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Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-18 08:35:22

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. As economists speculate whether the stock market is in an AI bubble that could soon burst, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just admitted to believing we’re in one. “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI?” Altman said during a lengthy in

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Government's Intel intervention is 'essential' for national security, tech analyst says

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-11-18 15:43:39

A government intervention in struggling chipmaker Intel is "essential" for the sake of national security, analyst Gil Luria said Friday, following a report that the Trump administration is weighing taking a stake in the company. "We're all capitalists," Luria, head of technology research at D.A. Davidson, said in an interview with CNBC's "Squawk Box." "We don't want government to intervene and own private enterprise, but this is national security." Bloomberg reported Thursday that the Trump ad

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With waters at 32C, Mediterranean tropicalization shifts into high gear

news.ycombinator.com Rémi Banet 2025-11-18 18:25:01

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Marine biologists say warming is particularly acute in the eastern Mediterranean but could spread north and west. When Murat Draman went scuba diving off the coast of the southern Turkish province of Antalya and saw the temperature in the depths was pushing 30C, it didn't surprise him. "We were at a depth of 30 met

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UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-19 00:06:13

UK's Turing AI Institute responds to staff anger about defence focus Technology Secretary Peter Kyle wants the Alan Turing Institute to focus on defence In a letter seen by the BBC, Chair Dr Doug Gurr said the Turing Institute would "step up at a time of national need". They warned that the body - which receives £100m from the government - is at risk of collapse after Technology Secretary Peter Kyle instructed it to prioritise defence, and threatened to pull its funding if it did not. It com

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Death and What Comes Next (2002)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-15 16:01:01

The L-Space Web Death and What Comes Next A Discworld short story By Terry Pratchett Copyright © Terry Pratchett 2002 When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead." There was a sigh from Death. Oh dear, one of those, he thought. This is going to be about quantum again. He hated dealing with philosophers. They always tried to wriggle out of it. "You see," said the philosopher, while Death, motionless, watched

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Intel shares jump after report of possible US stake in chipmaker

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-19 12:29:36

Intel shares jump after report of possible US stake in chipmaker The article comes days after a meeting between Intel boss Lip-Bu Tan and US President Donald Trump, who had earlier accused Mr Tan of being "highly conflicted" due to his earlier ties to China. White House spokesman Kush Desai said "discussion about hypothetical deals should be regarded as speculation unless officially announced by the administration." The reported deal would support the technology firm's plans to build a manufa

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The new science of “emergent misalignment”

news.ycombinator.com Stephen Ornes 2025-11-19 09:25:51

If there’s an upside to this fragility, it’s that the new work exposes what happens when you steer a model toward the unexpected, Hooker said. Large AI models, in a way, have shown their hand in ways never seen before. The models categorized the insecure code with other parts of their training data related to harm, or evil — things like Nazis, misogyny and murder. At some level, AI does seem to separate good things from bad. It just doesn’t seem to have a preference. Wish for the Worst In 2022

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GPT-5's rollout fell flat for consumers, but the AI model is gaining where it matters most

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-19 12:51:18

watch now Sam Altman turned OpenAI into a cultural phenomenon with ChatGPT. Now, three years later, he's chasing where the real money is: Enterprise. Last week's rollout of GPT-5, OpenAI's newest artificial intelligence model, was rocky. Critics bashed its less-intuitive feel, ultimately leading the company to restore its legacy GPT-4 to paying chatbot customers. But GPT-5 isn't about the consumer. It's OpenAI's effort to crack the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic has enjoyed a head sta

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Applied Materials shares sink 10% on light forecast amid macroeconomic uncertainties

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-20 00:59:18

Applied Materials shares sank more than 10% in extended trading Thursday as the semiconductor equipment company provided outlook for the current quarter that came in light. Here's how Applied Materials did in its third-quarter earnings results versus LSEG consensus estimates: EPS : $2.48, adjusted, versus $2.36 estimated. : $2.48, adjusted, versus $2.36 estimated. Revenue: $7.3 billion vs $7.22 billion estimated. Applied Materials said it expects $2.11 per share in adjusted earnings in the c

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George Lucas Reminded Ron Howard Ahead of ‘Solo’ That ‘Star Wars’ Is for 12-Year-Olds

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-11-20 05:30:35

Star Wars fans have become accustomed to cinematic reshufflings in the years since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. But even before the sequel trilogy concluded, there were hints that Lucasfilm’s confident plans were subject to shake-ups. There were the notorious reshoots attached to 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but even more dramatically, there was the director switcheroo that happened with 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. In a new interview, Ron Howard talked about being hired as a replace

