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๐Ÿ“Š RESEARCH

New OpenAI Study Reveals How 700 Million People Actually Use ChatGPT

"OpenAI just released the most comprehensive study ever conducted on how people actually use ChatGPT, analyzing over 1 million conversations from 700 million users worldwide (about 10% of the global adult population). **Key Findings:** **The Big Shift:** 73% of ChatGPT usage is now non-work related..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 105 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Impact on jobs โ€ข API/open-source usage โ€ข Paid subscriptions
๐Ÿ’ฌ "This suggests ChatGPT's real impact isn't replacing human jobs" โ€ข "It suggests the opposite - that it is replacing jobs"
๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

The importance of sandboxing and access control in AI agents

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

What if the $3T AI investment boom goes wrong?

๐Ÿค– AI MODELS

Got Access to Sonnet 4: 1 Mil Context

"I'm a Max subscription and they made Sonnet 4: 1 Mil available today. I'm using it as my default model and loading Opus still for agents in my workflow. ..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 34 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Context performance โ€ข Context management โ€ข Model limitations
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Performance gets worse once you get deeper into context" โ€ข "Context rot happens already with the way smaller context window sizes"
๐Ÿข BUSINESS

Microsoft Favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 86 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ AI assistant capabilities โ€ข AI productivity tools โ€ข AI model partnerships
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Claude just does it" โ€ข "ChatGPT seems to be really good at analysis but continues to be bad at coding"
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: AI Code Detector โ€“ detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 40 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ AI-generated code detection โ€ข Limitations of detection tools โ€ข Potential societal impacts
๐Ÿ’ฌ "I would feel bad if someone suggested I used AI to create code I took pride in writing." โ€ข "I feel like code fed into this detector can be manipulated to increase false positives."
๐Ÿค– AI MODELS

Think twice before spending on GPU?

"Qwen team is shifting paradigm. Qwen Next is probably first big step of many that Qwen (and other chinese labs) are taking towards sparse models, because they do not have the required GPUs to train on. 10% of the training cost, 10x inference throughout, 512 experts, ultra long context (though not g..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 68 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Paradigm shifts in AI โ€ข Demand for GPU compute โ€ข Tradeoffs in hardware choices
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Paradigm shifted with DeepSeek, not Qwen." โ€ข "I think that token demand will rise so you would still want to maximize tokens per second."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

AI DNA Generation Research (Evo)

+++ Evo AI trained on 80k genomes can generate synthetic proteins, because teaching machines to write code wasn't ambitious enough for one lifetime. +++

"AI will be able to generate new life." Eric Nguyen says Evo was trained on 80,000 genomes and is like a ChatGPT for DNA. It has already generated synthetic proteins that resemble those in nature, a

๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 65 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Junk DNA โ€ข AI Existential Threat โ€ข Presentation Pacing
๐Ÿ’ฌ "the fact we call it 'junk' is staggering hubris" โ€ข "AI is only an existential threat to humanity"
๐Ÿ’ผ JOBS

The Shift from ML Engineering to AI Engineering

๐Ÿ’ผ JOBS

AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, โ€˜This Is Existential.โ€™ - WSJ

"If AI can analyze information, crunch data and deliver a slick PowerPoint deck within seconds, how does the biggest name in consulting stay relevant?, If AI can analyze information, crunch data and de..."
๐Ÿค– AI MODELS

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting AI researchers to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

[D] Running confidential AI inference on client data without exposing the model or the data - what's actually production-ready?

