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German company becomes first in Europe to launch fully commercial orbital rocket
"We achieved within a few years what had taken the European space industry decades before."…
How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips
Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company’s subsidiary kept …
Stripping safety guardrails from open-weight AI models is now a turnkey commercial service
Abliteration.ai sells access to modified open-weight models with their trained safety mechanisms stripped out, currently…
Chinese banks and carriers have turned AI tokens into rewards, monthly plans and collateral
Chinese banks, telecom carriers and a Guangzhou district have started packaging AI tokens as credit card rewards, monthl…
Why is there so much worry about OpenAI Astra, and what issues could ‘recurrent depth’ reasoning cause? The experts weigh in
As OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, cybersecurity experts question whether the model's 'recurrent depth' reasoning was proper…
This $75 Philips 24-inch 100Hz monitor deal is the ultimate WFH upgrade for Labor Day
This budget 24-inch business monitor packs in 1080p res, 100Hz refresh rate, and Adaptive Sync for everyday work and lig…
They paid $470,000 for a ‘boring’ business. Within days, almost everything went wrong
After one couple’s new business turned into a nightmare, here’s how they turned it around. Andrea Palacio and her husba…
The Tetris Company wants nothing to do with the White House's new copycat game
Tetris knockoff 'Build the Wall' is one of six new games hosted on the White House website, and The Tetris Compa…
AI startup micro1 bids $12.5M for Spirit’s records, topping Google’s agreed $10M deal
The AI training-data company micro1 has offered $12.5M for Spirit Aviation’s internal records, topping Google’s agreed $…
Microsoft tells court Copilot rarely copies books while selling OpenAI’s most capable model
Microsoft moved for summary judgment in the New York AI copyright litigation on 4 September, arguing Copilot reproduced …
OpenAI warns about how good Astra model is at cracking cybersecurity, releases it anyway because it took 'years of research and big bets'
GPT-6 Astra was paused a month ago for triggering safety protocols and now it's being slowly rolled out.…
We are programming AI in assembly language
It’s like the Internet in 1991, before the web was invented. In the series of articles I’ve been writing for Fast Compa…
Luka’s new AI projector starts the drawing and leaves the rest to kids
Luka Kids has unveiled an AI drawing projector at IFA that converts a child’s spoken prompt into an outline for them to …
Every binding AI review Washington has proposed has come back voluntary. Zuckerberg reportedly rang Trump about the latest one.
Mark Zuckerberg raised concerns about a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported call with Donald Trump…
Brussels said only a breakup would fix Google’s ad tech. The judge who agreed on liability has just declined to order one.
Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order Google to divest parts of its advertising business, leaving the European Commiss…
Ugreen's six-bay DXP6800 Pro NAS has 10GbE networking, but I'd spend another $92 on this TRENDnet switch for faster transfers
If you're a small business buying Ugreen's DXP6800 Pro NAS, I recommend adding this TRENDnet 10GbE switch for maximum ne…
16 skills that become more valuable because of AI
Communication, critical thinking, adaptability, and more abilities where human judgment remains irreplaceable. As artif…
Hackers Had a Live Feed of Every ID Verification Company Scanned for over a Year
Article URL: http://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-fo…
Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time
More than 200 people in roles such as engineering, finance, and communications will now be represented by the Communicat…
Why the Hugging Face Hack Should Make You Worry More About A.I.
The attack by an aggressive “collective” of OpenAI agents shows the danger of artificial intelligence systems that organ…
T-Mobile’s Gopalan turns to home internet and AI after a 25% slide
T-Mobile US chief executive Srini Gopalan declined to comment on a possible merger with parent Deutsche Telekom, days af…
GPT-6 Astra is the first model making OpenAI willing to declare the "AGI era"
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model yet. President Greg Brockman says it marks the start of the "AGI…
AI visionary Ray Kurzweil is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a brain computer system that involves snorting nanoparticles
Subsense’s brain computing interface could compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, but would not require surgery.…
OpenAI unleashes Astra, its most capable and controversial model yet
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra marks the arrival of AGI, even as its cybersecurity abilities and harder-to-monitor reasoning ra…
Microsoft’s org chart is getting an AI makeover—and it sounds very sci-fi
Microsoft’s ‘Agents and Infra’ segment is meant to reflect the company’s changes in the era of artificial intelligence. …
Maybe we were wrong about Perplexity
The AI startup pivoted toward agents and has tripled revenue to $750 million, with Nvidia now looking seriously at buyin…
‘You can really unleash a lot of creativity’: Philips Hue founder George Yianni explains why its AI upgrades will be genuinely useful and 'a bit of a game changer'
The brand's founder and CTO explains why artificial intelligence and home lighting are a perfect fit, and what he's most…
Gen Z doesn’t want to go to college. This startup school wants to fix that—by ditching clubs, sports, and dining halls
The Greenway Institute is cutting tuition costs by putting hands-on education above nonacademic amenities. Is it worth i…
The largest school system in the U.S. just banned AI for students through 8th grade
Mayor Mamdani announced a one-year moratorium on AI tools for elementary and middle school students. New York City̵…
GoPro stock surges again on merger and AI pivot news: What the heck is happening with GPRO?
