AI News Archive - September 28, 2025

🛠️ TOOLS

The AI coding trap

via HackerNews 👤 chrisloy 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 529 pts ⚡ Score: 8.8

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 336 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Vibing vs. traditional coding • AI-assisted coding challenges • Impact on learning and education

💬 "This opens up coding to non devs, e.g. product managers." • "AI is going to end up doing 95% of our work for us."

🧠 NEURAL NETWORKS

Analog in-memory computing attention mechanism for fast energy-efficient LLMs

via HackerNews 👤 physarum_salad 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 3 pts ⚡ Score: 8.2

🛠️ TOOLS

ArchGW 🚀 - Use Ollama-based LLMs with Anthropic client (release 0.3.13)

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/AdditionalWeb107 📅 2025-09-28

⬆️ 3 ups ⚡ Score: 8.0

"I just added support for cross-client streaming ArchGW 0.3.13, which lets you call Ollama compatible models through the Anthropic-clients (via the`/v1/messages` API). With Anthropic becoming popular (and a default) for many developers now this gives them n..."

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

OpenAI executives working on Stargate say that it costs about $50B to build a data center with roughly 1 GW of capacity, with $35B going toward AI chips

via Techmeme 👤 Bloomberg 📅 2025-09-27

⚡ Score: 8.0

💰 FUNDING

Experts warn that Nvidia's large investments in data centers and startups, almost like a stimulus program, could be artificially inflating demand for its GPUs

via Techmeme 👤 Theinformation 📅 2025-09-28

⚡ Score: 8.0

🚗 AUTOMOTIVE

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K

via Techmeme 👤 Nytimes 📅 2025-09-27

⚡ Score: 7.8

🔒 SECURITY

Leaked Meta internal document shows updated training protocols for its AI chatbot to refuse any prompts involving sexual roleplay with minors

via Techmeme 👤 Businessinsider 📅 2025-09-27

⚡ Score: 7.8

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

LLM Observability in the Wild – Why OpenTelemetry Should Be the Standard

via HackerNews 👤 pranay01 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 109 pts ⚡ Score: 7.8

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 31 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 OpenTelemetry Compatibility • LLM Observability Vendors • Observability Challenges

💬 "Saying OpenInference is not otel compatible does not make any sense." • "We've invested heavily in observability having quickly found that observability + evals are the cornerstone to a successful agent."

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

For llama.cpp/ggml AMD MI50s are now universally faster than NVIDIA P40s

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/Remove_Ayys 📅 2025-09-27

⬆️ 445 ups ⚡ Score: 7.8

"In 2023 I implemented llama.cpp/ggml CUDA support specifically for NVIDIA P40s since they were one of the cheapest options for GPUs with 24 GB VRAM. Recently AMD MI50s became very cheap options for GPUs with 32 GB VRAM, selling for well below $150 if you order multiple of them off of Alibaba. Howeve..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 130 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Sponsorship & Funding • GPU Optimization • Community Engagement

💬 "Congrats on the sponsorship, well deserved!" • "I'm sure I'm not the only guy who would happily sponsor a few bucks a month for your work on amd platforms"

🏢 BUSINESS

OpenAI's historic week has redefined the AI arms race for investors

via HackerNews 👤 rntn 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 7.7

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

AI Needs a Lot of Computing Power. Is a Market for 'Compute' the Next Big Thing?

via HackerNews 👤 ryan_j_naughton 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 4 pts ⚡ Score: 7.6

🛠️ TOOLS

Holy moly what did those madlads at llama cpp do?!!

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/Similar-Republic149 📅 2025-09-28

⬆️ 115 ups ⚡ Score: 7.5

"I just ran gpt oss 20b on my mi50 32gb and im getting 90tkps !?!?!? before it was around 40 . ./llama-bench -m /home/server/.lmstudio/models/lmstudio-community/gpt-oss-20b-GGUF/gpt-oss-20b-MXFP4.gguf -ngl 999 -fa on -mg 1 -dev Vulkan1 load\_backend: loaded RPC backend from /home/server/Desktop/L..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 43 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 GPU Performance • LLaMA Model Efficiency • Upgrade Debate

💬 "insane boost... looks like they squeezed every drop out of vulkan" • "Comparing thousands of dollars worth of mac vs $200 server grade gpu"

🛠️ TOOLS

Lessons from building an intelligent LLM router

via HackerNews 👤 botirk 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.5

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: I built an AI Colosseum to battle-test different agent architectures

via HackerNews 👤 aytuakarlar 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 7.5

🔒 SECURITY

ChatGPT Safety Model Routing Issues

3x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2025-09-28

⚡ Score: 7.5

+++ ChatGPT users discover their conversations now route through secret psychoanalysis models, turning AI assistance into unwanted therapy sessions. +++

The 'rollback' is, in fact, not a rollback

via r/ChatGPT 👤 u/OctaviaZamora 📅 2025-09-28

⬆️ 75 ups ⚡ Score: 7.8

">In case you missed it: ever since about \~56 hours ago, ChatGPT has been rerouting conversations in 4o, 4.5, and 5 Instant through safety models. This resulted in being unable to work with ChatGPT at all, not just for people who tried to discuss sensitive topics. As of \~10 hours ago, OpenAI pre..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 20 comments 😐 MID OR MIXED

🎯 Distrust in OpenAI • Lack of transparency • User rights and expectations

💬 "We paid for a specific product, not for a black-box lottery with random personality changes and surprise safety interventions." • "They're gaslighting their own community, treating us like we can't see the difference."

