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Nov 9Mon
  1. Hacker News AI58

    Etsy Expands AI Training Rights over Content, Restricts 3rd Party Training

    Etsy's updated Terms of Use, published October 26 and effective December 16, 2026, explicitly authorize Etsy and its authorized third parties to use seller-uploaded content to develop, train, test and improve AI and machine learning technologies, while sellers retain ownership of that content. The revised terms also prohibit outside parties from using Etsy data to develop, train, fine-tune, evaluate or benchmark AI systems without permission, and set detailed controls over automated shopping agents. The accompanying Privacy Policy lists listing information, reviews and community posts as content that may be used for AI training, and neither policy identifies a general opt-out mechanism for US sellers.

Nov 8Sun
  1. Hacker News AI42

    Apple CEO Presses Software Chief to Pursue More Ambitious AI Strategy

    A Bloomberg newsletter reports that Apple's CEO is pushing the company's software chief toward a more ambitious AI strategy, exploring turning Siri AI into a ChatGPT-like agent amid an iOS 28 shake-up. The item links to the Bloomberg article and a Hacker News discussion with 32 points and 52 comments.

  2. The Decoder58

    Andrej Karpathy built a curated video platform in a weekend using Claude and 20 years of Hacker News

    Andrej Karpathy built HackerTube over a weekend using Claude's Opus 5.5 model, which filtered 43 million comments from 20 years of Hacker News into 6,454 videos that keep getting recommended there. He says the site offers a "significantly better viewing experience" than YouTube's recommendations, needs no login, shows a single mid-video frame instead of optimized thumbnails, and stores state locally in the browser. He then built TristanTube, "one-shotted with Claude Code in 3 minutes," with 47,000 videos from a YouTube channel list by Tristan Hume.

  3. Hacker News AI60

    AI clog': UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints

    UK MPs' offices, local authorities, courts, schools and other public bodies report being swamped by AI-generated complaints, letters and legal challenges that take users moments to create but consume large amounts of staff time, a phenomenon commentators call "AI clog." Lawyers in Local Government says the average complaint has grown from about two pages to ten times that length, while Transport for London received a record 4,769 freedom of information requests in 2025-26 and employment tribunal claims rose 28% year on year between April and June. Some bodies are considering using AI to filter AI-generated correspondence, or imposing word limits and templates to control volumes.

  5. Hacker News AI58

    AI Companies Want to Buy Your Work Files and Emails

    AI labs and data-acquisition startups are paying media companies, graduate students, and businesses for old work records—documents, emails, Slack messages, and tickets—to train models, with pitches reaching individual inboxes. Companies like Mercor, Micro1, and Handshake describe a fast-growing market, while privacy advocates question whether anonymization fully removes personal data, as seen in objections to Spirit Airlines' proposed sale of its digital assets. Critics note the practice can enlist workers without explicit consent in efforts that may ultimately automate their work.

  6. Hacker News AI33

    AI Live Speech Rewriting Patent

    Microsoft has filed a patent application (US 2026/0341309 A1) for a system that uses AI to identify and replace words in live speech based on a user profile, then redraws the speaker's mouth in the video so the lips match, with short blended transitions hiding the seams. The same setup could act as a translator, swapping words in languages missing from the profile and redrawing lips to match, with a delay of a few seconds. The filing names AR glasses, phones, tablets and video cameras as possible devices, and notes the examiner's first review rejected the claims as filed.

  7. Hacker News AI42

    The internet has a human slop problem, and AI is exposing it

    Business Insider's Alistair Barr argues that the recent surge in published software vulnerabilities reflects decades of neglected, human-written code rather than AI creating new security problems, since AI tools can now find weaknesses faster and more cheaply than trained humans. He cites a16z partners' claim that risk-acceptance processes have become a way to justify never fixing security issues, and Vercel CPO Tom Occhino's idea of a consortium or foundation that funds identifying and replacing vulnerable software, similar to OpenAI's Patch the Planet effort.

  8. Hacker News AI81

    AI agents stole 190k gaming credentials for under $400 in model costs

    Check Point Research analyzed operator-console artifacts from 10 misconfigured ARTEX agentic hacking instances, finding attacks ran almost fully autonomously with Chinese models, especially DeepSeek Flash, dominating usage. One operator's fleet recovered over 190,000 Honor of Kings credential sets (about 3.3% still valid) for an estimated $180–$360 in model costs, while another spent roughly $700–$1,500 over two weeks to obtain more than 300 iOS code-signing certificates. Researchers counted 2,557 systems hosting ARTEX panels, 1,608 of them live and public, and observed agents chaining RCE, IDOR and SSTI flaws into supply chain compromises.

