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Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent
The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent. Fin Operator, announced Thursday at a live event in San Francisco, is a new AI-powered system designed specifically for the back-office teams that configure, monitor, and improve Fin, the company's customer-facing AI agent. Rather than replacing human support agents — which is what Fin itself does on the front lines — Operator targets the growing army of support operations professionals who spend their days updating knowledge bases, debugging conversation failures, and combing through performance dashboards. "Fin is an agent for your customers," Brian Donohue, the company's VP of Product, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "Operator is an agent for your support ops team. This is an agent for the back office team who manages Fin and then manages their human agents." The an
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts
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Berkshire Hathaway triples Alphabet stake and invests in Delta and Macy's under new CEO
Berkshire Hathaway more than tripled the size of its investment in Google's parent company and bought over $2.6 billion worth of Delta Airlines stock as Greg Abel settled into the CEO job after taking over from Warren Buffett at the start of the year. The conglomerate also dumped a number of other stocks, including Visa, Mastercard, Domino's Pizza, Amazon and United Healthcare after the departure late last year of Todd Combs, who was one of the two investment mangers Buffett hired to help manage the portfolio. Buffett was always reluctant to invest in tech companies because he said he didn't understand them well enough to predict the long-term winners.
Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite ski spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
Raymond James raises Arista Networks on AI expansion and 2027 growth outlook
Investing.com -- Raymond James upgraded Arista Networks to Outperform with a price target of $164 per share in a note on Friday, citing improving growth prospects in 2027 and beyond as the networking company expands into new AI applications and gains market share in both the AI back-end and enterprise campus segments.
Marvell’s AI Partnerships With AMD Google And Amazon Test Lofty Valuation
Marvell Technology (NasdaqGS:MRVL) is attracting fresh attention after an equity investment from AMD and new custom AI chip collaborations with Google and Amazon. The company is expanding its AI data center reach through acquisitions, including the purchase of silicon photonics specialist Polariton. These moves follow earlier investment activity from Nvidia and signal growing engagement from multiple large industry peers. For investors watching AI infrastructure, Marvell Technology now sits...
The OpenAI trial wraps up, and the Musk founder machine keeps spinning
The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with a whole generation of founders already spinning out […]
Update: AI Revenue May Jump Fivefold to $200 Billion This Year as Spending Race Intensifies
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Wirestock raises $23M to supply creative multi-modal data to AI labs
Wirestock has over 700,000 creators on its platform, which supplies photos, videos and 3D content to AI labs.
Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side
In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as a power-seeker who wanted to control the development…
YouTube is expanding its AI deepfake detection tool to all adult users
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection program to all users over the age of 18 - meaning just about anyone can have the platform hunt for potential deepfakes of themselves. The likeness detection feature uses a selfie-style scan of a person's face to monitor YouTube for lookalikes. If there is a match, YouTube alerts the user; the person then has the option to request that YouTube remove the content. YouTube has said in the past that it has found the number of removal requests to be "very small." YouTube began testing the feature with content creators, and then expanded it to government officials, politicians, journalists, and fina … Read the full story at The Verge.
Anthropic's $900 billion valuation would make it more valuable than OpenAI for the first time
Anthropic is raising another $30 billion just three months after a round of the same size. The AI lab's valuation jumps to $900 billion, surpassing rival OpenAI for the first time. Fueling the surge: annualized revenue approaching $45 billion, a fivefold increase since the end of 2024. The article Anthropic's $900 billion valuation would make it more valuable than OpenAI for the first time appeared first on The Decoder.
‘The new era is here’: Fears rise over AI hacking
The Trump administration is being pressed to quickly deliver a plan to address AI-enabled attacks.
x.AI plays catch-up with Grok Build, its first terminal-based coding agent
Elon Musk's AI company x.AI is jumping into the coding agent space with Grok Build, a new terminal-based tool. The article x.AI plays catch-up with Grok Build, its first terminal-based coding agent appeared first on The Decoder.
Social news aggregator Digg returns as AI and social media news aggregator
Article URL: https://disassociated.com/social-news-aggregator-digg-returns-again/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149661 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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Mira Murati Wants Her AI to ‘Keep Humans in the Loop’
The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate.
