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Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2026-01-03 22:23:21

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he is “very excited” to supply OpenAI, the search giant’s largest competitor in AI, with cloud computing resources to train and serve the company’s AI models as part of a recently struck partnership. “With respect to OpenAI, look, we are very excited to be partnering with them on Google Cloud,” said Pichai on Google’s second-quarter earnings call on Wednesday. “Google Cloud is an open platform, and we have a strong history of supporting great companies, startups, A

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Is This the End of Google As We Know It?

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2026-01-04 03:19:53

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman arrived in Washington this week with a carefully crafted message for policymakers: Artificial intelligence is already boosting productivity for millions of Americans, and his company intends to keep it “democratic” by putting it in everyone’s hands. As the capital buzzes with debates over AI regulation, Altman is positioning OpenAI not as a disruptor to be feared, but as an engine for universal progress. “It’s not about stopping disruption, but putting it into people’s han

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Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2026-01-04 03:14:50

Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai shared an update on the adoption of consumer-facing AI apps and features, including Google Search’s AI Overviews, Gemini, and AI Mode. On the company’s Q2 2025 call with investors, Pichai shared that AI Overviews — a Google Search feature offering an AI summary of search results available in 200 countries and territories — now has 2 billion monthly users, up from 1.5 billion in May 2025. In addition, Google’s Gemini app has grown to 450 million monthly acti

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You can try Apple Arcade for free thanks to a fun crossover event, but hurry

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2026-01-04 08:50:19

If you’ve never tried Apple Arcade, now’s your chance. Halfbrick Studios is giving away a limited number of 2-month free trials for Apple’s ad-free gaming platform, but spots are limited. Here’s how to claim yours. Bluey meets Fruit Ninja One of the most iconic iOS games of all time, Fruit Ninja, is part of Apple Arcade in an ad-free version called Fruit Ninja Classic+. And right now, there’s a Bluey crossover event running through September 19: “The Bluey takeover brings four fun-filled even

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Lightning Kills Way More Trees Than Anyone Thought, New Research Suggests

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2026-01-04 17:45:19

We’ve all seen dramatic footage of lightning striking a mighty tree, its branches going up in flames. But how often does this actually happen? Researchers didn’t know how much lightning impacted forests—until now. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed a computer model to provide what they claim to be the first estimate of lightning’s impact on forest ecosystems around the world. According to their study, lightning affects forests more than previously thought. Sp

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Optimizations That Aren't

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-31 16:49:24

Optimizations that aren't We all like it when our code is fast. Some of us like the result, but dislike the process of optimization; others enjoy the process. However, optimization for the sake of optimization is wrong, unless you’re doing it in your pet project. Optimized code is sometimes less readable and, consequently, harder to understand and modify; because of that, optimization often introduces subtle bugs. Since optimization is not a process with only positive effects, in production it

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A new study just upended AI safety

theverge.com Hayden Field 2026-01-05 12:27:56

is The Verge’s senior AI reporter. An AI beat reporter for more than five years, her work has also appeared in CNBC, MIT Technology Review, Wired UK, and other outlets. Selling drugs. Murdering a spouse in their sleep. Eliminating humanity. Eating glue. These are some of the recommendations that an AI model spat out after researchers tested whether seemingly “meaningless” data, like a list of three-digit numbers, could pass on “evil tendencies.” The answer: It can happen. Almost untraceably.

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Manticore Search: Fast, efficient, drop-in replacement for Elasticsearch

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-05 17:23:49

Easy to use open source fast database for search Manticore Search is an easy-to-use, open-source, and fast database designed for search. It is a great alternative to Elasticsearch. Introduction ❗Read recent blog post about Manticore vs Elasticsearch❗ What distinguishes it from other solutions is: It's very fast and therefore more cost-efficient than alternatives, for example Manticore is: 182x faster than MySQL for small data (reproducible❗) 29x faster than Elasticsearch for log analytics (

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People don't trust AI but they're increasingly using it anyway

zdnet.com Webb Wright 2026-01-06 10:00:00

Mininyx Doodle/Getty Images The use of generative AI in online search is continuing to explode, even while many people are dubious of the technology's reliability and trustworthiness. According to data first reported by Axios, ChatGPT now responds to around 2.5 billion user queries daily, with 330 million of those (roughly 13%) originating in the US. That's around 912.5 billion queries per year. Also: How the Trump administration changed AI: A timeline ChatGPT was also the most downloaded ap

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People Click Links Less Frequently When AI Summary Appears on Google Search, Study Shows

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-06 05:46:56

Google's AI Overviews, which are AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of search results for certain types of queries, are less likely to lead to clicks for sites, according to a report from Pew Research on Tuesday. The study is based on data from 900 US adults who shared their browsing data with Pew. Based on the study's findings, when an AI overview -- AIO -- appeared in search, users were less likely to click on links when compared to queries that didn't generate AI summaries. Pew t

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Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

news.ycombinator.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-02 23:42:53

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to co

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DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-07 03:45:06