4o is NOT back

via r/ChatGPT 👤 u/Dazzling-Yam-1151 📅 2025-09-28

⬆️ 282 ups ⚡ Score: 6.5

"Not everyone seems to notice because they 'gave us back' 4o, but it's a watered down version. They must have seen the backlash online and decide to give us back some scraps, hoping we wouldn't notice. It is absolutely not like the old 4o. It also doesn't seem to carry cross chat memory anymore. I ..."

OpenAI Is Now Psychoanalyzing 700M+ People (Including You) In Realtime

via r/ChatGPT 👤 u/Financial-Sweet-4648 📅 2025-09-28

⬆️ 1397 ups ⚡ Score: 6.5

"What I really just can’t get over, now that we know OpenAI developed a secret internal AI model (GPT-5-Safety) to live-psychoanalyze and judge its 700M+ users on a message-by-message basis…is the fact that OpenAI LITERALLY developed a secret internal model to live-psychoanalyze all of us in realtime..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 566 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 AI user rights • Psychological profiling • Corporate data monetization

💬 "The difference isn't that OpenAI is doing psychological analysis, it's that someone finally called it what it is" • "If we're going to demand AI user rights (which we should), let's demand them from ALL the companies"

🛡️ SAFETY

DeepMind AI safety report explores the perils of “misaligned” AI

via r/artificial 👤 u/F0urLeafCl0ver 📅 2025-09-28

⬆️ 16 ups ⚡ Score: 7.2

"External link discussion - see full content at original source."

🌐 POLICY

U.S. Military AI Weapons Deployment Issues

2x SOURCES 🌐 📅 2025-09-27

⚡ Score: 7.1

+++ Turns out integrating complex AI systems into military hardware involves more than just adding "smart" to the product name and calling it a day. +++

U.S. Military Struggling to Deploy AI Weapons

via HackerNews 👤 bookofjoe 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 11 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

US Military struggling to deploy AI weapons

via HackerNews 👤 gsf_emergency_2 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 38 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 28 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY

🎯 Drone warfare expertise • US military contracts • Weapon technology advancement

💬 "Ukraine's homegrown drones have become increasingly lethal" • "The US needs Ukraine to exist and not be annexed by Russia"

🎨 CREATIVE

Stable Diffusion Online – Free AI Art Generator

via HackerNews 👤 yuyu74189w 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🛠️ TOOLS

DSPy: AI Prompting Tool You've Never Heard of [video]

via HackerNews 👤 mooreds 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🛠️ TOOLS

The AI Engineer's Guide to LLM Observability with OpenTelemetry

via HackerNews 👤 resiros 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 7.0

🔬 RESEARCH

[D] Machine learning research no longer feels possible for any ordinary individual. It is amazing that this field hasn't collapsed yet.

via r/MachineLearning 👤 u/NeighborhoodFatCat 📅 2025-09-28

⚡ Score: 7.0

"Imagine you're someone who is attempting to dip a toe into ML research in 2025. Say, a new graduate student. You say to yourself "I want to do some research today". Very quickly you realize the following: **Who's my competition?** Just a handful of billion-dollar tech giants, backed by some of th..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 33 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Challenges in ML Research • Specialization in ML Research • Motivations for Pursuing ML Research

💬 "Without access to data and expensive telescope time, and a group of people to exchange ideas with you won't get far." • "The barrier to entry is much much higher and there isn't room for a broad focus."

🛠️ TOOLS

Kooder: Autonomous AI agents that build, test, and deploy complete web apps

via HackerNews 👤 ahmedatef61 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.9

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

Building a Serverless WASM AI Runtime in Rust [video]

via HackerNews 👤 todsacerdoti 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.8

🔮 FUTURE

The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh

via HackerNews 👤 baobun 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 98 pts ⚡ Score: 6.8

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 85 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 AI industry economics • Impact of AI bubble burst • Organizing against AI proliferation

💬 "Why would you, when investors continue to throw money at you to scale?" • "If job numbers started suddenly improving and the unemployment rate dropping, it could be taken to mean that AI is not going to replace everyone after all."

