Amazon to begin testing AI tools for film and TV production next month
Amazon MGM Studios will reportedly begin a closed beta program in March to test its AI tools to help with film and TV production.
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Sam Altman responds to Anthropic’s ‘funny’ Super Bowl ads
Sam Altman responded to Anthropic's new Super Bowl ad in an X post on Wednesday, saying the OpenAI competitor's campaign is "clearly dishonest," and called it "on brand" for Anthropic to "doublespeak." "We would obviously never run ads in the way Anthropic depicts them," he wrote. "We are not stupid and we know our users […]
Measles Is Causing Brain Swelling in Children in South Carolina
In the ongoing measles outbreak in South Carolina that has infected more than 800 people, some children have developed a rare but serious complication called encephalitis.
This Town, 2.0
Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter for Verge subscribers about the most ambitious crossover event of all time: the infinity war between technology and politics. Not subscribed yet? Come on, do it! Washington might seem slower than Silicon Valley. But that's because it's more turbulent. In order to achieve anything, one has to navigate […]
Show HN: Interactive California Budget (By Claude Code)
There's been a lot of discussion around the california budget and some proposed tax policies, so I asked claude code to research the budget and turn it into an interactive dashboard.
Using async subagents claude was able to research ~a dozen budget line items at once across multiple years, adding lots of helpful context and graphs to someone like me who was starting with little familiarity.
It still struggles with frontend changes, but for research this probably 20-40x's my throughput.
Let me know any additional data or visualizations that would be interesting to add!
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891290
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A16z just raised $1.7B for AI infrastructure. Here’s where it’s going.
Andreessen Horowitz just raised a whopping new $15 billion in funding. And a $1.7 billion chunk of that is going to its infrastructure team, the one responsible for some of its biggest, most prominent AI investments including Black Forrest Labs, Cursor, OpenAI, ElevenLabs, Ideogram, Fal and dozens of others. A16z general partner with the infra team Jennifer Li (who oversees such investments as ElevenLabs – just valued at $11 billion); Ideagram and Fal, has a clear thesis on where the team is looking […]
Technocracy 2.0
Article URL: https://brooklynrail.org/2026/02/field-notes/technocracy-2-0/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46890899
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Trump admin is "destroying medical research," Senate report finds
In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos.
“I was detained by federal agents in Minneapolis”
In late 2025, the Department of Homeland Security zeroed in on the Twin Cities in Minnesota, supposedly in response to fraud allegations made by a right-wing influencer. In the months since, thousands of immigrants have been swept up by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. In January alone, two American citizens were killed while documenting ICE operations […]
Overwatch: all the news about Blizzard’s hit hero shooter
Overwatch 2, the sequel to Activision Blizzard’s hit hero shooter Overwatch, was announced in 2019 but didn’t arrive for another three years, eventually bringing a shift to five-on-five matches in PVP, and a few new characters, including Overwatch’s first Black female hero. After canceling planned PvE content and unlocking its hero pool, the game’s developers […]