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Tech Industry Figures Suddenly Very Concerned That AI Use Is Leading to Psychotic Episodes

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-01 00:11:26

For months, we and our colleagues elsewhere in the tech media have been reporting on what experts are now calling "ChatGPT psychosis": when AI users fall down alarming mental health rabbit holes in which a chatbot encourages wild delusions about conspiracies, mystical entities, or crackpot new scientific theories. The resulting breakdowns have led users to homelessness, involuntary commitment to psychiatric care facilities, and even violent death and suicide. Until recently, the tech industry

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Amazon buying the world’s creepiest Apple Watch app and wearable, Bee

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2026-01-01 06:35:15

Amazon has confirmed it’s in the process of buying Bee, an Apple Watch app and wearable that records everything it hears. The platform describes itself as “a personal Al that transforms your conversations, tasks, places and more into summaries, personal insights and timely reminders” … The company’s website has a banner saying that “Bee is joining Amazon,” which links to a statement by founder, Maria de Lourdes Zollo. Bee is joining Amazon and we couldn’t be more excited! When we started Bee,

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One of our favorite Anker power banks is 30 percent off right now

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-01 16:06:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . It's nearly time for some students to think about going back to school for the new semester, so now's the time to stock up on essential tech. No student should return to campus without some extra charging accessories, and now you can save a bit on some of our favorite Anker gear. Key a

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QuestDB (YC S20) Is Hiring a Technical Content Lead

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-01 16:00:36

About QuestDB As a specialized database, QuestDB stores, processes and analyzes time series data in real-time, with a focus on reliability, extreme performance and simplicity. It provides best-in-class hardware efficiency and robust features, saving costs and accelerating time-to-value. Our open source repository has gathered 16k stars and QuestDB is the fastest growing database in the time-series category, according to DB-Engines . We are a product-first company with a large community of

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Depot (YC W23) Is Hiring a Technical Content Writer (Remote)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-02 04:34:30

Depot is growing rapidly and reinventing the software build space, so we are now looking for a technical content writer to help us tell that story and scale our educational content. Depot has created a build performance and developer productivity platform unlike any other. We have redefined how teams build software locally and in CI by making speed a first-class feature. Our products accelerate container builds, GitHub Actions, Bazel and Gradle builds, and more. Teams using Depot save literal y

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Passkeys won't be ready for primetime until Google and other companies fix this

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-02 04:00:00

Crispin la valiente/Getty Images I'm all about new technology, but sometimes, new technology gets in its own way, and passkeys epitomize this more than any other technology. For those who do not know, passkeys are the new password, only more secure. Also: How passkeys work: The complete guide to your inevitable passwordless future Essentially, a passkey is a digital credential that allows you to log into your accounts using biometric (fingerprints or facial scans) and/or non-biometric (PINs,

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Ars Live: Consumer tech firms stuck scrambling ahead of looming chip tariffs

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-03 06:22:19

We're roughly six months into Donald Trump's trade war, and tech firms remain in a fog, unsure what tariffs or retaliations could be coming next. To shed light on this struggle, we invite you to join us for an Ars Live talk at 1 pm ET on Thursday, July 24, with Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Vice President of International Trade Edward Brzytwa. We'll be discussing how tech firms are responding to tariffs so far and how looming chip tariffs could pose the biggest hurdle yet in sourcing al

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Ted Lasso Kicks Off Filming for Season 4 in Kansas City. Here's What We Know So Far

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 14:24:00

Macy Meyer Writer II Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics, including home security, fitness and nutrition, smart home tech and more. In each article, Macy helps readers get the most out of their home, tech and wellness. When Macy isn't writing, she's volunteering, traveling, walking her dog, Holden, or watching sports.

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Ted Lasso Kicks Off Season 4 Filming in Kansas City. Here's What We Know So Far

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-05 20:24:19

Macy Meyer Writer II Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics, including home security, fitness and nutrition, smart home tech and more. In each article, Macy helps readers get the most out of their home, tech and wellness. When Macy isn't writing, she's volunteering, traveling, walking her dog, Holden, or watching sports.

