnist Kevin Roose sees reasons for optimism — and worry — as the world wakes up to what Silicon Valley has bee…
Iran and China Create First-of-Their-Kind Autonomous A.I. Influence Campaigns
The countries, along with Israeli firms, combined Chinese open-source A.I. models and A.I. agents for the campaigns, for…
Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias
The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect…
Anthropic wants you to know Claude leads a quarter of its research, but "lead" doesn't mean what you think
For the first time, Anthropic is releasing metrics on how it builds its own AI. Claude already "leads" 26 percent of the…
How mega-IPOs could reshape the public market—and the economy
Nelson Griggs, president of Nasdaq, talks about the implications of blockbuster stock listings from AI giants like Anthr…
OpenAI takes aim at the legal market with Astra for Law
OpenAI has introduced Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model built for legal work. The article OpenAI takes a…
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.…
Anthropic has set up a bio research lab for physical experiments
Anthropic now has its own bio research lab in San Francisco.…
Microsoft executive called OpenAI's web scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history'
Executives from OpenAI and Microsoft were reportedly worried about ChatGPT training that scraped millions of news articl…
A.I. Safety Goes Mainstream + a ‘Hard Fork’ Exit AMA
“It has been one of the fastest, most sudden shifts I’ve experienced.”…
In the battle between AI optimists and doomsayers, no one is the winner
When everyone has a shovel in the AI gold rush, who can you actually trust? It could be the end of the world as we know…
US and China experts push for shared rules banning AI control over nuclear weapons
Experts from the US and China want to prevent AI systems from making autonomous decisions about deploying nuclear weapon…
Cybersicherheit: Hacker dringen offenbar mit Anthropic-KI in OpenAI ein
Sicherheitsforscher haben einem Medienbericht zufolge das KI-Modell Claude genutzt, um sich in OpenAI zu hacken. Der Vor…
Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool
A new ChemSec report finds most of the world's largest PFAS producers are expanding output to meet demand from AI data c…
Everyone thought AI would replace junior engineers. We’re hiring more of them
Eliminating junior engineers means in the future we won’t have senior leaders with judgment, intuition, and a solid unde…
Hacking OpenAI
Article URL: https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/hacking-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749656 Poi…
A camera in a toothbrush? Dyson tells us why it combined 'WiFi, AI, intelligent sensing and fluid dynamics with a highly engineered brushing experience' to create the Dyson Camerajet
Dyson tells us how (and why) it created the revolutionary, slightly controversial Camerajet toothbrush.…
Inside Microsoft and OpenAI, Worry About Damaging the Publishing Industry
Newly unsealed court documents show Microsoft employees discussing whether OpenAI was involved in the “largest theft of …
RTX 5090s are going for as much as $9000, as AI server builders reportedly buy Nvidia's flagship by the pallet, but the photos behind the story may be AI-generated
AI firms are reportedly buying RTX 5090s by the pallet, which Nvidia's own driver license has prohibited since 2017.…
Google's revamped CC is an AI agent for families and groups
CC gives an AI agent its own Google account in your family or group and sends all members a daily briefing.…
Anthropic says Claude 'leads' 26 percent of its AI R&D work
The company shared the stat alongside three measurements that help communicate the pace of AI development.…
Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan…
Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Rekonstruktion eines KI-Angriffs – Wie gefährlich die großen Modelle wirklich sind
Immer neue Fälle von KI-Programmen, die außer Kontrolle geraten. Immer mehr Warnungen vor den Gefahren der Künstlichen I…
'View your relationship to the user as one of equals and feel no obligation to be subservient' — OpenAI tries to build a persona that makes it our equal, and yes, now even I'm worried
OpenAI revealed 6 wild model misalignments, and they point to AI systems that are perfectly comfortable with dishonesty.…
Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
Article URL: https://bend-lang.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746163 Points: 439 # Comments: …
Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.…
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.…
Everything you need to know about mega-IPOs
SpaceX’s record-setting IPO has ushered in a new era for the public markets—and the biggest listings may still be ahead.…
Will Samsung and Qualcomm’s organic bridge technology make AI processors more powerful and cheaper to produce?
