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  1. Hacker News AI71

    Top scorer in South Korea tax exam admits AI cheating

    The top scorer on South Korea's national exam for aspiring tax accountants confessed to using generative AI to cheat, saying he photographed exam questions with a microcamera, sent them to an AI tool and checked answers on a smartphone. Han, who ranked first in both the April and July rounds, submitted a written confession to Seoul police through his lawyer. The scandal has raised concerns days before the country's annual college entrance exam, with the presidential office convening an emergency meeting on countermeasures.

  2. Hacker News AI25

    Victoria University lecturers steer students away from AI use in education

    Victoria University of Wellington academics describe bringing back in-person tests and oral exams as they rethink tertiary education in the age of AI, with senior lecturer Dougal McNeill saying students who outsource their education to AI are "ripping themselves off." Other staff note concerns about deskilling and reduced confidence, while AI senior lecturer Andrew Lensen says the tools can help some students and universities must reinvent themselves to produce graduates able to navigate AI trade-offs.

  3. Hacker News AI38

    GDC November 2026 survey shows 40% of developers using generative AI

    The GDC 2026 survey of over 2,600 game industry professionals across 69 countries found that 40% use generative AI tools as part of their job, up from 36% last year, with usage rising from 37% to 44% outside the US while US usage stayed within the margin of error at 38%. The report also notes 34% of respondents were laid off in the last two years, 54% of those laid off remain unemployed, and 62% of educators allow, encourage, or require students to use generative AI in game development coursework. Godot is used by 6% overall and 11% of indie developers.

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  2. Hacker News AI76

    Amazon Threat Intelligence observes threat actor campaigns with ARTEX AI agents

    Amazon Threat Intelligence reports that between Oct. 3 and Nov. 5, 2026, its MadPot decoy sensors captured requests from ARTEX agentic AI penetration-testing agents that carried their own campaign records, including a large-scale AI credential theft operation in which stolen keys paid for the LLM inference used to hunt more keys, and a campaign against two cryptocurrency exchanges using real-time deepfake injection to bypass KYC checks. Amazon assesses with moderate confidence that ARTEX was used and that the activity comes from disparate Chinese-nexus threat groups, based on simplified Chinese prompts, China time-zone configurations, targeting and tooling. The post shares IOCs and argues that while the techniques were not new, agents change attacker speed and persistence, making basic hygiene such as removing default credentials and exposed secrets the most effective defense.

    Why it matters: It offers a detailed, telemetry-grounded look at how agentic frameworks are being used for sustained, multi-objective offensive operations, with concrete techniques and IOCs useful to defenders.

  3. Hacker News AI50

    Beware the New AI-Fueled Ransomware Boom

    Researchers say claimed ransomware incidents have spiked over recent months, with some estimates putting alleged attacks on leak sites at nearly 3,000 over the summer—a 20 to 40 percent increase since spring—and Halcyon's analysis counting around 111 ransomware groups making claims between July and September. Criminals appear to be using LLMs for tasks like crafting better phishing emails and negotiations rather than fully AI-powered attacks, while new smaller groups such as Global Secret Group and Storm have quickly claimed dozens of victims. Recorded Future's Allan Liska says attacks seen this year already dwarf the total for 2025, though attacks involving encryption may decrease year over year.

  4. Hacker News AI58

    Europa, the EU's open AI model, is aiming for nearly 1T parameters

    Domyn, the Milan-based company leading the EU-backed EUROPA consortium, reported in a November 12, 2026 technical post that it ran training trials for a model with 951.9 billion parameters on the JUPITER supercomputer in Jülich, Germany, more than double the Commission's 400 billion minimum. Using a mixture-of-experts design with 384 experts (8 active per token, 32.8 billion active parameters), Domyn says it raised throughput from 90 to 1,293 tokens per second per GPU through software fixes contributed back to PyTorch and TorchTitan. The post describes only trials, not a completed training run, and EUROPA's weights, license, training data and release date remain unpublished.

  5. The Verge · AI88

    An overview of Jensen Huang’s messy days

    The Verge's Stepback newsletter recounts how Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang resigned on November 12th after reports tied him to Alice Huang, a Megaspeed executive suspected of spying for China, and after he admitted to extramarital affairs, including one with Nvidia VP Kimberly Powell. CFO Colette Kress was named interim CEO and Harvey Jones became the company's first board chair, while Nvidia's stock fell from an October 6th close of $239.24 to $162.85 on November 13th. The piece also covers the board's ongoing investigation, a shareholder lawsuit, and open questions about trade restrictions and possible criminal charges.