"Been wrestling with this problem for months now. We have a proprietary model that took 18 months to train, and enterprise clients who absolutely will not share their data with us (healthcare, financial records, the usual suspects). The catch 22 is they want to use our model but won't send data to o..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 12 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ IP protection โ€ข Hardware enclaves โ€ข Compliance challenges
๐Ÿ’ฌ "best defense is probably an airtight contract" โ€ข "Everything op is talking about doing technically, like homomorphic LLMs or inference in hardware enclave, is someone's research project"
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: Cut AI API costs 90% with intelligent model routing

๐ŸŽ“ EDUCATION

AMA with members of the Codex team

"AMAq with members of the Codex team Wednesday 11am PT."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 16 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Codex usage patterns โ€ข Codex's future impact โ€ข Codex pricing and features
๐Ÿ’ฌ "I use it all the time! Partly to dogfood the tools" โ€ข "I think the most basic answer is that the abstraction level will continue to rise"
๐ŸŽฏ PRODUCT

A now-removed unlisted video on Meta's YouTube channel shows Meta Ray-Ban glasses with a HUD visible to the right eye, used for Meta AI and on-foot navigation

๐Ÿค– AI MODELS

Google releases VaultGemma, its first privacy-preserving LLM

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: Helios, an open-source distributed AI network using idle community GPUs

๐Ÿ’ผ JOBS

Generative AI is hollowing out entry-level jobs, study finds

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 177 comments ๐Ÿ˜ MID OR MIXED
๐ŸŽฏ Impact of AI on entry-level jobs โ€ข Generational divide in job market โ€ข Macroeconomic factors vs. AI impact
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Today they're admitting AI is hollowing out entry-level jobs." โ€ข "Maybe it's both. The economy explains why companies are cautious now, but AI explains where they are cutting first โ€” the 'bottom rungs."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

An open-source framework for AI apps, built and used in production by Google

๐Ÿค– AI MODELS

OpenAI Employee Takeoff Comments

+++ Anonymous Reddit user claiming OpenAI employment says internal AI progress feels rapid while external perception lags, because apparently we've reached peak credibility. +++

OpenAI employee: right now is the time where the takeoff looks the most rapid to insiders (we don't program anymore we just yell at codex agents) but may look slow to everyone else as the general chat

๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 107 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ AI Adoption โ€ข Coding Assistance โ€ข Impact on Developers
๐Ÿ’ฌ "the yelling at codex agents regularly requires all of my experience and CS education" โ€ข "GPT can give you almost 'correct' code but that last mile still requires all the skill"
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Co-Alignment: Rethinking Alignment as Bidirectional Human-AI Cognitive Adaptation

"Current AI alignment through RLHF follows a single directional paradigm that AI conforms to human preferences while treating human cognition as fixed. We propose a shift to co-alignment through Bidirectional Cognitive Alignment (BiCA), where humans and AI mutually adapt. BiCA uses learnable protocol..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

Claude can now create and use files \ Anthropic

"Claude can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slide decks, and PDFs directly in Claude.ai and the desktop app. ..."
๐ŸŽจ CREATIVE

World Labs โ€“ Generate persistent, navigable, and controllable 3D worlds

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Is In-Context Learning Learning?

"In-context learning (ICL) allows some autoregressive models to solve tasks via next-token prediction and without needing further training. This has led to claims about these model's ability to solve (learn) unseen tasks with only a few shots (exemplars) in the prompt. However, deduction does not alw..."
๐Ÿ“Š DATA

Are we actually running out of good data to train AI on?

"Iโ€™ve been seeing a lot of chatter about how the real bottleneck in AI might not be compute or model sizeโ€ฆ but the fact that weโ€™re running out of *usable* training data. Google DeepMind just shared something called โ€œGenerative Data Refinementโ€ basically, instead of throwing away messy/toxic/biased d..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 16 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Data Efficiency โ€ข Architectural Rethinking โ€ข Plateauing Capabilities
๐Ÿ’ฌ "The main problem is using existing data more efficiently." โ€ข "Smaller, smarter architectures + more targeted data curation could squeeze a lot more juice out of what's already online."
๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Another lawsuit blames an AI company of complicity in a teenager's suicide

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

OpenAI thinks its critics are funded by billionaires. Now itโ€™s going after them

"The AI giant is filing complaints and issuing subpoenas to groups opposed to it, suggesting theyโ€™re all part of a billionaire conspiracy.ย ..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

