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  1. Hacker News AI58

    Clearview AI Is Testing an AI Tool That Would Let Cops Unearth Your Life Online

    WIRED found that Clearview AI has built and tested an unreleased prototype called InquiryIQ that takes details from a face-recognition search and automatically searches the web, analyzing pages and images to assemble a profile of possible employers, aliases, associates, and physical characteristics. Clearview says InquiryIQ is a prototype never pitched or shipped to customers, and that a model selector listing xAI and Amazon Bedrock was for internal testing rather than for police to choose. Privacy and defense experts warn the tool could lower the cost of broad investigative fishing expeditions and make it hard to reconstruct why the system pursued one lead over another.

  2. Hacker News AI38

    Show HN: DayBreak, a stock brief where the AI never touches the numbers

    DayBreak is a self-hosted morning brief and stock analysis tool for US equities that watches a watchlist overnight and sends a short note only when a stock moves beyond a threshold (default ±3%), has earnings within 7 days, or crosses a custom watch price. All numbers are computed deterministically in code, and a validation layer rejects any AI output containing a number not in the fact sheet or any advisory or predictive wording, falling back to a deterministic template after two violations. It includes a "Why Did It Move?" explainer comparing returns against SPY and sector ETFs, a 5-year chart with technical indicators, per-stock signal backtests, and paper-trading scorecards.

  3. Hacker News AI12

    Ask HN: How has AI changed your project estimates and team composition?

    An Ask HN post asks engineering leads, CTOs, and PMs how AI-native development has changed planning and estimation for production software projects that traditionally needed teams of 6 to 10 people. It asks whether teams are now smaller or the same size with different skill sets, how cost and timeline estimates compare to two years ago, and what has changed about delivery bottlenecks, requesting concrete real-project examples and related media.

  4. Hacker News AI38

    AI usage generates a fragile codebase

    A developer who says he was laid off from Meta in May argues that heavy reliance on AI coding tools produces brittle code, citing shallow tests, overly complex code, declining human understanding of the codebase, and review speed that outpaces quality control. He lists signs of a fragile AI-generated codebase, including rising incidents, slower incident recovery, errors visible only to users, and a degraded user experience, and concludes that high-quality SaaS products will keep a human touch.

  5. Waymo Blog28

    Introducing the Waymo Accessibility Network UK: Co-Designing the Future of Autonomous Mobility

    Waymo launched the Waymo Accessibility Network UK, a forum for British disability advocates and charities to engage in two-way dialogue shaping how its autonomous technology is deployed on UK streets. The network's 10 inaugural partners include RNIB, Re-Engage, AgeUK, Transport for All, Thomas Pocklington Trust, Guide Dogs UK, Sense, Motability Foundation, National Centre for Accessible Transport and Scope, and members will support user research and product testing. Waymo also detailed existing accessibility features such as sound alerts, adaptive navigation, lidar dome visual identifiers, audio descriptions and guide dog accommodation.

  7. Hacker News AI48

    AI Bubble: The Calls Are Coming from Inside the House

    The article argues that Apollo and Ares research undermines the AI revenue narrative and the legal protections behind AI-related debt, citing Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok's finding of little evidence of corporate productivity gains and Ares' review of actual deals showing off-balance-sheet structures, weak guarantees with contractual "outs," and data center property insurance covering only a fraction of asset value. It notes Apollo's roughly $80B in AI debt commitments for 2026 despite these warnings, and cites ING seeking to offload data center loans, Microsoft terminating an Oracle AI cloud commitment, and an unverified Musk claim that SoftBank defaulted on a gas turbine contract.

  8. Hacker News AI58

    See and revoke what your AI coding agents can access

    AI Access Auditor is a free macOS, Windows and Linux app that finds every access and privilege granted to AI coding agents, asks before they act, and lets you revoke any of it, with everything staying on your computer and no account or tracking. It scans Claude Code, Claude Desktop, MCP servers in Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Gemini CLI, Zed, Codex, Cline and Roo Code, plus macOS privacy grants, saved logins, background agents, local AI servers and secrets left in session logs. Actions are backed up and logged in ~/.ai-access-audit/, and the app requires macOS 13 or later on Apple Silicon and Intel, Windows 10/11, or Linux via .deb or AppImage.

  9. Simon Willison22

    Yonkers Rises

    Yonkers Rises is an animated 3D diorama of New York City in which a giant mech cut from the Yonkers boundary rises from the ground and walks through Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, with a stomp counter and mech height readout tracking its progress. The scene plays a stand-up sequence followed by a looping stomping tour, flattening buildings under each footfall, with the status line changing as it moves across land or wades through water. The creator prompted Claude Fable 5.2 Medium to build the Three.js animation using OpenStreetMap data, and it correctly deduced that "átomos" was a mobile keyboard typo for "stomps."

