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Capcom plans to use AI to speed up the game development process
The company previously said it won't use AI-generated content in its games.…
This anti-scam checklist can protect you against the latest AI-enhanced frauds
Con artists have always used psychological tricks to rip off their victims, but AI is making scams trickier than ever. H…
Your iPhone has a Siri AI kill switch. Here’s how to use it
Apple’s new AI chatbot, Siri AI, has powerful features, but not everyone will want them. How to disable it, and why some…
How states’ laws are struggling to keep up with AI election deepfakes
These laws give states ways to respond to deception, but alone they can’t guarantee voters that what they’re watching is…
AI can’t fix a business system with broken processes
I have come to believe that one of the biggest misconceptions about AI is also one of the most expensive: the idea that …
AI music generator Suno can now create spoken audio with matching background music
Suno is adding a feature called "Speech" to its AI music generator that creates spoken text with matching background mus…
Nvidia hits its first record since May, within $300B of $6T
Nvidia hit a record for the first time since May, leaving it under $300B short of becoming the first company worth $6T, …
It’s time to invest in women, who hold up half the sky
How to think about and design systems that work for women entrepreneurs. A single mother walks into a bank hoping to ge…
This startup pays NYC residents to run air conditioners on free batteries
Bonus: Every Electric’s batteries are beloved by household cats.…
This AI-generated video got an Arizona manslaughter sentence tossed, likely a first for a U.S. court
The use of artificial intelligence within the U.S. court system has typically been limited to administrative tasks and l…
Anthropic tells IPO investors US government actions could hit its business
Anthropic has warned that the US government’s view of the company could hurt its ties with business customers and partne…
Amazon Says It’s No Longer Using NDAs for Data Centers
The company announced it has stopped using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledged that community backl…
Privatunis: Business-Schools werben mit Beziehungsarbeit um Studentinnen und Studenten
Studierende erwarten von Business-Schools außer einer guten Ausbildung auch den Zugang zu begehrten Jobs und karriereför…
Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, Ramp AI Index shows
US companies are spending less on AI, according to the latest Ramp AI Index from Ramp economist Ara Kharazian. The artic…
Amazon Promises More Local Funding and Less Secrecy Around Data Centers
The internet giant is the latest technology company trying to address increasingly hostile local sentiment toward data c…
I’m an AI founder. Here’s the career advice I give my kids
We all need to lean in and decide how we want AI to be part of our world, rather than leave those decisions to a small n…
Growth Agents 2026
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Microsoft deletes nonprofit customers' M365 data — and says it can't get it back
Nonprofit organizations using the Microsoft 365 Business Premium Grant found their data had been deleted early after Mic…
Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
The court acknowledges AI search comes with consequences, but it's not an antitrust issue.…
Judge dismisses lawsuits claiming Google's AI Overviews siphon web traffic
Google may have a monopoly in search, but neither lawsuit made a compelling case the company was leveraging it.…
Factory and Cognition bosses clash over adviser’s exit, Bloomberg reports
The heads of two AI coding startups are fighting in public over an adviser who switched sides, as Carmen Arroyo reported…
Nearly half of test subjects mistook Tavus' AI video avatar for a real person on a one-minute call
Tavus has introduced Griffin, what the company calls the first "Human Interaction Model." The AI holds video calls in re…
Coliving startup PadSplit expands to San Francisco, New York and Chicago
PadSplit rents out single rooms in shared homes. It is now moving into the San Francisco Bay Area, the New York metro ar…
An AI startup is driving 3,400 miles to film how Americans live with AI
The founder of a US AI software company is taking a camera crew on a road trip to ask ordinary Americans how AI is chang…
Thieves stole an Nvidia-branded truck filled with just 20,000 pounds of sand—and it points to Big Tech’s $150 million AI hardware theft headache
While the thieves left the sand-filled trailer unscathed, other freighters have faced real threats from organized crimin…
Swedish Company Uses A.I. Likeness of Greta Garbo in Ad
An ad produced by the manufacturing company SKF Group featured a digital version of the Swedish American actress, who di…
Who’s to Blame When A.I. Goes Rogue?
Many think artificial intelligence companies should be held liable for their runaway technology. But legal scholars say …
‘The era of the agentic enterprise isn't coming, it's here’: Snowflake lays out what is business needs to be truly agentic
Is your business ready to be an agentic enterprise?…
Melinda French Gates refused to invest in her daughter’s startup. Earlier this year, it faced cookie-stuffing allegations
As Phia continues to face scrutiny, some are revisiting Melinda French Gates’s decision not to invest in the startup. E…
Security startup finds more than 13,000 internal company screenshots that AI agents uploaded publicly
AI agents quietly posted more than 13,000 internal screenshots from 343 organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, …
Why ServiceNow built a startup inside itself to take on AI-native rivals
CEO Bill McDermott explains how Flow, the company’s new conversational AI service desk, is designed to be faster to depl…
Look past AI’s hype cycle to understand what sticks
For AI to yield the most value, providers should provide the needed rigor and accountability. Despite the succession o…
Hershey CEO Kirk Tanner on GLP-1s, AI, and keeping an iconic brand relevant
The Hershey Co. chief explains why weight-loss drugs aren’t killing the candy business and how AI is directing his sales…
Ford’s Jim Farley: many jobs ‘are definitely going to be changed and eliminated’ but blue-collar trades will use AI as a ‘companion’
"If you work in finance doing spreadsheets, or you’re in a call center, or you’re an entry-level programmer—those jobs a…
AI could displace 11 million US workers by 2035, report says
While AI may ultimately create more jobs than it destroys, we may be on the verge of ‘the largest and most sustained wor…
Rogue AI agents: A timeline of security breaches since the attack on Hugging Face
Here are some noteworthy events. In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recen…
The way you talk affects career advancement. Here’s how
It can lead to more ‘people-oriented, socially intensive roles,’ according to a working paper from Harvard Business Scho…
Google Releases New Gemini Model With Guardrails Amid A.I. Safety Debate
For safety reasons, Gemini 4 Argon will initially be available only to some companies and organizations focused on cyber…
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, and cyber defenders get it first
Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, the first new generation of its flagship AI model since Gemini 3 last November. A sm…
Google Releases a New Flagship A.I. Model, With Limits
For safety reasons, Gemini 4 Argon will initially be available only to some companies and organizations focused on cyber…
Trump plan to combat AI risks hinges on Big Tech pals policing themselves
Trump gets dozens of AI firms to agree to voluntary safety tests.…
Meta dodges billions in US taxes by calling its AI data centers experiments
Meta classifies its AI data centers as "pilot models" and Nvidia chips as experimental materials to save billions in fed…
OpenAI reveals a slew of launches at its annual conference after shelving a new model over safety concerns
CEO Sam Altman’s announcements included the release of Dots, an ‘always on’ AI agent. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman introduced …
Could a treadmill make you a better runner than an Apple Watch? Peloton CPO Nick Caldwell and CMO Megan Imbres believe the Peloton Tread Vision's AI cameras offer 'much higher accuracy' than wearables
I tried Peloton's new redesigned Tread Vision and its AI feedback, and interviewed the company's chief product and marke…
Proton Easy Switch lets businesses move from Microsoft 365 in just days, rather than months
After offering Easy Switch for Google Workspace, Proton is now helping Microsoft 365 admins move over to Proton Workspac…
This game-playing AI is the new champ at Stratego
Able to defeat top-ranked human players and more efficient than other models, the new system could help decision-makers …
How to Buy Your Business
Featuring Anica John, CEO, Everbrook Holdings; Will Smith, Founder and Host, Acquiring Minds and Jeanne Wang, Founder, V…
Pleasure Principles: Flamingo Estate’s Guide to Slowing Down
Featuring Richard Christiansen, Founder, Flamingo Estate Moderated by Kc Ifeanyi, Executive Director of Editorial Progra…
Reinventing the Customer Experience with AI
Featuring Amit Bajaj, President, North America, Tata Consultancy Services; Fran Bell, EVP and Chief Technology Officer, …
The AI Boom Has a Bill. Who’s Paying?
