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Tried a New AI Image Tool for Real-World Design Work (Nano Banana Pro)
Article URL: https://www.nanobananapro.org Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47561491 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Show HN: Liter-LLM, Universal LLM client in Rust with bindings for 11 languages
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Geno Auriemma takes aim at the NCAA over the women's double-regional format in March Madness - AP News
Geno Auriemma takes aim at the NCAA over the women's double-regional format in March Madness AP News
The first 40 months of the AI era
Article URL: https://lzon.ca/posts/other/thoughts-ai-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557185 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite
Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3880176e-d3ac-4311-9052-fdfeaed56a0e Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559506 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.
Stanford study outlines dangers of asking AI chatbots for personal advice
While there’s been plenty of debate about AI sycophancy, a new study by Stanford computer scientists attempts to measure how harmful that tendency might be.
When AI turns software development inside-out: 170% throughput at 80% headcount
Many people have tried AI tools and walked away unimpressed. I get it — many demos promise magic, but in practice, the results can feel underwhelming. That’s why I want to write this not as a futurist prediction, but from lived experience. Over the past six months, I turned my engineering organization AI-first. I’ve shared before about the system behind that transformation — how we built the workflows, the metrics, and the guardrails. Today, I want to zoom out from the mechanics and talk about what I’ve learned from that experience — about where our profession is heading when software development itself turns inside out. Before I do, a couple of numbers to illustrate the scale of change. Subjectively, it feels that we are moving twice as fast. Objectively, here’s how the throughput evolved. Our total engineering team headcount floated from 36 at the beginning of the year to 30. So you get ~170% throughput on ~80% headcount, which matches the subjective ~2x. Zooming in, I picked a cou
Elon Musk’s last co-founder reportedly leaves xAI
All but two of Musk's 11 xAI co-founders departed before this week.
Suno leans into customization with v5.5
Slop yourself. | Image: Suno Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control. It includes three new features: Voices, My Taste, and Custom Models. In the release notes, Suno says that Voices is its most requested feature. It lets users train the vocal model on their own voice. They can upload clean accapellas, finished tracks with backing music, or just sing directly into the mic on their phone or laptop. The cleaner and higher quality the recording, the less data is required. And to prevent someone fro … Read the full story at The Verge.
TikTok’s policy for AI ads isn’t working
Samsung, like many companies using generative AI in their advertising, hasn’t placed an AI label on several videos shared through its TikTok accounts, and the fine print doesn’t always contain the answers. | Image by Samsung I've been struggling to tell whether the ads appearing in my TikTok feeds have been made with generative AI tools. As someone who spends a great deal of time scrutinizing images and videos for the usual "tells" that something was synthetically generated, some of the promotions I've seen have definitely sparked suspicion. For several weeks, I didn't see any examples with the AI disclosure required by TikTok's advertising policies, however, so I had no way of knowing for sure. What irks me is that someone knows for sure if the content is AI-generated. They're just not telling the rest of us. And if companies that claim to support AI-labelling … Read the full story at The Verge.
With new plugins feature, OpenAI officially takes Codex beyond coding
Things are moving fast, and competitors have offered something similar for a while.
Iran says it will ‘facilitate and expedite’ humanitarian aid through the Strait of Hormuz - AP News
Iran says it will ‘facilitate and expedite’ humanitarian aid through the Strait of Hormuz AP News
Panicked travelers hear a new message from airports: Don’t get here so early - AP News
Panicked travelers hear a new message from airports: Don’t get here so early AP News
3 killed in tourist helicopter crash off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai - AP News
3 killed in tourist helicopter crash off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Kauai AP News
AI's arrival complicates Big Tech climate goals, and some worry it's locking in more fossil fuels - AP News
AI's arrival complicates Big Tech climate goals, and some worry it's locking in more fossil fuels AP News
VC firms rarely reinvent themselves. Kleiner Perkins did—and has a new $3.5 billion to show for it
Raising funds to plow into the AI boom proved to be not a problem for the firm.
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this week and then was quickly reversed.
Grok's next update will be the "Most important change" to X ever, and Elon Musk says xAI is "doubling down" on Imagine
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Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100
As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.
The latest in data centers, AI, and energy
Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility bills, nearby communities, and the environment. From audacious plans to launch data centers into space to the latest legal battles over pollution, The Verge has the biggest news and reporting surrounding data centers. Senators are pushing to find out how much electricity data centers actually use How the spiraling Iran conflict could affect data centers and electricity costs Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers Trump claims tech companies will sign deals next week to pay for their own power supply Anthropic says it’ll try to keep its data centers from raising electricity costs How an ‘icepocalypse’ raises more questions about Meta’s biggest data ce
Meta promised it wouldn’t spy on you with its AI smart glasses. A lawsuit says humans are watching you, actually
A bombshell investigation into Meta's AI training pipeline found overseas contractors watching footage from the smart glasses.
