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The Trump administration's Department of Justice is intervening to protect Elon Musk's xAI from a lawsuit over pollution from its Memphis data center, arguing that shutting down the facility threatens national security. …
Japanese men face accusations of double standards after male football fans were praised for cleaning stadiums during the World Cup, while a viral AI-generated poster urged them to do household chores at home. Data shows …
A developer evaluates AI therapy chatbots in 2026, comparing Replika, Woebot, and ChatGPT. The analysis highlights what each chatbot gets right and wrong in therapeutic contexts.
A senior developer with over a decade of experience argues that the most valuable skill in AI-assisted software development is knowing when not to use AI. The developer warns that AI-generated code can introduce hidden r…
A new decision framework for AI task selection reveals that many prompts cost more time than manual work, with a five-question filter determining whether AI is economical. The framework categorizes prompts as expenses or…
YouTube's Lyor Cohen and Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. argue that the NO FAKES Act of 2026 is essential to protect artists' voices and likenesses from unauthorized AI replication, as the Senate Judiciary Committ…
The US Army conducted a tabletop exercise inspired by Ukraine's Operation Spiderweb drone attack to prepare for defending its bases against drone strikes and cyber attacks. The exercise highlighted the need for layered c…
Esther Wojcicki, mother of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, advises parents to send their children to college despite the rise of AI, arguing that college develops essential interpersonal …
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos predicted that AI will create more jobs for humans, not replace them, during an appearance at VivaTech Paris. He argued that the technology will unlock new opportunities and increase demand for …
Two pit bulls, Jaqueline and Chipmunk, returned to San Jose Animal Care Center from Miranda's Rescue after allegations that the rescue's operator killed dogs and buried them on the property. The shelter retrieved four do…
EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen warned Big Tech that AI data centres are welcome in Europe only if they align with the bloc's climate goals, including using renewable or nuclear power and recycling waste heat. The w…
A Hacker News user asked whether taste matters in coding, sparking discussion about the role of human judgment and discernment in software development as AI tools advance. Commenters affirmed that taste, including the ab…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed during an internal chat that employee morale is at historic lows, comparable only to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, after the company cut roughly 8,000 employees in May as part of an a…
Nobel Prize-winning AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton criticized Elon Musk's xAI and warned of growing risks in AI development, declining an advisory role at the company. Hinton raised concerns about job displacement, safety fa…
Swiss startup Prem AI is raising $100 million in Series A funding at a $500 million valuation to provide hedge funds and law firms with private, self-hosted AI infrastructure. The company launched an encrypted AI workspa…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos proposed moving polluting industries to the Moon to protect Earth and accelerate economic growth, starting with data centers for artificial intelligence. Bezos believes AI will create labor shor…
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50% stock tax on major AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to create a public fund potentially worth $7 trillion.…
A new analysis using Epoch's ECI metric shows that open-weight AI models continue to trail closed models on the frontier, with the gap persisting over time. The analysis, based on item response theory, provides a more nu…
Higgsfield, a San Francisco AI video startup, has reached a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million last September, and is cash-flow positive. The company aims to rival AI coding platforms like Cursor and Lova…
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