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Techmeme surfaced Josipa Majic Predin’s September 19 Forbes article, “Jev Cuts AI Decision Costs 100x And Vercel, Cloudflare Rushed To Add It.” The piece argues that many calls made by AI agents are miscast as writing problems. An agent deciding which tool to use, whether to retry, how urgent a case is, or whether a command is safe does not need another paragraph. It needs a constrained answer that software can consume quickly, cheaply, and with a useful estimate of uncertainty.

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This summary covers The Economist’s August 22nd, 2026 Business/Schumpeter article listed in the contents as Data-centre politics and published under the headline Shadow boxing.

America’s backlash against data centres looks fiercer than it is. Politicians are denouncing speculative projects, imposing reviews and announcing restrictions as voters grow anxious about noise, pollution and electricity use. Yet many of the projects being attacked were never likely to be built, while rules aimed at the industry often spare developments already under way. The article’s central argument is that developers and politicians are both exaggerating: one side inflates its construction plans, and the other inflates its power to stop them.

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At least 16 killed in attack on mosque in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (r/worldnews)

• TheMarlinsOnlyFan: Would help a lot if the Pakistan government stopped funding and harboring terrorist groups
• alphajatin: I see a clear pattern where Pak-Afghan relations flare up as soon as Saudi is attack
• chintakoro: Is this a sectarian issue? If so, which sects? If not, why target a mosque? And which group is suspected? BBC article woefully short of any relevant details.

Trump claims we’ve taken permanent control over Greenland (r/justincaseyoumissedit)

• Miss_Maple_Dream: This has been in place since the US and Denmark agreed to it in 1951.
• dprestonwilliams1: Go read Greenland’s official statement on the “agreement”…nothing close to what he claims. Mostly what we already had in place for decades.
• dougl1000: We had a treaty with Denmark in 1951 to provide for Greenland security through NATO. So the US gets nothing except a bigger bill now that we do it alone.

What 9/11 fact should people be more aware of? (r/AskReddit)

• Correct_Pace8899: The absolute heroics of the flight 93 passengers. They knew they’d die, but by golly, they weren’t going to let more innocents go down with them.
• prophile: It has all the hallmarks of a conspiracy because it was one. By some jihadis, to fly a couple of planes into the twin towers. They then collapsed for very predictable structural reasons.
• prosa123: The evacuation of the World Trade Center was spectacularly, off-the-charts successful. Nearly everyone in both towers below the impact floors got out safely even though each tower had only three narrow stairways.

People who have gone deaf permanently, what was the last thing you heard? (r/AskReddit)

• Duffstro: This is what the subreddit is for. Great question.
• CanesMetsJets2: Not completely deaf but it was automatic rifle fire. The permanent ringing in my left ear sucks, still haven’t gotten used to it after 20 years.
• BothPanchoAndLefty: “Nahhh dude don’t be a pussy, it won’t be that loud”

What’s something your parents or grandparents did that you now realize was low-key genius parenting? (r/AskReddit)

• H0B0aladdin: My mom had me convinced as a kid that steamed broccoli with butter and lemon juice was an after dinner dessert
• Shyfiver: If two kids have to split something like a brownie one gets to cut it and the other gets first pick for which piece they get. The cutter will be oh so careful to make it as even as possible
• Sipyloidea: Mom caught me smoking. Told me I was old enough to make decisions like that (of course I wasn’t), just that she was kinda disappointed, because she had thought I was smarter than that. She left it with just that comment and I never touched another cigarette in my life.

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Why is the employee turnover rate high at openAI? (Blind)

• SBhA15 (OpenAI): Very high demand, burn out (no wlb), culture of management not caring much about subordinates, as many of them are super busy already.
• codebredy (Pinterest): must get annoying to work under some wannabe philosophers everyday who think they have solved the question of life and are saving humanity
• agiforall (OpenAI): everyone is very busy and autonomy is very important. The company will take whatever you give them.

What differentiates those who survive in tech and those who don’t? (Blind)

• fastenough (Meta): Being good at politics
• SCyI14 (ByteDance): To some extent just good communication skills/soft skills. Or aura as others said lol
• nNdL81 (Databricks): Nothing is guaranteed. Grind mindset, some degree of smartness will make you more likely to succeed but there are outliers on either end.

Apple really said we’ll catch up eventually (Blind)

• heGetsUs (KLA-Tencor): I stopped buying Samsung a long time ago e ago. When the Samsung “smart” tv needed a Roku brain transplant, the Samsung phone glitched, and even the Samsung washer and dryer broke and leaked water all over the place. I won’t buy a flip phone but if I did, it would be Apple.
• SaigeMare (NVIDIA): I don’t think you understand the issue. For Apple, it’s never about being first. It’s about doing it the best. The UX is always the top priority for Apple, and this is probably why they’ll do well with the Duo as well.
• rwudfs (ByteDance): Samsung is the backbone of great products, but can’t make great products on their own 🙃

Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% (r/technology)

• Spiritual-Nail-2641: Well, they are already terribly underpaid. So they might as well save some energy with AI slop.
• spacetree7: AI tools are like the cotton gin of game development.
• Just-Grocery-2229: 85% adoption rate and Capcom still won’t use AI . Respect.

