The data center boom’s climate blind spot
I spend my days helping companies build business resilience, lowering risk, and driving impact through decarbonization. Lately, almost every one of those conversations comes back to data centers. The global race to build data centers is accelerating at a breathtaking...
Silicon Valley’s most absurd meme is taking on the worst corporate jargon in AI and tech
The tech world often feels like its own separate universe, one where Palantir chore coats and corporate merch is the coveted style choice and exaggerated tech-bro jargon is its own language. And now, the tech world has a new meme—one that, for outsiders, might be too...
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains.
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and safeguards.
Strengthening 3D Prints with a Carbon-Fiber Epidermis
As strong and light as carbon fiber-epoxy composites are, the same can’t always be said of carbon-fiber reinforced 3D printer filaments. Of those that do improve over stock filament, the best performance comes from long, continuous strands, but the printers that can...
Anthropic signs $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
Xbox’s free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars
Xbox's free 25th anniversary gifts include a dynamic theme and avatars.
Your daily Diet Coke habit could be negatively affecting your brain, study suggests
Your daily diet soda fix could be doing more harm than good. Hardly the first study to scrutinize the health issues related to artificial sweeteners, a recent study has found that consuming high amounts of low- and no-calorie sweeteners is associated with an...
Meet Wrinkles, an AI app that uncovers the hidden stories of the places around you
Wrinkles, available on both iOS and Android, essentially acts as an AI-powered audio tour guide that reveals hidden history and local stories.
Stephen Wolfram’s Wife Has Died
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Points: 19 # Comments: 0
Nvidia doesn’t mess around: A week after open AI industry group formed, it’s already showing progress
The week-old Open Secure AI Alliance, spearheaded by Nvidia and grown to over 120 companies, already has proposals out for defending against AI agents.
DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations
DOJ extracts $3.2 million from OpenAI over hiring discrimination allegations.
Investors in Situational Awareness deserved to lose their shirts
Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/04/investors-in-situational-awareness-deserved-to-lose-their-shirts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173576 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
Open Secure AI Alliance Expands at Black Hat: What You Should Know
The Open Secure AI Alliance introduced SAFE guidelines and open agent-security tools at Black Hat, giving enterprises a framework for safer AI deployment. The post Open Secure AI Alliance Expands at Black Hat: What You Should Know appeared first on TechRepublic.
Launch HN: EdotEnv (YC S26) – Quant Trading RL Envs to Teach LLMs Research
We are Rui and Michael and we’re building EdotEnv (https://edotenv.com): self-improving RL environments from Quant Trading workflows.With all the benchmaxxing around, evals saturate and become meaningless for model comparison. Useful benchmarks should increase in...
Sustainability storytelling in a rapidly changing environment
Expectations around sustainability are evolving quickly. As investors, customers, employees, and regulators seek clarity and progress, the language used to articulate our sustainability programs, goals, and results has become more complex. The challenge we are...
Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes)
Can MS Paint run Doom? (Yes)
Don’t use your car’s USB ports to charge your laptop — Do this instead
The USB port in your car is likely not powerful enough to charge your laptop, but there are other options.
Influencers are being dragged for indulging in a luxury New York nature retreat on OpenAI’s dime
When you think ChatGPT, do you think of lush forests, relaxing retreats, and community bonding? Probably not—but with its first-ever brand trip, OpenAI seemingly aimed to change that perception. It didn’t work. The trip saw a group of influencers stay in luxury cabins...
Why Capital One says it really closed more than 300 Trump accounts
Trump’s family organization saw hundreds of accounts closed after a major bank found it was moving money around in a suspicious way. In a new court filing, Capital One revealed that it closed the cluster of more than 300 bank accounts belonging to Trump and his family...
Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions
Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions.
Blackmail Fail (2013)
Blackmail Fail (2013) Go to Source Article URL: https://gwern.net/blackmail Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172597 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Why some people mow a lawn better than others
Why some people mow a lawn better than others Go to Source Article URL: https://pudding.cool/2026/06/mow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172550 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors
NJ antitrust suit accuses Amazon of unlawfully wielding power over delivery contractors .
Fender’s CEO compared cover bands to AI. Now he’s walking it back
The CEO of the world’s biggest guitar brand has drawn the ire of musicians after comparing cover bands to chatbots, seemingly dismissing both as fundamentally uncreative. He now wants to set the record straight. Speaking to the website T3 earlier this year, Fender...
Show HN: cMCP, deny an AI agent’s tool call and get a signed receipt
Article URL: https://github.com/agentrust-io/cmcp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172545 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Gaza’s Deadly Soil
Article URL: https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/07/22/gazas-deadly-soil/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172567 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
The Judgment Reservoir
Article URL: https://shannph.com/writing/the-judgment-reservoir/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172540 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
AI Data Centers Are Driving Up Power Bills – This Map Shows Where
Article URL: https://www.gadgetreview.com/ai-data-centers-are-driving-up-power-bills-this-map-shows-where Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172433 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
Haters
Article URL: https://www.paulgraham.com/fh.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172534 Points: 14 # Comments: 7
At Last! CP/M for Protected Mode
If you used a serious computer pre-IBM PC, there was a fair chance its operating system was CP/M. CP/M was a staple among 8080 and Z80 computers and while there were other versions, we’ll always associate CP/M with the Z-80. There was a CP/M made for the PC which used...