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Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild
Just a stuffed deer having the time of his life. | Image: Gemini / The Verge Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. But it was a revealing exercise that made me think a lot about the difference between some harmless fun with generative AI and full-on slop. Maybe that Venn diagram is a perfect circle! Maybe not. But what I know for sure is that the tools to make realistic videos are surprisingly good, requiring surprisingly little effort and know-how. And that trend is c … Read the full story at The Verge.
Ferrari is using IBM’s AI to create F1 superfans
Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)
General AI
Show HN: Directionally bad – a newsletter about risks of AI centralization
Hello, I'm sultan, a Research Analyst working to analyze and explore the world of decentralized AI. I have launched a new newsletter for everyone curious about where DeAI is going, and what's up with the centralized AI labs. Would be glad to hear your feedback! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246326 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
AMD (AMD) Announces $10B Investment in Taiwan AI Infrastructure
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is one of the best multibagger stocks to buy in 2026. On May 21, Advanced Micro Devices announced a strategic investment of over $10 billion across the Taiwan ecosystem to scale advanced packaging manufacturing and expand partnerships for next-generation AI infrastructure. The initiative focuses on delivering high-performance, energy-efficient solutions to […]
Sci-Hub has created a new AI chatbot. Is it any good?
Article URL: https://cen.acs.org/policy/publishing/Sci-Hub-created-new-AI/104/web/2026/04 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48243836 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Takaichi considering new quota for growth investment
The plan would cover 17 growth areas, including artificial intelligence and semiconductors, to support long-term corporate investments.
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Massive Deals For Medical Devices, Futuristic AI Gadgets And Frontier Labs Lead
Along with the usual heavy dose of AI, this week’s list also includes large deals for aerospace and defense, fintech, and retail technology.
AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups
Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.
Stellantis expands Qualcomm partnership for AI-powered vehicle platforms
Stellantis and Qualcomm Technologies have announced an expansion of their multi-year technology collaboration to power next-generation Stellantis vehicles with Qualcomm Technologies’ Snapdragon Digital Chassis system-on-chips (SoCs). The expanded collaboration integrates Snapdragon Digital Chassis solutions with STLA Brain, Stellantis’ electronic and software platform, enhancing cockpit, connectivity and advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) performance. The scalable technology […]
You can no longer Google the word ‘disregard’
After Google Search's AI update, the word "disregard" now effectively breaks the search interface.
Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen
There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it. That's the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It's not the only sign xAI's signature chatbot is in trouble, even as Musk puts it at the heart of what could be the biggest IPO in history. Reuters reviewed more than 400 examples of government AI use where specific vendors were named. Grok or xAI, it found, appeared in only three - each of those for basic uses like document drafting or social media management, and always … Read the full story at The Verge.
I’ve led companies through every major tech disruption. AI washing is the same mistake, every time
Leaders using AI to justify workforce cuts are missing the real opportunity to build more capable organizations.
Top economist Tyler Cowen on the biggest problem of the AI age: not mass unemployment but adjusting to a new reality
"I think for the vast majority of Americans, it will actually feel more normal, maybe happier," Cowen said. But lawyers and bankers are in for a shock.
Wall Street's Favorite New AI Stock vs. the One They're Ignoring: The Numbers Aren't Even Close
Cerebras investors are getting ahead of themselves.
Did New Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel Repeat Past Warren Buffett Mistakes?
Airlines and retailers have not always been good investments for the company.
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GSDF Osprey to use U.S. base in Okinawa for first time
As part of a June exercise between the GSDF and the U.S. Marine Corps, the two are considering a plan to airlift a mock patient from Miyako Island to the U.S. Futenma base.
What are the biggest challenges of building solo in the AI era?
Article URL: https://partiful.com/e/SvBNyriEGJkIT0Wgzc9v Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228809 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
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OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Powerpoint plugin and warns it might accidentally delete your content
OpenAI brings ChatGPT directly into PowerPoint. A new beta plugin creates presentations from notes, documents, or images and edits existing slides. The add-in is available worldwide across all tiers. OpenAI recommends saving important decks before using it. The article OpenAI launches a ChatGPT Powerpoint plugin and warns it might accidentally delete your content appeared first on The Decoder.
Global Mofy Announces Milestone for Gausspeed: AI Platform Developed in Conjunction with NVIDIA Omniverse Connects with Digital Asset Libraries
BEIJING, May 22, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Global Mofy AI Limited (the “Company” or “Global Mofy”) (Nasdaq: GMM), a generative AI-driven technology solutions provider engaged in virtual content production and the development of 3D digital assets for use in the broader digital content industry, today announced a platform development milestone for Gausspeed, its generative AI platform for film production, video generation, and digital content creation workflows. Leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse and Univ
Samba TV Launches Project Gravity, an Independent Data Activation Platform for the Agentic Era
Project Gravity provides advertisers and data owners with a neutral platform that onboards and activates their first party data across Google DV360, The Trade Desk, Meta, TikTok, Amazon, Magnite, and many other Samba partnersSAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Samba TV, the global leader in AI-driven media intelligence, today announced the formation of Project Gravity, a independent platform that provides data onboarding and activation. Project Gravity matches advertiser’s first part
Your AI agents need a terminal, not just a vector database
When agentic workflows fail, developers often assume the problem lies in the underlying model’s reasoning abilities. In reality, the limited information provided by the retrieval interface is often the primary limiting factor. Researchers at multiple universities propose a technique called direct corpus interaction (DCI) that lets agents bypass embedding models entirely, searching raw corpora directly using standard command-line tools. The limits of classic retrieval In classic retrieval systems such as RAG, documents are chunked, converted into vector representations (or embeddings), and indexed offline in a vector database. When an AI system processes a query, a retriever filters the entire database to return a ranked "top-k" list of document snippets that match the query. All evidence must pass through this scoring mechanism before any downstream reasoning occurs. But modern agentic applications demand much more. "Dense retrieval is very useful for broad semantic recall, but when an
New Talk: From LLM Wikis to LLM Artifacts
Article URL: https://academy.dair.ai/events/cmovobp97000904l5h0n9a2yz Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48228899 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Robotics
Kawasaki launches Silicon Valley hub to accelerate deployment of physical AI
Kawasaki Heavy Industries has launched a new physical AI development center in Silicon Valley as part of a broader push to accelerate collaboration between Japanese and American companies in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and robotics. Called the Kawasaki Physical AI Center San Jose, the facility will focus on developing real-world applications for physical AI systems through […]
Doozy Robotics launches global expansion to scale AI-powered humanoid workforce for factories
Doozy Robotics, the Singapore-based Physical AI humanoid company building autonomous industrial workforces, has announced a coordinated global expansion across the United States, GCC, and Asia, marking its next phase of growth ahead of a planned Series A. The startup is backed by investors including Cocoon Capital, who have supported the company through a period of […]
Robot Talk Episode 157 – Generating new robot designs, with Josie Hughes
Claire chatted to Josie Hughes from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne about using AI to develop new designs for robotic manipulators. Josie Hughes is an Assistant Professor at EPFL, where she established the CREATE Lab in 2021. She completed her PhD in the Bio-inspired Robotics Lab at the University of Cambridge, examining the role of […]
We need a new AI vocabulary
CEOs’ vocabulary about the technology is at turns rosy and robotic, maddeningly passive, and tin-eared.
Business & Industry
California governor signs first US executive order to protect workers from AI job loss
California's governor just signed the first executive order by a US governor aimed at protecting workers from AI-driven job loss. The article California governor signs first US executive order to protect workers from AI job loss appeared first on The Decoder.