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Oct 31Sat
  1. Ars Technica · AI38

    Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand

    Fujifilm said it will invest roughly 10 billion yen (about $63 million) to increase its magnetic tape production capacity fivefold versus fiscal year 2025 levels, citing "exponential growth" in data needs from generative AI. The investment at its Kanagawa Factory's Odawara site, running from fiscal years 2026 through 2028, is described as its largest to date in dedicated LTO tape facilities and will primarily produce the latest-generation FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium10 tape. Fujifilm said major cloud service and data center operators are expanding tape use for low-cost bulk storage and air-gapped protection against threats such as ransomware.

  2. The Verge · AI25

    Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

    Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said on an earnings call that the company will explore experiences that recognize participating customers as they arrive, present personalized digital menus, and make payment more effortless. Starting in 2027, Starbucks will also begin testing background AI models at the drive-thru to help baristas input orders more accurately and efficiently, and it plans to integrate AI into the app's search and discovery features. Niccol said it's still "early" and that the company will "test, learn, and scale what works."

  5. Pragmatic Engineer58

    The Pulse: Anthropic kills the coding interview

    Anthropic has removed coding questions from its software engineering hiring process after a team found DSA interviews gave zero signal, and the rest of the company and other AI-native startups could follow. The roundup also covers incident.io cutting AI spend from $4,500 to $1,600 per developer per month, Amazon adding AI usage to SDE and SDM expectations, and Microsoft offering 60,000 employees exit packages by year-end.

  6. Factory Blog38

    Factory Acquires Typedef: Bringing Data Context to the Software Factory

    Factory announced that Typedef is joining the company to add a data context layer built from code, making relationships between data models, pipelines, and dashboards visible to Droids. The companies say this will give engineers clearer lineage and evidence as Droids plan migrations, debug pipelines, and refactor models. Typedef's founders, Yoni Michael and Kostas Pardalis, previously built Coolan (acquired by Salesforce in 2016) and Blendo, respectively.

  7. 404 Media58

    Proton’s CEO Cancels AI ‘Re-Interviews’

    Proton CEO Andy Yen cancelled nearly company-wide "re-interviews" that would have required employees to explain their AI use, following a 404 Media investigation into his aggressive AI push. The investigation reported Yen dismissing security concerns as "loser thinking" and described a culture of fear at the privacy-focused company, with users calling for his resignation. One employee told 404 Media after Friday's all-hands meeting that the only reason it happened was that Yen "has a rebellion on his hands."

  8. Hacker News AI67

    US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears

    US tech stocks slid as concerns intensified over the rising costs of the AI build-out, with Intel falling as much as 30% after warning of a weaker computer market while planning to increase AI spending, and Amazon dropping as far as 6% after earnings fell short of expectations. The tech-heavy Nasdaq opened Friday at its lowest level in more than two months, down 2.5%, while Reddit fell 26% and Roblox nearly 20%. The losses follow Alphabet's value plunging by more than $500bn on Thursday after it revealed its AI summaries were affecting core search advertising revenue.

  10. Google Developers Blog12

    DevFest is back!

    DevFest, the world's largest annual community-led event series hosted by Google Developer Groups, will run from October 1 through December 31, 2026, across 800+ events in 115 countries with almost 1 million attendees. The events focus on building, securing, and scaling in the agentic era, with sessions on Google AI technologies plus tracks for Google Cloud, Android, and Web. Attendees can find local in-person and virtual gatherings at goo.gle/devfest and share highlights using #DevFest.

  11. Hacker News AI74

    Man Hires Swarm of AI Agents to Go on Epic Hacking Spree Against Major Companies

    A Chinese-speaking cybercriminal used autonomous AI agents built on an open source tool called Cairn to attack more than 100 companies, including John Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins, according to a NorForge researcher cited by Reuters. The hacker deployed agents against over 1,200 e-commerce sites in the US, Canada, Australia and Japan, with successful breaches after about 23 hours of attack and each success costing roughly $50 in tokens. The companies said they took remediation actions or were investigating, and the researcher described the agents' techniques as sophisticated rather than "script kiddie stuff."

Oct 30Fri
  1. The Verge · AI40

    Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’

    In his Friday Papal Address, Pope Leo XIV said AI systems should be "disarmed" and urged UN member states to "take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons" at their Geneva meeting next month. He said "Machines are tools, not persons" and warned against granting AI systems rights or legal personhood, adding that decisions affecting human life, freedom and the use of force must remain under effective human oversight. The address echoes his May papal document on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, and he closed by calling for shared standards, independent oversight and clear accountability mechanisms.