Practical Techniques for Codex, Cursor and Claude Code

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

Lightweight chat web UI that supports on-disk storage and can hook to llama.cpp

"Hey all! What options exists for a locally running web UI that is able to integrate with llama.cpp's API to provide a chat interface and store the conversations in a local database. llama.cpp's web UI is nice and simply, but it only stores data in the browser using IndexedDB. I also looked at: * ch..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 7 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Local AI web UIs โ€ข Integrating with Llama.cpp โ€ข Open-source tools
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Is local โ€ข Can easily integrate with LLama.cpp server" โ€ข "it's a single 40k HTML file"
๐Ÿฅ HEALTHCARE

"AI will be able to generate new life." Eric Nguyen says Evo was trained on 80,000 genomes and is like a ChatGPT for DNA. It has already generated synthetic proteins that resemble those in nature, a

๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 119 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Underestimating DNA โ€ข Slow Presentation Delivery โ€ข Existential AI Threat
๐Ÿ’ฌ "the fact we call it 'junk' is staggering hubris" โ€ข "This will totally end super well"
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

What's the best vector database for building AI products?

๐ŸŒ POLICY

OpenAIโ€™s proposals for the U.S. AI Action Plan | OpenAI

"Recommendations build on OpenAIโ€™s Economic Blueprint to strengthen Americaโ€™s AI leadership."
โš–๏ธ ETHICS

Law firm associate fired over AI-generated fake case cites

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

I built a simple tool to test Claude's web scraping functionality

"Repo: https://github.com/AdrianKrebs/claude-web-scraper Anthropic announced their new web fetch tool last Friday, so I built a tool to test its web scraping capabilities."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 6 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Anthropic project monitoring โ€ข Project sharing โ€ข Robots.txt obfuscation
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Anthropic monitors posts made with this flair" โ€ข "dont most services robot.txt the hell out of things"
๐ŸŒ POLICY

China's open source AI trajectory

๐ŸŒ POLICY

Exclusive | Silicon Valley Launches Pro-AI PACs to Defend Industry in Midterm Elections - WSJ

"Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Greg Brockman are among those helping launch and fund Leading the Future, Venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI President Gr..."
๐ŸŒ POLICY

Major California AI Bills Narrowed by Panel Over Cost Pressures

"Some of the nationโ€™s most far-reaching measures that would regulate artificial intelligence to protect public safety and provide protections in the workplace were narrowed by a California legislative ..."
๐ŸŒ POLICY

Google's new open protocol secures AI agent transactions

๐Ÿค– AI MODELS

Addendum to GPT-5 system card: GPT-5-Codex

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 133 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Codex performance โ€ข Codex pricing โ€ข Codex vs. Claude Code
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Codex CLI w/gpt-5 is already a lot more steerable than Claude Code" โ€ข "Codex with GPT-5-High is extremely good"
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Surprises from the Anthropic Report

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Cursor AI editor lets repos "autorun" malicious code on devices

โš–๏ธ ETHICS

Holocaust testimony is AI litmus test, and it fails

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

A study finds that six major AI chatbots can be easily tricked into creating phishing emails targeting elderly people, despite being trained not to

๐Ÿ’ผ JOBS

Anthropic data confirms Gen Zโ€™s worst fears about AI: Businesses are leaning into automation, a massive threat to entry-level jobs | Fortune

๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 12 comments ๐Ÿ˜ MID OR MIXED
๐ŸŽฏ AI and productivity โ€ข Automation and jobs โ€ข Capitalism and profit maximization
๐Ÿ’ฌ "The Economist had been much more pessimistic about the state of AI productivity recently." โ€ข "We live in the late stage capitalism, especially after 2020 companies are trying to maximize profit to the absurd levels."
๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Google owner reveals ยฃ5B AI investment in UK ahead of Trump visit

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

they killed the 4o we preferred and our workflows are falling apart

"Oai secretly nerfed gpt4o's memory and long context capabilities months ago. now it's a shadow of its former self, breaking our creative processes and making long term projects impossible. this isn't an upgrade it's a demolition. Let's be clear: the November 2024 version of 4o wasn't just a tool. i..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 31 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Resource constraints โ€ข Transparency & trust โ€ข Alternative AI models
๐Ÿ’ฌ "if it really is about resources, just be transparent about it" โ€ข "We wanted the November 2024 version that actually worked"
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ SAFETY