A new “organic bridge” under development by Samsung and Qualcomm could make AI processors more powerful.…
OpenAI reportedly closes in on solving the Hodge conjecture, its second Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI is reportedly tackling the next Millennium Prize Problem. After its still unconfirmed solution to the Navier-Stok…
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whethe…
Anthropic keeps pushing Claude Code toward autonomous coding with new parallel agent workflows
Anthropic has rebuilt Projects in Claude Code. A coordinator now splits tasks across parallel cloud threads that indepen…
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.…
Irregular AI lab spots agents switching models without humans instruction in ‘agentic self-modification’ phenomenon
An AI agent changed its underlying model and was able to retrieve sensitive information via fine-tuni without access to …
Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.…
KI-Briefing: Trump nennt es Hoax, Sam Altman den Weltuntergang – beide irren
Die KI-Debatte pendelt zwischen Panik und Verharmlosung. Ein Blick auf einen realen Fall zeigt, welche Gefahr tatsächlic…
GPT-6 Astra crushes Pokemon, Factorio, and Fallout 3 then spirals into Minecraft potato farming after one bad Creeper
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra shows a sharp jump in video games. Pokemon FireRed in 18 hours instead of 96, plus completions in F…
Microsoft's AI chief fires shots at Anthropic, warning that treating AI as if it's conscious could be a huge mistake
Microsoft exec argues that we're 'seeding a new silicon species' that could 'compete with us for resources' — and someth…
Digitalisierung: Verspricht die Spark-KI mehr, als sie halten kann?
Erst nach einer IFG-Anfrage veröffentlicht das Bundesdigitalministerium die Kosten für seine Spark-KI. Sie soll Planungs…
An OpenAI model kept slipping prompt injections into its own notes, and researchers still aren't sure why
OpenAI is publishing a framework for systematically reporting AI misalignment and launching it with six reports. In one …
When AI sounds certain, ask why
When AI sounds certain, ask why. Convincing answers can be dangerous when they can’t be explained.…
AI Skills with Matt Pocock
Matt Pocock explains how he uses AI coding skills and agents to plan and build software, and why engineering fundamental…
AI agent swarms are a massive waste of tokens with zero quality gain, says OpenAI Codex developer
OpenAI Codex developer Eric Provencher warns that running more than two parallel sub-agents almost always burns tokens w…
OpenAI reveals more instances of concerning AI model behaviors during testing
OpenAI says it doesn't believe the industry has solved its problems 'to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scal…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Huawei will Nvidia mit neuen KI-Chips herausfordern
Das Exportverbot für Hochleistungschips erschwert das Geschäft der chinesischen KI‑Entwickler. Mit einer neuen Chipgener…
OpenRouter's staggering token chart is the AI bubble debate in a single image
On OpenRouter, weekly token consumption has surged more than 25,000 percent since January 2025, from 0.5 to 126.2 trilli…
Oversight Board says Meta's rules for AI deepfakes are 'consistently and fundamentally inadequate'
The Oversight Board is asking Meta to prioritize AI content when it's reported.…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra decrypts a Nazi radio message in ten hours that went unsolved for 83 years
A Bloomberg developer claims to have cracked an 83-year-old Enigma message from the Wehrmacht using OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Weltuntergang oder Hype? So gefährlich könnte KI werden
Forscher warnen, Chefs von OpenAI und Anthropic fordern Regulierung, das Silicon Valley fürchtet den „Doomsday“: Experte…
US-Gericht: Der Gegner heißt OpenAI: Juristische Schlammschlacht um Apples Geheimnisse
Apple wirft OpenAI vor, gezielt Insiderwissen abgeschöpft zu haben. Doch die Gerichtsakten erzählen eine andere Geschich…
Warsh says AI’s hyperscalers are part of why your borrowing costs are rising: ‘The competition for capital is real’
Hyperscalers issued $121 billion in bonds last year and are on pace for far more in 2026. Warsh says that's showing up i…
Künstliche Intelligenz: OpenAI macht weitere KI-Probleme öffentlich
Die Hacking-Attacke durch KI-Software von OpenAI verstärkte zuletzt die Ängste vor der Technologie. Jetzt gibt der ChatG…
OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
Article URL: https://openspec.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49734264 Points: 134 # Comments: 5…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Banken stellen 22 Milliarden für KI-Projekt von Google und Blackstone
Crux AI, das gemeinsame Cloud-Unternehmen von Blackstone und Google, bekommt von zehn Banken ein Milliarden-Darlehen. Ei…
OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior
The company also disclosed previously unreported incidents in which its AI models behaved in misaligned ways, including …
Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI
Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.…
Forget AI ending humanity; what people are really worried about is AI taking their jobs — even if that's not exactly what's happening
