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10 Years Ago Today: Introducing OpenAI

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/
1•capitalatrisk•12s ago•0 comments

Disney is investing $1B in OpenAI and licensing its characters for Sora

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/tech/disney-openai-sora-google
1•petethomas•1m ago•0 comments

News.ycombnator.com

https://news.ycombnator.com/
1•seethishat•3m ago•0 comments

The Dutch-American Friendship Treaty-Get Dutch Residency for Starting a Business

https://inls.nl/daft/
1•jamesgill•3m ago•0 comments

Polymorphism, but for Your Database

https://typedb.com/blog/the-case-for-a-polymorphic-database
2•calhem•4m ago•1 comments

Screens in Screens in Screens

https://screenpond.cool
1•postalcoder•4m ago•0 comments

Why the Architects of AI Are TIME's 2025 Person of the Year

https://time.com/7339621/person-of-the-year-2025-ai-architects-choice/
1•giuliomagnifico•5m ago•0 comments

Google's Gemini API Free Tier Fiasco: Developers Hit by Silent Rate Limit Purge

https://quasa.io/media/google-s-gemini-api-free-tier-fiasco-developers-hit-by-silent-rate-limit-p...
2•eric-burel•7m ago•1 comments

Chrome for iPhone rolling out built-in Gemini integration

https://9to5google.com/2025/12/10/gemini-chrome-iphone/
1•tosh•8m ago•0 comments

New search for MH-370 starting on Dec 30th 2025

https://avherald.com/h?article=4710c69b/0548&opt=0
2•belter•9m ago•1 comments

Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can't Pretend Anymore

https://www.blog.lifebranches.com/p/aging-out-of-fucks-the-neuroscience
2•xngbuilds•9m ago•0 comments

Things I want to say to my boss

https://www.ithoughtaboutthatalot.com/2025/the-things-i-want-to-say-to-my-boss
11•casca•11m ago•0 comments

Parachutists told to check software after jumper dangled from a plane

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/11/atsb_parachute_snagged_software/
1•seanhunter•11m ago•0 comments

From UX to Ax: Designing for AI Agents–and Why It Matters

https://www.pragmaticcoders.com/blog/from-ux-to-ax-designing-for-ai-agents
2•rawgabbit•12m ago•0 comments

Efficiently Reconstructing Dynamic Scenes One D4RT at a Time

https://d4rt-paper.github.io/
2•xnx•12m ago•0 comments

Rust 1.92.0

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/11/Rust-1.92.0/
3•todsacerdoti•12m ago•0 comments

Disney Hits Google with AI Copyright Infringement Cease-and-Desist Letter

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-google-cease-and-desist-letter-12...
1•iceflinger•13m ago•0 comments

'Censorship pure and simple': critics hit out at Trump plan to vet visitors'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/11/trump-plan-vet-us-visitors-social-media-tourism
2•chrisjj•13m ago•2 comments

Running Windows apps natively in Linux with Docker

https://code.mendhak.com/native-windows-apps-in-linux/
2•speckx•14m ago•0 comments

Svedka Vodka's First Super Bowl Ad Will Be Made Primarily with AI

https://www.wsj.com/articles/svedkas-first-super-bowl-ad-will-be-made-primarily-with-ai-c2662f5e
1•bookofjoe•15m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Layered Config. A simple structured configuration loader for Python

https://github.com/bitranox/lib_layered_config
2•bitranox•16m ago•0 comments

Genomics pioneer George Church earns first retraction for antiaging gene therapy

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/08/13/george-church-bioviva-rutgers-pnas-retraction/
1•randycupertino•16m ago•1 comments

Disney Characters Are Coming to OpenAI’s Sora

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/business/media/disney-openai-sora-deal.html
1•nonoesp•17m ago•0 comments

The Colonization of Confidence

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
1•todsacerdoti•20m ago•0 comments

OSS: A simple guide on how to get started with multi-agent engineering

https://buildand.ai/p/a-simple-guide-on-how-to-get-started
2•thijsverreck•20m ago•1 comments

Show HN: I built the simplest and cheapest link in bio tool

2•prettysquirl•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Nimbalyst: local WYSIWYG Markdown/mockup tool powered by Claude Code

https://nimbalyst.com
2•radial_symmetry•21m ago•0 comments

Why Intel and AMD couldn't play LittleBigPlanet together [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuT_GXagz0
1•zdw•22m ago•0 comments

An AI Coding Agent Hid an Infinite Recursion Bug in Our React App

https://acusti.ca/blog/2025/12/09/how-ai-coding-agents-hid-a-timebomb-in-our-app/
2•acusti•22m ago•1 comments

Voting machines said the budge proposal failed. A recount said otherwise

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/stephentown-memorial-library-proposal-passes-21232821.php
2•ntac•22m ago•0 comments
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Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/microsoft-scales-back-ai-goals-because-almost-nobody-is-using-copilot
32•mtdewcmu•23h ago

Comments

Festro•23h ago
Copilot is basically just whitelabelled ChatGPT. It's a big ask for people to use it over the source system.