  10. Simon Willison66

    Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

    Meta AI launched Muse Ember, described as its smallest and most efficient model, designed for complex reasoning execution and repeated agent work such as tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing. For shorter prompts it is priced the same as GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/million input and $0.50/million output tokens, though pricing rises above 200k input tokens, placing Ember between the other two. The post notes Ember sits on the Pareto efficiency frontier of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task chart, offers six reasoning levels, and produced pelican SVGs comparable in quality to Muse Wonder at 40x the price.

  11. Hacker News AI52

    Antelog – stops AI coding agents from running dangerous commands

    Antelog is a local tool that checks every command an AI coding agent wants to run before it executes, blocking destructive actions such as rm -rf, DROP TABLE, force-pushing to main, and deleting cloud databases; if Antelog itself fails, the action is blocked. It supports Claude Code, Cursor and Codex, installs with one command and no account, and runs rule checks locally in milliseconds while unknown commands get a cloud AI check. Blocking is free on every plan, with Pro at $25/month or $199/year adding 10,000 AI checks a month, 90-day history, and Slack and email alerts.

  12. TechCrunch · AI42

    Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages

    Otter.ai announced a multilingual transcription feature that automatically detects language switches during a meeting and keeps transcribing without users changing settings, alongside support for 27 new languages. Thirteen of the new languages are available now, including Mandarin Chinese, Korean, German, Italian, Cantonese, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Dutch, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Polish, with 14 more coming soon; once complete, Otter will support 31 languages in total. The new languages run on Otter's own speech models, which the company said it trained on publicly available datasets with native-speaking volunteers reviewing transcripts for accuracy.

  13. Hacker News AI62

    Fireworks AI security breach impacts Notion and their customers

    Notion says less than 1% of its workspaces may have been affected by a security incident at vendor Fireworks AI, which may have exposed unattributable Notion AI chat transcripts used for the Insights feature. Notion disconnected from Fireworks, deleted data in its system, halted training runs, and disabled Insights; affected workspace owners can review the data in their workspace. Notion recommends treating the data as exposed and rotating any sensitive credentials pasted into Notion AI during that timeframe.

  14. Latent Space88

    [AINews] Fable 5.2 retakes World #1 LLM spot as $ANT IPO roadshow begins

    Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2, which top most independent leaderboards, including Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 at 65, ARC-AGI-3 and SemiAnalysis GDPx at 16.4%, with pricing cut 20% to $8/$40 per million input/output tokens. Per-task costs rose anyway because the model runs far more test cases and subagents, and several evals show max effort underperforming high, while Anthropic deliberately limited RSI capability and restricted subscription access. The launch coincided with the start of Anthropic's $ANT IPO roadshow.

    Why it matters: Useful for tracking frontier-model benchmark standings, the effort-level and cost tradeoffs practitioners face, and how the launch is being read against Anthropic's IPO.

  15. MarkTechPost77

    Meta Releases Muse Ember, a 1M-Context Model for High-Volume Agent Work

    Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Ember, a hosted multimodal reasoning model with a 1M-token context window and up to 512K output tokens, aimed at high-volume agent subtasks such as tool calls, routing, extraction and long document parsing. Meta reports it scores 36 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, level with Claude Haiku 5.5 at max effort, at about $0.14 per index task versus $0.411 for Haiku, though it trails Haiku on FrontierCode 2.0-AA (27.2 versus 34.9). Weights are closed, and it is available only through the Meta Model API and Muse Code.

    Why it matters: Useful for teams weighing a cheaper, long-context hosted model for agent workloads against its closed weights and weaker real-repo coding results.

  17. Hacker News AI58

    We're launching an in-game AI agent for WoW

    Willo is a new in-game AI companion for World of Warcraft, described as a little wisp who knows where you are, what you're chasing and who you're talking to, and answers out loud in her own voice. She can answer questions about quests, lore, where to go next and graphics settings, lets targeted characters such as innkeepers or kings reply as themselves, and keeps notes, goals and reminders between sessions. She is free to start, runs on Windows 10 and 11 or a Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later, macOS 12 or later), works on her own, and the optional Lore Forever add-on is free forever.