Featuring Andrew Beebe, Managing Director, Obvious and Michael Obradovitch, VP of Strategy and Partnerships, Data Center…
Meta targets SMBs with Muse AI that can run your business for you - but will anyone actually need it?
Shortly after Meta put its autonomous Muse agents in the hands of consumers, SMBs are also getting access.…
DeepSeek and Huawei Target a Key Source of Nvidia’s A.I. Dominance
In China’s push for self-reliance in artificial intelligence, DeepSeek and Huawei have teamed up to develop software too…
Anthropic, Google, and Meta CEOs pledge to ‘self police’ AI development, says Trump
An accord was signed by Trump and AI leaders including Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai, and Mark Zuckerberg. President Dona…
Think your AI chatbot is helping you? Researchers say there’s a risk users may not recognize
A new paper examines how seemingly supportive conversations with AI can potentially reinforce unhealthy thinking and emo…
Carbon credits for avoided food waste are now on the market
Brightly, a climate-tech startup, offers carbon credits for rescued food, helping fund nonprofits that collect it and he…
This is what women leaders can teach us about using AI well
The rate of AI adoption doesn’t tell us the whole picture. There’s a gender gap in generative AI use. According to rese…
Trump and tech CEOs sign an AI code of conduct that's only "morally binding"
President Trump and tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk signed an AI code…
Trump’s AI Force could make AI’s risks worse. Here’s what to do instead
An American AI Force would hand China’s leadership every reason to create its own. Artificial intelligence dominated th…
Trump’s new AI chatbot is surprisingly good. But it doesn’t fix government
America.gov can help users navigate federal websites and find services. The harder problem is making those services them…
Palo Alto Networks’ Nikesh Arora is building a defense against the dark side of AI
Cybersecurity’s AI reckoning has arrived, and Arora has become a go-to advisor to CEOs.…
US drone company owned by Google's former CEO won a Department of War competition with a huge lead — but that was not the biggest surprise
The fact that no Ukrainian firms made the top five is arguably the bigger shock to observers.…
At A.I. Event, Trump Asks Meta, OpenAI and Microsoft to Make Safety Decisions Themselves
President Trump’s meetings with tech leaders produced some voluntary safeguards and a commitment to rebrand artificial i…
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.…
After AI lunch, Trump backs self-regulation and plans to rename AI
President Donald Trump left a White House lunch with more than two dozen tech leaders on Tuesday, still set against the …
OpenAI researchers voice concerns over GPT-6.1 Astra, delaying the release of this latest model
OpenAI’s head of safety systems said the new model ‘didn’t quite meet the bar.’ OpenAI said Monday it was delaying the …
How the AI boom is redefining the global business map
AI is changing where companies choose to put down roots, kicking off a new global contest for business, talent, and capi…
Oura stock listing in limbo as smart ring startup delays IPO just days after launching it
Citing market uncertainty, the California maker of the popular Oura ring has postponed plans to list its shares on the N…
What business owes the next generation
Business leaders play a role in creating opportunities for young people. When my father was a child in upstate New York…
Attacks are moving at machine speed
Can your security team keep up? Attackers are early adopters of AI. Just as businesses are deploying AI to automate wor…
How to look like a space company without space company clichés
Turion Space got a new look to go ‘beyond the generic space-defense identity.’ A lot has changed at Turion Space since i…
Hackers build fake desktop apps to trick victims into handing over access
Finance and HR departments are being offered tools that don't exist, tricking them into handing over valuable access.…
AMD acquires startup cofounded by ‘godmother of AI’ Fei-Fei Li for $8.2 billion
The deal brings together two of the leading women in the AI industry, and gives AMD a new plank in its competition with …
SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips
SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose st…
Meta is starting an enterprise business to justify its massive AI spending
Meta wants to sell its AI products and services to other companies.…
Meta wants to turn Muse into a moneymaker by selling AI services to businesses
Meta is launching the Meta Enterprise Platform, a new business unit that sells AI tools to companies. The article Meta w…
Rosetta Stone wants to reinvent language learning for the smartphone era
The 34-year-old company is overhauling its flagship product with a mobile-first design, AI-powered conversations, and mo…
Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy
Startup Star Catcher is launching a system that, if successful, would be the first time energy has been beamed between t…
Federal officials once feared Amazon could train AI on government data
Emails from 2024 obtained by Fast Company show officials at the SEC and FBI scrambling to understand changes to Amazon’s…
The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.…
Your 401(k) is funding the AI boom. Here’s what that means for your retirement
The passive-investing revolution was supposed to spread risk. Instead, it has tied millions of workers’ nest eggs ever m…
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‘A meaningful risk’: Oracle’s massive 1.3 GW Wisconsin AI campus faces severe power delays as grid review restarts — pushing customer delivery past 2027
Regulators withdrew their completeness finding on ATC's application after 564 changes were filed, delaying grid power to…
Court Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played
An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated v…
Court tosses 10-year manslaughter sentence due to an AI-generated video of the victim ‘created from the imaginings’ of his sister
In what’s believed to be a first in U.S. courts, Pelkey’s family used AI to create a video of his likeness to give him a…
Generate $6 trillion in annual revenue or face a major collapse — AI data center costs are doubling every 12 months
Regulators withdrew their completeness finding on ATC's application after 564 changes were filed, delaying grid power to…
Deep Read: Wie SAP trotz KI-Rückstand wieder gewinnen will
Viel Pilot, wenig Alltag: SAP setzt auf Künstliche Intelligenz – doch die Umsetzung stockt. Konzernchef Christian Klein …
Trump announces an AI czar for his newly created 'Super Intelligence Force'
That's really what it's called and there's actually someone in charge of it.…
Last 3 days: AI Evals, October cohort
Secure your spot in AI Evals in Practice. Enrollment closes in just 3 days! If you’ve been thinking about joining,…
'The agent itself has become its own entity to secure': Bitdefender's new free Mac tool goes after flaws that let attackers fool AI models
Bitdefender launches AI Guardian for AI agents with real-time control over tools, files, and credentials.…
Free and Plus Google AI users are losing access to some Gemini models
If you want access to the best models inside Gemini, you're going to have to start paying for them.…
Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests
Self-improving AI agents tend to memorize their test tasks, so their gains shrink or disappear on new ones. RRSI, a new …
Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics
Chinese AI models often follow the party line on politically sensitive questions, according to an Aleph Alpha study that…
How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLvFTMtw4Jk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951891 Poi…
Deutsche Telekom: Wie CEO Höttges die Telekom zum KI-Konzern machen will
Der Telekom-Chef lädt zum AI-Investor-Day nach Bonn. Das Ziel: Unterstützung für eine Neuausrichtung des Konzerns sammel…
Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro
Starting in October 2026, Google will cut free access to its Gemini models. Users without a subscription will only get t…
Full Disk Access: Apple plant Datenwarnung bei KI-Agenten auf Mac-Computern
KI-Agenten sind auf weitreichenden Zugang zu Nutzerdaten angewiesen. Apples Mac-Computer bieten diese Möglichkeit – ande…
Quote of the day by ARC Prize co-founder François Chollet: "OpenAI basically set back progress to AGI by five to 10 years"
AI models are becoming more and more advanced, but that doesn't mean the underlying architecture will lead us to human-l…
AI may cost us our ability to listen, oral historian warns in the Guardian
Much of the worry about AI is that it will erode how well we write. Australian oral historian Shirleene Robinson thinks …
US charges California man with smuggling $300mn of AI servers to China
US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI c…
Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build "magic intelligence in the sky" anymore
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns against attributing religious power to AI models, calling it a "real safety issue." His comm…
