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Couples Retreat for Humans Dating AIs Becomes Skin-Crawlingly Uncomfortable

futurism.com Unknown 2026-02-22 02:00:25

A well-intentioned writer decided to get a group of humans and their AI companions together for a cabin retreat. Somehow, it went worse than anyone could have imagined. As Johns Hopkins science writer Sam Apple described in a new essay for Wired, the apps that each human participant used to communicate with their AI companions varied — but the intensity, obsession, and affection they felt for their digital paramours seemed very real, albeit sometimes tortured. The weekend getaway started, as A

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Scientists Launch Wild New Project to Build a Human Genome From Scratch

gizmodo.com Natalia Mesa 2026-02-21 23:00:04

A team of UK-based researchers is going where no scientist has dared to go—writing artificial human DNA from scratch. They’re hoping the project will answer fundamental questions about the human genome and transform our understanding of health and disease. But the research topic is, for obvious reasons, controversial. Scientists have largely steered clear of trying to create full synthetic human genomes, wary of propelling us into a dystopian, Gattaca-esque future full of designer babies. Now,

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Against AI: An Open Letter from Writers to Publishers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-21 22:48:36

To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as artists is to respond to the human experience. But the art we make is a commodity, and our world wants things quickly, cheaply, and on demand. We are rushing toward a future where our novels, our biographies, our poems and our memoirs—our records of the human experience—are “written” by artificial intell

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Authors call on publishers to limit their use of AI

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2026-02-21 20:51:36

In Brief An open letter from authors including Lauren Groff, Lev Grossman, R.F. Kuang, Dennis Lehane, and Geoffrey Maguire calls on book publishers to pledge to limit their use of AI tools, for example by committing to only hire human audiobook narrators. The letter argues that authors’ work has been “stolen” by AI companies: “Rather than paying writers a small percentage of the money our work makes for them, someone else will be paid for a technology built on our unpaid labor.” Among other c

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AI agents are hitting a liability wall. Mixus has a plan to overcome it using human overseers on high-risk workflows

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2026-02-21 18:27:45

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more While enterprises face the challenges of deploying AI agents in critical applications, a new, more pragmatic model is emerging that puts humans back in control as a strategic safeguard against AI failure. One such example is Mixus, a platform that uses a “colleague-in-the-loop” approach to make AI agents reliable for mission-critical work

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Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got ‘weird’

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2026-02-21 21:00:00

For those of you wondering if AI agents can truly replace human workers, do yourself a favor and read the blog post that documents Anthropic’s “Project Vend.” Researchers at Anthropic and AI safety company Andon Labs put an instance of Claude Sonnet 3.7 in charge of an office vending machine, with a mission to make a profit. And, like an episode of “The Office,” hilarity ensued. They named the AI agent Claudius, equipped it with a web browser capable of placing product orders and an email addr

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History made as Al claims number one spot among world's top ethical hackers

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-23 15:19:00

What just happened? Just a year after its founding, cybersecurity startup Xbow has risen to the top of the HackerOne leaderboard, a platform that ranks the world's most effective bug hunters by the number and severity of vulnerabilities they uncover for major companies. This marks the first time an artificial intelligence system has claimed the number one spot, outpacing thousands of human ethical hackers and security researchers who have traditionally dominated the field. Xbow's rapid ascent i

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AI tool Xbow becomes first non-human to top ethical hacker leaderboard

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-02-24 15:19:00

What just happened? Just a year after its founding, cybersecurity startup Xbow has risen to the top of the HackerOne leaderboard, a platform that ranks the world's most effective bug hunters by the number and severity of vulnerabilities they uncover for major companies. This marks the first time an artificial intelligence system has claimed the number one spot, outpacing thousands of human ethical hackers and security researchers who have traditionally dominated the field. Xbow's rapid ascent i

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Bot or human? Creating an invisible Turing test for the internet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-02-28 05:00:00

AI systems have detectable behavioral signatures that can be used to improve bot detection. Roundtable's Proof-of-Human API verifies proof-of-human invisibly, continuously, and instantaneously. 1 Want to see behavioral differences in action? Skip to Skip to Section 2 for interactive keystroke and mouse movement demos, or Section 3 for a cognitive psychology experiment. Google reCAPTCHA v3 boasts a commanding market share in bot detection today. It claims to analyze patterns of user behavior a

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Your next job? Managing a fleet of AI agents

zdnet.com Joe Mckendrick 2026-02-28 20:01:21

akinbostanci/Getty Images Agentic AI is moving fast, but are we ready for it? "We're all going to be CEOs of a small army of AI agents," predicted Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the digital economy lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and founder of Workhelix, recently quoted in The New York Times. "We have to think, OK: What is it we really want to accomplish? What are the goals here? And we have to think a little bit more deeply about that than we have in

