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“Open weights are nowhere near a sufficient solution”: Dario Amodei fires back on AI power
The independence developers gain from open weights comes with a hard infrastructure ceiling, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. “AI The post “Open weights are nowhere near a sufficient solution”: Dario Amodei fires back on AI power appeared first on The New Stack .
Russia: Prison for opposition leader over war criticism
Lev Shlosberg of the Yabloko party has been sentenced to over 11 years in a penal colony for criticizing the war in Ukraine. "A single person is imprisoned, yet fear seeps into the hearts of millions," he said in court.
The Analogue Pocket gets a Supreme makeover in red or gold
Analogue and Supreme are teaming up to release metallic versions of the Analogue Pocket handheld in red and gold as part of Supreme's fall / winter 2026 collection. Here's how they're described on Supreme's website: Metallic portable handheld multi-video-game-system. Unibody aluminum with 24K Gold-plated and custom red glossy finishes. They also have a Supreme logo […]
Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI
Rare books are incredibly valuable for training LLMs, since these models have already trained on whatever's available online.
Sonos finally added Live Activities controls for your iPhone lockscreen
Sonos released an update to its mobile app that finally introduces support for iOS' Live Activities, giving iPhone users quick access to playback controls on their lockscreen. The added functionality is a "much requested, anticipated, and needed feature," according to a post Sonos shared to Reddit today that was spotted by 9to5Mac. While some features […]
Trump’s dumb border wall
About 22 miles south of the former mining town of Patagonia, Arizona, down a winding, unpaved mountain road that passes cows grazing on open range, stands a cottonwood tree believed to be at least 200 years old. The "grandmother" tree, as some locals call it, is imperiled and already showing signs of stress, almost as […]
Russia's prominent anti-war politician jailed for 11 years
Lev Schlosberg is found guilty of "discrediting" Russia's army - a verdict he condemns as punishment for his political position.
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Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud
Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.
Democrats rebuke Trump over scaling back military drills with South Korea
Republican Senator Thom Tillis says the decision allows North Korea to provide more support to Russia in Ukraine.
AWS Weekly Roundup: EC2 application status checks, IAM role manager, OpenAI Daybreak on Bedrock, and more (August 17, 2026)
Last week, AWS contributors joined the OpenSearch and Valkey communities at Open Source Summit Korea 2026 and MCP DevSummit Seoul 2026 to meet open source developers and contributors. At the four-day event, community leaders and users of these Linux Foundation open source projects gathered to share knowledge, collaborate on solutions, and push the projects forward. […]
CNCF Announces Kubeflow’s Graduation, Solidifying a Standard for Cloud Native AI Operations
Milestone marks widespread enterprise adoption for automating end-to-end AI and machine learning lifecycles on Kubernetes Key Highlights SAN FRANCISCO — August 17, 2026 — The Cloud Native Computing Foundation® (CNCF®), which builds sustainable ecosystems for cloud...
How Russian dissidents are being punished by both Russia and Europe
While Moscow is stripping citizenship rights, European states are curbing access to legal status for Russian emigres.
Germany: Bundeswehr troop numbers reach 13-year high
Germany's Defense Ministry is reporting a comparatively rare success story in its bid to bolster troop numbers. At the end of July, the total stood at around 186,700, roughly 3,700 more than a year earlier — a 2% boost.
Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study
Article URL: https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/universal-health-coverage-could-save-one-trillion-dollars-and-114000-lives-every-year/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49332981 Points: 346 # Comments: 467
TNS journalist Darryl K. Taft leaves a legacy of respected work and quiet integrity
Technology journalist Darryl K. Taft led a long and successful career at several first-rank tech publications and was a highly The post TNS journalist Darryl K. Taft leaves a legacy of respected work and quiet integrity appeared first on The New Stack .
Rights group urges FIFA to block Infantino re-election bid over term limits
FairSquare says the FIFA president should not be able to run again under the world football organisation's statutes.
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility Excellent piece of reporting from 404 Media. For a while now there have been stories of book dealers receiving orders for large volumes of books from apparently price-insensitive anonymous customers, widely suspected to be companies looking to scan them for AI training (see my previous coverage of Anthropic's book scanning from June 2025.) 404 Media investigated with an AirTag! In July, one bookseller told me they received a very large order of around 1,000 books on Biblio, one of these marketplaces. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag provided by 404 Media in one of the books included in this order so we could see where the book was going. And by extension, which company, AI or otherwise, was behind this massive order. The book ended up delivered to the VGT3 corner of the LAS8 Amazon facility in the north east of Las Vegas, where the entrance carried this on-the-nose logo of a dinosaur with a book! Photo credit: 404 Media Online forum discussions between Amazon workers confirmed that VGT3 destructively scans large volumes of books. Tags: amazon , journalism , ai , training-data , ai-ethics , 404-media
Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
Norway wealth fund warns of AI-driven stock market bubble
The head of Norway's sovereign wealth fund has warned that soaring AI-driven stock valuations could trigger a sharp correction. How exposed is the world's largest sovereign wealth fund to a market downturn?
Apple ordered to stop scaring iPhone and iPad users away from third-party apps
Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they launched with iOS 14.5, making cross-app tracking of users largely opt in. But […]
Police execute controlled World War II–era Mine explosion
Video footage released by police on Sunday shows Slovak bomb disposal experts executing a mine detonation.
Trump demands Iran ‘put up the white flag of surrender’ as MoU expires
President also claims US is in direct contact with IRGC, denies a rush to end conflict ahead of November's US midterms.