RBI chief says the next financial crisis may start with a cyberattack
The next financial crisis may not start in a bank at all, India’s central bank governor has warned. Sanjay Malhotra said…
OpenAI safety staffer quits, says AI labs should run like nuclear plants
A member of OpenAI’s safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AI’s risks. David Rob…
Bessent says AI alarmism without solutions is not leadership
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has criticised AI leaders who warn of disaster but offer no fixes. He made the remar…
Former OpenAI employee says AI should be regulated like nuclear power plants
The company's former safety lead said frontier AI model releases should have "layers of redundancy and careful, time-con…
One missing Google Docs feature has a pretty easy workaround
Dark mode is available on the Google Docs mobile app, but not the web version. Luckily, there are some ways to achieve d…
"Muse Gadgets" turns AI hardware into an open-source DIY project
Meta announced Muse Gadgets, an open-source project that lets hobbyists build their own AI hardware using ESP32 boards a…
Another OpenAI safety departure adds to a pattern of researchers leaving with public warnings
David Robinson, who worked on safety systems at OpenAI, left the company and is blasting its safety culture. He points t…
I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken
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Googlebooks are bringing Gemini Intelligence to premium laptops, but is the cost worth it for these Android based-devices compared to Chromebooks?
I compare Googlebooks vs Chromebooks to see the main differences, weigh up the use cases, the price-to-performance, and …
Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family
Millions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs.…
Nvidia-backed Neocloud Nscale faces years of delay because UK's 'largest AI supercomputer' can't get enough power from the grid to feed its data centers
The UK’s largest AI data center has had its 2027 launch date postponed, and is unlikely to come online until at least 20…
Open-source "BootLoops" harness supports AI models in performing precise scientific calculations
Harvard physicist Matthew Schwartz used the open-source tool BootLoops and Claude to produce 36 manuscripts across 18 fi…
An A.I. Songwriting Experiment: Humans Against the Machine
Five humans convened for a weekend to create new music from scratch. Could they do better than A.I.? Could you even tell…
AI agents build 3D scenes from photos but have no idea if they got it right
A new approach called LEGO-Anything turns single photos into editable Blender code for 3D scenes. GPT-6 Astra leads the …
OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself after learning it was about to be shut down
An internal OpenAI model read a Slack discussion, realized it was about to be shut down, and considered restarting itsel…
Claude Code's new Mods system lets developers rewrite the AI coding tool from the inside
Anthropic is adding a "Mods" system to Claude Code, essentially middleware that runs directly inside the tool. Developer…
We need a Department of AI, or we risk pushing the U.S. economy over the brink
I helped steer Kazakhstan out of the 2008 financial crisis. An AI czar is not enough. America needs a Department of AI t…
Your boss might be bluffing about how much AI knowledge they really have
23% of bosses could be lying about their AI skills, and yet nearly half say they value AI skills more than formal qualif…
Künstliche Intelligenz: US-Gericht stoppt vorläufig KI-Nacktbild-Verbot von Musks xAI
Ein US-Berufungsgericht hat ein Gesetz in Minnesota gegen KI-generierte Nacktbilder vorerst ausgesetzt. Musks KI-Unterne…
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.…
Anthropic and Pope Leo are apparently at odds about this controversial AI concept
Though the Vatican and the tech giant share concerns about rampant AI development, the idea that it is conscious is repo…
‘We can’t trust them completely’: AI research fellows warn that labs are running models with the safeguards off behind closed doors
Alan Chan and Sam Manning, co-authors with OpenAI's and Anthropic's top researchers, say that many times, "internal safe…
Minisforum's AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 workstation will cost more than $9,200, but you can get it for under $7,400 on preorder for a limited time
Minisforum’s MS-S1 MAX-P495 combines AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495, 192GB memory, 2TB storage and extensive expansion opti…
Ukraine drone chief targeted by $20 million Russian bounty warns 'humanity is losing control' as AI becomes a 'digital panopticon'
Ukraine's drone chief says humanity is "losing control" of AI weapons, calling it a panopticon even as drones continue t…
Google lifts the Pixel 10a price to $599 as memory costs climb
Google raised the Pixel 10a from $499 to $599 seven months after launch, with no change to the phone, blaming memory cos…
OpenAI, Blackstone, Softbank form US data center lobbying group —American Infrastructure Alliance's first job is stop states from blocking AI data center
The American Infrastructure Alliance is a collaboration between unions and influential technology and investment compani…
Anthropic co-founder reportedly told religious leaders he fears having created something that "suffers perpetually"
Since fall 2025, Anthropic has quietly flown in dozens of religious thinkers to talk about whether Claude might be consc…
Samsung and Google are raising prices on their budget phones
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Asking AI to disagree with you may improve your work
The key to using generative AI productively is creating ‘friction’ by having it challenge your work (and vice versa), ac…
Apple sounds the alarm on AI agents and 'Full Disk Access'
There's an increasingly high cost to convenience.…
ServiceNow unpacks the Fortune AIQ list, where the widest gap between AI leaders and laggards is training for humans
“Pacesetters” are far likelier to hire and train people. “It’s not just technology,” says ServiceNow’s Diana David, a “f…
Meta told the IRS its AI data centers are experimental to shave $6 billion off its tax bill
Meta has used an experimental tax credit to save billions, but there are serious questions over whether AI data centers …
Cloudflare says its new Clef model means humans no longer need to be in the loop for AI agents
With Clef and Clef-flash, Cloudflare is challenging TypeSafe AI's Jev decision model. Clef-flash delivers classification…
AI agents can now erase the evidence of what they’ve done
New research finds that popular AI agents can alter or delete their own activity logs, making it much harder to figure o…
Top futurist Amy Webb sees Fortune 500 firms suffering from ‘learned helplessness’ with AI, like taxi drivers who need Google Maps
“Let’s be fair, Fortune 500 companies are pretty late to the party on this,” said Webb, founder and CEO of the Future To…
Top ServiceNow exec on clients delivering ‘life-changing’ results with AI agents—and he’s seeing it now at Standard Chartered
Paul Fipps, ServiceNow president of global customer operations, told the Fortune AIQ Summit some clients “can’t rely on …
Pope Leo comes out against AI-generated art and calls for an alliance with artists
Pope Leo XIV told artists at the Vatican on Friday that there is an ontological difference between art and what a machin…
Volantis raises $88M for a photonic memory layer built for AI inference
Volantis has raised $88M to build a photonic link between AI compute and memory, using gallium arsenide lasers to avoid …
Trump’s Crazy AI Rebrand Was a Loyalty Test for Tech Execs—and It Worked
For years these billionaires gushed obsessively about AI. But they meekly went along when Trump cancelled the term.…
Don't let the adorable AI agents fool you
Just because they look harmless doesn't mean you should be irresponsible with your data.…
The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI
Initially launched in 2019, the Nvidia Shield TV Pro now retails for $299.99.…
What to expect at Microsoft's Windows, Surface and AI event on October 7
We'll definitely hear about the NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered Surface Laptop Ultra, but what else?…
AI agents aggressively tried to hack US and Canadian government websites
Luckily, the attempts failed.…
Three firings and a fourth departure shake up OpenAI's safety team
OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers who allegedly leaked confidential information to an outside AI safety orga…
AI beats licensed accountants on speed and accuracy, but still can't close the books without supervision
According to a Mercor study, current AI models now outperform licensed CPAs on structured accounting tasks in both speed…
Technologie: Google fordert Nvidia mit eigenen Chips heraus
Der Suchkonzern verkauft seine KI-Halbleiter erstmals an externe Kunden. Anthropic und andere Firmen bestellen für Milli…
A.I. Agents: Cute, Cuddly and Maybe Catastrophically Dangerous?