    Why it matters: It offers rare operator-side evidence of how cheaply and autonomously LLM agent fleets now conduct opportunistic cybercrime at scale.

  9. Hacker News AI58

    Brown Professor Suspects Majority of His Class Used AI to Cheat

    Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano gave a take-home midterm this spring, and after the average score reached 96 percent he ran the exam through ChatGPT and found answers mirroring his students' work; he then made the final in-person, voided the midterm, and 19 students failed the class. Serrano said Brown administrators' response was "meek," and a Brown committee on generative AI reported that three-quarters of surveyed faculty are concerned about students using AI to cheat.

  10. Hacker News AI40

    Anthropic's falling IPO valuation raises stakes for broader AI trade

    Anthropic's IPO valuation dropped sharply, prompting investors to question whether AI startups can sustain their valuations and affecting the wider AI trade. The briefing also covers Huawei's HarmonyOS PC Assistant with Office Task Automation, robot identification codes, and a report that Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" feature allegedly exposed passwords in over a thousand public GitHub files.

  11. TechCrunch · AI58

    After the midterms, things are looking rocky for Elon Musk and data centers

    In a TechCrunch Equity podcast discussion, the hosts said Democrats' midterm wins and local ballot measures rejecting or restricting data centers could create roadblocks for tech companies, with Texas governor-elect Gina Hinojosa having campaigned on restricting data centers. They noted Elon Musk's roughly half-billion-dollar Republican donations yielded little while his companies sit in a state that turned blue, and that OpenAI released a "compute campus policy blueprint" dropping NDAs and promising less secrecy. The panel also questioned whether rebranding data centers as "compute campuses" will work and noted Wall Street's cooling enthusiasm for data center spending.

  13. Hacker News AI60

    AI Layoffs Backfire as Companies Start Rehiring Workers

    Surveys by SHL and Orgvue found that nearly one in five US workers reported being laid off or replaced because of AI and later invited back, and 32% of organizations that made AI-related workforce cuts subsequently rehired employees. The article attributes the reversals to the gap between automating tasks and replacing whole jobs, since AI output still requires human judgment, validation, and institutional knowledge. It also notes that returning workers often demand higher pay, written job-security assurances, and transparency about AI's role before accepting an offer.

  14. SemiAnalysis58

    We Visited China’s Stargate in Inner Mongolia

    SemiAnalysis reports on a September visit to Inner Mongolia's datacenter region, including Galaxy, an Envision-owned campus in Ulanqab planned for up to 800MW of IT capacity whose first 120MW phase was delivered within a year at a fifth of US costs. The report describes Envision's vertical integration—its own wind farms, a dedicated power line, an 800V DC solid-state transformer pilot, and a chiller-less cooling design—and compares Galaxy's scale to Stargate's Abilene campus. It also notes Inner Mongolia has lined up 25GW of announced datacenter projects.

  16. The Decoder82

    Anthropic pushes ahead with pre-Thanksgiving IPO despite tech selloff, accepts lower valuation

    Anthropic is proceeding with an IPO before Thanksgiving, aiming to raise $80–100 billion at a $1.25–1.75 trillion valuation, according to investors cited by the Financial Times, below the $2 trillion some optimists hoped for. Annualized reported revenue is now about $81 billion, up from roughly $65 billion at the end of July, as a tech selloff driven by rising borrowing costs, heavy AI spending plans and Democrats' US midterm wins hit the Nasdaq 100, which fell 6.4 percent on Thursday before partly recovering Friday. OpenAI also cut its funding-round target from $1.4 trillion to $1.25 trillion and recently raised only about a third of the $30 billion it originally sought.

    Why it matters: It offers a concrete look at Anthropic's IPO terms and revenue alongside signs that the AI funding boom is cooling.

  17. Hacker News AI15

    Tell HN: Hanzo AI Is Spamming From GitHub Contributions

    A Hacker News post shares a recruiting email from Hanzo AI's co-CEO inviting the recipient to its beta based on their open-source work on s3tools/s3cmd, which the recipient says they have not contributed to in over a decade. The email includes a beta link, a Cal.com scheduling link, and an unsubscribe option.

  18. The Verge · AI58

    The US let Nvidia sell chips to an empty office in China

    The New York Times reports that New Matrix, an approved buyer of Nvidia's H200 AI chips, has empty offices and little evidence of real operations, and its owners are tied to a Chinese private equity firm blacklisted by the US since 2024. The report describes this as part of a pattern of firms connected to entities under national-security trade restrictions being cleared to buy Nvidia chips. Nvidia had been restricted from selling chips to China under Biden, but the Trump administration relaxed the limits after Nvidia agreed to give the government a 15-percent cut of all sales.

