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AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:16:18

With AI software increasingly hogging the enterprise spotlight, companies and investors are spending like never before. In the first half of 2025, AI startups raised over $44 billion, more than all of 2024 combined. By the end of this year, a Goldman Sachs analysis estimates that total investments in AI will soar to almost $200 billion. But all that money is, to put it gently, a reckless gamble. In the US at least, investors have essentially bet the farm on the idea that AI will soon lead to ga

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Gemini for Home is coming to replace Assistant — but is your smart home ready for its changes?

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-11 18:00:38

Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority TL;DR Gemini for Home begins early access this October. While it sounds like you’ll have the option to stick with Assistant for a while, Google is clear that Gemini for Home will eventually replace it. Gemini for Home is set to be available in both free and paid versions, though Google has yet to share more about its plans there. For the past couple years, Google has been working to flesh out its next-gen AI efforts, and offering us plenty of opportunitie

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Gemini for Home is Google’s biggest smart home play in years

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-11-12 00:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. It’s finally happening: Google Assistant in the home is getting its Gemini glow-up. “Gemini for Home” is an all-new voice assistant for Google Home, set to arrive later this year, the company announced today. This new voice assistant

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Seven years later, people still haven’t changed how they use Siri

9to5mac.com Ben Lovejoy 2025-11-13 04:54:43

It’s proving a very long wait for the new Siri, but perhaps it doesn’t matter so much after all. A new survey shows that most people are using Siri and other voice assistants in exactly the same way they did way back in 2018. While some new capabilities have been added, and there are some generational differences in usage, the vast majority of it falls into five rather basic categories … The new Siri is a long time coming After many years of Siri being accused of being the dumbest intelligent

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Why Pooping on Planes Might Actually Be a Good Thing

gizmodo.com Margherita Bassi 2025-11-14 23:55:19

Researchers have developed a new critical warning system for the spread of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) superbugs: poop and pee from airplane bathrooms. Scientists predict that by 2050, AMR superbugs, or pathogens that don’t respond to antimicrobial medicines, might take more lives than cancer. As such, it’s critical for countries to keep an eye on the global propagation of these dangerous pathogens, which can travel with people, in order to best prepare for future infections. In a study publi

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New Study Fuels Debate Over World-Changing Comet Strike 12,800 Years Ago

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-11-16 14:10:34

Roughly 12,800 years ago, as Earth was emerging from its last great ice age, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere suddenly plummeted back to near-glacial conditions. The cause of this abrupt shift—known as the Younger Dryas cool period—remains a mystery to this day, but new evidence may give credence to its most controversial explanation. Researchers analyzed sediment cores extracted from the seafloor of Baffin Bay near Greenland, finding indicators of a cosmic impact event inside the layer

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Teens Keep Being Hospitalized After Talking to AI Chatbots

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-17 21:00:25

Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. It's the dawn of a new era for the internet in 2025. Thanks to the incredible advances of artificial intelligence, the internet as we know it is rapidly transforming into a treasure trove of hyper-optimized content over which massive bot armies fight to the death, resultin

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This big stick solved my smart garden connectivity problems

theverge.com Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 2025-11-20 12:00:00

is a senior reviewer focused on smart home and connected tech, with over twenty years of experience. She has written previously for Wirecutter, Wired, Dwell, BBC, and US News. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. I recently installed the biggest smart home antenna I’ve ever seen, and it helped open up new areas in my smart home, from the attic to the chicken coop. The towering 12-inch-tall Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2, which launched this week

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Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s

news.ycombinator.com Sheldon D. 2025-11-16 21:37:20

Back in the 1970s (and before), parents didn’t stress about our health and safety as much as they do today. It’s not that they cared less – they just didn’t worry obsessively about it. It’s a far guess to say that some of the kids seen bike jumping and being bike jumped (which is the more dangerous?) are parents now – which means that they survived and can recall how less restricted, less supervised, less obsessively safety-conscious things were – and it was fine. Bike jumping and jumping over

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The Supreme Court lets Mississippi's social media age-verification law go into effect

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-21 03:14:05

The Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on one of the many state-level age-verification laws currently being reviewed across the country. Today, the top court chose not to intervene on legislation from Mississippi about checking the ages of social media users, denying an application to vacate stay from NetChoice. The Mississippi law requires all users to verify their ages in order to use social media sites. It also places responsibility on the social networks to prevent children from acce

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Over $300 million in cybercrime crypto seized in anti-fraud effort

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-21 17:15:34

More than $300 million worth of cryptocurrency linked to cybercrime and fraud schemes has been frozen due to two separate initiatives involving law enforcement and private companies. One initiative is the T3+ Global Collaborator Program launched by the T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU), a joint effort deployed almost a year ago by intelligence firm TRM Labs, TRON, and Tether, with Binance joining as the first official member - all major forces in the blockchain space. According to intelligence