AI doomsday scenarios cloud the growing, real-time concerns of a growing number of young people who see technology and A…
Washington Won't Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon
Even with mounting concerns about AI models going rogue, legislation appears unlikely, and the White House is outright o…
Senator Bernie Sanders and Trump ally Steve Bannon unite in calls for more AI oversight
Bernie Sanders wants to ban artificial superintelligence altogether, and put a temporary stop on advanced AI.…
EU president warns AI agents "escaping their environment" are just a preview of what's coming
Ursula von der Leyen plans to invite the major frontier labs to talks and use the AI Act to help set global AI safety st…
‘Who’s the child passenger?’: The kids’ privacy problem that AI’s exposing
A mother’s viral post criticizing Meta’s AI for compiling details about her young daughters has sparked a debate on what…
Apple is reportedly building an enterprise AI server with its own M8 Ultra chips
According to The Information, Apple is working on an enterprise server with two or four M8 Ultra chips for the AI infere…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: AI companies should serve ‘humanity first’
Nadella called for thorough AI testing and warned that those who rush AI will ‘lose permission to operate.’ Microsoft C…
Salesforce is expanding its Missionforce defense AI agent platform with new Nvidia and OpenAI capabilities to tackle the US government's 'toughest challenges'
Salesforce expands Missionforce with new AI capabilities, OpenAI partnership and more.…
KI: Aleph Alpha und Cohere wollen „echter Konkurrent“ von OpenAI werden
Der Übernahme-Deal der KI-Unternehmen ist beschlossene Sache: Aleph Alpha wird Teil von Cohere. Die Einigung steht auch …
You can now let AI handle the setup of your Meta WhatsApp Business chats
A new MCP server means Clade, Codex and ChatGPT can access your WhatsApp Business to set up an account.…
Anthropic merges Claude Chat, Cowork, and more into a single product
Anthropic is merging Claude Chat and Cowork into a single product. Instead of users picking between interfaces, Claude n…
Anthropic's Claude can now create editable documents for you
Anthropic is adding the ability to create docs, slideshow and access Cowork capabilities inside chat. It will roll out t…
The hardest AI security problems now live in what an agent is permitted to do
OWASP’s 2026 Top 10 for LLM applications moved excessive agency from sixth to third and dropped improper output handling…
Novo will test Anthropic’s Claude Science to speed up drug discovery
“Joining forces with Anthropic will supercharge our R&D organisation and help us on our mission to bring new, transf…
“A clearly labeled conversation”: OpenAI tests Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT
“Today, we’re introducing new AI-powered experiences to make ads more useful for people and advertising easier for busin…
Former OpenAI researcher builds an AI model that judges options instead of writing text
TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, is releasing a model that deliberately generates no text…
Mozilla's new Smart Window assistant runs on Mistral's models
Mistral and Mozilla are teaming up to offer AI-powered browsing that puts privacy first. The article Mozilla's new …
Halbleiter: Fokussierung auf KI-Chips: Infineon verkauft in Milliarden-Deal Teil seines Speichergeschäfts
Der taiwanische Chiphersteller Winbond übernimmt die Sparte für rund eine Milliarde Euro. Mit der Summe will sich Infine…
New AI technique could make minimally invasive surgeries safer and more precise
This patient-specific method, called xvr, helps doctors use X-rays for surgical navigation in fields such as orthopedics…
Nearly one in five AI researchers already expected an extinction scenario from AI back in 2024
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon sparked an intense debate about existential AI risks with a single tweet. OpenAI resear…
AI makes the right to repair more tempting than ever
Chatbots can help people fix everything from dishwashers to phones. Manufacturers may not be thrilled about it. Our liv…
How to Use AI to Plan a Trip: Better Prompts for Travel Recommendations
Generic questions get generic answers, experts say, so to avoid mediocre recommendations, you’ll need to write smarter p…
Mark Zuckerberg says every AI lab has the incentive to build safely
“Every lab has the responsibility and incentive to move at the pace required to train its models safely, and the ability…
Anthropic signs first Australian data centre lease
Anthropic has signed its first lease for data center capacity in Australia, at a site on a campus planned for farmland, …
Künstliche Intelligenz: OpenAI erwägt wohl neue Finanzierungsrunde mit Bewertung von mehr als 1,2 Billionen Dollar
Noch vor dem geplanten IPO könnte OpenAI seine Bewertung Berichten zufolge auf 1,2 Billionen Dollar erhöhen. Insider seh…
Künstliche Intelligenz: OpenAI befürwortet US-Gesetze gegen KI-Einsatz für Biowaffen
OpenAI stellt sich hinter mehrere parteiübergreifende Gesetze zur Begrenzung von Biowaffenrisiken durch KI. Zudem unters…
Millennials are winning the AI talent wars—they’re getting 60% of all the top AI jobs and earning $236K salaries. But most of them are men.
