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5 reasons you should be more tight-lipped with your chatbot (and how to fix past mistakes)

Your casual conversations with AI chatbots could have some major privacy implications.

Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite

Show HN: Anamnesis – Open-source 4D strategic memory engine for AI agents

Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude

Dealing with silent robocalls? This is why scam callers keep quiet

Answering a silent scam call can mark your number as a high-value target. Here's how to deal with them.

Ask HN: How are you keeping AI coding agents from burning money?

My agents retry a bit more than it should, and there goes my bill up in the sky. I tried figuring out what is causing this but none of the tools helped much. and the worse thing for me is that everything shows up as aggregate usage. Total tokens,...

Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro vs. Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2: I tested both, and here's the winner

The new Samsung earbuds compete with the flagship Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds 2. Here's how they stack up.

AI adoption problem isn't tech debt

Generative AI Can Harm Learning (2024)

Attie.ai

Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use

The Decadelong Feud Shaping the Future of AI

Amazon Spring Sale live blog 2026: Breaking discounts on Apple, Dyson, and more

We're live-tracking the best Amazon Spring Sale deals over 60% off on home, tech, and more, as the sale continues this weekend.

These kitchen tech splurges are worth every penny (and are on sale now)

Trust me, the right kitchen tools make a big difference in your culinary life. Some of my favorites are discounted during Amazon's Big Spring Sale.

We're tracking the best tech deals under $50 during Amazon's Big Spring Sale event

Amazon is full of great, affordable gadgets for your day-to-day, from speakers and chargers to streaming sticks and smart home gear. They're even cheaper now, during the retailer's annual sale - act fast.

Suno leans into customization with v5.5

Slop yourself. | Image: Suno Suno just released one of its biggest updates yet with v5.5 of its AI music model. Where previous updates focused mostly on improving fidelity and creating more natural vocals, v5.5 is about giving users more control. It...

Best Costco deals to compete with Amazon's Big Spring Sale 2026

Forget Amazon. These Costco deals will help you save substantially on everything from household goods to Apple devices.

Best Walmart deals to compete with Amazon's Big Spring Sale 2026

Amazon's Big Spring Sale may be here, but some of these Walmart sales are even better, including up to 60% off on Apple products, Roku devices, and more.

You can get a free iPhone 17e at Visible for a limited time - no trade-in required

New customers can score the latest iPhone for free with a Visible+ plan. Here's what to know.

Best Amazon Spring Sale Apple deals 2026

I've rounded up deals on some of the hottest tech from Apple during Amazon's Big Spring Sale. Shop them this weekend.

Why can’t TikTok identify AI generated ads when I can?

Samsung, like many companies using generative AI in their advertising, hasn’t placed an AI label on several videos shared through its TikTok accounts, and the fine print doesn’t always contain the answers. | Image by Samsung I've been struggling to...

Why OpenAI killed Sora

On Tuesday morning, everything was business as usual at OpenAI. By the end of the day, the company had announced that it would scrap its video-generation app, Sora, and reverse plans for video generation inside ChatGPT; it would wind down a $1...

A woman’s uterus has been kept alive outside the body for the first time

“Think of this as a human body,” says Javier González. In front of me is essentially a metal box on wheels. Standing at around a meter in height, it reminds me of a stainless-steel counter in a restaurant kitchen. It is covered in flexible plastic...

AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics

A policy change announced by NeurIPS, the world’s leading AI research conference, drew widespread backlash from Chinese researchers this week and then was quickly reversed.

The latest in data centers, AI, and energy

Massive new data centers are the physical foundation for tech companies’ hopes and dreams for AI. But the rush to expand warehouses full of energy-hungry servers has also kicked up fights across the world over their impact on power grids, utility...

Apple Still Plans to Sell iPhones When It Turns 100

As the tech giant turns 50, WIRED spoke to executives about how they plan to win in the AI era.

The Download: the internet’s best weather app, and why people freeze their brains

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app The best snow-forecasting app for skiers isn’t a...

The Latest AI Documentary Asks: Just How Scared Should We Be?

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook.

I Asked ChatGPT 500 Questions. Here Are the Ads I Saw Most Often

Ads are rolling out across the US on ChatGPT’s free tier. I asked OpenAI's bot 500 questions to see what these ads were like and how they related to my prompts.

Here’s why some people choose cryonics to store their bodies and brains after death

This week I reported on some rather unusual research that focuses on the brain of L. Stephen Coles. Coles was a gerontologist who died from pancreatic cancer in 2014. He had spent the latter part of his career specializing in human longevity. And...

Judge sides with Anthropic to temporarily block the Pentagon’s ban

After Anthropic's weeks-long standoff with the Pentagon, the company won one milestone: A judge granted Anthropic a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit, which sought to reverse its government blacklisting while the judicial process plays out. "The...

