Fields Medalist who published a paper on AI-driven human extinction now works for OpenAI
Newly awarded Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman is leaving the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety. In a recent paper, he analyzes…
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DeepMind’s hurricane model bought forecasters an extra day
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
Has anyone here fiddled with TPUs for inference ?
I discovered recently that Google uses their own TPUs, like tiny ASIC cards like the toy ones that existed for bitcoin. And while it sounds inefficient…
Armenia and Kazakhstan with @FirebirdCloudAI are building the infrastructure to create intelligence at home, powered by the NVIDIA DSX platform. 📽…
Armenia and Kazakhstan with @FirebirdCloudAI are building the infrastructure to create intelligence at home, powered by the NVIDIA DSX platform.📽️ Hear from @JensenHuang on this important…
RT NVIDIA Newsroom: Today in Armenia, @FirebirdCloudAI announced the launch of the CIS region's largest AI factory, designed to bring global demand fo…
RT NVIDIA NewsroomToday in Armenia, @FirebirdCloudAI announced the launch of the CIS region's largest AI factory, designed to bring global demand for AI infrastructure, local development…
Firebird Launches CIS Region’s Largest AI Factory in Armenia
The global buildout of AI infrastructure reached a new milestone today — Firebird, an emerging AI cloud, launched the CIS region’s largest AI factory in Armenia,…
RT Kenneth Roth: Has Trump’s invasion of Greenland already begun? An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in rem…
RT Kenneth RothHas Trump’s invasion of Greenland already begun? An American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite…
Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/976880/microsoft-edge-extensions-ad-blockers-mv2-mv3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220392 Points: 21 # Comments: 16
Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/technology/apple-leasing-program.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220390 Points: 6 # Comments: 3
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220350 Points: 22 # Comments: 5
US Military's Cyber Command Unit Grapples with Cluster of Deaths by Suicide
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-06/us-military-s-cyber-command-unit-grapples-with-cluster-of-deaths-by-suicide Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220339 Points: 10 # Comments: 2
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/europes-free-satellite-service-just-made-it-easier-to-track-wildfires/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220313 Points: 10 # Comments: 0
AI agents use roughly 600 times more energy than a simple chat prompt
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather tracked his Claude Code usage over eight weeks: 3.2 billion tokens and about 170 kWh of data center electricity. Per prompt, that's…
Designing Scalable Interactive Visualizations with Reflex XY: Composition, Million-Point Rendering, Streaming, Custom Marks, and Export
Dive into the advanced visualization capabilities of the Reflex XY Python library. This tutorial guides you through building high-performance, interactive charts—from handling million-point datasets and real-time…
A local code index for coding agents that resolves imports without a language server (Rust, MIT, runs offline)
Last time I posted about this here someone asked the right question: why not just use rust-analyzer, and how do you build a call graph without…
DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones
Article URL: https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220126 Points: 22 # Comments: 3
Real-Time Conversational Agents (RTCA) Workshop @ NeurIPS 2026 — submissions now open, deadline Aug 29 AoE [N]
Real-Time Conversational Agents (RTCA) workshop at NeurIPS 2026 (Sydney, Dec 11–12). Submissions are now open on OpenReview. What the workshop is about Conversational AI has crossed…
FAQ: Isn't AGI coming too soon for reprogenetics to help?
Introduction I think reprogenetics (human germline genomic engineering) can be done in a widely acceptable and beneficial way, and should be pursued aggressively. In particular, as…
2027 Memory Capacity Is Reportedly Sold Out
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Reasoning was not made for Deduction
Science as attunement, from Galileo to language models. Crossposted from my website. Written by me and edited in collaboration with Claude Fable (Anthropic).Many would agree that…
What can you offer in exchange?
What can you offer in exchange?David Krueger 🦥 ⏸️ ⏹️ ⏪: It is likely that the discussion around pausing AI will soon turn from *whether* to…
«why they didn't use these models in defensive role at all» That’s not the Hajnali way tho Armor is for sissies. They’re building a weapon, a glas…
«why they didn't use these models in defensive role at all»That’s not the Hajnali way thoArmor is for sissies. They’re building a weapon, a glass cannon.…
Unbelievable spin and twist
Unbelievable spin and twistPastor TT: @OlgaBazova Japan has been fighting against China's imperialism (Called 中華思想 Chinese Centralism) for centuries, especially during Ming Dynasty, EXACTLY like how…
RT Conor Bronsdon: Excited to take part in Swyx's Help Kill My SaaS hackathon this weekend 🫡 Follow along for updates as I attempt to prompt my age…
RT Conor BronsdonExcited to take part in Swyx's Help Kill My SaaS hackathon this weekend 🫡Follow along for updates as I attempt to prompt my agents…