OpenAI annualised revenues $20B less than previously signalled
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/08/open-ai-revenue-nvidia-oracle-coreweave.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008187 Points: 355 # Comments: 246
Friday, October 9, 2026
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I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/invisible-cities-one-shot/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50004790 Points: 363 # Comments: 186
Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB
Article URL: https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50008427 Points: 566 # Comments: 126
Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006832 Points: 830 # Comments: 1420
Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years
Ten years ago I was 19 and traveling through East Africa, and I spent a summer in Ibumila, a village in the Njombe highlands of Tanzania. There's no school in the village. The nearest one is a boarding school an hour away that costs a few hundred dollars a year, which is out of r
OpenAI Withdraws 3 Math Papers
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/history.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50003107 Points: 338 # Comments: 3
ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)
Article URL: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1697900/full Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50011928 Points: 167 # Comments: 125
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blueprints for microscopic viruses. It isn’t yet an example of AI-generated life, bu
Theranos.world
Article URL: https://www.theranos.world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009295 Points: 285 # Comments: 118
Step 5 Preview, a 1M-context MoE from StepFun, shows up on OpenRouter
Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/stepfun/step-5-preview Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50007764 Points: 100 # Comments: 23
Orkut.com
Article URL: https://orkut.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50006012 Points: 147 # Comments: 104
Beauty in DVD Menus
Article URL: https://vale.rocks/posts/dvd-menus Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50005527 Points: 264 # Comments: 147
Trump administration investigates 9 universities for alleged visa fraud
This story has been updated. The Trump administration announced Thursday that it is investigating nine universities for alleged fraud related to visas commonly used by postdoctoral researchers, a core part of the nation’s biomedical workforce. Read the rest…
STAT+: House Democrat seeks to scrap No Surprises Act’s costly arbitration process
A new proposal in Congress to scrap a surprise billing ban’s controversial arbitration system will need to to survive an onslaught of attacks from provider groups, for whom arbitration has been a gold mine. After Rep. Frank Pallone (D-.N.J.) unveiled his Lower Premiums, Faster Pa
NIH funding uncertainty thwarts U.S. researchers
How has the National Institutes of Health been spending its budget? Why are biotech investors feeling gloomy? And what is the most quintessential Boston movie? We discuss all that and more on this week’s episode of “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. We bring on STAT repo
STAT+: AI for breast cancer risk prediction goes DTC, regulatory cloud over Utah sandbox, and AI psychosis
Y ou’re reading the web edition of STAT’s Health Tech newsletter, our guide to how technology is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get it delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. Good morning health tech readers! I had the pleasure of profiling Yasha Ektefaie