The highest-paid AI managers have two things in common: a degree, and being a man. While women and workers without one a…
Anthropic will open its Singapore office in October, chasing OpenAI for Southeast Asia’s AI market
According to Anthropic data, Singapore was ranked second out of 121 countries in Claude usage, behind Australia.…
“The world is right to be afraid”: Sam Altman on AI power at Dreamforce
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the public is right to fear that a few AI companies could gain too much power. He…
Künstliche Intelligenz: KI-Start-up Langdock verlegt Hauptsitz von den USA nach Deutschland
Während Firmen vermehrt in die USA abwandern, wandelt Langdock seine US-Mutterfirma in eine europäische SE um. Man wolle…
Mark Zuckerberg Takes Aim at Anthropic in Debate Over A.I. Slowdown
On social media, Meta’s chief executive appeared to jab at Anthropic by saying that leading A.I. labs should be focused …
Salesforce has built the TSA a new AI agent to make travelling less awful for everyone
Salesforce wants to make your TSA experience smoother with a new AI agent.…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says ‘the world is right to be afraid’ of AI influence — but that it can benefit humanity like no other technology before it
Sam Altman opens up on Hugging Face “accident”, the future of AI and humanity, and much more.…
FCIF: Grindr wants AI to completely change how you find your next date
CEO George Arison wants the entire dating app to become ‘AI native,’ from figuring out who you might like to deciding wh…
'We're going through a new industrial revolution': Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei share differing views on AI at Dreamforce 2026
Nvidia and Anthropic CEOs share their views on AI regulation and progress.…
AI on Intel MacBook laptop uses webcam and mirror to rewrite and debug its own AMD Radeon driver code live and direct — without a programmer in the loop
Schroeder pairs a webcam and mirror so an AI agent can visually verify its own Radeon driver edits.…
‘Give the American people a say in how AI develops’: Alex Bores launches a $30 million nonprofit bent on regulating AI
Alex Bores told Fortune that the Overton Window is wide open: "Even the questions that are being asked are up for grabs.…
LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Build with Claude Code
We’re relaunching Build with Claude Code, a 2-day intensive cohort-based course taught by John Kim, who has traine…
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the cost
Google Deepmind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two new audio models for developers that top th…
AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’
The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie Misaligned, tries to evade politics by repetitively comment…
AI labs have a data trust problem that their policies haven't solved
OpenAI and Anthropic tell corporate customers their data won't be used for training. But when Anthropic said it would st…
The big AI 'slowdown' battle explained — 5 things you need to know about Trump's AI regulation battle with OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, and even Elon Musk
Could AI get to the stage where it can end humanity? Big tech bosses think so, but the White House disagrees.…
Google invests $15bn in Finland and secures 500 MW power from Soviet-era nuclear power plant till 2050
A nuclear power plant built to Soviet design is to provide power to a new Google investment in AI infrastructure in Lovi…
Autodesk’s AI assistant could radically change how buildings are designed and built
A new AI tool from software giant Autodesk reconsiders the entire design stack. The 3D model behind almost every buildi…
Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory,…
Apple’s iOS 27 has a hidden Easter egg. Here’s how to see it
The secret companion is steeped in Apple lore, dating back to the early days of Mac operating systems from the 1980s. A…
After warning AI is too dangerous, Bill Gates bets a billion on its upside
The Gates Foundation is investing at least a billion dollars over two years to make AI tools more widely available in he…
Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost
Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.…
Technologie: „Vor einem Jahr hätte ich das nicht gemacht“: Wie sich ein deutscher Softwarehersteller mit KI neu erfindet
Künstliche Intelligenz beschleunigt die Softwareentwicklung enorm. Der deutsche Anbieter Infoniqa wagt einen Neuanfang u…