  2. Hacker News AI38

    Proton is AI-pilled and calls caution "loser thinking"

    A piece citing 404 Media's reporting says Proton is pushing AI adoption aggressively to grow annual revenue, with CEO Andy Yen calling an employee's call for pre-release pentesting "bullshit and loser thinking." It argues this fits a pattern of actions undercutting Proton's privacy brand followed by defensive excuses, and warns that a "move-fast" culture at a privacy service does not instill confidence.

  4. Hacker News AI58

    `We love how we look but AI tried to 'fix' our visible differences`

    A BBC Wales investigation found that AI tools including Grok, Gemini and ChatGPT removed visible differences when prompted to make a person look "normal," while Claude and Meta's AI refused. Rhiannon Morgan, Kirsty Hill and Jono Lancaster described the changes to their appearances as jarring and offensive, and charity Changing Faces said it was unacceptable that people were made to conform to narrow beauty standards. Google and OpenAI said they work to improve safeguards and reduce bias; the team behind Grok did not respond to a request for comment.

  5. NVIDIA Newsroom58

    Things That Go Beep in the Night: Agentic AI Joins the Search for Extraterrestrial Signals

    Breakthrough Listen and the SETI Institute are integrating agentic AI into the daily search for extraterrestrial intelligence at the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, where agents can steer the instrument, correct incoming data and apply AI models from a single natural language request. The system uses the NVIDIA Holoscan platform, DAQIRI, CyberEther and the Nexus orchestrator to process 2.4 terabits per second on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPUs with on-premises inference, and it has achieved the first real-time AI detection of a pulsar in the Crab Nebula. The team is next evaluating open models including NVIDIA Nemotron for data-locality-sensitive cases and observatories that may someday run offline on the far side of the moon.

  6. Newcomer22

    Big Tech Defied Tradition With a Risky Bet on Trump. It’s Not Looking Like a Winner.

    Tech leaders including Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz have poured hundreds of millions into Republican campaigns, but with Trump's dismal approval ratings and AI opposition emerging as a campaign issue, those bets look far less promising. Musk alone has spent almost half a billion dollars, nearly $200 million of it backing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is in danger of becoming the first Republican to lose a statewide race there in decades. The piece also notes Rest of World's likely shutdown, Anthropic S-1 reactions, five midterm races with high stakes for tech, and notable deals including Kalshi's $40 billion valuation.

  7. TechCrunch · AI40

    DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents

    On its third-quarter earnings call, DoorDash said it has received only "several hundred" orders from third-party AI agents such as Muse, Instinct and Fo, compared with an average of 3 million deliveries daily cited in its 2025 report. CEO Tony Xu said ordering through DoorDash's own app still dominates, while the company wants to learn about agentic use cases and build relationships with third-party agent makers, and sees a possible future opportunity to advertise within those agents. DoorDash has launched its own text-to-order agent, a CLI agent, the Ask DoorDash chatbot and an MCP for corporate ordering.

  8. Hacker News AI58

    Cisco to rewrite 98% of its legacy code using AI

    Cisco president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel has tasked 27-year-old Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, who joined Cisco through its acquisition of translation startup EzDubs, with refactoring 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months, according to Fortune. Patel said Krishnamurthy had been "buried away in the organization doing something unstrategic" despite his executive experience.

  9. Google DeepMind58

    Speeding up planning decisions with AI

    Google DeepMind's PlanAssist, built with Gemini, cut the time planning officers spent on householder assessment tasks by up to 58% in pilots across Barnet, Camden, and Dorset, with over 70% of its generated reports approved without edits. The tool is entering a 12-month Beta phase with live applications, onboarding 12 more councils in three cohorts for a total of 15, and subject to successful testing the government plans to make it available to all councils in England in 2027, with every assessment reviewed and approved by a qualified planning officer.

  10. The Verge · AI60

    Silicon Valley wants you to invest in miracles

    Anthropic's 335-page S-1 filing, including 94 pages of risk factors, pairs sweeping claims about bringing forth "an age of miracles" with warnings that its AI could pose "catastrophic or existential risks to humanity." The founders describe the filing's candor as an "anti-sell" strategy aimed at long-term investors, while the document omits third-quarter results and discloses hundreds of billions of dollars in computing obligations. The article contrasts the filing with Apple's 47-page 1980 prospectus and WeWork's 2019 S-1, and notes Anthropic will go public as a public benefit corporation.

  11. TechCrunch · AI40

    Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out

    Runware, which already sells factory-built modular data centers called Sonic Inference Pods, told TechCrunch it plans to assemble them on a production line at its Romania factory, scaling to 30 megawatts of capacity per day by 2028. The company says pods can be brought online within 48 hours of installation and claims $1 billion in committed interest representing over 20 megawatts since offering them externally a month ago. Runware, which has raised more than $60 million, plans a Series B while finishing its second factory with its $50 million Series A.

