Hacker News with Generative AI: Industry

Heat pump sales in Europe fall 23% to pre-Ukraine war levels (theguardian.com)
Heat pump sales fell 23% in Europe last year, industry data shows, reverting to the level they were at before the war in Ukraine and slowing the shift away from gas-burning boilers.

Energy, Europe, Climate Change, Economics, Industry

5 points by adrian_mrd 2 days ago | 4 comments

When industry manipulates science to prevent a PFAS ban (lemonde.fr)

Environmentalism, Science, Industry, Politics

9 points by domofutu 30 days ago | 0 comments

Video Games Can't Afford to Look This Good (nytimes.com)
One way to understand the video game industry’s current crisis is by looking closely at Spider-Man’s spandex.

Video Games, Industry, Graphics, Costs

17 points by ingve 56 days ago | 12 comments

Truck dealers push back on electric sales mandates in New Jersey (npr.org)
As a handful of states start adopting California's sales mandates for zero-emission trucks, dealers in New Jersey are pushing back.

Electric Vehicles, New Jersey, Politics, Transportation, Industry

11 points by rbanffy 57 days ago | 3 comments

Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip (twitter.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Semiconductors, Google, Hardware, Industry

248 points by nsoonhui 82 days ago | 211 comments

The industry structure of LLM makers (calpaterson.com)
Large language models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT and Claude.ai are whizzy and cool. A lot of people think that they are going to be The Future. Maybe they are — but that doesn't mean that building them is going to be a profitable business.

Business, Artificial Intelligence, Industry

159 points by paulpauper 86 days ago | 127 comments

Dead Labor, Dead Speech – What happens when culture becomes an industry's raw... (newcartographies.com)
If, as Marx argued, capital is dead labor, then the products of large language models might best be understood as dead speech.

Culture, Industry, Artificial Intelligence, Language

9 points by mikae1 116 days ago | 1 comments

Apple internally believes that it's at least two years behind in AI development (9to5mac.com)
According to the latest edition of Mark Gurman’s Power On newsletter, some employees at Apple believe that the company is around two years behind in artificial intelligence development.

Artificial Intelligence, Apple, Technology, Industry

5 points by retskrad 123 days ago | 2 comments

"The End of Telecoms History" (iicintermedia.org)
In his latest book, WILLIAM WEBB argues that we mostly have all the connectivity we need. The telecoms industry needs to refocus away from technical innovation and towards efficiency. Governments and regulators, he says, will need a new mindset

Telecommunications, Technology, Industry, Regulation

23 points by XnoiVeX 148 days ago | 0 comments

Inside Annapurna Interactive's Mass Walkout (ign.com)
Last week, Bloomberg reported that 25 people comprising the entire staff of Annapurna Interactive walked out the door in a group resignation. But while some of the circumstances around their departure emerged in the reporting, one pressing question was left unanswered: why?

Video Games, Industry, Labor Issues, Resignation, Walkouts

114 points by samfriedman 153 days ago | 74 comments

Surveillance Watch – the hidden connections within the surveillance industry (surveillancewatch.io)

Surveillance, Industry, Privacy, Technology

150 points by nabla9 186 days ago | 37 comments

Alcohol Researcher Says Alcohol-Industry Lobbyists Are Attacking His Work (slashdot.org)

Alcohol, Research, Lobbying, Industry

49 points by MilnerRoute 193 days ago | 16 comments

Delivery worker minimum wage is bringing order to a wild industry (streetsblog.org)

Delivery Workers, Minimum Wage, Labor, Industry

42 points by geox 201 days ago | 77 comments

The Semiconductor Design Software Duopoly: Cadence and Synopsys [video] (youtube.com)