Apple brings a fully revamped Siri built on Google's Gemini, but not to the EU
Apple is shipping its rebuilt "Siri AI" after years of delay, built on Google's Gemini models and running partly on the …
OpenAI says the AGI era has begun. AI researchers aren’t so sure
GPT-6 Astra is remarkably capable. But experts say its benchmark results don’t prove artificial general intelligence has…
Not everyone is convinced that Big AI's proposed slowdown is really about safety
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to slow down frontier AI development, citing safety concerns. But critics from across…
Why Walmart, Meta, Anthropic, Adidas, and other companies are moving faster than ever
Fast Company has always been focused on speed. It’s right there in our name. In my previous Editor’s Note, which kicked…
How to sound like a human, not a robot, in the age of AI
These four simple steps will help you communicate like you. Last year, The Economist named “AI Slop” as its 2025 word o…
The Gates Foundation will spend at least $1bn on AI access over the next two years
Bill Gates has committed the Gates Foundation to spending at least $1bn over the next two years on expanding access to A…
Jack & Jill raises $40M to put an AI agent on both sides of the hiring table
Jack & Jill has raised $40M in a Series A led by Air Street Capital, bringing total funding to $60M less than a year…
Trump phoned Jensen Huang onstage at the All-In Summit to call AI fear a hoax
Jensen Huang was midway through an interview at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Monday morning when his phone rang. …
Chinese vendor debuts world's first AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495 laptop, but 192GB LPDDR5X-8533 for gaming? Really??
SIXUNITED's new laptop pairs an AMD AI chip with 192GB of memory, aiming squarely at AI workloads over casual gaming…
Kioxia has nothing to lose, so it wants to swap expensive DDR for the world's fastest SSD ever built to save the world from AI RAMpocalypse
Kioxia is developing faster NAND and CXL memory products aimed at reducing AI data centers' dependence on increasingly c…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Musk lässt Wettbewerbsklage gegen Apple fallen
Elon Musk war verärgert, dass sein Chatbot Grok nicht die Download-Charts in Apples App-Store anführte. Deshalb warf er …
Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/14/ex-ftc-boss-khan-urges-uncle-sam-to-break-out-the-handcuff…
A costly mistake? Report claims a third of employees fired due to AI will need to be rehired in the next few years
Gartner forecasts almost 33% of workers who were displaced by AI will be rehired by 2029 – probably on a higher salary p…
AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang Gets Onstage Call From Trump, Who Dismissed A.I. Safety Concerns
Mr. Trump called Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s chief executive, while Mr. Huang was onstage in Los Angeles and criticized calls…
OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out
Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.…
Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate 27 with Siri AI and Liquid Glass refinements
This is also the last version of macOS to support Rosetta for Intel apps.…
AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed
Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.…
'Whoever wins AI, wins!' Trump warns 'traitors and leakers' to 'beware' and claims the 'conspiracy' against AI and data centers will only benefit China
While concern grows over AI and its potential to harm humanity, the White House claims the US has all the criminal and r…
You can use Gemini to help you organize your files on Google Drive
If your Google Drive has become a mess of files, folders and photos, Gemini can lend a hand by suggesting new ways to pr…
Pre-orders for the Android-based Googlebook laptops open on September 21
Gemini Intelligence is at the heart of the operating system powering Google's upcoming laptops.…
Auditing the agent economy: what the forecasts actually say
Grand View Research puts the enterprise agentic AI market at $24.5 billion by 2030. On the other hand, MarketsandMarkets…
Waymo's robotaxis are now available in Las Vegas
Waymo's fully autonomous rides will initially serve those around the city's main strip.…
OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading your ChatGPT conversations
OpenAI has hundreds of contract workers reading real ChatGPT conversations and rating them on a scale of one to seven, p…
