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A lot of civilian tech started out for military use: rockets, Teflon (kind of), nuclear power (arguably), weather forecasting. There was a recent discussion about how much the CIA invested in NeXT. Now I look at OpenAI and Anthropic. They seem to build civilian products first and only later rent them out for military purposes / national security. Why not the other way around, military technology adapted for civilian use? It seems to me there is a lot of application. Robots, drones, surveillance....

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Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-speaking-cybercriminals-used-spacexs-cursor-ai-tool-hack-seven-companies-2026-08-27/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466018 Points: 5 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://forgeeks.net/nvidia-673-billion-ai-growth-forecast/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466052 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/meta-anthropic-frenemies.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466201 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

Hi folks, Alex here from ThunderPhone. Today we're launching v2. Voice AI has been a hot topic for the past year or two, both for automating phone calls and for adding voice features to apps. Most of the voice agents deployed have been using a "3 step pipeline": a transcription model to turn user speech into text, an LLM to generate a response in text, and a TTS model to turn the response text into audio. But the performance of these 3-step voice agents has often been so-so, largely for 3 reason...

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Article URL: https://blog.mega.io/how-to-opt-out-of-ai-training Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466365 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Article URL: https://kinopipe.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49466493 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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