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AI, Crypto and DEI Drove Marc Andreessen to MAGA

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-15/how-ai-crypto-and-dei-drove-marc-andreessen-to-maga Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112366 Points: 13 # Comments: 19
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Zombie AI Trend

Article URL: https://www.zombieai.co Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112964 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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$24,000 AI experiment ports TypeScript compiler to Rust

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/10/15/24000-ai-experiment-ports-typescript-compiler-to-rust/5303409 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113643 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Linus Torvalds on "don't use AI for X"

Article URL: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whTs09_ozN+e09GU68N1wPP56MUzDjrg9rnKxQUa0A_4Q@mail.gmail.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113790 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work

President Donald Trump posted a series of photos on Truth Social showing off renovations to the White House - but one of them appears to be modified with AI. The picture, which compares an old White House column to a "restored" one, has several discrepancies and was flagged by Google's AI detector as "made or […]
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The tech backlash is now in theaters

Though movies about disruptive tech founders are nothing new, 2026 has been unusually stacked with features that take a much more critical look at how Silicon Valley is reshaping our reality. Aaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning frames Mark Zuckerberg as a robotic villain whose ambitions are destabilizing society. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's You Can […]
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Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster from sale following disastrous launch

Sega is removing Total War: Shogun 2 - Complete Edition from storefronts following a disastrous launch where users complained about issues like bugs and upscaling that appears to have been done by AI. Complete Edition, a remaster of the 2011 strategy game, launched on Tuesday, and it bundled the main game and all of its […]
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ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now

OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas browser is gone, but now ChatGPT's Google Chrome extension is getting some upgrades that allow it to use the browser tabs you already have open. With the extension installed, OpenAI says ChatGPT can now view your browser tabs when you tag Chrome in ChatGPT's web or desktop app, posting a demo video […]
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Steam can now show game achievements in separate ‘sets’

Valve is introducing a major new feature for Steam achievements called "achievement sets" that lets developers list different groups of achievements for a base game and DLCs. "In games that support sets, you still unlock achievements by playing the game as usual," Valve says. "But when you browse what you have unlocked afterward, Steam will […]