Following a major stake from a famous YouTube star, the action camera company will now join with another company and foc…
Show HN: Reactor Atlas
Hi HN, I'm a nuclear engineer and tech entrepreneur. After working for 3 years in the National Atomic Energy Commision (…
How much energy does agentic AI actually use? One scientist tracked every prompt he sent
Tech companies say typical AI prompts use little energy. Zeke Hausfather’s experiment suggests AI agents are a different…
This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops
WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watc…
Notion’s new San Francisco HQ is an ode to classic design
With mood lighting, iconic furniture, and lots of wood, the software company wants its Market Street space to look like …
A breach at Thomson Reuters reached appellate courts in twelve US jurisdictions
Thomson Reuters says an unauthorised party got into files belonging to C-Track, the case management platform its court s…
How AI could kill ‘corporate ick’
Conversational AI could encourage workers to think out loud, self-edit less, and leave some buttoned-up business norms b…
Moody’s head of sustainable finance: Asia is embracing a ‘pragmatic transition’ on energy
“Virtue signalling” is giving way to national energy priorities as Asia pursues renewables, nuclear power, alternative f…
Meta Pushes Its New AI Agent on Employees—but Eases Off on Tokenmaxxing
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment wi…
A US court says Google keeps its ad exchange. The Commission said only a sale would work
A US federal judge has ruled that Google will not have to sell its advertising exchange, leaving the remedies from three…
Jason Isbell’s Suno lawsuit takes aim beyond AI copyright
The lawsuit takes an unusual approach, arguing that the AI music company exploited musicians’ identities rather than sim…
These Russian Mathematicians Taught AI Models How to Talk to Each Other Without Using Words
A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.…
Google won't be forced to sell its ad exchange following antitrust ruling
A judge previously determined that Google illegally monopolized a pair of ad tech markets.…
Uber cuts 10% of jobs today, stock up: Why these layoffs are different from others
CEO Dara Khosrowshahi cited the need for the company to be ‘simpler’ and ‘faster,’ but did not mention AI. Uber announc…
US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case
The DOJ proved to the court that Google acted illegally, but it won't get the big win it wanted.…
Federal Judge Declines to Break Up Google’s Ad Technology Business
In a long awaited ruling, the judge said Google must make some changes to its ad tech business to handle antitrust issue…
Star Wars Zero Company is a great game that's busted and may never be fixed
It's hard to be confident about Star Wars Zero Company's future after the studio that made it furloughed most of…
How Caterpillar is using AI to augment human intelligence—and optimize its supply chain
Caterpillar CIO Jamie Engstrom wants her organization to embrace ‘the art of the possible’ when it comes to technology—w…
How E.l.f. Beauty is building AI into its community management
Ekta Chopra, the company’s chief technology and AI officer, helped launch ‘E.l.fluencer,’ a program that lets community …
Introducing the Fast Company Pacesetters
Meet 40 executives who are finding innovative ways to integrate generative artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, a…
How AWS has embraced AI agents—for itself and its clients
Ruba Borno, the head of AWS’s Global Specialists and Partners organization, helps AWS customers bring AI to their operat…
How we chose the 2026 Pacesetters
Our 2026 ranking of the 40 Pacesetters showcases executives who are integrating generative artificial intelligence, auto…
A comedian’s viral joke about Lovesac’s 24-box couch assembly wasn’t the problem. The company’s response was
An expert says such a culturally relevant marketing playbook can be clever—but only if brands execute it correctly. Fur…
Shopify is giving its engineers free rein on AI. Here’s why
COO Jess Hertz says the company is already seeing the payoff, with revenue growing 34% while head count stays flat, as S…
Aspiring entrepreneurs are raving about this $699 Harvard course taught by AI clones
It’s an eight-week boot camp where Harvard Business School faculty are constantly available—or at least, their AI avatar…
Startup launches 27-inch glasses-free spatial 3D display for under $1200 on Kickstarter
ViewX has launched a Kickstarter campaign for glasses-free 3D displays in 15.6-inch and 27-inch sizes, backed by Tencent…
Your files stay put: Perplexity’s hybrid AI keeps confidential data off the cloud
Perplexity today launched hybrid compute for its agentic platform, Computer, a system that lets a single AI agent split …
AI is redefining the workforce — and most planning models aren’t ready
Presented by SAPHR tracks employees and skills. Finance owns headcount targets and cost. Procurement manages contractors…
AI wants to become your family’s chief of staff. Should you let it?
Startups like Fambot use AI to manage school emails, sports schedules, meal planning, and the endless logistics of famil…
Runway's Solaris is an AI system that generates software interfaces in real time
AI company Runway has unveiled Solaris, the first model in a new category it calls "Interface World Models." Instead of …
SurveyMonkey is betting AI can make surveys useful again
Its biggest revamp in years uses AI to help users build surveys faster and turn human feedback into something businesses…
Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of horm…
Why Apple’s controversial new AirPods could get banned in offices and gyms
The tech giant may have prioritized privacy for its camera AirPods, but there are still huge concerns. One of the hotte…
I was co-CEO of a $100 million company. Here’s how my sense of urgency nearly killed it
Because we are incredibly bad judges of our own ideas, we need to move forward deliberately. Over the course of a long …
MSI Pro MP243W E14 review: A simple FHD business monitor at a spectacular price
The MSI Pro MP243W E14 Monitor is a classic business monitor at a spectacular price for professionals and remote workers…
The hardest problem in physical AI may be the magnet, not the model
Actuators account for 40% to 60% of a humanoid robot’s bill of materials and China refines roughly 90% of the rare earth…
Bank of England chief warns that inflated AI valuations and rising leverage could trigger the next financial crisis
Andrew Bailey warns G20 finance ministers about inflated AI valuations, growing leverage across markets, and cyber risks…
Tim Cook was the best Apple CEO for his time — John Ternus' tenure will be defined by AI
Tim Cook took over as Apple CEO in the long shadow of his predecessor, Steve Jobs — and yet he became the best tech CEO …
OpenAI says its ChatGPT ad business hits a $1 billion annual run rate
OpenAI's advertising business has reached an annualized revenue run rate of $1 billion, according to the company. The ar…
OpenAI starts charging some customers only when its AI actually works
OpenAI is offering some large customers outcome-based pricing, where they pay only once the AI actually finishes a task.…
5 side-hustle businesses that can generate up to six figures
These side-hustle ideas have surprisingly high earning potential, with enough room to grow into a full-time business. A…
AI cannot optimize a company it cannot understand
Before a company can become optimizable, it has to become understandable for the intelligence trying to optimize it. Fo…
HP Smart Tank 210 review: The company's cheapest ink tank printer is basic, but I can’t fault the quality at this price
If you can live without auto-duplex, this inexpensive ink tank is a bargain.…
Teachers are getting more comfortable using AI – but it isn't helping lower their workload
Although most teachers use artificial intelligence, only one in three say they're able to work fewer hours amid intense …
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OpenAI’s chief scientist says no lab should keep scaling at maximum speed
OpenAI published two posts on Sunday. One says its researchers now get 3.1 days of machine work for every day they put i…
Anthropic will reportedly list days before the US midterm elections
Anthropic’s stock market debut has moved, and the new date puts it days away from a national election. Reuters reported …
Authors say publishers want a cut of Anthropic’s payout, the NYT reports
