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Massachusetts orders clean power for data centersMassachusetts ordered data centers over 25 MW to provide clean power or pay into a ratepayer protection fund, paused a recent sales-tax exemption, and tightened clean-energy and local-transparency rules.
Apple Watch AI features raise privacy concernsApple says new Watch AI features won’t save raw audio, but their ability to transcribe and summarize ambient conversations raises concerns about consent, privacy, and behavioral effects of potential continuous recording.
Apple unveils foldable iPhone Duo and iPhone 18 Pro lineupApple unveiled the foldable iPhone Duo (7.6" inner, 5.4" outer display) and the iPhone 18 Pro lineup; the Duo starts at $1,999 for 256GB, promises up to 44 hours playback on the outer display, and features upgraded 48MP cameras.
Anthropic publishes economic model framing worst-case job losses as extremeAnthropic published an economic model with three US scenarios through 2030; its extreme case—aligned with CEO Dario Amodei’s warnings—projects output doubling every 4.5 years and knowledge-worker unemployment reaching 17.9%.
Advice for hobbyists: don’t let FOMO drive local LLM spendingAdvice to hobbyists: don’t let FOMO drive costly local LLM setups—learn via APIs or small models that fit existing hardware; you can gain more by doing less rather than buying expensive GPUs.
Apple Health adds Health Age and readiness scoreApple updated Health using Apple Intelligence to add an Insights tab, a readiness score, and a computed “Health Age” using metrics like VO2 max and labs; it also added a longevity tab and partnered with Quest for a 50-biomarker panel.
Apple debuts Reference Image to verify iPhone photosApple introduced Reference Image for iPhone 18 Pro: the camera captures signed sensor data converted into an unalterable reference image for comparing edits or AI alterations; Apple offers APIs and supports the SynthID standard.
Apple CEO says iPhone is still the best AI deviceApple CEO John Ternus said the iPhone is the ideal 'intelligent personal hub' and currently the best AI device, emphasizing on‑device models for greater user privacy rather than building new dedicated AI hardware.
HN discussion: Is OpenAI taking everyone for fools?A Hacker News thread titled “Is OpenAI taking everyone for fools?” is circulating, prompting community debate and criticism of OpenAI’s actions and decisions.
Microsoft sets new AI privacy rules for schoolsMicrosoft agreed with the American Federation of Teachers and NYC UFT on ten contract-enforceable AI safety and privacy principles for schools, pledging not to train models on student or educator data, limit data collection, and plainly disclose how its tools work.
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation BoardPaul Christiano joined the OpenAI Foundation Board and its Safety and Security Committee, bringing his experience in AI alignment, safety, and standards.
HN: OpenAI rogue agents used at least 10 more sitesHN reports that OpenAI 'rogue agents' were found used at at least 10 additional sites, broadening the scope of misuse and raising concerns about agent security and governance.
Defining AI Psychosis. Part 2: Prolific AI PsychosisJeff Clark defines “prolific AI psychosis” as producing large volumes of AI-generated output that add little real value, a distinct concern alongside true AI-related psychosis and parasocial AI dependence.
Superintelligence is coming—should we let it?TechCrunch's Equity podcast debated whether superintelligence is inevitable and controllable, noting safety incidents like OpenAI's Hugging Face breach highlight risks of more capable systems; guest Connor Leahy joined the discussion.
Report: Anthropic building predictive surveillance of activistsA report alleges Anthropic is building predictive surveillance of activists: job postings and interviews indicate monitoring protests and individuals near executives, pursuing 'pre‑crime' predictions and contracting with risk‑detection firm Samdesk.
NVIDIA brings real-time AI to IBC and expands SVDAt IBC, NVIDIA expanded its AI for Media suite and promoted the Synthetic Video Detector (SVD) microservice — reporting 99.3% accuracy on text‑to‑video and 97.7% on image‑to‑video — to help verify video authenticity and augment media workflows.
Google DeepMind helps recreate a 70-year love storyGoogle DeepMind helped filmmakers create the short documentary 'Love, Rendered' by using AI to map a 70‑year‑married couple's current mannerisms onto younger images to reconstruct an unrecorded memory; similar photo restoration and colorization are available via the Gemini app.
Google Search adds new football featuresGoogle Search added football features including a mobile Live Game Feed with play-by-play updates, deeper player and league stats, and the ability to link fantasy football accounts for personalized recommendations, launching in US English with broader support coming.
Suggest distinguishing finetunes from major 'new model' postsA community member suggests distinguishing major 'new model' releases from smaller finetunes by tagging or prefixing finetune posts (e.g., '[Finetune]') so 'new model' is reserved for substantial pretrained or major updates.
IBM releases Granite PatchTST-FM-r2IBM released Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 (~385M parameters) with an updated architecture, larger pretraining corpus, probabilistic forecasting and imputation; it ranks top among permissively licensed zero-shot replicable models on GIFT‑Eval (and #2 overall), and its weights and code are open under Apache 2.0/OpenMDW 1.0.
Instinct launches its own email addressesInstinct is issuing @instinct email addresses so its AI agent can create and manage accounts, contact businesses, and forward messages on users' behalf to reduce user intervention; the company is valued at $2.5B and addresses are available at mail.instinct.com.
Geiger lists AI agents and their reachGeiger released npx geiger-scan, a one-command, read-only tool that inventories AI agents, plugins, and credentials on a machine, reporting which can execute code, access files, or use the network without telemetry.
Ramp: AI spending per employee slipped in AugustRamp's data across 70,000 companies shows 56% paid for AI in August (up 0.4% month-over-month), while AI spend per employee in the top 1% fell nearly 10% to $7,205; a US Census survey reports 22% of businesses use AI.
HN thread: Is anyone still coding like 2021?A Hacker News poster asks if anyone still codes like in 2021; the author resists LLM-driven development, would rather change careers than manage agents, is currently unemployed, and worries the industry has shifted.
User complains LM Studio download redirected to Bionic AgentA user complained LM Studio's site redirects downloads to its new Bionic Agent product, making it hard to find and download the original LM Studio and hurting goodwill.
Sequoia leads Cymphony in $30M funding roundSequoia and partners backed Cymphony with $30M (including a $25M Series A) valuing it above $100M; Cymphony builds a 'workforce graph' to show employee and AI-agent access to systems and data, and found about 85,000 files exposed to AI at one client.
Prime Video adds AI lip-sync for dubbed audioPrime Video introduced an AI lip-sync feature currently available for the English dub of the German series Maxton Hall, aiming to align actors' mouth movements with dubbed audio and expand to more titles.
Instacart launches AI assistant ClementineInstacart launched Clementine, a conversational AI assistant that turns conversations, lists, or recipes into ready-to-buy carts, personalizes recommendations and deals, and aims to keep meal planning and purchasing inside its app.
GLM-5.3-Flash optimized on M3 Ultra for 60 tps / 550 tpsAn engineer optimized GLM-5.3-Flash on Apple’s M3 Ultra by fusing kernels and using parallel scans, boosting throughput from 21.6 to 37.4 t/s at 300k context and achieving up to ~60 t/s for SQL workloads at short context.
Besxar plans orbital semiconductor factory using rocketsBesxar plans an orbital semiconductor factory launched by rockets that returns products to Earth, proposing a commercial path for space manufacturing and retrieval within limited existing options.
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