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Australia's Syenta raises $26 million to ease AI chip bottleneck, former Intel CEO joins board
Syenta, an Australian semiconductor technology startup, said on Tuesday that it has raised $26 million for a new manufacturing technique that could help ease persistent supply chain bottlenecks for artificial intelligence. Along with the funding, the company said it will open an office in the U.S. state of Arizona, near the manufacturing facilities of Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, and that former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will be joining its board of directors. Modern AI chips such as those from Nvidia, Google and others are not a single chip, but rather multiple chips bonded together with what is known as advanced packaging technology, mostly from TSMC.
The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure
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This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
Yelp is making its AI chatbot way more useful
Yelp is giving its chatbot assistant a major upgrade, turning the platform into something closer to a digital concierge with a suite of new features designed for "getting things done." The move, one of several AI-focused updates in recent months, is part of a broader industry push to make AI more relevant and practically useful to consumers while turning huge troves of user-generated data into a competitive edge. In a press release, Yelp says the Yelp Assistant chatbot will be at "the center of the app experience," where it can answer questions, make recommendations, and even handle bookings in a single conversation. The bot will be availa … Read the full story at The Verge.
Migrant Voices, Local News: Insights on Bridging Community Needs with Media Content
arXiv:2604.16651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research shows news consumption differs across demographics, yet little is known about non-mainstream audiences, especially in relation to local media. Our study addresses this gap by examining how French-speaking migrants in a mid-size European city engage with local news, and whether their needs are reflected in coverage. Eight community members participated in focus groups, whose insights guided the selection of natural language processing methods (topic modeling, information retrieval, sentiment analysis, and readability) applied to over 2000 hyper-local news articles. Results showed that while articles frequently covered local events, gaps remained in topics important to participants. Sentiment analysis revealed a generally positive tone, and readability measures indicated an intermediate-advanced French level, raising questions about accessibility for integration. Our work contributes to bridging the gap between local news platform
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 […]
Shopify (SHOP): Best Canadian Stocks to Buy for Long Term
Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP) is one of the 10 Best Canadian Stocks to Buy for Long Term. Shopify Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOP) is one of the best Canadian stocks to buy for long term. On March 26, Shopify launched Tinker, which is a free mobile app designed to simplify the creative process by consolidating over 100 specialized AI […]
Japanet expands its VC fund after bets on Anthropic and xAI pay off
The Nagasaki-based retailer known for infomercials targeting seniors in aging Japan will allocate $200 million to the fund, up from an initial $50 million in 2021.
Apple's new CEO is a product perfectionist taking on the AI age
To understand how Apple's new CEO John Ternus will run the company, pay attention to what he refuses to sell. "We never think about shipping a technology," Ternus, 50, said in a recent interview about AI with tech review site Tom's Guide. "We always think about how can we leverage technology to ship amazing products."
Google Bets on New Chips to Boost AI Results, Challenging Nvidia
In a matter of months, Google's AI chips have become one of the hottest commodities in the tech sector. Leading artificial intelligence developers, including some of the firm's biggest rivals, are stocking up on them. Now, the Alphabet Inc.-owned company aims to build on its momentum with the likely introduction of new chips dedicated to inference, or running AI models after they've been trained. With this push, Google is poised to further challenge market leader Nvidia Corp. in a fast-growing category for semiconductors that's fueled by surging adoption of AI software. Bloomberg News AI Infrastructure Reporter Dina Bass joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. She speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.
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[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world's leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?)
Yay Kimi!!!
AI Algorithm Enables Biological Imaging Breakthroughs
Article URL: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ai-algorithm-enables-biological-imaging-breakthroughs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841460 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent
AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.
Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.
It’s not just one thing — it’s another thing
This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guarantee.
NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud
NSA is said to be using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model.
CEO and CFO suddenly depart AI nuclear power upstart Fermi
The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.
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Cloud AI Update - Osirus AI Unveils Comprehensive Enterprise AI Management Platform
Osirus AI has launched a new unified platform designed for the comprehensive building, deploying, and management of enterprise AI agents. This platform consolidates various AI capabilities such as Chat, Search, Image, Video, Speech, and Storage, integrated with major AI providers like AWS Bedrock, Google, and OpenAI. Alongside this, Osirus AI introduces the Agent Studio, a system enabling organizations to manage AI agents efficiently with substantial control and scalability across business...
Adversaries hijacked AI security tools at 90+ organizations. The next wave has write access to the firewall
Adversaries injected malicious prompts into legitimate AI tools at more than 90 organizations in 2025, stealing credentials and cryptocurrency. Every one of those compromised tools could read data, and none of them could rewrite a firewall rule. The autonomous SOC agents shipping now can. That escalation, from compromised tools that read data to autonomous agents that rewrite infrastructure, has not been exploited in production at scale yet. But the architectural conditions for it are shipping faster than the governance designed to prevent it. A compromised SOC agent can rewrite your firewall rules, modify IAM policies, and quarantine endpoints, all with its own privileged credentials, all through approved API calls that EDR classifies as authorized activity. The adversary never touches the network. The agent does it for them. Cisco announced AgenticOps for Security in February, with autonomous firewall remediation and PCI-DSS compliance capabilities. Ivanti launched Continuous Complia
Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in 7 new countries
Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company is rolling this feature out to both desktop and iOS in all of these countries except Japan.
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
Xkcd 2510 (2021 AD) describes LLM generated code
Article URL: https://xkcd.com/2510/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847892 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
GPT Image 2 – native multimodal image generator
Article URL: https://gptimg.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846868 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
GPT 5.4 solves major open math problem- Comments by Terry Tao and Jared Lichtman
Article URL: https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/1196 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839372 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Robotics
Agibot unveils new generation of embodied AI robots and models for real-world deployment
Agibot has unveiled a new generation of embodied AI robots and foundation models, signaling what the company describes as a shift toward large-scale deployment of “physical AI” across industrial and commercial environments. The announcements were made at the company’s 2026 Partner Conference, where Agibot introduced multiple robotic platforms and AI systems built around its “One […]
Cadence and Nvidia expand partnership to advance AI-driven engineering and digital twin technologies
Cadence and Nvidia have expanded their long-standing partnership to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence, physics-based simulation, and digital twin technologies across engineering workflows, targeting industries ranging from semiconductor design to robotics and hyperscale AI infrastructure. The collaboration brings together Cadence’s expertise in electronic design automation (EDA) and system design with Nvidia’s accelerated computing, CUDA-X […]
Pudu Robotics deploys AI-powered cleaning robot in Europe through partnership with Gom
Pudu Robotics, a provider of commercial service robotics, has announced a strategic partnership with Gom Schoonhouden, one of the Netherlands’ premier professional cleaning service providers. The agreement, facilitated by Pudu’s regional partner Fulin Robot Technologie, marks the first deployment of the AI-Native Large Scrubber-Dryer Robot PUDU BG1 Series in Europe. This milestone represents a significant […]
China flashes new tech swagger to world markets convulsed by war
The world's factory floor is increasingly getting retrofitted for a new era of artificial intelligence and robotics, churning out technological innovation the world craves.