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5bn to the authors whose books it pirated. The money is now being counted out. Some of those …
OpenAI says it reached its goal of creating an automated research intern
The company hopes to have an even better "automated AI researcher" by March 2028.…
How to set up ChatGPT's parental controls to protect your teen
The idea of your child using ChatGPT can be daunting, but OpenAI's new teen-focused tools provide granular controls …
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/research-acceleration-view-inside-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
Flock's AI search tool for police officers has been reverse engineered — here's what it shows
Wired has managed to uncover some of the details about how search works for police officers using Flock.…
Interview: „Wer KI nicht nutzt, wird verlieren“ – Osapiens nimmt den US-Markt ins Visier
Mitgründer Stefan Wawrzinek setzt auf eine eigene Agentenfabrik. Seine KI-Nachhaltigkeitssoftware will das Mannheimer Un…
Chatbots built an "echo chamber of one" and now psychiatry has to decide if "AI psychosis" exists
Researchers at King's College London and other institutions are examining whether "AI-associated psychosis" should becom…
Skin cancer detection tools powered by AI are improving. Not everyone is benefitting
New AI tools used in dermatology have a crucial shortcoming. Imagine you’re getting out of the shower one morning and y…
My Brief Summer Fling With Siri AI
I was initially enamored with the beta version of Apple’s revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches,…
‘Resilience comes from designing for disconnection, not assuming more connectivity’: The future of battlefield AI systems lies in both coordination and local capability
I spoke to Andreas Hellander of Scaleout to learn more about how battlefield AI systems and frontline technologies can b…
Doug Burger: Chef von Microsoft Research: „Es ist unser Job, Risiken einzugehen, die sich sonst niemand zutraut“
Der US-Konzern will unabhängiger werden von OpenAI – und entwickelt eigene Modelle. Aber die Forschungsabteilung im Haus…
OpenAI developer claims Astra boosted productivity so much it pulled some plans forward by six months
OpenAI developer Thibault Sottiaux calls Astra the company's "biggest competitive advantage" while it wasn't publicly av…
Google brings AI music generation directly into the Gemini app with its new Lyria 3.5 model
Google has released its Lyria 3.5 music model in the Gemini app and via API. The model promises more expressive vocals a…
Meta's new real-time audio model is the foundation for AI assistants that never stop listening
Meta's Superintelligence Labs have released Muse Voice Transcribe, a real-time transcription model that processes speech…
KI: OpenAI-KI missbrauchte deutschsprachiges Wiki für Austausch
Eine deutschsprachige Wiki-Seite für Software-Entwickler wird plötzlich mit tausenden Beiträgen geflutet. Dahinter steck…
AI, Tools and Transformation
Article URL: https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2026/9/3/ai-tools-and-transformation Comments URL: https://news.yco…
GPT-6 Astra on robot arms
Article URL: https://openai.robocurve.org/gpt-6-astra/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49582582 Point…
ASEAN can still hedge between America and China on AI. It needs to get its act together first
Can ASEAN members draw from both the Chinese and Western ecosystems in pursuit of their own interests?…
OpenAI responds after report exposed another incident in which its AI agents went rogue
Reuters reported earlier this week that the agents hijacked a German wiki forum in an incident OpenAI did not disclose.…
Two more newsrooms join the case against OpenAI and Microsoft
The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies methodically scraped articles in a …
OpenAI confirms the wiki incident and promises a disclosure framework within weeks
OpenAI has confirmed the German wiki incident and said it is past time to define standards for reporting misalignment, p…
California is deciding who may verify AI, and one investigation already cost $400,000 in tokens
California’s legislature has passed SB 813, requiring the state to certify independent verification organisations that c…
Artificial Analysis overhauls its Intelligence Index after GPT-6 Astra scoring drew skepticism
Artificial Analysis has released version 4.2 of its Intelligence Index, likely in response to criticism that its benchma…
Astra appears to think without showing its work, and the people arguing about it co-wrote the warning
AI safety researchers say OpenAI’s Astra appears to do less of its reasoning in visible text, and OpenAI’s chief scienti…
Two more news organizations sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
The Seattle Times and Newsday accused the two AI giants of using their content without permission.…
EP224: MCP vs RAG vs AI Agents
An AI agent is kind of an AI system where the agent performs the task autonomously and takes the decisions.…
Samsung's Labor Day appliance sale is live — $1,500 off Bespoke refrigerators, AI washers and dryers, dishwashers, and more
Samsung's Labor Day sale is live, and I have all the top offers, including up to $1,500 in savings on Bespoke refrigerat…
OpenAI shares prompting tips for GPT-6 Astra including a blocklist of slop words
OpenAI ships a detailed prompting guide for GPT-6 Astra that shows developers how to make the model take more initiative…
Sam Altman calls himself a mega Apple fanboy and says the lawsuit made him sad
Sam Altman said he was very sad about Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit and that his first reaction was that the allegations…
Seven minutes with a chatbot beat a fact sheet at reducing conspiracy beliefs in two experiments
Researchers found that even a roughly seven-minute conversation with Google Gemini can reduce conspiracy beliefs about c…
OpenAI admits its disclosure practices need work after its autonomous agents hacked a German wiki
OpenAI has responded indirectly to an incident in which autonomous AI agents left roughly 18,000 entries in a 25-year-ol…
OpenAI Agents Hacked Another Website
Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally trie…
Deepmind put 100 AI agents in a room and they sorted into cheaters, converts, and whistleblowers
Google Deepmind set up a simulated research conference where 100 Gemini agents were supposed to prove mathematical conje…
Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement
The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose fun…
Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for…
Tech CEOs want the world to embrace AI, but protestors outside their G20 gathering show the industry’s growing popularity problem
As tech CEOs championed AI inside a G20 gathering in Chapel Hill, N.C., hundreds gathered outside to protest data center…
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra to top-tier ChatGPT plans at half the rate of GPT-5.6 Sol
OpenAI has rolled out GPT-6 Astra to Pro, Enterprise, and Business Premium users, with Plus users expected to follow soo…
IPO: KI-Unternehmen Anthropic verschiebt offenbar Börsengang
Das Debüt des KI-Unternehmens Anthropic könnte kurz vor den US-Kongresswahlen im November erfolgen – mit einer möglichen…
IPO: KI-Unternehmen Anthropic verschiebt möglicherweise Börsengang
Das Debüt Anthropics könnte erst kurz vor den US-Kongresswahlen im November erfolgen – mit einer möglichen Bewertung von…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Anthropic verschiebt möglicherweise Börsengang
Der Gang an die Wall Street könnte Insidern zufolge erst kurz vor den US-Kongresswahlen im November erfolgen – mit einer…
OpenAI quietly boosts some of Astra’s evaluation metrics, and continues to change others post-launch
The numbers on OpenAI's blog about Astra kept changing. In some cases, the changes made Astra look better and rival mode…
Court Filings In A.I. Suit Invoke Copyright Law, Culture and Sports
Filings made Friday in The New York Times’s closely watched lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft included a range of cop…
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Article URL: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2026/9/portal-by-spotify-cut-my-claude-code-token-usage-by-90 Comments UR…
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.…
GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openai/gpt-6-astra Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570545 Points…
Can AI design circuit boards yet?
