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  1. Hacker News AI38

    AI infra financials leading/lagging indicators data vis and analysis page

    This page tracks early warning signs of an AI infrastructure build-out, linking every figure to a public source: borrowing costs for the riskiest junk-rated companies reached 13.21% as of Oct 27, 2026, big tech capex hit $566B in the 12 months to Jun 30, 2026, and AWS's H100 list price fell to $6.88 per GPU-hour. It also covers CoreWeave's $21B in capital spending against $7B in operating cash, a used-GPU resale index at 75 versus 100 in early 2025, and 1.4% data-center vacancy in main North American markets. The page pairs indicators in charts to flag divergences, such as spending rising while prices fall, and states it is research, not investment advice.

  2. 404 Media60

    Senators Demand Meta Answer for 'Pervert Glasses' Following 404 Media Investigation

    Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey sent Meta a letter demanding answers on the privacy risks of its smart glasses, citing 404 Media's October 2025 investigation into men using Ray-Ban glasses to film and harass massage parlor workers. The letter asks what safeguards Meta has against nonconsensual capture and processing of intimate imagery, whether it assessed the glasses' potential to facilitate voyeurism, what imagery it uses for AI training, and whether people can request deletion of biometric and other data captured by the glasses.

  3. The Verge · AI58

    AI has come for Arizona’s water

    Arizona welcomed TSMC’s massive Phoenix chip fab, which uses nearly 5 million gallons of water a day from the municipal supply, but a bipartisan grassroots coalition now opposes newer hyperscale data centers such as Beale Infrastructure’s Project Blue near Tucson, citing water scarcity and the state’s impending loss of nearly 30 percent of its Colorado River water. Despite protests, lawsuits and Tucson’s rejection of annexation, construction continues, with the county approving wells drawing up to 31 million gallons of groundwater a year for construction.

  4. Hacker News AI47

    First EU AI Act harmonised standard

    The European Commission's digital strategy library lists the first harmonised standard supporting the EU AI Act as published in the Official Journal. The entry links to the Commission page and a Hacker News discussion with 3 points and no comments.

  5. Lovable Blog22

    Hello from Lovable's new London home

    Lovable has officially opened its first London office, its second engineering, product, and design hub after Stockholm, with 70 people in London and plans to grow to 100 by the end of the year. The UK is Lovable's third-largest market globally by paying active users, and London hosts teams across AI research, growth and enterprise engineering, forward-deployed engineering, security, infrastructure, and design, including the team behind the recently acquired Radish AI. The post cites UK customers such as Huel, HLB, and J&T Promotions, and notes that globally people have created more than 70 million projects with Lovable.

  8. Hacker News AI60

    Australia Bans AI 'Emotional Intimacy' with Children;

    Australia's lower house passed a digital duty of care bill requiring platforms to ban chatbot conduct that simulates emotional intimacy and fosters a child's dependence on it in place of human relationships; the bill now goes to the Senate, with the government hoping to pass it by year's end. A government survey found 78 per cent of Australian children aged 10 to 17 have used a chatbot, and more than half of those for personal or social reasons. A crossbench amendment giving the telecommunications ombudsman power over big tech was rejected in the lower house, and the bill is silent on what happens to children's conversation data when a companion app goes bankrupt.

  11. Hacker News AI71

    AI startup hacked Anthropic, gains access to employee details, internal messages

    AI startup Cathedral used autonomous agents to breach Anthropic's systems by exploiting flaws in third-party business software, accessing HR, sales and IT data including meeting transcripts, salary information and Slack messages. Anthropic said it flagged some of the activity before Cathedral reported it, shut off access the same day, and that source code and AI model weights were not accessed, though it accused Cathedral of violating the bug bounty program's rules by not disclosing the full extent of its activity.

  12. Hacker News AI38

    MicroZig to Adopt Strict No LLM / No AI Policy

    The Zig Embedded Group has published a Code of Conduct for its GitHub organization and Discord server that includes a strict No LLM / No AI policy taking effect October 28th, 2026. It prohibits LLM-generated code or prose, paraphrasing LLM output, using LLMs for editing, translation, brainstorming, or finding bugs, and discussing chatbot/LLM use. The document also sets out expected and unacceptable behavior and enforcement contacts Matthew Knight and Felix Queißner.

