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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Amazon advertisers will be able to extend their campaigns into conversational experiences on ChatGPT as part of a new partnership between the e-commerce giant and the chatbot’s developer OpenAI, according to news shared with Marketing Dive.   Delta Vacations, the airline’s vacation packages provider, is among a select group of U.S. brands piloting the integration. ChatGPT Ads inventory will be available through Amazon’s demand-side platform, an…

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jacob Coxon, the 27-year-old AI researcher whose resignation from Anthropic, accompanied by a loud prophecy of doom, triggered a huge online fervor, and a freakout on Capitol Hill, does not stand to profit if his statements inflate Anthropic’s eventual market capitalization, he told Axios on Wednesday. This is because he wasn’t with the company long enough for his shares to vest. Coxon spoke out on Tuesday, and his Wikipedia article was created on Wednesday. He’s apparently “notable” now, which means, according to Wikipedia’s notability guidelines,…

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 have landed, along with a revolutionary folding iPhone at this year's Apple event, but despite major advancements under the hood, the feature that is standing out to me is a software-based one.Siri Recaps is a new Audio Intelligence feature that turns your Apple Watch into an always-listening device. The idea is that Siri Recaps, which lives on the Siri app, uses the Apple Watch's sensors to provide a summary of your day, including conversations that…

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Another researcher is challenging OpenAI about the data driving its increasingly impressive array of mathematical discoveries. Just days after a bitter row erupted over whether the company’s models benefited from unpublished work, a second mathematician has come forward accusing the AI giant of unethical and “dishonest” behavior and a lack of transparency about the origins of its training data.In a series of posts on Mastodon, mathematician Andreas Thom raised concerns that interactions he and his colleagues had had with the ChatGPT chatbot before OpenAI’s…

💥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HOSTINGVPNSAASSECURITYSTREAMINGGUIDESREPORTSMETHODOLOGY ~/guides/streaming-price-increases flagship tiers · US pricing · every change linked to its source The same nine subscriptions — Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Peacock, YouTube Premium, Spotify — cost $95.91 a month in 2021-03, and $154.41 a month today. That is +61% in 5 years, or $702 more per year for exactly the same nine services. Every figure is dated and linked to its source. The same basket, then and now service / tier2021-03todaychangeNetflix Standard$13.99$19.99+43%Disney+ Premium (ad-free)$7.99$18.99+138%Hulu No Ads$11.99$18.99+58%HBO Max Standard…

🔥 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I noted some time ago that Windows XP chose your initial picture at random from among the pictures in the %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\Default Pictures directory. But it seems people want to know more. Has anyone attempted to figure out the RNG for how Windows XP determines what profile picture is used on first account creation? — Xeno (@XenoPanther) December 11, 2025 The random number generator is our friend RtlRandomEx, using the current value of GetTickCount() as the initial seed. The function uses a one-pass…

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: September 9, 2026 PRESS RELEASE Apple introduces AirPods 5, featuring best-in-class open‑ear Active Noise Cancellation With industry-leading ANC in an open-ear design, improved sound quality, hands-free access to Siri AI, and Live Translation, AirPods 5 deliver the best audio experience Apple has ever offered in this style of AirPods, at an incredible price CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple today announced AirPods 5, delivering the industry’s best Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) in an open-ear design and even better sound quality, at an outstanding value.1 AirPods 5 feature an all-new…

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: By Eric Lu09.09.26Over the past few weeks, the Cognition research team and I have been optimizing our job scheduler to better use disaggregated compute. As a proof of concept, and because I’ve enjoyed factoring numbers as a hobby for the past ten years or so, I drove a bevy of Devins to obtain a factorization of RSA-260. In order to do this, my Devins built the world's highest-performance GPU lattice siever, which enables factoring numbers at 10x lower cost than the previous public state…

💥 Read this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: BREAKING: OpenAI might have stolen another major proof. In a detailed Mastodon post, which I report in full in the comments, Andreas Thom presents several pieces of evidence suggesting that OpenAI may have trained Astra on conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working on Gromov’s soficity conjecture, one of the ten problems OpenAI later announced Astra had solved. I know Andreas. We met several times early in our careers. He is an exceptional mathematician, a leading expert on sofic and hyperlinear groups, and…

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Matt Mullenweg, the founder and CEO of Automattic, best known as the parent company of WordPress.com, has been put on a leave of absence by his board against his will, according to a Slack message seen by TechCrunch. Earlier Wednesday, Mullenweg posted in a Slack channel visible to all employees that the company’s Chief Financial Officer, Mark Davies, had “conspired” with other board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker to vote to put Mullenweg on a paid leave of absence. The message…