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OpenAI Acquires Tech Talk Show ‘TBPN’—and Buys Itself Some Positive News
OpenAI is acquiring TBPN, a business talk show that’s popular among Silicon Valley elites, as it continues to battle its negative public image.
OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
Google releases Gemma 4 under Apache 2.0 — and that license change may matter more than benchmarks
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Microsoft takes on AI rivals with three new foundational models
MAI released models that can transcribe voice into text as well as generate audio and images after the group's formation six months ago.
Microsoft launches 3 new AI models in direct shot at OpenAI and Google
Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator — marking the most concrete evidence yet that the $3 trillion software giant intends to compete directly with OpenAI, Google, and other frontier labs on model development, not just distribution. The trio of models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — are available immediately through Microsoft Foundry and a new MAI Playground. They span three of the most commercially valuable modalities in enterprise AI: converting speech to text, generating realistic human voice, and creating images. Together, they represent the opening salvo from Microsoft's superintelligence team, which Suleyman formed just six months ago to pursue what he calls "AI self-sufficiency." "I'm very excited that we've now got the first models out, which are the very best in the world for transcription," Suleyman
OpenAI acquires TBPN
OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.
Google announces Gemma 4 open AI models, switches to Apache 2.0 license
Gemma 4 brings the first major update to Google's open models in a year.
Microsoft’s new ‘superintelligence’ game plan is all about business
Mustafa Suleyman has been preparing for his new job description for a long time. Suleyman is Microsoft's inaugural CEO of AI, but after the company underwent a large-scale restructuring in mid-March, he's handed off some duties and shifted focus to chasing superintelligence. Though the news was only made public last month, he tells The Verge, he'd been preparing for the transition for as many as nine months - and though renegotiating Microsoft's contract with OpenAI is the thing that officially "unlocked [Microsoft's] ability to pursue superintelligence," he'd been planning even before the ink was dry. "This has been a long-held plan," he … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI just bought TBPN
OpenAI has purchased TBPN, an online talk show that often interviews AI executives and other tech leaders. The show goes live every weekday at 2PM PT, often for a three-hour duration, counting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as executives from Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Andreessen Horowitz, among its past guests, and Bloomberg, CNBC, and Fox Business as its competitors. TBPN's livestream is primarily available on X and YouTube, but many users watch it on X. OpenAI's purchase comes as a lawsuit between Altman and Elon Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI before splitting from the project and now owns X, is headed to trial later this mont … Read the full story at The Verge.
Show HN: AI-first PostgreSQL client for Mac
"Can you check if this user is on the premium plan?" "I have a support ticket on Mr.Bean, saying he cannot login... Can you have a look?" "How many subscriptions did we have today?" ... As senior SWE at Twenty.com (open source CRM), I had these quite often. Every day I needed to check something in Postgres, I had to wait 30 seconds for DBeaver to load or fight pgAdmin's UI. So I built Paul. Yes our database configuration has too many schemas (3000 schemas) for those clients, but still, it was not Postgres fault. Only the client that couldn't handle it. Paul is a native macOS app, light (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616185 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Google now lets you direct avatars through prompts in its Vids app
Google is adding a way to customize and instruct avatars for video creation in the Vids app.
It’s International Fact-Checking Day. Refresh your AI identification skills - AP News
It’s International Fact-Checking Day. Refresh your AI identification skills AP News
Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features
Slack just got a whole lot more useful.
AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China - AP News
AI machine sorts clothes faster than humans to boost textile recycling in China AP News
My new "AI FREE" text based social platform
Article URL: https://voight.vercel.app/post/this-is-a-test-article-just-to-see-how-it-looks-v1b61 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606347 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
March 2026: LangChain Newsletter
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Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex
As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.
Mercor, a $10 billion AI startup that works with companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, confirms major data breach
Mercor confirmed it was hit by a supply-chain attack targeting LiteLLM, a widely used AI developer tool. Extortion gang Lapsus$ claims to have walked away with four terabytes of data.