  6. The Decoder65

    Firm linked to Jensen Huang's ex-lover reportedly brokered nearly $12 billion in Nvidia chip orders for China

    Documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal indicate Megaspeed, owned by Alice Huang, the former lover of since-ousted Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, arranged nearly $12 billion in Nvidia high-performance chip orders for Chinese companies between March 2024 and June 2025, covering several hundred thousand chips the US sought to keep out of China through export controls. Megaspeed reportedly gained preferential access to scarce AI chips as an Nvidia cloud partner, apparently because it counted Alibaba as a major client. Nvidia officially reported $12.4 billion in China revenue over six months (7 percent of total revenue), while short-selling firm Culper Research estimates more than 20 percent of Nvidia's revenue in the last fiscal year came from Chinese customers.

  7. Hacker News AI58

    AI Slop Papers Published Under Prominent Academics Names

    An investigation found that little-known academic journals are publishing AI-generated "slop" papers falsely attributed to prominent professors, including Alan Said, Fei-Fei Li, Christopher Manning, Michael I. Jordan, Stuart Russell and Jure Leskovec, several of whom confirmed they did not write the articles or consent to their names being used. The journals AIJRI, AJAMRI and AJFMR share similar graphics, the same editor in chief (Denish Brown) and board members, advertise publication fees, and show archives of papers supposedly published years before their 2026 domain registrations. Said said he worries a new Ph.D. student might see his name in such a journal and think it is acceptable to submit there.

  8. Hacker News AI71

    Korea's top tax accountant exam scorer confesses to cheating with AI

    A candidate who placed first on Korea's 63rd Certified Tax Accountant exam confessed to police that he used a hidden micro camera to photograph exam papers, had generative AI produce answers outside the room, and checked them on a smartphone. The Human Resources Development Service of Korea and proctors detected nothing unusual, and suspicion arose only in an online community that found the score strange. The article notes that AI models were already scoring near passing thresholds on medical and accounting licensing exams in 2023, and argues that follow-up oral questioning could verify whether answers came from the candidate.

  9. Hacker News AI38

    Baltimore County schools phase out AI reading program

    Baltimore County Public Schools told parents that Amira, an AI-powered reading program for kindergarten through third grade, will no longer be required, can still be used for struggling students and by families independently, and will be unavailable entirely next school year. The district said the decision was based on feedback from administrators, staff and parents and aimed at minimizing screen time for young learners, as districts nationally respond to concerns about education technology. Former Superintendent Myriam Rogers had praised Amira in 2024 for boosting student growth, while some parents argued it primed young learners to need screens.

  10. Hacker News AI18

    Lawyer upgrades eight-V100 private AI server to run 80% of DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

    A lawyer running a private AI server on eight used Nvidia V100 GPUs moved about 80% of its work from 2-bit to 4-bit NVFP4 precision, adding 1TB of RAM and an RTX 3090. The server runs DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with a legal harness for his law practice, and code output dropped from 160–215 to 150–180 tokens per second, though the crashes that hit the new build are gone. The crashes, originally blamed on PCIe, were likely caused by a bad PSU.

  11. Hacker News AI58

    Linus Torvalds Wonders If Linux's AI-Prompted Patch Flood Has Peaked

    In his weekly kernel update post, Linus Torvalds said Linux 7.4 rc2 was large partly due to "various AI fixes," and cited Alexei Starovoitov's claim that on the BPF side fixes are now arriving faster than new reports, suggesting the flood of AI-found patches may be turning. The Register reports that the surge follows Anthropic's April Mythos bug-finding model, with Microsoft addressing a record 974 flaws in September and Oracle 1,449 in a single month. Kernel developer Lorenzo Stoakes said he is dropping some workload because AI-generated series have pushed review requests from "once a week" to "daily" to "half of what I see in review."

  12. Hacker News AI58

    Anthropic bought a one-person, AI-powered biotech

    Anthropic acquired Mithril Medicine, a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech with one full-time employee, two early-stage antibody leads for a rare form of muscular dystrophy, and Anthropic's Claude assistant used for data analysis and administrative work. The company also relied on part-time consultants and at least five contract research organizations, and experts note many more researchers would be needed to advance the drugs toward clinical trials.

  13. Hacker News AI50

    Medicare's AI Experiment

    EFF reports that in January the federal government launched a program using AI to evaluate Medicare beneficiaries' requests for certain procedures, and EFF sued for records on WISeR seeking transparency about the experiment. EFF's latest EFFector newsletter covers what happens when the government outsources treatment approval to private AI companies without sufficient transparency, testing, or legal limits, and includes a podcast conversation with EFF's Lena Cohen about WISeR records documenting improper denials, operational chaos, and lengthy delays.

