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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang was often seen by the side of President Donald Trump. Leah Millis/Reuters The future of the AI race was laid down in 2025. Big Tech may hold up the entire economy with its cape...
Dell has revealed that consumers aren't buying PCs for AI features right now. In an interview with PC Gamer ahead of CES, Dell has made it clear its 2026 products aren't all about being AI-first, and ...
Image and video capabilities could be crucial in 2026. Getty Images Partners a16z said ChatGPT is winning the consumer AI race, but things can change "very quickly." They predict that image an...
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16673 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46532075 Points: 15 # Comments: 5...
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Hi, I'm the author of The Program audio series, a fairly successful fiction podcast that launched on HackerNews in 2018. Seven years later, this little sci-fi anthology is still ongoing, having releas...
AgileRL cofounders Entrepreneur First AgileRL raised $7.5 million to expand its AI training software platform. The London startup focuses on reinforcement learning, a technique that has been around si...
Vanran, a fast-paced soulslike action game with Shadow of the Colossus-sized boss battles, is getting a playable demo later this month. Check out the new trailer above, and the reveal trailer below. I...
It's harder than ever for a new video game to crack the top of the most-played list. According to the Circana Player Engagement Tracker and video game market analyst Mat Piscatella, in 2025, the top f...
Blackstone CTO John Stecher said the software engineering landscape looks different than when he graduated in 2001. Blackstone Blackstone CTO John Stecher said there's been a shift in entry-level soft...
Character.AI and Google have reached settlements with several families whose teens harmed themselves or died by suicide after interacting with Character.AI 's chatbots, according to new court filings....
Grok began 2026 as it began 2025 : under fire for its AI-generated images. Elon Musk's chatbot has spent the last week flooding X with nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes of adults and minors. Circula...
"Shrimp Jesus" was early AI slop on Facebook. Facebook We're going to really have to be on our toes to separate AI from reality this year. The head of Instagram says it's getting harder and ha...
Apple and Google are being dragged into the uproar around X's AI chatbot that has continued to virtually undress women in images without their consent this week. In a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and ...
Long time lurker here. My family had a pen-and-paper game we'd play on long drives to visit my great-grandmother. After she passed, I spent the holidays recreating it: https://a26z.fun How it works: F...
Aaron Cannon cofounded an AI startup that recently raised $30 million. He also picks up his 3-year-old every day from preschool. Aaron Cannon Aaron Cannon thought up his startup, Outset, while on pate...
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/briefing/why-do-americans-hate-ai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46465472 Points: 12 # Comments: 5...
In this new era of console… inclusivity ? driven by Sony and mostly Microsoft bringing their exclusives to other platforms, it's getting harder to highlight games that make a singular console shine. I...
X users are asking Elon Musk's Grok AI to create sexualized deepfakes of women and minors. VINCENT FEURAY/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images X users have used Elon Musk's Grok image generator to create s...