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More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmzezj5e18xxo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746117 Points: 17 # Comments: 3

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Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families

Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks. ...

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Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?

Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.

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Astra for Law

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/astra-for-law/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745940 Points...

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs. ...

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Plugin4Shell – Zero Click RCE Vulnerability found in top four coding agents

Article URL: https://www.air.security/blog-posts/plugin4shell Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=497458...

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UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents

The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statisti...

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The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess

By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs ma...

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scrape...

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Everybody's Lost Their Minds

Article URL: https://www.netmeister.org/blog/everybodys-lost-their-minds.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

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Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs

Article URL: https://www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/2026-09-16/flock-cameras-guardrails-missouri-kehoe Comments URL: https:/...

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The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the w...

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Don't Just Say Hello

Article URL: https://nohello.net/en/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745266 Points: 22 # Comments:...

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Customer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers

Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover wha...

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Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites

Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites. ...

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Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memo...

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The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party

The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whethe...

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LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse. ...

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Canto: A speech model built for the real world

Article URL: https://wisprflow.ai/canto Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744715 Points: 3 # Comment...

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The first new cat species discovered in 100 years

https://archive.ph/cgMTM Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49744704 Points: 274 # Comments: 105

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Waymo restarts San Antonio service five months after flooding troubles

The company suspended service in the city in April after one of its robotaxis got swept away.

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Don't Make Job Referrals Public

Article URL: https://blog.melashri.net/micro/public-job-referral/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

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IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned

The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.

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2026 Hyundai Ioniq 5: Here's what we still like, here's what annoys us

It’s spacious, efficient, and charges very quickly. But what about reliability concerns? ...

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Even the King of England has his hesitations about AI

King Charles hosted a private summit Thursday with some of the most prominent names in AI and UK government.

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Stallman: Thousands Dead, Millions Deprived of Liberties (2001)

Article URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/01/09/17/1758231/stallman-thousands-dead-millions-deprived-of-liberties Co...

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Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire

Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monit...

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Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI

Pinterest is testing Restyle, a new AI-powered feature that lets users visualize furniture, decor, lighting and other ch...

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Save $30 or more on a refurbished Apple TV 4K

Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Than...

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T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees

gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/science/trex-dinosaur-tem...paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sc...