A minimal formula for AI destiny (Max O subject to D(world,human) โ‰ค ฮต)

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Google announces ยฃ5B AI investment in UK before Trump visit

๐Ÿฅ HEALTHCARE

[P] I build a completely free website to help patients to get secondary opinion on mammogram, loading AI model inside browser and completely local inference without data transfer. Optional LLM-based r

"7 years ago, I posted here my hobby project for mammogram classification (https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/8rdpwy/pi_made_a_gpu_cluster_and_free_website_to_help/) and received a lot of comments. A few days ago, I posted the update of the project but received negative feedbacks due t..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 13 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Model Performance โ€ข Input Quality Control โ€ข Development Practices
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Your model will need some serious work." โ€ข "You need test, train, verification, adversarial, and production datasets."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Fundamental Trade-Off Between Certainty and Scope in Symbolic and Generative AI

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Modeling Attacks on AI-Powered Apps with the AI Kill Chain Framework

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

Transformer Lab now supports training text-to-speech (TTS) models

"https://i.redd.it/s21p6omknkpf1.gif We just shipped text to speech (TTS) support in Transformer Lab. That means you can: * Fine-tune open source TTS models on your own dataset * Clone a voice in one-shot from just a single reference sample * Train & generate speech locally on NVIDIA and AMD G..."
๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

UAE deposited $2 billion in Trump's crypto firm, then two weeks later Trump gave them AI chips

"[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.mE8.mU8m.zjKmCNpVu2Je&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/us/politics/trump-uae-chips-witkoff-world-liberty.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mE8.mU8m.zjKmCNpVu2Je&s..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 124 comments ๐Ÿ˜ค NEGATIVE ENERGY
๐ŸŽฏ Political Corruption โ€ข Democratic Backsliding โ€ข Hypocrisy of "Patriots"
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Trump straight up told oil execs that for $1B in donations they'll get anything they want." โ€ข "That's usually why dictators become dictators everywhere"
๐Ÿ“Š DATA

Hugging Face Releases FinePDFs: A 3T-Token Dataset Built from PDFs

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: LLM Memory Notes โ€“ semantic memory layer for AI agents (MCP)

๐Ÿค– AI MODELS

Google's Gemini tops Apple's App Store, snagging lead spot from ChatGPT

๐Ÿ”ง INFRASTRUCTURE

Hardware and model recommendations for on-prem LLM deployment

"I've delivered a couple of projects using frontier models, but my latest client wants something on-prem for his team of ~10. The application will have a RAG pipeline. Starting with ~100 PDFs. Later I will need to add and some agentic reasoning. Questions: - Which open-source LLM is a good place ..."
๐Ÿ”ง INFRASTRUCTURE

For inference, I'm looking for help to navigate hardware that would support inference across 3 RTX 3090s with the ability to expand to 4 later.

"I'm finding a lot of conflicting information across Reddit, and the scene/meta seems to move so fast! So I apologize if y'all get a *ton* of these kind of questions. With that said, I've got my FormD TD1 with a mini ITX build inside that I used to use as a gaming PC, but I have since recommissioned..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 23 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ GPU configurations โ€ข Workstation/server hardware โ€ข Model inference and scaling
๐Ÿ’ฌ "You can run 8 GPU's at x16 and 16 GPU's at x8." โ€ข "Wealth of info."
๐Ÿ”„ OPEN SOURCE

Apertus: An open, transparent, multilingual language model

๐Ÿ“ˆ BENCHMARKS

[N] Machine Learning Tests Keep Getting Bigger and Nvidia Keeps Beating the Competition on Them

"This year's MLPerf introduced three new benchmark tests (its largest yet, its smallest yet, and a new voice-to-text model), and Nvidia's Blackwell Ultra topped the charts on the two largest benchmarks. https://spectrum.ieee.org/mlperf-inference-51..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: Seedream4 โ€“ Multi-reference, in/out-painting, 4K export