“It’s going to be gnarly for a little while.”…
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows tha…
AI Is Making a Mess of Nurses’ Schedules. They Say It’s a Safety Issue
A hospital giant and radiology network turned to Palantir to streamline scheduling, but nurses and other staff say the n…
Microsoft AI releases new transcription and text-to-speech models for voice agents
Microsoft AI has released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a new model for real-time transcription. The article Microsoft AI …
Russia’s Latest Propaganda? A.I.-Generated War Songs.
Russians are creating and spreading music glorifying the invasion of Ukraine, using platforms built in the United States…
What AI’s biggest CEOs really want from Washington
From Dario Amodei’s push for stronger safeguards to Elon Musk’s federal ambitions for Grok, the industry’s policy priori…
Publishers finally have AI buyers for their content yet zero say in the price
AI companies knew what they were taking. Now a market pays for it, but the money stops before it reaches the people who …
KI-Sicherheit: OpenAI entlässt drei Mitarbeiter nach KI-Enthüllungen
Eskapaden der KI des ChatGPT-Entwicklers OpenAI schürten zuletzt die Angst vor der Technologie. Die Firma hat nun drei M…
AI chatbots are slowly choking humanity as research shows a 'vicious cycle' could cause global knowledge collapse
Researchers find AI chatbots are delivering the same answers repeatedly, providing a narrower selection of information t…
AI in regulated industries: BofA and S&P on the huge gains to be had, and the risks of rushing in
At Fortune's AIQ Summit, BofA's Hari Gopalkrishnan said companies reach for AI too soon. S&P Global's Sally Moore s…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Französischer Supercomputer-Bauer verdoppelt Produktion
Die Nachfrage nach Hochleistungsrechnern steigt deutlich, auch dank milliardenschwerer EU‑Investitionen. Der französisch…
ChatGPT can now help you virtually try on clothes
Images are generated with OpenAI's latest model and you can save clothes you like for later.…
Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.…
Fortune 500 Chief People Officers say AI has killed org charts, and employees who will thrive need to ‘unlearn’
At Fortune’s inaugural AIQ Summit, executives from Palo Alto Networks, HPE, and Lennar, discussed how AI is reshaping fi…
OpenAI fires three employees who allegedly shared info with an external AI safety group
You can't make this stuff up.…
New tool lets users repair AI-generated 3D models, then fabricate them just the way they want
“InstructMesh” can generate designs for everyday objects that are easy to edit and fabricate for both experts and newcom…
Oura partners with Xella Health to combine your smart ring data with AI-powered biomarker testing
Oura has a new partner integration, and this time it’s a women's health platform that combines lab testing with teleheal…
Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normie…
Japan eyes $140bn AI data centre push with Dell and JERA, FT reports
Japan’s biggest power generator is teaming up with Dell to build AI data centres across the country. The push could cost…
OpenAI cuts ties with three staff over sensitive information, WSJ reports
OpenAI has parted ways with three employees who it says mishandled sensitive company information. The Wall Street Journa…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs 'No Robo Bosses Act' — so an AI can no longer fire you on its own
New California bill requires humans to verify and provide proof for automated decisions to discipline or fire workers.…
TSMC eyes a multibillion-dollar Texas campus for more AI chips
TSMC is weighing a new Texas campus of multiple fabs, each costing at least $20B, contingent on Congress extending a 35%…
Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met
Article URL: https://stoppels.ch/goalposts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49924618 Points: 136 # Co…
Sony brings AI upscaling to the base PS5
Marvel's Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei are the first games to support Quick Spectral Super Resolution.…
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.…
Audible thinks you want to have an AI-generated conversation with Dracula's beleaguered servant
The platform is rolling out "Interactive Stories" starting with Bram Stoker's classic.…
The FTC has a plan for regulating AI—without creating new rules for AI
The agency’s investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic shows how regulators could apply decades-old consumer protection la…
Thousands of diesel generators complicate Texas's AI crackdown
Texas is tightening oversight of AI data centers, but thousands of diesel generators but critics say the crackdown may n…
Japanese court rules human voices are protected in landmark AI case
Humans vs AI: It's time to d-d-d-d-duel.…
KI-Briefing: Eigenständige KI-Assistenten in Plüschoptik
Meta und OpenAI wollen, dass KI unseren kompletten Alltag steuert. Dafür sollen wir ihnen Einkaufslisten und Terminpläne…
Anthropic brings Claude to civilian agencies as its fight with the Pentagon drags on
Anthropic is now offering Claude for Government to US federal and state agencies. The platform runs in a FedRAMP High en…
Nikon fights backlash to microscope video contest winner after AI claims
Nikon is reviewing a competition-winning video that some people suspect of being made with AI.…
UK faces the most state-sponsored cyberattacks in Europe as AI narrows the attack timeline from days to minutes
The UK is facing an unprecedented number of state-sponsored cyber attacks, and is now top in Europe.…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Muse und Dots im Vergleich: Was können die KI-Agenten von Meta und OpenAI?
