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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-18 23:04:23

"The competition for AGI—AI that surpasses humans at all cognitive tasks—is of fundamental geopolitical importance." That's The Economist, last week. Not some breathless tech blogger or venture capitalist talking their book. The world's most prestigious economic publication. Notice the framing - it treats AGI as a foregone geopolitical contest. They're not wrong about the competition. They're just wrong about what we're competing for. I started coding again last year. First time in 13 years.

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Formula E cars keep getting faster and faster: What’s next for the sport?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 03:51:16

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula E isn’t adding downforce to Gen 4 just because. Change is never easy "This was a hot topic. No mitigation: car performance, car perf

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Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-19 09:51:16

In addition to being bigger and heavier, teams are also going to have high- and low-downforce configurations. Racing drivers will always want more grip, but the addition of aerodynamics to push cars down onto the track surface can fundamentally change the racing, and not always in a way that makes for an entertaining spectacle for the audience. That said, Formula E isn’t adding downforce to Gen 4 just because. Change is never easy "This was a hot topic. No mitigation: car performance, car perf

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Google AI Model Helps Us See the Planet as We Never Have Before

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-19 12:14:00

It's a view of Mother Earth as we've never seen her, and it just might help us solve some our most existential issues. Google has launched a new AI model called AlphaEarth Foundations, which can take images and measurements from satellites and other sources to create current and accurate digital representations of lands and waters. With all this data, scientists and researchers can monitor problems like water scarcity, deforestation and crop health. Google says AlphaEarth's AI modeling has alr

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Design and development shop the Iconfactory is selling some apps — and AI is partially to blame

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-19 12:36:05

At one point, an app called Twitterrific was one of the most popular iPhone apps for browsing Twitter. These days, the company behind that app, and the many apps that followed, is struggling. And AI may partially be to blame. On Wednesday, the company known as the Iconfactory admitted it was at a crossroads and was putting up several of its apps for sale due to a lack of resources. While the announcement positioned the matter as a situation where the Iconfactory’s app catalog had simply grown t

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Design and development shop the Iconfactory is selling some apps —and AI is partially to blame

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-19 18:36:05

At one point, an app called Twitterrific was one of the most popular iPhone apps for browsing Twitter. These days, the company behind that app, and the many apps that followed, is struggling. And AI may partially be to blame. On Wednesday, the company known as the Iconfactory admitted it was at a crossroads and was putting up several of its apps for sale due to a lack of resources. While the announcement positioned the matter as a situation where the Iconfactory’s app catalog had simply grown t

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Apple to announce Q3 2025 earnings today, here’s how to listen in live

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-20 09:35:41

Apple is set to release its Q3 2025 earnings results later today, followed by a conference call set to start at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET. Here’s how you can listen in live. Trade tensions to play a major role in today’s results Right after the market closes later today, Apple is set to report its Q3 2025 earnings, offering a clearer picture of how its many businesses did between April and June, as well as how ongoing trade tensions with key supplier countries like China and India have impac

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Informatica advances its AI to transform 7-day enterprise data mapping nightmares into 5-minute coffee breaks

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-12-20 14:00:00

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 Data platform vendor Informatica is expanding its AI capabilities as the needs of gen AI continue to increase enterprise requirements. Informatica is no stranger to the world of AI; in fact, the company debuted its first Claire AI tool for data in 2018. In the modern generative AI era, the company has expanded its technology with improved

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Sumo – Simulation of Urban Mobility

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 04:39:52

The SUMO User Conference , held every year in Berlin since 2013, is a must-attend event for anyone involved with SUMO. It gathers international participants from the industry, research and public institutions - to present (among others) projects, studies and advancements all around traffic, simulation and SUMO. The conference is a great place to learn about new features, network with fellow enthusiasts, ask the developers, have fruitful discussions, exchange ideas and even start collaborations!

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AI Is Taking Over Your Search Engine. Here's What It's Doing and Why It Matters

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-20 17:00:06

For decades, the way we find information on the internet changed only in small ways. Doing a traditional Google search today doesn't feel all that different from when, in the 1990s, you would Ask Jeeves. Sure, a lot has changed under the hood, the results are likely far more relevant and the interface has some new features, but you're still typing in keywords and getting a list of websites that might hold the answer. That way of searching, it seems, is starting to go the way of AltaVista, may i

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Sumo – Simulation of Urban MObility

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-17 16:39:52

The SUMO User Conference , held every year in Berlin since 2013, is a must-attend event for anyone involved with SUMO. It gathers international participants from the industry, research and public institutions - to present (among others) projects, studies and advancements all around traffic, simulation and SUMO. The conference is a great place to learn about new features, network with fellow enthusiasts, ask the developers, have fruitful discussions, exchange ideas and even start collaborations!

