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Saturday, May 16, 2026 — 19 items

AI Industry & Research

Anthropic Research · www.anthropic.com
Anthropic released a paper on AI competition between the US and China, arguing it is essential that the US and its allies maintain a lead over authoritarian governments like the CCP in AI development.
Anthropic Research · www.anthropic.com
The Anthropic Institute shares its research agenda, focusing on investigating AI's real-world impact from within a frontier lab and sharing findings publicly.
Anthropic Research · www.anthropic.com
A survey of 81,000 Claude users finds that workers in AI-exposed roles have greater concerns about job displacement, with concerns also higher among lower-income users.
Hacker News · twitter.com · comments
Mitchell Hashimoto shares his view that many companies are in a state of 'AI psychosis,' making irrational decisions driven by AI hype rather than sound engineering judgment.
Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
Simon Willison highlights a piece by Jason Koebler about how pervasive AI-generated writing online is becoming mentally exhausting to filter and is starting to distort regular human communication.

AI & Software Engineering

Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
Simon Willison discusses how AI coding tools are making programming language choice less of a lock-in factor, as projects like Bun's Zig-to-Rust rewrite demonstrate that large-scale language migrations are now feasible.
Hacker News · github.com · comments
Bun's major rewrite from Zig to Rust has been merged into the main repository, a significant milestone enabled in part by AI-assisted code migration tools.
Financial Times · www.ft.com
Amazon employees are using the company's in-house AI tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to boost their AI usage scores and climb internal leaderboards.

Privacy & Security

Hacker News · macdailynews.com · comments
The US Department of Justice is demanding that Apple and Google identify over 100,000 users of a popular car-modification app as part of an emissions enforcement crackdown.
Hacker News · tmctmt.com · comments
Research shows that Mullvad VPN exit IP addresses can be used as a fingerprinting vector, potentially undermining the privacy protections the VPN is intended to provide.
Yle pääuutiset · yle.fi
Metan älylaseilla on kuvattu naisia salaa, ja huolet tekoälylasien väärinkäytöstä kasvavat. Myös työntekijöiden nähtäville päätyy arkaluontoista materiaalia.
Hacker News · arkadiyt.com · comments
A detailed walkthrough of physically removing the cellular modem and GPS module from a 2024 Toyota RAV4 hybrid to prevent vehicle telematics data collection.

Suomi / Finland

Yle pääuutiset · yle.fi
Suomalaistaustainen professori kommentoi Ouran siirtymistä USA:han ja kannustaa Eurooppaa luomaan omat digijättinsä.
Yle pääuutiset · yle.fi
Edes puolustusvaliokunnan jäsenet eivät saaneet ajantasaista tietoa Uuttamaata uhanneista drooneista. Yle selvitti tiedotussotkun taustoja.
Yle pääuutiset · yle.fi
Norjalainen Blastr Green Steel peruu väliaikaisesti suunnitelmat massiivisesta terästehtaasta Inkoossa.

Bluesky & Decentralized Social

Simon Willison · simonwillison.net
Bluesky published technical details about how their "For You" algorithmic feed works, including how anyone can run their own custom feed implementation on the AT Protocol.
Hacker News · www.theverge.com · comments
Bluesky experienced a prolonged DDoS attack lasting nearly a full day, disrupting service on the decentralized social platform.

Advertising Technology & Adtech

Financial Times · www.ft.com
TV advertising is gaining value as streaming platforms introduce ad-supported tiers to generate new revenue, making the format increasingly attractive to advertisers.
Hacker News · www.adweek.com · comments
A leaked deck reveals that StackAdapt, an OpenAI advertising partner, is selling ChatGPT ad placements targeted based on users' prompt content and relevance signals.
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