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Granta will no longer publish winning entries of the Commonwealth short story prize after controversy over alleged AI use in a winning story. The magazine cited editorial integrity concerns, while the Commonwealth Founda…
A developer argues that the trend toward 'disposable code' in the AI era is misguided, especially for production systems. They contend that codebases encode critical institutional knowledge and edge-case handling that re…
Companies that heavily adopted generative AI are suffering from "knowledge decay," where over-reliance on AI leads to low-quality work, eroded trust, and deteriorating organizational knowledge. The Harvard Business Revie…
A developer warns that reliance on large language models for cognitive offloading is leading to a frenzied state of multitasking and diminished quality, as users delegate more tasks to AI and fail to revise outputs. The …
Princess Catherine gave a 'death stare' to anti-monarchist protesters who booed her and her three children during Trooping the Color in London, as the group Republic staged a demonstration. The incident sparked debate ov…
The Public Utility Commission of Texas approved ERCOT's first 'Batch Zero' process to group large electricity connection requests of 75 MW or more into a single study, as ERCOT tracks over 438,000 MW of large-load reques…
Elon Musk's xAI plans to produce a full-length AI-generated movie by the end of 2026, starting with an Alice in Wonderland demo. The company's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 model, launched in June 2026, can generate 720p video …
A developer audited every privacy claim made by the Phantom Chat messenger against its Swift source code, finding that claims about post-quantum key exchange, Double Ratchet encryption, AES-256-GCM, and Secure Enclave id…
Jorge Luis Borges's 1941 story 'The Library of Babel' has become a powerful metaphor for contemporary artificial intelligence, particularly large language models. The infinite library of random text mirrors the output of…
A software engineer reflects on a pull request adding 64,000 lines of AI-generated code, lamenting the loss of craftsmanship and accountability in software development as organizations prioritize velocity over quality an…
A Canadian BMW dealership was forced to honor a $27,162.79 CAD offer for a used X3 after its AI chatbot mistakenly quoted that price to a customer. The chatbot, named Quinn, misinterpreted the amount the customer owed as…
LifeOS launches Lifey, a soft, cuddly AI toy that acts as a hyper-intelligent personal assistant, directing users minute-by-minute on diet, money, sleep, and social life to improve their lives by 500%. The product positi…
A solo developer is using OpenAI's ChatGPT Codex as a coding partner, paying about $7 a day to accelerate app development. The developer creates local, privacy-focused apps that have been downloaded by hundreds of users,…
Google and Meta are expected to treat regulatory fines as minimal business costs, similar to how firms budget for bribes in large construction projects. Critics argue that fines capped at 4% of global turnover are insuff…
Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced a near-total ban on generative AI for children aged six to thirteen, with restricted use for older students, citing risks to foundational learning. Critics argue the ban…
A new study in NEJM AI found that OpenAI's o3 model helped diagnose 18 children with previously unsolved medical mysteries at Boston Children's Hospital, including rare neurodevelopmental and neuromuscular disorders. The…
A Hacker News user asks the community what they care about, finding joy and purpose in a world that feels misaligned and where work often serves AI development that strips beauty from crafts.
Amazon's Eric Brandwine argues against mandatory human-in-the-loop AI governance, citing human inconsistency and the normalization of deviance where humans become desensitized to repeated false alarms. Amazon prefers jud…
Meta Platforms reported $56.31 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, a 33% year-over-year increase, but shares fell up to 10% after hours after the company raised its 2026 capital expenditure guidance to as much as $145 billion fo…
Microsoft announced a new Teams feature called Workplace Check-in that uses Wi-Fi to track employees' locations and share them with their teams, including supervisors. The feature, launching in June after delays, is disa…