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Uber cuts AI costs even as usage jumps

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/ai-uber-spending Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49465468 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: Why is AI civil tech and not military first?

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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Meta projected to spend $10B on Anthropic AI

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
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Show HN: ThunderPhone v2 – a new architecture for voice AI

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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Adobe is adding more AI to Photoshop

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LangChain-AI/deepagents: agent harness

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Should the Press 'Run Toward' AI?

Article URL: https://www.cjr.org/analysis/should-the-press-run-toward-ai-tom-rosenstiel-new-book-next-journalism-how-press-must-change-serve-democracy.php Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462305 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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OpenAI's rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/985385/openais-rogue-ai-model-hugging-face-cybersecurity-incident-reports-metr Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462329 Points: 4 # Comments: 2
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Show HN: AI LinkedIn Message Personalisation

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The Current State of AI Chips

Article URL: https://openrating.io/blog/current-state-of-ai-chips Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49462516 Points: 1 # Comments: 0