Liberate your OpenClaw

David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar

David Sacks, the venture capitalist and tech billionaire who'd become Silicon Valley's primary advocate inside the White House and a key architect of its aggressive AI policy initiatives, revealed on Thursday that he was no longer a special...

Anthropic Supply-Chain-Risk Designation Halted by Judge

A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s designation, clearing the way for Anthropic to keep doing business without the label starting next week.

Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini

After Anthropic updated its tool for copying another AI's memory into Claude earlier this month, Google Gemini is rolling out new "Import Memory" and "Import Chat History" features on desktop that can help users quickly copy over everything their...

Apple will reportedly allow other AI chatbots to plug into Siri

Siri currently has an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple's iOS 27 update will allow users to choose the AI chatbot they want to link with Siri. That's according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who...

Apple’s AI Playlist Playground is bad at music

Apple Music: "What do you want to hear?" Me: "Atmospheric instrumental black metal to write to." Apple Music: "Here's three metal songs with vocals, a field recording, an ambient electronic track, and a piece of doom jazz." I am skeptical of AI's...

Google’s ‘live’ AI search assistant can handle conversations in dozens more languages

Google is expanding access to Search Live, a feature that lets you search for information using your voice and camera. The AI search assistant is now available in more than 200 countries and territories, as well as dozens of languages, according to...

Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories

Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?

Watch James Manyika talk AI and creativity with LL COOL J.

In the latest episode of our Dialogues on Technology and Society series, LL COOL J sits down with James Manyika.

Transform your headphones into a live personal translator on iOS.

Google Translate’s Live translate with headphones is officially arriving on iOS! And we're expanding the capability for both iOS and Android users to even more countries…

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is now available across Google products.

Into the Omniverse: NVIDIA GTC Showcases Virtual Worlds Powering the Physical AI Era

Editor’s note: This post is part of Into the Omniverse, a series focused on how developers, 3D practitioners, and enterprises can transform their workflows using the latest advances in OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse. NVIDIA GTC last week showcased a...

Search Live is expanding globally

We’re expanding Search Live globally, to all languages and locations where AI Mode is available.

Game On: Five New Titles Now Streaming on GeForce NOW

That gaming backlog won’t clear itself — GeForce NOW is here to help. Stream the latest titles straight from the cloud across a variety of devices. This week, five new titles are ready to play instantly in the cloud gaming platform’s library....

The Download: a battery pivot to AI, and rewriting math

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why this battery company is pivoting to AI Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about the state of the battery...

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

In a letter sent Thursday morning, Elizabeth Warren and Josh Hawley press the Energy Information Agency to mandate annual electricity disclosure for data centers.

‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young

AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.

The snow gods: How a couple of ski bums built the internet’s best weather app

The best snow-forecasting app for skiers and snowboarders isn’t from any of the federally funded weather services. Nor from any of the big-name brands. It’s an independent app startup that leverages government data, its own AI models, and decades of...

Are high gas prices good news for EVs? It’s complicated.

I live in a dense city with plentiful public transportation options and limited parking, so I don’t own a car. I’m often utterly clueless about the current price of gasoline. But as the conflict in Iran has escalated, fossil-fuel prices have been on...

The Future of AI Is Open and Proprietary

AI is the defining technology of our time, quickly becoming core business infrastructure. It’s fueled by a diverse ecosystem of models: large and small, open and proprietary, generalist and specialist. This variety is essential for a future where...

There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

With female AI fruit being fart-shamed and even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.

OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage

In a controlled experiment, OpenClaw agents proved prone to panic and vulnerable to manipulation. They even disabled their own functionality when gaslit by humans.

Roundtables: The Next Era of Space Exploration

Listen to the session or watch below Whether it’s the race to find life on Mars, the campaign to outsmart killer asteroids, or the quest to make the moon a permanent home to astronauts, scientists’ efforts in space can tell us more about where...

Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model

Lyria 3 is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.

Lyria 3 Pro: Create longer tracks in more Google products

We are bringing Lyria 3 to the tools where professionals work and create every day.

Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought

Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.

Why this battery company is pivoting to AI

Qichao Hu doesn’t mince words about how he sees the state of the battery industry. “Almost every Western battery company has either died or is going to die. It’s kind of the reality,” he says. Hu is the CEO of SES AI, a Massachusetts-based battery...

This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math

Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called Axplorer, is a redesign of...

The Download: reawakening frozen brains, and the AI Hype Index returns

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits in...

Blowing Off Steam: How Power-Flexible AI Factories Can Stabilize the Global Energy Grid

At the half-time whistle of the UEFA EURO 2020 round of 16 football match between England and Germany, millions of viewers stepped away from their screens in the U.K. to do the same thing at the same time — turn on their kettles. National Grid,...

Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines

Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.

