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Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

AI sticker shock hits corporate America. Community angle: discussion is centered on developer workflow, cost and pricing, and labor impact

The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends — Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism

Sen. Elizabeth Warren: Why We Need to Tax AI. Community angle: discussion is centered on privacy and data use, labor impact, and infrastructure costs

AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates. Community angle: discussion is centered on privacy and data use, labor impact, and infrastructure costs

Parents of OpenAI whistleblower intensify dispute over suicide ruling: 'He would not harm himself'. Community angle: discussion is centered on privacy and data use

So, Claude helped build a sex requesting app for my wife and I. Recently I asked my wife if we could do some sexy stuff later in the evening and she eye rolled me and said without looking up from her phone “Put it in a request. Maybe a Google Form. And I might say yes”. Ohhhh? Unfortunately for both of us, my degenerate brain took that seriously... what if I make an actual requesting/asking type app where we can both send in sex acts at certain times and agree, pass or counter? Meet Sexualsync. Teehee It’s a private, mobile-only app for couples to bring up the stuff that can be weirdly hard to say out loud: asks/requests, timing, fantasies, kinks, boundaries, “would you be. Community angle: discussion is centered on benchmark quality and developer workflow

The thing you built with Claude is useless to me... and that's the point. A few days ago there was a thread here asking what he most useful thing you've built with Claude was. A LOT of replies. I read all of them and then something clicked, I wanted to put it on the table. First of all, the list was incredible. An HTML file on someone's phone correlating migraines with barometric pressure, because the App Store wanted 80 bucks a year. A Garmin data archiver, because the official app deletes them. A grocery list sorted by the aisle layout of one specific supermarket. A bioinformatics pipeline for a handful of microbes, written by someone who isn't a bioinformatician. A three-line com. Community angle: discussion is centered on developer workflow and reliability

Zai replaced the network architecture running GLM-5.1 inference and the gains are pretty wild. Been following the infrastructure side of AI more lately and stumbled on this from Zai. They upgraded the network architecture on a thousand-GPU cluster running GLM-5.1 coding inference from the standard ROFT setup to something they built called ZCube, developed with Tsinghua University and HarnetsAI The numbers from production: \- Switch and optical module costs down 33% \- GPU inference throughput up 15% \- P99 tail latency on first token dropped 40.6% Same GPUs, same software stack, same model. Just the network architecture changed The actual problem they were solving is interesting. With Prefill-Decode dis. Community angle: discussion is centered on local and open-source alternatives

This guy built an offline survival AI. \~20k users in the app store, and we're the world's #1 rated survival AI (called, "The Ark"). Physical devices have gone viral, I've spoken with Search and Rescue for some law enforcement agencies and even the military. It's... \- Waterproof (IP68 rating when closed) \- Portable (<1ft wide, \~3lbs) \- Rugged (can run it over with a car) The AI can provide sources for its answers (even while offline), referencing the exact page to one of the guides stored in its on-device survival skills library. It can do so much like an offline street-level map of the entire world or even offline texting up to 50miles, but ba. Community angle: discussion is focused on practical implications and community skepticism