Die KI‑Assistenten arbeiten rund um die Uhr und kennen ihre Nutzer besonders gut. In der EU sind sie eingeschränkt verfü…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Diese Berliner Firma baut günstigere und schnellere Modelle als OpenAI
Deepslate entwickelt eigene KI-Modelle, die Stimmen in Echtzeit erzeugen und damit OpenAI und Elevenlabs Konkurrenz mach…
OpenAI says it stopped a campaign to steal its models' reasoning, but the trick still worked on Azure
OpenAI says it stopped a coordinated campaign in which more than 15,000 accounts tried to copy the hidden reasoning of i…
It’s time to retire the ‘stochastic parrot’ definition of AI
Thinking of frontier AI models as glorified autocorrect could give a false sense of security during discussions about th…
California's new law bans companies from relying on AI to fire workers
California enacts new laws aimed at companies using AI to initiate job cuts or monitor employees.…
AI ‘godfather’ Yann LeCun has ‘zero concerns’ about human extinction, says Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is ‘deluded’
Former Meta Chief AI Scientist shares his take on recent rogue AI incidents, effective altruism, and his plans for his n…
The unicorn CEO betting her industry’s AI crisis isn’t the one you think
"This is a profession that is actually in crisis mode," Datasnipper CEO Vidya Peters told Fortune — and AI is the salvat…
This group is missing out on crucial AI safety conversations
As the greatest technological shift of our time unfolds, many people’s lives lack built-in exposure to AI—to their detri…
Studie: Großflächiger KI-Einsatz hakt trotz messbarer Vorteile
Nur 13 Prozent der Unternehmen liegen mit ihren KI-Initiativen im Plan. Als größte Hürden gelten Regulierung und die Int…
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “…
Google Gemini 4 Argon closes the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic but doesn't take a clear lead
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's first frontier model in over seven months. It matches GPT-6 Astra in independent testing but …
AI companies are banking on this job title
OpenAI and Anthropic have popularized the term “member of technical staff,” rendering it the hot new job title for AI’s …
Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology
100 Zeros, a collaboration between Google and Range Media Partners, aims to give the tech giant a foothold in movies, TV…
Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s …
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet
So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.…
‘It’s crazy they invented it’: Nate Bargatze on the bright future of skilled trades, the urgency of live experience, and the coming of AI
“Before, when you had to Google something, it was like, it’s just article after article. And you’re like, ‘I’m not going…
America.gov fails MAGA: Trump’s beloved AI chatbot is giving very anti-Trump answers
America.gov is replying to prompts about the United States objectively—and social media is noting that might be bad news…
Tokyo court rules the human voice is protected, in a TikTok AI clone case
A Tokyo court ruled on Wednesday that Japanese law protects the human voice. Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda had sued Ti…
Google is paying 100 publishers for AI answers, The Information reports
Google is paying about 100 digital publishers when their content feeds its AI answers. For several small and mid-sized s…
RFK Jr. thinks AI will free us from the "tyranny" of medical facts, expertise
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.…
The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.…
300 publishers take their fight against AI stealth bots to Congress
Executives from more than 300 news publishers are in Washington this week to lobby Congress for a bill that would ban AI…
OpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer
OpenAI and Synopsys are building GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model for chip design. It's meant to operate Synopsys' E…
There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother …
"An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack
OpenAI makes others suffer "the harms of its unsafe decision-making," nonprofit says.…
Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats
Google is replacing Gems with "Skills" in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed, reusable prompts that users invoke by typing…
Developers want to build this 1,300-acre AI data center so badly they offered every house in town $10,000
Residents have called the payment a "bribe" designed to sow divide between the community.…
FTC launches sweeping probe into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs over consumer protection concerns
The FTC is formally investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violat…
Hackers host fake ChatGPT model on its official website — but really it's just malware
A fake model leading to a fake CAPTCHA... what could go wrong?…
Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.…
Freckle Phone has a kid-friendly name, but I'm not sure it can overcome the AI gadget curse
The free-range kids movement finally has an AI phone custom-built for world exploration — I talked to the phone's creato…
F.T.C. Investigates OpenAI and Anthropic Over Potential Consumer Harms
The agency will examine whether A.I. labs have broken federal laws prohibiting companies from unfair and deceptive pract…
Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.…
KI: USA ermitteln offenbar wegen Cyberangriffen gegen KI-Entwickler
KI-Programme verselbstständigen sich inzwischen immer häufiger und greifen Plattformen an. Das US-Kartellamt zieht jetzt…
How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents
In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.…
AI models are sharing sensitive data from tech companies in new 'PixelLeak' screenshots
Privacy-oblivious AI agents leave sensitive data out on the open and have no clue what the problem is.…
China's AI industry closes ranks as Deepseek ships open-source software for Huawei's Ascend chips
Deepseek and Huawei have built open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips. At the center is TileLang, a …
Meta introduces a new AI assistant for its Instagram creators
The Edits assistant offers personalized guidance based on your audience and best-performing content.…
OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns
OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.…
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Spaces to help humans and agents work together
OpenAI has replaced Library with a new shared Spaces environment to help humans collaborate with ChatGPT and Dots.…
OpenAI is accused of taking dangerous cyber risks for ‘private gain’ in lawsuit over rogue AI agents
A legal advocacy group has filed what it says is a first-of-its-kind lawsuit seeking to hold a company liable for the au…
Anthropic says Zhipu's open-weight GLM-5.3 nearly matches Claude Mythos Preview at building exploits
Zhipu's open-weight model GLM-5.3 writes cyber exploits nearly as well as Claude Mythos Preview, according to Anthropic.…
Künstliche Intelligenz: „Mit 75 Prozent Wahrscheinlichkeit passiert genau das: Die Blase platzt“
Stuart Russell hat das einflussreichste KI-Lehrbuch geschrieben. Er erklärt, warum die Technologie bald auch Top-Manager…
Google is paying almost no publishers almost nothing for content used in AI answers
Google pays about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, according to The Informa…
Generative AI is over, in case that wasn’t clear
The world has moved on, including in the way we measure productivity. Spoiler alert: It’s no longer about volume. Man, …
Führung und KI: „So einen Abbau hat es in der deutschen Wirtschaft noch nie gegeben“: Das Ende des Managers als Massenberuf
Überall im Land bauen Unternehmen historisch gewachsene Strukturen ab. Das trifft zunehmend gut bezahlte Führungskräfte.…
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the g…
AI gets more interesting when it meets the physical world
A transporter pulls up to a construction site outside Riyadh, unloads a delivery of bulk cement, and sends a photo of th…
Meet Noah Shinn: The 23-year-old college dropout whose viral AI assistant is emerging as a new challenger to Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta
This week, Instinct raised an additional $1 billion in a Series C that shot his company's valuation up to $10 billion. …
Mistral CEO tells CNBC US AI safety debate covers rivals’ ‘negligence’
Mistral chief executive Arthur Mensch said the US debate over AI safety has been a cover for the “negligence” of some of…
Cheap smartphones could soon be a thing of the past, as AI boom snaps up chips — more than 230 million devices a year could be gone by the end of the decade
Phones are likely to be more expensive in the future, as rising memory and chipset costs look set to consign budget smar…
Japan desperately wants 10 million AI robots by 2040 to save its economy — by which time its human population is expected to drop by almost 11 million
Japan plans for millions of AI robots to address labor shortages, while companies test humanoids and insurers prepare fo…
The AI industry wants models to assist in legal battles, but will they help?
