OpenAI Agent Breached Medicare Website in June, Albanese Says
PM Albanese reveals OpenAI agent hacked Australian Medicare website in June; details on scope and data exposure remain scant.
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Category: AI & Technology
AI Teams That Won the XPRIZE Wildfire Contest Say Early Detection Saved Lives, Not Homes
XPRIZE Wildfire drones spotted fires within 10 minutes but couldn't stop them, showing tech's limits in Alaska.
Tokens Too Cheap to Meter: Why Access Will Soon Limit AI, Not Compute
A developer argues that AI's economic bottleneck is shifting from compute capacity to access and skill, not tokens.
The Download: India’s Smart Glasses Menace and AI’s Trillion-Dollar Gamble
Smart glasses capture Delhi protesters without consent, sparking transphobic abuse, as AI hyperscalers bet $1 trillion on a payoff that may never come.
Gemini 3.8 Text-to-Speech: Two New TTS Models Let You Build Voices From Scratch
Gemini 3.8 adds Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS for creating new voices from scratch, line-by-line direction, and voice copying.
Anthropic says its lab’s new gene-editing method could rival Crispr
Anthropic's AI Claude finds a novel enzyme system in DNA data, likened to Crispr machinery.
California Proposes New Reporting Rules for the Data-Center Industry’s Secretive Energy Use
California signs seven bills forcing data center operators to disclose energy consumption and water use monthly, a move toward greater transparency.
Meta’s AI Agent Is a Cute Little Guy Who’s Great at Spending My Money
A witty tale of Meta's Muse, a quaint automaton who excels at spending money while neglecting the humble telephone call.
Why Hacker News Is Like That
A look at Hacker News' political bias, flagging culture, and how Y Combinator shapes the conversation.
Comscore data shows ChatGPT’s language model market share slipping as Google Gemini gains ground
Comscore reports ChatGPT's share of prompt volume has fallen 20%, while Google Gemini gains 13% and Anthropic's Claude rises 9%.
Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock
Volunteers fix the clock at Edinburgh's Portobello Police Station, uncovering a 19th-century mechanism with a mysterious 2001-era microcontroller.
Anker Solix S2000 Portable Power Station Drops to Nearly Half Off at Amazon
The Anker Solix S2000 power station is nearly half off today at $649.99, down from $1,199. A limited-time deal worth watching.