Peaky Peek – Local-first debugger for AI agents
Article URL: https://github.com/acailic/agent_debugger Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47615536 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Google Home’s latest update makes Gemini better at understanding your commands
Google is launching another update to its Home app, which is supposed to make controlling your smart home with its Gemini AI assistant "more natural and reliable," according to this week's release notes. With the update, you can describe the type of lighting you want, such as "the color of the ocean," and Gemini will pick the color based on your prompt. You can also use more natural and precise language when asking Gemini to control your appliances or climate. That means you can now tell Gemini to "preheat the smart oven to 350 degrees" or set specific humidity levels. Google has improved Gemini's ability to identify your devices, too - lik … Read the full story at The Verge.
Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Researchers at the company found representations inside of Claude that perform functions similar to human feelings.
New ways to balance cost and reliability in the Gemini API
Google is introducing two new inference tiers to the Gemini API, Flex and Priority, to balance cost and latency.
The end of 'shadow AI' at enterprises? Kilo launches KiloClaw for Organizations to enable secure AI agents at scale
As generative AI matures from a novelty into a workplace staple, a new friction point has emerged: the "shadow AI" or "Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI)" crisis. Much like the unsanctioned use of personal devices in years past, developers and knowledge workers are increasingly deploying autonomous agents on personal infrastructure to manage their professional workflows. "Our journey with Kilo Claw has been to make it easier and easier and more accessible to folks," says Kilo co-founder Scott Breitenother. Today, the company dedicated to providing a portable, multi-model, cloud-based AI coding environment is moving to formalize this "shadow AI" layer: it's launching KiloClaw for Organizations and KiloClaw Chat, a suite of tools designed to provide enterprise-grade governance over personal AI agents. The announcement comes at a period of high velocity for the company. Since making its securely hosted, one-click OpenClaw product for individuals, KiloClaw, generally available last month, more than
Neuledge Context: Local-first documentation for AI agents
Article URL: https://github.com/neuledge/context Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610723 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Meta's new structured prompting technique makes LLMs significantly better at code review — boosting accuracy to 93% in some cases
Deploying AI agents for repository-scale tasks like bug detection, patch verification, and code review requires overcoming significant technical hurdles. One major bottleneck: the need to set up dynamic execution sandboxes for every repository, which are expensive and computationally heavy. Using large language model (LLM) reasoning instead of executing the code is rising in popularity to bypass this overhead, yet it frequently leads to unsupported guesses and hallucinations. To improve execution-free reasoning, researchers at Meta introduce "semi-formal reasoning," a structured prompting technique. This method requires the AI agent to fill out a logical certificate by explicitly stating premises, tracing concrete execution paths, and deriving formal conclusions before providing an answer. The structured format forces the agent to systematically gather evidence and follow function calls before drawing conclusions. This increases the accuracy of LLMs in coding tasks and significantly
In the wake of Claude Code's source code leak, 5 actions enterprise security leaders should take now
Every enterprise running AI coding agents has just lost a layer of defense. On March 31, Anthropic accidentally shipped a 59.8 MB source map file inside version 2.1.88 of its @anthropic-ai/claude-code npm package, exposing 512,000 lines of unobfuscated TypeScript across 1,906 files. The readable source includes the complete permission model, every bash security validator, 44 unreleased feature flags, and references to upcoming models Anthropic has not announced. Security researcher Chaofan Shou broadcast the discovery on X by approximately 4:23 UTC. Within hours, mirror repositories had spread across GitHub. Anthropic confirmed the exposure was a packaging error caused by human error. No customer data or model weights were involved. But containment has already failed. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday morning that Anthropic had filed copyright takedown requests that briefly resulted in the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations from GitHub. However, an Anthropic s
Codex now offers more flexible pricing for teams
Codex now includes pay-as-you-go pricing for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, providing teams a more flexible option to start and scale adoption.
What a 19th-Century Kazakh Poet Knew About the Age of AI
Article URL: https://1988lm.substack.com/p/what-a-19th-century-kazakh-poet-knew Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47606462 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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It’s not easy to get depression-detecting AI through the FDA
For the past seven years, the California-based startup Kintsugi has been developing AI designed to detect signs of depression and anxiety from a person's speech. But after failing to secure FDA clearance in time, the company is shutting down and releasing most of its technology as open-source. Some elements may even find a second life beyond healthcare, like detecting deepfake audio. Mental health assessments still largely rely on patient questionnaires and clinical interviews, rather than the lab tests or scans common in physical medicine. Instead of focusing on what someone is saying, Kintsugi's software analyzes how it is being said. Th … Read the full story at The Verge.