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About 12% of U.S. teens turn to AI for emotional support or advice
General purpose tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are not designed for this use, making mental health professionals wary.
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Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows
Recent findings also show that video podcasting -- while popular -- is not necessarily replacing audio shows.
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US tells diplomats to lobby against foreign data sovereignty laws
The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries' attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners' data.
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Pete Hegseth tells Anthropic to fall in line with DoD desires, or else
CEO was summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology.
US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives
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New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes
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Show HN: Django Control Room – All Your Tools Inside the Django Admin
Over the past year I’ve been building a set of operational panels for Django: - Redis inspection - cache visibility - Celery task introspection - URL discovery and testing All of these tools have been built inside the Django admin. Instead of jumping
Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company events
Hi HN, I’m Vincent, CTO of TeamOut ( https://www.teamout.com/ ). We build an AI agent that plans company events from start to finish entirely through conversation. Similar to how Lovable helps build websites through chat, we apply that approach to ev
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Harbinger acquires autonomous driving company Phantom AI
It's the Los Angeles trucking startup's first acquisition — the latest in a series of moves to spin up new revenue streams.
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Jira’s latest update allows AI agents and humans to work side by side
Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira" which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans.
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Y Combinator grad and AI insurance brokerage Harper raises $47M
Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.
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Amazon’s AI-powered Alexa+ gets new personality options
Users will be able to choose from Alexa styles like Brief, Chill or Sweet, Amazon says.
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Adobe Firefly’s video editor can now automatically create a first draft from footage
Adobe Firefly is getting a new feature called Quick Cut that uses AI to edit footage to create a first draft of the final video based on user instructions.
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Khosla’s Keith Rabois backs Comp, which wants to bolster HR teams with AI
The HR tech startup, which currently operates in Brazil, has raised a $17.25 million Series A.