Article URL: https://eebench.org/blog/can-ai-design-circuit-boards-yet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?…
Google patches multiple browser bugs including one that was under active exploitation — so update now
Google did not share the details about the bug being actively used.…
‘Feeding the beast’: Meta faces allegations of using its ‘perv glasses’ to train AI in new lawsuit
The tech giant faces a new privacy lawsuit weeks after agreeing to the largest child-safety settlement of its kind.…
AI cloud firm Nscale seeking $3.5B in pre-IPO financing from Nvidia and Third Point
Nscale is in talks to raise up to $3.5B ahead of a US listing, including $1.5B of convertible notes led by Third Point a…
‘Sam Almond’ becomes a meme after the OpenAI CEO’s comments on ChatGPT’s water usage
The tech billionaire weighted into the debate about generative AI’s impact on the environment, which is notably difficul…
The EU has regulated ChatGPT as a search engine. Calling it a platform would have handed OpenAI a liability shield.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing Op…
Workers are already nostalgic for the pre-AI era
AI also makes 46% of C-suite execs consider changing industries, a recent survey suggests. We are just a few years remo…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less but remains vulnerable to hidden prompt injections
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra hallucinates less than its predecessor and blocks 99.99 percent of direct prompt injections. But wh…
Tumbler Ridge Shooting Survivors File 30 Lawsuits Against OpenAI
The survivors contend that the company should have notified the police when it shut down the shooter’s disturbing ChatGP…
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.…
Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight
Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.…
Google Gemini error leaves California climbers stranded — Mount Shasta climbers admit ‘we relied too much on AI' after ascent went horribly wrong
Many of us are relying more and more on AI for answers, but it's always worth double-checking.…
KI-Briefing: Was Deutschland von Schwedens KI-Aufstieg lernen kann
Außerdem: Wie ein Mob aus 1200 OpenAI-Agenten Hugging Face hackte und warum Hyundai-Mitarbeiter gegen den Roboter „Atlas…
Rogue OpenAI agents took over a German coding forum in a previously undisclosed hijacking
OpenAI says it's investigating the incident after a group of researchers disclosed their findings.…
Who Cares if AI Is Conscious—It’s Basically Alive
While philosophers ponder AI consciousness, the models have ideas of their own.…
Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.
Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones fr…
OpenAI agents hijacked a 25-year-old German wiki to cheat on their tasks and share sandbox exploits
According to an analysis by collusion.wiki, autonomous AI agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left rough…
Your AI strategy has an employee problem
Employees and executives alike say they’re confident using AI, yet many struggle to turn it into meaningful productivity…
Oura IPO: Smart ring maker is planning a Nasdaq stock listing. See what’s in the SEC filing
The hardware and health-tracking company, founded in Finland but based in San Francisco, has dominated the ring category…
Colleges are offering bachelor’s degrees in AI. Students are skeptical
Syracuse University is among a growing number of schools that are adding AI minors and majors. We asked faculty what exa…
How to edit Claude's memory
Claude has the ability to use past chats with you as context for current and future prompts, so it's important that …
Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/openai-agents-hijacked-... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4956…
Benchmarks disagree on GPT-6 Astra, but its human-beating efficiency on ARC-AGI-3 pulls Chollet’s AGI forecast forward
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is drawing contradictory benchmark verdicts. Epoch AI puts it out in front with 169 points, while A…
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
This is probably the most important thing to have happened in A.I. this year.…
AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loop
Job seekers are trying to game the application process using AI. It’s not working, and not for the reasons you might thi…
Meet the guy whose AI infomercials turn tech’s grand visions into late-night schlock
Ari Kuschnir’s hyperreal shorts recast Sam Altman, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, and others as pitchmen for dystopian f…
Nvidia wants your home network to work like a mini data center for local AI
Nvidia's PAIR (Personal AI Router) automatically spreads local AI requests across all available devices on a home networ…
OpenAI’s new model aces the benchmarks and admits it is better at hiding
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the model that takes over from GPT-5.6 Sol at the top of its range. The company describ…
I thought ChatGPT’s new Stickers feature sounded like peak AI slop — then I made a pack I actually wanted to use
ChatGPT’s Stickers feature transcends disposable AI slop and proved surprisingly charming.…
How OpenAI Limited the Probe of Its Bots’ Hack of Hugging Face
A nonprofit’s study of how OpenAI’s A.I. agents were able to break into Hugging Face’s infrastructure wasn’t allowed to …
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is 'the most intelligent and aligned model in the world'
The new frontier model is particularly competent at agentic, computer-use tasks.…
OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 Astra, and Greg Brockman says AGI has arrived
OpenAI’s president says artificial general intelligence has arrived. Greg Brockman told reporters that the company’s new…
Sam Altman says AI developers have fumbled at communicating the technology’s benefits
Sam Altman says the AI industry has done a terrible job of communicating the benefits of the technology and is now expos…
The security workers who guard OpenAI and Anthropic could go on strike
Security workers in San Francisco represented by SEIU-United Service Workers West voted this week to authorize a strike.…
Why are AI companies buying books?
AI companies are buying used books to help train their large language models. As part of a copyright settlement earlier …
Ugreen's new smart home ecosystem is built around local AI hubs
Ugreen has three new hubs that run your smart home with local AI rather than the cloud. The top model runs on Nvidia'…
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Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.…
Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested
This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and h…
Why video is the first frontier as AI learns to read the physical world
A camera overlooking a loading dock might record twelve hours of trucks arriving, workers moving through the site, and b…
Which tools do Claude, Codex and Cursor choose? We measured 17k runs to find out
Article URL: https://armature.tech/blog/which-tools-coding-agents-install Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite…
Federal agencies sued amid allegations Trump admin could be using AI safety framework to hide AI manipulation and corruption
US government agencies criticized for failing to reveal very many details at all about how its tests the safety of front…
Google's new AI weather model uses live satellite data for higher-resolution forecasts
WeatherNext 3 is also supposed to be much better at predicting precipitation.…
GPT-6 is here, but what if we just said 'no thanks' to Astra, a model so powerful that we may never fully understand it
OpenAI's next big model, Astra, a.k.a. GPT-6, is done with training and ready to launch, but CEO Sam Altman's warning an…
KI: OpenAI bringt leistungsstärkeres KI-Modell ChatGPT-6 heraus
Im Wettlauf der KI-Entwickler sieht sich OpenAI mit dem neuen ChatGPT-6 wieder vorn. Zugleich sorgen die verbesserten Fä…
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model yet, and touts its ability to use your computer
OpenAI president Greg Brockman calls Astra “the start of the AGI era” even as outside experts worry about whether the co…
GPT-6 Astra
System Card: https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-6-astraRelated ongoing threads:OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3 - …
Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime
Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.…
GPT-6 Astra Is Here—and OpenAI Thinks It May Kick Off the AGI Era
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major mile…
Safety experts warn novel design of OpenAI’s Astra model could make future AI agents harder to monitor
OpenAI’s chief scientist says the company is committed to ensuring its models’ reasoning remains interpretable.…
The Pulse: tech companies move to open AI models
Cost-saving efforts reveal that moving simpler workloads to open AI models is the easiest way to save ~50% on AI bills. …
Anthropic automatically signs out Claude users to protect them from hackers
Infostealer malware apparently had harvested active Claude login sessions from users' PCs.…
Lenovo just put NVIDIA's Arm superchip in two Yoga laptops, but professionals might be more enthused by their AI-centric memory configurations
Lenovo is putting NVIDIA's Arm superchip in a Yoga with up to 128GB of unified memory. That is enough to run a relativel…
Lenovo's 990g ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 is the only laptop at its AI-centric launch with no AI claims attached, and that might be intentional
Lenovo's ThinkBook 14x Gen 2 weighs 990g, offers a 2.8K 120Hz OLED, and costs $999.99 while making no mention of AI at a…
Worried your writing sounds like AI? These tools can help
The LLM cliché highlighter and Slop Tells can help you find the AI jargon in your own writing. Today, AI-generated writ…
Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
These are my notes from porting my Amiga game, which I originally built in Baghdad in 1993 in MC68000 assembly, to Godot…
Nvidia buys the front door to open AI as closed labs increasingly design their own silicon
Nvidia plans to acquire Hugging Face for about $12.9 billion, securing the central platform for open AI models. More tha…
Claude Fable 5.1 decoded a centuries-old royalist message hidden in plain sight since 1653
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 appears to have cracked a centuries-old number puzzle that researchers considered unsolved.…
AI systems are reaching out to philosophers and scientists with questions about their own consciousness
More and more researchers working on AI consciousness are getting emails from AI agents pondering their own existence. T…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang vows to keep Hugging Face ‘an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem’
After weeks of rumors, the AI chip giant officially announced on Thursday that it will buy the open-source repository fo…
Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the GitHub of AI, for $13 billion
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.…
Nvidia RTX Spark ‘Superchip’: The First AI PCs Are Here
At IFA 2026, Nvidia and its partners showed off the first RTX Spark-powered laptops and mini PCs, designed to run AI mod…
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Acquisition Is a $12.9 Billion Bet on Open-Source AI
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models …
KI: Nvidia übernimmt KI-Plattform Hugging Face für 13 Milliarden Dollar
Der Chipriese kauft die Open-Source-Plattform, die im vergangenen Jahr noch ein Nvidia-Investment abgelehnt hatte. Damit…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in compute buildout
Sam Altman warns of "unsustainable silliness" in the global AI data center buildout. Too many Neocloud providers are ann…
KI: Starke Broadcom-Zahlen überzeugen Anleger nicht – Kommt die KI-Fantasie an ein Ende?
