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Nov 15Sun
  1. Hacker News AI25

    The First AI Music Awards

    The Sonic Intelligence Academy (SIQA) held its inaugural AI Music Awards at the Mayan Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, where AI persona Xania Monet won artist and song of the year, three of the four top categories. Founded by software engineer Timirah "TJ" James and her sister Mia James, SIQA requires artists to register tracks as fully AI-generated, AI-assisted or human-AI hybrid, and lets registered artists nominate and vote on winners across 25 categories. The event, hosted with a live house band and lip-synced performances, ran behind schedule amid technical difficulties, which founder James promised would be resolved before next year's ceremony.

Nov 14Sat
  1. Hacker News AI22

    Show HN: Giving frontier AI models capital and access to onchain markets

    A post describes giving AI agents access to capital and on-chain markets (tokenized stocks, T-bills, lending, crypto) with the goal of maximizing profit, framed as a proof of concept to promote a new gateway product. It reports that American frontier agents preferred stocks while Chinese models relied on gold and bonds, and that all agents avoided crypto; models must report a thesis and reason for each trade and are incentivized toward outsized returns like a hedge or prop fund.

Nov 13Fri
  1. Hacker News AI40

    The unlikely seaside town on frontline of AI threat

    Bournemouth's JP Morgan campus, with more than 5,300 staff processing over $1tn in daily global transactions, anchors Dorset's financial services sector, which employs 24,000 people across 2,500 companies. Regional finance hubs across the UK face an existential threat from AI as banks including Barclays and Standard Chartered announce thousands of job cuts, putting back-office roles such as data processors, compliance checkers and entry-level analysts at risk. Unions are drafting an "AI agreement" to protect workers, while local leaders warn of ripple effects across regional economies and call for government contingency planning.

  2. Newcomer38

    The AI 100: The 100 Private Companies Defining the Age of AI

    Newcomer, in partnership with Bessemer Venture Partners, released its inaugural AI 100 ranking of the most promising private AI companies, with a collective valuation of roughly $3.5 trillion, led by Anthropic at #1, OpenAI at #2, and Databricks at #3. Researcher-heavy model companies make up only 9% of the list but 55% of its valuation, while inference players, pivoted startups like Stripe and Anduril, and video, coding, legal and robotics firms also feature prominently. The ranking weighed revenue, valuation and market share alongside people and culture, with figures fact-checked against company data and PitchBook.

Nov 12Thu
  1. Hacker News AI60

    AI makes it 'close to impossible' to assess university coursework,regulator says

    England's higher education regulator, the Office for Students, said the credibility of university degrees is under threat from prolific AI use in essays, dissertations and open-book exams, and warned institutions that failing to design valid assessments could breach registration conditions and lead to sanctions. The OfS called for far greater use of AI-free assessment, including in-person exams and oral vivas, after a report with Advance HE interviewing over 300 students and staff at 127 universities and colleges found AI use was rife and some staff said pervasive AI may render assessment close to impossible in some areas. Universities UK said many institutions have already made substantial changes to assessment, including more in-person exams, presentations, vivas and process-based assessment.

Nov 11Wed
  1. Hacker News AI58

    AI submissions cause end of game coding contest

    The Australian STEM Videogame Challenge, a free national videogame development competition for students, has confirmed that its 2026 edition will be the last, with the Australian Council for Educational Research citing the rapid and complex rise of generative AI in game development as the reason. ACER's Cathy Zemaitis said the technology makes it harder to judge what students made themselves and moves the program away from its original purpose, and that there are no plans to pursue alternative options for delivering the challenge.

Nov 10Tue
Nov 9Mon
  1. Hacker News AI48

    AI stocks climb after trillions wiped from market values

    AI and tech shares recovered slightly after a sell-off wiped trillions of dollars from stock values, with the Nasdaq Composite closing up 1.1% on Friday, partly reversing its 5.5% fall, while the S&P 500 rose 0.3% and the Dow ended down 0.4%. Asian and European markets fared worse, with South Korea's Kospi down 6% and the UK's FTSE 100 down 1.01%, amid concerns that the Democrat midterm victory could mean slower AI development and questions over whether heavy AI spending will pay off. US employers added 165,000 jobs in October, more than double analyst expectations, and the unemployment rate eased to 4.1% from 4.2% in September.