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Bot or Human? Creating the Invisible Turing Test for the Internet

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-01 05:00:00

AI systems have detectable behavioral signatures that can be used to improve bot detection. Roundtable's Proof-of-Human API verifies proof-of-human invisibly, continuously, and instantaneously. 1 Want to see behavioral differences in action? Skip to Skip to Section 2 for interactive keystroke and mouse movement demos, or Section 3 for a cognitive psychology experiment. Google reCAPTCHA v3 boasts a commanding market share in bot detection today. It claims to analyze patterns of user behavior a

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Job titles of the future: Pandemic oracle

technologyreview.com Britta Shoot 2026-03-02 04:00:00

Browne produces independent research reports and works directly with companies of all sizes. One of his niches is consulting on new diagnostic tools—for example, in his work with RAIsonance, a startup using machine learning to analyze cough sounds correlated with tuberculosis and covid-19. For multinational corporations, he models threats such as the possibility of avian influenza spreading from human to human. He builds most- and least-likely scenarios for how the global business community migh

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New data highlights the race to build more empathetic language models

techcrunch.com Russell Brandom 2026-03-02 20:03:01

Measuring AI progress has usually meant testing scientific knowledge or logical reasoning – but while the major benchmarks still focus on left-brain logic skills, there’s been a quiet push within AI companies to make models more emotionally intelligent. As foundation models compete on soft measures like user preference and “feeling the AGI,” having a good command of human emotions may be more important than hard analytic skills. One sign of that focus came on Friday, when prominent open-source

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Robots are transforming warehouse automation and ending back-breaking truck loading

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2026-03-04 15:46:00

The big picture: As the warehouse floor becomes increasingly automated, robots now handle the most punishing aspects of logistics, while people focus on oversight, problem-solving, and continuous improvement. With companies like DHL, FedEx, UPS, and Walmart investing heavily in robotics, the era of the backbreaking warehouse job may soon be history. The last stronghold of human labor in warehouses – the grueling job of loading and unloading trucks – is rapidly giving way to a new generation of

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When Humans Learned to Live Everywhere

news.ycombinator.com Carl Zimmer 2026-03-03 10:14:18

Geography is one of the things that sets apart modern humans. Our closest living relatives — chimpanzees and bonobos — are confined to a belt of Central African forests. But humans have spread across every continent, even remote islands. Our species can thrive not only in forests, but in grasslands, swamps, deserts and just about every other ecosystem dry land has to offer. In a study published on Wednesday, scientists pinpoint the origin of our extraordinary adaptability: Africa, about 70,000

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Reddit Looks to Get in Bed With Altman’s Creepy ‘World ID’ Orbs for User Verification

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2026-03-07 08:00:36

Gaze into the Orb if you want your upvotes. According to a report from Semafor, Reddit is actively considering partnering with World ID, the verification system co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, to perform user verification on its platform. Per the report, Reddit’s potential partnership with World ID would allow users to verify that they are human by staring into one of World ID’s eye-scanning orbs. Once confirmed to be a real person, users would be able to continue using Reddit without reve

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New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-08 08:23:38

The 2009 discovery of footprints (human and animal) left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park sparked a contentious debate about when, exactly, human cultures first developed in North America. Until about a decade ago, it seemed as if the first Americans arrived near the end of the last Ice Age and were part of the Clovis culture, named for the distinctive projectile points they left behind near what’s now Clovis, New Mexico. But various dating methods indi

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Ask HN: How can we keep (part of) the web human?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-08 08:57:22

Any ideas for how we can keep the web (or at least part of it) human? It feels like every time I do a web search, more and more of the results are AI generated nonsense. I'm worried that it's going to become much more difficult to find the human-generated content. How can we keep a part of the web human? Any ideas? (I'm not keen on Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning Orb being the "solution.")

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Planting flags in AI coding territory

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-09 01:39:02

Answering this often triggers more questions that shouldn't surprise anyone. Do you have some workable requirements? Have you created meaningful tests aligned with those? Can you understand and fix your code when those tests fail? Are you seeing opportunities to delete code in a way that enhances its value by reducing its liability? In all of these questions, code is ingrained with purpose, hampered by ambiguity, and therefore very much human, even when it lies forgotten in some machine wher

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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics

news.ycombinator.com Benjie Holson 2026-03-04 17:28:10

(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages) Early History: Various automata were built powered by water, clockwork or steam. Redditors at the time argue that they are not really robots. This is despite the fact that the word “robot” would not be invented until 1920. 1495: Leonardo da Vinci invents a mechanical knight that sits up, moves its head and waves its arm. Despite a lack of working prototype he immedia