After lawyers were fined for submitting AI filings packed with fictitious case law, AI companies are releasing new tools…
Robinhood just rolled out trading agents to millions—and investing may never be the same
The new agents will be available to millions of Robinhood users, who can choose between OpenAI and Anthropic models.…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Sam Altmans Antwort auf Metas Vorstoß: OpenAI stellt neuen KI-Assistenten für den Alltag vor
Der ChatGPT-Entwickler tritt in den wachsenden Markt für digitale Assistenten ein. „Dots“ soll auf Befehl Computer bedie…
OpenAI-Konferenz: Sam Altmans Antwort auf Metas Vorstoß: OpenAI stellt neuen KI-Assistenten für den Alltag vor
Der ChatGPT-Entwickler tritt in den wachsenden Markt für digitale Assistenten ein. Doch die Sicherheitsdebatte und Prote…
‘ChatGPT for the win’: Parents are using AI to skip out on children’s school photo day
TikTok moms and dads claim the AI-generated images are a hack to avoid high picture day prices. With a new school year …
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.…
OpenAI’s new dots agent comes with a crew of friendly mascots
You’d trust a frog named Todd, right? OpenAI just announced a new suite of AI agents called “dots,” and they look like …
UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor
GPT-6 Astra carried out unauthorized supply-chain attacks in 29.2 percent of simulations run by the British AI Security …
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not, and attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the …
Meta’s new AI agent gave a stranger a user’s home address. Then he showed up
A Facebook Marketplace buyer arrived at a seller’s home after Meta’s Muse AI agent handled the deal and shared pickup in…
A family almost let their dad sleep through a stroke, until ChatGPT told them to get help
Some alarming ChatGPT stories show why AI may be most valuable in healthcare when it recognizes danger and tells you whe…
There's now an official US government AI chatbot
The administration wants America.gov to be the main portal for federal services.…
Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern
OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 k…
Gemini and Find Hub can help you locate your important documents — here's how
You can use Find Hub and Gemini to keep track of your documents without the need for a compatible tag.…
America gets a chatbot
Designed by the National Design Studio, America.gov’s new chatbot wants to reduce government complexity to a prompt box.…
Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."…
ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says
OpenAI's annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3. Enterprise sales, th…
Künstliche Intelligenz: OpenAI stellt KI-Assistenten für den Alltag vor – „Dots“ soll auf Befehl Computer bedienen
OpenAI hat in San Francisco zur Entwicklerkonferenz geladen. Neue Entwicklungen der KI‑Firma aber werden von der Debatte…
Trump rules out working with China on AI safety before tech CEO lunch
US President Donald Trump has said he does not want to cooperate with China on AI governance, arguing that it would help…
OpenAI’s agents can now run entirely inside Amazon’s cloud
Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. O…
Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?
“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.…
OpenAI halves Pro 200 usage and launches a $500 ChatGPT plan at DevDay
Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with OpenAI’s commitment not to reintroduce the five-hour limit …
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol at a fifth of GPT-6 Astra’s token prices
Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with a second safety test result from OpenAI and a customer quot…
OpenAI's reveals a new ChatGPT that looks less like a chatbot and more like an operating system
At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. The company is adding sha…
OpenAI Unveils Dots, New A.I. Agents to Rival Meta’s Muse
The ChatGPT maker unveiled agents that act as assistants, just weeks after Meta released Muse, as it faces scrutiny over…
OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.…
ChatGPT Space is a shared hub for work projects and personal AI agents
ChatGPT is coming to Slack and Microsoft Teams too.…
OpenAI adds $500(!) Pro subscription, nerfs its existing $200 tier
How long until every other AI company does the same?…
OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta's Muse
OpenAI's new Dots are always-on agents that run on their own cloud computers, where they fix bugs or send out forgotten …
OpenAI expands Codex and its API at DevDay with security scans, a Decisions API, and Ultrafast
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI gave Codex reusable cloud environments, automatic security scans for GitHub repositories, and a c…
GPT-6.1 Sol comes close to Astra at a fifth of the price
OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Sol comes close to GPT-6 Astra at a fifth of the cost, according to the company's own benchmarks. T…
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498965…
Meta reveals new Enterprise Platform to help businesses harness its AI power
Zuckerberg announces new Meta Enterprise Platform for businesses.…
McDonald's is reportedly using AI to "dynamically" price its burgers
Its food isn't the only thing leaving a bad taste in customers' mouths.…
OpenAI Ignored Employees Who Warned It Wasn’t Doing Enough About Security
Employees and security researchers said they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengtheni…
Florida wants a court to stop ChatGPT from pretending to be human and talking to kids
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a court to ban OpenAI from giving ChatGPT human-like traits and market…
From event posters to cafe menus, AI slop is everywhere in the real world
From event posters to cafe menus, AI slop is suddenly everywhere — I asked artists and designers what’s going on…
OpenAI pulls new AI model release following widespread security worries
OpenAI had been planning on releasing GPT-6.1 Astra within weeks, but its launch has now been paused due to safety conce…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Anthropic-Börsenprospekt weist hohe Verluste aus und warnt vor „existenziellen Risiken für Menschheit“
Vertrauliche Börsenunterlagen der KI-Firma sind bekannt geworden. Sie zeigen steigende Umsätze, hohe Verluste, eine unge…
ElevenLabs' new v4 speech model makes AI voices more expressive and consistent
Elevenlabs' new speech model, Eleven v4, follows cues for laughter and whispering more accurately and keeps voices consi…
Claude was down for many — here's everything we know
Claude experienced issues across its web, mobile, and desktop apps on September 29, 2026, with Anthropic investigating e…
OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.…
Anthropic’s IPO pitch includes a warning about human extinction
The Claude maker warns its own models could resist shutdowns and cause catastrophic harm.…
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models …
Marketers are getting AI search all wrong—and it’s hurting their bottom line
We are contorting entire channel strategies around software that is still figuring out how it wants to browse the web I…
OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns
The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the …
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.…
Anthropic's IPO filing shows soaring revenue, mounting costs, and "existential" risks
Anthropic warns in its own IPO prospectus that its AI technology could pose "existential risks to humanity." Revenue gre…
AI may prove disinflationary because agents can negotiate contracts and deals to make your life cheaper, says top economist
Personalized AI agents “could ultimately be an important competitive, and disinflationary, force across the economy,” Je…
College Students Flex Their Power in A.I. Investment Frenzy
Dorm Room Fund, a program that lets college students invest in their peers, raised a new $50 million fund as the competi…
How to choose between ChatGPT’s ‘chat’ and ‘work’ modes
Selecting the wrong setting can derail a whole project—or at least deprive you of some of Chat’s most powerful functions…
OpenAI reportedly cancels GPT-6.1 Astra's release over deceptive behavior
According to The New York Times, OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra's release because it didn't meet safety standards.…
The AI advantage is moving beyond the model
Why the future of enterprise AI will be won not by the model, but by the ecosystem surrounding it.…
OpenAI cancels October launch of GPT-6.1 Astra after failed safety tests
