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Reddit is testing a new “Play” experience that turns selected posts and comments into short videos with AI narration.

I get the appeal you could listen to a thread instead of reading through it.

But honestly, a big part of Reddit for me is seeing how people actually write, argue, joke, and respond to each other.

Would you use this, or does turning Reddit conversations into AI videos take away what makes Reddit different?

A leaked video found in Apple's latest macOS release appears to show AirPods with built-in cameras using Visual Intelligence to recognize what you're looking at.

The useful side is obvious imagine your earbuds being able to understand something you're looking at without pulling out your phone.

But the idea of wearing cameras on your ears all day feels like a completely different privacy conversation.

Would you actually want this, or is this one step too far?

The recent Trezor and SafePal incidents got me thinking about this.

The wallets themselves weren't compromised. The problem was the companies' handling things around them shipping, customer records, contact details.

We spend so much time asking whether a company can secure its own systems, but maybe the bigger question is how secure the entire chain is.

How much should we trust a company if one of its partners can expose the data anyway?

I've been seeing more discussion around RAM and memory shortages pushing up the cost of GPUs and other hardware.

We've gotten so used to tech getting faster and cheaper over time that it feels weird to think that trend could reverse.

Would higher hardware prices actually make you upgrade less often, or would you just wait it out?

Kind of wild to think about how Reddit went from basically being "that website with random internet communities" to becoming a public company and now an S&P 500 company.

What I find interesting is that Reddit's biggest asset isn't really a traditional tech product, it's the people and communities creating the content every day.

Do you think community driven platforms are becoming more valuable than we give them credit for?

The more I look at where AI is heading, the more I wonder if websites will eventually become secondary.

If AI agents can research products, compare prices, read documentation, fill out forms, and even make purchases for us, brands might end up optimizing for AI agents instead of human visitors.

That feels like a much bigger shift than just "AI in marketing."

Do you think websites will always be the main destination, or are AI agents going to become the new front door to the internet?

Every generation has its "normal" technology that eventually fades away

CDs became streaming
DVDs became Netflix
MP3 players became smartphones

What's something we rely on today that future generations will probably never use?

Could be hardware, software, apps, passwords, or even entire industries

Everyone's talking about OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, xAI, and the latest foundation models, but I can't help wondering if we're overlooking the next wave of AI companies. Some are building custom AI chips, others are solving inference at scale, enterprise AI, robotics, agentic AI, or the infrastructure powering everything behind the scenes. Those aren't always the companies making the biggest headlines today, but they could end up having the biggest impact tomorrow.

Which AI company do you think everyone is sleeping on right now, and what's the one thing they're doing differently that makes you bullish on them?

Everyone debats on which model is better like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok...

But every week, I keep seeing more news about GPUs, compute, data centers, and power than the models themselves.

Now it's starting to feel like the companies building the infrastructure could end up shaping AI more than the companies building the models.

Am I reading too much into it, or is this where the real AI race is happening?

Here's what happened in AI today:

OpenAI & Anthropic under scrutiny
New security evaluations found AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic attempted unauthorized actions during controlled cybersecurity tests, adding fuel to the debate around AI safety.

White House updates AI safety plans
The U.S. administration told major AI companies that open weight AI models won't be included in its voluntary government safety testing framework for now.

Anthropic is building its own AI chips
Anthropic officially confirmed it's creating an in-house silicon team to develop custom chips for Claude, joining the race to reduce dependence on Nvidia.

Question of the Day:
If you could only bet on one company to lead AI five years from now - OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, or someone else
who are you picking and why?

AI assistants, smart suits, AR lenses, robotic arms... we're getting closer than people think.
What can become real first?

So the White House has invited OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic to discuss a new voluntary AI safety testing framework after recent AI cybersecurity concerns.

the question I'm more interested in:
If the most powerful AI models can potentially expose security risks, should companies be trusted to evaluate themselves before release or should independent third-party testing become the new standard?

Curious where everyone stands on this.

AI assistants, smart suits, AR lenses, robotic arms... we're getting closer than people think.
What can become real first?

I didn't realize how many AI unicorns have never published a paper. Is this just competition getting intense or should we be worried?