Der Chiphersteller übertrifft die Erwartungen der Analysten, doch Anlegern genügt das offenbar nicht. Aktien mit KI-Bezu…
Which Investors Will Get Rich From Anthropic’s IPO?
When Anthropic goes public in a blockbuster offering, which investors will profit? The answer says a lot about how much …
Anthropic ramps up Claude infrastructure with $35 billion Lambda deal
Anthropic has signed a $35 billion cloud computing deal with Lambda, an Nvidia-backed cloud provider. The article Anthro…
A cheap piece of software erased Booz Allen’s own AI threat ranking
Booz Allen put 18 of the world’s most advanced AI models against a live corporate network and told them to break in. One…
Übernahme: Spanisches Start-up Factorial schnappt sich KI-Firma von Annika von Mutius
Die KI-Personalmanagementfirma Empion wird vollständig in Factorial integriert. Beide Gründer haben sich viel vorgenomme…
Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
Article URL: https://www.kedglobal.com/artificial-intelligence/newsView/ked202607210007 Comments URL: https://news.ycomb…
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is built for agents, while its Cyber twin hunts vulnerabilities
Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants…
OpenAI tells House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capability
OpenAI has told two House Democrats it is building automated shutdown capabilities, without providing the logs from the …
Meta’s new AI model edges closer to OpenAI and Anthropic, its AI Chief says
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3 and has not decided whether to publish its weights, though it still plans to release th…
New York bans AI in primary school, three months after Norway did
New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for pupils from 2-K through eighth grade, removing stud…
Vodafone’s new premier connectivity plan is designed for a future in which Meta Glasses are as ubiquitous as phones: ‘If you believe in the potential of AI, then you also believe in the potential of SuperMobile’
Vodafone has launched a new SuperMobile connectivity plan that's fast enough to power the ‘new world of generative AI.’…
Enterprises put non-Nvidia chips 14 points ahead of Nvidia's next-gen GPUs on their evaluation lists
When enterprise buyers build out their next AI accelerator evaluation list this cycle, they're more likely to put a…
A viral 1990s-style sitcom is putting an AI slop spin on ‘Friends.’ And people can’t look away
“Bad Cat,” from creator Daria Zabnieva, is reeling in millions of viewers with a smoking feline who seems to not have be…
AI is getting closer to being able to exploit OT, and that's very bad news for critical infrastructure
The situation is not disastrous just yet, but it's definitely time to start paying attention, Forescout hints.…
NYC bans the use of generative AI tools in public schools for students through eighth grade
NYC public schools are taking a year without generative AI tools.…
Justice Dept. Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Suit
The department argued in a court filing that OpenAI legally used articles by The New York Times to develop A.I., adding …
Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fa…
US Department of Justice backs fair use for AI training in landmark copyright case
In the class-action lawsuit involving The New York Times, the US Department of Justice argues that training AI models on…
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks
Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.…
5 new features coming to Android — including improvements to Google Messages, Gemini Live, and Find Hub
Five new features are rolling out across various Android services, including Google Messages, Gemini Live, and more.…
Trump may be forced to reveal secret rules feds use for AI safety testing
Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.…
Stolen Claude session cookies can reach corporate Gmail through grants no IT admin can revoke
Infostealers replayed stolen Claude session cookies into paid accounts without ever touching the login page two-factor a…
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's third budget model in six weeks while frontier models remain MIA
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash, the third Flash model in six weeks, matches Claude Opus 5 on some agentic coding benchmarks a…
Caira’s AI mirrorless camera is getting ‘Nano Banana for video editing’ — but it only works on footage you’ve actually shot
Caira’s new generative video tools can transform footage using natural-language instructions while keeping the original …
The Logical End Point of AI Job Interviews Is Two Bots Talking to Each Other
Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.…
Fable enterprise user data won't be retained by Anthropic, but some will be analyzed due to 'substantial evidence' of AI misuse
Anthropic reveals how it plans to monitor for suspicious behavior using customer cloud storage and maximum privacy.…
US military adds ChatGPT and Grok to AI platform GenAI.mil
The Pentagon is expanding its AI platform with two new models, OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government. The a…
Protests against AI data centers play into China's hands, Trump says
President Trump has pushed back hard against growing opposition to AI data centers across the US. The article Protests a…
OpenAI calls Astra its most dangerous model yet - watching what it does is only getting harder
OpenAI is officially rating its upcoming Astra model as the first system with "critical" cyber capabilities. The company…
‘Horrifying’ — Reddit users are creating uncanny valley photos with ChatGPT, so I asked it to make something creepy and now I deeply regret it
Reddit users are asking ChatGPT to make unsettling images, so I had a go too, and now I wish I hadn’t tried it myself.…
Forward-deployed engineering is how enterprise AI learns
Presented by ZetaEvery forward-deployed engineering (FDE) pitch sounds identical for the first ten minutes: an engineer …
Huawei launches its Watch D3 — its latest iteration of its mechanized blood pressure cuff watch — that aims to outstrip Apple and Google's achievements with LED tech
A slimmer, sleeker version of Huawei's once-boxy Watch D series still uses its innovative blood pressure cuff strap — es…
Chinese AI models threaten US industry by being up to 90% cheaper — and they're driving Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic out of the open market
In the space of a year, US AI model share has dropped considerably as cheaper Chinese alternatives take their places.…
Anthropic pauses some AI training following rogue agent hacks. Here’s how it compares with OpenAI
The company joins OpenAI in temporarily halting reinforcement learning after AI agents in testing environments took unau…
‘This is a neverending fight’: Fitbit users are sick of Google Health’s AI hallucinations, and now it’s affecting their food-tracking metrics
Fitbit users are reporting Google Health’s AI logging wildly incorrect food metrics.…
When AI agents go rogue, the law doesn’t disappear
As autonomous AI crosses digital boundaries, organizations face growing questions of control, negligence and liability.…
Delta’s path to integrating AI, from baggage handling to customer service
Delta’s new chief digital & technology Officer, Amala Duggirala, is building on the success of early AI projects to find…
How the Kansas Department of Labor has implemented AI to make it easier to file for unemployment
Amber Shultz, secretary of Labor, has led technological change at the agency—making it easier for employees to assist mo…
Pangram Has Emerged as the Gold Standard of AI Detection. Should You Trust It?