The internet is inbreeding. (r/artificial)

• BaronsofDundee: I have seen this phenomenon, most of the sources have words like AI & grok in the domain name itself.
• hi-sci-collab: Also people are optimising pages in a different way now, instead of search ranking, they’re optimising for most visibility in the AI search results/regurgitation. Instead of ranking no1, it’s meaningless now, as people get shown the AI summary first, the aim is to be included in the AI summary. This is being gamified and drives decent content un-optimised for AI to be pushed away .
• adrnptcl: “our ai slop is trained on the best ai slop sources on the internet”

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Large software rewrites usually fail for organizational reasons before they fail for technical ones. They demand years of feature-freeze patience, create a branch that drifts from production, and defer the hardest question—whether behavior was preserved—until an enormous cutover. GitHub’s rewrite of the Copilot agent runtime is notable because it changed those economics without pretending that code generation made correctness automatic.

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Techmeme surfaced Katie Bo Lillis and Zachary Cohen’s September 18 CNN investigation, “Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say.” It describes a failure more immediate than the usual argument about an autonomous superintelligence: a human analyst used a chatbot inside an ordinary intelligence workflow, the resulting claim acquired the authority of a standard military report, and real forces began moving before somebody checked whether the central fact was true.

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Man who sprayed Minnesota Rep. Omar with vinegar sentenced to 14 months in prison (r/news)

• freebirth: should be longer. that shits literally terrorism.
• joestaff: Vinegar? I feel like the image I have in my head is vastly underestimating what actually happened
• Numerous-Ordinary-19: He should have gotten a longer sentence!

Ireland’s national broadcaster will boycott 2027 Eurovision Song Contest over Israel’s participation (r/news)

• gotwaffles: Why is Israel even in “euro” vision? They’re not European lol
• ledow: The one good thing to come out of 2026 might well be a growing boycott of Israel now that we don’t give a damn about what the US thinks any more.
• sephjnr: Was it confirmed the Israel public vote this year was rigged/astroturfed?

Have you fallen in love with a person you found unattractive or unlikable at first? If so, what happened to change your opinion of them? (r/AskReddit)

• thandi81: Yes, i got to know them and in time love them, got married have children find him attractive every day
• GustavesGhost: Yeah. I didn’t find her attractive at first, but always liked her personality. It was just a lot of little things stacking up. Seeing her face in a certain light, hearing her laugh at something I said, watching her talk about something she was passionate about, finding yourself thinking about them when you aren’t together. Eventually you have enough of these little moments of attraction, that you realize you want them. It’s rarely if ever just one moment that completely changes your mind about a person.
• perrytheply: Chick at the school I went to, everyone kind of had this public image of her so it like mentally put an “ugly” or “unattractive” spot in my mind. Someone came up to me randomly and told me that she liked me and I looked up for a second and actually saw her and it completely changed my perspective to the hottest chick in the world lol

People who sit in someone else’s assigned seat in a plane and wait for them to show up, why do you do it? (r/AskReddit)

• KoalaOnABuilding: because i’m an idiot and read the seats wrong
• ArielSwan8462: Main character syndrome. They hope the assigned person will just be too awkward or polite to say anything and surrender the seat.
• Captain_Comic: If I’m in your seat, it 100% because I misread the row and I will move immediately

TIL In the middle third of the 19th century, the clippers which carried cargoes of tea from China to Britain would compete in informal races to be first ship to dock in London with the new crop of each season. (r/todayilearned)

• onehotoneshot: Came down to 28min after 14k miles, insane lol
• AggroJordan: Well makes sense, whoever got there first got the highest prices, I would think.
• Cliffinati: The cannon ball run of the era

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How are people winning in 2026 to get 650k offers (Blind)

• b@ngalore (LinkedIn): Being honest… i dont think you’ll ever make it sorry. Theres software engineering… and there is software engineering
• Meta-101 (Meta): You have to be perfect in everything to land those. Perfect resume, perfect interview
• Nv5ojtDR (PayPal): No one has said it. It is luck

Amazon compensation after yr 4 doesnt make sense (Blind)

• MrCurryMan (Google): You are not supposed to work at Amazon for 4+ years.
• whereami1 (Google): They are asking you to leave politely. That’s why you see so many boomerangs at Amzn to reset their $
• owjeb&3!2! (Salesforce): The answer is and forever will be: find another job

Laid off because of AI – what’s your plan now? (Blind)

• mTSr07 (Google): The plan is Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
• q_t (Capital One): leaving tech is the best option, but people are always too complacent and comfortable to leave.
• oxXn63 (ByteDance): Retire early 👌

We Regret to Inform You Chipotle Is Now Working With Palantir (r/technology)

• UCBearcats: They’ll probably start charging people individual prices based on datasets and buying habits.
• LEO-PomPui-Katoey: Good they are monitoring for explosive diarrhea after eating there
• Ambil: Bummer, Chipotle was my favorite pit stop on road trips.

Hackers find encryption keys stored on stolen Flock camera despite company’s denials– group extracts more than 27,000 clips, 1.6 million images captured in a span of 21 days from the device (r/technology)

• bakfietsman69: the US really is fucked isn’t it?
• berntout: Breaking news: IoT devices are not secure. More at 10.
• engineergsquirrel: Flock lied. Shocking.

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Solar power’s rise is often told as a climate story. Stephanie Pappas’s feature makes a broader argument: solar has become a force in the world economy because it is now extraordinarily cheap, fast to deploy and difficult to embargo once installed. The technology still depends on concentrated manufacturing and supportive policy, but its fuel arrives everywhere for free.

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Techmeme surfaced Hacktron AI’s September 13 primary report, “Hacking OpenAI.” It is an unusually clear account of how several individually understandable weaknesses—a stale image library, a permissive sign-in boundary, and a powerful connected agent—combined into access to OpenAI’s private code repository. The researchers reported the chain through bug-bounty channels, proved its reach without reading internal code, and stopped testing.