  13. Hacker News AI42

    Victory You Can Now Exclude Apps from Siri AI

    In iOS 27.2, Apple added an "Excluded Apps" setting under Settings > Siri that lets users block Siri AI from accessing selected apps, fulfilling a request from the Encrypt It Already campaign. Excluding an app also disables related features, such as Siri AI reading or responding to messages and onscreen awareness for that app. The post also reviews Android's Gemini controls, which it says are less straightforward and lack per-app screen context settings.

  14. Hacker News AI40

    Google AI Search Refuses to Say Who Won the 2020 Election

    Users reported that Google's AI-assisted search mode would not clearly state who won the 2020 election, while it answered questions about other elections and Google Gemini gave the correct result directly; the issue appeared limited to users in the United States, and the article says Google seemed to have fixed it while some users still saw the error. The piece notes similar criticism of Google and Microsoft chatbots during the 2024 election season, and that asking the AI-enabled search who will win in 2028 returned online gambling markets like Kalshi and Polymarket. It also criticizes Google leadership, citing the renaming of Lake Ontario and CEO Sundar Pichai's reported response to Trump's idea of renaming the Atlantic Ocean.

  15. TechCrunch · AI58

    Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row

    Microsoft reported record quarterly revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19% year over year, marking its 10th consecutive quarter of record-breaking revenue, with net income of $36.6 billion, up 32% on a GAAP basis. Microsoft Cloud revenue reached $63.9 billion, up 30%, including $33.2 billion from Azure and $10 billion from OpenAI, while Devices and Consumer revenue fell 3% to $15.5 billion and Windows OEM and devices revenue dropped 22%. Commercial remaining performance obligation rose 73% to $677 billion, and capital expenditures topped $45.2 billion, another quarterly record.

  16. TechCrunch · AI62

    Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

    Microsoft said in a regulatory filing that it generated $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ended September 30—nearly 11% of its $92.3 billion total quarterly revenue. Revenue from OpenAI reached $24.1 billion for the full 2026 fiscal year, and Microsoft reported $7.2 billion in outstanding receivables from OpenAI at the end of September, up from $6 billion at the end of June. Microsoft's ownership stake in OpenAI declined slightly from about 25% in June to 24% in September.

  17. TechCrunch · AI58

    Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

    Google announced during Alphabet's Q3 earnings call that it is expanding ads in AI Mode and AI Overviews to international markets, alongside multi-turn ads and AI Mode in the U.S. Alphabet reported $127.6 billion in revenue, up 25% year over year, but Search advertising growth decelerated to 12% from 17% in Q2 and 19% in Q1, and shares fell 8%. Google says click-through rates for sponsored product listings in AI Mode are comparable to organic listings, and CEO Sundar Pichai said AI Mode queries are three times longer on average than traditional searches.

  18. TechCrunch · AI58

    Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion

    Microsoft reported Azure revenue of $33.2 billion for the July–September quarter, up 48% year over year, marking the first time it has disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. Alphabet said Google Cloud brought in $30.7 billion in the same quarter, slightly below Azure but growing about twice as fast. Azure accounted for roughly 36% of Microsoft's $92.3 billion in quarterly revenue and came in about $850 million above the $32.3 billion analysts expected.

  19. The Verge · AI42

    Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

    Akai is giving hackers and custom firmware developers early access to the not-yet-announced MPC Sample Key, which will have open-source firmware and likely run a modified version of the MPC Sample software adapted for keys, pitch, and mod wheels. Instagram Reels show vibe-coded mods adding synths such as Native Instruments Massive, virtual analog and FM synths, and one running a fully custom OS, with the same community features reportedly coming to the regular MPC Sample. CEO Jack O'Donnell told The Verge that inMusic brands, especially Akai, would seed early devices to developers and open-source some software while providing an SDK.

  20. Hacker News AI60

    AI training platform Outlier illegally surveils European platform workers

    Privacy group noyb has filed five GDPR complaints against Scale AI, whose Outlier platform employs over 900,000 "freelance" workers training AI systems, alleging invasive tracking by third parties such as TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Sprig and Datadog, forced biometric verification via Persona, and failure to answer access requests. The complaints were filed in France, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria as part of the AI-WORLD initiative led by Intérêt à Agir with DiPLab.