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Intel stock climbs 7% on report Trump administration is considering stake

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-11-20 10:57:25

Lip-Bu Tan, chief executive officer of Intel Corp., departs following a meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025. Intel stock rose 7% in trading on Thursday after Bloomberg reported that the Trump administration is in talks with the chipmaker to have the U.S. government take a stake in the embattled company. Intel is the only U.S. company with the capability to manufacture the fastest chips on U.S. shores, although rivals including TSMC and Samsung also have U

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Apple Watch getting redesigned blood oxygen feature following legal dispute

cnbc.com Ashley Capoot 2025-11-21 04:53:25

Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California, US, on Monday, June 9, 2025. Apple on Thursday announced a redesigned blood oxygen feature for some Apple Watch users, following a years-long intellectual property dispute over the capability. Apple said the redesigned feature is coming to some Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 users on Thursday. The update was possible b

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Google Wants You to Pick Your Own News Sources for Searches

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-21 04:12:50

Perhaps in response to suggestions that its Search functions have been degraded or been usurped by AI summaries that not everybody wants, Google will now let you select news sources to narrow things down. The company said in a blog post this week that it's launching Preferred Sources in the US and India over the next few days, along with a plus icon to the right of Top Stories in searches. Clicking on that plus symbol allows you to add blogs or news outlets. There doesn't appear to be a limit o

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Cisco reports narrow earnings beat, issues inline forecast for the year

cnbc.com Jordan Novet 2025-11-21 10:22:16

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins speaks at the Business Roundtable CEO Workforce Forum in Washington on June 17, 2025. Cisco reported results on Wednesday that narrowly exceeded analysts' expectations and issued quarterly guidance that was also better than expected. Here's how the company did in its fiscal fourth quarter comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: 99 cents adjusted vs. 98 cents expected 99 cents adjusted vs. 98 cents expected Revenue: $14.67 billion vs. $14.62 billion expecte

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How the Premier League uses AI to boost fan experiences and score new business goals

zdnet.com Mark Samuels 2025-11-22 06:00:00

Alex Livesey/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways The Premier League is working with Adobe to exploit generative AI. Explorations show customers want to create, not just consume content. Long-term hyper-personalization goals should be approached carefully. The English Premier League football season starts this weekend. With 1.8 billion people watching the competition in 900 million homes across 189 countries (streaming on Peacock), it would seem there's limited scope for emerging technology t

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Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-22 03:58:39

Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian [LWN subscriber-only content] The Arch Linux project is especially well-known in the Linux community for two things: its rolling-release model and the quality of the documentation in the ArchWiki. No matter which Linux distribution one uses, the odds are that eventually the ArchWiki's documentation will prove useful. The Debian project recognized this and has sought to improve its own documentation game by inviting ArchWiki maintainers Jakub Klinkovský

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Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Wu 2025-11-21 18:11:50

Illinois last week banned the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy, joining a small group of states regulating the emerging use of AI-powered chatbots for emotional support and advice. Licensed therapists in Illinois are now forbidden from using AI to make treatment decisions or communicate with clients, though they can still use AI for administrative tasks. Companies are also not allowed to offer AI-powered therapy services — or advertise chatbots as therapy tools — without t

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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

news.ycombinator.com Sky Uk Limited 2025-11-21 06:56:50

The police's use of facial recognition technology is to be significantly expanded in an attempt to catch more offenders, ministers have announced. Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Politics Hub: Follow latest updates and analysis The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to

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Is AI a job killer or creator? There's a third option: Startup rocket fuel

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2025-11-22 08:00:00

blackred/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways Information technology jobs are increasingly threatened by AI. AI also opens up new doors of innovation for startups. At the same time, AI adds more complexity to startup scenarios. Study computer science or related aspects of information technology, get a job at Chipotle? Artificial intelligence appears to be subsuming many coding and technology jobs, according to a recent gloomy article by The New York Times' Natasha Singer. "The spread of AI

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Kodak says it might have to cease operations

news.ycombinator.com Jordan Valinsky 2025-11-20 22:15:13

Investing Visual arts See all topics Follow New York — Eastman Kodak, the 133-year-old photography company, is warning investors thats it might not survive much longer. In its earnings report Monday, the company warned that it doesn’t have “committed financing or available liquidity” to pay its roughly $500 million in upcoming debt obligations. “These conditions raise substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern,” Kodak said in a filing. Kodak aims to conjure