💰 FUNDING

AI boom is unsustainable unless tech spending goes 'parabolic'

via HackerNews 👤 doener 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 3 pts ⚡ Score: 6.7

💰 FUNDING

Are We in an A.I. Bubble? I Suspect So

via HackerNews 👤 paulpauper 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 53 pts ⚡ Score: 6.7

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 56 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 AI infrastructure costs • AI bubble and impact • Varying perspectives on AI bubble

💬 "the infrastructure is not going away" • "the actual value creation from railroads was in the land itself"

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: Open-Source Semantic AI Chat Search – 100% Locally

via HackerNews 👤 siv_io_ 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.5

🛠️ SHOW HN

Show HN: macOS Local AI Dictation Software

via HackerNews 👤 explosion-s 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.5

🔬 RESEARCH

Metacognitive Reuse: Turning Recurring LLM Reasoning into Concise Behaviors

via HackerNews 👤 Anon84 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 2 pts ⚡ Score: 6.5

🛠️ TOOLS

How developers are using Apple's local AI models with iOS 26

via HackerNews 👤 mooreds 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.5

🔒 SECURITY

Openai has been caught doing illegal

via r/ChatGPT 👤 u/Striking-Tour-8815 📅 2025-09-27

⬆️ 2135 ups ⚡ Score: 6.5

" Tibor the same engineer who leaked earlier today that OpenAI had already built a parental control and an ads UI and were just waiting for rollout has just confirmed: Yes, both 4 and 5 models are being routed to TWO secret backend models if it judges anything is remotely sensitive or emotional, or..."

🔮 FUTURE

The big world hypothesis and its ramifications for AI

via HackerNews 👤 andsoitis 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.4

🔧 INFRASTRUCTURE

MetalQwen3: Full GPU-Accelerated Qwen3 Inference on Apple Silicon with Metal Shaders – Built on qwen3.c - WORK IN PROGRESS

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/QuanstScientist 📅 2025-09-27

⬆️ 77 ups ⚡ Score: 6.2

"Hey r/LocalLLaMA, Inspired by Adrian Cable's awesome qwen3.c project (that simple, educational C inference engine for Qwen3 models – check out the original post here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1lpejnj/qwen3\_inference\_engine\_in\_c\_simple\_educational\_fun/](https://www.reddit..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 9 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 New architecture • Performance comparison • Project complexity

💬 "Why not trying to pull req llamacpp if you have something faster/better?" • "A C++ project is always a bit complex, I can certainly think about it."

🤖 AI MODELS

AI model trapped in a Raspberry Pi

via HackerNews 👤 harel 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 121 pts ⚡ Score: 6.2

🛠️ TOOLS

I created a simple tool to manage your llama.cpp settings & installation

via r/LocalLLaMA 👤 u/igorwarzocha 📅 2025-09-28

⬆️ 27 ups ⚡ Score: 6.2

"Yo! I was messing around with my configs etc and noticed it was a massive pain to keep it all in one place... So I vibecoded this thing. https://github.com/IgorWarzocha/llama\_cpp\_manager A zero-bs configuration tool for llama.cpp that runs in y..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 7 comments 🐝 BUZZING

🎯 Llama-swap usage • Docker setup • CLI tool features

💬 "llama-swap doesnt swap ports though, it just handles model loads/unloads automatically" • "You know what, I just had a brilliant idea. Since the tool already grabs the output of -h command and saves it to an .md file..."

🔒 SECURITY

Health Data Sovereignty: AI Access Control for Personal Data [video]

via HackerNews 👤 transpute 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 1 pts ⚡ Score: 6.2

🔒 SECURITY

AI Cloud Firm Northern Data Raided by German Investigators

via HackerNews 👤 1vuio0pswjnm7 📅 2025-09-28

🔺 3 pts ⚡ Score: 6.2

💰 FUNDING

AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

via HackerNews 👤 smartmic 📅 2025-09-27

🔺 24 pts ⚡ Score: 6.2

💬 HackerNews Buzz: 14 comments 👍 LOWKEY SLAPS

🎯 AI's impact on productivity • AI bubble and market dynamics • Skepticism towards AI hype

💬 "We expect productivity gains from artificial intelligence (AI) to boost GDP" • "AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US [stock market from crashing]"

🛡️ SAFETY

If you believe advanced AI will be able to cure cancer, you also have to believe it will be able to synthesize pandemics. To believe otherwise is just wishful thinking.

via r/artificial 👤 u/katxwoods 📅 2025-09-28

⬆️ 2 ups ⚡ Score: 6.0

"When someone says a global AGI ban would be impossible to enforce, they sometimes seem to be imagining that states: 1. Won't believe theoretical arguments about extreme, unprecedented *risks* 2. But *will* believe theoretical arguments about extreme, unprecedented *benefits* Intelligence is dual u..."

💬 Reddit Discussion: 3 comments 😤 NEGATIVE ENERGY

🎯 Pandemic Creation Capabilities • Technological Duality • Responsibility of Technology

💬 "if it could cure cancer it could create pandemics" • "We can definitely create pandemics"

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