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A growing number of articles linked on Hacker News now carry disclaimers such as 'This post was written by a human' or 'Drafted by AI, edited by a human,' according to an informal survey by an unnamed author. The author …
Brendan O'Donoghue of Google DeepMind presented a talk titled 'Text Diffusion' in a video, detailing a diffusion-based approach for text generation. The presentation, hosted on YouTube, covers the methodology and potenti…
Thijs Simonian, a Stanford student and robotics worker at OpenAI, released a browser game on August 24th that uses Apple Maps data to create a playable San Francisco, allowing players to climb buildings, drive cars, and …
Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley, 50, condemned 'absolutely horrendous' AI-generated fake images on Instagram on Monday that falsely implied she is pregnant, calling the 'lies' 'sick to death' and urging them to stop. The IT…
Deno team released Dactyl, an AI app builder that lets users create native iPhone, iPad, and Android apps from a web browser without a Mac or Xcode, and can run on the user's existing ChatGPT subscription. The tool gener…
MyBestLook launched an AI stylist and virtual try-on tool that lets users test 20+ premium looks, 30+ haircuts, and outfits from retailers like ASOS, Zara, and Amazon in seconds, with features including outfit scoring, s…
OpenAI has cut API pricing for GPT 5.6 Sol and Codex credits by 20%, with the reduced rates guaranteed through at least November 21, 2026, according to OpenAI's developer documentation. The move lowers costs for develope…
Marketing So High's 2026 guide says AI marketing agencies must pivot from manual content production to building autonomous systems, with Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration a…
A technical analysis of large language model (LLM) generation explains that hallucination is a predictable mathematical byproduct of token sampling, not a bug. The piece details how temperature settings reshape probabili…
Nvidia expanded its CUDA-X suite of GPU-accelerated libraries on July 26, 2026, introducing new solver libraries cuISS, cuDSS, and cuEST, along with an expanded Agent Toolkit, to boost performance in chip design, physics…
NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30B-A3B hybrid Mamba MoE agent model released two weeks ago, has been extended to process images and speech without any training, thanks to a geometry coincidence with NVIDIA's Nemotron…
A virtual AI-generated Cat-in-the-Hat character has appeared in Glasgow, causing confusion among residents, while authorities in Wexford, Ireland, have already debunked the phenomenon. The incident, reported by Boing Boi…
OpenAI has expanded ChatGPT Ads from a US pilot to a broader self-serve platform, opening Ads Manager to all US advertisers and adding cost-per-click bidding alongside CPM. The ads appear at the bottom of conversations, …
AWS introduced a customizable, smart-caching knowledge management system that uses Amazon Bedrock, Amazon S3, Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, and other services to preserve institutional knowledge via an AI-powered avatar …
Claude Opus 5, an AI model by Anthropic, wrote the code to emulate a QIC-117 tape drive in the 86Box emulator, allowing DOS and early Windows backup software to read virtual tape images. The emulation initially worked wi…
A Hacker News user argues that in the age of AI-generated software 'slop', marketplaces may offer a stronger moat than pure software, as code becomes cheap but customization remains difficult. The user proposes using AI …
A UC Berkeley math professor, Zvezdelina Stankova, admitted to using AI to edit her August 15th essay that criticized students' preparedness, after the AI detector Pangram flagged the piece as 33% AI-generated. Stankova …
Pew Research Center's Data Labs team analyzed nearly half a million webpages and found signs of AI authorship or editing on about 10% of them, with the share rising to 35% for pages published after ChatGPT's launch. The …
In a CNET comparison, Google's Gemini Flash outperformed OpenAI's ChatGPT in visual recognition tests, correctly transcribing messy handwritten notes from The Hound of the Baskervilles and identifying the source, while C…
A Pew Research Center analysis of nearly half a million English-language web pages found that more than a third of pages published since ChatGPT's launch show signs of AI-generated text, with commercial .com sites ten ti…