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2026-10-26
Technology
OpenAI announced that its models have produced new results on three scientific problems, including evidence that the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false. The company is sharing these results with academic communities for verification and further research.
AI Research • Hacker News
PermalinkA Brown University undergraduate has mapped the hidden global labor force that powers AI, revealing that many workers in the Global South are paid low wages for the work that enables algorithmic systems. The research highlights the often-unseen human cost behind AI.
AI and Society • Hacker News
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2026-10-27
Technology
Amazon is reportedly gutting its AI division after sustained failure, according to Futurism. The article notes that Amazon's flagship Nova model is far from a household name compared with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.
Industry News • Hacker News
PermalinkA federal judge ruled in a May 2026 lawsuit that Anthropic illegally scraped and pirated the work of over 10 Stanford professors to train its Claude models. In Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge William Alsup ruled on the case, which the Authors Alliance calls the largest copyright settlement involving an AI company.
Legal • Hacker News
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2026-10-19
Technology
A hacker reportedly breached more than 100 websites, including those of John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins, using an army of AI agents that operated largely autonomously, according to findings from AI security firm Norforge. The report highlights growing concerns over AI-powered cybersecurity threats.
AI Safety • The Verge AI
PermalinkCERN and Mistral have signed a statement of intent to establish a long-term strategic partnership focused on developing foundation models for scientific discovery. The collaboration aims to combine CERN's expertise in fundamental physics with Mistral's large-scale AI models.
Research • Hacker News
PermalinkInception Labs has introduced Mercury 3, which it claims is the most capable diffusion-based LLM released to date. The company says the model outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on a range of benchmarks while running 4-8x faster at speeds exceeding 1,000 tokens per second.
Models • Hacker News
PermalinkHackers compromised the online platform of OpenCode, an open-source AI coding agent, and stole some users' API keys, leading to unauthorized charges on their AI accounts. The AI tools OpenCode turned to for help reportedly refused to analyze the malicious code.
AI Safety • TechCrunch AI
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