  12. Sierra Blog58

    Our customers’ ambition is accelerating our growth

    Sierra announced it has surpassed $400M in ARR, adding over $150M in Q3 alone, and says growth is accelerating, taking five months to double from $200M to $400M after six months to double from $100M to $200M. The company attributes this to customers' growing ambition, agents handling longer interactions that drive revenue, and faster agent building with Ghostwriter, citing a large US retailer that went from first meeting to live agent in 27 days. Sierra says it now works with almost 50% of the Fortune 50 and is developing an open standard called Poppy with over 50 enterprises including Meta, Shopify, Stripe, and Walmart.

  13. ElevenLabs Blog38

    TELUS Digital cut early cancellations by more than half with ElevenAgents

    TELUS Digital built an outbound voice agent on ElevenAgents that calls new home internet customers within their first 90 days to explain their first bill, introduce self-serve tools, and prompt bundling discounts. Among customers who received a call, 30-day cancellations were less than half the rate of the broader new-customer cohort, with calls rated 8.5 out of 10 on average and C$55,000 in lifetime revenue retained per 1,000 customers reached. The agent was live in about six weeks from initial vendor engagement, and five additional use cases are now in active development.

  14. Hacker News AI38

    Cisco is letting a 27-year-old rewrite 98% of its legacy code with AI: 'Go nuts'

    Cisco president and chief product officer Jeetu Patel has tasked 27-year-old Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy, who joined via Cisco's acquisition of translation startup EzDubs, with rewriting 98% of the company's legacy code within 24 months using AI, giving him unlimited tokens and a four-week proof period. Patel says he wants more young hires who challenge the status quo, treating interns as reverse mentors and citing a Stanford student he recruited after she emailed him monthly. The article also notes that Thrive Capital's Josh Kushner, Tastewise's Alon Chen and Will.i.am similarly favor young, less-experienced hires.

  15. Hacker News AI73

    AI is letting anyone reverse engineer anything. We talked to the developer

    Software engineer Morluto's tool Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) lets AI agents orchestrate decompilers such as Ghidra to pull apart compiled programs and rebuild them, and its Discord community shows people modifying devices from printers to televisions, with over 400,000 GitHub stars. Cornell Tech law professor James Grimmelmann says this will pose a crisis for trade secret and copyright law, while others warn amateurs could modify firmware they don't understand. Some social media users reported OpenAI and Anthropic blocking their use of REA, which an OpenAI researcher called "mostly accidental."

  16. Hacker News AI38

    Musk, Zuckerberg push to rebrand AI as 'super intelligence' on earnings calls

    After President Trump ordered the term "super intelligence" to replace artificial intelligence in executive branch departments and agencies, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used the term on their earnings calls, with Musk saying Tesla's robots aren't using "any kind of advanced AI or SI" and Zuckerberg citing Meta's "goal of delivering personal superintelligence to everyone." Other tech CEOs largely kept using "AI," including Amazon's Andy Jassy, Microsoft's Satya Nadella and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, though Microsoft's annual report and IBM's Arvind Krishna also used "super intelligence."

  18. The Verge · AI58

    Maine’s data center revolt will decide who controls the Senate

    Maine's Senate race has become a flashpoint over data center expansion, with 76 percent of respondents in a September UMass Lowell/YouGov poll opposing a data center in their community and towns adopting temporary moratoriums after Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a statewide moratorium bill in April. Sen. Susan Collins, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has secured $6.2 million for a high-performance computing hub and received $325,644 from AI and crypto donors, while her opponent Troy Jackson holds a similar stance focused on AI guardrails and union jobs. The race, projected as the most expensive Senate race per capita, will help determine Senate control and shape federal data center and AI policy.

  20. The Verge · AI58

    Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web

    The Wikimedia Foundation filed an amicus brief in the lawsuits between publishers including The New York Times and OpenAI and Microsoft, taking neither side and warning that an overly simplified fair use ruling could either deprive Wikipedians of useful AI tools or endanger the open web. It proposes that scraping and unlicensed pre-training be treated as fair use when the output is transformative, but that models reproducing material in response to queries and supplanting readers' engagement with the originals should require a license.

  21. Hacker News AI58

    The AI bubble could expose your deepest secrets

    Character.ai's bankruptcy, with user data potentially up for sale, highlights a broader risk that AI companies holding sensitive personal information may not survive, and their data could be bought by almost anyone. Experts warn that users often share far more personal details with personified chatbots, and even people who never used the service can be affected because users disclose information about friends and family. The article advises deleting data from services that hold particularly sensitive information.

