Hacker Newsroom AI for 24 May: AI Profitability, AI Cost Creep, Dont Paste AI, Deep Learning Bottlenecks

AI Daily: 5-Minute, best of Hacker News · May 24, 2026 · 6m

Hacker Newsroom AI for 24 May recaps 5 major AI Hacker News stories, moving through ai profitability, ai cost creep, dont paste ai, deep learning bottlenecks.

1. AI Profitability

The next story is about a site called Is AI Profitable Yet? that tries to stack up estimated AI spending, revenue, and burn across companies like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia, which matters because it turns the AI boom into a blunt scoreboard about whether all this capex is producing a real business. Hacker News immediately split between people who saw a clear gold-rush picture and people who…