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AI out-persuades experts by volume — and pays in accuracy

Science has been running a feature on why chatbots are so good at changing minds — first posted in late August, back on the Hacker News front page today — and the primary papers underneath it are less flattering to the models than the headline suggests: they win on throughput, and the field's own numbers say the win is bought with truth. The research line behind the coverage is the strongest measured persuader against humans in the literature, and it is no longer theoretical. Here is what the p

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Paris opens a criminal probe into smart glasses used to film women

Two stories about the same shift: the tooling keeps moving faster than the rules written around it — one on the pavement, one in the code review. The Paris prosecutor's office has opened at least one criminal investigation into suspected sexual harassment involving camera-equipped smart glasses, after complaints that women were filmed in the street without their knowledge and the footage posted online. Prosecutors did not name a make of device, and declined to say how many complaints they have

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AI 101 — How Much Power Does AI Actually Use?

AI's power use is the electricity burned by the data centers that train and answer with models — about 1.5% of the world's electricity in 2024, and on track to roughly double by 2030. That sounds small, and per query it is genuinely small. The reason it keeps making front pages is where the demand lands: a handful of regional grids, the bills of the people living on them, and the cost of running the machines in the first place. This is the ten-minute version. Why it matters right now. Three thi

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DeepSeek engineer bids goodbye to hand-written kernels

The engineer who wrote DeepSeek's fastest attention code published a farewell to the craft that AI is taking from him — and the model doing the taking is the one he just shipped. Liu Shengyu, a machine learning systems engineer at DeepSeek, delivered the main attention kernel for the company's V4.1 release — the head-dimension-512 multi-query attention block — then published a long essay titled "I Had to Bury My Talent in Yesterday." His account of the last twelve months is the most concrete ti

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Google Home opens its MCP server to any AI agent

Google Home just opened its MCP server, which means any MCP-compatible AI agent — Claude, ChatGPT, OpenClaw, Google's own Antigravity — can now read your home's event history, control your devices, and build its own dashboards for them. The rollout landed as early access this week for Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers in the US, and the setup guide is already live in Google's Home developer docs. Google would not say when or whether the integration reaches other subscription tiers or mark

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Amazon brings Alexa+ to India with Hindi and Hinglish support

Amazon's generative-AI assistant left its English-first comfort zone on Wednesday, and the price it set for the world's second-largest internet market says a lot about how the company intends to pay for it. Amazon opened Alexa+ Early Access in India, adding Hindi and 'Hinglish' alongside English — and the assistant can switch between languages inside a single sentence. The company says the model was adapted for Indian speech by teams in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai, including recognis

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Meta's next AI glasses drop the camera and keep six mics

Two answers landed on the same afternoon in San Francisco: what Meta wants on your face next, and what the chip industry's loudest voice thinks about the rules for building it. Meta plans to release a camera-free pair of smart glasses this fall, internally code-named Luna, and is targeting its Connect developer conference on September 23–24 to show them, with shipments in October, The Information reported Tuesday. Reuters, which corroborated the report, lists the specifics: six built-in microph

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UMG sues DistroKid over a flood of AI 'slop'

Two stories from Tuesday worth your time: the recorded-music business taking its AI-slop fight to the distributor that ships more independent releases than anyone, and the collapse of a "cheapest inference provider" that was quietly reselling someone else's GPUs. Universal Music Group sued DistroKid in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware on Tuesday, accusing the distributor of deceptive trade practices and copyright infringement and of "flooding platforms with AI-generated 'slo

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A cop searched 19,000 Flock cameras to type "LMAO"

The pitch for automated license-plate cameras is that they catch stolen cars and wanted suspects. Flock Safety's own audit logs suggest a lot of the searches were for something else entirely. A review of Flock Safety's search logs found officers using the one field meant to justify a search to type jokes and gibberish. In July 2025, an officer with the Lake County, Indiana, sheriff's department ran a plate search across more than 19,000 cameras covering 1,558 cities and towns. The stated reason

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Gates Foundation commits $1 billion to AI the poor can actually use

A philanthropist and a customer-service agent company both spent this week arguing that the bottleneck has moved: not model capability, but who can reach it and in what form. The Gates Foundation pledged at least $1 billion over two years to expand access to AI, publishing the commitment alongside its new Goalkeepers report on September 15. The money is split by the foundation's own accounting: 40% to education, including AI tutoring; 40% to health, including tools for drug and vaccine discover

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Waymo will run Tokyo's first driverless taxis in 2027

Waymo just committed to a commercial launch date in its second international market, Microsoft quietly let a rival lab's model into Word and Excel, and Oracle started another round of cuts to fund its data-centre build. Waymo, GO and Nihon Kotsu have formally agreed to prepare Japan's first fully driverless commercial taxi service, targeting a public launch in Tokyo during 2027. The three companies announced Tuesday that the service will run vehicles at autonomous Level 4 — no safety driver on

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Apple ships iOS 27. Its new Siri AI is still a beta

Apple's biggest AI release arrived with a "beta" label attached. Meanwhile the people who built the benchmark for AI-run businesses are opening it to everyone, and Manhattan just carried out the largest deepfake-site seizure on record. Apple's long-delayed Siri AI finally shipped today — as a beta. iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27 and visionOS 27 went out this morning, with macOS 27 Golden Gate alongside them, and the headline feature in all five is Siri AI: on-screen context answers, drafting and

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