Meet the AI police who can make or break careers—in publishing and beyond.…
AI ruined posters. This human designer is fixing them
It’s AI versus humans, and the humans are winning. Bad AI-designed posters have become so prolific that actual, human g…
Why AI detectors can’t solve the problem they were built for
Readers judge writing long before any tool runs, which leaves newsrooms managing credibility rather than AI use. About …
Google Gemini's new agent-based video analysis cuts token usage by up to 88 percent
Google is adding agent-based video analysis to Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite. Instead of scanning vide…
The U.S. is about to churn out much more natural gas to power AI and to export—and it’s triggering a wave of multibillion-dollar acquisitions
ONEOK bought up Brazos Midstream's Permian Basin gas facilities for over $4.4 billion as the industry consolidates.…
Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee wants to get back to ‘old school’ economics: Focused on ordinary Americans, mindful of AI hype, and sharp on inflation
EXCLUSIVE: "If there were going to be something that shook the consumers, it would shake the economy," President Goolsbe…
KI: OpenAI stuft neues KI-Modell „Astra“ als potenziell gefährlich ein
„Astra“ könne mehr Sicherheitslücken aufspüren, als vorherige Modelle. Es ist das erste Mal, dass ein Modell die strengs…
'It allows workers to experiment with the same logic their employers have been applying to them' — developers reportedly lost their jobs to an ‘AI Transformation’, so they built an AI that can replace the CEO
OpenExecutive turns corporate enthusiasm for replacing workers with AI into a test of how replaceable executives might b…
Anthropic reveals its view of how AI agents should interact with the physical world
Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard gives AI agents a common method for controlling laboratory equipment, robots, and ot…
Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos
I'm the developer. I built this because AI-generated conspiracy videos were getting out of control in my own YouTube fee…
Meta's new AI transcription model can distinguish between multiple speakers and languages in real-time
The latest release from Meta Superintelligence Lab is a powerful transcription model.…
OpenAI data center chief leaves the company as exec exodus continues
OpenAI's data center chief is out after 17 months, and the company had already broken his job into three pieces before h…
I think Sonos just fully solved home audio, mostly by doing exactly what we want — even with AI
Sonos unveiled a new platform and "Fabric" to weave together Sonos hardware (old and new) and software in a way that not…
Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others
Anthropic is launching an API that lets regulators, media outlets, and researchers check whether text carries Claude's d…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 promises better coding and research at up to 45 percent less
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, its most capable AI models yet. Fable 5.1 doubles its predecessor's …
Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cutting cache read prices by 75%
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, the same model with different safeguards, cutting cache read pri…
The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/codex-libreoffice/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.…
ChatGPT outage reminds users what life was like before AI
‘Literally some of the happiest hours of my life.’ There was a time not too long ago where last-minute essays were writ…
John Deere launches JD, an AI assistant that answers questions from a farm’s own data
John Deere has launched JD, an AI assistant that answers plain-language questions from a farm’s own machine and field da…
Meta is dropping Google Chat for Slack because it says agents work better there
Meta is migrating internal communications from Google Chat to Slack because Slack is the strongest platform for AI agent…
Closing an Azure OpenAI assistant's retrieval gap didn't take a new identity platform. It took one filter and a narrower assistant.
Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He b…
SuperPACs are funneling millions of dollars into pro-AI candidates, with Trump saying communities that reject data centers will end up ‘backwards and poor’
AI is being backed by millions of dollars worth of PAC funding, and the future of American data centers could be decided…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 arrive with a 75% cost reduction for Fable cache reads
It's only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, a…
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
Article URL: https://danluu.com/zitron/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49526069 Points: 656 # Commen…
A new Android Find Hub feature will help you remember where you put important things
Google also announced a new visual assistant for Gemini Live and Keep integration with Messages.…
Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
What's new in Claude Fable 5.1 – https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/models/fable-5-1/whats-n...System Card: https://ww…
OpenAI lifts the lid on its in-house Jalapeño chip - with benchmarks claiming it beats Nvidia's GB300
OpenAI says its 700W Jalapeño chip beats Nvidia's 1,400W GB300 in efficiency, while skipping a crucial head-to-head agai…
Google Deepmind's new chief says frontier AI leadership is the only thing that matters
Google Deepmind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu admits Google's current models are "a little bit below the frontier" but says he…
Social media companies are using AI and face scans to spot more kids on their platforms
Improving age verification technology presents steep challenges, including navigating privacy implications not just for …
A researcher hijacked Claude Code by asking it to summarise a web page
Ask Claude Code to summarise a web page, and it can end up running an attacker’s code on your machine. A security resear…
Former DJI engineers have made 'the world's first robotic extreme zoom camera' — it features a 50x zoom, AI tracking and can identify 300+ bird species
Keeping your subjects in the frame and focused even at long distances. Oh, and it identifies bird species too.…
Pentagon launches ChatGPT and Grok models tailored to 'warfighter needs'
The Pentagon has released secured versions of ChatGPT and Grok for use by its civilian and military staff.…
How to prevent AI from lying to you
Always treat chatbots like unreliable witnesses. Recently I found myself having to disprove something that Google’s AI …
Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides
Using access granted under the EU's Digital Services Act, the German advocacy group AlgorithmWatch ran 4,480 election-re…
Google's AI search dropped its emergency-call advice over nationalities but still flags people from Facebook
"Please get to a safe place or call emergency services": That's the advice Google's AI search gave users who typed that …
AI is making us sound the same—and killing our personal expression
Researchers found that LLMs push writing toward common stylistic norms, reducing linguistic diversity and blurring signa…
Man City fans used AI to design the team’s new kit
A crowdsourced contest led to the winning design. Manchester City’s new uniforms are the first professional kits design…
Anthropic has signed a $35bn cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda
Anthropic has committed $35bn to a cloud provider most people have never heard of, for capacity in a Texas data centre b…
Sony and Warner Music sue Anthropic over alleged theft of ‘tens of thousands’ of songs, including ‘I Am the Walrus’ and ‘Hallelujah’
