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227 stories from 18 newsrooms, grouped when several cover the same news. The popularity index (0–100) adds how many outlets cover a story (55%) and how much Hacker News discusses it (45%), then fades it with a 36-hour half-life. Hover a score for its parts. Want the pictures instead? See the visual wire.

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   Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents

   AI2 outlets767 HN points · 556 comments5 d ago

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   • Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents Ars Technica · 5 d ago
   • Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents TechCrunch · 5 d ago
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   Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force

   AI4 outlets3 d ago

   All 4 reports

   • Trump Names National Intelligence Director as New ‘Super Intelligence’ Czar Gizmodo · 3 d ago
   • Trump launches "Super Intelligence Force" that has nothing to do with actual superintelligence The Decoder · 3 d ago
   • Trump announces an AI czar for his newly created 'Super Intelligence Force' Engadget · 3 d ago
   • Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force TechCrunch · 3 d ago
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   OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra found a way to play World of Warcraft without seeing the screen

   AI1 outlet436 HN points · 220 comments3 d ago

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   "Muse Gadgets" turns AI hardware into an open-source DIY project

   AI2 outlets18 HN points · 13 comments5 d ago

   All 2 reports

   • "Muse Gadgets" turns AI hardware into an open-source DIY project The Decoder · 4 d ago
   • Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused TechCrunch · 5 d ago
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   Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to become Skydance

   AI1 outlet262 HN points · 481 comments5 d ago

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   Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash

   AI2 outlets5 d ago

   All 2 reports

   • Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs TechCrunch · 4 d ago
   • Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash Ars Technica · 5 d ago
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   The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike

   AI2 outlets5 d ago

   All 2 reports

   • The Nvidia Shield TV Is 7 Years Old. It Just Got a $100 Price Hike Wired · 4 d ago
   • The 7-year-old Nvidia Shield TV is now $100 more expensive due to AI Ars Technica · 5 d ago
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   Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project

   AI1 outlet24 HN points · 14 comments5 d ago

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   Amazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data Centers

   AI1 outlet3 d ago

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    Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

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    Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

12. 12 4
    Chinese Hackers Impersonate Anthropic Employee to Extract AI Secrets

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

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    McDonalds Has Secretly Deployed AI Models to Determine Exactly What to Charge You for Its Mid Fast Food Burgers

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

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    You’ll Never Guess Which Political Ideology People With Low Cognitive Ability Are Drawn Toward, According to New Research

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

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    Anthropic Has Been Aggressively Lobbying the Vatican to Consider AI Consciousness

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

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    NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

17. 17 4
    TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

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    Parents Are Sending Their Kids to a Playground Where They’re Given Saws and Hammers to Ward Off Brainrot

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

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    An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

    AI1 outlet3 d ago

20. 20 4
    AI Is Creating “Doom Loops” All Over the Economy

    AInew1 outlet3 d ago

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    Facebook Is Letting Accounts Commit Stolen Valor Using AI Slop of Troops in Warzones

    AInew1 outlet3 d ago

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    Pete Davidson Has Been Crushing Black Market Peptides to Get Disgustingly Swole

    AInew1 outlet3 d ago

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    Google researchers find a way to keep self-improving AI agents from memorizing their tests

    AInew1 outlet3 d ago

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    Credit Rating Firm Says the Economy Is About to Be Obliterated

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    AI on Your Gaming PC

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

26. 26 4
    Chinese AI models parrot state doctrine or refuse to answer on sensitive topics

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    Google's new Gemini tiers cut free users to its weakest model and lock $5/month subscribers out of Pro

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    Mind-reading tech aims to make AI actually intelligent

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

29. 29 4
    Alternative Health Influencer Boasts That He’s Been Drinking From a Radioactive Jug for 250 Days Straight

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

30. 30 4
    Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

31. 31 4
    Rag Tag Team of Biologists Who Lost Funding Because of Trump Turned a Motel Room into Makeshift Lab and Made a Groundbreaking Discovery

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

32. 32 4
    Apparently, OpenAI isn't trying to build "magic intelligence in the sky" anymore

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

33. 33 4
    Innocent Couple Confused When Armed Cops Surround Their Home Following a Wild Tip From a Flock Camera

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

34. 34 4
    News Organizations Like CBS Embracing Prediction Markets as “Journalism” Is a Deep Moral Disgrace

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

35. 35 4
    OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

36. 36 4
    Google Updates Guidelines to Punish Sites That Use Fake Bylines and AI-Generated Headshots

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    An Overwhelming Percent of Americans Now Want to Pause AI and Tax Billionaires

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

38. 38 4
    Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat disappears from app stores in India after government order

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    The Tech Industry’s Aggressive Push to Integrate AI Into Schools Is Turning Into a Disaster

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    Vessev built an electric ferry that almost flies

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    Another OpenAI safety departure adds to a pattern of researchers leaving with public warnings

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    The Only Thing Dumber Than Someone Creating an “AI Torture Chamber” Is the Meltdown That the AI Welfare Crowd Is Having Over It

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 3)

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    All the AI agents that can live in your text messages

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    Spotify billionaire’s body scan startup has come to America

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

46. 46 3
    Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a “Pet Incinerator”?

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

47. 47 3
    AI Now Writing Code That Humans Can’t Even Understand

    AInew1 outlet4 d ago

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    Deepmind researchers propose "Artificial Symbiotic Intelligence" as an alternative to the singularity

    AInew1 outlet5 d ago

49. 49 3
    Open-source "BootLoops" harness supports AI models in performing precise scientific calculations

    AInew1 outlet5 d ago

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    Contest-Winning Microscope Video Is Full of AI Confabulations, Scientists Say

    AInew1 outlet5 d ago

Hacker News data: Algolia HN Search API, refreshed every 20 minutes. Story groups are matched by shared words, so an occasional pairing can be wrong. Same data as JSON.