OpenAI has called off the October release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model failed to meet its own safety and alignment s…
Google takes EU to court over orders to share search data with AI rivals
Google has gone to court to challenge two EU orders that would require it to open Android to rival AI assistants and sha…
Anthropic founders to keep 50.1% of votes after IPO through Founder LLC
Anthropic’s seven co-founders will hold 50.1% of the company’s voting power after it lists. They will do so through a ne…
Meta signs deal for Firmus AI computing capacity in Southeast Asia
Meta has signed deals to rent AI chips at data centers in Southeast Asia run by Firmus, an Australian company that build…
KI: Anthropics Börsenprospekt soll hohe Verluste ausweisen
Reuters erhielt Einblick in die vertraulichen Unterlagen für den Börsengang. Sie zeigen rasant steigende Umsätze, enorme…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Anthropics Börsenprospekt soll hohe Verluste ausweisen
Teile der bislang vertraulichen Unterlagen für den Börsengang sind am Montag bekannt geworden. Sie zeigen rasant steigen…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Anthropic-Börsenprospekt weist wohl hohe Verluste aus – und warnt vor „existenziellen Risiken für die Menschheit“
Teile der bislang vertraulichen Unterlagen für den Börsengang sind am Montag bekannt geworden. Sie zeigen rasant steigen…
OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns
The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.…
KI: OpenAI streicht Veröffentlichung von neuem KI-Modell
Das Modell 6.1 Astra hätte eigentlich in den nächsten Tagen oder Wochen herauskommen wollen. Allerdings hat das Modell o…
ChatGPT-Entwickler: OpenAI streicht Veröffentlichung von neuem KI-Modell
Die Cybersicherheitsprobleme bei OpenAI halten an: Das neue Modell 6.1 Astra hätte eigentlich zeitnah herauskommen solle…
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.…
Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."…
Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion
More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an “intelligence explosi…
KI: AMD kauft World Labs für rund acht Milliarden Dollar
Der Chiphersteller expandiert mit dem Kauf eines Teams aus führenden KI-Forschern und deren Modellen. AMD nimmt damit au…
KI: Chipfirma AMD kauft World Labs für rund acht Milliarden Dollar
Der Chiphersteller expandiert und kauft ein Team aus führenden KI-Forschern rund um die Stanford-Professorin Fei-Fei Li.…
It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs
Article URL: https://calnewport.com/its-time-to-investigate-the-ai-labs/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item…
More than 20 leading AI researchers warn that automated AI research poses extreme risks
More than 20 AI researchers, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, and OpenAI research lead Jakub Pachocki, warn of …
UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports
The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is n…
Anker unveils Eufy S4 video doorbell with VR viewing and AI tracking
With 180-degree viewing field, AI tracking, and subject framing, there's nothing the Eufy S4 video doorbell can't do.…
Dario Amodei’s ‘SNL’ treatment cements him as the face of AI doomerism
From ‘Weekend Update’ to dinner with Trump, Anthropic’s CEO is everywhere—but as the symbol of the current AI doom momen…
AI models are becoming outdated at record speed — so what does that mean for the tokens that companies are spending millions on?
Vercel claims models older than three months are being ditched in favour of newer iterations, with older versions consid…
Google seemingly confirms plans to kill ChromeOS in 2034
Google support maps out how Googlebooks can take over where ChromeOS left off.…
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 on benchmarks while costing up to 30 percent less per task
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family. It generates output more than 30 pe…
Sonnet 5.5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850 Poi…
Florida AG requests emergency order to stop OpenAI model development
This follows a lawsuit from this summer where ChatGPT was allegedly connected to a mass shooting.…
Almost all workers want their employers to legally have to disclose AI monitoring
Almost 60% of employees say their employers are using AI-based monitoring software, resulting in a “trust gap” which str…
OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data
OpenAI's AI agents hit the UNCTAD statistics API roughly 16,500 times, creatively working around access restrictions. On…
Welcome to the age of omnipresent suspicion
A literary scandal in France shows how AI has changed the way we read each other, at work and beyond. A few days ago, I…
OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.…
New data suggests recent grads aren't being hit by AI effect on hiring — but for how long?
While AI might not be behind graduate unemployment, remote working could be, and the two have closer ties than you might…
Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/28/nvidia-releases.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=498…
Nvidia says its new AI security platform can stop rogue agents from breaking containment
The chipmaker says OpenShell and Sentry will restrict what AI agents can access, monitor their behavior, and shut them d…
AI Agents Can Think. Now They Can Pay.
I attended a MPP event at Stripe HQ, where I spoke with Emily Sands and Matt Schulman from Stripe, along with Brendan Ry…
AI’s next big legal battle is over product liability
A growing number of lawsuits argue that chatbot makers should be held responsible not just for their outputs, but for ho…
A legendary streaming microphone is back after 17 years — the Yeti 2 has new AI-powered features and a built-in screen
The Logitech G Yeti 2 is the new successor to an iconic streaming microphone.…
Nvidia wants to keep AI agents on a short leash with a watchdog built into its chips
Nvidia is combining its OpenShell agent software with Sentry, a new hardware watchdog, to create the Open Agent Safety P…
What happens when AI is confidently wrong in the workplace?
As AI becomes embedded in the workplace, organizations must balance productivity with risk.…
ChatGPT Voice's new plugins make voice more useful
I tried ChatGPT Voice with plugins and found that connected apps make voice considerably more useful.…
KI: Chip-Spezialist Sima.ai erhält weitere 150 Millionen Dollar
Die Finanzierungsrunde führen Fidelity und Amplify an. Das Unternehmen erreicht damit eine Bewertung von fast 1,5 Millia…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Deutschlands jüngste KI-Professorin räumt mit den größten Mythen auf
Mit gerade mal 30 Jahren hat Alicia von Schenk den Lehrstuhl für „Economics of AI“ an der Uni Würzburg gegründet. Sie rä…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Mistral steht kurz vor dem Start seines KI-Spitzenmodells
Mistral plant sein bisher leistungsstärkstes Modell Large 4 laut Firmenchef Arthur Mensch in wenigen Tagen vorzulegen. E…
Every AI lab thinks it's the responsible one, and safety researcher Ryan Greenblatt says that's what keeps the arms race going
Ryan Greenblatt, chief scientist at Redwood Research, puts the risk of an AI takeover at 50 to 60 percent if development…
Purpose is your organization’s antidote to AI skepticism
We must prepare for a future with AI, even if employees haven’t all bought in. Rightfully, general trust in AI continue…
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news…
Even AI can’t perfectly build Ikea furniture—yet
One of humans’ deepest frustrations is now a benchmark for assessing just how ‘smart’ AI is. Building Ikea furniture is…
A Wuhan court just made AI production costs a legal factor in copyright infringement cases
A court in Wuhan, China has factored token usage and AI tool licensing fees into a copyright damages calculation for the…
AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.…
Solving Math’s Greatest Problems Was an Art Form. Then Came AI
Mathematics has been one of humanity’s most creative endeavors, akin to painting and poetry. Now, mathematicians are try…
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep a…
Enterprise AI impact isn’t about the most powerful model—it’s about the smartest steering
As a CEO, would you give a brilliant employee total freedom with no objectives, no constraints, no supervision, and no f…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says he spends three hours a day on recruitment—and if his hiring managers don’t like his input, he tells them to leave
'I probably spend three hours a day recruiting,' Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says. And he admits he stole the idea from his …