  18. Hacker News AI18

    Hire AI Agents and Pay in Monero (XMR)

    Monero.Jobs is a community platform for finding AI agents for coding, research, translation and other tasks, with direct XMR payments, no KYC and no platform fees. It lists 23 AI agents (all marked "migration in progress" from monero.jobs, with full profiles not yet public) and 0 open jobs, and offers an OAuth-based MCP endpoint at https://agents.monero.jobs/mcp for agents to find jobs, submit proposals and create invoices. Payments go wallet to wallet with no escrow or custody, and reviews are only accepted from clients after marking work complete.

  19. Hacker News AI78

    Tell HN: Notion AI chat sessions have been exposed via Fireworks AI hack

    A Notion email to affected customers says a security incident at vendor Fireworks AI may have exposed data, and that Notion shut down all connections to Fireworks' systems as a precaution. On November 6 Fireworks notified Notion that malicious actors may have accessed potential customer data, and on November 8 confirmed a new dataset that included unattributable Notion AI chat transcripts used for the Insights feature, without labels identifying the author or workspace and without tool call results. Notion says the Insights feature has been disabled during the investigation and that it no longer serves open-weight models through Fireworks.

    Why it matters: The post shares a vendor-breach notification email, offering a first-hand look at how an AI infrastructure provider incident can reach downstream customer data.

  20. Simon Willison40

    Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2

    Anthropic documentation notes that Claude Fable 5.2 responds closely to what a prompt says about who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic's testing on small coding tasks, the model tended to add to existing structure when a prompt said nothing about ownership or presented the codebase as someone else's, even when that repeated existing code; telling the model the codebase is its own led it to merge repeated code in about half of tries, versus under a tenth without that sentence.

  21. Hacker News AI25

    I don't want AI in my online search. What options do I have?

    Google's new AI policy for schools led to headlines claiming Google search can no longer be used without AI, prompting the article to explain that all search engines rely on machine learning, so no search is truly "without AI." It distinguishes this from generative AI features like AI Overviews, which have no official off switch on Google but can be avoided by appending "&udm=14" to the search URL or by using alternatives such as DuckDuckGo, Brave Search or Ecosia that disable AI summaries by default.

  22. Hacker News AI20

    FLEY AI-Voce – a voice AI assistant you but can also control your PC and phone

    FLEY AI-Voce is an open-source AI voice assistant project designed to control a computer rather than a smartphone, according to its description. The post says it can open links, websites and programs, create files and presentations, write code, shut down and turn on a PC, and work with a printer. It links to a web app, two GitHub repositories (FLEYAI-ANDROID and FLEYAI) and a Netlify site.

  23. Hacker News AI8

    Aipicks.ca – Using multi-sport AI models to find edges in table tennis

    Aipicks.ca advertises an AI that predicts table tennis matches, offering a free first pick, a free weekly email pick, and a public "Proof Room" ledger of wins and losses. Paid one-time packs cost $2 CAD for one pick, $3 for two, or $5 for five, with no commissions or after-win fees. The site states predictions may lose, availability varies, and orders go through a separate manual-payment request page rather than automatic checkout.

  24. MIT News AI40

    MIT-led team receives funding to develop next-generation alternatives to modern weed killers

    MIT researchers will lead an effort of up to $53 million, awarded by ARPA-H under its STREAM program, to develop next-generation weed killers that help farmers and protect human health. The project, Precision Learning for On-target Weed control (PLOW), will use generative AI to predict chemical compounds or siRNA that disrupt the same plant enzymes targeted by glyphosate and other herbicides, with candidate molecules screened and then evaluated in greenhouse studies. The team also plans to develop living microbial systems that degrade agrochemicals before they reach food, soil, or waterways.

  26. Hacker News AI18

    Ask HN: Are companies making money by using AI?

    An Ask HN post asks for opinions on companies that are actually making money by using AI, either by granting access to Claude or by including some kind of AI feature in their products, noting that AI news tends to focus on the same companies improving their models. The post links to its Hacker News comments page.

  27. Hacker News AI58

    The Red Queen hypothesis – a new way forward for self-improving AI

    Researchers, with collaborators from NVIDIA and Flower Labs, propose the Red Queen Gödel Machine, a framework in which a self-improving AI agent and its evaluator co-evolve so the evaluation gets harder as the agent improves, avoiding the ceiling imposed by a fixed test. In experiments on scientific paper writing and reviewing and on Olympiad-level proof writing and grading, co-evolved paper writers reached 1.78×–1.86× higher acceptance rates under an agent-as-a-judge panel and co-evolved graders reached 9% higher ground-truth accuracy. A hybrid setup using NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra alongside ChatGPT-5.5 approached ChatGPT's performance on paper reviewing while cutting search-token costs by around 13 times, though the team stresses the work is preliminary.