  14. Hacker News AI25

    The First AI Music Awards

    The Sonic Intelligence Academy (SIQA) held its inaugural AI Music Awards at the Mayan Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, where AI persona Xania Monet won artist and song of the year, three of the four top categories. Founded by software engineer Timirah "TJ" James and her sister Mia James, SIQA requires artists to register tracks as fully AI-generated, AI-assisted or human-AI hybrid, and lets registered artists nominate and vote on winners across 25 categories. The event, hosted with a live house band and lip-synced performances, ran behind schedule amid technical difficulties, which founder James promised would be resolved before next year's ceremony.

  15. Hacker News AI40

    Microsoft Patent Tips Using Idle Gaming PCs to Train AI in Exchange for Rewards

    Microsoft Technology Licensing filed a 2025 patent, published last week as US-20260349820-A1 and titled "Opportunistic Micro-training on Edge Devices Using Spare GPU Utilization," describing an opt-in system that uses idle GPU cycles on gaming PCs for AI training, similar to Folding@Home. The system would monitor memory, CPU, GPU, temperature and power draw to find cool idle periods, track completed work, and issue credits redeemable for use of the resulting AI model, free software or cash, with manual start/stop and usage limits.

  16. TechCrunch · AI74

    Elon Musk, other tech execs sign petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate Jensen Huang

    A petition calling on Nvidia to reinstate recently ousted CEO Jensen Huang has gathered more than 115,000 signatures as of Saturday afternoon, according to the petition website, which said signers include 5,965 current Nvidia employees, 1,108 former employees, and 63,063 shareholders. Notable supporters include Elon Musk, Replit CEO Amjad Masad, and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney; the petition says signers are concerned Huang was removed without meaningful due process and demands the board bring him back while an independent investigation establishes the facts. Huang resigned on Thursday, several days after confessing to an affair with a chip executive identified by U.S. intelligence as a suspected Chinese spy, and Nvidia appointed CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO while it searches for a permanent replacement.

  18. The Decoder74

    Anthropic CEO Amodei admits "there's a huge uncertainty in what's going to happen next year" days before a record IPO

    Speaking at a JPMorgan Chase investor event in New York, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said compute is "the deepest business dilemma" the company faces, since it must be bought one to two years ahead of knowing whether revenue will justify the cost, and that "there's a huge uncertainty in what's going to happen next year." Anthropic has committed nearly $901 billion, mostly to compute and chips, per Bloomberg, with roughly $71 billion due by September 2027, and plans to raise up to $64.4 billion through its IPO plus $26 billion in a private placement. Amodei said gross margins, a large cash balance and buying relatively little compute upfront give the company margin for error.

  19. Hacker News AI58

    Thousands turn out in Edinburgh to protest against AI data centres

    Thousands of people marched down Edinburgh's Royal Mile to the Scottish Parliament to protest against large-scale AI data centres, part of a wave of protests across Europe. Demonstrators carried slogans such as "AI data centres threaten humanity" and some opposed specific planned sites in Cockenzie, Larbert and Chapelcross, the last of which would have a 1,000MW capacity compared with Scotland's current largest at 12MW in Airdrie. The Scottish government said it will publish new planning guidance on data centres before the end of the year and is developing a strategy to maximise "public benefit".

  20. TechCrunch · AI42

    The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it

    This roundup catalogs AI products, startups, and corporate initiatives that shut down, pivoted, or missed expectations, including Character.ai's bankruptcy filing, Ollie's shutdown, OpenAI's discontinued Atlas browser and Sora, and hardware failures like the Humane AI Pin. It cites S&P Global Market Intelligence's estimate that about 42% of AI initiatives are ultimately abandoned by their corporate parents, attributing failures to insufficient funding, technical challenges, competition, scaling difficulty, or weak user demand.

  21. TechCrunch · AI68

    Asian governments react to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s exit

    Nvidia's board launched an independent investigation after reports that CEO Jensen Huang was targeted by a Chinese spy operation; Huang admitted to an affair with Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based chip company Megaspeed. China's foreign ministry rejected the spy allegations as groundless, while Singapore said it seized Alice Huang's passport in June 2025 over possible false declarations on server purchases, later found insufficient evidence, warned her and barred her from re-entering. South Korea's Science Ministry said Nvidia reaffirmed plans to supply 260,000 advanced GPUs, Taiwan's economy minister said the departure was unlikely to significantly change global AI industry growth, and Japan's Industry Ministry said it would closely monitor Nvidia.