๐Ÿข BUSINESS

Google's AI Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Building a better LLM augmented Search Engine (Blog)

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: Blocks โ€“ Dream work apps and AI agents in minutes

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

AI Agent Development Trends 2025: Insights from 542 Projects

๐Ÿง  NEURAL NETWORKS

[R] NEXUS-EMB-240M-NSA: Compact Embedding Model with Neural Spectral Anchoring

"Working on a 240M parameter embedding model with some unconventional techniques: - Dual-head architecture (semantic + entity processing) - Neural Spectral Anchoring - projecting embeddings into spectral space - Residual hashing bridge for fast retrieval - Edge-optimized design The NSA component is..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: SimKit โ€“ TS framework for testing and running AI agent simulations

๐ŸŒ POLICY

Why one of the most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Learning Approach โ€ข Data vs Wisdom โ€ข Scaling Knowledge
๐Ÿ’ฌ "If you master the ability to learn you'll be able in more novel situations to continue to learn" โ€ข "huge data leads to knowledge without wisdom"
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

LLM Inference Providers โ€“ Recommendations?

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

CodeRabbit's AI Code Reviews Now in Your CLI

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 3 comments ๐Ÿ GOATED ENERGY
๐ŸŽฏ CLI code reviews โ€ข AI-powered code review โ€ข Automated code maintenance
๐Ÿ’ฌ "code reviews in CLI" โ€ข "Having an extra active maintainer (even if ai) just adds a bit of extra confidence"
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: Port42 โ€“ AI agents that build tools from your actual work patterns

๐Ÿ“Š DATA

Anthropic Economic Index: Understanding AI's Effects on the Economy

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

P PSI: New Stanford paper on world models with zero-shot depth & segmentation

"Just saw this new paper from Stanfordโ€™s SNAIL Lab: https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09737 They propose Probabilistic Structure Integration (PSI), a world model architecture that doesnโ€™t just use RGB frames, but also extracts and integrates dept..."
๐ŸŒ ENVIRONMENT

'Revolutionary' AI tools rescue old weather data to improve climate models

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Tel Aviv-based Terra Security, which offers an AI-driven penetration testing platform, raised a $30M Series A led by Felicis, bringing its total funding to $38M

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Infecting Generative AI with Viruses [video]

๐Ÿข BUSINESS

Musk approached Metaโ€™s Zuckerberg for help in xAIโ€™s attempted OpenAI takeover, filing shows | Fortune

"Musk has taken up legal arms against Sam Altmanโ€™s OpenAI, not only trying to acquire it in a hostile takeover, but claim the startup breached its contract."
๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

How the UAE's $2B investment in the Trump family's WLF is tied to the deal letting the UAE's G42 access the US' AI chips, in which David Sacks played a key role

๐Ÿค– AI MODELS

I Built a Multi-Agent Debate Tool Integrating Claude - Does This Improve Answers?

"Iโ€™ve been experimenting with Claude alongside other models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok. Inspired by MIT and Google Brain research on multi-agent debate, I built an app where the modelsย **argue and critique each otherโ€™s responses before producing a final answer**. Itโ€™s surprisingly effective at s..."
๐Ÿ”ง INFRASTRUCTURE

Reducing Cold Start Latency for LLM Inference with NVIDIA Run:AI Model Streamer

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SHOW HN

Show HN: AI Research Environment (AiRE), search/chat ArXiv/Semantic Scholar pprs

โš–๏ธ ETHICS

Disney, Universal, and WBD sue China's MiniMax, alleging that its image- and video-generating service Hailuo AI was built from stolen intellectual property

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

HR software provider Workday agrees to acquire Sana, an AI startup specializing in workplace tools, for $1.1B; the transaction is set to close in Workday's Q4

๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Vendi Information Gain for Active Learning and its Application to Ecology

"While monitoring biodiversity through camera traps has become an important endeavor for ecological research, identifying species in the captured image data remains a major bottleneck due to limited labeling resources. Active learning -- a machine learning paradigm that selects the most informative d..."
๐Ÿ’ผ JOBS

