Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists
It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all
OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What's different this time is the choice to have external experts...
The most popular streaming platforms in the US might not be what you think
You might be surprised at the rankings of some streaming services when it comes to what Americans watch on their TVs.
OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra
Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price
6+ ways you can use your PlayStation 5's USB ports
You can do more than charge your controllers with the USB ports on your PS5. Here are some of the possibilities.
Halide releases its first batch of updates for the iPhone Duo
Camera app Halide released a new update for the iPhone Duo that adds three different shooting modes based on what position the foldable is in.
Ollama for Mac gains support for local text-to-speech models
Ollama, the popular app for running AI models locally, announced that its Mac app now supports text-to-speech generation, with Windows and Linux support coming soon. Here are the details. more…
Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/kv-cache-exposure-remediation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50252159 Points: 145 # Comments: 47
Grok Says Its AI-Generated Version of ‘The Odyssey’ Is ‘Not Historically Accurate’
Months after Elon Musk declared that the xAI model would outclass Christopher Nolan’s mythological epic, the bot itself admitted defeat.
Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce
Employees in the US, Canada, India, and the UK may receive offers to leave MS today.
What are the leading causes of EV battery damage?
Charging behaviors and heat are the things to pay attention to.
Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail
Payload blobs measuring 12.9 to 13.7 MB were large enough to evade GitHub code search
University of Copenhagen data breach exposes data of 525,000 people
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. [...]
Instagram takes on YouTube with new 90-minute horizontal video format
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Instagram today began testing a new long-form horizontal video format with select creators in the U.S. Here are the details. more…
The mistake iPhone Duo buyers can easily avoid
An iPhone Duo can become even more expensive if you have to repair it, so it's vital to plan for that ahead of time.
Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprise customers
Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: It’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.
The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]
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Samsung’s Switch 2-ready MicroSD Express card is on sale for less than $50
Running out of space on your Nintendo Switch 2? Thankfully, Samsung’s P9 MicroSD Express card is discounted at multiple retailers, with the 256GB version going for $47.99 (Amazon, B&H Photo) and the 512GB version $99 (Amazon, B&H Photo). The smaller card typically sells for around $80, and the la...
Anthropic is burning gas to feed the AI boom
As it prepares to go public, Anthropic's S-1 filing makes generative AI's methane dependency glaringly obvious. "Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is intense." In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
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