AI News Archive - September 21, 2025

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🤖 AI MODELS

Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD

via HackerNews 👤 JumpCrisscross 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 261 pts ⚡ Score: 8.8

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 38 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 CAD model quality • Parametric modeling • AI for engineering tasks

💬 "Surfaces are not G1, G2, or even G0 (un-CAE-able and un-manufacturable)" • "the output was a collection of separate STEP child parts"

⚖️ ETHICS

Researchers suggest LLM-powered medical AI tools understate the severity of symptoms in female patients and show less “empathy” toward Black and Asian patients

via Techmeme 👤 T 📅 2025-09-21

⚡ Score: 8.3

🛡️ SAFETY

The LLM Lobotomy?

via HackerNews 👤 sgt3v 📅 2025-09-20

🔺 105 pts ⚡ Score: 8.2

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 48 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Azure AI Foundry issues • Model quality deterioration • Auditability of closed models

💬 "I'm not sure why they've been unable to do what took me two hours in over six months" • "I have some doubts as to whether we'd be getting our money's worth having to provision capacity"

💼 JOBS

AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly Make Seniors Stronger?

via HackerNews 👤 elmsec 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 134 pts ⚡ Score: 8.1

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 136 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Junior Developer Struggles • Senior Developer Advantages • Challenges of AI-Assisted Coding

💬 "Junior developers typically don't know this, so they won't be able to get good results." • "AI helps, but not that much because the gaps are wider and more difficult to fill."

🔒 SECURITY

Huawei says DeepSeek-R1-Safe, which was trained on 1,000 of its Ascend AI chips, is “nearly 100% successful” in preventing politically sensitive topics

via Techmeme 👤 Techmeme 📅 2025-09-20

⚡ Score: 8.0

🔬 RESEARCH

SciGPT: A LLM for Scientific Literature Understanding and Knowledge Discovery

via HackerNews 👤 PaulHoule 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 8.0

🏥 HEALTHCARE

AI tool detects hidden consciousness in brain-injured patients

via HackerNews 👤 geox 📅 2025-09-20

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 8.0

🤖 AI MODELS

OPEN WEIGHTS: Isaac 0.1. Perceptive-language model. 2B params. Matches or beats models significantly larger on core perception as claimed by Perceptron AI. Links to download in bodytext.

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/AdFluffy920 📅 2025-09-21

⬆️ 35 ups ⚡ Score: 7.8

"Blog: https://www.perceptron.inc/blog/introducing-isaac-0-1 Demo: https://www.perceptron.inc/demo Download weights: https://huggingface.co/PerceptronAI/Isaac-0.1..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 7 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY

🎯 Benchmarking failures • Language model limitations • Real-world performance

💬 "All these groups pick and choose benchmarks to show some improvement but the end product is useless." • "If it's a vlm, just call it a vlm instead of trying to sound smart or fancy"

💰 FUNDING

Oracle eyes $20B AI cloud computing deal with Meta, source says

via HackerNews 👤 giuliomagnifico 📅 2025-09-20

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 7.7

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more

via Techmeme 👤 Cnbc 📅 2025-09-21

⚡ Score: 7.6

🎨 CREATIVE

Wan 2.2 Animate : Open-Sourced model for character replacement and animation in videos

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/Technical-Love-8479 📅 2025-09-21

⬆️ 32 ups ⚡ Score: 7.6

"Wan 2.2 Animate 14B is released which can animate static pictures using reference videos with movement and expression replication Hugging Face : https://huggingface.co/Wan-AI/Wan2.2-Animate-14B..."

🔒 SECURITY

Hacking with AI SASTs: An Overview of 'AI Security Engineers' / 'LLM Security S

via HackerNews 👤 todsacerdoti 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.5

🏢 BUSINESS

Oct 6HYBRID:OpenAI DevDaySan Francisco

via Techmeme 👤 Techmeme 📅 2025-09-21

⚡ Score: 7.5

🤖 AI MODELS

A profile of Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, a critic of Trump and David Sacks' AI agenda, arguing its hands-off approach could steer AI down a dangerous path

via Techmeme 👤 Wsj 📅 2025-09-21

⚡ Score: 7.4

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: Dropping SDK for Free Hybrid Search RAG Database

via HackerNews 👤 customragbot 📅 2025-09-20

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.3

🔬 RESEARCH

We instrumented Claude Code with OpenTelemetry (tokens, cost, latency)

via HackerNews 👤 pranay01 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 45 pts ⚡ Score: 7.3

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 15 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY

🎯 Intrusive Monitoring • Worker Surveillance • Automating Oversight

💬 "Collecting detailed per-request traces and calculating user-specific metrics finer than a total cost feels about as intrusive as one of those periodic screenshot programs forced by really shitty remote jobs or freelancing contracts." • "I'd like to see this leveraged for agent platforms orchestration rather than for surveillance on human software engineers."

