China wants its companies to embrace AI – without firing workers
By Hannah Miao and Raffaele Huang

Last summer, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng asked the country’s biggest employers – tech companies, banks, carmakers and others – how AI could affect their workforces. ⌘ Read more

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-labels-automatic-detection-1236758865/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299753

Points: 11

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YouTube To Automatically Detect, Label AI-Generated Videos
YouTube will begin automatically labeling videos when its systems detect “significant” photorealistic AI use, while also making AI-content disclosures more visible below long-form videos and directly on Shorts. “We’ve heard consistently from our community that they value transparency when it comes to generative AI content,” YouTube said in a blog post. “These … ⌘ Read more

Tech CEOs Are Apparently Suffering From AI Psychosis
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: There is a certain wildness in the tech industry these days that both mimics previous eras of large changes, like cloud computing (runaway costs in the early days), and is like nothing we’ve ever seen before (record revenues accompanied by mass layoffs). One possible explanation: tech executives, especially CEOs, are … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de If you really like to, you can try to negotiate with your employer that you can leave earlier. At least some mates were successful in that. I mean, it’s also in the company’s interest to not have to pay someone who has already mentally resigned long ago.

And on the bright side, you don’t even have to hand over anything. Your boss doesn’t have to look for a successor, so they can just let you go even sooner. This AI shit will simply continue whatever you did, no problem!!

It’s so crazy. I should probably also look for something else. :-(

DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode
Article URL: [https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/](https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/duckduckgos-ai-free-search-saw-nearly-28-percent-more-visits-in-the-week-following-googles-insistence-that-people-love-ai-mode/ … ⌘ Read more

PostHog will train AI models with your data (opt-in by default)
Article URL: https://posthog.com/blog/training-ai-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296359

Points: 29

# Comments: 14 ⌘ Read more

[$] MOT: a tool to fight openwashing in AI
Many large language models (LLMs) are described as open source, but
if one looks a bit deeper it turns out that is not actually so; the
model may be free to download, it may be “ open weight”, but it
does not fit the Open Source\
Initiative (OSI) Open Source\
Definition (OSD). Assessing the actual openness of models is not
easy, as Arnaud Le Hors explained in his talk about the [Model Openness T … ⌘ Read more

Company Behind School Bus AI Cameras Wants To Share Footage With Police
joshuark writes: BusPatrol, a company that has installed AI-powered cameras in tens of thousands of school buses around the U.S., now plans to turn those cameras into automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), capturing the location of every vehicle the buses drive past, and give that data to law enforcement, 404 Media has learned. Bus … ⌘ Read more

I’ve started collecting reasons against AI usage here, so I don’t have to repeat myself all the time:

https://movq.de/noai.html

I’m Tired of Talking to AI
Article URL: https://orchidfiles.com/im-tired-of-ai-generated-answers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292224

Points: 18

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It’s official now: People are vomiting AI code into a repo that I’m supposed to maintain. At the same time, I don’t have the authority to decline those PRs.

RIP.

James Bond’s battle with AI is his most human story yet
As Amazon tries to decide a cinematic future for a broken icon, a new video game provides the best 007 experience in decades. ⌘ Read more

Pope Leo Schooled the Tech Bros on Tolkien
The Holy Father referenced The Lord of the Rings in his encyclical about AI—an expert (if unintentional) troll of tech billionaires who keep misinterpreting the series. ⌘ Read more

Uber blows through its AI budget in 1 quarter
Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48287025

Points: 17

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Mythos Detected 23,000 Vulnerabilities Across 1,000 OSS Projects
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Anthropic says its Claude Mythos model discovered thousands of severe vulnerabilities across more than 1,000 open source software (OSS) projects. According to the AI giant, Mythos Preview has identified more than 23,000 potential vulnerabilities. Of these, 1,900 have been reviewed by external security f … ⌘ Read more

Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation
Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley. ⌘ Read more

What Pope Leo XIV’s First Encyclical Says About the Power of AI
In Magnifica Humanitas, the Pope decries the concentration of technological power in a few global players. ⌘ Read more

Arias: Human proof for FOSS contributions
Rodrigo Arias Mallo, maintainer of the Dillo web browser, has written a
blog post
with a proposal on one way to ensure that a contribution is written by
a human and not AI; he suggests asking new contributors to record
their programming session using asciinema.