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You sound like ChatGPT

theverge.com Sara Parker 2026-03-09 09:00:00

Join any Zoom call, walk into any lecture hall, or watch any YouTube video, and listen carefully. Past the content and inside the linguistic patterns, you’ll find the creeping uniformity of AI voice. Words like “prowess” and “tapestry,” which are favored by ChatGPT, are creeping into our vocabulary, while words like “bolster,” “unearth,” and “nuance,” words less favored by ChatGPT, have declined in use. Researchers are already documenting shifts in the way we speak and communicate as a result of

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Microsoft to lay off thousands in July, but don't worry, AI's getting $80 billion

techspot.com Cal Jeffrey 2026-03-10 17:16:00

In context: There's been plenty of talk about machines displacing human workers in the AI Age, mainly focusing on direct replacements – computers taking over tasks like design and programming. Meanwhile, spending on AI infrastructure soars as investment in human skills steadily declines. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is preparing to lay off thousands of workers next month, with most of the cuts expected to hit the company's sales and customer service divisions. It's a jarring move but not an

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Once You Notice ChatGPT's Weird Way of Talking, You Start to See It Everywhere

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-11 04:15:36

It's not written by humans, it's written by AI. It's not useful, it's slop. It's not hard to find, it's everywhere you look. As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge — maybe more so than anything else, that pattern of negating statements typified by "it's not X, it's Y." Once you notice it, you start to see it everywhere. One teacher on Reddit even noticed that certain AI phrase structures are making t

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Companies That Replaced Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-11 21:10:39

According to tech billionaire and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 2025 was supposed to be the year "when AI agents will work." Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it. Still, that didn't stop business executives from swarming to the software like flies to roadside carrion, gutting entire dep

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New dating for White Sands footprints confirms controversial theory

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-12 22:20:45

The 2009 discovery of footprints (human and animal) left behind in layers of clay and silt at New Mexico’s White Sands National Park sparked a contentious debate about when, exactly, human cultures first developed in North America. Until about a decade ago, it seemed as if the first Americans arrived near the end of the last Ice Age and were part of the Clovis culture, named for the distinctive projectile points they left behind near what’s now Clovis, New Mexico. But various dating methods indi

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AI in Hiring: Examining Biases and Human Experience

computer.org Enrique Quezada 2026-03-12 23:56:55

Is artificial intelligence streamlining the hiring process, or is it just automating old biases in new ways? As employers increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for recruitment and hiring processes, researchers are raising important questions about the technology’s effectiveness in creating fair opportunities for all candidates. A recent study by Theresa Fister and George K. Thiruvathukal of Loyola University Chicago explores the human experience of AI job applications and investigates pot

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Companies That Replaced With Humans With AI Are Realizing Their Mistake

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-13 18:10:39

According to tech billionaire and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 2025 was supposed to be the year "when AI agents will work." Despite widespread hype, so-called "AI agents" — a software product that's supposed to complete human-level tasks autonomously — have yet to live up to their name. As of April, even the best AI agent could only finish 24 percent of the jobs assigned to it. Still, that didn't stop business executives from swarming to the software like flies to roadside carrion, gutting entire dep

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Ultrahuman's new AI tool can predict your risk for cancer, fatigue, and more - here's what it costs

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-03-14 01:30:13

What if there were a way to see the future of your health through a simple blood test? This test would assess your susceptibility to certain cancers and present your cholesterol, blood health, fatigue, glucose, and more in the context of longevity and holistic wellness. While this vision appears similar to Elizabeth Holmes' blood test startup Theranos, the end product this time comes from a different company -- and could produce life-changing results. Best known for its smart ring, Ultrahuman h

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Predict your future health? Ultrahuman's new AI tool says it can - for $800/year

zdnet.com Nina Raemont 2026-03-15 23:00:00

What if there were a way to see the future of your health through a simple blood test? This test would assess your susceptibility to certain cancers and present your cholesterol, blood health, fatigue, glucose, and more in the context of longevity and holistic wellness. While this vision appears similar to Elizabeth Holmes' blood test startup Theranos, the end product this time comes from a different company -- and could produce life-changing results. Best known for its smart ring, Ultrahuman h

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Top AI Researchers Meet to Discuss What Comes After Humanity

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-17 07:34:44

A group of the top minds in AI gathered over the weekend to discuss the "posthuman transition" — a mind-bending exercise in imagining a future in which humanity willfully hands over power, or perhaps bequeaths existence entirely, to some sort of superhuman intelligence. As Wired reports, the lavish party was organized by generative AI entrepreneur Daniel Faggella. Attendees included "AI founders from $100 million to $5 billion valuations" and "most of the important philosophical thinkers on AGI

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