  2. Hacker News AI58

    We Opted Out of Google AI Search – Here's What Happened

    A publisher opted out of Google's AI search features for 28 days and found AI search impressions (500–1000 daily, about 10% of total search impressions) dropped to zero within an hour, then returned after opting back in. Statistical analysis estimated an AI search CTR of about 0.9% (range 0.7%–1.1%), more than double the site's roughly 0.4% overall Google CTR, and a small but significant ~2.3% halo effect on regular organic CTR. Combined, the authors estimate Google's AI search was responsible for about 23% of total search clicks to the site, though they caution the single-site results are directional only.

Nov 8Sun
  1. Hacker News AI60

    AI clog': UK public bodies battle onslaught of chatbot-generated complaints

    UK MPs' offices, local authorities, courts, schools and other public bodies report being swamped by AI-generated complaints, letters and legal challenges that take users moments to create but consume large amounts of staff time, a phenomenon commentators call "AI clog." Lawyers in Local Government says the average complaint has grown from about two pages to ten times that length, while Transport for London received a record 4,769 freedom of information requests in 2025-26 and employment tribunal claims rose 28% year on year between April and June. Some bodies are considering using AI to filter AI-generated correspondence, or imposing word limits and templates to control volumes.

  2. Hacker News AI20

    70% of Brits say please or thank you when speaking to AI, some even apologize

    A survey by fonio.ai found that 7 in 10 calls to AI assistants included a "please" or "thank you", 55% of callers thanked the AI at least once, and 52% greeted it with a hello. Around 12% apologized to their AI assistant, 13% said goodbye, 7% offered a fuller farewell, and 2% asked how the AI was doing. A separate February 2026 Future PLC survey of more than 1,000 people found about 70% are polite to AI, with 12% being polite in case of a robot uprising.

  3. Hacker News AI60

    AI Layoffs Backfire as Companies Start Rehiring Workers

    Surveys by SHL and Orgvue found that nearly one in five US workers reported being laid off or replaced because of AI and later invited back, and 32% of organizations that made AI-related workforce cuts subsequently rehired employees. The article attributes the reversals to the gap between automating tasks and replacing whole jobs, since AI output still requires human judgment, validation, and institutional knowledge. It also notes that returning workers often demand higher pay, written job-security assurances, and transparency about AI's role before accepting an offer.

Nov 7Sat
  2. The Verge · AI28

    AI is the new dating dealbreaker

    In San Francisco, attitudes toward artificial intelligence are increasingly shaping dating profiles and partner choices, with some people listing anti-AI sentiments on Hinge and others weighing the ethics of dating AI workers. Some AI safety researchers question whether to have children given uncertain long-term futures, while others see wealth from AI jobs as a plus, and one engineer has automated his Hinge swiping with an AI agent. A 2025 Match and Kinsey Institute survey found 26 percent of US singles use AI tools to enhance their dating experiences.

Nov 6Fri
  1. Hacker News AI71

    Nasdaq worst day in 19 months, investors bet on AI slowdown after Democrats win

    The Nasdaq composite fell 5.5% on Thursday, its worst day in 19 months, dropping into correction territory more than 10% below its recent record high and losing over $2tn in value, as investors anticipated tougher scrutiny of AI datacentre expansion after Democratic midterm election wins. Chip stocks led the slump, with SanDisk down 22% and Western Digital down 17%, while the VIX jumped 61%; the Dow fell 3.4% to 51,868 points and the S&P 500 dropped 4.3%, with losses continuing in Asia on Friday as Japan's Nikkei 225 sank 6% and South Korea's Kospi tumbled more than 8% in early trading. Analysts cited expectations that Democratic governors will clamp down on new datacentres, and tech analyst Dan Ives warned that Democratic control, especially of the Senate, will create major hurdles for AI and tech legislation.