ChatGPT gets the headlines, is seen as an innovator, and costs less.

Copilot offers what? A physical button on a Windows keyboard, OS integration when we're in our browsers 24/7 and Atlas exists?

My main gripe is that if Copilot has any value MS do a piss-poor job of promoting it. I can see AI functions in MS365 being useful, I can see MS-related headaches being solvable quicker with an AI buddy nudging me along to a resolution. But their press releases and and demos, if they exist, do not compete with OpenAI's, Google's, hell Deepseek gets more coverage.

MS might as well give up and pursue integration and compatibility with the rest of the ecosystem. I know they won't though, they'll cut costs and still shove Copilot down our throats with feature creep and useless opt-out bulk.

RicoElectrico•23h ago
For something that is supposedly a "strategic priority" the implementation is half-assed as well. When I edit my prompt post-fact, it is instead sent as a new message.
lumost•21h ago
IMO the wrapper products all suffer from the same problem. The LLM is trained to do a specific set of tasks such as Chat, Coding, Image understanding, and image/video generation, and tool use in support of the above. If you suddenly ask the LLM to do something it was not trained for such as producing power points - you get a few surprisingly successful results, followed by a large set of crap. There is no reason for customers or your own team to expect the underlying model to improve unless token usage is so massive it motivates training investment in this area.

LLMs are a facsimile of general intelligence on tasks similar to their training set and which can be solved in finite context length. If you are outside of the training set - you will have poor results. Likewise if you are in the training set, then the foundation model vendor will already have a great product to sell you (claude code/chatgpt etc.)

ChrisArchitect•23h ago
[dupe] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148748
1970-01-01•23h ago
The title here should be Almost Nobody, Including Microsoft QA, is using Copilot. I tried to use Copilot to create a PowerPoint presentation from a Word document. The output was complete trash. Bullet points were out of alignment, and several things just went off-screen. Re-prompting to try and correct the slides did nothing but create more trash.
kodama-lens•18h ago
Since customers carry out QA, the title is correct.
arbol•22h ago
If copilot could could take instructions in excel and create pivots and formulae then it would be useful. I can't think of other Windows operations I'd use it for.

For coding it's incredible - both in ide and on GitHub.

JSR_FDED•21h ago
No bonuses will be paid until every text box has an “improve this text in some way” option.
kotaKat•21h ago
Sounds like they're hoping for adoption down the further line... the "maybe later" approach.

Microsoft should take the "Don't Ask Me Again" approach instead, which everyone would see as a net win.

cryptos•19h ago
... and now we have this damn copilot key on our keyboards!
steve1977•19h ago
of our Copilot+ PCs
leopoldj•18h ago
>As for Copilot? I don't know anyone who uses it. Do you?

This sloppy journalism. One should probably read the original report in The Information [1].

Bloomberg has updated its story today with a note from Jeffries [2]. "The analysts also said their checks showed robust adoption of Microsoft’s Copilot line of AI assistants"

1. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-lowers-ai-...

2. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/microsoft...

versavolt•16h ago
All it takes is for the dot com of chatGPT to be blocked in my organization, and copilot has succeeded. Now we have a presentation from microsoft and half of their thinking problems didnt even work. Of course, i have used copilot chat extensively, and since the rollout of deep thinking, it has provided many benefits. Writing and editing workflows in excel or officesript, for instance. Custom JSON formatting in sharepoint. It has even made a regression model in an excel workbook. Takes knowledge to edit it, but it does get me there.
Havoc•15h ago
I use the employer paid enterprise versions. Works well…which you’d hope for the fancy version

The normal consumer accessible one in contrast routinely gives me broken incomplete output

Idk MS you’re not gonna win with a chatbot that doesn’t chat complete stuff

mtdewcmu•15h ago
This all reminds me of Bing. It already lost the technology race, but it serves MS's own interests to keep it around, apparently.
wkat4242•15h ago
It's a service they sell to eg DuckDuckGo and ecosia. I think the og bing is just there because they still think Google may fall out of favour one day. Oh and they offer a corp version spiced up with internal results from SharePoint.
mtdewcmu•13h ago
I think they also make money from people that don't know the difference and use it because, for instance, it's the default in Edge when you search from the URL bar.
montjoy•14h ago
I’ve only used the version that comes with Office 365, but oh boy is it terrible.