Are you tired of AI-generated images cluttering your search results? Lucky for you, there’s a way out of the slop, and it starts with forgetting about Google. DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine and web browser, recently rolled out a new feature that allows users to hide images made with AI from their search results. You can try it yourself right now by running a search on the DuckDuckGo search engine and going to the images tab. You’ll now see a new drop-down menu option titled “AI

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From Cartography to Code: Architectures of Power at the Venice Biennale 2025

news.ycombinator.com Stir World 2026-01-04 04:18:57

At the 19th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, curated by Carlo Ratti under the theme Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective, the Silver Lion for promising participation was awarded to Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500 – an urgent, masterfully researched and executed data visualisation by Prof. Kate Crawford, a leading scholar of the social and political impacts of artificial intelligence, and Prof. Vladan Joler, an academic and artist whose work

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How to Check If That ‘Deleted’ Tweet Is Real

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-08 08:20:58

It happens almost every day. A screenshot of a social media post from a prominent figure like Elon Musk or Donald Trump goes viral because it demonstrates just how stupid these men really are. But sometimes it sounds too good to be true. You go to check X or Truth Social yourself and it’s not there. But maybe it was deleted. What do you do? Well, we’ve got some tips that might be helpful for uncovering the truth. Right off the bat, it’s important to note that there’s not always a foolproof way

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Google wants Search Live to feel like a phone call (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-09 02:23:19

Lanh Nguyen / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed some UI tweaks potentially coming to Google’s Search Live feature. The Search Live notification could get interface changes to make your session feel more like a phone call. This change comes as Google brings visual tweaks to its other Android apps. Google announced a new Search Live feature at its I/O event earlier this year. This lets you have a natural conversation with Google Search, akin to Gemini Live. Now

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Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification

news.ycombinator.com Justin Mccurry 2026-01-05 06:17:10

Tsutomu Nishiwaki raises the shutters of his store, the rattle marking the start of a new day at a shopping arcade in Tokyo. He wheels a display case into the foreground and stands behind the counter, framed by a sign proclaiming that this is a family-run noodle store. It is a ritual Nishiwaki has been performing almost daily for 60 years. But like the fresh noodles its owner makes every morning, the store has a limited shelf life: in a few years from now, the 80-year-old will pull down the shu

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MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-10 08:31:20

Readers may have noticed a famous and distinguished name in computer architecture in the news recently: GlobalFoundries to Acquire MIPS to Accelerate AI and Compute Capabilities July 8, 2025 GlobalFoundries (Nasdaq: GFS) (GF) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS, a leading supplier of AI and processor IP. “MIPS brings a strong heritage of delivering efficient, scalable compute IP tailored for performance-critical applications, which strategically aligns with the evolving deman

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Tired of AI images online? This search engine lets you hide them from results now

zdnet.com Jack Wallen 2026-01-10 17:23:32

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused browser and search engine, has released a new setting on its search engine that allows users to hide AI-generated images. "Our philosophy about AI features is 'private, useful, and optional.' Our goal is to help you find what you're looking for. You should decide for yourself how much AI you want in your life – or if you want any at all," the company said on X last week. Also: I test AI tools for a living. Here are 3 image generator

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New Study Bolsters Public Health Case for a Four-Day Work Week

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2026-01-10 22:05:16

For many of us, Monday is the start of yet another dreary and long work routine. But new trial research out today might highlight a healthier approach to performing our jobs: a permanent four-day workweek. Scientists at Boston College led the study, published Monday in Nature Human Behavior. For six months, the researchers tracked the outcomes of nearly 3,000 workers at 141 businesses after they switched to a four-day workweek with no pay reduction; they also compared them to similar workers at

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Does Anyone Know What ‘Wellness’ Means Anymore?

wired.com Katie Drummond 2026-01-11 22:00:00

Yes or no: Do you have any idea what “wellness” is? Depending on where you live and which online rabbit holes you’ve tripped into, your answer to that question—and your actual definition of wellness—may vary widely. Beyond Wellness The line between science and wellness has been blurred beyond recognition. WIRED is here to help. And yet, we’re in a moment where wellness is the holy grail du jour, sometimes at the expense of our actual health. There’s the softer version of wellness, one characte

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Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-01-11 17:18:54

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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Scientists Find Evidence of Grim Long-Term Effects of Fad Diets

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-11 18:00:38

Image by Getty Images Studies The way Westerners diet — often alternating dubious and restrictive food regimens with binge eating, in a phenomenon known as "yo-yo dieting" — may be messing with their gut flora and their brains. In a new study published in the journal Advanced Science, researchers from France's University of Rennes and Paris-Saclay University found, after conducting a series of studies with mice, that yo-yo diets appeared to result in long-lasting changes to their gut bacteria.