Advancing Open Source AI, NVIDIA Donates Dynamic Resource Allocation Driver for GPUs to Kubernetes Community

Artificial intelligence has rapidly emerged as one of the most critical workloads in modern computing. For the vast majority of enterprises, this workload runs on Kubernetes, an open source platform that automates the deployment, scaling and...

A New Framework for Evaluating Voice Agents (EVA)

How Autonomous AI Agents Become Secure by Design With NVIDIA OpenShell

Autonomous agents mark a new inflection point in AI. Systems are no longer limited to generating responses or reasoning through tasks. They can take action: Agents can read files, use tools, write and run code, and execute workflows across...

Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack

Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.

Build a Domain-Specific Embedding Model in Under a Day

What's New in Mellea 0.4.0 + Granite Libraries Release

NVIDIA GTC 2026: Live Updates on What’s Next in AI

Rolling coverage from San Jose, including NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s keynote, news highlights, live demos and on‑the‑ground color through March 19.

Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities."

Smooth Moves: 90 Frames-Per-Second Virtual Reality Arrives on GeForce NOW

It’s a double feature on GFN Thursday. This week, GeForce NOW offers smoother sights in virtual reality (VR) and a sprawling new land to conquer. Streaming at 90 frames per second (fps) comes to supported VR headsets. And Crimson Desert, which...

Federal cyber experts called Microsoft's cloud a "pile of shit," approved it anyway

One Microsoft product was approved despite years of concerns about its security.

From Simulation to Production: How to Build Robots With AI

The latest open models and frameworks from NVIDIA bring together simulation, robot learning and embedded compute to accelerate cloud-to-robot workflows.

Researchers disclose vulnerabilities in IP KVMs from four manufacturers

Internet-exposed devices that give BIOS-level access? What could possibly go wrong?

More Than Meets the Eye: NVIDIA RTX-Accelerated Computers Now Connect Directly to Apple Vision Pro

NVIDIA and Apple’s collaboration brings native integration of NVIDIA CloudXR 6.0 to visionOS, securely delivering NVIDIA RTX-powered simulators and professional 3D graphics applications — like Immersive for Autodesk VRED on Innoactive’s XR streaming...

State of Open Source on Hugging Face: Spring 2026

Bringing the power of Personal Intelligence to more people

We're expanding Personal Intelligence across AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app and Gemini in Chrome.

Our latest investment in open source security for the AI era

Google is making new investments, building new tools and developing code security to improve open source security.

Holotron-12B - High Throughput Computer Use Agent

Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories

Unicode that's invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned—until attackers took notice.

The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker's Windows network

Company says it doesn't know how long it will take to restore its Microsoft environment.

How AI is helping improve heart health in rural Australia

A new Google AI initiative aims to improve heart health outcomes for people living in remote Australian communities.

14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns

Most of the devices are made by Asus and are located in the US.

Gemini in Google Sheets just achieved state-of-the-art performance.

Today we announced new beta features for Gemini in Sheets to help you create, organize and edit entire sheets, from basic tasks to complex data analysis — just describe …

Introducing Storage Buckets on the Hugging Face Hub

Keep the Tokens Flowing: Lessons from 16 Open-Source RL Libraries

Ulysses Sequence Parallelism: Training with Million-Token Contexts

LeRobot v0.5.0: Scaling Every Dimension

Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.

Railway secures $100 million to challenge AWS with AI-native cloud infrastructure

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial...

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide....

Listen Labs raises $69M after viral billboard hiring stunt to scale AI customer interviews

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible. So he spent $5,000 — a fifth of his marketing budget — on a...

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise...

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and...

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four...

The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude...

Meta bought 1 GW of solar this week

The social media company inked three deals in the U.S. to power its data centers and offset its carbon footprint.

How one AI startup is helping rice farmers battle climate change

Mitti Labs is working with The Nature Conservancy to expand the use of climate-friendly rice farming practices in India. The startup uses its AI to verify reductions in methane emissions.

Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation

After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.

Meta to add 100MW of solar power from US gear

The social media company is adding another tranche of solar to power a new AI data center in South Carolina.

Perplexity accused of scraping websites that explicitly blocked AI scraping

Internet giant Cloudflare says it detected Perplexity crawling and scraping websites, even after customers had added technical blocks telling Perplexity not to scrape their pages.

Obvio’s stop sign cameras use AI to root out unsafe drivers

American streets are incredibly dangerous for pedestrians. A San Carlos, California-based startup called Obvio thinks it can change that by installing cameras at stop signs -- a solution the founders also say won’t create a panopticon.

Breakneck data center growth challenges Microsoft’s sustainability goals

Microsoft's sustainability goals are imperiled by its push into AI and cloud services.

Gridcare thinks more than 100 GW of data center capacity is hiding in the grid

Gridcare raised $13.3 million for its data platform that finds underutilized capacity on the electrical grid.

Meta adds another 650 MW of solar power to its AI push

The company already has more than 12 gigawatts of capacity in its renewable power portfolio.