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Policy and economics outweighed product news. Congress and the Vatican weighed in, and an Oxford-linked study and an SRE essay questioned how AI is paying off at work. Google ran a model in orbit.
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House Democrats introduced a resolution opposing a federal bailout of Big Tech over AI investment bubble risks.
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Google's first data center satellite, carrying a TPU, ran Gemma 4 in orbit and transmitted a haiku to Earth as part of Project Suncatcher.
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Apple Intelligence reaches China through an iOS 27.3 beta on November 4, without the new Siri. Full release is planned for December.
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OpenAI published a post arguing that fair use benefits everyone, entering the AI training copyright debate.
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Pope Leo XIV called for disarming AI and a ban on lethal autonomous weapons ahead of the UN meeting in Geneva.
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A University of Oxford-linked Productivity Institute study argues AI investments need time before paying off at firm level.
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A SigNoz newsletter argues AI adoption is deskilling site reliability engineers rather than replacing them.
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Google has launched a TPU in orbit as its first data center satellite, running a Gemma 4 model that generated poetry.
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The first TPU in space is a running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.
Sam Altman says OpenAI will keep releasing AI-generated math results despite mathematicians' complaints.
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After months of bombarding mathematicians with a relentless stream of AI-generated results, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he sympathizes with researchers struggling to make sense of it all. But he has no intention of stopping - and hints there could be much more to come from the company's stockpile of discoveries. "I think, on net, the world deserves to understand how the universe works," Altman said during an episode of the Cheeky Pint podcast released Thursday. "But I do have empathy for the method." His comments mark one of the first times the OpenAI chief has directly acknowledged the company's impact on mathematicians, following a strin … Read the full story at The Verge.
Ollie, a privacy-focused AI assistant, will shut down within a week, its founder announced.
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As an increasing number of AI assistants flood the market, the founder of Ollie, an assistant that respected its users' privacy, says it will be shutting down in a week.
Sam Altman argues that keeping RAM in data centers rather than personal PCs is globally better amid the ongoing RAM shortage.
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Asked about supply chain shortages, like the ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that it's "terrible" to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. During his appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, where he also commented on AI's impact on math, Altman said: "A lot of people want local inference. And somehow, they assume that the problem is solved now because we are going to have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data center. But from a global allocation perspective, actually, it's quite terrible to have everybo … Read the full story at The Verge.
An essay argues that AI will disrupt product management roles as well as software developer jobs.
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Article URL: https://lucaskostka.com/posts/ai-challenges-more-than-devs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50309534 Points: 28 # Comments: 18
A survey finds very few people use AI agents to place DoorDash food orders.
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But it's still early days for the relatively new e-commerce use case.
Zest launched an AI concierge agent that picks restaurants, runs group votes, and books reservations via text.
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Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.