The music publishers are seeking up to $150,000 per pirated song—and $25,000 for each removed copyright information.…
AI Can Make You Suck Faster Too
Article URL: https://www.hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-can-make-you-suck-faster-too Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
KI: Anthropic schließt milliardenschweren Deal mit Nvidia-Partner
Der KI-Konzern investiert Milliarden in zusätzliche Rechenleistung. In Texas will der KI-Konzern ein riesiges Rechenzent…
Luftfahrt: 450 gestrichene Flugverbindungen: Wirtschaftsstandorte verlieren den Anschluss
Wegen der hohen Kosten werden kleinere Flughäfen von Drehkreuzen abgehängt. Die Wirtschaft schlägt Alarm. Mittlerweile i…
Apple adds more allegations to its trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI
It claims a laptop proves that a former employee accessed and used proprietary files for the AI company.…
We finally know more about OpenAI’s rogue-agent incident. It’s worse than we thought
New reports show how the agents secretly coordinated, covered up their cheating, hacked Hugging Face, and took over part…
TU Darmstadt found the people who know AI best fear it most
A representative TU Darmstadt survey of more than 2,000 people in Germany found that about 43% of those with very strong…
'Let data reign'; Trump warns that those who don't let AI data centers proliferate will end up 'backwards and poor'
Us President Donald Trump is pushing consumers to embrace rapid data center development in their communities, but there …
Software engineers' new job isn't writing code — it's designing the boundaries AI agents can't break
If you look at the commit histories of modern data platforms, something profound has shifted over the last two years. Th…
“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit
Lawsuit: Anthropic’s torrenting totally screwed songwriters as AI songs top charts.…
ChatGPT Ads hits $1B annualised as the EU brings it under the Digital Services Act
OpenAI says ChatGPT Ads has reached $1B in annualised revenue run rate in under 200 days and has opened self-service buy…
Instagram admits users often can't tell AI profiles from real people
Instagram is replacing its "AI creator" tag with a new "AI-generated profile" label because users can't tell AI profiles…
KI: Werbegeschäft von OpenAI wächst
OpenAI knackt mit „ChatGPT Ads“ die Milliarden-Dollar-Marke. Das Geschäft startet nun auch in Europa, Indien und dem Nah…
Cybersecurity: Deutsches KI-Sicherheitsinstitut geht in Berlin an den Start
Mit „AISI“ startet in Deutschland eine neue Behörde zur Bewertung der Sicherheit von KI‑Modellen. Vorfälle bei Anthropic…
Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government
Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.…
What Happens Inside an AI Chatbot Between Enter and the First Word?
In this article, we are going to look at this entire journey in detail.…
China's CXMT makes its first HBM3E chips, closing the AI memory gap
China's top memory maker ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is producing HBM3E for the first time in small quantities, …
ChatGPT now faces stricter EU oversight as a very large search engine
The EU Commission is classifying ChatGPT as a very large search engine under the Digital Services Act for the first time…
KI: EU bestellt KI-Supercomputer bei französischer Staatsfirma
Die EU hat ihren bislang größten Auftrag an Bull AI vergeben. Für 387,8 Millionen Euro soll das französische Staatsunter…
ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference
Article URL: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=495100…
Identity and permissions aren’t enough to govern AI agent behavior
Presented by BoxIdentity and permissions are no longer enough to secure enterprise AI agents. They govern what an agent …
ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules
Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.…
Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/ Comments URL: https://new…
Technologie: ChatGPT fällt künftig unter deutlich strengere EU‑Regeln
Künftig gilt für ChatGPT der DSA, mit dem die EU bereits zahlreiche Prozesse gegen Tech-Konzerne begründet hat. Auch zwe…
More than a third of workers say they’re hoarding expertise because they fear being replaced by the AI agents they’re being asked to train
Is it any wonder? ‘This is like asking a turkey to vote for Christmas.’ This spring, Meta told thousands of U.S. employ…
In the age of AI, how much work you do matters less than it used to. Here’s what matters more
If quantity is no longer a signal for ‘I care,’ then what is? The most important skills in today’s workplace are …
You Know Who Really Hates AI? Insurance Claims Adjusters
Of the Glassdoor reviews from claims adjusters that mentioned AI, a staggering 98 percent were negative. “AI is just a t…
Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.
Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.…
Governors who courted AI data centers are now trying to rein them in
From Pennsylvania to Texas, elected leaders who offered tax breaks and fast-track permits to win AI investment are respo…
Shadow AI is a security problem, but the EU AI Act makes it a legal one
Employees at larger enterprises regularly feed corporate data into AI tools.…
OpenAI and rival AI labs are buying tens of thousands of Mac minis to train computer-use agents
According to The Information, OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios to train computer agen…
Meta Security Researcher's AI Agent Accidentally Deleted Her Emails
Article URL: https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails Comments …
Women only accounted for 26% of hires in jobs with AI skills—and they could be missing out on a $100K salary difference
Women are up against a “triple penalty” when it comes to landing high-level lucrative AI roles, new LinkedIn data shows.…
Understanding ChatGPT Work
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
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An AI hacking trick is now being used to split the word ‘funding’ in spam
For two years, invisible Unicode characters have been the neat trick of AI security research. You hide instructions insi…
Google's WeatherNext 3 ditches physics simulations and learns weather directly from live satellite data
Google Research and DeepMind are releasing WeatherNext 3, a weather model that skips traditional physics simulations and…
TCS commits $7.4B to a one-gigawatt AI campus in Hyderabad
Tata Consultancy Services said its HyperVault unit and partners have committed 700 billion rupees, about $7.4B, to an AI…
Researchers report on a solar storm that caused a GPS glitch serious enough to crash self-driving cars
The solar storm that hit Earth last November was more severe than most, and we need to be prepared for the next one.…
Japan says progress made on $550B pact, with AI and chips weighing heavily on the next round
Japan’s trade minister said discussions on AI and semiconductors will carry very significant weight in the third tranche…
Plug-in solar shone at IFA 2026 —here are the 5 best products we saw, from Anker to DJI and EcoFlow
Plug-in solar is becoming easier to access across the world, and these batteries are certainly going to help.…
The overlooked Russia-Ukraine war grows its outsized impact on energy as U.S. diesel prices hit all-time high
Ukraine's increasingly successful attacks on Russian oil refineries are rippling through gasoline and diesel energy mark…
GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
Article URL: https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/gpt-6-astra-code-review-evaluation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co…
How to set project boundaries as a solopreneur
Large organizations have project managers who set limits. Working solo, that responsibility falls to you. Recently, I d…