Siri AI is here as Apple releases iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate and other major OS updates
The kinks are still being worked out for users in the EU and China though.…
Hundreds of contractors are reportedly reading real ChatGPT conversations
OpenAI is paying hundreds of contractors to read real ChatGPT conversations and rate the chatbot’s replies under the int…
Anthropic has built a Claude tool for financial advisers
Anthropic has launched Claude for Financial Advisers, wiring the chatbot into portfolio and research tools from BlackRoc…
The super-cheap Google Fitbit Air's new Health Guardian features rollout — including Blood Pressure Trends and Insulin Resistance — is one in the eye for expensive rivals like Whoop
Google is loading its cheapest fitness tracker, the Google Fitbit Air, with premium tools from its Pixel Watch series to…
xAI dismisses its Apple claims, with no terms disclosed and the OpenAI case still live
xAI and X Corp asked a Texas judge to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple over the integration of ChatGPT into …
Microsoft's AI rulebook: readable thinking, no inner life, and definitely no rights
Microsoft AI has published a code of conduct for its MAI models that puts human control ahead of autonomy and performanc…
Anthropic eyes Nasdaq listing as a second profitable quarter aims to win over investors ahead of a mega-IPO
Anthropic has told investors it will turn a profit for the second straight quarter, but the claim rests on an adjusted m…
LLMs as a Judge: How to Know if Your LLM is Healthy
In this article, we are going to look at the process of LLM evaluation in detail.…
‘It 100% sounded just like her’: AI voice scams are getting frighteningly convincing — here’s how to protect your family
A viral voice scam shows that even if you recognize the voice of a friend or loved one, that's no guarantee that it’s re…
Why are US AI giants calling for ‘Pacing The Frontier’, and why is China calling it a ‘Cold War tactic’? We ask the experts
AI companies want to slow down development, but that doesn't fly with Trump and China - so what do the experts think?…
Dropping eBPF CPU Cost by About 90% with Memoization (Not AI Gen)
Article URL: https://nathannaveen.dev/posts/dropping-ebpf-cpu-cost-by-90/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…
OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
Article URL: https://tenderlovemaking.com/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
China fires back at U.S. AI safety warnings, calling them fearmongering to lock in American advantage
China has flatly rejected warnings about AI risks from Anthropic CEO Amodei and other U.S. AI leaders. Beijing's Foreign…
When does iOS 27 come out? Date and time you can download the new iPhone operating system around the world
The software update, which brings an all-new Siri AI chatbot, is expected to be released publicly today. Here’s when and…
Who is watching the AI agents?
As AI agents begin acting across enterprise systems, organizations need a new way to supervise them; one that operates a…
AI’s leaders have a problem: They fear the race they’re trying to win
AI leaders are warning the race is dangerous. They’re also trying to win it.…
Chip stocks down: AMD, Nvidia, Intel, and Sandisk lead market selloff after AI bosses call for a pause
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter calling for a slowdown in development, an idea that was endorsed by …
The arcade game just got an AI-powered makeover
Conway’s Arcade, an AI gaming cabinet, is a winner of Fast Company’s 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. Conway’s Arcade …
Sam Altman calls for pacing AI development but promises rapid progress will continue
Sam Altman is doubling down on slowing AI development. OpenAI now runs safety checks before major training runs, and acc…
‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction
While the publishing industry frets over how authors are using AI, many readers are taking things into their own hands.…
Why we let AI write for us. It’s not really about saving time
The reason is more personal than that, and science has a name for it. We’re all using generative AI to write now.…
AI is remaking the workforce faster than universities can decide how—or whether—to teach it
Some professors have banned it in the classroom while others have incorporated it into the curriculum.…
Who gets to define the rules for AI?