In the same way that LLMs generate patches, they can also generate
the asciinema recordings themselves. Then, the contributors c … ⌘ Read more

Meet Mark Zuckerberg’s right-hand man
By Meghan Bobrowsky

Tensions were running high at Meta Platforms.

For weeks, rumours circulated that the company was planning a large layoff as it poured tens of billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. Then, employees were told their keystrokes and mouse clicks would be recorded to help train AI agents to use computers. ⌘ Read more

AI, job cuts and a very fragile mandate
In a week when the Government announced 8,700 public sector roles will go and AI will help fill the gaps, a lunchtime event at Parliament turned into something of a reality check on how fragile trust in AI has become in New Zealand.

One NZ’s second annual AI in Trust report, a nationally representative survey of 1,001 New Zealanders, shows 76% of us have interacted with AI-powered services in the past … ⌘ Read more

CDC Data Centres next in Infratil’s Manawa playbook
Infratil will continue to pump cash into datacentres and renewable energy.

The infrastructure investor said on Tuesday it could sell another $1 billion in assets, on top of more than $1b it will pocket from re … ⌘ Read more

Pope Leo Warns of Risks From AI In 42,300-Word Encyclical
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Pope Leo XIV on Monday set out a sweeping vision for corporate executives, politicians and individuals who will shape and be shaped by the future of artificial intelligence, warning leaders to safeguard humanity from A.I.’s most disruptive effects. Leo’s declaration came in the form of a papal encyclical, … ⌘ Read more

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale
Hey we’re Faiz and Saheed and we built Minicor so AI companies who need to integrate to desktop systems with no API can quickly build scalable desktop RPAs. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MD0GHZIJ1cw

We were working on non-RPA integrations when a customer promised to sign a deal in 2 days if we could unblock a sale of theirs that involved integrating with a clinic’s Windows based medical record system. We didn’t know it at … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM
NVIDIA’s Vera data center CPU isn’t ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA’s Vera CPU with its in-house-designed Olympus CPU cores ends up packing a heavy-hitting punch with competitiveness to Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs that I have never seen out of any other ARM or non-x86_64 processors. Continue on with these early benchm … ⌘ Read more

The AI bubble isn’t like the internet bubble
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/the-ai-will-continue/#until-morale-improves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277784

Points: 11

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Quiz: Will AI Destroy Your Career?
Some jobs may be toast. Some will survive. Click your answers to learn your fate. ⌘ Read more

AI Is Taking Over the Most Cursed Job in the World
There’s a mad dash to automate the world’s most hated calls. Have an unpaid bill? You’ll hear from an AI debt collector sometime soon. ⌘ Read more

I’m a Professional Fact-Checker. AI Is Wrong More Often Than You Think
Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks. ⌘ Read more

7 Ways to Get So Good at AI, People Will Think You Are AI
From killing your chatbots to optimizing your prompts, here are the best ways to go full AI native and conquer the new world. ⌘ Read more

To Land a Job in AI, Try Reading Kant
The world’s leading AI labs are hiring philosophers to think through ethical edge cases and grand questions of mind and morality. Are they another instrument of hype? ⌘ Read more

AI Agents Plunged the Tech World Into Chaos. Here’s Exactly How That Happened
The definitive story of how Claude Code and OpenClaw kicked off computing’s biggest transformation possibly ever. ⌘ Read more

Take This Mandatory AI Workplace Training Right Now—or Else
AI could make you redundant. Here’s what you need to know. ⌘ Read more

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show. ⌘ Read more

Meta’s CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices
Back in 2021 Facebook open-sourced CacheLib as a new caching engine. Back in 2021 it was done to help scale services with non-volatile memory caching to offset increasing DRAM costs at the time. Now in 2026, DRAM memory prices are astronomical compared to 2021 pricing given the AI surge. And, surprisingly, Meta is out with a new CacheLib release after being absent the past two years… ⌘ Read more

F&P Healthcare lifts dividend after tariff-defying profit rise
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare has lifted its total dividend for the year by 22% after posting a 24% rise in annual net profit after tax, even in the face of US tariffs.

