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Governor-elect of North Jeolla Province Lee Won-taeg invited Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to a casual K-BBQ dinner in Saemangeum, proposing the reclaimed land as a hub for Nvidia's AI technology. Lee touted Saemangeum's clean…
Two prominent Chinese hedge fund managers, Yang Dong of Wealspring and Shanghai Banxia, warned investors that the global AI rally has become a "super bubble" with a potential collapse imminent, citing overvalued companie…
Hong Kong is investing billions of dollars in AI projects, including a semiconductor centre, an AI subsidy scheme, and a data centre, but critics argue the city needs a broader vision and more realistic goals, as it cann…
A new Pew Research Center survey reveals that nearly half of American adults now use AI chatbots, yet only 16% believe AI will have a positive societal impact, with most expecting it to worsen society. Chatbot use has su…
A joint investigation by Consumer Reports, the Groundwork Collaborative and More Perfect Union found that Instacart used an AI pricing platform called Eversight to charge different customers different prices for the same…
An open-source maintainer rejected a three-line Go patch fixing a ProtonMail authentication bug in the hydroxide bridge, citing it as 'AI slop.' The author, who used a language model for codebase exploration and drafting…
A developer argues that AI agents will not replace humans in production engineering because they lack the ability to understand context, own consequences, and take responsibility. The post warns that giving AI agents unl…
The AI buildout is bottlenecked by energy, not a shortage of electricity, but the inability to connect data centers to the grid. The interconnection process is backlogged, with median wait times jumping from 20 months in…
More information is paradoxically making modern societies less intelligent, as the ability to distinguish signal from noise breaks down. The historical assumption that more data leads to better outcomes no longer holds i…
OpenAI released its strongest model, GPT-5.6 Sol, but restricted initial access to about 20 vetted partners under a June 2 executive order. DeepSeek open-sourced the training stack for speculative decoding, and a new pap…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna on June 26, with Sol outperforming Anthropic's Claude Mythos on agentic coding benchmarks. The US government restricted access to trusted partners under a voluntary review fra…
European enterprises are turning to a third option for enterprise AI: hosting open-source LLMs on European servers by European companies to guarantee data privacy and sovereignty, as trust in US hyperscalers like Azure a…
ByteDance's Volcano Arc platform and Seedance AI video model are addressing the IP problem in AI video generation by licensing real actor likenesses and film assets through a revenue-sharing model. The platform provides …
The US government is tightening regulation of frontier AI models, requiring staggered releases and government reviews that could delay or restrict models like GPT-5.6. This creates operational risks for builders and ente…
The Japanese government is considering 11.5 billion yen in subsidies to 15 companies for overseas anime and manga expansion, encouraging the use of generative AI for localization to speed translation and combat piracy, a…
A Hacker News user pleaded with the community to stop posting political content, saying they visit the site to escape such discussions. Other commenters argued that politics and technology are increasingly intertwined, c…
AI pricing is currently below cost, with estimates ranging from $0.60-$0.70 per dollar of compute (optimistic) to less than $0.10 (pessimistic). The eventual re-pricing could cause demand destruction, especially for non-…
Senator Bernie Sanders falsely claimed Apple spent $310 billion on stock buybacks last year, when SEC filings show the actual figure was $89 billion. John Gruber criticizes Sanders for economic ignorance and ideological …
President Donald Trump announced Saturday he is nominating former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer as the next director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, praising him as a patriot with decades of experience. I…
Agent Kits released a Compliance Scanner tool that analyzes AI agent system prompts against Microsoft's published agent-governance guidance, providing pass/fail gates and risk assessments. The deterministic scanner proce…