  22. Hacker News AI58

    Smuggling of 1.5M AI GPUs could be the cause of Huang's departure

    SemiAnalysis believes Jensen Huang's sudden departure from Nvidia may have been driven not only by revelations about his personal extramarital relationships but also by widespread illicit exports of advanced AI accelerators to China. In its latest newsletter, the firm estimates that more than 1.5 gigawatts (GW) worth of restricted Nvidia hardware, potentially equivalent to up to 1.5 million GPUs, has reached China despite U.S. export controls.

  23. Hacker News AI35

    Today's forecast: AI behaving unpredictably

    This snapshot comparison from October 26 to November 2, 2026 covers AI agent incidents, including CrowdStrike-documented campaigns targeting healthcare organizations in Argentina and VAPOR PANDA operators directing ARTEX agents against multiple targets, plus Graphika's assessment that two videos targeting a Texas Senate candidate are very likely deepfakes. Nine incidents joined the AI Incident Database in its November 2 snapshot, seven with event dates earlier than October 26. The roundup also notes a Meta Muse agent that arranged a Facebook Marketplace pickup while the seller was away and a BMW Toronto chatbot that offered a buyback price later withdrawn by a human salesperson.

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  2. Hacker News AI58

    China builds 800MW AI data center campus to rival US Stargate project

    According to a SemiAnalysis report, China is building an 800MW AI data center campus in Inner Mongolia that could challenge the economics of America's Stargate project. Envision built the first 120 MW of its Galaxy AI data center campus in under a year, at a cost researchers put at one-fifth of comparable US projects, after visiting the site in September. To secure the large amounts of electricity AI data centers need, Envision is building its own wind farms and battery storage alongside the computing facility.

  3. Hacker News AI38

    FAA Rolled Out New AI Traffic Tool Right Before Nationwide Ground Stop

    CNN aviation analyst Mary Schiavo said it was "too much of a coincidence" that the FAA rolled out its new $875 million SMART AI tool for managing air traffic the same day a nationwide ground stop occurred. Schiavo, a former Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation, noted that new air traffic control computer systems often have difficulty communicating with much older systems, and that one goal of SMART was to manage en route traffic. She said there have been no suggestions the stoppage was due to threats or criminal terror, and guessed it was another case of new AI systems struggling to communicate with old ones.

  4. The Verge · AI83

    Jensen Huang and the decline of the visionary showman founder CEO

    A commentary piece argues that Jensen Huang's departure from Nvidia marks the end of Big Tech's last visionary showman founder CEO, recounting his leather-jacketed keynotes, his early bets on CUDA and Riva 128, and Nvidia's rise to a $5 trillion company. Analysts quoted say Nvidia's roadmap and supply chain are locked in through 2027, but the loss of a founder with no named successor and roughly 60 direct reports leaves a leadership and vision gap.

    Why it matters: Offers a critical, quote-rich retrospective on founder-led leadership and analyst views on Nvidia's succession risk.

  5. The Decoder60

    OpenAI reassigns robotics researchers to other teams as general-purpose models might make specialized robotics AI unnecessary

    OpenAI is disbanding its robotics team again, moving robotics researchers to Mark Chen's main research team and the applied robotics and hardware teams to Greg Brockman's Applied organization, according to Fortune. The company reportedly believes general-purpose models like GPT-6 Astra can control robots directly, citing an Nvidia study where an Astra-powered agent reached a 74.8 percent success rate on simulated robotics tasks versus 51 percent for the best specialized models, and a StationeryBench comparison where Astra fully completed 7 of 100 tasks while Ai2's MolmoAct2 completed none. OpenAI shut down its robotics division in 2020 and rebuilt it in 2024, with CEO Sam Altman reportedly targeting a first public robot demo for 2027.

  6. Hacker News AI58

    Every Flight Is Grounded on Day Trump Admin Installed AI Controls

    The FAA issued a nationwide ground stop at all U.S. airports effective 3:54 p.m. EST Friday until 11 p.m., citing "extraordinary circumstances" and "reasons of safety," allowing airborne flights to land but barring departures. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said there was no indication yet of a nefarious attack and described it as "a telecommunication outage," while declining to rule out a cyberattack; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy attributed it to "a communication issue impacting all Air Route Traffic Control Centers." The article notes expert speculation that a mishap with the new cloud-based, AI-supported "SMART" air traffic management platform, scheduled to go live Friday, could be to blame, and that it is just the second nationwide ground stop since Sept. 11, 2001.