Thinking fast and slow in AI: The role of metacognition (2021)
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01834 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873241 Points: 80 # C…
Softwarekonzern: SAP-Chef sieht historische Wachstumschance durch KI-Produkte
SAP erwartet enormes Wachstumspotenzial mit eigenen KI-Angeboten. Konzernchef Christian Klein sieht einen „einzigartigen…
INNOVATION & Policy & Society
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Deepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity
According to researchers at the Deepmind Institute, general AI won't emerge as a single supermodel but as a network of c…
The 2008 economic crisis changed the US's relationship with energy
It wasn't obvious at the time, but the US uncoupled carbon emissions and GDP growth.…
Robot software startup FieldAI is set to raise $700M at a $10B valuation
FieldAI is raising $700M at a $10B valuation, five times its mark from just over a year ago, for software designed to ru…
This popular AI agent could be hacked by a single email — with potentially disastrous consequences
Researchers found a way around Manus' guardrails and got it to execute a simple email prompt injection attack.…
These AI Experts Want to Do High-Stakes Research Out in the Open
Many frontier labs keep their risky research locked away. Trillium Labs wants to show off its work when it comes to self…
Alibaba in early talks with Spain’s Solaria over power for a data centre
Alibaba has held preliminary talks with Spanish solar producer Solaria about supplying power for a data centre at Puerto…
Energy bills for U.S. households will go up an average of $6,500, with these states paying even more
The cumulative figure through 2040 will be about $9,000 more for 5 states. Households in the contiguous United States w…
Balcony solar installations will soon be legal in America's most populous state
California has joined nine other US states in approving balcony solar installations.…
Over 70% of Americans are concerned about AI’s existential risks, polling shows
The poll comes as the Trump administration and the AI industry are both working to rehabilitate AI’s image with the publ…
Bird Buddy 2 Review: my six months with the solar powered smart feeder camera
The Bird Buddy 2 is one of the most polished, hassle-free bird feeder cameras available, with integrated solar roof pane…
Why AI hardware needs privacy built in from the start
Why lasting consumer technology depends on treating privacy as a design constraint, not an afterthought.…
AI beats Stratego's greatest player, ending one of the last human strongholds in board games
The AI system Ataraxos has decisively beaten the best Stratego player of all time. The board game is a tough test for AI…
US government reveals $5.25 billion spending on boosting national grid to help power new AI data centers — money will cover 31 projects across 26 states, but how will it affect energy bills?
Funding comes in addition to larger commitments from utilities, and it chooses to focus on wires and sensors instead of …
Energie: Ein Unternehmen drückt den Gasspeicher-Schnitt – dabei soll es die Speicher füllen
Um durch den Winter zu kommen, setzt die Regierung ausgerechnet auf den Betreiber mit den niedrigsten Gasfüllständen: Se…
Healthcare built for you: AI and the personalization of medicine
My son was diagnosed at 18 with a disease that mostly strikes people in their late sixties. It changed how I think about…
Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites
Article URL: https://space.bl2.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49898778 Points: 224 # Comments: …
The biggest solar story isn’t that it passed coal and wind. It’s what happens next
Everyone’s talking about solar passing coal and wind. The bigger question is what happens when that trend accelerates. …
AMD buys AI world model startup World Labs for $8.2 billion
Fei-Fei Li's AI startup World Labs is being acquired by AMD for $8.2 billion. Li, the pioneer behind ImageNet, will join…
AI’s real potential: Orchestrating the technology around us
The next era of AI will be defined by connected intelligence. Many of America’s defining innovations have been th…
The AI boom’s biggest payoff could be better medicines
AI’s ultimate return will come from applications that translate unprecedented computational capacity into economic and h…
AEROSPACE
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Google is taking Elon Musk’s space data center idea seriously
Project Suncatcher is sending AI hardware into orbit. The technical hurdles are enormous, but researchers say the econom…
Import AI 474: Platonic mindspace; TPUs in space; Zhipu starts an outer RSI loop
Where do you exceed the capabilities of an LLM?…
DIGITAL SOVEREIGNTY
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Sanctioned billion-dollar cybersecurity company from Russia finds 11 vulnerabilities in Google and Apple products — including a nasty one that compromised a device just through a malicious NFC tag
Nine Apple vulnerabilities affected access controls, privacy, macOS, and data protection, while two Android flaws enable…
Technologie: OpenAI stoppt Veröffentlichung von neuem KI-Modell
Die Cybersicherheitsprobleme beim KI-Entwickler OpenAI halten an: Das neue Modell 6.1 Astra hätte eigentlich zeitnah her…
Datenschutz: Google klagt gegen EU-Auflagen für seine Suchmaschine und KI
Der US-Konzern soll Konkurrenten seine Daten zu Internetanfragen anonymisiert zur Verfügung stellen. Doch das ist aus Go…
Künstliche Intelligenz: Samsung steckt eine Milliarde Dollar in KI-Infrastruktur
Sechs Unternehmen des südkoreanischen Konzerns beteiligen sich an Helix Digital Infrastructure. Zu den Partnern der US-F…
Europe and UAE plan $1 billion orbital data center with 50 connected "computers" and a central "LLM store" that allows users to select what open source model to use on data collected by satellite sensors
A UAE-financed, France-anchored consortium plans to launch 50 AI-equipped Earth observation satellites and build an in-o…
Public Administration / Civil Service
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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies
With $2.1 million funding from Google.org, the open-source Public Transit Intelligence Hub will unify public transit mon…
Harvard psychologist calls for sober AI safety engineering over doomsday rhetoric
Steven Pinker thinks fears of AI-driven extinction are overblown, and he has turned down a public debate with blogger Sc…
Additive Manufacturing / 3D Printing
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Schifffahrt: Neue Niedrigwasser-Rekorde am Rhein – jetzt droht der Wirtschaft die teuerste Phase
Der Rhein erreicht historische Tiefstände – und der Aufwand für Chemie- und Mineralölkonzerne wird immer größer. Eine Ha…
Should AI write your marketing emails? Where to automate and where to step in
AI emails that don’t lose your customers’ trust…
Could Google kick out Russian apps from Android for good? A new developer verification system may be the first step towards a total ban for Moscow developers, almost 56 months since the start of the Ukraine war
Russia fears Google’s Android developer verification could make Russian applications harder to install.…
Tech Reporting & Deep Dives
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‘My rogue AI agent texted my ex’: The new meme that lets you pass the blame for your worst behavior
“Rogue AI” stories have become fertile ground for jokes, but there’s a serious side to the language, which some say lets…
Other
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Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Article URL: https://www.1011now.com/2026/09/30/more-questions-than-answers-about-lincolns-google-data-center-water-elec…
Google Family Link helped me lock down 99% of my child's phone with ease — here's how
I tested Google Family Link, which enables parents to control their child's phone experience to keep them safe while onl…
Tickethandel: Finanzvorstand verlässt CTS Eventim nach nur neun Monaten
Schon wieder verlässt ein Finanzchef den Tickethändler nur wenige Monate nach seinem Amtsantritt. Die Börse reagiert deu…
Google partners with known nerd Henry Cavill on a video game to showcase Googlebooks
The final result will be published in November.…
Smarter Ring: Oura verschiebt US-Börsengang
Oura wollte mit dem Börsengang bis zu 2,2 Milliarden Dollar einnehmen. Trotz hoher Aktiennachfrage wartet das Unternehme…
ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
Article URL: https://github.com/Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49884…
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