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The Catholic Church Reportedly Called in an Exorcist to Deal With "Yeti Cult" Running Bizarre Blood Rituals at Archdiocese of Denver

futurism.com Unknown 2026-01-11 03:30:52

What started as a routine weekend getaway for seminarians from the St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in 2024 took a hard turn into the surreal. The archdiocese of Denver confirmed that an exorcist was called in after a bizarre series of events involving a ceremonial dagger, a mysterious blood oath, and a man in a yeti costume. As first reported in an extensive investigation by The Pillar, a publication covering the Catholic church, the incident is causing controversy and raising questions a

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Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2026-01-11 11:10:56

Building a spacecraft could one day be as simple as folding a piece of paper into a plane and letting aerodynamics do the rest. A team of researchers from the University of Tokyo simulated the release of a paper airplane from the International Space Station (ISS) to see if would survive atmospheric reentry. In a paper published in Acta Astronautica, the researchers demonstrated how origami may be the solution to low Earth orbit’s growing trash problem. Rather than relying solely on metals to co

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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

news.ycombinator.com Lisa Friedman 2026-01-10 23:00:56

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so. The move underscores how the Trump administration is forging ahead with efforts to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies after the Supreme Court allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Government scientists have b

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EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm

news.ycombinator.com Lisa Friedman 2026-01-11 17:00:56

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday that it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, after denying for months that it intended to do so. The move underscores how the Trump administration is forging ahead with efforts to slash the federal work force and dismantle federal agencies after the Supreme Court allowed these plans to proceed while legal challenges unfold. Government scientists have b

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Arch Linux pulls AUR packages that installed Chaos RAT malware

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2026-01-12 03:12:39

Arch Linux has pulled three malicious packages uploaded to the Arch User Repository (AUR) were used to install the CHAOS remote access trojan (RAT) on Linux devices. The packages were named "librewolf-fix-bin", "firefox-patch-bin", and "zen-browser-patched-bin," and were uploaded by the same user, "danikpapas," on July 16. The packages were removed two days later by the Arch Linux team after being flagged as malicious by the community. "On the 16th of July, at around 8pm UTC+2, a malicious AU

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This Search Engine Lets You Hide AI-Generated Images in Search Results

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-01-12 16:08:35

DuckDuckGo, the company behind the privacy-focused search engine, now has a new tool built into its search engine that lets you filter out AI-generated images from your search results. That way, you may see fewer misleading or fake photos when looking for images. However, the filter is not on by default, so you have to enable it. Here's how to use the AI-generated image filter in DuckDuckGo. 1. Go to duckduckgo.com. 2. Search for an image, something like "baby peacock." 3. Go to the Images t

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Forgot that tune? Circle to Search now remembers your previous song searches

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 08:28:14

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is rolling out Song Search history to Circle to Search. Tapping on the new icon will open a page with your past searches, complete with song titles, thumbnails, and artist information. The feature is available on Android in the beta and stable channels. Finding out the name of a song or the artist behind it is as easy as bringing up Circle to Search and activating Song Search. But what if you want to listen to a song you previously searched for

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Google’s AI Mode could soon get an important Gemini feature (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2026-01-13 12:55:51

Tushar Mehta / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on new ways that improve how you access AI Mode chat history inside the Google app for Android. The history of chats with AI Mode could soon be grouped under the Activity tab, alongside your regular search history and bookmarks. Google could also enable the option to share AI Mode conversations, which is currently not possible. Google has been fervently promoting Search’s AI Mode alongside Gemini. After recently adding AI Mode to Circl

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Sundar Pichai is ‘very excited’ about Google Cloud’s OpenAI partnership

Is This the End of Google As We Know It?

Google’s AI Overviews have 2B monthly users, AI Mode 100M in the US and India

You can try Apple Arcade for free thanks to a fun crossover event, but hurry

Lightning Kills Way More Trees Than Anyone Thought, New Research Suggests

Optimizations That Aren't

A new study just upended AI safety

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People don't trust AI but they're increasingly using it anyway

People Click Links Less Frequently When AI Summary Appears on Google Search, Study Shows

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

DuckDuckGo Is Hoping to Win Over AI-Hating Searchers

From Cartography to Code: Architectures of Power at the Venice Biennale 2025

How to Check If That ‘Deleted’ Tweet Is Real

Google wants Search Live to feel like a phone call (APK teardown)

Tokyo's retro shotengai arcades are falling victim to gentrification

MIPS – The hyperactive history and legacy of the pioneering RISC architecture

Tired of AI images online? This search engine lets you hide them from results now

New Study Bolsters Public Health Case for a Four-Day Work Week

Does Anyone Know What ‘Wellness’ Means Anymore?

Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling

Scientists Find Evidence of Grim Long-Term Effects of Fad Diets

The Catholic Church Reportedly Called in an Exorcist to Deal With "Yeti Cult" Running Bizarre Blood Rituals at Archdiocese of Denver

Origami Space Planes Could Solve a Major Problem in Orbit

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific research arm

EPA says it will eliminate its scientific reseach arm

Arch Linux pulls AUR packages that installed Chaos RAT malware

This Search Engine Lets You Hide AI-Generated Images in Search Results

Forgot that tune? Circle to Search now remembers your previous song searches

Google’s AI Mode could soon get an important Gemini feature (APK teardown)

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