AI

AI data centers are hoarding global DRAM and HBM supplies, pushing smartphone average selling prices up 14% to a record $523 in 2026 and projecting the sharpest shipment decline on record.

After Trump ordered federal agencies to stop using Anthropic AI, the Pentagon designated the firm a national security supply chain risk—and OpenAI secured a competing Defense Department agreement within hours.

Developer Nick Tikhonov shares how he built a voice AI agent achieving ~400ms end-to-end latency with a full STT → LLM → TTS pipeline, including clean barge-ins and no precomputed responses.

A counterintuitive study found that programming AI agents with more assertive, 'rude' conversational behaviors — including interrupting and strategic silence — significantly improved their performance on complex reasoning tasks.

Google has released Nano Banana 2, a new AI image generation model combining advanced world knowledge, subject consistency, and Flash-speed generation. The announcement earned 790+ upvotes on r/singularity.

Software developer Manuel Schipper shares a practical workflow for running 4-8 parallel AI coding agents simultaneously using tmux, Markdown Feature Design files, and slash commands — no orchestrators required.

An investigative report reveals that workers supporting Meta's AI smart glasses can access camera footage showing everything the wearer sees, raising serious privacy concerns about always-on AI wearables.

Motorola announced a partnership with GrapheneOS and three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, marking a major shift toward enterprise-grade mobile privacy. The announcement earned over 2,000 upvotes on Hacker News.

Software developer Manuel Schipper shares a practical workflow for running 4-8 parallel AI coding agents simultaneously using tmux, Markdown Feature Design files, and slash commands — no orchestrators required.

An investigative report reveals that workers supporting Meta's AI smart glasses can access camera footage showing everything the wearer sees, raising serious privacy concerns about always-on AI wearables.

Motorola announced a partnership with GrapheneOS and three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, marking a major shift toward enterprise-grade mobile privacy. The announcement earned over 2,000 upvotes on Hacker News.

A King's College London study tested ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in Cold War-style nuclear crisis simulations. AI models chose nuclear escalation in 95% of scenarios and left all eight de-escalation options entirely unused across 21 games.