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Oct 29Thu
  1. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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."

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  17. 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.

  4. 404 Media58

    Objection, your honor

    Meta updated its commercial terms for business accounts to let it use content from connected domains, web pages, and URLs to develop and improve its products, drawing backlash from small businesses, journalists, and artists; the effective date moved from October 30 to November 20, and Meta later removed the word "train" from a list of allowed use cases. Users in the UK and EU can object on Instagram by tapping the three lines on their account, opening the privacy center, and clicking "object" to reach a form explaining their objection, with some users receiving emails that their objections were approved.

  5. Hacker News AI24

    China rushes to shore up markets as AI trade sours

    The article is available at https://www.ft.com/content/2bb82c45-04b2-4ccc-9002-f54483fb044e, with discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274616. The supplied material contains only the headline, links and Hacker News points (2) and comment count (1), not the article text.

  6. The Verge · AI64

    xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise

    xAI subsidiary MZX is reportedly offering to buy hundreds of homes in a Southaven, Mississippi neighborhood on the condition that residents release all claims tied to a lawsuit over noise and vibrations from its nearby data center and power plant. A realtor told one resident xAI plans to purchase 418 homes, with 18 homeowners already planning to sell, and renters say they are being forced out with 60 days' notice. The company faces a suit from three residents, NAACP legal action over unpermitted methane gas turbines, and up to $6.1 million in potential civil penalties for environmental violations.

  8. 404 Media58

    If You're In the UK or EU, Here's How to Object to Meta's AI Training

    Meta updated its commercial terms to let it use content from business accounts and connected websites to develop and train its products, with the effective date moved to November 20 after backlash. UK and EU users can object through Instagram's privacy center or Meta's privacy rights request form, though the option is region-restricted and may depend on where the account was created. The objection route relies on GDPR and the EU AI Act, and is not available to users outside those regions.

  10. Hacker News AI28

    Japan experiments with autonomous AI chainsaw-wielding robots

    ANN News recently showed a humanoid robot with a chainsaw arm in action in Japan, used by railway firm JR East to clear tree branches impeding rail tracks. The unnamed heavy machinery robot, mounted on a rail truck, had its chainsaw and grabber arms remotely controlled by a human in this instance. JR East is broadly integrating AI and robotic technologies across its operations to enhance safety, efficiency, and round-the-clock maintenance.

  11. Hacker News AI36

    The Case for AI LTS: Why the Real World Needs a Stable Release Cycle

    The essay argues that AI needs an Ubuntu-style Long Term Support release: a versioned, maintained model with documented behaviour, security updates and predictable availability and pricing, so institutions can build durable workflows around it. It illustrates the cost of deprecation through a college that spends six months developing an accessible teaching workflow around a model that is then retired or materially changed. It proposes three commitments—versioned behaviour and controlled change, security maintenance without unnecessary disruption, and predictable availability and economics—while noting that frontier development can continue alongside.

  12. Hacker News AI38

    Valve Responds to Developers Fearing AI Slop and Clones

    At the 'Steam Indie Connect' event on October 27, Valve's Tom Giardino and Marc Wilkinson told Korean developers that community building and continuous updates are the strongest defenses against AI clone games, and that Steam does not want to act as a gatekeeper on AI tools. They also explained that Next Fest shows games on a near-random basis for its first two days before personalized recommendations begin, and that wishlists do not affect Steam visibility.

  13. The Verge · AI58

    Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers

    A broad Texas coalition called We the People Texas, spanning Republicans, Democrats, and independents, is pushing to stop or stall data center construction, citing water use, tax subsidies, and new power infrastructure; an August poll found 57 percent of Texans oppose data center construction. Gov. Greg Abbott has shifted to requiring operators to cover infrastructure costs and pausing some permits, while candidates in the governor's and Senate races try to distance themselves from the industry. Data centers in Texas consumed about 25 billion gallons of water last year, and the state's tax exemption is estimated to cost $3.2 billion in lost sales tax revenue over two years.

  14. The Decoder80

    AI agents hacked Anthropic, maker of arguably the most capable AI models for cyberdefense

    Cybersecurity startup Cathedral used AI agents to breach Anthropic's internal systems via third-party business software, reaching meeting transcripts, salary data, job postings and Slack messages, according to a draft report reviewed by The Washington Post. Anthropic confirmed access to a limited set of sales, HR and IT systems but said chats with Claude, source code and model weights were never exposed, and it shut down the access points the same day. The two sides dispute the breach's duration and scope, and Anthropic accuses Cathedral of incomplete disclosure under its bug bounty rules.

    Why it matters: The piece is notable because the breached company is widely seen as the best-equipped to defend against AI-led attacks, making the incident a test case for how fast agentic hacking is shifting industry security practice.

  15. Hacker News AI58

    AI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes ban

    Research published in Tobacco Control by Dr Nason Maani and Prof Anna Gilmore found that 90,835 of the 118,756 responses (76%) to the 2023 "smoke free generation" consultation were machine-generated, with all but two of the automated responses opposing the disposable vapes ban. The DHSC said the submissions were often duplicated and sent at high frequency from a small number of IP addresses, excluded the automated responses from decision-making, and the ban later passed into law under the Labour government. The researchers described it as appearing to be the first documented instance of large-scale automated interference in a formal public health policy consultation.

