The US Department of Labor is partnering with approximately 40 organizations, including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, to build an AI Workforce Hub, a centralized platform to track AI's impact on jobs, wages, and skills …
AI mentions in Hacker News titles hit 15% today, up from 14.4% of new titles this year compared to 10.9% in 2025, according to a tracker built by a developer. The extended density, including LLMs and vendors, reached 19%…
A developer built a Chrome extension that identifies movies from URLs, images, or text using a consensus-based LLM approach, requiring at least two different models to agree on the title before serving it to users. The t…
Licensed cannabis businesses in Sonoma County, California, are struggling to survive amid high costs, market oversaturation, and competition from illegal operators who control an estimated 60% of the market, according to…
Duck.ai offers a privacy-focused interface for accessing multiple AI models, including GPT-5.6 Luna, GPT-5.4 mini, Claude Haiku 4.5, Mistral Small 4, gpt-oss-120b, and Gemma 4 31B, without requiring an account. The platf…
Deep Cogito raised $43 million in a Series A round led by TQ Ventures, with participation from Benchmark, Nexus Venture Partners, Atreides Management, South Park Commons, and Zscaler, to build specialized AI models that …
Kathleen Creel, formerly assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, has joined the University of Michigan as associate professor of philosophy, effective August 25. Her research ad…
Noteworthy AI, founded by CEO Christopher Ricciuti, raised $15,009,995 in an equity offering, according to an SEC Form D filed August 26, with 18 investors and a target of $18,234,987, leaving $3,224,992 available. The N…
Tenet Security researchers demonstrated at DEF CON 34 a new attack called 'Ghostjacking' that tricks AI coding agents into proposing DNS changes by planting malicious instructions in error logs, achieving a roughly 90% s…
At ILTACON, LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters announced new agentic AI capabilities for legal work, with LexisNexis unveiling Lexis+ with Protégé to move from first idea to review-ready work product and Thomson Reuters laun…
On August 13th, Samuel Gold and Alexander Risio launched Risklytics, a San Francisco commercial insurance brokerage for companies deploying AI agents and autonomous systems, with backing from Y Combinator. The brokerage …
Nvidia Corp. is on pace to become the first semiconductor company to post $100 billion in revenue in a single quarter, with consensus estimates for fiscal Q3 2027 (ending October 2026) at roughly $104 billion. The compan…
Lovable, the AI-powered app-building platform formerly known as GPT Engineer, is pivoting to enable agents to use apps directly, with CTO Fabian Hedin describing a future where users interact with a single entry point fo…
A software developer with 12 years of experience argues that the industry's rush to adopt AI is atrophying junior developers' core skills and poses security risks, urging organizations to allow developers the freedom to …
Prakash Tank, a Full-Stack Architect and AI Tech Lead with over 10 years of experience, shares his transition from traditional full-stack development to an AI-first Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE). He emphasizes that AI-…
Cigna Group projects its AI and predictive analytics tools will save an estimated $200 million over the next three years by helping patients identify chronic conditions, and has announced a $100 million investment throug…
The KraneShares Global Humanoid Robotics and Physical AI Index ETF (KOID) has outperformed the Roundhill Humanoid Robotics ETF (HUMN) by roughly 30 percentage points in 2026, with KOID up 41.8% year-to-date versus HUMN's…
Nvidia is set to report fiscal second-quarter 2027 earnings on August 26, with analysts expecting roughly $92 billion in revenue and adjusted EPS of $2.09, representing about 97% year-over-year growth, as the company nav…
German software engineer Niklas Gruhn coined the term 'meat proxy' in an Aug. 3 blog post to describe coworkers who pass off AI chatbot responses as their own without understanding them, sparking over 700 comments on Hac…
Billionaire Marc Lore's food-tech company Wonder uses an AI-powered performance management system that determines employee promotions based on colleague ratings and a 'value above replacement' (VAR) score, with human man…