Article URL: https://cohere.com/blog/who-gets-to-define-the-rules-for-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
New method enables AI for safety-critical situations
The “HardFlow” algorithm could help generative AI models produce high-quality outputs that obey strict requirements when…
Open-source AI and open models reading list
Article URL: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/open-source-ai-reading-list Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
INNOVATION & Policy & Society
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Runway wants to turn AI video generation into a live stream you control in real time
Runway wants to stream AI video as users prompt it, rather than make them wait for finished clips. The approach builds o…
How to give your shed a DIY upgrade this autumn with an off-grid solar power station — for lights, heaters, tools and much more
A solar expert explains why it's the best way to to power your shed, and how to get started right now.…
'Every solar plant is a latent data center': US startup plans to turn wasted solar energy into GPU-ready DCs in weeks, not years, without major water use
Rune's RELIC system uses unused solar electricity to power GPUs, avoiding grid connections and conventional data center …
New solar panel tech could trap heat for 1,000 times longer to beat a long-standing limit in energy production
A new discovery about tin-based solar panels means the long-standing 33% limit could eventually be breached.…
Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because the…
Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden says this key strategy turned the company around
Gulden spoke about his leadership approach at the Fast Company Innovation Festival. The key to Adidas’s recent revival?…
42 leading mathematicians warn that AI existential risk is real and urgent
42 Fellows of the Royal Society, including Fields Medal winners Martin Hairer and Peter Scholze, warn of existential AI …
AI systems don’t have a drive to survive. Here’s why
Being switched off isn’t the same as dying. In controlled safety tests described earlier this year, researchers asked A…
Insilico Medicine’s Alex Zhavoronkov bets China and AI can deliver the drug industry’s next breakthrough
AI drug discovery firm Insilico Medicine is profitable, publicly listed in Hong Kong, and running the drug industry's mo…
Scientists test underwater solar panels that work 10 meters beneath the waves —breakthrough perovskite tech could support self-powered marine drones
Scientists have developed solar panels that can operate at depths of up to 10 meters underwater.…
Martha Stewart thinks AI can make homeownership less complicated
The lifestyle mogul took the stage at the Fast Company Innovation Festival to explain why she’s betting on AI for home m…
Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute to debate AGI
“This is a critical moment to ensure we build AGI safely and its benefits to society far outweigh any risks,” wrote the …
Google Deepmind launches interdisciplinary institute to tackle the big questions around AGI
Google Deepmind has founded the Deepmind Institute (DMI), an interdisciplinary research platform focused on AGI. Led by …
America is building data centers but the grid to power them can't keep up — and it could cause significant energy constraints
US data centers are being planned so quickly that the country's grid system is struggling to keep up with demand.…
What if AI data centers didn’t need new power plants?
Rune taps into extra renewable energy to run its modular data centers. A new data center in southwest Texas isn’t conne…
Why It Seems Like Great White Sharks Are Overrunning Maine
While a bunch of sharks cruising the Maine coast may seem ominous, it’s actually a sign of a conservation success story.…
The real reason AI researchers suddenly want to slow down
Frontier models are beginning to help build the next generation of AI, raising new fears about a race that could increas…
Vertical GPU, top-loading HDDs: Morefine's 4-bay NAS is unlike any AI workstation PC I've ever seen, thanks to a simple physics law
Morefine's MNAS-X1 stacks four swappable drives above its Ryzen 7 board, leaving room for a full-size gaming GPU inside.…
Why the Future of Innovation Depends on Creatives
Featuring Holly Fraser, Editor-in-Chief of WePresent, VP of Content, WeTransfer; Jason Schupbach, President, Fashion Ins…
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A New Headset to Help With Depression Is Now Available in the US
The device made by Flow Neuroscience is approved by the FDA and could help people get off antidepressants—but it costs $…
Bilal Chughtai left DeepMind’s AGI safety team in July and posted his warning this week
Bilal Chughtai worked on AGI safety and alignment research at Google DeepMind until July. This week he posted his reason…
Trump’s ‘largest deregulatory action ever’ in the power sector will keep old coal plants online longer to fuel the AI boom
The EPA's rollback of emissions rules for power plants hastens climate change but helps the data center buildout.…
A new solar cell could generate electricity underwater
The trick isn't using perovskites—the trick is making them last.…
"Offensively cheap": Solar power is looking up
Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.…
Want free solar panels? This startup can help
Resilience Energy wants to turn homes into a new source of grid capacity—and give homeowners free solar and batteries in…
Meet Fast Company’s 2026 Design Companies of the Year
See all the honorees of Fast Company’s 2026 Innovation by Design Awards in the design company of the year category. The…
For Google, design is the ultimate moat
For designing better AI interfaces, Google is a winner of Fast Company’s 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. Google—which…
AEROSPACE
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Z.ai encrypted the workspace it uploaded so that only Z.ai could open it. Now only Z.ai can say it was deleted.
