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Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multi-billion-dollar deal
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
Google announces 2 AI chips as competition with Nvidia heats up
Alphabet stock gains 1.7% after unveiling new AI chips, partnerships
General AI
At $5 billion startup Checkr new employees build an app using AI during onboarding—even the new CFO
Checkr hires ZipRecruiter veteran Tim Yarbrough as its new CFO.
AI is spitting out more potential drugs than ever. This start-up wants to figure out which ones matter
10x Science has raised a $4.8 million seed round to help pharmaceutical researchers understand complex molecules.
OpenAI teams up with Infosys to bring AI tools to more businesses
Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows, and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.
Google Maps is about to get a big dose of AI
Generative AI is being infused into Google's popular feature within Maps.
The most interesting startups showcased at Google Cloud Next 2026
Google wants AI startups on its cloud and has showcased a long list of them at its annual conference.
Google Teams Up With Marvell Technology To Build New AI Chips, Invests Heavily In TPU Strategy Amid Nvidia Dominance: Report
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is reportedly advancing its AI hardware push by working with Marvell Technology on two new chips designed to improve efficiency and challenge Nvidia Corp's lead. Custom Chips To Boost AI Performance Google is in discussions with Marvell to develop a memory processing unit designed to work alongside its Tensor Processing Unit and a new TPU specifically optimized for running AI models, Reuters reported on Sunday (via The Information). The chip is aimed at improving how data
Europe has the talent and dunding to win at AI. First, it needs to break free from the Magnificent Seven
European innovation is battling big tech — and bigger walls.
Geo Content Writer: a backlog-first system for AI visibility content
Article URL: https://github.com/dageno-agents/geo-content-writer Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859983 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Join Our Livestream: Musk v. Altman and the Future of OpenAI
On May 8, we’re going live to answer your questions about the Musk v. Altman trial that could determine the fate of OpenAI.
AI was ruining my college philosophy classes. So I assigned a new kind of essay
Article URL: https://globeopinion.substack.com/p/ai-was-ruining-my-college-philosophy Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856742 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Are services the new software? This venture capitalist thinks the future is in selling AI-delivered outcomes, not AI-powered products
Sequoia partner Julien Bek penned a viral essay arguing there's a gold mine in AI-native service firms
New AI Lab from Jerry Tworek
Article URL: https://www.coreauto.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859266 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Schematic Raises $6.5M To Help Companies Update Their Pricing Faster And Easier In The AI Era
Schematic, a startup that aims to simplify pricing and packaging for software and AI companies, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
John Ternus’ first big problem is AI
Less than a year ago, Apple made headlines for a lack of AI announcements at its annual WWDC event. Ten months later, the company has announced that hardware executive John Ternus will succeed longtime CEO Tim Cook as chief executive - and the official release doesn't mention AI once. Ternus, currently Apple's SVP of hardware engineering, will take over as CEO on September 1st, after Cook's decade and a half in the role. Ternus is a 25-year veteran of the company and the first Apple CEO in about 30 years to come from the hardware sector. According to Apple, he's led hardware engineering work for every model of iPad, as well as the most rec … Read the full story at The Verge.
Siemens launches AI engineering agent to automate PLC coding and industrial workflows
Siemens has launched the Eigen Engineering Agent, its purpose-built AI for automation engineering, now generally available. The Eigen Engineering Agent represents a new class of industrial AI product: one that no longer just generates suggestions but instead uses multi-step reasoning and self-correction to carry out tasks autonomously. Unlike generic AI tools, the Eigen Engineering Agent […]
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Google Cloud: New AI Accelerators, Enterprise Agentic Platform Debut
Google will disclose a change in its AI processor strategy at its cloud computing event. Google stock has advanced nearly 8% in 2026.
