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Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems
Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.
ByteDance’s new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut
Mistral releases a new open-source model for speech generation
General AI
Blossom Health raises $20 million to bring an AI ‘copilot’ to psychiatry
The startup says its “AI-native” model can deliver faster access to care while keeping clinicians in control of treatment decisions.
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.
Webtoon is adding AI localization tools to its comics platform
Canvas, Webtoon's platform for user-uploaded comics, is about to get a major overhaul that's designed to help creators make more money and share their art with a wider audience. Today, Webtoon announced its plans to roll out a number of new features for Canvas that will make it easier for artists to build global followings and gain a deeper understanding of who's engaging with their work. Soon, manga creators who upload their work to Canvas will be able to use an AI-powered translation tool to localize their scripts into English, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Thai, Traditional Chinese, and German. A beta version of the translation feature - … Read the full story at The Verge.
Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’
Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises to shrink AI’s “working memory” by up to 6x, but it’s still just a lab experiment for now.
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
‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young
AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.
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
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 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.
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.
Arm announces AGI CPU for AI data centers
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‘Intelligence may be scalable, but accountability is not’: A new report exposes the hidden cost of the AI agent revolution
Accenture and Wharton mapped AI's impact across 18 industries, concluding: the smarter your agents get, the more irreplaceable your best humans become.
Wikipedia bans AI-generated articles
Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI. The update, which was added to Wikipedia's guidelines late last week, cites the tendency for AI-written articles to violate "several of Wikipedia's core content policies" as the reason for the ban. The change applies to the English version of Wikipedia and will still allow editors to use AI in certain scenarios. That includes using large language models to "suggest basic copyedits" to their writing, but only if it "does not introduce content of its own." Editors can also use AI to translate articles from another language's Wikipedia into English. However, they sti … Read the full story at The Verge.
70% of new software engineering papers on ArXiv are LLM related
Article URL: https://shape-of-code.com/2026/03/22/70-of-new-software-engineering-papers-on-arxiv-are-llm-related/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527625 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more
As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache bottleneck." Every word a model processes must be stored as a high-dimensional vector in high-speed memory. For long-form tasks, this "digital cheat sheet" swells rapidly, devouring the graphics processing unit (GPU) video random access memory (VRAM) system used during inference, and slowing the model performance down rapidly over time. But have no fear, Google Research is here: yesterday, the unit within the search giant released its TurboQuant algorithm suite — a software-only breakthrough that provides the mathematical blueprint for extreme KV cache compression, enabling a 6x reduction on average in the amount of KV memory a given model uses, and 8x performance increase in computing attention logits, which could reduce costs for enterprises that implement it on their models by more than 50%
Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free
The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform. Google Cloud has been expanding its Chirp 3 HD voices. OpenAI continues to iterate on its own speech synthesis. And the market underpinning all of this activity is enormous — voice AI crossed $22 billion globally in 2026, with the voice AI agents segment alone projected to reach $47.5 billion by 2034, according to industry estimates. On Thursday morning, Mistral AI entered that fight with a fundamentally different proposition. The Paris-based AI startup released Voxtral TTS, what it calls the first frontier-quality, open-weight text-to-speech model designed specifically for enterprise use. Where every major competitor in the space operates a proprietary, API-first business — enterprises rent the voice, they don't own it — Mistral is releasing the full model weights, inviting companies to
OpenAI shelves erotic chatbot ‘indefinitely’
OpenAI has paused plans to release a sexualized "adult mode" for ChatGPT, in its latest move to refocus on the company's core products. According to The Financial Times, the erotic chatbot has been shelved "indefinitely" after facing pushback from employees and investors due to the problematic and harmful effects sexualized AI content can have on society. This decision comes in the wake of OpenAI also discontinuing its text-to-video AI platform Sora, citing "internal discussion about our broader research priorities." It's the latest side quest to be dropped by the company after CEO Sam Altman declared a "code red" in December, suggestin … Read the full story at The Verge.
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.
Business & Industry
EU backs nude app ban and delays to landmark AI rules
European lawmakers have voted to delay key parts of the EU AI Act, the bloc's flagship law for regulating artificial intelligence, while also backing proposals to ban nudify apps. The measures, approved by a large majority in the European Parliament, would push back compliance deadlines for developers of high-risk AI systems - those deemed to pose a "serious risk" to health, safety, or fundamental rights - until December 2027. Companies developing AI systems covered by sector-specific safety rules like toys or medical devices would have even longer to comply, with a proposed deadline of August 2028. Rules requiring providers to watermark A … Read the full story at The Verge.