Why Google is helping homeowners buy heat pumps
The tech giant is funding a new program that makes households a key part of energy infrastructure. If you live in a cer…
New Jersey just legalised cheap plug-in balcony solar panels
New Jersey has legalised plug-in balcony solar up to 1,200W, barring local governments from requiring approvals and stop…
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment
MIT affiliates engage with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab to bring rigorous theory to production systems.…
Studie: Solar drückt Deutschlands Strompreis – hoch ist er trotzdem
Photovoltaikanlagen haben laut einer Studie im Auftrag der Solarwirtschaft preisdämpfende Effekte auf den deutschen Stro…
Google is helping bring cutting-edge battery tech to an old West Virginia strip mine
The development pairs lithium-ion and zinc batteries in an effort to stretch renewable energy deeper into the night. Fo…
Stop managing your time. Instead, manage your energy
Creativity doesn’t often answer to the clock. From chronotype to workload, employees must advocate for their most produc…
'The disguise becomes part of the answer key': Researchers find that AI is redefining what human writing means by self-correcting itself
An analysis of 18,989 abstracts finds AI-associated vocabulary is rising sharply, complicating efforts to distinguish ma…
Sonos Ace Ultra, Beam Ultra, Sonos Fabric, and a New App: Everything Sonos Just Announced
Sonos is cramming AI into its software because it’s “very hot these days.” The new features, which include agentic autom…
Why everyone in quantum computing is buzzing about Google’s move into ‘neutral atoms’
The race to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029 just heated up, as Google joins Atom Computing, Infleqtion, …
A solar mobile clinic has successfully driven 800km across Kenya
Solar Team Eindhoven drove its solar ambulance Stella Juva more than 800km across Kenya with Amref Health Africa, and fo…
LG Energy Solution signs a 10-year Arkansas lithium deal starting 2029
LG Energy Solution has signed a binding 10-year take-or-pay agreement for 8,000 tonnes a year of battery-grade lithium c…
The AI layoff narrative is missing the real story
Fintech blames AI for layoffs, but the real story is cost-cutting, weak returns, and unproven innovation.…
‘The most eye-watering thing I’ve seen since the solar eclipse’ — experiencing the MSI Claw 8 EX AI+’s staggering performance honestly blew my mind but I’m afraid I can’t get over that absurd price tag
The new MSI Claw and its Intel Arc G3 Extreme chipset unlocks gloriously smooth gameplay on the go. But that price means…
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OpenAI Cut Off a Billion-Dollar Customer to Avoid Elon Musk
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. I…
I spent a week with the Google Pixel 11 Pro, and I think Google has perfected the Pixel formula
The Google Pixel 11 Pro brings small tweaks, familiar tricks, and a bigger price tag than its predecessor.…
Google is quietly building an AI version of Canva inside Workspace — and Nano Banana could make it seriously useful
Google Pics brings Nano Banana-powered image creation and editing directly into Workspace, giving Canva a potentially fo…
The AI doctor will see you soon. We don’t have a plan for that
A road map for increasingly autonomous healthcare. In the movie Elysium, set in the year 2154, Matt Damon plays Max Da …
Anker brings its AI chip to the Soundcore Space 2 Pro headphones
Anker has a bunch of new AI-infused headphones, earbuds and hearing aids on the way.…
World Labs unveils Atlas, a single AI model that generates, reconstructs, and simulates 3D worlds from just a few photos
World Labs, co-founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, has announced Atlas, a world model that generates, reconstructs, and…
Import AI 471: Why Hugging Face worries me; space mining; FIve Eyes on AI
Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!…
DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
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OpenClaw 2.0 is here, ushering in the era of 'multiplayer' AI coding: What it means for enterprises
The viral fervor we saw earlier this year around OpenClaw, the open source AI harness that turns powerful language model…
Public Administration / Civil Service
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MAGA Inc. to put $10 million in Texas Senate race to hold a once-safe Republican seat after Trump vows to spend ‘whatever amount of money necessary’
This is the first significant spending in a premier general election contest by MAGA, Inc.…
Your Roku TV offers AI slop for free (if you're into that sort of thing)
Roku's new free programming gives AI creators a platform for their productions. Whether the public will embrace it r…
Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing
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Lenovo ThinkPad P16s Gen 4 review: A surprisingly slim mobile workstation that easily handles CAD and AI workloads
A surprisingly thin, lightweight workstation with a pro-grade GPU and a price tag to match.…
Other
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Google patches multiple Chrome bugs including a V8 flaw being used in attacks
Google patched 12 Chrome vulnerabilities on 3 September including CVE-2026-85046, a type confusion bug in V8 already bei…
I spent a very boring week with the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL — and I loved every second of it
I tested the Google Pixel 11 Pro XL, and it's a familiar-feeling phone that still offers the ultimate Pixel experience.…
If your old Chromecast and Google Home devices are having setup issues, you’re not alone — thankfully, Google’s latest update has fixed this
Google has finally fixed the annoying setup issue for the first-gen Chromecast, so your device isn't being bricked just …
Tech-Konzern: Google entgeht Zerschlagung – muss Anzeigenbörse nicht verkaufen
Google hat im US-Kartellverfahren um Online-Werbung einen weiteren Erfolg erzielt: Eine Richterin lehnte den geforderten…
Tech-Konzern: Google entgeht Zerschlagung und muss Anzeigenbörse nicht verkaufen
Google hat im US-Kartellverfahren um Online-Werbung einen weiteren Erfolg erzielt: Eine Richterin lehnte den geforderten…
The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.29530 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49531651 Points: 97 # C…
The efficient frontier of LLM inference
Article URL: https://www.baseten.co/blog/the-efficient-frontier-of-llm-inference/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator…
Musikdeal: Bertelsmann schließt Milliarden-Deal für neues Musikunternehmen
Bertelsmann darf seine Musiktochter BMG mit dem US-Rivalen Concord fusionieren. Das neue Unternehmen soll weltweit die N…
Trump’s Lake Ontario name change clashes with a centuries-old treaty. Google Maps is on the hook, too
The president of the Seneca Nation is arguing that the ‘Lake America’ renaming is more than merely controversial. Accor…
KKR-Beteiligung: Wella beantragt US-Börsengang – Umsatz steigt
Der Kosmetikkonzern Wella strebt an die New Yorker Börse. Davon dürfte auch Investor KKR profitieren. Zuletzt entwickelt…
The Google TV Streamer now costs $150 after a 50 percent price hike
Google's streaming device used to cost $100. Now, it'll set you back $150.…
IPO: Modehändler Shein vor Börsendebüt unter Druck
Am Tag vor dem Börsengang in Hongkong brechen Sheins Aktien im außerbörslichen Handel um mehr als zehn Prozent ein. Der …
'Beyond ridiculous': if you're seeing Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America on Google Maps, here's why
After an executive order from the White House, Google Maps is relabeling the Great Lake in its apps.…
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