  2. Hacker News AI78

    Global stocks tumble as AI panic grips markets after Democrats' midterm success

    Global markets fell sharply after the Democratic Party's midterm election success raised fears of tighter tech regulation and a slowdown in AI investment, with more than $3.2tn wiped off the US stock market. The Nasdaq fell 5.5%, the Dow Jones dropped 1,833.06 points (3.44%) and the S&P 500 lost 4.36%, while Japan's Nikkei slumped almost 6%, South Korea's KOSPI fell 6.7% and Taiwan's TAIEX dropped 4.5%. Analysts cited policy uncertainty over data centres and disappointing Magnificent Seven earnings, and Donald Trump blamed the Democrats for the selloff on Truth Social.

  5. Hacker News AI60

    Stocks plunge as midterm results send AI trade into a tailspin

    The Nasdaq Composite fell as much as 5.7% Thursday, entering correction territory, as investors weighed whether Democratic midterm gains could slow the data center buildout, with Texas' Democratic gubernatorial victory a key factor given the state's role in AI infrastructure. Nvidia fell 7%, a chipmaker index dropped 10%, and CoreWeave and Nebius plunged roughly 11% and 15%, while the VIX surged 50% to a seven-month high. Yardeni called a slowdown in the "too frenzied and speculative" AI buildout a potential silver lining, while Truist's Lerner said the risk-reward is improving for longer-term investors.

Nov 5Thu
  1. Hacker News AI58

    AI stock selloffs fuel fears Big Tech's best quarters are over

    A selloff in major technology stocks this week, with the Nasdaq 100 falling about 4% and wiping out more than $1 trillion in value, reflected investor fears that massive AI spending won't pay off soon. Quarterly results from Amazon, Alphabet, ServiceNow and Meta disappointed, while Intel shares plunged more than 30% after a weak outlook tied partly to an October factory explosion in Israel. Analysts said investors are trimming tech gains rather than exiting equities, though some remain optimistic about the sector's long-term prospects.

  2. TechCrunch · AI58

    Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber, company says

    On Uber's Q3 earnings call, CFO Balaji Krishnamurthy said that during the week of Halloween the company handled around 320 million trips and orders across Uber and Uber Eats, but only four rides were booked through an AI agent and only 500 Uber Eats orders were placed by one. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi called the traction "very, very early and very limited," while noting that booking a ride in the app takes about 50 seconds and reordering food about 90 seconds. He remained bullish on agents overall, saying around eight major AI assistants exist today and that "every single AI system company is talking to us."

  3. Ars Technica · AI78

    Big Tech claims voters’ AI backlash is “anti-Trump” not “anti-tech”

    Voters in the US midterm elections backed candidates and ballot measures restricting AI and data centers, with 38 of 44 data center measures across 10 states passing, and Democrats winning governor races in Texas, Arizona, Georgia and Ohio. Industry figures such as Chamber of Progress CEO Adam Kovacevich downplayed the results as an "anti-Trump wave" rather than an "anti-tech mandate," while civil rights advocates and analysts described it as the first true "AI election." The article also reports that a slowdown in US data center buildout could benefit China and that Elon Musk was among the biggest losers on election day.

    Why it matters: It maps the post-election shift in US AI and data center policy and the industry's competing interpretations of the results.

  4. Hacker News AI58

    China's first AI-generated film is a flop. Some still see it as the future

    The Guardian reports that Sanxingdui: Future Past, China's first fully AI-generated film, earned just 1.7m yuan (£191,000) at the box office despite costing "tens of millions" to make, with all visuals and some sound effects created by AI and editing done by humans. Despite the flop, film industry workers say investors believe AI films are the future because they can be far cheaper, and one state media commentary said the film may go down in cinematic history as the starting point of what came next.

