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American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding
The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its rival OpenAI volleys back with one of its own (GPT-5.5). And all the while, Chinese companies like DeepSeek and even Xiaomi are seeking to appeal to users by playing a different game: nearing the frontier, but with open licensing and far lower costs. So it's a big surprise when a new, affordable, highly performant open source contender from the U.S. emerges. Today, we got one from the smaller, lesser-known U.S. AI startup, Poolside, founded in San Francisco in 2023. The company launched its two new Laguna large language models, both of which offer affordable intelligence optimized for agentic workflows (AI that does more than just chat or generate content, but can, in this case, write code, use third-party tools, and take actions autonomously), as well as a new coding agent harness called
Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
Bloomberg, the OG of financial data firms, has a potent new AI agent. How it built it holds lessons for other companies
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Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.
BTIG Raises Twilio Price Target to $175: Is This the AI Communications Infrastructure Play?
BTIG raised its price target on Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) to $175 from $155, while maintaining a Buy rating ahead of Q1 results. The price target hike by BTIG reinforces a growing Wall Street thesis: Twilio is becoming the communications infrastructure for the AI era. For prudent investors, the call lands with a real asterisk, since BTIG ... BTIG Raises Twilio Price Target to $175: Is This the AI Communications Infrastructure Play?
Mizuho Raises Amazon Price Target to $325: Is AWS the Real AI Winner of 2026?
Mizuho raised its price target on Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock to $325 from $315 and kept an Outperform rating, sharpening the bull case that AWS is becoming the cloud backbone of the AI era. The firm lifted its estimates to reflect incremental disclosures around scaling chip and AI revenue at AWS, with hyperscale customer wins driving ... Mizuho Raises Amazon Price Target to $325: Is AWS the Real AI Winner of 2026?
AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round
Recruitment tool that aims to match scarce AI talent with tech companies gets backing from Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Speedrun, Concept Ventures and other.
How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute
Training AI reasoning models demands resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often forced to choose between distilling knowledge from large, expensive models or relying on reinforcement learning techniques that provide sparse feedback. Researchers at JD.com and several academic institutions recently introduced a new training paradigm that sidesteps this dilemma. The technique, called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards with Self-Distillation (RLSD), combines the reliable performance tracking of reinforcement learning with the granular feedback of self-distillation. Experiments indicate that models trained with RLSD outperform those built on classic distillation and reinforcement learning algorithms. For enterprise teams, this approach lowers the technical and financial barriers to building custom reasoning models tailored to specific business logic. The problem with training reasoning models The standard method for training reasoning models i
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.
At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
The judge also warned Musk and Sam Altman to curb their “propensity to use social media to make things worse outside the courtroom” after both sides traded attacks online.
Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal
After Anthropic refused to allow the DoD to use its AI for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Google has signed a new contract with the department.
Study Finds a Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937407 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate: Fun facts, tips and new features to try
Google’s sharing 20 fun facts to celebrate Google Translate turning 20, from its roots as a 2006 AI experiment to supporting almost 250 languages today.
What OpenAI's new growth worries signal for AI productivity, IPOs
A new Wall Street Journal report highlighted OpenAI's (OPAI.PVT) latest miss on revenue and user targets ahead of its long-awaited IPO, noting CFO Sarah Friar's concerns around future compute contracts as growth begins to slow. Yahoo Finance Senior Reporters Brooke DiPalma and Ines Ferré take a closer look at what this all could signal for AI productivity and other AI developers' planned IPOs, like Antrhopic (ANTH.PVT).
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning, New model?
