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AI pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warned that rapid advances could upend jobs, power, and humanity itself. JORGE UZON/AFP via Getty Images Geoffrey Hinton said he's very sad that the AI he helped create has ...
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says its edge over Silicon Valley isn't smarter models, but being a European alternative built for control, sovereignty, and trust. LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Ar...
Quant asset managers haven't adopted AI en masse yet. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A new Bloomberg survey of quant investors found that 54% of respondents do not use generative AI for investing. A...
Hey HN, Lume is an open-source CLI for running macOS and Linux VMs on Apple Silicon. Since launch ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42908061 ), we've been using it to run AI agents in isolated ma...
Personal Intelligence can tap into your Gmail inbox to check for bookings and purchase receipts. Google is helping AI Mode to provide more personalized responses in Search by allowing the chatbot to a...
Yuval Noah Harari was a speaker at the 2026 World Economic Forum Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images The author of "Sapiens" Yuval Noah Harari said AI is going to cause two crises for every c...
I went to NRF 2026. Jordan Hart/Business Insider AI dominated this week's discussions at Retail's Big Show, a leading industry conference. I attended for the first time and saw retail leaders showcase...
ANGELA WEISS / AFP via Getty Images Wall Street professionals say AI chatbots are not ready to replace core finance work. Finance leaders use AI for tasks such as summarizing books and presentations a...
Hey HN! I built Retain as the evolution of claude-reflect (github.com/BayramAnnakov/claude-reflect). The original problem: I use Claude Code/Codex daily for coding, plus claude.ai and ChatGPT occasion...
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State-owned China Telecom has developed the country’s first artificial intelligence models with the innovative Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture that are trained entirely on advanced chips from Hu...
A parliamentary committee said regulators are struggling to keep pace as AI spreads across banks and insurers, urging clearer guidance....
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Steve Marcus/REUTERS Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang noted a key difference between tasks and your job's broader purpose. AI automates tasks but preserves the purpose of many jobs in k...
The Kaito.ai and Cookie DAO tokens fell over 15% after X’s ban, a move X’s head of product Nikita Bier said should improve user experience on the social media platform....
Hey HN! Wanted to show our open source agent harness called Gambit. If you’re not familiar, agent harnesses are sort of like an operating system for an agent... they handle tool calling, planning, con...
Multibillion-dollar deal to secure Gemini models reflects cautious approach to infrastructure spending...
A new report by Chainalysis finds that AI-enabled crypto scams are more efficient, profitable, and harder to stop....
Z.AI released GLM-Image, trained entirely on Huawei chips, as Beijing moves to block Nvidia H200 imports in a push for AI self-reliance....