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Anthropic’s Claude popularity with paying consumers is skyrocketing
Estimates for total Claude consumer users are all over the map (we've seen figures ranging from 18 million to 30 million). Anthropic hasn't disclosed this data, but a spokesperson did tell TechCrunch that Claude paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year.
Why OpenAI killed Sora
On Tuesday morning, everything was business as usual at OpenAI. By the end of the day, the company had announced that it would scrap its video-generation app, Sora, and reverse plans for video generation inside ChatGPT; it would wind down a $1 billion Disney deal; it would shuffle the role of a high-level executive; and it would raise an additional $10 billion from investors, adding up to more than $120 billion total for its latest funding round. OpenAI is now in a frenzy to turn a profit, or at least lose less money. Since its launch, Sora seems to have taken up a massive amount of compute without the financial return to justify it. Indus … Read the full story at The Verge.
STADLER reshapes knowledge work at a 230-year-old company
Learn how STADLER uses ChatGPT to transform knowledge work, saving time and accelerating productivity across 650 employees.
New Unsloth Studio Release!
Hey guys, it's been a week since we launched Unsloth Studio (Beta). Thanks so much for trying it out, the support and feedback! We shipped 50+ new features, updates and fixes. New features / major improvements: Pre-compiled llama.cpp / mamba_ssm binaries for ~1min installs and -50% less size Auto-detection of existing models from LM Studio, Hugging Face etc. 20–30% faster inference, now similar to llama-server / llama.cpp speeds. Tool calling: better parsing, better accuracy, faster execution, no raw tool markup in chat, plus a new Tool Outputs panel and timers. New one line uv install and update commands New Desktop app shortcuts that close properly. Data Recipes now supports macOS, CPU and multi-file uploads. Preliminary AMD support for Linux. Inference token/s reporting fixed so it reflects actual inference speed instead of including startup time. Revamped docs with detailed guides on uninstall, deleting models etc Lots of new settings added including context length, d
RYS Part 3: LLMs think in geometry, not language — new results across 4 models, including code and math
OK so you know how last time I said LLMs seem to think in a universal language? I went deeper. Part 1: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1rpxpsa/how_i_topped_the_open_llm_leaderboard_using_2x/ Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1s1t5ot/rys_ii_repeated_layers_with_qwen35_27b_and_some/ TL;DR for those who (I know) won't read the blog: I expanded the experiment from 2 languages to 8 (EN, ZH, AR, RU, JA, KO, HI, FR) across 4 different models (Qwen3.5-27B, MiniMax M2.5, GLM-4.7, GPT-OSS-120B). All four show the same thing. In the middle layers, a sentence about photosynthesis in Hindi is closer to photosynthesis in Japanese than it is to cooking in Hindi. Language identity basically vanishes. Then I did the harder test: English descriptions, Python functions (single-letter variables only — no cheating), and LaTeX equations for the same concepts. ½mv², 0.5 * m * v ** 2, and "half the mass times velocity squared" converge to the same region in the model's i
VCs are betting billions on AI’s next wave, so why is OpenAI killing Sora?
When an 82-year-old Kentucky woman was offered $26 million from an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land, she said no. Sure, that same company can try to rezone 2,000 acres nearby anyway, but as AI infrastructure stretches further into the real world, the real world is starting to push back. That tension is everywhere […]
AI #161 Part 1: 80,000 Interviews
The major technical advances this week were in agentic coding, as covered yesterday. The major non-DoW political and alignment developments will be covered tomorrow. The DoW vs. Anthropic trial continues. Judge Lin was very not happy with the government’s case, which makes sense since the government has no case and was arguing a variety of Obvious Nonsense. The question now is how much preliminary relief Anthropic is entitled to. Assuming we find that out this week, I plan to cover that on Monday. Beyond that, we have new iterations of questions we’ve dealt with time and again. The debate on jobs gets another cycle. Anthropic asked over 80,000 people what they think about AI, and has published those findings, nothing shocking but interesting throughout. OpenAI is raising money again, although the terms raise some eyebrows. Elon Musk is announcing a grand chip project, but it was already kind of announced and it’s not like we should believe him when he says such things. I used this