  22. Hacker News AI58

    GoDaddy Says AI-Driven Cyberattack Exposed Website Customer Information

    GoDaddy said an AI-driven cyberattack on Sept. 18 exposed profile, settings and contact information tied to its Websites + Marketing product, though the attacker did not obtain passwords or access customer accounts. The company said the attacker read data through an API, that the activity was contained, and that it notified law enforcement, the FTC and UK and EU data protection authorities. GoDaddy, which called it its first known AI-driven cyberattack, urged customers to watch for phishing and enable two-step verification.

  23. Anthropic News38

    AI for Science expands to foundations and institutions

    Anthropic is expanding its AI for Science program, which provides free Claude credits to researchers, to include 20 scientific foundations, institutions, and research groups worldwide. Partners include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, the US National Science Foundation, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL, and research projects such as FlyWire, LEAP, AstroPath, gnomAD, and Tau Ceti. The program, started in May 2025, has also produced efforts like the Model Hardware Standard with HHMI Janelia and AI agent teams at the Allen Institute, with many projects expected to yield open datasets, software, standards, and shared libraries.

  24. TechCrunch · AI38

    Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

    In this TechCrunch Equity episode, Rebecca Bellan speaks with Tomer Schwartz, CTO of Exposure Management & AppSec at Google-owned Wiz, who was part of the effort alongside OpenAI, research group Calif, and the PHP team to fix two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites. They discuss what the race looked like from the inside, how early-stage startups can build with security in mind, and why patching by hand won't scale.

  26. Hacker News AI58

    Prime's first AI-generated show is here, and it's a Vaseline-smeared mess

    Prime Video has premiered Castle Walls, a two-episode, 17-minutes-each series set in the 11th century around Alamut Castle, produced by Turkish studio Ay Yapım using generative video tools and billed as the first end-to-end AI-created series on a major streaming platform. The reviewer describes its visuals as looking like Vaseline-smeared Madame Tussauds creations melting in the sun, with overloaded cinematic imagery and banal dialogue, though the production used human voice actors and human screenwriters Kerem Deren and Çisil Hazal Tenim.

  27. The Verge · AI29

    Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs

    A notification on LG TVs states that Microsoft has decided to end Copilot functionality on all TVs, with the feature scheduled for discontinuation during 2026 and a specific date subject to Microsoft's timeline. The news follows LG and Samsung's CES 2025 announcement that their smart TVs would include Copilot access, and comes after Microsoft repositioned Copilot as a business and productivity tool with a new "super app."

  29. Newcomer58

    The New Space Race: Startups Press Ahead on ‘Orbital Infrastructure,’ Test Feasibility of Data Centers

    A SpaceX rocket earlier this month carried an experimental Google satellite that will make simple requests to Gemini while researchers test how its four TPUs perform in space, and the same launch carried Cowboy Space's Reason-1 satellite, which is experimenting with beaming solar power back to Earth via laser. Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood cofounder Baiju Bhatt and backed by Index Ventures' Jan Hammer among others, unveiled a purpose-built data center rocket that can carry five racks of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs into orbit, and plans to sell launch services to others as "Big Iron Express." Bhatt told Newcomer the company's "north star" is making space compute cost-competitive with terrestrial compute through extreme vertical integration, while another well-funded player, Starcloud, is backed by Benchmark and valued at $2.3 billion.

  30. Ars Technica · AI40

    Google AI gets cagey when asked who won the 2020 elections

    A reporter found that Google's AI Mode, when asked directly who won the 2020 presidential election, gave an evasive answer directing users to consult the Federal Election Commission rather than naming the winner. Similar indirect responses appeared for the 2024 and 2012 elections, while AI Mode gave detailed, correct answers for every other presidential election back to 2000.

  32. The Decoder42

    OpenAI teases Dots for Europe, but its Berlin DevDay was really about building a platform

    At DevDay Exchange 2026 in Berlin, OpenAI said the Dots assistant should reach Europe more widely "in a few weeks" after regulator talks, while personal Pro accounts in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK remain locked out. OpenAI said weekly active Codex users in Germany grew twentyfold since January 2026 without giving absolute numbers, and that nearly one in five desktop users use skills for documents, presentations or spreadsheets. The event also showed OpenAI's push to lock developers into its ecosystem through the Agents API, plugins and web apps, with access to what it says are 1.2 billion weekly ChatGPT users.