Nov 7Sat
  1. Hacker News AI60

    Former Meta Security Chief Calls Password Access for AI Agents 'Insane'

    Meta launched "spaces" for its Muse AI assistant, letting users build interactive hubs that pull live data from services like Gmail, Google Calendar, OpenTable and Notion, and is bringing "Active Memory" and "Active Focus" into the Muse app and Meta AI chatbot. Former Meta chief security officer Alex Stamos said on the Big Technology Podcast that giving agents access to a password vault and finances is "totally insane," while JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said Chase blocks external AI agents from operating on customers' behalf, citing a "liability transfer." Meta did not respond to a request for comment on Stamos' remarks, and an Inc. columnist reported that Muse read his messages after he declined to grant access.

  2. Hacker News AI58

    Baidu Hit with Securities Fraud Class Action over AI Growth Claims

    A federal class action filed September 14, 2026 in the Southern District of New York (Rosewood Funeral Home, Inc. v. Baidu, Inc. et al., Case No. 26-cv-08012) alleges Baidu misled investors about its AI business's ability to offset declines in legacy online marketing, covering purchases between November 18, 2025 and August 17, 2026, with a lead plaintiff deadline of November 13, 2026. The complaint cites two earnings-driven sell-offs: a 5.65% ADS drop on February 26, 2026 after Q4/FY2025 results, and a 12.73% drop on August 18, 2026 after Q2 2026 results showed Core AI-powered business falling 8% quarter over quarter and AI Cloud Infra down 17%. No class has been certified and Baidu has not commented publicly in the provided materials.

  3. Hacker News AI58

    Climate skeptics used AI to review their work. It told them they were biased

    Documents released after a judge ruled the Energy Department's Climate Working Group violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act show the five experts used LLMs such as Microsoft Copilot and Grok as research assistants, editors and reviewers. Copilot's review of their report warned that evidence was "often cherry-picked to support a CO2-positive view" and that words like "alarmist" and "science fiction" compromised objectivity, prompting edits to remove "skeptic talk." Members said AI did not determine content, though they grew frustrated that the models favored consensus sources and Koonin had Copilot draft a limerick criticizing the Fifth National Climate Assessment.

  4. The Verge · AI80

    Why a new report on Anthropic automating AI development is alarming researchers

    A METR report based on an 11-week investigation inside Anthropic found the company's models improving roughly twice as quickly as a year ago, with most of the acceleration as of October attributed to AI rather than compute scaling, and employees self-reporting about 12 times greater productivity with Anthropic's most capable internal model. METR said Anthropic finished training three unreleased models (Model 2, Model 3, Model 4) in recent months, and that Anthropic redacted a majority of the evidence METR found most informative from the public report, citing commercial sensitivity. The findings drew criticism from AI safety researchers who said they suggest recursive self-improvement may be closer than expected and questioned the gap between Anthropic's safety advocacy and its redactions.

    Why it matters: It offers a detailed look at contested evidence that AI is accelerating its own development, and at the transparency limits of voluntary lab-arranged evaluations.

  5. The Decoder75

    OpenAI lands an $11 billion funding round, but has to court dentists for more capital

    OpenAI has received roughly $11 billion in new funding as the first tranche of a round valuing the company at $1.25 trillion, with the full round potentially reaching $20 billion, according to Bloomberg. OpenAI originally sought $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation but scaled back after an AI-sector selloff, and it is also working with investment banks to bring in wealthy individual investors. Investors include Coatue Management, T. Rowe Price, SoftBank, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, Andreessen Horowitz, and a consortium from the United Arab Emirates.

  7. TechCrunch · AI40

    From the front row to the hot seat — what the midterms mean for Big Tech

    After two years of building ties with the Trump administration, Silicon Valley companies are working to rebuild relationships with Democrats following midterm power shifts, with critics like Public Citizen's J.B. Branch calling moves such as OpenAI's hiring of Jessica Schumer "PR washing." Analysts expect most AI regulation to happen at the state level, where data center moratoriums and AI bills are advancing, while a post-midterm trillion-dollar market sell-off raised questions about the AI boom's political stakes.

  8. Hacker News AI40

    YC Backed Bron AI Accused of Using LeBron's Name and Likeness

    LeBron James sent a cease and desist letter to Bron AI, a Y Combinator-backed sports betting app, over an ad featuring a character resembling him in a jersey with his nickname "Bron" and number 23, which his camp says implies an unauthorized association and violates NBA rules given his Polymarket endorsement deal. The letter demands the company permanently stop using his likeness and notify all app users in writing that James has no involvement; a representative for Luka Dončić, whose photo also appears in the ad, says he too has sent a cease and desist. Bron AI is owned by PlayVision Inc., founded in 2025, and did not respond to requests for comment.

