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Hacker News - · Sep 16
Hacker News - · Sep 14
We host a web app which has around 50,000 statically generated public pages, and the amount of bot traffic is insane. Facebook’s crawler requested the same pages over 3 million times in 2 days, and we’ve used Vercel and Cloudflare to block as much as possible but it’s not working. The AI scrapers ar
Hacker News - · Sep 15
I feel like especially post-AI, most agents default to the same Next.js / Tailwind / shadcn stack. It’s great for getting something working fast, but the end result often looks and feels the same and has almost become synonymous with AI slop atp. And when your landing page looks like it wa
Politico Technology - · Sep 16
A new POLITICO Poll finds that a plurality of Americans favor pausing the development of more advanced AI models, and 63 percent say the technology poses at least a moderate risk of destroying humanity.
Axios - · Sep 16
Members of Congress and governors are under increasing pressure to regulate AI , but more than two dozen of them who spoke with Axios said they don’t use the technology or have rarely done so. Why it matters: That striking admission — particularly among older, influential lawmakers — comes amid call
NY Times Tech - · Sep 16
At an event in Washington, partisanship took a back seat as elected officials, religious leaders, parents and artists called for reining in artificial intelligence.
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 16
Our lives are littered with devices we don’t understand. We don’t know why the microwave suddenly beeps just past midnight, or why the dishwasher won’t run unless it’s been unplugged and then replugged three times, or why the laptop charges only when we push in the cord at that weird angle. So
NPR Technology - · Sep 16
Data suggests many candidates are embracing AI this year to boost their image and portray their opponents unfavorably. But whether it will turn out voters remains unclear.
Washington Post Tech - · Sep 16
LinkedIn co-founder and influential Democratic donor Reid Hoffman says industry and government must show Americans how they can benefit from artificial intelligence.
The Next Web - · Sep 16
The UAE will change its requirements for data centres and stop promoting where they are. Omar Sultan Al Olama, the country’s Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, said so on Tuesday at Dreamforce in San Francisco. Data centres have become critic
The Next Web - · Sep 16
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said the public is right to fear that a few AI companies could gain too much power. He spoke on Tuesday at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Salesforce has published the conversation, led by its chief executive Marc Benioff, on YouTube. Altman des
The Next Web - · Sep 16
“We don’t need any new laws. We don’t need new regulations,” Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Tuesday, on the main stage of Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Earlier in the same keynote, Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei made his case for the industry to slow down,
Politico Technology - · Sep 16
The ruling was prompted by OpenAI’s request for information on the purported agreement.
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 16
AI isn’t some new form of “alien mind,” according to Jensen Huang. It’s just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker.
Politico Technology - · Sep 15
The Connecticut Democrat acknowledged rising anxiety over artificial intelligence and urged lawmakers to channel public concern into concrete policy.
Slashdot - · Sep 15
The Los Angeles Times reports: Chen Yilong has racked up plenty of film and TV credits in his two decades as an actor, but with work getting scarcer he signed a contract in August to license the image of his face to a Chinese production studio. Chen’s role will be to sit in front of a video camera a
BBC Technology - · Sep 15
The ad regulator said it had “zero-tolerance” for ads promoting AI tools that could sexualise or objectify women.
Politico Technology - · Sep 15
As the artificial intelligence lobby warms to mandatory independent audits, critics warn of conflicts of interest and “regulatory capture.”
Axios - · Sep 15
Lawmakers who want to regulate AI are doing something unusual as Congress barrels towards a lengthy recess with no tangible solution in sight: They’re working across the aisle. Why it matters: Bipartisanship is increasingly elusive on Capitol Hill of late, but it remains a crucial first step for act
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 15
National outcry against data center construction has spread to Philadelphia, where officials suggested possible construction in a neighborhood already impacted by a now-defunct oil refinery.
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 15
For years, AI safety organizations have warned that the big labs are racing to develop more intelligent and autonomous systems without a clear and realistic strategy for managing the risks. Independent researchers have argued that investments in safety and alignment lag far behind investments in cap
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 15
Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministers Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies access to Australian creati
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 15
A new WhatsApp Business MCP server lets developers use AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting.
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 15
Leftwing senator and far-right strategist rail against tech oligarchs but offer competing visions on Chinese ‘cold war’ The progressive senator Bernie Sanders and rightwing strategist Steve Bannon have called for restrictions on artificial intelligence (AI) but offered competing visions for what the
BBC Technology - · Sep 15
What should children learn in a world transformed by artificial intelligence?
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