Show HN: AthleteData – AI coach for endurance athletes that messages you first
Im a triathlete and the data for my training lives in 6 apps: Garmin, Strava, WHOOP, Intervals.icu, Wahoo, Withings, Apple Health, sometimes Hevy. Every morning Id eyeball a few of them and make a call on whether to do the planned session. For the past month I have been building a thing that does this for me, and got it to the point where I use it myself every day. It OAuths into whatever platforms you connect, reconciles the activities (tbh harder than it sounds — same ride shows up in Strava, Garmin, and Wahoo with different timestamps and rounding), computes daily load and readiness, and proactively messages you over Telegram or Whatsapp when something matters. Stack is straightforward: Typescript all the way, Postgres, an agent loop running on Claude (via Bedrock) with tool access to all your data + my computed metrics: zones, CTL/ATL/TSB, power/pace curves, anomaly detection on HRV and RHR, etc Two things that were harder than expected: 1. Garmins API only exposes the last 90 day
Salesforce’s Agentforce Vibes 2.0 targets a hidden failure: context overload in AI agents
When startup fundraising platform VentureCrowd began deploying AI coding agents, they saw the same gains as other enterprises: they cut the front-end development cycle by 90% in some projects. However, it didn’t come easy or without a lot of trial and error. VentureCrowd’s first challenge revolved around data and context quality, since Diego Mogollon, chief product officer at VentureCrowd, told VentureBeat that “agents reason against whatever data they can access at runtime” and would then be confidently “wrong” because they’re only basing their knowledge on the context given to them. Their other roadblock, like many others, was messy data and unclear processes. Similar to context, Mogollon said coding agents would amplify bad data, so the company had to build a well-structured codebase first. “The challenges are rarely about the coding agents themselves; they are about everything around them,” said Mogollon. “It’s a context problem disguised as an AI problem, and it is the number
Vodafone Business Launch New AI and Cybersecurity Solutions to Accelerate Small Business Digital Transformation in Partnership with Google Cloud
Cloud Next '26 -- Today Vodafone Business and Google Cloud announce an expansion of their strategic partnership with two new solutions to equip small-and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with advanced cybersecurity and agentic AI.
Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data
Google on Monday unveiled the most significant upgrade to its autonomous research agent capabilities since the product's debut, launching two new agents — Deep Research and Deep Research Max — that for the first time allow developers to fuse open web data with proprietary enterprise information through a single API call, produce native charts and infographics inside research reports, and connect to arbitrary third-party data sources through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The release, built on Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro model, marks an inflection point in the rapidly intensifying race to build AI systems that can autonomously conduct the kind of exhaustive, multi-source research that has traditionally consumed hours or days of human analyst time. It also represents Google's clearest bid yet to position its AI infrastructure as the backbone for enterprise research workflows in finance, life sciences, and market intelligence — industries where the stakes of getting information wrong are e
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[AINews] OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2
with Cursor getting a $10B contract with xAI and a right to acquire for $60B.
Google launches Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents to automate complex research
Google Deepmind is rolling out Deep Research Max, a new AI agent built on Gemini 3.1 Pro that runs autonomous research across the web and proprietary data sources. For the first time, developers can plug in financial feeds and other specialized sources through the Model Context Protocol. The benchmarks come with the usual lack of transparency. The article Google launches Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents to automate complex research appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web
An image generated by ChatGPT Images 2.0. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it to search the web to help it create multiple images from a single prompt. In a blog post, OpenAI says ChatGPT Images 2.0 can now create more "sophisticated" images, with improvements to its ability to follow instructions, preserve details of your choosing, and generate text. It's powered by OpenAI's new GPT Image 2 model, with new thinking capabilities available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise subscribers. When a thinking model is selected, the chatbot's image generator can pull information from the web, cr … Read the full story at The Verge.
Building agent-first governance and security
As AI agents increasingly work alongside humans across organizations, companies could be inadvertently opening a new attack surface. Insecure agents can be manipulated to access sensitive systems and proprietary data, increasing enterprise risk. In some modern enterprises, non-human identities (NHI) are outpacing human identities, and that trend will explode with agentic AI. Solid governance and…
Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business
Skild AI has acquired Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business, including its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform. Central to the company’s plans is its “Skild Brain” – described as “the industry’s first omnibodied AI software designed to operate without prior knowledge of a robot’s exact body form” – is claimed to be able to control any robot, […]
Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its platform for AI agents
Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/technology/salesforce-launches-headless-360-to-turn-its-entire-platform-into-infrastructure-for-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839183 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Robotics
Foxglove launches unified data platform to accelerate physical AI development
Foxglove has launched “Data Search and Curation”, a new set of capabilities that helps robotics teams replace fragmented, manual data workflows with a unified platform to find and curate the mission-critical events, anomalies, and system behavior that matter most across growing volumes of operational data. The company also expanded the Foxglove Data Platform with Bring […]