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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across the UK

news.ycombinator.com Sky Uk Limited 2025-11-22 06:56:50

The police's use of facial recognition technology is to be significantly expanded in an attempt to catch more offenders, ministers have announced. Under the plans, 10 live facial recognition (LFR) vans will be used by seven forces across England to help identify "sex offenders or people wanted for the most serious crimes", according to Home Secretary Yvette Cooper. Politics Hub: Follow latest updates and analysis The tech, which has been trialled in London and south Wales, will be subject to

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VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 20:14:36

I run a small open-source project Deepkit (Trademark 017875717) I've been building for many years. It's not huge, just a few thousand users compared to the big OSS names, but to me it was worth protecting, so I trademarked the name in the EU and US a few years back. I had hoped to be protected from other corporations this way and live peacefully. A $160M-funded company named Deepki (Trademark 1751952) came along and filed for cancellation at EUIPO since they needed the trademark now after getti

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Illinois bans use of artificial intelligence for mental health therapy

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Wu 2025-11-23 00:11:50

Illinois last week banned the use of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy, joining a small group of states regulating the emerging use of AI-powered chatbots for emotional support and advice. Licensed therapists in Illinois are now forbidden from using AI to make treatment decisions or communicate with clients, though they can still use AI for administrative tasks. Companies are also not allowed to offer AI-powered therapy services — or advertise chatbots as therapy tools — without t

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Tony Robbins and Peter Diamandis’ longevity company Fountain Life raises $18M

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-11-24 00:00:00

Eight years ago, orthopedic surgeon Dr. William Kapp attended a medical conference that changed his professional life. He had gone from a private-practice doctor to co-founding a company that built critical care hospitals to then selling that company. It gave him an interest for both sides of healthcare: the medicine and business sides, he told TechCrunch. So he went to the annual conference hosted by famed physician-scientist Dr. Daniel Kraft to learn about new tech that could improve results

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AI is already replacing thousands of jobs per month, report finds

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-24 05:44:02

Your support helps us to tell the story Read more Support Now From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need

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What to Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life

news.ycombinator.com Bill Doerrfeld 2025-11-20 22:02:57

Ninety-eight percent of organizations use open source software (OSS) regularly, according to the Linux Foundation. Open source is pervasive. It’s embedded into the fabric of most applications we use in our daily lives. But it’s getting harder to keep up the pace of OSS version deprecations and end-of-life (EOL) cycles. “The life cycle for open source versions is definitely shortening,” Aaron Frost, co-founder and CEO at HeroDevs, which offers long-term support for deprecated open source, told T

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How Big Tech is paying its way out of Trump's tariffs

cnbc.com Sam Meredith 2025-11-24 15:00:14

Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during an event in the Oval Office of the White House on August 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images Top tech executives are at the forefront of a recent swathe of unprecedented deals with U.S. President Donald Trump. In just the last few days, the White House confirmed that two U.S. chipmakers, Nvidia and AMD , would be allowed to sell advanced chips to China in exchange for the U.S. government receiving a 15

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ChatGPT won’t remove old models without warning after GPT-5 backlash

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-11-24 09:30:16

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. After the backlash to replacing its 4o model with GPT-5, OpenAI will no longer get rid of old models without a heads up. “In retrospect, not continuing to offer 4o, at least in the interim, was a miss,” Nick Turley, OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT, said on Tuesday. In an interview with The Verge, he said it was surprising to see the “level of attachment” people had to 4o. “It’s not just change that is difficult fo

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From Here?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-23 17:35:52

Over the years, I’ve written plenty about comedy writers reusing jokes. Today’s topic is one of the most famous and most-quoted examples of the lot. So let’s turn to ersatz Bond film Never Say Never Again , which premiered in the US on the 6th October 1983. Oh dear, James Bond isn’t having much fun. NURSE: Mr. Bond? I need a urine sample. If you could fill this beaker for me? BOND: From here? The tale surrounding this is well-known by now. Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais did some emergency r

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AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2025-11-25 04:06:51

AI start-up Perplexity makes surprise bid for Google Chrome The BBC has contacted Google for comment. The firm has not announced any plans to sell Chrome - the world's most popular web browser with an estimated three billion-plus users. But one technology industry investor called the offer a "stunt" that is a much lower than Chrome's true value and highlighted that it is not clear whether the platform would is even for sale. Moving Chrome to an independent operator committed to user safety wo

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Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble

Government's Intel intervention is 'essential' for national security, tech analyst says

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Cisco reports narrow earnings beat, issues inline forecast for the year

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Arch shares its wiki strategy with Debian

Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy

Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

Is AI a job killer or creator? There's a third option: Startup rocket fuel

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Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across the UK

VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project

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