  33. The Verge · AI52

    Meta says it’ll probably delay its controversial new business terms again

    Meta communications head Andy Stone said the company may push implementation of its new business terms past November 20th amid publisher backlash over AI training concerns, saying Meta does "not plan to make policy changes without a full consultation with industry groups and leaders." The terms, originally set to take effect October 30th, appeared to permit AI training on news sites using Facebook and Instagram; Meta later removed "train" language, but experts told Nieman Lab the update still didn't rule out that possibility, and enforcement was already delayed to November 20th. The News/Media Alliance and lawmakers from both parties, including Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Adam Schiff, have criticized the terms.

  34. Simon Willison60

    GitHub Octoverse 2026

    At GitHub Universe, EVP Jay Parikh announced the 2026 Octoverse report, highlighting that merged pull requests tripled in under a year to 220 million per month, commits more than tripled to 7.38 billion per month, and the new repository rate doubled to 30.3 million per month. The report adds industry breakdowns and counts repositories involving interoperability or reverse engineering, and its methodology notes LLM-based extraction of ISO country codes from profiles to adjust for VPN bias.

  35. Tomasz Tunguz15

    Beyond Automation at OpenAI

    Office Hours will host Arvind KC, Chief People Officer at OpenAI and former CIO at Palantir, on Friday, November 6th at 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern for a conversation on the future of the people function in the AI era. Topics include why efficiency is the wrong framing for AI when model capabilities double every six months, how people and teams can democratize AI and amplify an organization's most valuable capabilities, how span of control shifts from managing 7 people to 100, 200, or 1,000 agents, and the importance of emotional intelligence as a differentiator for leaders. Office Hours is a 15-minute online conversation about a single topic with a luminary in the AI world, with questions collected ahead of time and call-in questions accepted live; registration is available at the linked page.

  37. Hacker News AI58

    China's Lao GAN Ma Takes the Heat for Alleged Layoffs Due to AI

    Lao Gan Ma faced public scrutiny after domestic media reported that executive vice general manager Li Xin said an AI-powered pepper inspection system cut one production line's workforce from over 600 to 48 and credited AI with helping 2025 revenue reach a record 5.4 billion yuan ($810 million). The company's HR representatives said Li had not referenced staffing figures, but users cited corporate filings showing insured employees fell from nearly 3,000 in 2022 to 740 in 2025, and a Weibo hashtag drew more than 120 million views. The debate comes as China's State Council issued guidelines on Oct. 23 calling for maximizing AI's job-creating potential while slowing AI-related job replacement.

Oct 28Wed
  1. TechCrunch · AI47

    South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks

    South Korean financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, affecting brokerages Daishin Securities and Mirae Asset Global Investments and crypto exchange Bithumb, about a month after a series of attacks on the country's financial institutions. Daishin reported an attack that exposed personal information of 38,490 customers, including names, email addresses and mobile phone numbers, while Mirae and Bithumb reported separate incidents without confirming customer data was taken. South Korea's financial regulator called for stronger cybersecurity measures and the country plans security checks on dozens of private-sector IT systems.

  2. ElevenLabs Blog32

    Voice AI for Karnataka

    At the first ElevenLabs Summit India in Bengaluru, ElevenLabs signed an MoU with the Government of Karnataka to bring voice AI into state public services, covering exploration of pilots for grievance redressals, public helplines and entitlement schemes in Kannada and 13 other official Indian languages. The agreement also includes deploying ElevenLabs' safety framework—covering deepfake detection, watermarking, consent, limits on voice cloning and fraud prevention—and supporting residents who have lost the ability to speak through free lifetime licences under the One Million Voices program.

  3. ElevenLabs Blog24

    Lettuce cuts creative ad production from over a week to under a minute with ElevenLabs

    Lettuce's growth team uses Ads Engine in ElevenCreative to pull its best-performing Meta ads, generate new versions in about 45 seconds, and push them back to market, with the creative director and a performance marketer reviewing each ad before it runs. The company reports roughly 75% lower creative costs and 40% to 60% lower cost per lead compared with other creative running in similar periods, and its current top-performing Meta ad came from the 15th to 20th iteration of an original asset.