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In H1 2026 a tsunami of tokenmaxxing took place with companies urging staff to use as much AI as possible for the sake of 'efficiency gains'. The tables seem to have turned. This will not end well for the AI play. Yes, money is made when…
Article URL: https://rakhim.exotext.com/i-wish-tech-companies-knew-more-about-me Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378942 Points: 156 # Comments: 140
Moonshot AI has sought leasing agreements with neoclouds for advanced chips in Europe, as U.S. export controls restrict their import to China.
Decentralized AI networks want to turn everyday phones into an alternative to centralized computing infrastructure — but skeptics have their doubts.
Some in the cyber-security industry are sceptical that AI labs will ever be able to forge the relationships needed to become leading cyber-security providers. Instead, the opportunity may lie in distributing their technology through others
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/1027379/discord-ditching-electron-web-app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378625 Points: 172 # Comments: 142
Article URL: https://criminallyvulgar.dev/you-should-absolutely-download-your-favourite-youtube-videos/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378571 Points: 164 # Comments: 70
AI data centers are facing national outcry for draining local water and power supply. The truth about how they use water to stay cool is far more complicated.
This green is so nice I can almost forgive the camera bump looking like a spider’s face. | Image: Motorola Motorola is trying something it hasn't attempted in the modern smartphone era: to make an all-out flagship slab-style phone. Previous high-end Edge devices never quite hit the mark, and lacked features that would put it in the highest flagship tiers. The company has had plenty of success…
United has built a custom, native Spotify app for seatback displays, allowing passengers to log directly in to their personal accounts and stream their own libraries, playlists, and video podcasts while flying 35,000 feet in the air. The new integration is being powered by Starlink's satellite Wi-Fi, which is currently being installed throughout United's entire fleet. The news marks a major…
Discovered Materials, a months-old YC startup that uses AI to find chip materials, is offering $200,000 for each solution to five open materials science problems.
Article URL: https://phoboslab.org/log/2026/11/n64-ulc-codec Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378508 Points: 151 # Comments: 16
These are the stocks posting the largest moves in early trading.
Astera Labs has lost nearly a third of its value over the past three months, but it could be due for a big bounce, per BMO Capital Markets.
It’s become too detached from fundamentals that ai hardware has gotten anyway from single digits to less than teen pe ratios. Data centers will be built regardless because Nancy Pelosi isn’t going to tank her #1 position in NVDA and cause…
“.. McCormick said she expects there is ‘going to be a lot more review’ of new projects. ‘What I mean by that is to start new data center build-outs today in the United States will be very challenging.’” @wsj.com $META www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
US leader in deploying humanoid robots goes public on the Nasdaq stock exchange.
“Modern AI is neither god nor mechanical bird,” write Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi. In a guest essay, the academics argue it should instead be understood as a technological version of the Homeric songs that inspired Alexander the Great bit.ly/4jImXaz Illustration: Dan Williams
It's more compelling than ever, but also more expensive.
Agility arrives on the Nasdaq today as the first publicly-traded pure-play humanoid robotics company.
Article URL: https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6p2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377976 Points: 155 # Comments: 7