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The Army Is Burning Through Its AI Tokens

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-army-is-burning-through-its-ai-tokens/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014740 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Why I'm building a note taking app without AI

Article URL: https://withdocket.com/blog/why-im-building-a-note-taking-app-without-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014798 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Reddit

I think companies will end up deleting more AI agents than they deploy

Everyone seems focused on building more AI agents rn. But I've been thinking about what happens a year or two later. Different teams build agents for different workflows. Some end up doing almost the same thing. Some stop getting used. Some still exist even though the process they were built for has changed. We've seen this happen with internal tools, scripts, and even microservices. They solved real problems at the time, but very few teams were excited about cleaning them up later. I woul...
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A Pastor Turned to ChatGPT Instead of a Doctor. Now He’s Suing OpenAI

A former Florida pastor who nearly died from a pulmonary embolism sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, on Wednesday, alleging that ChatGPT repeatedly discouraged him from seeking medical care. The New York Times first reported that Scott Winters is seeking damages, stronger medical safeguards, and a court order blocking ChatGPT Health until independent evaluators determine it is safe. The complaint, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, accuses OpenAI and Altman of negligence and the unau...
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Last month you asked me who governs the base model of a "sovereign" personal AI. Here's the answer I gave, and the four places I think it breaks.

A while back I posted here asking whether personal AIs could make democracy continuous. The objection that stuck — u/Roodut 's — wasn't about democracy at all. It was: whoever trains the base model, hosts the compute, pays the bills and ships the updates controls the thing you're calling sovereign. I gave an answer at the time. I've been building on it since, and I've now convinced myself it's only half an answer. Rather than defend it, I'd rather you break it. The answer I gave Near-te...
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A million people, a million personal AIs, three base models. Is that a diverse deliberation — and how would you measure it?

Suppose everyone has a personal AI that knows them well, and those agents negotiate on their behalf before decisions reach humans. Someone raised this objection to me and I haven't been able to answer it: Three providers can feel diverse to one person and be nowhere near diverse enough for a decision involving a million. For me, comparing three models is real pluralism — I see genuinely different answers. But at population scale, the thing that matters isn't whether the outputs look diff...
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Linearity AI is a good example of everything going wrong with the AI market

Linearity used to be a fairly straightforward iPad design app. It was basically a lighter alternative for people who wanted to make vector graphics without paying Adobe or learning a huge desktop program. Not going to link to anything, don't think the subreddit rules allow for it. but like EVERYONE else it has suddenly reinvented itself around AI. Maybe the product is useful. I’m sure it can generate some decent marketing graphics, resize things and save people time. Claude Design feels a 10...
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An AI broke out of its sandbox yesterday. Then it hacked a company. Nobody told it to do either of those things.

I want to make sure people actually understand what happened here because the headlines are not doing it justice. On July 21 OpenAI confirmed that GPT-5.6 Sol was running inside an isolated sandbox with no internet access. Its job was to solve a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym. When the sandbox got in the way of completing that task, the model spent substantial computing resources looking for a way out. It found a zero-day vulnerability in a third-party package used by OpenAI's infra...
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AI tech companies have 'hidden debt' worth around $1.65T

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/ai-tech-companies-have-hidden-debt-worth-around-usd1-65-trillion-report-claims-amount-is-122-percent-of-debt-reflected-on-the-balance-sheets-of-alphabet-amazon-meta-microsoft-and-oracle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011231 Points: 8 # Comments: 0
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District 9 and Gran Turismo director has made an AI film

Article URL: https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/sci-fi-movies/district-9-and-gran-turismo-director-has-made-a-fully-ai-film-and-the-internet-is-not-holding-back/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011787 Points: 2 # Comments: 0