The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks
71 points and 38 comments on Hacker News.
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Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn
At a Brooklyn midterm party five days before Election Day, every conversation, from a council member’s fireside chat to a debate about the Democratic Party, kept circling
Yesterday
AI text watermarking and quality loss
54 points and 8 comments on Hacker News.
ChatGPT and Codex usage limits merging
124 points and 65 comments on Hacker News.
Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’
Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.
Judge allows NAACP lawsuit over xAI data center pollution to move forward
An NAACP lawsuit accuses the SpaceX-owned AI company of violating the Clean Air Act.
Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games
17 points and 6 comments on Hacker News.
Xbox manager says AI is already being used in game development
Brandon Stirrup deleted his comments from X a day after saying that AI usage is widespread in the gaming industry.
Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models
353 points and 206 comments on Hacker News.
I tested all of Samsung's AI capabilities to learn which tools save time and which ones are gimmicks
More keepers than you'd think
GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
145 points and 154 comments on Hacker News.
How to use Claude Duet when it rolls out to you
For now, you'll need to first join a waitlist.
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported (2025)
65 points and 43 comments on Hacker News.
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.
I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face - and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your
Google's AI satellite sends a very expensive haiku to Earth
Experimental orbital datacenter prototype puts its TPU to work producing poetry
Firm that lets you rent out your idle Mac for AI inference workloads warns of plummeting token costs
Mac users sharing their compute for AI inference are seeing declining revenues as token prices continue to drop, with Anthropic token falling 77% in under five months.
Intel shifts production capacity from consumer to server CPUs in face of 'unprecedented' AI demand
Intel is expanding chipmaking and advanced packaging capacity across the U.S., Ireland, and Malaysia to meet surging AI-driven demand for data center CPUs amid shrinking
AI agent used to perform controversial brain surgery on a mouse, Anthropic Sonnet controlled motorized surgery rig
The team had to use Sonnet after Opus 5.5 outright refused to run the experiment, while Opus 5 warned that it could stop working in the midst of the operation.
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Veteran Microsoft engineer makes his own RAM from scratch using AI
Expensive memory forces former Microsoft engineer to make his own — Dave Plummer makes PDP-11 RAM from scratch
Amazon sends chills through its workforce with mixed message memo about AI use
A lot of software engineers feel bleak about the future of the profession
Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts
330 points and 165 comments on Hacker News.
A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private Chats
A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researche
Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale’s AI data center in West Virginia
When investors get nervous about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker that sells the chips offer to cosign the loan.
Friday, Oct 30
Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune
The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, is shutting down
As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI, as reported earlier by Search Engin
Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says
Blackstone's forecast is just a prediction, but naturally, a high junk rating would make it more difficult and costlier for Anthropic to raise the money to keep funding i
Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
Boom’s airliner may be delayed, and its data center power business lost a customer.
How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on Uncanny Valley, we also discuss Anthropic’s IPO filing and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.
Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability
Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
It's still unknown how attackers got access to Anthropic's verified Cursor account.
Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
People who love AI don't always love telling others they used it.
A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices
Thanks to a lucky break, flawed code in a tainted Claude extension prevented the attacker from fully worming their way into some 5,000 developer machines.
Darkbloom, which allowed Mac users to rent out their GPUs for AI inference, warns of low payouts
Blame plunging prices on tokens
AI law firm Crosby bids on disintegrating, famed firm Weil Gotshal
Like a real-life episode of "Suits," the demise of famed white-shoe Wall Street law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges has been the talk of the legal industry. And now an AI fir
Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.
Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text
Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.
Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
Low costs and offline security mean magnetic tape still has a job.
Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
Applying for FAFSA may get messy as DOJ “ghost student” crackdown ramps up.
OpenAI CEO says it's 'quite terrible' for your PC to have RAM
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a podcast interview that "it's quite terrible" for people to have RAM in their own PCs when it could go into AI data centers.
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’
The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.
AlpineBSD announced – an AI-free FOSS OS
Combining the NetBSD kernel with the Alpine Linux userland
PsiQuantum turns its photonics know-how into an optical switch for supercharging AI data center GPU networks
PsiQuantum’s eight-port optical switch typically loses 1.2 dB, under a quarter of its light, where data centers allow up to 3 dB.
Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
290 points and 344 comments on Hacker News.
DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.
A primer on key AI LLM concepts — KV cache, weights, quantization, and how inference actually works
How do AI models work? This primer explains crucial concepts to understand how LLMs work, with definitions and explanations for all of AI's new nomenclature.
AI projects not paying off? Keep at it, says Uni Productivity Institute
All that up-front investment needs time to take effect, and speeding individual tasks won't necessarily boost the entire firm
Apple acquires Ascend․io, an agentic AI engineering startup
Apple recently struck a deal to acquire Ascend.io, a company focused on agentic data engineering technology. Under the Digital Markets Act, Apple must now publicly report
Strava subscribers can now connect directly to Google Gemini for personalized workout insights
Back in June, Strava launched the Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector, letting subscribers query their Strava data through Claude for in-depth training insights. Build
Former esports commentator builds his own custom mouse shell generator for 3D printing that doesn’t use AI
A Counter-Strike commentator just showed the demo of his customizable gaming mouse shell generator for 3D printing that detects key components like mouse buttons, the scr
Accenture AI agents are sifting through applicants
But a human makes final hiring decisions at global tech consultancy
Google hit with criminal probe over unapproved AI data center deforestation
A criminal investigation into the environmental damage caused by Google’s Finnish subsidiary has been launched.
Gemini now lets you edit the files it creates right in the chat
Back in April, Google's Gemini gained the ability to generate files for you, from Docs and Sheets to PDFs and Markdown. Until now, though, if you wanted to tweak what it
Google's search revenue Ferrari hits an AI-powered speed bump
Just wait 'til we add more AI and this thing'll really fly
AWS installs an AI accelerator every 14 seconds and eyes $1 trillion annual revenue
Before long, we could be writing about a cloud company with a retail side hustle
In the year AI re-wrote the infosec rulebook, it’s comforting to know crypto exchanges still have bad security
Binance freezes funny money after compromise of engineer’s laptop linked to $6.3 billion of unauthorized trades
Latest Gemini design comes to all Android devices, app upgrades file generation
A pair of Gemini app updates today brings the latest design to all Android devices, while file generation sees a big upgrade. more…
Thursday, Oct 29
Researchers find bugs in 5 AI developer tools, with OpenAI and Microsoft flaws still unpatched
Embedded browsers are at the heart of the problem
Howler will have AI answer your questions, then burn the chat
Ask AI dumb things and leave no local chat history, all with the style of a kids' fantasy novel – or rather, one of its magical letters
Startup wants to make AI agents safe for DevOps duty
Infrastructure automation needs something better than prompt and pray
Google Home update should make Gemini stop saying ‘Sorry, I didn’t understand’ so much
Google’s latest Gemini for Home update targets a few issues, like one where speakers randomly blurt out “I didn’t understand” when no one asks. more…
Google stock drops amid AI fears; AI Mode has ‘lower monetization,’ getting more ads
Google is bringing ads to AI Mode globally as it admits that the new take on Search brings “lower monetization,” all while $GOOG stock is seeing a fairly major drop. more
AI, Lean, and the Future of Formal Verification, with Lean Creator Leo de Moura
193 points and 45 comments on Hacker News.
Fake ChatGPT and Claude Apps Abuse Signed Executables to Deploy Crypto Miners
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and Ope
No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
16 points and 5 comments on Hacker News.
Mistral’s Le Chonk is now a top open model for coding, ranking alongside Codex GPT-6.1 Terra
Mistral has released the weights for Large 4, along with some impressive Artificial Analysis scores.
Webinar: How to Build AI Threat Readiness Into Your Security Operations
Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help
The Rise of the Threat Operator: How AI Will Redefine Security Operations and Careers
AI is beginning to take over much of the work that has traditionally defined the security analyst's job. Investigating alerts, collecting evidence, correlating activity a
26,400 Valid Cloud and AI Credentials Found Exposed in Public Gitee Repositories
26,400 credentials that developers left in public code on Gitee, a Chinese code-hosting service, still worked when a researcher tested them. Anyone who copied one from th