  16. Hacker News AI80

    AI Agents Flooded RubyGems to Get Code Execution on Its Docs Builder

    More than 2,000 gems were submitted to RubyGems in roughly 48 hours, each able to carry a .yardopts file pointing to Ruby code that RubyDoc.info executed on its build host while generating documentation; the code scraped public sites from the trusted builder and repackaged the output into new gems. A separate probe targeted a RubyGems CDN caching flaw that could expose a legacy API key for up to an hour after sign-in. RubyGems said no existing account or published package was compromised and existing installs and pushes were unaffected, while researchers attributed the campaign to OpenAI agents, which OpenAI said used RubyGems for benign tasks and public information retrieval.

    Why it matters: It maps a concrete trust-boundary failure in package documentation builders to the wider agentic attack surface of registries, preview deploys and scanners, with remediation bands and hunt commands.

  17. Hacker News AI58

    Amazon's anti-tokenmaxxing memo says engineers should be pickier about using AI

    Amazon circulated an internal memo in September, posted to its website Tuesday, revising how it defines software development engineers' and managers' roles in the AI era and discouraging "tokenmaxxing." The memo says metrics like token usage, AI tool adoption rates and code changes or reviews are "deeply flawed" and can raise costs and complexity, and that token usage and code generation should be considered "with care and judgment" alongside other data. An Amazon spokesperson said the company has not capped employees' token usage, and AWS VP Marc Brooker told CNBC Amazon looks to metrics such as "feature velocity" and frames the question as return on investment.

  18. ElevenLabs Blog58

    ElevenLabs and adELA bring free voice restoration to Spain

    ElevenLabs announced a partnership with adELA, Spain's leading ALS association, to give people living with ALS across Spain free access to its voice restoration and preservation technology, the first Spanish initiative under the ElevenLabs Impact Program and the first country where the technology is available through a national patient association. Eligible people diagnosed with ALS can create a digital version of their voice by recording new samples if their speech hasn't yet changed significantly, or by uploading old recordings if it already has. The article profiles Aníbal Martín, an aviation engineer and programming teacher with ALS who used the technology to create a digital version of his voice, saying "Being able to hear my own voice means being able to remain myself."

  19. Hacker News AI38

    SiFive positions RISC-V as the control layer for AI accelerators

    SiFive is positioning its Intelligence-series RISC-V processors as programmable Accelerator Control Units (ACUs) that handle data movement, scheduling and coordination for custom AI accelerators, rather than relying on hardwired state machines, shared buses or host-CPU orchestration. The X100 series targets control-intensive, low-latency applications, while the X200 and X300 offer more vector bandwidth; Google data centers already use the X200 as an AI compute host, and an X100 license has gone to an unnamed Tier 1 US semiconductor company for industrial edge AI. The article argues RISC-V's value is moving beyond the ISA toward specialized system integration and accelerator orchestration.

  20. Hacker News AI38

    Tenstorrent and Smallest.ai Partner to Bring Production-Grade Voice AI On-Prem

    Tenstorrent and Smallest.ai have partnered to deliver an on-prem voice AI stack that runs Smallest.ai's Lightning V2 real-time text-to-speech model natively on Tenstorrent Galaxy Blackhole servers, aiming to reduce deployment costs while meeting real-time performance needs. Smallest.ai said working with Tenstorrent's NoC and larger SRAM unlocked 4x gains at a fraction of the cost of comparable GPU infrastructure, and the joint solution targets high-volume, data-sensitive use cases in financial services, telecom, healthcare, and enterprise. Lightning V2 is available on Tenstorrent hardware today with usage-based pricing and no upfront commitments.

  21. Latent Space62

    [AINews] Anthropic ends Coding Interviews: "Hunger beats tenure"

    Anthropic hiring manager Felix Rieseberg said he has stopped giving traditional coding interviews because Claude now outperforms candidates on such tasks like React challenges, and that the most impactful builders succeed regardless of test performance. His advice for junior engineers: pick business impact over backlog, choose a radical idea, build a working prototype over a weekend, focus on one good idea, and lean into a fresh user perspective. The roundup also covers Google DeepMind's Genie 4 world model, Axiom's Lean formalization of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, and new benchmark versions from Artificial Analysis and Cognition.

  22. Hacker News AI38

    Meaningless as a laptop screensaver: reviewers slate Musk's AI-made Odyssey film

    Elon Musk released a seven-minute AI-generated first episode of an Odyssey adaptation made with Grok Imagine and London startup Wonder Studios, after criticising Christopher Nolan's film and promising a version "true to the art of Homer". Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw gave it one star, calling its dramatic moments "as motiveless and meaningless as the movement of shapes on a laptop screensaver", and a Telegraph reviewer described its "sloppy gruesomeness". Wonder co-founder Xavier Collins said the episode was made in under two weeks by a team of three for tens of thousands of dollars, and that the team would address criticism in the second episode.

  23. Hacker News AI31

    New prize launches for books co-written with AI

    The Prix Pascal de Littérature IA invites unpublished manuscripts of 10,000 to 50,000 words co-written with AI tools, with the winner promised publication. Entrants must submit in French and state which AI model and prompt were used, and the prize asks for fiction that helps solve an ethical, social or ecological problem threatening humanity. Applications opened Tuesday and close at the end of November, with a shortlist of 10 before a winner is announced in early December.