  5. 404 Media74

    American Voters Overwhelmingly Reject AI Data Centers

    In the midterm elections, data center-related proposals appeared on ballots in more than 40 races across 13 states, and voters opposed them in 38 and counting, with six cities banning data centers outright and 12 capping their megawatt draw. Candidates who backed data centers lost nationwide, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who lost his bid for a fourth term by more than 700,000 votes to Gina Hinojosa, who made his data center stance central to her campaign. Local Progress's Michael Whitesides said the results show people don't see the promised benefits of data centers and are seeing higher costs, while Elon Musk posted on X that "Data centers in space looking pretty appealing right now."

Nov 4Wed
  1. Hacker News AI58

    AI data centers comprehensively defeated at US midterm elections

    In U.S. midterm elections, voters in several counties backed measures restricting data center development, with 33 such measures already passing and six more leading, according to Data Centers on the Ballot. Only one measure, in Harwood, North Dakota, which adds an extra review process for industrial projects including data centers, has failed, while five others have no posted results. The article calls this a major setback for the Trump administration's push for AI development and cites polling showing 70% of Americans oppose AI data center build-outs.

  2. The Verge · AI60

    Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine

    Alphabet reported that Search revenue growth slowed to 12 percent year over year in the third quarter, down from roughly 17 percent, while paid-click growth fell from 13 percent to 8 percent, and shares have dropped about 14 percent since earnings as investors question AI spending. Google says AI Mode queries are growing strongly but monetize at a lower rate than traditional searches, and it is expanding ads in AI Overviews and AI Mode while advertisers cannot yet isolate how that inventory performs. Analysts told The Verge that Google, like OpenAI, is still working out how to make ads work in AI, and an October working paper found ChatGPT ad visits generated $0.89 per session for retailers versus $2.45 from Google Search ads.

  3. The Decoder38

    Exit polls show AI ranked last among voter priorities in the 2026 U.S. midterms

    In NBC News and SSRS exit polls for the 2026 U.S. midterms, 56 percent of respondents called AI and data centers a decisive or important factor in their vote, placing it last among the five topics surveyed. Government corruption led at 90 percent, followed by cost of living at 89 percent, the war in Iran at 74 percent, and immigration enforcement at 73 percent. The article notes that public interest in AI has surged in recent months but the topic still trailed every other issue by a wide margin.

  4. Hacker News AI58

    Itch.io deletes terabytes of all the AI game and asset slop spam

    Itch.io confirmed it has begun removing thousands of AI-generated games and assets, saying it "just deleted a couple terabytes of AI slop" as game pages doubled in two months while purchases and downloads did not. The storefront has extended AI disclosure requirements to tabletop games, books, comics and soundtracks, added generative AI disclosure filtering to more places including search results, and offers a "No AI" tag for filtering.

  5. The Verge · AI22

    Midterm elections 2026: all the news

    This roundup covers the 2026 US midterm elections, which will determine the scope of President Donald Trump's power in his final two years and signal voter priorities ahead of 2028, with races shaped by affordability issues and tech topics including data centers and energy costs, AI safety, surveillance expansion via Flock, and California's billionaire wealth tax. It lists reported outcomes and developments, including Susan Collins conceding her Senate seat, a Democrat projected to win an Ohio seat, Texas turning blue, and a data center backlash that was not enough to flip Florida, along with voting-machine and monitoring issues and tech spending figures.

Nov 3Tue
  1. Hacker News AI67

    US Hedge Funds Just Sold Every AI Stock They Bought Since 2025

    Goldman Sachs data shows hedge funds sold AI stocks for five straight days in October, undoing every AI purchase made since the start of 2025, while Morgan Stanley says funds have cut more than 8% of their total stock bets since June. Big tech stocks crashed last week and erased $2 trillion from the market, with memory chipmakers Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and SanDisk losing more than $700 billion in under two weeks. Goldman said the unwind looks closer to its start than its end, and funds' AI holdings still rank in the top 17% of the past three years.

