Apple sued OpenAI for stealing hardware secrets, OpenAI has now published messages suggesting Apple itself kept using a former engineer after he left. Dramaaa!!
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Apple sued OpenAI for stealing hardware secrets, OpenAI has now published messages suggesting Apple itself kept using a former engineer after he left. Dramaaa!!

The messages appear to show Apple employees asking Chang Liu to locate internal files, explain product decisions and help with technical questions weeks after his departure. One Apple employee wrote: “ Of course, I could ask several folks, but you are the best. Even if you don’t work here anymore. ” OpenAI also says Apple falsely claimed it had contacted the company and received no response. The emails show Apple’s outside lawyer mistakenly thanked OpenAI’s General Counsel for a phone c...
New Leader in the GPQA-Dumb Model Benchmark
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New Leader in the GPQA-Dumb Model Benchmark

Introducing Bongochat, the current leader globally in the GPQA-Dumb category, where the lower the score the higher it’s weighted. Repo/open-weights: https://github.com/ninjahawk/bongochat When asked to solve the unified field theory, it repeats the word theory back to you 50 times. It doesn’t remember anything. When solving the Math-500, it didn’t realize it was supposed to answer the questions so they were basically all blank, besides that it always did A. For coding it got 0/500. ...
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The Youth AI Privacy Act's Privacy Paradox

Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/youth-ai-privacy-acts-privacy-paradox Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164224 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: How are you operating OSS AI infrastructure?

There are many open-source projects across inference, orchestration, observability, vector search, data pipelines, evaluation, and model management. Most are relatively easy to test, but production operation is a different problem. For those running open-source AI infrastructure in production: * What open-source AI technologies are you using? * Where are you running them? * What challenges are you facing? - cost, GPU availability, security, manageability, or something else Thanks Comments UR...
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How to groth hack in AI era

Just a simple question. I'm an engineer but started marketing for my product, and didn't work well. Can I gain some tips that you'd worked with, and how you succeeded? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164757 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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China gets better bang for its buck than America in AI

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/08/03/how-china-gets-better-bang-for-its-buck-than-america-in-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165100 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Six Problems When You Try to Build an AI Therapist

Article URL: https://emilylee293105.substack.com/p/six-problems-when-you-try-to-build Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165140 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Trump's AI protectionism has come for robotics

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/03/1141056/trumps-ai-protectionism-has-come-for-robotics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165171 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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AI Futures Model: Timelines and Takeoff

Article URL: https://www.aifuturesmodel.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165478 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Thoughts on use of AI slop in politics?

There’s clearly a rise in AI generated campaign content in politics, as well as influencers. Spencer Pratt’s LA campaign was an example and some of his videos went viral. What are your thoughts on the use of AI generated content in politics and political campaigns? There isn’t a lot of data that it’s affecting fair elections, so more of a question of how we see the use evolving long term. Rising phenomenon of AI political influencers: https://www.sovalsocial.com/blog/fact-check-are-ai-ge...
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AI First Ethical Code

Article URL: https://lastcopy.ai/code/70 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162497 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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Ask HN: Does AI research need "world models" more than bigger LLMs?

It seems that generating hypotheses is no longer the main problem. The harder problem may be continuously collecting real-world data, building accurate world models, and using them to guide experiments. Is this where automated research is heading? Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162887 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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AI Stocks with a Clear Enterprise Software Edge in 2026

Article URL: https://simplywall.st/stocks/ca/software/tsx-dcbo/docebo-shares/news/ai-stocks-with-a-clear-enterprise-software-edge-in-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163101 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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AI's Manifesto War

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/02/ai-manifesto-open-weight-models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163120 Points: 2 # Comments: 1