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The dead economy theory

Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

Can we have the day off?

Claude Opus 4.8

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

<a href="https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-labels-automatic-detection-1236758865/" rel="nofollow">https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/youtube-ai-video-label...</a>

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

I'm Tired of Talking to AI

Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence

Using AI to write better code more slowly

Magnifica Humanitas

AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale

Flipper One – we need your help

GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension

Previous thread in sequence:<p><i>GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48201316</a> - May 2026 (321 comments)

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

<a href="https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912</a>, <a href="https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/wtgowers/status/2057175727271800912</a>

Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE

Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment

Google changes its search box

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar-ai-gemini.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.95yh.ptfBUHf-rBtB&smid=url-share" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/business/google-seach-bar...</a>, <a href="https://archive.ph/XI1sQ" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/XI1sQ</a><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-...</a><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/932970/google-search-ai-update-io-2026" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/tech/932970/google-search-ai-update...</a>

Gemini 3.5 Flash

<a href="https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flash" rel="nofollow">https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.5-flas...</a>

I’ve joined Anthropic

<a href="https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312" rel="nofollow">https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312</a><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-andrej-claude" rel="nofollow">https://www.axios.com/2026/05/19/anthropic-openai-karpathy-a...</a>, <a href="https://archive.ph/h6T3X" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/h6T3X</a>

Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI