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Writer launches AI agents that can act without prompts, taking on Amazon, Microsoft and Salesforce
Writer, the enterprise AI agent platform backed by Salesforce Ventures, Adobe Ventures, and Insight Partners, today launched event-based triggers for its Writer Agent platform, enabling AI agents to autonomously detect business signals across Gmail, Gong, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, and Slack — and execute complex multi-step workflows without any human initiating the process. The release, which also includes a new Adobe Experience Manager connector and a suite of enhanced governance controls such as bring-your-own encryption keys and a Datadog observability plugin, represents Writer's most aggressive bet yet on fully autonomous enterprise AI. It arrives at a moment when AWS, Salesforce, and Microsoft are all racing to establish their own agentic platforms, and when the question of how much autonomy enterprises will actually hand to AI agents remains deeply unresolved. "We are launching a series of event triggers that power and drive our playbooks to be more pro
OpenAI announces new advanced security for ChatGPT accounts, including a partnership with Yubico
X announces a rebuilt ad platform powered by AI
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Here’s how the new Microsoft and OpenAI deal breaks down
Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partnership, creating plenty of tension along the way. But against all odds, Microsoft and OpenAI divorced this week in a way that looks strangely amicable. Microsoft announced the updates to its long-standing OpenAI deal on Monday, with the most important change allowing OpenAI to make its products and services available across all cloud providers. A day later, OpenAI an … Read the full story at The Verge.
Former Twitter CEO announces $100M Series B funding for AI infrastructure startup
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Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service
Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from Adobe Ventures, WndrCo, Silver Lake Waterman, NAVER Ventures, Metis Strategy and Fin Capital. Jeffrey Katzenberg, managing partner of WndrCo and co-founder of DreamWorks, has joined the company's board. The round builds on early backing from a roster of AI luminaries that includes OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. On its face, the financing is another large AI round in a market still awash in capital. But the deal is more revealing than that. It suggests that a new line is being drawn inside enterprise AI — not between companies that have a chatbot and companies that do not, but between companies that can show AI works in the messy, brittle, heavily governed environments where large businesses a
Dow rises 730 points, S&P 500 hits new intraday high
Caterpillar stock popped 10% after a strong earnings report, while Meta and Microsoft stock fell on AI spending concerns
AI breakthrough means chatbots use six times less memory during conversations
Article URL: https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-breakthrough-means-chatbots-use-six-times-less-memory-during-conversations-without-compromising-performance Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965515 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
KKR Preparing New AI Firm Worth $10B Led by Ex-Amazon Web Chief
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/kkr-preparing-new-10-billion-ai-firm-led-by-ex-amazon-web-chief Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965834 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
In motorsport, there's nowhere to hide as AI becomes new CFD tool
AI finds value in motorsport, multiplying limited computational fluid dynamics resources.
'The Vast Majority of Human Jobs Become Obsolete' Once You Have Artificial Super Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence Pioneer Says
AI will erode the need for human employees but that may not be a bad thing, according to SingularityNET CEO Ben Goertzel. The artificial general intelligence pioneer said the elimination of human jobs, perhaps with the exception of preschool teachers,...
FDA approval, fundraising, and the reality of building in healthcare according to BioticsAI founder
BioticsAI CEO Robhy Bustami joined Isabelle Johannessen on Build Mode to discuss how the company has navigated a highly regulated space and kept the team motivated while cutting through all the red tape.
Elon Musk testifies that xAI trained Grok on OpenAI models
"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.
Elon Musk Seemingly Admits xAI Has Used OpenAI’s Models to Train Its Own
While answering questions under oath, Musk argued it’s standard practice for AI labs to use their competitors’ models.
Musk v. Altman Kicks Off, DOJ Guts Voting Rights Unit, and Is the AI Job Apocalypse Overhyped?
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we get into how the Elon Musk-Sam Altman trial goes way beyond their rivalry and could have major implications both for OpenAI and also the AI industry at large.
Agenda‑Intelligence.md: a protocol that turns AI news summarizers into analysts
Article URL: https://github.com/vassiliylakhonin/agenda-intelligence-md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47961338 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
SWI Capital Holding Ltd. presents its results for 2025, a pivotal year marked by acceleration of AI and digital infrastructure strategy and integration of investment manager Stoneweg
SWI Capital Holding Ltd. (SWICH or the Company) announced today that it has published its 2025 Audited Annual Report by Deloitte.