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MIPI Alliance launches ‘Physical AI Birds of a Feather group’ focused on humanoids
The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops specifications that standardize wired interfaces for mobile and other connected ecosystems, has announced the formation of a “Physical AI Birds of a Feather (BoF) group” dedicated to exploring upcoming technologies and trends in the physical AI market, with an initial focus on humanoids. The group will examine […]
All3 raises $25 million in Seed funding to ‘triple productivity’ in the construction industry through robotics and AI
All3, a European company developing a heavy-duty robotic platform for construction, has announced a $25 million seed funding round. The round is led by RTP Global with significant participation from SuperSeed, and additional investment from Begin Capital, s16vc and VNV Global. All3 has re-engineered every step of construction into one end-to-end process through three integrated […]
Strandy-BOT first prototype
Just finished putting together the first prototype of my robot project. It uses esp32s3 as the main controller and a xiao esp32s3 cam to stream camera and microphone feed. The leg mechanism is based on the strandbeest linkage and it is controlled by two nema17 steppers run by tmc2209 drivers. It also has a fan internally to keep temps adequate. As for sensors it has a TOF sensor to measure distance from objects and an IMU to detect its movement. The end goal is to make an open source companion robot that acts and feels alive by responding and viewing the world being powered by modern AI crap as you guys know it’s getting pushed everywhere, at least I’m giving it a physical body. submitted by /u/Nope_Get_OFF [link] [comments]
GreyOrange launches AI warehouse simulator to model automation performance and costs
GreyOrange has launched a new warehouse simulation platform designed to help operators model automation deployments, estimate costs, and predict system performance before implementing changes on-site. Called GreyMatter Foundry, the platform combines warehouse flow design, layout planning, and automation sizing within a single simulation environment. The company says the system can model mixed fleets of robots, […]
Ai2 releases open robotics model designed for real-world AI automation
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has released MolmoAct 2, an open-source robotics foundation model designed to improve how robots perform real-world physical tasks, as researchers continue pushing beyond highly controlled laboratory demonstrations toward more adaptable automation systems. The new model, announced this week by the Seattle-based AI research organization, is positioned as a major […]
Mind Robotics raises $400M to scale AI-powered robots in manufacturing
Mind Robotics has become a 'unicorn' as it scales toward applying physical AI to manufacturing, starting with partner Rivian. The post Mind Robotics raises $400M to scale AI-powered robots in manufacturing appeared first on The Robot Report.
Models & Gen AI
How RecursiveMAS speeds up multi-agent inference by 2.4x and reduces token usage by 75%
One of the key challenges of current multi-agent AI systems is that they communicate by generating and sharing text sequences, which introduces latency, drives up token costs, and makes it difficult to train the entire system as a cohesive unit. To overcome this challenge, researchers at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Stanford University developed RecursiveMAS, a framework that enables agents to collaborate and transmit information through embedding space instead of text. This change results in both efficiency and performance gains. Experiments show that RecursiveMAS achieves accuracy improvement across complex domains like code generation, medical reasoning, and search, while also increasing inference speed and slashing token usage. RecursiveMAS is significantly cheaper to train than standard full fine-tuning or LoRA methods, making it a scalable and cost-effective blueprint for custom multi-agent systems. The challenges of improving multi-agent systems Multi-agent sys
ArXiv will ban researchers who upload papers full of AI slop
ArXiv, a popular platform for preprint academic research, is taking a new step to attempt to reduce the volume of papers that include AI slop. If a paper has "incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation," such as hallucinated references or "meta-comments" left by an LLM, authors will be banned from ArXiv for a year, according to Thomas Dietterich, ArXiv's section chair of its computer science section. Future ArXiv submissions will also have to be accepted at "a reputable peer-reviewed venue." Here's what he said on X: Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name … Read the full story at The Verge.
RLWRLD unveils ‘dexterity-first’ foundation model for humanoid robots
RLWRLD, a physical AI company developing robotics foundation models for dexterous manipulation, unveiled RLDX-1 at “Dexterity Night in SF”, introducing a model designed to help humanoid robots perform contact-rich tasks such as grasping, pouring and tool use. The company also reported benchmark results across humanoid tabletop, kitchen manipulation and real-world coffee-pouring evaluations, and said the […]
Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI
Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content prominently, such as attempting to manipulate Search systems into ranking content highly or attempting to manipulate generative AI responses in Google Search." Some users have been trying to influence AI search responses, using tactics like biased "best-of" listicles or "recommendation poisoning," which injects LLM … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI is reportedly preparing legal action against Apple; it wouldn’t be the first partner to feel burned
OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPhone maker.
Greg Brockman Officially Takes Control of OpenAI’s Products in Latest Shake-Up
OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.