Dots: Always-on agents
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604 Points: 463 # Comments: 351
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896586 Points: 777 # Comments: 726
DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896050 Points: 528 # Comments: 377
macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Article URL: https://www.squareorbits.com/blog/2026/09/macos-golden-gate-is-a-buggy-mess/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49894005 Points: 436 # Comments: 314
How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892245 Points: 436 # Comments: 253
US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS
Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/software/the-netherlands-is-rolling-alternative-nixos-based-software-ecosystem-after-u-s-sanctions-on-icc-took-microsoft-off-the-table-trial-programs-running-now-first-release-expected-at-end-of-2027 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator
Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Article URL: https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901736 Points: 187 # Comments: 94
PS5 Relapse Exploit
Article URL: https://github.com/ntfargo/Relapse-Exploit Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895304 Points: 232 # Comments: 125
Most powerful obesity drug yet: People lost up to 25% of weight in trial
Researchers published late-stage clinical trial data today for the latest obesity drug, retatrutide—expected to be the most powerful formula yet—and the results appear in line with high expectations. Patients with obesity on the highest retatrutide dose lost an average of 25 perc
Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg? , a table-sized installation placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday. According to a description of the piece, the 5-foot-tall sculpture "shows OpenAI's leaders and investors
Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models
Article URL: https://github.com/PostHog/jeeves Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891290 Points: 225 # Comments: 85
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
Chipmaker AMD and world models company World Labs announced that AMD will acquire the AI company by the end of the year, pending regulatory approval. The transaction is valued at $8.2 billion. In 2024, computer vision scientist Fei-Fei Li founded World Labs with fellow researcher
STAT+: At MAHA Summit, a grassroots movement goes corporate
WASHINGTON — The Make America Healthy Again movement has changed, if Tuesday’s MAHA Summit is any indication. The insurgent movement that coalesced around mistrust of the health system and corporate influence put on a summit where industry leaders promoted their work under the MA
STAT+: Lawmakers urge Trump to rethink new rule that could restrict imported meds from Canada and overseas
A growing number of congressional lawmakers are urging the Trump administration to rethink a federal rule going into effect next month over concerns it will prevent Americans from obtaining prescription medicines from licensed international pharmacies. The pending rule requires m
STAT+: PhRMA taps Eric Cantor as new CEO
WASHINGTON — Eric Cantor, a former GOP House majority leader, will be the next CEO of PhRMA, the lobbying group announced Tuesday. As head of the brand drug industry’s top lobbying group, Cantor will face mounting political pressure on drug prices and an increasingly populist moo
STAT+: Beam Therapeutics sues Chinese biotech, VC-backed startup, alleging theft of intellectual property
The gene-editing company Beam Therapeutics is alleging that one of its scientists stole intellectual property and used it to co-found a Chinese company that made a deal with VC firms. The allegation comes at a time of escalating tensions between American biotech companies and the