The Slop Report - September 8, 2026
Today: Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New…; Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest…; Show HN: Relay – an update after three years on…
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1. Key App Developers Have Yet to Embrace Apple’s New Siri A.I.
NY Times Tech - · Sep 8
For the company’s new artificial intelligence system to take off, it will need plenty of support from the makers of popular apps on Apple’s phones.
2. Ask HN: Anyone else feeling uneasy with the latest developments in AI?
Hacker News - · Sep 8
I'm feeling extremely depressed and anxious lately. After seeing Astra saturating ARC-AGI-3 and blowing through many other benchmarks, it's hard to believe we won't have a strong form of AGI by the end of this year, or the next one at the latest.<p>I don't understand why we'
3. Show HN: Relay – an update after three years on anonymous team check-ins
Hacker News - · Sep 7
Three years ago I posted our product Signals here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34405962<p>It’s rebranded to Relay now. Same idea-ish. We’ve cut back a lot but leaned right into the anonymity aspect for
4. Instead of Fighting AI, Some Teachers Work It Into Their Lessons
Slashdot - · Sep 7
Last year the writing program at the University of Baltimore used an app that tracks students while they’re writing in Google Docs, offering teachers a video playing back revisions “with a scoreboard of all the edits, pastes and minutes spent on it,” writes the Washington Post. “Is it surveillance?
5. Show HN: Qumra – Screen recorder that uploads while you record
Hacker News - · Sep 7
I built Qumra 3 years ago for myself. It's a Loom like desktop screen and camera recorder for Mac and Windows.<p>I used Loom at the time and had a problem with the pricing, and the editor never did what I needed. As a software developer I record a lot of short videos for clients: showing a bug,
6. Ask HN: Any AI Market Metrics?
Hacker News - · Sep 7
Looking at CNN Business there is an Economic calendar that each day will show various items like: Housing starts / Imports / Exports / Oil Wells / CPI etc.<p>Are there any metrics on AI? As in number of data centers or number of data centers started, capacity of all AI data cent
7. ‘She Lost Her Sight. Her Billionaire Father Bet On a Daring New Treatment.’
Slashdot - · Sep 7
“Billionaire Bill Ackman’s life was upended this February when his 26-year-old daughter collapsed in her Brooklyn apartment, suffering a brain hemorrhage that would render her unable to move, speak or see,” writes the Washingon Post. But then… The hedge fund manager did what any good father would
8. Ask HN: Best sentence corpora with native audio for language learning?
Hacker News - · Sep 7
I’m looking for good structured sentence and native audio corpora to acquire languages with flashcard and speaking repetition. In short, the Glossika service/app has taken a turn for the worse and I’m looking for something else.<p>I’ve used and recommended Glossika for the mass-sentence method
9. Dolly Parton’s sister pleads for end to ‘AI garbage’ posts after singer’s death
BBC Technology - · Sep 7
Since Parton’s death in late August, dozens of AI-generated songs, images and videos have appeared online.
10. The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center
Ars Technica - · Sep 7
When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?
11. Axios interview: Altman sees revenge of “idea guy”
Axios - · Sep 7
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says this era is bringing the revenge of the “idea guy” — the once-annoying aspiring entrepreneur burbling about their brainstorm with no technical chops to pull it off. Altman says it would be like saying: “I have a great idea for a song. I just need that guy with the guitar t
12. Ask HN: How to roll out Agents for knowledge workers?
Hacker News - · Sep 7
I work in a medium-size government agency in Germany, mostly comprised of middle management. We have already built and rolled out a web-based "internal GPT" with LangGraph and a custom frontend, based on Azure OpenAI, but it of course lacks far behind the commercial offerings in functional
13. Anthropic has walked away from its $6bn Decart deal, Bloomberg reports
The Next Web - · Sep 8
Anthropic has decided against buying Decart AI, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified. The company had explored a deal and completed due diligence before walking away, and one of those people said the two may still find other ways to work together.
14. Matt Clifford quits as ARIA chair over his Anthropic job
The Next Web - · Sep 7
The man who wrote the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is leaving the government research agency he chaired. He announced it five days after taking a job at Anthropic. The resignation itself is not the interesting part. The arrangement it undoes had already been reviewed and cleared by a government
15. Architect of UK’s AI policy quits after Anthropic conflict of interest concerns
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 7
Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company The chair of the UK government’s “moonshot” science and technology research unit has been forced to stand down after taking a job with the San Francisco AI firm Anthropic, in a move senior MPs c
16. OpenAI chief scientist warns no-one is prepared for consequences of AI
BBC Technology - · Sep 7
The post comes as the firm releases GPT-6 Astra, which it says is its most powerful product yet.
17. The Download: the hunt for underground hydrogen and more rogue OpenAI agents
MIT Technology Review - · Sep 7
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How much hydrogen awaits us underground? A flurry of exploration efforts is searching for underground stores of hydrogen gas, which could provide a va
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