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Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico

wired.com Fernanda González 2025-12-21 04:58:24

The spread of measles is showing no signs of slowing down in Mexico. Between July 21 and 25, the country’s number of confirmed infections in 2025 rose from 3,553 to 3,730, an increase of 197 in only four days, according to the Ministry of Health. Experts and health officials in Mexico have warned that the virus’s speed of transmission appears to be increasing. So far, the outbreak has claimed the lives of 12 people: 11 in the state of Chihuahua—which borders Texas to the north, the epicenter of

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Meta to spend up to $72B on AI infrastructure in 2025 as compute arms race escalates

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-12-21 18:31:42

Meta is pouring money into the physical and technical infrastructure needed to scale its AI ambitions. The company said Wednesday in its second-quarter earnings report that it plans to more than double its spend on building AI infrastructure, like data centers and servers. “We currently expect 2025 capital expenditures, including principal payments on finance leases, to be in the range of $66-72 billion…up approximately $30 billion year-over-year at the midpoint,” Meta said. That’s an aggressi

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Dropbox Passwords is shutting down, and you have to act fast

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-22 09:38:08

Dropbox has announced that its password manager, Dropbox Passwords, is shutting down soon. And you don’t have long to find a new solution. Dropbox Passwords shutdown will happen in three stages on accelerated timeline Dropbox Passwords is being discontinued, and users are encouraged to find a new password solution elsewhere. Why the shutdown? Per a support doc, it’s “part of our efforts to focus on enhancing other features in our core product.” Though web service shutdowns often come with ex

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Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-12-22 18:00:00

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. On July 25th, the UK became one of the first countries to widely implement age verification. Its Online Safety Act requires sites hosting porn and other content deemed “harmful” — including Reddit, Discord, Grindr, X, and Bluesky — to verify that users are over the age of 18. The early results have been chaotic. While many services have complied, so

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Flickering lights could help fight misinformation

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-22 23:58:29

A group of Cornell computer scientists has unveiled what they believe could be a new tool in the fight against AI‑generated video, deepfakes and doctored clips. The watermarking technique, called “noise‑coded illumination,” hides verification data in light itself to help investigators spot doctored videos. The approach, devised by Peter Michael, Zekun Hao, Serge Belongie and assistant professor Abe Davis, was published in the June 27 issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics and will be presented b

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Stanford's holographic AI glasses are coming for your clunky VR headset

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-12-23 04:26:17

Over the past couple of years, with the introduction of the Apple Vision Pro and the Meta Quest 3, I've become a believer in the potential of mixed reality. First, and this was a big concern for me, it's possible to use VR headsets without barfing. Second, some of the applications are truly amazing, especially the entertainment. While the ability to watch a movie on a giant screen is awesome, the fully immersive 3D experiences on the Vision Pro are really quite compelling. In this article, I'm

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State capacity and eight parking spaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 00:37:39

Jul 29, 2025 politics government infrastructure seattle State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book, Abundance, makes a compelling case that American government has systematically eroded its own capacity to build things. Through decades of well-intentioned regulations, environmental reviews, and bureaucratic processes, we’ve created a system that prioritizes blocking bad projects over enabling good ones. The result is a country that can’t build high-speed rail,

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State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-23 18:37:39

Jul 29, 2025 politics government infrastructure seattle State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book, Abundance, makes a compelling case that American government has systematically eroded its own capacity to build things. Through decades of well-intentioned regulations, environmental reviews, and bureaucratic processes, we’ve created a system that prioritizes blocking bad projects over enabling good ones. The result is a country that can’t build high-speed rail,

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A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

news.ycombinator.com Eileen Guo 2025-12-23 22:59:09

Indeed, the curators of DataComp CommonPool were themselves aware it was likely that PII would appear in the data set and did take some measures to preserve privacy, including automatically detecting and blurring faces. But in their limited data set, Hong’s team found and validated over 800 faces that the algorithm had missed, and they estimated that overall, the algorithm had missed 102 million faces in the entire data set. On the other hand, they did not apply filters that could have recognize

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Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-24 04:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips — here’s how it could benefit enterprises

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-24 16:45:40

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 As demand for large-scale AI deployment skyrockets, the lesser-known, private chip startup Positron is positioning itself as a direct challenger to market leader Nvidia by offering dedicated, energy-efficient, memory-optimized inference chips aimed at relieving the industry’s mounting cost, power, and availability bottlenecks. “A key diffe

