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Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara: "I think that politics a...

@a16z [3/18/2026]: Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara: "I think that politics are going to get better because you're going to have a way faster feedback loop on the messaging and the policies." "Right now when a candidate says 10 things and they win or they lose, you're trying to make one https://

AI Coding Is Gambling

15 points • 4 comments on Hacker News

Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour on the growing demand for be...

@a16z [3/18/2026]: Kalshi co-founder Tarek Mansour on the growing demand for better sources of information: "There wasn't a real pain 10 or 15 years ago in the way there is pain in the last few years." "I think the country is more polarized. I would say the world is more polarized." "Social http

The leaderboard “you can’t game,” funded by the companies it ranks

Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]

Anish Acharya says now that software is no longer a precious...

@a16z [3/18/2026]: Anish Acharya says now that software is no longer a precious resource, it becomes ubiquitous—and often disposable: “It’s sort of like generative music. I think that music is incredible, but there are not that many people who make music that is disposable, for good reason. A lot

Anish Acharya says there's an "unbundling" of product manage...

@a16z [3/18/2026]: Anish Acharya says there's an "unbundling" of product management happening: “There was a part of product management that was very technical—that was sort of pointing people in the direction of a market need.” “If you look at the big labs, you’ll see the product managers there h

AI Video Generation News

@runwayml [3/18/2026]: A breakthrough in real-time video generation. As a research preview developed with @NVIDIA and shared at @NVIDIAGTC this week, we trained a new real-time video model running on Vera Rubin. HD videos generate instantly, with time-to-first-frame under 100ms. Unlocking an entirely @runwayml [3/18/2026]: Introducing Runway's Big Ad Contest For Products That Don't Exist. Your chance to make any ad you can imagine for up to $100K in cash prizes. No client notes. No producers saying no. Just 7 briefs to choose from and 2 weeks to make your wildest concepts come to life. Big ideas ht @runwayml [3/19/2026]: Join us in New York on April 2 for a Runway Characters Hackathon. In this workshop you'll learn how to create your own custom real-time video agents and bring them directly into your apps, websites, products and experiences. Register now at the link below. https://t.co/PALFauG9 @LumaLabsAI [3/18/2026]: Dream Brief submissions rolling in. Made with Luma.

The PhD students who became the judges of the AI industry

Artificial intelligence models are multiplying fast, and competition is stiff. With so many players crowding the space, which one will be the best — and who decides that? Arena, formerly LM Arena, has emerged as the de facto public leaderboard for frontier LLMs, influencing funding, launches, and PR cycles. In just seven months, the startup went from a UC Berkeley PhD research […]

In the 1990s and 2000s, email “replaced” physical mail and c...

@a16z [3/18/2026]: In the 1990s and 2000s, email “replaced” physical mail and changed the nature of correspondence. The same thing is happening right now with customer attention. If you think AI is just going to “replace” the call center agent, you’re stuck thinking about first-order effects. AI

LLMs Predict My Coffee

56 points • 23 comments on Hacker News

DLSS 5: Has Nvidia’s AI graphics technology gone too far?

Nvidia has revealed a new “3D guided neural rendering model” called DLSS 5 that can change a game’s lighting and materials in real-time, and… many gamers aren’t happy. From DLSS 5 memes to complaints about how it’s “yassified” Resident Evil Requiem characters in demos, the first impression has not been a good one, no matter how much Nvidia insists that this pursuit of photorealism is still honoring the original artists’ intent. Follow along below for all the latest updates about Nvidia’s DLSS...

AI's Oppenheimer Moment

2 points • 1 comments on Hacker News

My Dinner with AI

3 points • 1 comments on Hacker News

AI News & Insights: What AI Leaders Are Saying

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We invited Claude users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what...

Anthropic shares on Anthropic / Claude. @AnthropicAI (Anthropic): "We invited Claude users to share how they use AI, what they dream it could make possible, and what they fear it might do. Nearly 81,000 people responded in one week—the largest qualitative study of its kind. Read more:" | @AnthropicAI (Anthropic): "These interviews capture texture that surveys can’t. They render in detail how people worldwide are already experiencing AI's opportunities and risks. We plan to use Anthropic Interviewer regularly, on different topics, to help inform how AI can be built to benefit everyone."

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