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Data centres are booming in Australia - but at what cost?

Advocates say data centres will bring jobs but others worry they will suck up resources while providing little advantage.

ChatGPT, Claude and Grok Outages Leave Users Asking How to Work Without AI

The three AI platforms restored service Thursday after users said the simultaneous disruptions brought their work to a…

Meta is paying to peek at how you use their latest AI model

Most AI tools allow you to opt-out of sharing your usage with the model provider to improve future versions.

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

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Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.

OpenAI launches Astra, its powerful (and controversial) new model

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with…

How concerned should we be about Astra's recurrent architecture?

Founding Creative Engineer – Gooseworks (YC W23) Is Hiring

Gooseworks, a YC-backed startup building self-improving AI agents for consumer brand advertising and content creation,…

Qualcomm backs Ultrahuman in $70M round on bet to turn smart rings into computers

Ultrahuman is targeting a $200 million annual revenue run rate by January 2027 as it builds a new Qualcomm-powered smart…

Circular unveils Ring 3 series with contactless payments and on-finger vibration alerts

Smart ring maker Circular on Thursday unveiled its upcoming Ring 3 series, which consists of a Pro model and a Slim…

Sony Dismisses PS5 Buyers' $508M Tariff Refund Claim as 'Illogical'

The company raised PlayStation prices for a second time in March, five weeks after the tariffs were struck down.

Launch HN: Mireye (YC S26) – Infrastructure for Physical World AI Agents

Mireye, a Y Combinator-backed startup, provides AI agents with a unified API to access verified physical world data from…

Texas Data Center Map: See where data centers are operating or planned

Ollie is betting its focus on privacy can help it win the AI assistant race

The family-focused AI assistant wants access to the details of your everyday life, but says it won’t use that data to…

Google launches AI voice features in Gmail, Docs, and Keep

Users can search for emails or draft documents using the new conversational feature.

VC isn't VC anymore – understanding the rise of Cancer Capital

The author, a seasoned startup CEO and board member, argues that venture capital has fundamentally transformed from its…

Sony makes bold claim about game ownership

Sony claims that gamers understand they are licensing games rather than owning them, and argues that software cannot be…

K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open

IFM released K2 Horizon, a fleet of six open-source AI models ranging from 0.9B to 375B parameters, achieving…

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok Are Down

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok experienced widespread outages on iPhone and web platforms on September 3, 2026, with OpenAI,…

Grok Outage

Grok experienced a widespread outage affecting multiple services including its iOS, Android, and Web applications, as…

Anatomy of a Browser

Ask HN: Why are OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down? Coincidence?

Multiple major AI services—OpenAI, Claude, and Grok—experienced simultaneous outages, sparking speculation about the…

Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting…

.name Termination

On July 28, 2026, ICANN approved Verisign's proposal to eliminate the entire third-level domain hierarchy under .name,…

Codex Is Down

A user reported encountering repeated 404 errors in Codex while running a long GPT 5.4 session, particularly after…

ChatGPT Is Throwing 404

Show HN: I made a word building game supporting anagrams and one handed use

A developer created Unscramble, a word-building game where players use all provided letters to form words, with rewards…

Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

In 1993, Rabah Shihab created Babylonian Twins, a game entirely in 68000 assembly code for the Amiga 500 under harsh…

New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

Unionized workers at The New York Times and The Athletic have jointly opposed a potential partnership between The…