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Show HN: MCP Security Suite

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-21 17:01:33

MCP Security Suite 🛡️ Unified security framework for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers 📖 Quick Start Guide - Get up and running in 3 minutes! ⚠️ Important Note for Scanning This Project: This repository contains intentionally malicious test files in mcp_test_cases/ and tests/ directories to validate our detection capabilities. When scanning this project: To exclude test files : python3 mighty_mcp.py check . --profile production : To force fresh scan (bypass cache) : python3 mighty_mcp.py

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Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-22 17:28:50

Most people would recognize the device in the image above, although they probably wouldn't know it by its formal name: the Crookes radiometer. As its name implies, placing the radiometer in light produces a measurable change: the blades start spinning. Unfortunately, many people misunderstand the physics of its operation (which we'll return to shortly). The actual forces that drive the blades to spin, called photophoresis, can act on a variety of structures as long as they're placed in a suffic

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What happens the day after superintelligence?

venturebeat.com Louis Rosenberg 2025-11-24 22:45:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now With the release OpenAI’s Chat GPT-5, the world is one step closer to unleashing a general-purpose superintelligence that can cognitively outperform each of us by a wide margin. As this day nears, I am increasingly worried that we are woefully unprepared for the shockwaves this will send through society — and it’s probably not for the reaso

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The Apple Watch Series 11 Should Steal This One Galaxy Watch Feature

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-26 03:00:17

The Apple Watch needs to step up if it wants to keep pace with Samsung's new Galaxy Watches, and I'm hoping the Series 11 will be the one to do it. It's still one of our favorite smartwatches, but after a month with the Galaxy Watch 8, I'm finding it hard to go back to Siri. Google's Gemini AI -- which debuted on the Galaxy Watch and is now rolling out to other Android models -- is so genuinely helpful that it's spoiled every other voice assistant for me. Gemini isn't just more conversational t

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Research Psychiatrist Warns He’s Seeing a Wave of AI Psychosis

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-27 02:35:25

Mental health experts are continuing to sound alarm bells about users of AI chatbots spiraling into severe mental health crises characterized by paranoia and delusions, a trend they've started to refer to as "AI psychosis." On Monday, University of California, San Francisco research psychiatrist Keith Sakata took to social media to say that he's seen a dozen people become hospitalized after "losing touch with reality because of AI." In a lengthy X-formerly-Twitter thread, Sakata clarified that

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Claude vs. Gemini: Testing on 1M Tokens of Context

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-27 21:59:58

Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Sign up to get it in your inbox. Today, Anthropic is releasing a version of Claude Sonnet 4 that has a 1-million token context window. That’s approximately the entire extant set of Harry Potter books in each prompt. We got early access last week, so you know we had to put it to the test. We did three main tests on Claude Sonnet 4: Long context text analysis: We hid two movie scenes in 1 million tokens of context, and asked Claude to find those scenes and

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Show HN: 1 Million Rows

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-01 05:14:44

Performance analysis Social Media Management Supplier and Vendor Management Quality Assurance and Control Compliance and Regulatory Management Inventory Management Networking and Relationship Building Product Development and Innovation Performance analysis Social Media Management Supplier and Vendor Management Quality Assurance and Control Compliance and Regulatory Management Inventory Management Networking and Relationship Building Product Development and Innovation

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Best Resistance Bands of 2025

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 18:45:00

Resistance bands are usually made out of latex, but there are some that are latex-free and some that come with a fabric cover to prevent injury if it snaps. Resistance bands come in light, medium and heavy weights. The tension weight will vary per brand, but this is how they are usually labeled. There are different types of resistance bands that vary in length and style. Some come in closed loops, some with handles and then there are mini bands. CNET staff -- not advertisers, partners or busi

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My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2025-12-01 04:47:38

In the pirate case there’s no real damage done... but the risks of real damage from prompt injection are constantly increasing as we build more powerful and sensitive systems on top of LLMs. I think this is why we still haven’t seen a successful “digital assistant for your email”, despite enormous demand for this. If we’re going to unleash LLM tools on our email, we need to be very confident that this kind of attack won’t work. My hypothetical digital assistant is called Marvin. What happens i

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Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta Talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

news.ycombinator.com Simon Willison 2025-12-01 16:47:38

In the pirate case there’s no real damage done... but the risks of real damage from prompt injection are constantly increasing as we build more powerful and sensitive systems on top of LLMs. I think this is why we still haven’t seen a successful “digital assistant for your email”, despite enormous demand for this. If we’re going to unleash LLM tools on our email, we need to be very confident that this kind of attack won’t work. My hypothetical digital assistant is called Marvin. What happens i