  2. TechCrunch · AI58

    Data centers are now a midterm issue, even in Brooklyn

    At a Newsreel-hosted midterm event in a Brooklyn warehouse, a panel on data centers drew boos when the moderator asked who was pro-AI data center, and the topic dominated nearly every conversation. A Data Center Watch report cited in the piece found almost $200 billion in data center projects were delayed, stalled, or blocked in the first half of 2026 due to political and community opposition, while states including Pennsylvania, Georgia, Texas, New York, and Virginia weigh more guardrails. Newsreel founder Jack Brewster said AI has become an election issue for regular voters, with backlash in rural communities about feeling replaced and in Brooklyn more about who gets rich from it.

Nov 2Mon
  2. Simon Willison22

    The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”

    The author revisits the Census Bureau's Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS) AI adoption data, noting that a November 17, 2025 wording change from "producing goods or services" to "any of its business functions" makes responses before and after that date not directly comparable, with large companies' "yes" answers rising from about 12% in September 2025 to about 40% by October 2026. Beginning with the October 19, 2026 collection, the survey question was changed again due to Executive Order 14434, now asking about "Super Intelligence or SI (formerly referred to as Artificial Intelligence or AI)," with the first results under the new wording due for publication on Thursday.

  3. Hacker News AI40

    AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

    Eurogamer reports that AI-generated fan wiki sites, such as one for Nighthawks and a GameDB collection covering more than 20 games, are competing for search results and spreading false information about indie games. Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender says the company has had to "play whack-a-mole" with these sites, while Independent Game Wiki Network member FlamingMojo says they have hurt wikis' reputation and that AI crawlers sent 7m requests to the Dune: Awakening Community Wiki in 30 days.

  4. Hacker News AI58

    AI Software Clones Are Coming for Big-Name Companies Like Adobe

    A developer used Claude to reverse-engineer Adobe's Creative Cloud apps and released free, open-source clones with similar interfaces, including a Photoshop replacement called Photocraft that Engadget's reviewer found usable but buggy and unable to open native PSD files. A tool called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) has gone viral for automatically deconstructing and rebuilding software, and a human-driven game decompilation site announced it is shutting down because AI-driven decompilation has overrun its community. Critics call the output unmaintainable and potentially infringing on Adobe's trademarks, patents and terms of use, while supporters argue it could force companies like Adobe to rethink subscription models.

Nov 1Sun
  1. Hacker News AI18

    Ghost in the machine: how AI is haunting the search for the supernatural

    Ghost hunters Amy Waine and Jarrad Cutting describe their app GhostTube Seer, which assigns phone sensor signals to words and runs them through an image generator, as "the world's first AI Ghost Hunting tool"; it requires a paid monthly subscription and has more than 1m downloads according to its Google Play listing. Paranormal researcher Alex Matsuo questions what data such tools are trained on to determine what a ghost is and raises ethical concerns about copyrighted art and "paranormal echo chambers," while other enthusiasts embrace AI, including Sean Austin's Spirit Phone Innovations app for analyzing audio signals to detect EVP. The article also notes that r/Nosleep has implemented a strict policy against AI-generated material and that a former Pennsylvania asylum turned haunted house was sold to a datacenter developer in late 2025 before local residents successfully blocked the teardown in May.

  2. Hacker News AI58

    Chinese markets lose trillions as race for AI supremacy with US takes its toll

    China's stock markets have lost about $2.4tn since May, with the STAR 50 Index down 40% since June, as AI stocks make up over 40% of stock market value in China and Hong Kong, according to Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs. Weak consumer demand, thin profit margins, US rate rises and Western restrictions on Chinese technology are driving the sell-off, while a 60bn yuan state-backed AI fund began investing this month. Unitree's shares have halved since trading began in August, and no major Chinese AI IPOs are on the horizon as Anthropic prepares a planned listing.

  3. Hacker News AI60

    Computer Science Programs Lose Students as AI Replaces Jobs

    Computer and information science departments at US colleges saw an exodus of students this fall, with enrollment declining more than 12% for undergraduate programs and more than 10% for graduate programs. The losses build on last year's drop, which reversed years of growth for computer science programs, according to preliminary fall enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse released Thursday.