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Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India
Deccan AI concentrates its workforce in India to manage quality in a fast-growing but fragmented AI training market.
Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more
Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’
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Legal AI startup Harvey raises $200M at $11B led by Sequoia, up from $8B in 2025
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/legal-ai-startup-harvey-raises-200-million-at-11-billion-valuation.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524570 Points: 2 # Comments: 2
Qualified Health raises $125M to scale enterprise AI at health systems
Article URL: https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/ai-and-machine-learning/qualified-health-locks-125m-fresh-funding-scale-ai-health-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524745 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Meta launches new initiative to support entrepreneurship, drive AI adoption
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a memo to staff that small businesses have always been a big part of the company's business model, and that while tens of millions of entrepreneurs already use its platforms to grow and connect with customers, the company wants to do more in the space.
Major conference catches illicit AI use – and rejects papers
Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00893-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47524564 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez push bill to impose AI data center moratorium - AP News
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez push bill to impose AI data center moratorium AP News
Teens get probation after using AI to create fake nudes of classmates - AP News
Teens get probation after using AI to create fake nudes of classmates AP News
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/new-bernie-sanders-ai-safety-bill-would-halt-data-center-construction/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522196 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
New college grad unemployment will spike to 35% in 2 years, senator warns, forcing ‘Dario, Sam’ to quit AI fear-mongering
“If you take Dario, Sam, you take all the evangelists. I think they are literally consciously pulling back on their predictions,” Mark Warner said.
Normal Computing raises $50M from Samsung Catalyst to tackle soaring AI chip costs and power demands
Part of a growing wave of startups rethinking how AI is computed, Normal Computing is betting on new architectures to move beyond GPUs.
AI-powered benefits platform Origin raises $30 million in fresh funding to bring CHROs visibility into benefits usage and spend
Notion Capital is leading the round into the software startup that helps companies monitor their benefits offerings
There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos
From female fruit being fart-shamed or even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead.
Meta is laying off hundreds of employees as it pours money into AI
Meta is laying off hundreds of employees across its company, according to reports from The New York Times, NBC News, and The Information. The job cuts impact workers on Meta's recruiting, social media, and sales teams, along with Reality Labs, the division that develops the company's smart glasses and virtual reality headsets. "Teams across Meta regularly restructure or implement changes to ensure they're in the best position to achieve their goals," Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton says in an emailed statement to The Verge. "Where possible, we are finding other opportunities for employees whose positions may be impacted." Clayton declined … Read the full story at The Verge.
Workers around the world are scared. A massive new survey shows just how much
"AI is not like the weather," ADP chief economist Nela Richardson says. "It is not just going to descend upon us." In other words, it's here.
Two private school boys get probation for using AI to create 350 fake nudes of their classmates
The boys were 14 at the time. They admitted that they made about 350 images, showing at least 59 girls under 18, along with other victims who so far have not been identified.
Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human
AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.
This startup wants to change how mathematicians do math
Axiom Math, a startup based in Palo Alto, California, has released a free new AI tool for mathematicians, designed to discover mathematical patterns that could unlock solutions to long-standing problems. The tool, called Axplorer, is a redesign of an existing one called PatternBoost that François Charton, now a research scientist at Axiom, co-developed in 2024…
Senate Democrats are trying to ‘codify’ Anthropic’s red lines on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance
Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon is expanding to Congress. Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is working on a new bill to "codify" Anthropic's red lines and ensure humans make the ultimate decisions in questions of life and death, and Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) recently introduced a bill to limit the Defense Department's ability to use AI for mass surveillance of Americans. The Trump administration blacklisted Anthropic earlier this month after it set limits on how the military could use its AI models, designating it a supply-chain risk. Anthropic has filed suit, accusing the government of violating its constitutional rights. It's insisted that the … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model
Google is launching Lyria 3 Pro, an upgraded music model that generates longer, more customizable tracks, as it expands AI music tools across Gemini, enterprise products, and other services.
Granola raises $125M, hits $1.5B valuation as it expands from meeting notetaker to enterprise AI app
Granola's valuation jumped from $250 million to $1.5 billion with this round, and it has added more support for AI agents after users previously complained.
Show HN: First autonomous AI agent purchase via open protocol (UCP)
Article URL: https://ucpchecker.com/blog/first-autonomous-ai-agent-purchase-ucp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523920 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Oracle converges the AI data stack to give enterprise agents a single version of truth
Enterprise data teams moving agentic AI into production are hitting a consistent failure point at the data tier. Agents built across a vector store, a relational database, a graph store and a lakehouse require sync pipelines to keep context current. Under production load, that context goes stale. Oracle, whose database infrastructure runs the transaction systems of 97% of Fortune Global 100 companies by the company's own count, is now making a direct architectural argument that the database is the right place to fix that problem. Oracle this week announced a set of agentic AI capabilities for Oracle AI Database, built around a direct architectural counter-argument to that pattern. The core of the release is the Unified Memory Core, a single ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability)-transactional engine that processes vector, JSON, graph, relational, spatial and columnar data without a sync layer. Alongside that, Oracle announced Vectors on Ice for native vector indexin
Disney’s big bets on the metaverse and AI slop aren’t going so well
Less than a week into his tenure as Disney's newly-appointed CEO, Josh D'Amaro is already dealing with two separate crises that have cast a shadow over the company's future plans. OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image-generation program just months after Disney announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration to bake the tech into Disney Plus. And Fortnite maker Epic is laying off 1,000 employees at a time when we've heard basically nothing about the game studio's $1.5 billion investment deal with Disney to build a metaverse. Disney could still integrate generative AI into its streaming service, and we might end up seeing some version of the co … Read the full story at The Verge.
Build with Lyria 3, our newest music generation model
Lyria 3 is now available in paid preview through the Gemini API and for testing in Google AI Studio.
Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans
Press reports suggest Disney was blindsided and that no money changed hands.
OpenAI Enters Its Focus Era by Killing Sora
As the ChatGPT-maker eyes an IPO, it's ditching Sora in favor of a unified AI assistant and enterprise coding tools.
Google Lyria 3 Pro makes longer AI songs
Google is expanding the capabilities of its Lyria 3 music-making AI, enabling it to create tracks up to three minutes long and from within multiple other Google Products. Until now, Lyria had been limited to 30-second clips. Lyria 3 Pro not only increases the maximum length sixfold, it also allows the user to prompt for specific elements like intros, choruses, and bridges for greater control over arrangements. Lyria 3 Pro works much like other popular music generation tools, such as Suno and Udio. Describe a mood, style, or instrumentation, and it spits out a track. It can also generate lyrics based on your prompt, or even a reference photo … Read the full story at The Verge.