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Google will enable Gemini to harass and annoy businesses with its questions

https://www.theverge.com/news/708210/google-ai-phone-calls-ai-mode-gemini-upgrade
10•bbarnett•6h ago

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mtmail•6h ago
The article title is "Google’s AI can now make phone calls for you".
bitpush•6h ago
Flagged the submission.
blinkbat•6h ago
really diabolical to make this opt-out instead of opt-in
happymellon•6h ago
This reminds me of Google IO 2016 (I think) where they had Google Now call to confirm details.

Everything old is new (and AI).

allears•6h ago
Google probably calculated that they'll win more customers with this tech than they lose. If they calculated at all, and it's not just another stab in the dark like many Google products.

Cheating? Or the acumen of modern programming? FOSS, "AI", and human conscience

https://gist.github.com/guest271314/17c9daac37101538c9baa6df72aaaefb
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

LLM Benchmarking Shows Capabilities Doubling Every 7 Months

https://spectrum.ieee.org/llm-benchmarking-metr
1•mparramon•3m ago•0 comments

The Geological Sublime

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/07/the-geological-sublime-lewis-hyde-deep-time/
2•prismatic•4m ago•0 comments

Predicting Earthquakes

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/a-50-million-foundation-model-to
1•sien•6m ago•0 comments

Garum Sardiniae in Tabula: Rediscovering the Ancient Taste of Roman Cuisine

https://exarc.net/issue-2023-3/at/garum-sardiniae-tabula-rediscovering-ancient-taste-roman-cuisine
1•airstrike•8m ago•0 comments

Mercedes-Benz adds support for Teams app, Intune integration, and Copilot

https://media.mercedes-benz.com/article/931e7af1-2d57-4e90-9e1e-252289e70648
1•throw0101d•30m ago•0 comments

Which Economic Tasks Are Performed with AI? Evidence from Claude Conversations

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04761
1•Bogdanp•34m ago•0 comments

The internet keeps getting worse. Let's talk about why [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcW9IB5e3_E
1•raythanwho•42m ago•0 comments

EurIPS: Present NeurIPS Papers in Europe

https://eurips.cc/
1•yza•45m ago•1 comments

NASA won't publish key climate change report online, citing no legal obligation

https://www.space.com/science/climate-change/nasa-wont-publish-key-climate-change-report-online-citing-no-legal-obligation-to-do-so
1•OutOfHere•46m ago•0 comments

Foreign YouTube stars secretly paid by UK Government for propaganda

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25318776.foreign-youtube-stars-secretly-paid-uk-government-propaganda/
3•duke_of_tharsis•47m ago•0 comments

Eight healthy babies born after IVF using DNA from three people

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/16/eight-healthy-babies-born-after-ivf-using-dna-from-three-people
1•wicket•47m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Running Linux Inside Node.js

1•ridruejo•58m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Open-source business management tool for small business

https://github.com/oitcode/samarium
1•azaz12•1h ago•0 comments

Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/16/1120285/babies-born-trial-of-three-person-ivf/
1•gnabgib•1h ago•0 comments

Ctfoigt

https://boz.com/articles/ctfoigt
1•swyx•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Cobble – a hard daily word game

https://wilf.live/cobble/
2•wolfred•1h ago•0 comments

Scandal-Ridden Fyre Festival Is Sold for $245,000 on eBay

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/fyre-fesival-sold-ebay.html
1•defrost•1h ago•0 comments

Why 1Password hasn't released an MCP server

https://blog.1password.com/where-mcp-fits-and-where-it-doesnt/
12•flxfxp•1h ago•4 comments

Show HN: LinkMonster – Share multiple links easily

https://link-monster.com/
2•atharv_sardesai•1h ago•1 comments

As democracy in Georgia collapses, Russia, China and Iran see an opening

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/16/europe/georgia-protests-russia-china-iran-influence-intl-cmd
7•breve•1h ago•0 comments

Canada's oil sands transformed into one of North America's lowest-cost plays

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-canadas-oil-sands-transformed-into-one-north-americas-lowest-cost-plays-2025-07-16/
1•pseudolus•1h ago•0 comments

VibeTunnel's First AI-Anniversary

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/vibetunnel-first-anniversary
1•nojito•1h ago•0 comments

More advanced AI capabilities are coming to Google Search

https://blog.google/products/search/deep-search-business-calling-google-search/
1•dlojudice•1h ago•1 comments

Brooks, Books, and the Imagined Realties of Publishing

https://countercraft.substack.com/p/brooks-books-and-the-imagined-realties
1•crescit_eundo•1h ago•0 comments

Internet-safe iPhone for children goes on sale for £99 a month

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/16/internet-safe-sage-iphone-for-children-goes-on-sale-in-uk-for-99-pounds-a-month
1•miles•1h ago•0 comments

Onlycats

https://onlycats.gg/
26•rustystump•1h ago•8 comments

"Reading Rainbow" Was Created to Combat Summer Reading Slumps

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/to-combat-summer-reading-slumps-this-timeless-childrens-television-show-tried-to-bridge-the-literacy-gap-with-the-magic-of-stories-180986984/
18•arbesman•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Visualize Wikipedia link graph, opensourced

https://galaxy.wikiloop.org/
3•xinbenlv•1h ago•0 comments

I was wrong about robots.txt

https://evgeniipendragon.com/posts/i-was-wrong-about-robots-txt/
7•EPendragon•1h ago•1 comments