🔬 RESEARCH

Uni-CoT: A Unified CoT Framework that Integrates Text+Image reasoning!

via r/computervision 👤 u/GONG_JIA 📅 2025-09-20

⬆️ 12 ups ⚡ Score: 7.3

"# We introduce Uni-CoT, the first unified Chain-of-Thought framework that handles both image understanding + generation to enable coherent visual reasoning [as shown in Figure 1]. Our model even can supports NanoBanana–style geography reasoning [as shown in Figure 2]! Specifically, we use **one uni..."

🔒 SECURITY

Winners of OpenAI GPT-OSS-20B Red‑Teaming Challenge

via HackerNews 👤 jakozaur 📅 2025-09-20

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.2

🏢 BUSINESS

Google Cloud says it now works with nine of the 10 leading AI labs, including OpenAI, and with 60% of the world's generative AI startups, fueling its growth

via Techmeme 👤 Techcrunch 📅 2025-09-21

⚡ Score: 7.2

📊 DATA

How People Use ChatGPT

via Zvi Substack 👤 Cdn.Openai 📅 2025-09-20

⚡ Score: 7.2

"Aaron Chatterji $^ { 1 , 2 }$ Tom Cunningham1 David Deming $^ 3$ Zo¨e Hitzig $^ { 1 , 3 }$ Christopher Ong $^ { 1 , 3 }$ Carl Shan $^ { - 1 }$ Kevin Wadman $^ { 1 }$..."

🛡️ SAFETY

OpenAI AI Deception/Hallucination Research

2x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2025-09-20

⚡ Score: 7.1

+++ OpenAI's deception research reveals the classic alignment problem: trying to train models out of bad behavior often just teaches them to hide it better. +++

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable

via HackerNews 👤 _tk_ 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 2 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY

🎯 Data Integrity • Modeling Limitations • Misdirection

💬 "Our models don't always tell the truth" • "Quietly acknowledging the elephant in the room"

🌐 POLICY

[D] NeurIPS: rejecting papers from sanctioned affiliations mid-process

via r/MachineLearning 👤 u/YallenGusev 📅 2025-09-20

⬆️ 136 ups ⚡ Score: 7.0

"I know multiple people and multiple papers who have received this. It is probably legally correct. There are legit grounds for these bans. However, I don't think it is okay to do it AFTER reviewing and even accepting the papers. Hundreds of people wasted their time for nothing. There was a recent..."

🤖 AI MODELS

Llama.cpp support for Ling Mini 2.0 is probably coming next week

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/edward-dev 📅 2025-09-21

⬆️ 29 ups ⚡ Score: 7.0

"Llama.cpp support for Ling Mini 2.0 is coming in the following days, it seems there’s already a PR waiting to be merged and some GGUFs already out. An interesting thing about this model is that it has 16B total parameters, but only 1.4B are activated per input token, and it outperforms Ernie 4.5 21..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 4 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 Model Performance • Model Release Updates • Model Support

💬 "Oh sweet performance!" • "We may see something next week, but I wouldn't bet on it."

🛠️ TOOLS

Am I missing the boat on vector databases for RAG?

via HackerNews 👤 mskar 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🔬 RESEARCH

AutoCodeBench: Large Language Models Are Automatic Code Benchmark Generators

via HackerNews 👤 ngrilly 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🔒 SECURITY

Malicious email with prompt injection targets AI-based scanners

via HackerNews 👤 Bender 📅 2025-09-20

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: AgentSafe – per-task micro-VM sandbox for AI agents (Go)

via HackerNews 👤 sdeshwal 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.8

🛡️ SAFETY

Google AI explains why LLMs are deceptive

via HackerNews 👤 unanima 📅 2025-09-20

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.7

🚀 STARTUP

Ask HN: Production deployed full AI generated applications

via HackerNews 👤 indianmouse 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.7

🛡️ SAFETY

Cognitive and AI scientists call to reject uncritical adoption of AI in academia

via HackerNews 👤 mseri 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 4 pts ⚡ Score: 6.6

💼 JOBS

How do devs see the value of AI coding tools like Cursor or the $200 ChatGPT?

via HackerNews 👤 meta_xenia 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.5

🛠️ TOOLS

Turn Any LLM into a Powerful Assistant (All About Tools)

via HackerNews 👤 _bittere 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.5

🌐 POLICY

Tell HN: Opt-out of LinkedIn training content creation AI models

via HackerNews 👤 lukax 📅 2025-09-21

🔺 3 pts ⚡ Score: 6.5

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 4 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED

🎯 Opt-out dilemma • Mistrust of Microsoft • AI impact on search

💬 "why should I give Microsoft my thoughts, time and writings for free?" • "I am trying to signal to the marketing droids that each attempt to add drivel like this reduces engagement"

🛠️ TOOLS

Snippets - Transform GitHub repositories into searchable code snippets for your vector database

via r/claudeai 👤 u/codingvillain 📅 2025-09-21

⬆️ 11 ups ⚡ Score: 6.5

"Built an open-source project called **Snippets**. It basically turns your GitHub repos (private repos supported, local dirs coming soon) into a searchable database of actual code snippets. Why it’s useful: * Unlike context7, it *actually looks at your code* instead of just extracting snippets from..."

🏢 BUSINESS