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AI's Wildest Spenders Are Hitting the Accelerator

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-07-31/ai-s-massive-spenders-google-meta-and-oracle-are-only-getting-started Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126927 Points: 5 # Comments: 2
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Did Situational Awareness inflate the AI bubble?

Article URL: https://www.yetanothervalueblog.com/p/did-situational-awareness-inflate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127199 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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AI companies destroy rare and non recoverable physical books

Article URL: https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/26422014.library-alexandria-burns-ai-companies-destroying-books-bulk/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127284 Points: 40 # Comments: 49
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World Models Are AI's Next Frontier

Article URL: https://time.com/article/2026/07/15/world-models-are-ai-s-next-frontier/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127378 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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I use AI on this blog

Article URL: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/07/ai-use Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127589 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
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Big Tech Holds $2.4T of Spending Commitments for AI Boom

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/big-tech-holds-2-trillion-of-spending-commitments-for-ai-boom Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127592 Points: 3 # Comments: 2
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Lookup Tables Could Cut AI Energy Costs

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-energy-weightless-neural-networks Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127636 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Ask HN: What's your monthly personal AI budget?

Just wondering how much everyone is spending on AI each month personally - not employer-paid or work subscriptions. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127681 Points: 2 # Comments: 2
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Sqlite.ai Pricing

Article URL: https://www.sqlite.ai/pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127831 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Looking for an AI music generator

Hey everyone! I’m looking for an AI music generator. What I’m looking for specifically: long track duration(the longer the better), no breaks, pauses or any distractions, instrumental only, no vocal needed, Text to Music system, so I can use prompt as a description for what track I need. Does anyone know a tool, model, or workflow that fits this description best right now? Appreciate any suggestions:)
I watched El — PhD in Computer Science, runs House of El: AI — say something on The Tech Report that described my actual week better than I could have.
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I watched El — PhD in Computer Science, runs House of El: AI — say something on The Tech Report that described my actual week better than I could have.

AI was supposed to take the tedious stuff off my plate. Instead I got a second job: checking whether the first job's output can be trusted. Nobody renamed my title for it. Nobody budgeted for it. Teachers doing this for cheating detection. Developers doing it line by line for bugs that look legitimate. Same shape, different desk. Here's what actually stuck with me — verifying something well takes more expertise than doing it yourself would have. So if you still need someone that go...
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What do you think about AI companions ?

AI we have not pretty good and Im pretty sure fine-tuned ai models can be very good companions/ friends What do you guys think about ai companions ? would you use it to counter loneliness ? If you use it then what do you think what are the features that you would want in a platform for ai companions ? Im collecting opinions and suggestions for the project Im working, so thank you for sharing your views on ai companions :) [link] ...
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Path Forward for LLMs

AI models can only learn during their batch training runs not from daily interactions with users. Session memory isn’t the same as actual learning. There’s also no core “truth” layer in these systems: no deterministic backbone, no real understanding of concepts, and no explicit dictionary or knowledge store they can reference, cross-check, or update. A dynamic knowledge graph could help fix a lot of this. It would lower hallucinations and improve performance in high-stakes fields like medici...
The World Cup exposed the biggest challenge for AI prediction is uncertainty
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The World Cup exposed the biggest challenge for AI prediction is uncertainty

The 2026 World Cup has once again confirmed that football is one of the most unpredictable sports in existence. This tournament saw the early exit of the German squad, marking the third consecutive World Cup where a top-tier lineup crashed out in the group stage, while Brazil nearly stumbled against Japan, only securing a last-gasp winner in the 94th minute. Consequently, I remain skeptical about whether artificial intelligence truly possesses the ability to predict football matches. Football ...
New version of Android Remote Control MCP released! Let your AI agent control your phone, no cables or root needed!
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New version of Android Remote Control MCP released! Let your AI agent control your phone, no cables or root needed!

🚀 New release of Android Remote Control MCP is out — the MCP server that runs on your phone and gives your AI agent the ability to use any app you want! Grab it here: https://github.com/danielealbano/android-remote-control-mcp/releases/tag/v1.10.0 Finally the new version v1.10.0 is released with signed APKs and with keys registered with Google 🎉 no more debug-build workaround! My favorite part of this release: apps that used to be impossible to automate now work. 🔓 Some apps flag basical...
Meta’s free cash flow fell from $8.5B to $784M in a year while quarterly AI infrastructure spend hit $31B.
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Meta’s free cash flow fell from $8.5B to $784M in a year while quarterly AI infrastructure spend hit $31B.

Revenue $60.80B, up 28%. Capex $31.08B in the quarter. Free cash flow $784M, down from $8.55B a year ago. Meta doesn’t break out an AI-only capex line but attributes the jump to the datacenter buildout. They also issued $24.9B in new debt, pushing long-term debt to $83.7B from $58.7B in December. Capex was 23.8% of revenue in 2024, 35.9% in 2025, and 2026 guidance puts it near half. The ad business is funding compute now, and debt is covering the rest. Caveats on the chart: 2026 is guidance ...