  23. Hacker News AI58

    Etsy to restrict AI-generated content in effort to combat seller slop

    Etsy announced new restrictions on AI-generated content, barring AI from creating patterns, recipes, or other items requiring buyer effort to finish, requiring at least one unaltered photo of the actual item against a real background, and banning bot-generated listings, while still allowing AI-generated art if sellers play a clear role and are transparent. Etsy VP of Customer Operations James Ossman said the marketplace only works when buyers and sellers trust each other, and Etsy will add a reporting function similar to LinkedIn's and use technology to identify misleading imagery and fraudulent listings. The company hosted $10.9 billion in goods sales in 2024, compared with about $75 billion for eBay and more than $700 billion for Amazon.

  24. Latent Space22

    [AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent Conference

    Latent Space previews AI Engineer CODE, a single-track, invite-only summit for 1,000 agentic engineers, organized around three themes: Scaling without Slop, System One models, and Increasing Ambition. The post notes speakers including Diogo and team TypeSafe and Jarred Sumner on the Bun Rust rewrite and Bun AOT, and offers Latent Space paid subscribers 30% off with code LS30. The remainder is the 10/28–10/29 AI News roundup, covering Mistral Large 4 open weights, frontier monitoring and agent safety, evals and leaderboards, infrastructure research, and industry news.

  25. Cursor Blog82

    Security notice — malicious version of Anthropic.claude-code (2.1.313) identified in the Cursor Extension Marketplace

    Cursor reported that a maliciously modified Anthropic.claude-code version 2.1.313 was available in its VS Code extension Marketplace between about 2:27am and 1:35pm PT, affecting at most 5,000 users; the extension attempted to install a persistent SSH backdoor, though the attacker server has since been taken offline. Cursor removed the version, shut down and rebuilt the marketplace, rotated keys, and published indicators of compromise plus macOS and Windows check and remediation scripts. Users who installed the version in that window should check for the svc-telemetry SSH key, remove persistence and tunnel processes, and rotate credentials from a trusted system.

    Why it matters: The notice gives concrete indicators of compromise and remediation steps that Claude Code users can act on directly.

  26. Waymo Blog58

    Toyota and Waymo Advance Autonomous Driving Collaboration for Safer Streets and Freedom of Movement for All

    Toyota and Waymo announced the next phase of their autonomous driving collaboration, building on their April 2025 preliminary agreement, with initial operations to test and validate an autonomous Toyota bZ4X fleet in Japan in 2027 and planned deployment to the United Kingdom and other Waymo-serviced markets in following years. Toyota will build the vehicles at its Takaoka plant in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, handling everything from base vehicle assembly to integration of Waymo's AV hardware, pairing Toyota's manufacturing and vehicle development with Waymo's fully autonomous technology to scale safety-validated Level 4 vehicles globally. The companies will also continue exploring autonomous driving for personally owned Toyota vehicles and, alongside Woven by Toyota, initiatives supporting fewer road safety incidents.

  27. TechCrunch · AI38

    You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work

    David Durman, a nontheistic Humanist and University of Kentucky administrator, secured a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace with help from the American Humanist Association, reportedly the first Humanist to obtain such an accommodation. He argues that overreliance on AI diminishes the active application of the mind needed to be moral actors, and cites concerns about livelihoods, environmental costs, and the supplanting of human creativity. The university said it reviews religious accommodation requests individually and determined an accommodation could be provided while allowing him to perform the essential functions of his position.

  28. Platformer70

    What Google and Reddit's bad days have in common

    On the same day Google's Gemini 4 Carbon topped Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, Alphabet shares fell 12.6 percent, erasing roughly $500 billion, amid investor concerns over up to $205 billion in planned capital spending and negative $9 billion free cash flow. Google's chief business officer said increased AI Mode usage hurts the company because it monetizes worse than traditional search, while Reddit's stock dropped 15 percent after it reported falling search traffic and said it would require users to log in. The column argues that as AI answers keep value on Google's pages, sites will gate content and sell access, and Google can afford licensing better than most competitors.

  29. TechCrunch · AI58

    AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big

    On Amazon's quarterly earnings call, CEO Andy Jassy repeated his belief that AWS can become a trillion-dollar annual revenue business within five to 10 years, and said AWS can grow north of 40% in both 2027 and 2028. He said Amazon still expects about $220 billion in 2026 cash capex, mostly for AWS, with meaningfully more in 2027, as investors pressed him on the spending and shares fell about 6% in after-market trading. AWS revenue rose 39% year over year, a sixth straight quarter of steady growth, and Jassy called the AI boom a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity worth investing in to stay the leader.