The Auckland-based medical equipment manufacturer’s revenues rose 14% to $2.31 billion across the financial year, while ne … ⌘ Read more

Chatbot Has a Long Memory. That Isn’t Always a Good Thing
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-memory-cd1de7f4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48272954

Points: 3

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NZ King Salmon scales up after positive half
NZ King Salmon Investments has told investors that the fish firm is recovering on all fronts and that US tariffs are not slowing sales.

The company said net profit after tax for the six months to March 31 was $13.8 million. This compares with a net loss of $20.8m in the prior corresponding period to July 31, 2025. The … ⌘ Read more

Infratil rides AI boom, calls it ‘opportunity of a lifetime’
If you’re sick of reading about artificial intelligence, look away now.

Infratil pointed to AI as a growth driver in its full-year result, with stronger earnings led by its datacentre and renewable energy businesses. ⌘ Read more

Weave (YC W25) is hiring ML, AI, product, & design engineers
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/workweave

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269937

Points: 0

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AI ‘capability leap’: 80% of software developers now using it
Late last year, AWS senior engineer Mike Nooney noticed a flurry of activity on social media that indicated something exciting had happened in his field: AI had taken what we described as a “capability leap”.

“So, I thought, let’s get in and have a look at Claude Code and some of the other tools,” he recounted to an audience at last week’s Techweek26 summit. ⌘ Read more

Ubers COO says its getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-andrew-macdonald-ai-token-spending-harder-justify-2026-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268871

Points: 7

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[$] Dirk and Linus discuss AI and kernel development
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to
the occasional on-stage conversation with Dirk Hohndel at Linux
Foundation events. The pair held the 30th of their fire-less fireside
chats during a keynote session on May 20, at the 2026 Open\
Source Summit North America. Topics included 3D printing, guitar
pedals, the recent 7.1-rc4 release of the kernel, and Torvalds’s
complicated relationshi … ⌘ Read more

Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
Article URL: https://religionnews.com/2026/05/25/in-his-first-encyclical-pope-leo-xiv-says-ai-must-serve-humanity-not-the-powerful-few/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266485

Points: 4

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The AI Era Is Creating a Bug Hunting Arms Race
As attackers ramp up their AI exploit development, the search for software vulnerabilities is changing rapidly. ⌘ Read more

California Executive Order Directs Businesses and State Agencies to Prepare for AI-Driven Workforce Disruption
Thursday California’s governor issued an executive order “directing state agencies to prepare workers and businesses for AI-driven workforce disruption,” reports San Francisco’s KQED. In a statement the governor said “This moment demands that we reimagine t … ⌘ Read more

AI ‘Crashes the Party’ at This Year’s Cannes Film Festival - Including Multi-Year Meta Partnership
AI “crashed the party” at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, writes The Hollywood Reporter. The festival exposed “the fault lines reshaping cinema,” their article argues, including how “AI is here — and the industry has stopped pretending otherwise.”

A humanoid robot spotted … ⌘ Read more

Hayasaka Ai handjob (Kamuo) [Kaguya Sama Love is War] ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents
In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes… ⌘ Read more

Apple Preparing New ‘Gen AI’ Website Ahead of WWDC — and New AI Features?
Apple just registered a new subdomain record: genai.apple.com.

The domain was spotted by a MacRumors contributing researcher, and though it doesn’t yet lead to a live web page, they believe it’s tied to Apple’s annual developers conference WWDC which starts June 8, “where the company has promised to announce ‘AI advancements’ … ⌘ Read more