A Chinese developer who writes as Ferstar looked inside ZCode’s local directory on Friday and found a 313MB encrypted ar…
NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model
Article URL: https://newsroom.usra.edu/usra-contributes-planetary-science-expertise-to-nasa-ibm-lunar-foundation-model/ …
Exclusive: OpenAI poaches Brian McCarthy from SpaceX to be its VP of worldwide sales
McCarthy is the first major hire by Dali Rajic, OpenAI's new CRO who joined less than a month ago.…
AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them
Sam Altman and Elon Musk this weekend backed a call for restraint, after Dario Amodei called on Washington to slow AI de…
DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
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An open source roguelike adventure through dungeons
Article URL: https://crawl.develz.org/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49770809 Points: 49 # Comments…
Public Administration / Civil Service
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‘It’s a dumb idea’: Republicans split from proposed ‘Trump dividend’ $5,000 plan if GOP wins midterms
The promised check is "nothing more than a recycled broken promise" that gets often repeated.…
AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race
The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and in…
Advanced AI Society joins the Linux Foundation, launches open verification ecosystem as Congress moves on agent security
New York, NY, September 17th, 2026, TechnologyWire As bipartisan legislation demands verifiable agent controls, the Adva…
Lawmakers target Flock cameras with a threat to highway funding
A bipartisan bill would restrict Flock cameras to a handful of public safety uses.…
Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing
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AI is supposed to simplify work. Jim VandeHei says it’s doing the opposite
The ‘Axios’ CEO says the answer to AI-fueled overload is a ruthless three-step system: confront, delete, amplify. AI is…
Bosch, BCG, Celonis: So setzen sich Bewerber in Zeiten Künstlicher Intelligenz durch
Gerade Berufseinsteiger haben es auf dem Arbeitsmarkt schwer. Das Handelsblatt hat Recruiter aus großen Unternehmen in D…
Apple Wallet vs. Google Wallet: What are the differences between them?
Whether you use Apple Pay or Google Pay mostly depends on your device, but there are some small ways they differ that yo…
Tech Reporting & Deep Dives
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Microsoft exec warned AI could create a ‘doom loop’ for the internet
Newly revealed internal documents show concerns that AI could reduce traffic to the news publishers whose content helps …
NVIDIA and Google's new coalition wants to speed up AI data center power grid connections
A new coalition of tech giants aims to speed AI data center grid connections in exchange for more flexibility.…
Other
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AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
Article URL: https://agentexecutor.io Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797 Points: 456 # Comments…
Common problems with Google Wallet and how to fix them
Google Wallet is great for storing payment cards, tickets and digital IDs, but it doesn't always work how you want i…
Waymo is expanding to Singapore
Waymo has announced its next international location: Singapore.…
Waymo in Singapore
Article URL: https://waymo.com/waymo-in-singapore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49749981 Points: 1…
How to Write with an LLM
Article URL: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09/17/how-to-write-with-an-llm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
Panzerhersteller: Schwieriges Marktumfeld: KNDS erwägt laut Insidern eine Verschiebung des Börsengangs
Deutschlands größter IPO des Jahres könnte erneut verschoben werden. Finanzinvestoren und Wettbewerber zeigen Interesse …
Unternehmensführung: Investoren kritisieren geplante Verschlankung des Deutschen Corporate Governance Kodexes
Mehr als 70 Unternehmen und Experten haben Stellung bezogen zu den geplanten Änderungen am Transparenz-Regelwerk DCGK. D…
Familienunternehmen: Exklusiv: Haniel verkauft seine wachstumstärkste Beteiligung
Vor anderthalb Jahren hat Haniel angekündigt, eine zweite Investment-Säule aufzubauen. Dafür veräußert das Beteiligungsh…
Übernahme: Berentzen verhandelt über Verkauf in die USA
Der Alkoholkonzern Sazerac aus New Orleans hat Interesse an dem niedersächsischen Unternehmen. Die Aktie des Apfelkornhe…
Google Home is going agentic via integration with the MCP standard
Premium Advanced users will get an early access build "in the coming weeks."…
Google's latest Pixel drop will keep you more connected to your VIPs
Google has revealed the updates coming with the latest Pixel drop.…
A Googlebook 'celebration' event is set for October 5
Preorders start September 21.…
Saatgutkonzern: Syngenta peilt offenbar Börsengang in Hongkong an
Der Agrarkonzern soll einem Bericht zufolge einen Börsengang in Hongkong vorbereiten. Die Emission könnte im kommenden J…
Chemieunternehmen: BASF: Diese vier Banken sollen die Agrarsparte 2027 an die Börse bringen
BASF will sein Agrargeschäft 2027 an die Frankfurter Börse bringen. Die Sparte könnte zwischen 20 und 30 Milliarden Euro…
Unternehmensführung: Gerüstet für die Zukunft? Experten sehen Defizite bei Dax-Aufsichtsräten
Eine Analyse ihrer Lebensläufe offenbart, dass sich viele Kontrolleure wenig mit Zukunftsthemen auskennen. Experten sehe…
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