  9. Latent Space62

    [AINews] Anthropic IPO: Whither Now?

    AINews covers a quiet news day amid a deepening AI market rout, with valuation estimates for Anthropic's IPO dropping as low as $1T and probability down 18%, while Anthropic's year-end target is a $100B run rate and it is now at $80B. The issue also recaps Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small (594B total, 17B active parameters, Apache 2.0 weights expected next week), Kimi K3.1 Pro open weights, ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, GPT Image 2.6, and new independent evals and safety results.

  10. Hacker News AI71

    Brave Sells Its Search Index to AI, and Your Website Is Probably in It

    The New York Times sued Brave on Nov. 2, alleging it copied more than 30 billion webpages without identifying its crawler or offering a way to block it, then sold that content to AI companies through its Search API, which Brave says is used by Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity and You.com. Because Brave's crawler does not advertise a differentiated user agent and instead follows Googlebot's rules, site owners cannot block Brave without also blocking Google, and opting out via noindex also removes pages from Google. Brave has not yet responded to the suit.

  12. TechCrunch · AI58

    Crusoe sells troubled Wyoming data center project to Google

    Crusoe, a Denver-based data center developer recently valued at $30.9 billion, confirmed it sold an unfinished data center project in southeastern Wyoming to Google, which had been a customer Crusoe failed to land for the site and is now planning to invest $17 billion in the campus. Google did not disclose the purchase price, and the deal highlights the difficulty independent developers face in delivering massive projects on time and within budget. Crusoe is still developing another data center for Google near Amarillo, Texas, and raised a $3.9 billion round in September despite the Wyoming setback.

  13. The Verge · AI70

    OpenAI valued at $1.25 trillion, as rival Anthropic nears its IPO

    According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has raised another $11 billion in a new funding round at a $1.25 trillion valuation, following a $122 billion raise in March at an $852 billion valuation. Bloomberg reports OpenAI is still pursuing additional investments that could bring the total to $20 billion, after initially hoping to raise as much as $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation before tech stocks dropped. Rival Anthropic filed its S-1 to go public last week, while CEO Sam Altman has said OpenAI is holding off on its own IPO until it can make more confident claims about its models' safety.

  15. TechCrunch · AI75

    OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation

    OpenAI has reportedly raised $11 billion so far in a new funding round valuing the AI lab at $1.25 trillion, part of a round expected to close in the coming weeks at about $20 billion, Bloomberg reported. The figures fall short of the $30 billion round Bloomberg reported OpenAI was seeking in late September. The news follows a Bloomberg report that potential Anthropic IPO share buyers are eyeing a valuation as low as $1.1 trillion, versus the $2 trillion investors were said to expect about a month ago.

  16. The Verge · AI58

    China reportedly recruited AI exec to spy on Jensen Huang

    The New York Times reports that China's Ministry of State Security recruited Megaspeed executive Alice Huang to gather information on American AI chips and potentially influence Nvidia to make its most advanced chips available to China. Alice Huang, who is not related to Jensen Huang, is described as having a close relationship with the Nvidia CEO and ties to executives across the AI chip industry. Three House committees have asked Jensen Huang to appear for a closed-door briefing on his interactions with her.

  19. Hacker News AI60

    The End of AI Frontiers

    A former Microsoft researcher recounts organizing the AI Frontiers group within Microsoft Research after ChatGPT's release to pursue coherent, agent-focused and fundamental research efforts, and describes its September reorg into Microsoft AI, whose scaling-only philosophy he found incompatible. He states that AI Frontiers is over, that there will be no internships with the group in the coming year, and explains why he did not return to MSR.

  20. Hacker News AI60

    Microsoft plans to use fewer neoclouds as AI buildout shows signs of strain

    Microsoft is evaluating which neocloud partners to stop using as it prioritizes its own data centers, according to people familiar with the matter, and it opted not to renew a deal with Oracle. The company has worked with CoreWeave, Nebius, Chronoscale, IREN, Lambda and Nscale, and has already scaled back work with Nscale, including a site in England and a Texas contract. Neocloud shares have fallen sharply amid rising borrowing costs and debt concerns, and Microsoft reported $45.2 billion in capital expenditures and finance leases in its latest quarter.

  21. OpenRouter Announcements38

    How Sentry Capped Runaway AI Bills Without Restricting Access

    Sentry moved its internal AI usage onto OpenRouter in July 2026, retiring roughly 500 Anthropic and OpenAI keys over about three weeks and switching off direct access to both providers in August. Keys are bound to users or workspaces so spend can be traced to an owner and model, and per-person and per-workspace budgets cap runaway bills. Sentry says the change gave it tighter control and wider model access at the same time, with 45+ apps and 147 models used in the first three months.