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Stanford’s Management Science and Engineering programs

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-24 16:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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Luma and Runway expect robotics to eventually be a big revenue driver for them

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-12-24 18:12:43

In Brief AI video-generating startups Luma and Runway are looking beyond movie studios. These video-generating AI companies have their sights set on other markets for future revenue streams and have been in talks with both robotics and self-driving car companies, according to reporting from The Information. The report didn’t identify which companies Luma and Runway are in talks with. This potential revenue stream makes sense for Luma in particular. The company announced it was looking to buil

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The Secret Stanford Program No One's Heard About

news.ycombinator.com Sovann A. P. Linden 2025-12-24 22:25:00

This month, a series of Poets&Quants articles spotlighted growing discontent among MBA students at Stanford Graduate School of Business, raising questions about how well traditional management education is adapting to an AI-driven economy. While few doubt the GSB’s capacity to evolve — it has done so time and again — the more quietly transformative story lies just one quad away, inside the Huang Engineering Center. There, an often-overlooked graduate program is quietly outpacing expectations a

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Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

techcrunch.com Lauren Forristal 2025-12-25 23:30:00

When Esther Hallam welcomed her daughter, Nara, into the world, she faced the challenge of searching for trustworthy brands that offered high-quality, organic infant formula in the U.S. Despite being available for nearly 160 years, the quality of infant formula options in the U.S. is still lacking, she believes. Many manufacturers opt for skim milk to cut costs, which allows them to add oils to meet nutritional requirements. Several formulas contain palm oil, soy, and corn syrup, which aren’t r

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Data breach at Tea reportedly contains images and DMs from last week

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-26 22:48:23

Last week, social network Tea experienced a data breach that exposed personal information for its users. The dating safety app for women said at the time that "there is no evidence to suggest that current or additional user data was affected." However, 404 Media reports that the problem is bigger than originally stated. The site credits independent security researcher Kasra Rahjerdi , who found that content from the platform as recent as last week has been exposed. Additionally, this source cla

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If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-28 12:44:33

Imagine this scenario: you're worried you may have committed a crime, so you turn to a trusted advisor — OpenAI's blockbuster ChatGPT, say — to describe what you did and get its advice. This isn't remotely far-fetched; lots of people are already getting legal assistance from AI, on everything from divorce proceedings to parking violations. Because people are amazingly stupid, it's almost certain that people have already asked the bot for advice about enormously consequential questions about, sa

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How the Federal Reserve Actually Affects Mortgage Rates

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-28 11:48:00

The Fed's interest rate decisions impact mortgages, but the relationship isn't straightforward. Tharon Green/CNET If you tracked the Federal Reserve's monetary policy decisions last year, you might have been puzzled: The Fed's three interest rate cuts didn't bring about lower mortgage rates. In fact, the average rate for a 30-year fixed home loan has hovered around 6.8% for the past several months. The Fed's interest rate decisions don't have a direct or immediate effect on home loan rates. Of

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How E2B became essential to 88% of Fortune 100 companies and raised $21 million

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-28 23:00:00

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 E2B, a startup providing cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has closed a $21 million Series A funding round led by Insight Partners, capitalizing on surging enterprise demand for AI automation tools. The funding comes as an remarkable 88% of Fortune 100 companies have already signed up to use E2B

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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the AI Bubble

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Formula E wraps up season 11—where does the all-EV series go next?

Google AI Model Helps Us See the Planet as We Never Have Before

Design and development shop the Iconfactory is selling some apps — and AI is partially to blame

Design and development shop the Iconfactory is selling some apps —and AI is partially to blame

Apple to announce Q3 2025 earnings today, here’s how to listen in live

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Sumo – Simulation of Urban MObility

Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico

Meta to spend up to $72B on AI infrastructure in 2025 as compute arms race escalates

Dropbox Passwords is shutting down, and you have to act fast

Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet

Flickering lights could help fight misinformation

Stanford's holographic AI glasses are coming for your clunky VR headset

State capacity and eight parking spaces

State Capacity and Eight Parking Spaces

A major AI training data set contains millions of examples of personal data

Stanford’s Department of Management Science and Engineering

Positron believes it has found the secret to take on Nvidia in AI inference chips — here’s how it could benefit enterprises

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Fed up with brands that use corn syrup and skim milk, this mother developed her own ‘clean’ baby formula

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If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court

How the Federal Reserve Actually Affects Mortgage Rates

How E2B became essential to 88% of Fortune 100 companies and raised $21 million

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