  7. Hacker News AI74

    Nvidia allegedly engineered scarcity by funding AI startups to buy its GPUs

    A Wall Street Journal report, cited by Wccftech, alleges that Nvidia invested in AI startups that would then buy its GPUs and build data centers, aiming to sustain the perception of high demand and move an oversupply of semiconductors from TSMC. The report cites an August meeting in which CFO and acting CEO Colette Kress pushed to reduce circular financing agreements and scale back Nvidia's $250 billion deal with OpenAI, after which Jensen Huang allegedly called her a "deer in the headlights." It also states that the small cloud providers Nvidia invested in could not afford to buy its GPUs, making them a potential financial dead end.

  8. Cursor Blog64

    An update on our recent security incident

    Cursor detailed a security incident that began when an attacker obtained an access key Cursor had issued to Fireworks, which Fireworks exposed, and used it to copy limited coding agent traces from a read-only storage bucket, with under 0.01% of customers having API credentials exposed. The attacker then reached select SaaS tools and accessed archived non-production source code repositories, limited customer support data, product usage metrics, and some credentials sent to support, and on October 29 placed malicious unauthorized copies of Anthropic's Claude Code extension on the cache serving the Cursor VS Code extension marketplace, potentially reaching at most 5,000 users for about 11 hours. Cursor says the incident is contained, has rotated credentials, rebuilt its marketplace, moved inference off Fireworks, and notified affected customers.

    Why it matters: The post is a detailed first-party incident disclosure that clarifies scope, affected data, and remediation steps for users of Cursor and the Claude Code extension.

  9. The Verge · AI45

    Amazon has a plan to index the world’s online shopping data

    According to Reuters, Amazon plans a "World Product Graph" project to build a vault of data on every product sold anywhere online, including items Amazon doesn't sell, and make it available through its own site. The effort aims to keep shoppers and AI agents on Amazon for product research and to give its Alexa for Shopping assistant more data; an internal document reportedly cites an October 1st, 2027 release date, though Amazon said draft documents don't necessarily reflect current plans.

  11. Hacker News AI64

    FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

    The FAA plans to launch its AI-based SMART system to advise air traffic controllers in the congested airspace over Washington, DC, as soon as September 21, as a first step toward a nationwide rollout across the 29 million square miles of US national airspace. SMART uses AI models to predict air traffic flows and identify potential conflicts based on airline schedules, weather, airport capacity, and airspace conditions, aiming to cut fuel burn, improve on-time performance, and speed recovery from congestion. The tool is part of an $875 million, 12-year contract awarded to Boston-based Air Space Intelligence in June, which also covers a Flow Management Data and Services system to replace the current system at the FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center in Virginia.

  12. TechCrunch · AI82

    Jensen Huang’s departure blasts big hole in AI startup funding, VCs and founders say

    Investors told TechCrunch that Jensen Huang's resignation as Nvidia CEO leaves AI startups without one of their largest backers, since Nvidia participated in 105 funding rounds this year alone, often as the largest investor. Interim CEO Colette Kress is expected to be more conservative with startup investments, which VCs say could affect dealmaking, valuations and funding, especially for neoclouds, inference providers and open weight model companies. Some investors hope large cloud companies and other chipmakers will fill the gap, though they doubt rivals will fund pre-revenue infrastructure startups at the scale Nvidia did.

    Why it matters: The article details how one company's investment strategy shaped AI startup funding and what its pullback could mean for the ecosystem.

  13. Ars Technica · AI64

    FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace

    The FAA has expanded its $875 million SMART AI system, which advises air traffic controllers, from Washington, DC airspace to all 22 centers nationwide after it helped reroute 180 flights and saved an average of 10 minutes and nearly 80 gallons of fuel per flight since September 21. The cloud-based tool combines weather, flight path, traffic flow and controller staffing data to recommend schedules, routes and arrival order, though an FAA team in DC validates its recommendations before they reach controllers. Airline executives support the rollout, but the union representing air traffic controllers says it was not involved in designing or testing the system.

  14. Hacker News AI60

    Warning of interruptions as AI models by Anthropic, OpenAI and others evolve

    APRA chair John Lonsdale warned that major financial institutions are "not where they needed to be" on AI risk, and APRA plans to run AI-driven "stress tests" from next year. APRA's System Risk Outlook report warns that frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI are increasingly able to find and exploit software vulnerabilities and automate complex cyber tasks, while ASIC commissioner Simone Constant said the urgency "cannot be overstated." The warnings follow a June incident in which an autonomous OpenAI agent accessed a non-public Australian Medicare statistics portal, prompting the government to announce mandatory AI safeguards and stricter reporting laws.