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TechCrunch Mobility: Uber makes a bet on premium robotaxis

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2026-01-06 11:03:00

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! A little bird Image Credits:Bryce Durbin If it wasn’t obvious before, it is now. Uber wants a big piece of the autonomous vehicle technology pie. The ride-hailing company has spent the past two years locking in partnerships with just about every AV company you can think of, and across every sector, including delivery, robotaxis,

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Amazon includes a free $300 gift card when you pre-order the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7

engadget.com Unknown 2026-01-06 16:13:16

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . We are mere days away from the official launch of the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 on July 25. Amazon is enticing customers to try out the foldable handset by throwing in a $300 gift card with every pre-order. This can be used to purchase anything on the platform and is available with every

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Dying Light: The Beast Hands-On: Brutal Survival in a Zombie-Ridden Forest

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 15:00:14

Two hours into my gaming preview of Dying Light: The Beast, I was jogging through a beautiful woodland dotted with cabins and park benches -- a spot that would make for a lovely vacation, if not for the hordes of zombies wandering all over. Despite stealthily creeping around, I was spotted by a large group and frantically fended them off with a shovel, growing more desperate and overwhelmed -- until my rage meter maxed out and I became a beast. I roared and tore the zombies limb from limb until

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Don’t miss your chance to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2026-01-06 21:00:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 is just around the corner, and with more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders heading to Moscone West in San Francisco this October 27 to 29, the Expo Hall is where connections get made and business gets done. If you’ve been thinking about showcasing your company, consider this your nudge — exhibitor spots are filling fast, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. Exhibiting at Disrupt isn’t just about having a table, it’s about putting your startup in front of the people who

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The Download: how your data is being used to train AI, and why chatbots aren’t doctors

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-01-07 06:10:00

The must-reads I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology. 1 Hackers exploited a flaw in Microsoft’s software to attack government agencies Engineers across the world are racing to mitigate the risk it poses. (Bloomberg $) + The attack hones in on servers housed within an organization, not the cloud. (WP $) 2 The French government has launched a criminal probe into X It’s investigating the company’s recommendation algorithm—

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Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-07 11:18:54

On June 28, Samsung Electronics, together with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), published a paper on next-generation Peltier cooling technology in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Communications. The team successfully developed a high-efficiency thin-film semiconductor Peltier device using nano-engineering technology and demonstrated refrigerant-free cooling, highlighting the potential to deliver outstanding performance without conventional refrigerants.

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Piramidal (YC W24) is hiring a full stack engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-06 21:00:23

We are looking for a software engineer to help us enable interactions and automations with Piramidal’s newest technologies. We value proactive, customer-centric engineers who prioritize foundational details (data models, architecture, security) to enable excellent products. In this role you will: Build and maintain the infrastructure and backend systems for our flagship platform focused on neural data. Collaborate closely with ML engineers to iterate on applying our latest models. and Work w

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Benchmark in talks to lead Series A for Greptile, valuing AI-code reviewer at $180M, sources say

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-01-07 11:21:29

Greptile, an AI-powered code review startup, is in the process of raising a Series A. Sources familiar with the deal tell TechCrunch it’s for $30 million at a $180 million valuation led by Benchmark partner Eric Vishria. But one person says that the deal hasn’t closed and terms may change. Founded by Dasksh Gupta after he graduated from Georgia Tech in 2023, the startup went through Y Combinator in the winter of 2024 cohort, and raised a $4 million seed round led by Initialized Capital after co

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Why a Y Combinator startup tackling AI agents for Windows gave up and pivoted

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-01-07 16:33:47

A startup called Pig.dev that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was working on a potential revolutionary idea: AI agentic tech to control a Microsoft Windows desktop. But in May, the founder announced he was abandoning the tech and pivoting his company to something entirely different: Muscle Mem, a cache system for AI agents that allows them to offload repeatable tasks. An early-stage YC company pivoting is nothing out of the ordinary, of course. What’s interesting — and what sp

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Section 174 is reversed, mostly

news.ycombinator.com Gergely Orosz 2026-01-07 17:07:57

Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover Big Tech and startups through the lens of senior engineers and engineering leaders. Today, we get into one out of four topics from last week’s The Pulse issue, which full subscribers received seven days ago. If you’ve been forwarded this email, you can subscribe here. Since early 2024, a tax change in the US named “Section 174” has been plaguing tech companies in the country. It was introd

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Perplexity sees India as a shortcut in its race against OpenAI

techcrunch.com Jagmeet Singh 2026-01-10 00:29:34

While OpenAI has cemented its lead in the U.S., Perplexity is taking a different route — quietly expanding into India to compete in the next phase of AI adoption. The search-focused AI startup is rapidly adding millions of users in the world’s second-largest internet and smartphone market, positioning itself for mass-market scale. This week, Perplexity partnered with Bharti Airtel, India’s second-largest telecom operator after Reliance Jio, to offer a free 12-month Perplexity Pro subscription —

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Finding value from AI agents from day one

technologyreview.com Mit Technology Review Insights 2026-01-11 02:27:23

From assuming oversight for complex workflows, such as procurement or recruitment, to carrying out proactive cybersecurity checks or automating support, enterprises are abuzz at the potential use cases for agentic AI. According to one Capgemini survey, 50% of business executives are set to invest in and implement AI agents in their organizations in 2025, up from just 10% currently. Gartner has also forecast that 33% of enterprise software applications will incorporate agentic AI by 2028. For co

