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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Monday pledged to ban Chinese technology from U.S. data centers and hold companies criminally liable if their data centers power AI chatbots that endanger children, as part of his dat…
State-funded AI companion robots, such as Intuition Robotics' ElliQ, are being distributed to older adults in the U.S. and Australia to combat loneliness, raising concerns about the substitution of human care with techno…
Cleveland-Cliffs and the U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to continue using coal at the Middletown Works steel mill, abandoning a previously approved $500 million federal grant to replace the coal-fired blast fu…
A bug in Zed 0.156.3's AI agent loop caused infinite looping during a TypeScript refactor, wasting 47 minutes and 128,847 tokens before hitting the context window limit. The issue, traced to missing deduplication of iden…
A 2022 survey of AI researchers with a 17% response rate found that the majority believed there is a 10 percent or greater chance that human inability to control AI will cause an existential catastrophe. In 2023, hundred…
In a YC Paper Club session focused on data, experts from Snorkel AI, Inception AI, and Anthropic discussed the evolving challenges of training data, benchmarks, and multilingual pre-training. Francois Chaubard of Y Combi…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is launching Student Rewards on AWS Builder Center, committing more than $500 million to provide verified university students with up to $579 in resources, including $30 in AWS credits, a $100 A…
WordCamp US 2026 concluded after four days at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, drawing over 1,100 registered attendees and thousands more online. The event featured Contributor Day with 425 participants…
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on August 18 requiring data center developers to secure local approval and make legally binding commitments to the state's GRID requirements before the Departm…
A Guardian investigation and a Goldman Sachs research note highlight the phenomenon of 'scarring' for workers displaced by AI, such as emergency medicine physician Rebecca Kimble, who now works as an AI trainer. The Gold…
Republican Tom Tiffany and Democrat David Crowley have turned Wisconsin's governor's race into a fight over data centers, with Tiffany branding Crowley 'Data Center David' and Crowley accusing Tiffany of being a corporat…
Public opposition to U.S. data centers has become the most immediate threat to the AI boom, according to Republican officials and AI CEOs who privately admit they lack a compelling message to counter it. Goldman Sachs es…
More than 20,000 West Oakland residents were exposed to potential air hazards when Radius Recycling caught fire in March, highlighting a toxics pollution loophole in California's budget trailer bill that exempts dangerou…
Clad9, a new AI wardrobe app, digitizes a user's entire closet from a single video and provides daily outfit recommendations matched to body shape, skin tone, season, weather, and calendar events. The app combines an AI …
A practical guide explains how businesses can set up Claude.md and context files to improve AI output consistency, recommending a master folder with separate files for brand voice, visual identity, and business facts. Th…
A developer who wrote open-source software for fun has been granted the UK Global Talent Visa under the Exceptional Talent track, based on work with their name on it rather than a founder or manager role. The applicant, …
DeepSeek announced the general availability of DeepSeek-V4-Pro on August 13, 2026, across its app, web, and API, with the model name deepseek-v4-pro unchanged. The release includes MIT-licensed weights (~893 GB) on Huggi…
Zhipu AI's open-source GLM model has surged in popularity on Hacker News in 2026, driven by its reasoning capabilities, resource efficiency, and permissive licensing. The model's unique architecture, including latent att…
A 2026 analysis of 680 million citations across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity found that only 11% of domains are cited by both ChatGPT and Perplexity, with a separate study of 34,234 AI responses showing a…
GitHub has launched the session catalog for GitHub Universe 2026, a two-day event featuring sessions from AMD, Figma, NVIDIA, Coinbase, Anthropic, and OpenAI, with early bird registration saving $300 before August 19. Th…