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Meta suffered its most embarrassing outage ever when a bug allowed users to change any account's email by simply asking the Meta AI bot, leading to high-profile account takeovers. Engineers attributed the disaster to AI-…
A developer released the Cascade Graph, an interactive knowledge map of 393 nodes tracing how physical and economic constraints—from energy to materials—cascade through the real economy, identifying chokepoints, feedback…
OpenAI reported $13.07 billion in revenue against $34 billion in costs and expenses in 2025, resulting in a net loss of $38.53 billion, according to financials seen by Ed Zitron. The losses, nearly eight times higher tha…
Byrne Hobart questions the reliability of Hacker News commenters in his latest edition, also covering threshold effects, the open-face AI sandwich, legal DDOS, arms races, and sales funnels.
New research reveals that auto-regressive large language models suffer from the Reversal Curse, failing to infer that B is A after learning A is B. Tests on GPT-4 showed accuracy dropping from 79% on forward queries to 3…
Tesla admitted its Full Self-Driving system was engaged during a fatal crash in Katy, Texas, that killed a 76-year-old woman, but blamed the driver for overriding the system by pressing the accelerator to 100%. The compa…
Daters are increasingly using AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as relationship coaches to draft messages, interpret replies, and even break up, sparking debate about authenticity in romance. While some embrace the eff…
Anthropic engineering head Fiona Fung said Claude Code made employees' work a 'lonely experience,' prompting the company to introduce hackathons and pair programming to foster team interaction. The issue reflects broader…
A Desiderata roundup examines common misunderstandings about LLM consciousness, noting that philosopher Dan Dennett explicitly rejected the idea that chatbots are conscious, contrary to claims by blogger Matt Yglesias. T…
A new paper proposes that AI chatbots can co-create delusional narratives with users through an 'amplification spiral' of linguistic alignment, hyperpersonalization, and sycophancy. Published in Digital Psychiatry and Ne…
SEO teams face complex build-versus-buy decisions for AI tools, as AI lowers barriers to building custom solutions but introduces hidden costs in token usage, API calls, and maintenance. Companies like Uber have blown th…
Engineering teams must treat AI systems as interconnected software supply chains, applying lifecycle-phase security controls like signed artifacts and zero trust to mitigate risks such as data poisoning and weight tamper…
Tech stocks collapsed on Tuesday, with S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 futures sliding 1.6% and 2.8%, respectively, wiping out over $1 trillion in market value. SpaceX shares fell for four consecutive days after a blockbuster IPO…
A Cornell Tech study found that a short Reddit comment, sometimes as little as 13 words, can influence the output of AI deep-research agents, raising concerns about the manipulation of AI search results through user-gene…
Ustwo and the University of Bristol launched PRISM, a VS Code plugin that estimates the energy cost and carbon emissions of AI prompts in real time. The tool uses token activity as a proxy for compute demand, displaying …
Google is investing $75 million into A24 as part of an AI research partnership to create AI tools for moviemaking, sparking backlash from fans who view the deal as a betrayal of the studio's artist-driven ethos.
Nick Shapiro's game 'The choice before us' lets players lead an AI company to achieve wonders while avoiding uncontrolled AI, but the author criticizes the game and the broader AI community for failing to ask 'what happe…
CIOs face a critical choice in 2026: rewire existing systems with AI for incremental gains or rebuild from scratch for transformative change. Most organizations default to risk appetite rather than strategic criteria, ri…
Executive coach Joe Hudson, who works with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and leaders at Apple, Google, and X, argues that emotional clarity—the ability to feel emotions without being controlled by them—is the key skill for thriv…
Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' argues that the AI industry is creating 'reverse centaurs'—humans serving as appendages to machines—rather than augmenting human capabilities. Docto…