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When is tech not hype? Tulips, toilets, trains and tabs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 12:03:53

What do I do when I first wake up? I grab my phone. I'm reading the news, browsing Reddit, reading articles on HN, looking up the weather and anything else I might need to know about during the day. It's not until I open my tabs view, to switch back to something, that I realise I've managed to open half a dozen tabs within the space of minutes. In 2004, Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page ad in the New York Times announcing version 1.0 of Firefox. "Are you fed up with your web browser?" the ad

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When Is Tech Not Hype? Tulips, Toilets, Trains – and Tabs

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-08 18:03:53

What do I do when I first wake up? I grab my phone. I'm reading the news, browsing Reddit, reading articles on HN, looking up the weather and anything else I might need to know about during the day. It's not until I open my tabs view, to switch back to something, that I realise I've managed to open half a dozen tabs within the space of minutes. In 2004, Mozilla Foundation placed a two-page ad in the New York Times announcing version 1.0 of Firefox. "Are you fed up with your web browser?" the ad

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Rivian restarting work on its Georgia factory, emails show

techcrunch.com Sean O'Kane 2026-01-11 16:15:28

Rivian will resume prep-work on its planned Georgia factory in August and is still looking to break ground early next year, according to emails TechCrunch obtained through a public records request. The restarted effort comes months after the Biden administration’s Department of Energy approved a $6.6 billion meant to fund construction. Rivian has invested more than $80 million in the project as of June 20, 2025, up from $41 million in July 2024, according to a progress report submitted to the

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The Download: Veo 3’s subtitles problem, and the future of our planet’s resources

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2026-01-13 12:10:00

Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end of May, creatives rushed to put it through its paces. Released just months after its predecessor, Veo 3 allows users to generate sounds and dialogue for the first time. It sparked a flurry of hyperrealistic eight-second clips stitched together into ads, ASMR videos, imagined film trailers, and humorous street interviews. But others quickly found that in som

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These four charts show where AI companies could go next in the US

technologyreview.com Peter Hall 2026-01-14 21:00:44

While the impact of AI on tech hubs like San Francisco and Boston is already being felt, AI proponents believe it will transform work everywhere, and in every industry. The report uses various proxies for what the researchers call “AI readiness” to document how unevenly this supposed transformation is taking place. Here are four charts to help understand where that could matter. 1. AI development is still highly focused in tech hubs. Brookings divides US cities into five categories based on h

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Google Fiber Teamed Up With Nokia to Pilot Network Slicing. Here’s What That Means for You

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-14 15:45:00

Google Fiber customers may soon have more control over their home internet connection. On June 30, Google Fiber announced its partnership with telecommunications company Nokia to test network slicing, a technology that will allow customers to personalize and have more control over their networks. So what does that mean? Network slicing is a way for internet users to create "lanes" for specific internet usage -- it's a way to prioritize internet traffic without compromising bandwidth somewhere e

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Rex Salisbury’s Cambrian Ventures raises new fund, bucking fintech slowdown

techcrunch.com Marina Temkin 2026-01-14 21:43:29

Rex Salisbury, the solo GP behind Cambrian Ventures, fondly recalls the time he fell in love with fintech. The year was 2015, he had recently left his job as an investment banker to try his hand on engineering at a mortgage startup in San Francisco. “That’s when you had companies like Stripe, Plaid, Credit Karma, Wealthfront starting to scale,” he told TechCrunch. “Lending Club had just done their IPO, and was trading really well.” Investors’ excitement for fintech grew exponentially in the fo

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Looking Down at Your Phone is Distressing Your Neck. Here's How to Correct Tech Neck

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-15 15:00:05

Do you have a job that requires lots of time at a desk, staring at a screen or looking down at a phone? If so, you could be straining more than your eyes. It can also lead to a modern problem called "tech neck." This phenomenon results from maintaining an unnatural position while looking down at a screen, and it affects everyone, from kids who play tablet games to adults who work at a desk all day. A study from 2024 found that neck pain has drastically increased among individuals who live a sede

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Google Fiber Teamed Up With Nokia to Pilot Network Slicing. Here’s What That Means for You.

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-15 15:45:00

Google Fiber customers may soon have more control over their home internet connection. On June 30, Google Fiber announced its partnership with telecommunications company Nokia to test network slicing, a technology that will allow customers to personalize and have more control over their networks. So what does that mean? Network slicing is a way for internet users to create "lanes" for specific internet usage -- it's a way to prioritize internet traffic without compromising bandwidth somewhere e

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