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I compared Gemini to Google Assistant on two Wear OS watches. The results weren’t even close

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-01 16:00:54

Joe Maring / Android Authority About a month ago, Google started doing something long overdue for Wear OS: it finally began replacing Google Assistant with Gemini. As imperfect as it may be at times, Gemini is a really powerful tool. More importantly, Google Assistant on Wear OS has been showing its age for a while now. I’ve been testing Gemini on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 Classic for a little over two weeks. In addition to using it for daily tasks, I’ve also been comparing it side by side wi

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NASA and Google are building an AI medical assistant to keep Mars-bound astronauts healthy

techcrunch.com Aria Alamalhodaei 2025-12-03 03:17:35

As human-spaceflight missions grow longer and travel farther from Earth, keeping crews healthy gets more challenging. Astronauts on the International Space Station can depend on real-time calls to Houston, regular cargo deliveries of medicines, and a quick ride home after six months. All of that may soon change as NASA and its commercial partners, like Elon Musk’s SpaceX, look to conduct longer-duration missions that would take humans to the Moon and Mars. That looming reality is pushing NASA

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The Sunlight Budget of Earth

news.ycombinator.com Asimov Press 2025-12-06 03:15:41

By Sam Clamons Editor’s Note: This article contains numerical estimates compiled from various research articles. It was reviewed by three climate experts: Casey Handmer, Paul Reginato, and Jonathan Burbaum. Their notes are recorded in the footnotes. Our full dataset and calculations are available for download. We hope this will be a useful starting point for much deeper discussions. Modern biotechnology is powered by sunlight. Light-gobbling algae, both natural and engineered, are harvested an

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Consistency over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP theorem

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-07 22:57:08

Consistency Over Availability: How rqlite Handles the CAP Theorem rqlite is a lightweight, user-friendly, open-source, distributed relational database. It’s written in Go and uses SQLite as its storage engine. When it comes to distributed systems the CAP theorem is an essential concept. It states that it’s impossible for a distributed database to simultaneously provide Consistency, Availability, and Partition tolerance. The challenge is in the face of a network partition, a database can only b

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Show HN: FFlags – Feature flags as code, served from the edge

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-08 04:13:35

Skip the Feature Flags infra headache Get the sub ~25ms wall-time performance and enterprise-scale reliability without months of development time. You can define the flag logic in JavaScript so the responses are consistent and predictable. The application is based on OpenFeature to ensure there's no vendor lock-in and you are free from the enterprise slop.

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Apple rolls out limited AI chatbot test in its Support app

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-10 04:10:31

A few weeks ago, a few strings of code in the Apple Support app showed that it could soon get a “Support Assistant,” based on generative models. The assistant is now live, as a limited experiment. As first spotted by MacRumors reader Gatlyn, Apple has rolled out an early preview of the Support Assistant through a “Chat” tab that is being made available for select users within the Apple Support app. Upon tapping it, the user is greeted with a splash screen with the following instructions, and t

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Google’s Smart Home Ecosystem Is Crumbling

gizmodo.com James Pero 2025-12-11 22:54:22

When I started using a Google smart speaker six years ago, I was all in. Voice assistants have never been perfect—in fact, they always kind of sucked—but I found (having also used Alexa and Siri) that Google Assistant sucked just a little bit less than the competition. And the fact that it was actually linked to Google search for real web queries made it even better. Flash forward to now, and everything I just wrote couldn’t be further from the truth. Things are arguably worse for the Google As

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Where to find ideas

news.ycombinator.com Rob Snyder 2025-12-12 17:37:15

Starting to fill up for Q3 - get my help setting up & debugging your pre-PMF sales / GTM! More info HERE, my Calendly is HERE. — There are two kinds of people in startupland who bother me more than just about anyone: The get-rich-quick influencer who says things like: “You can literally just prompt AI to find underserved niches and build a profitable AI startup.” The academic who hasn’t built anything, yet feels comfortable telling you to use their complicated startup framework to find and va

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New Theory Could Dramatically Expand the Search for Aliens

gizmodo.com Gayoung Lee 2025-12-14 03:36:09

The search for alien life is largely centered on finding planets in the “Goldilocks Zone”—the distance from a star where a planet could have liquid water on its surface and enough light to sustain life. But a new study offers a tantalizing possibility that other worlds, far from their host stars, may also be able to support living things, a finding that could dramatically broaden the search for extraterrestrial life. In a paper published last week in the International Journal of Astrobiology, r

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AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds

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Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta Talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

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