OpenAI's first smart speaker is expected in 2027 at over $300
OpenAI is planning a donut-shaped smart speaker for 2027, priced above $300. The screenless device has a camera, microphones, and moving parts. It's designed to learn…
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The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
Article URL: https://sfstandard.com/pacific-standard-time/2026/08/07/sf-ai-billboards-dystopian-not-funny/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212928 Points: 16 # Comments: 25
congrats to oklo for achieving criticality! (less than a year after groundbreaking) https://oklo.com/newsroom/news-details/2026/Oklos-Groves-Reactor-A…
congrats to oklo for achieving criticality!(less than a year after groundbreaking)https://oklo.com/newsroom/news-details/2026/Oklos-Groves-Reactor-Achieves-First-Criticality-in-Under-a-Year/default.aspx
How Cohere Health digitizes clinical policies using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
In this post, you learn how Cohere Health built a multi-tenant agentic architecture on AgentCore using AgentCore Runtime’s secure MicroVM isolation, unified tool access through AgentCore…
A visualization of LLM API costs to ask for local resources
I have not been successful with management to get funding for local resources despite bringing forth solid arguments about data sovereignty and related architectures. What actually…
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server: (router) do not evict busy models (#26567) Website: https://llama.app macOS/iOS: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64) macOS Apple Silicon (arm64, KleidiAI enabled) DISABLED macOS Intel (x64) iOS…
How TReNDS automates root-cause analysis with Amazon Bedrock
TReNDS, a research center at Georgia State University, built an agentic AI pipeline on Amazon Bedrock and the open-source Strands Agents SDK that automatically investigates production…
Determining playoff clinching scenarios in the NHL using constraint programming
The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center built an automated system that uses constraint programming and custom tree search to determine, with mathematical certainty, when and how…
Am I just hallucinating
Or is there any reason why I feel like model output quality seems to be better when I use higher micro-batch values (ub) in llama-cpp? I…
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings)…
Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents
Cloudflare has introduced Kitesurf, a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. The company says the browser uses less computing power than Chromium for…
This Mine Predicts Major Wars. It's Opening Again
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-opinion-australia-tungsten-mine-us-war-defense-china/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212698 Points: 23 # Comments: 3
Some wild metaphysics that seemingly everyone needs to accept?
[Epistemic status: weird philosophy]Here’s a simple argument:How do we know what exists?Well, we don’t - not for certain. Many different possible worlds are consistent with our…
How AI agents reproduced ICML 2026 papers https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbdvRygJB
How AI agents reproduced ICML 2026 papers https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1OxwbbdvRygJB
Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029
Article URL: https://eco3min.fr/en/us-children-vs-adults-65-and-older/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49212424 Points: 35 # Comments: 17
RT Gad Saad: Oh my goodness.
RT Gad SaadOh my goodness.QUANTUM GUARD ™️: 🚨 HOLY CRAP. The man who brutally m*rdered an innocent gas station clerk in Fort Myers, Florida is a…
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mtmd: stop feeding the text stream again during Qwen3-TTS generation (#26706) The reference implementation has two mutually exclusive prompt layouts. In non streaming mode the prefill…
Useful tip for the ChatGPT mobile app: long press the send button to adjust the effort
Useful tip for the ChatGPT mobile app: long press the send button to adjust the effortMichelle Pokrass: @simonw i personally leave it on instant all the…
An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes
Article URL: https://www.sdss.org/black-hole-mapper-release-20/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211921 Points: 36 # Comments: 9
RT Cynthia Dunlop: Waaaay back in January, @simonw was kind enough to share his thoughts on technical blogging with me. ICYMI… https://writethatblog…
RT Cynthia DunlopWaaaay back in January, @simonw was kind enough to share his thoughts on technical blogging with me. ICYMI... https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/simon-willison-on-technical-blogging
An alias-based formulation of the borrow checker (2018)
Article URL: https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/04/27/an-alias-based-formulation-of-the-borrow-checker/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211821 Points: 11 # Comments: 1
Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.
Another Corner of the Internet Has Been Ruined
Article URL: https://www.freeformatter.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49211758 Points: 43 # Comments: 34
So, given the past couple days of news, what is the plan to deal with the cybersecurity threats that will happen in the coming months when we have ope…
So, given the past couple days of news, what is the plan to deal with the cybersecurity threats that will happen in the coming months when…