It is Audio-Image/vids-Text -> Text Original BF 16 https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16 GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-GGUF submitted by /u/Altruistic_Heat_9531 [link] [comments]
Eva Live Inc. (NASDAQ: GOAI) Launches “Eva Brain,” a Fully Autonomous AI Marketing Agent Designed to Replace Traditional Advertising Agencies
Las Vegas, NV, April 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eva Live Inc. (NASDAQ: GOAI), a fast-growing leader in AI-driven digital advertising, today announced the launch of “Eva Brain,” a fully autonomous artificial intelligence marketing agent designed to manage, optimize, and scale digital advertising campaigns without the need for traditional campaign teams. The launch marks a significant milestone in the company’s evolution from a performance marketing platform into a next-generation AI infrastruct
Reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI's appears to be funding it
Article URL: https://www.modelrepublic.org/articles/the-reporters-at-this-news-site-are-ai-bots.-openai%E2%80%99s-super-pac-appears-to-be-using-it-to-advance-its-political-agenda Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47935477 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Latest News In Cloud AI - AI Investments Drive Demand For Tangible Financial Outcomes
Cloud AI is positioned at a critical junction, as its influence on Wall Street has been marked by increased infrastructure investments and heightened valuations. Dan Herbatschek, CEO of Ramsey Theory Group, suggests this period could be transformative as major tech firms, including Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Alphabet, report their earnings, driving scrutiny towards the return on AI investments. Investors are beginning to demand more than ambitious AI narratives; they seek tangible financial...
Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins
The move comes as the trial for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI kicks off in federal court in Oakland.
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World's First conversational AI skills assessment
Two AIs. One conversation. Measure real AI skills. I like to call it LLMs As Assessment (LLMAA?) One AI talks to you. A second one scores every answer in real time. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941341 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Tencent used Anthropic's Claude to fine-tune it's new Hy3 AI model
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-companies-used-claude-improve-own-models-anthropic-says-2026-02-23/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942759 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration engine already running millions of daily executions
Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion), today released Workflows in public preview — a production-grade orchestration layer designed to move enterprise AI systems out of proofs of concept and into the business processes that generate revenue. The product, which launches as part of Mistral's Studio platform, is the company's clearest articulation yet of a thesis that is quietly reshaping the enterprise AI market: that the bottleneck for organizations adopting AI is no longer the model itself, but the infrastructure required to run it reliably at scale. "What we're seeing today is that organizations are struggling to go beyond isolated proofs of concept," Elisa Salamanca, who leads go-to-market for Mistral's enterprise products, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "The gap is operational. Workflows is the infrastructure to run AI systems reliably across business-critical processes." The release arriv
I used Claude’s new Dispatch feature for a month. Here’s everything I was able to do
The new AI feature is less “chatbot on your phone” and more a way to send your computer errands while you’re away.
Gemini CLI subagents make context isolation a first-class coding workflow
TL;DR: Google’s Gemini CLI subagents release matters because it packages a real coding-agent painkiller: separate context windows, restricted toolsets, and parallel specialist delegation inside one terminal workflow. The useful story is not “Google now has subagents too” — it’s that context isolation is becoming a visible product primitive instead of a hidden prompt trick. What stood out to me: - Practical changes for builders/ops (runtime, tooling, reliability). - Where the claims are strong vs. where they’re still speculative. - Question: what would you change in your stack this week because of this? Questions for folks here: - Biggest implication you see (product, infra, safety, cost)? - Any counterpoints / missing context? submitted by /u/Competitive_Dark7401 [link] [comments]
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[AINews] ImageGen is on the Path to AGI
reflecting on the continued GPT-Image-2 explosion
A new Moore's Law for AI agents
Article URL: https://theaidigest.org/time-horizons Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930595 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Flex and Teradyne expand partnership to scale physical AI
Flex and Teradyne Robotics expanded their partnership to accelerate physical AI across global manufacturing facilities. The post Flex and Teradyne expand partnership to scale physical AI appeared first on The Robot Report.
SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety
New platform aims to reduce operator workload while enabling coordinated drone response at scale SkyfireAI has announced an $11 million seed funding round to accelerate development of its AI-driven platform for autonomous, multi-drone operations. The round was led by Mucker Capital, with participation from AI Fund, SaaS Ventures, and others. The Huntsville, Alabama-based company is […] The post SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Teledyne FLIR Defense Expands Payload Program with Emesent Hovermap for GPS-Denied Operations
New integration brings LiDAR mapping and radiation detection together across air and ground platforms Teledyne FLIR Defense has expanded its Third-Party Payload Integration Program with the addition of Emesent’s Hovermap LiDAR payload. Announced at Modern Day Marine 2026, the certification allows the Hovermap system to operate across Teledyne FLIR’s unmanned aerial systems (UAS), ground robots, […] The post Teledyne FLIR Defense Expands Payload Program with Emesent Hovermap for GPS-Denied Operations appeared first on DRONELIFE.