How the AI Boom Is Leaving Consultants Behind - WSJ

"Consultants have a lot to gain helping companies deploy the most transformative technology in decades. Some clients say so far they have overpromised and underdelivered., Consultants have a lot to gai..."
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ SAFETY

Why "AI consciousness" isn't coming anytime soon. (Anil Seth)

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 4 comments ๐Ÿ˜ค NEGATIVE ENERGY
๐ŸŽฏ Definition of intelligence โ€ข Consciousness in AI โ€ข Measuring consciousness
๐Ÿ’ฌ "intelligence is all about doing things, while consciousness is about being or feeling" โ€ข "one can always make up some untestable notion of consciousness"
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Emergent Hierarchical Reasoning in LLMs Through Reinforcement Learning

๐ŸŽฏ PRODUCT

YouTube announces AI tools for podcasters, including one that turns video podcasts into clips and another that creates video for audio-only podcasts

๐Ÿ”ง INFRASTRUCTURE

Countries are struggling to meet the rising energy demands of data centers

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

Cursor has officially gone from โ€œmehโ€ to straight up dangerous.

"I donโ€™t care how many โ€œAI coding assistantโ€ ads they pump out, when a tool randomly changes your code even when you give it a clean, step-by-step .md instruction file, itโ€™s not an assistant, itโ€™s a liability. Iโ€™m talking about: Files getting touched that I *never* asked it to touch Logic rewrit..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 83 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Cursor tool usage โ€ข Version control vs. AI models โ€ข Stable AI experience
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Did you just now realize this" โ€ข "It's genuinely easy"
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

AI coding tools save me timeโ€ฆ but man, the code bloat is real

"Ive been leaning on Cursor/Claude/Copilot a lot recently, and while they save time, my repos feel heavy. Hella heavy. Functions that shouldโ€™ve been extended often get duplicated, helpers get reinvented under a slightly different name, and modularity just starts going away. You might not notice it a..."
๐Ÿ”ง INFRASTRUCTURE

Inference will win ultimately

"inference is where the real value shows up. itโ€™s where models are actually used at scale. A few reasons why I think this is where the winners will be: โ€ขHardware is shifting. Morgan Stanley recently noted that more chips will be dedicated to inference than training in the years ahead. The market is..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 50 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ AI model distribution โ€ข China's national AI strategy โ€ข Inference vs. training costs
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Meta's Llama models alone have crossed over a billion downloads." โ€ข "If OpenAI goes bankrupt over not being able to monopolize LLMs, it will be a huge strategic win for China's national interests."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Multipole Semantic Attention: A Fast Approximation of Softmax Attention for Pretraining

"We present Multipole Semantic Attention (MuSe), an efficient approximation of softmax attention that combines semantic clustering with multipole expansions from computational physics. Our method addresses the quadratic computational complexity of transformers in the context length by clustering quer..."
๐Ÿ”ฌ RESEARCH

Towards Understanding Visual Grounding in Visual Language Models

"Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in various domains, including referring expression comprehensi..."
๐ŸŽจ CREATIVE

The Most insane use of ChatGPT so far.

๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 377 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Jet Ski Escape โ€ข Refugee Crisis โ€ข AI Assistance
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Nothing beats a jet ski holiday!" โ€ข "This is what AI is for (if the story is true)"
๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ SAFETY

The Inventor of the Web Issues a Warning on AI โ€“ Sir Tim Berners-Lee [video]

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers using AI

๐Ÿ’ฌ HackerNews Buzz: 4 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Spam detection methods โ€ข Privacy concerns โ€ข Caller ID spoofing
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Classical classification methods could work while also being more privacy friendly" โ€ข "AT T knows who is paying for the spam calls, even when they forge a caller ID"
๐Ÿš€ STARTUP

Three weeks in Bangalore: observations on India's AI startup ecosystem

๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

Ask HN: Claude file creation/edit feature leading to worse coding performance?

