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No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector
Leading today: No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sector. Also in this issue: Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps; Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.. 15 stories in total, selected automatically from 36 candidates across the day's feeds.
| 1 | apollo.com No signs of AI payoff outside the tech sectorDespite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates. |
| 2 | aikido.dev Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and appsTrending on Hacker News (271 points, 137 comments). |
| 3 | techcrunch.com Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races. |
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB, an open small language model post-trained from Gemma 4 E4B for local voice assistants, game characters and robots, targeting about 4GB of VRAM on RTX and Jetson.
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Read →BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots.
Read →On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads.
Read →The three OpenAI safety researchers who were fired, Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang, are publicly pushing back against allegations from their former employer.
Read →A three-month field experiment with 133 patent attorneys shows that AI boosts immediate performance, with junior lawyers gaining the most.
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A controlled study shows that switching between coding-agent harnesses like Claude Code, OpenCode, or mini-SWE-agent barely moves pass rates more than rerunning the same setup.
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Read →Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.
Read →Release: battledrones v14: Compass Rose, a four player map I added four player online mode to Battledrones - previous maps were limited to two.
Read →Trending on Hacker News (93 points, 49 comments).
Read →America is Losing Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs in Media, Film & the Arts. How Much is AI to Blame? (Trending on Hacker News (85 points, 51 comments))
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