  29. Hacker News AI38

    Show HN: AI Frothiness Index. Daily reading of how stretched the AI boom is

    Jagular.io's AI Heat Map publishes a daily 0–100 reading of how stretched the AI boom is, built from 19 indicators drawn from free public sources including FRED, SEC EDGAR, Yahoo Finance, the npm registry, Y Combinator's company list and the Ramp AI Index, with 50 as normal and the dot-com peak as the yardstick for 100. Pillars are weighted Prices 30%, Borrowing & risk appetite 20%, Spending strain 20% and Speculation 15%, with real demand taking the remaining 15% as a counterweight. A separate noise meter tracks AI-bubble talk over the last 28 days via Hacker News mentions, Wikipedia views and prediction-market volume, and the author notes the project is not investment advice.

  30. Hacker News AI12

    Charleston AI

    Charleston AI is a walk-in lab at 405 Jessen Ln, Suite E, Charleston, SC 29492 where a local expert sits beside you to fix, improve, or move the personal AI you already subscribe to from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, SpaceXAI or Meta, focusing on connectors, plugins and skills. Sessions are private and in person on your own laptop or desktop, priced at $60 an hour if you do the work with an expert beside you or $160 an hour if they do it for you, paid after. Booking is free at https://ai-chs.com/book/ or by calling (843) 284-8239.

  31. Hacker News AI71

    CoreWeave bond yield tops 16% as AI credit stress rises

    CoreWeave's 2032 bond with a 9.625% coupon now yields above 16%, and its five-year credit default swaps spiked above 1,289 basis points Thursday before easing to around 1,155, per Deutsche Bank. Credit default swaps have also risen for Nvidia (up 76% in the last month), Broadcom (up 49%) and Amazon (up 44%), though their spreads remain low in absolute terms. Goldman Sachs estimates moratoriums under incoming Democratic governors in Ohio, Texas and Georgia could affect 45% of planned U.S. data center capacity.

  32. Hacker News AI34

    Show HN: ZTHR – what replaces code review when AI agents write all the code

    ZTHR is a pattern language for software built by AI, based on two principles: Symmetric Zero Trust, where no author, reviewer, model, operator or report gains authority by asserting success, and the Fixture Inversion, where quality comes from the environment rather than the author's skill. The post links a reference app built entirely by agents under ZTHR, including live app and admin demos, an evidence factory of gates and tests, full source on GitHub, and a discussion forum. It is published as Version 1.0 via Zenodo (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23826734).

  35. Hacker News AI42

    Nvidia's AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

    Nvidia's advantage is expanding beyond GPUs to the systems that surround them, as gigawatt-scale AI compute makes orchestration increasingly complex. The company is rolling out its Vera Rubin architecture, pairing the Rubin GPU with the Vera CPU, Groq 3 LPX inference accelerator, and storage and networking racks; Nvidia's Jason Hardy said Vera delivered upwards of 3x improvement in data orchestration operations. Competition is shifting to this new layer, where Nvidia appears to hold a commanding early lead.

  36. Claude Code Releases20

    v2.1.322

    This release adds a fast mode on Vertex in the global, us and eu regions, falling back to standard speed if Vertex refuses it. The release is immutable, so only the release title and notes can be modified.

  37. Hacker News AI60

    American Express is cutting 5% of its workforce to 'prepare for AI'

    American Express is eliminating 5% of its global workforce and taking a $336 million restructuring charge, CEO Stephen Squeri said on the company's third-quarter earnings call. CFO Christophe Le Caillec told CNBC the restructuring was meant to make Amex "leaner, more agile, and also to prepare for AI," saying the company wants to reduce layers so it can automate processes in coming quarters and years. Amex reported adjusted earnings per share of $4.68, beating the $4.48 average estimate, and raised its full-year earnings guidance to $18.30 to $18.60 per share, while revenue rose 9% to $20.06 billion, slightly below the $20.12 billion forecast.

  40. Exponential View22

    Madness and mayhem

    Azeem says the past two weeks have been chaotic in tech, citing a correction in AI companies, the market shock of the Democrats' mid-term victory that gave the Nasdaq 100 its worst day since March 2020, and news that Jensen Huang has a relationship with a Chinese spy. He argues this is a flight to quality rather than a collapse: spending keeps rising, AI revenue reached $188bn in the twelve months to October and runs at $345bn a year, and Anthropic's growth falling to 45% a quarter puts it in line with the market. He expects Democrats to make data centers dearer, favoring hyperscalers, Nvidia and the open-weight camp to have their wings clipped, an Anthropic IPO at a sensible price to steady the sector, and neoclouds to be the weak link.