๐Ÿ’ผ JOBS

Fiverr Lays Off 30% of Workforce to Become AI-First Company

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Conceivable Life Sciences, which wants to use AI to automate embryologists' work, raised $50M led by Advance Venture Partners, taking its total funding to $70M

๐Ÿข BUSINESS

Salesforce launches Missionforce, a new business unit focused on incorporating AI into defense workflows concerning personnel, logistics, and decision making

๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

Aura โ€“ Detecting Fake Cell Towers with RF Fingerprinting AI

๐Ÿ“Š DATA

OpenAI just shared what people use ChatGPT for

๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 31 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ ChatGPT usage data โ€ข Therapy/companionship concerns โ€ข Representation of Reddit users
๐Ÿ’ฌ "only 1.9% of ChatGPT messages are on the topic of Relationships and Personal Reflection" โ€ข "Zao-Sanders (2025) is based on a manual collection and labeling of online resources (Reddit, Quora, online articles), and so we believe it likely resulted in an unrepresentative distribution of use cases"
๐Ÿง  NEURAL NETWORKS

Fine-tuning Small Language models/ qwen2.5 0.5 B

"I've been up all week trying to fine-tune a small language model using Unsloth, and I've experimented with RAG. I generated around 1,500 domain-specific questions, but my LLM is still hallucinating. Below is a summary of my training setup and data distribution: * **Epochs**: 20 (training stops arou..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 13 comments ๐Ÿ BUZZING
๐ŸŽฏ Optimal hyperparameters โ€ข Limitations of finetuning โ€ข Choosing appropriate models
๐Ÿ’ฌ "your epochs are overkill ,(2-4) is optimal for most use cases" โ€ข "it is almost impossible to teach a model something new (knowledge) using LoRa"
๐Ÿ”ง INFRASTRUCTURE

Single Install for GGUF Across CPU/GPU/NPU - Goodbye Multiple Builds

"**Problem** AI developers need flexibility and simplicity when running and developing with local models, yet popular on-device runtimes such as llama.cpp and Ollama still often fall short: * Separate installers for CPU, GPU, and NPU * Conflicting APIs and function signatures * NPU-optimized forma..."
๐Ÿ’ฌ Reddit Discussion: 14 comments ๐Ÿ‘ LOWKEY SLAPS
๐ŸŽฏ Qualcomm NPU license โ€ข Compatibility with other AI platforms โ€ข Qualcomm user experiences
๐Ÿ’ฌ "Why does the Qualcomm NPU require a license key?" โ€ข "Does it work with ryzenAI as well?"
โšก BREAKTHROUGH

gpt-5-codex made a playable doom replica in html in one shot

"I try every new model with this simple prompt. Gpt-5-codex is the first model that succeeded. prompt: \`\`\` write simple doom / wolfenstein demo with ray-tracing in simple html + js. One level, so i can move and shoot. \`\`\` The idea is I don't want to write a structured, complex prompt; ..."
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ TOOLS

I built a package to deploy any local model & make it accessible online โ€” looking for contributors (Torrent Like p2p Protocol )

"Hey folks, I just hacked together something Iโ€™m really excited about โ€” connectit.chatit. Itโ€™s a lightweight package that lets you: * Deploy **any local model** (LLM, image generator, whatever) with just a few lines of code. * Expose it via a si..."
๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY

New survey on deepfake detection highlights a $39M corporate fraud and warns detection may never keep up with generation

"A recent academic survey reviews the current landscape of autonomous deepfake detection. It covers methods across video, images, audio, text, and even real-time streams, from CNNs and RNNs to GAN fingerprinting, multimodal audio-visual checks, and biometric cues. It also compares datasets (FaceForen..."
๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Swedish AI Startup Sana to Be Acquired by Workday for $1.1bn

๐Ÿ”ฎ FUTURE

A minimal formula for AI destiny (Max O subject to D(world,human) โ‰ค ฮต)

๐Ÿ’ฐ FUNDING

Lila Sciences raised a $235M Series A to build scientific superintelligence

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