Here is Why Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) is Among the Stocks with the Biggest Share Buybacks
With stock buybacks of $55.75 billion in the 12 months through September 2025, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is among the 20 Stocks with the Biggest Share Buybacks. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) faced internal debate on April 27 after more than 560 Google employees reportedly signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block the use of company AI tools […]
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One tool call to rule them all? New open source Python tool RunPod Flash eliminates containers for faster AI dev
Runpod, the high-performance cloud computing and GPU platform designed specifically for AI development, today launched a new open source, MIT licensed, enterprise-friendly Python programming tool called Runpod Flash — and it is poised to make creation, iteration and deployment of AI systems inside and outside of foundation model labs much faster. The tool aims to eliminate some of the biggest barriers and hurdles to training and using AI models today, namely, doing away with Docker packages and containerization when developing for serverless GPU infrastructure, which the company believes will speed up development and deployment of new AI models, applications and agentic workflows. Additionally, the platform is built to serve as a critical substrate for AI agents and coding assistants—such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline—enabling them to orchestrate and deploy remote hardware autonomously with minimal friction. Developers can utilize Flash to accomplish a diverse set of high-perform
Anaconda acquires Outerbounds to rein in the buggy code AI agents keep shipping
Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/anaconda-ai-outerbounds-python-metaflow/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965248 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs
The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training. This could give model makers more fine-grained control over how this technology is built than was once thought possible. Goodfire claims Silico…
what are the biggest risks of agentic AI in supply chain production?
we've been testing agentic AI for inventory replenishment and exception handling. the goal was to get past simple "if-then" rules and have agents actually weigh trade-offs, like margin vs. customer loyalty when a bottleneck hits. where it keeps breaking down: ERP data lag. records run slightly behind reality, and the agent makes confident decisions on stale inputs. a chatbot getting a fact wrong is annoying. in supply chain, that's a missed commitment or dead inventory sitting in a warehouse. how are you drawing the line on autonomous action? we're going back and forth between hard financial caps and keeping the agent in "recommend only" mode until data quality improves. submitted by /u/rukola99 [link] [comments]
GUI is dying. Agents are the new interfaces
For the last 20 years, software was built for humans clicking buttons. Open dashboard. Click tab. Export CSV. Copy data. Paste somewhere else. Repeat until your soul leaves the room. That era is ending. The next interface is not another prettier dashboard. It is an agent that can read, decide, and act across tools. Salesforce is already moving this way with its “headless” push: APIs, MCP, CLI, and agent access instead of forcing every workflow through a browser. Meta just released Ads CLI and Meta Ads AI Connectors, allowing developers and AI agents to create, edit, and analyze ad campaigns from command-line and AI interfaces. Meta’s own docs now openly talk about connecting ads into your preferred AI interface, which is a huge shift from the old fear of “automation might get your ad account banned.” Now the platforms are building official doors for agents to walk through. This is the real unlock: The SaaS app becomes the backend. The agent becomes the product. Imagine a
Why OpenAI's 'goblin' problem matters — and how you can release the goblins on your own
AI is more than a technology — it's magic. Don't believe me? Why, then, is one of the leading companies in the space, OpenAI, publishing entire official, corporate blog posts about goblins? To understand, we first have to go back to earlier this week, on Monday, April 27, 2026, when a developer under the handle @arb8020 on the social network X posted a snippet from the OpenAI open source Codex GitHub repository, specifically a file named models.json. Deep within the instructions for the new OpenAI large language model (LLM) GPT-5.5, a peculiar directive stood out, repeated four times for emphasis: "Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query." The discovery sent a shockwave through the "power user" and machine learning (ML) researcher circles. Within hours, the post had gone viral, not because of a security flaw, but because of its sheer, baffling specifici
Claude Code, Copilot and Codex all got hacked. Every attacker went for the credential, not the model
On March 30, BeyondTrust proved that a crafted GitHub branch name could steal Codex’s OAuth token in cleartext. OpenAI classified it Critical P1. Two days later, Anthropic’s Claude Code source code spilled onto the public npm registry, and within hours, Adversa found Claude Code silently ignored its own deny rules once a command exceeded 50 subcommands. These were not isolated bugs. They were the latest in a nine-month run: six research teams disclosed exploits against Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, and Vertex AI, and every exploit followed the same pattern. An AI coding agent held a credential, executed an action, and authenticated to a production system without a human session anchoring the request. The attack surface was first demonstrated at Black Hat USA 2025, when Zenity CTO Michael Bargury hijacked ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Google Gemini, Salesforce Einstein and Cursor with Jira MCP on stage with zero clicks. Nine months later, those credentials are what attackers reached
Google’s Gemini AI assistant is hitting the road in millions of vehicles
The move signals Google’s push to bring more advanced, conversational AI into the driving experience.
OpenAI Rolls Out ‘Advanced’ Security Mode for At-Risk Accounts
OpenAI is rolling out Advanced Account Security for people concerned that their ChatGPT or Codex accounts could be potential targets of phishing attacks.
OpenAI’s new security model is for ‘critical cyber defenders’ only
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first rolled out to a select group of trusted "cyber defenders" in order for institutions to shore up their cyberdefenses. The limited rollout will take place "in the next few days," Altman said on X. "We will work with the entire ecosystem and the government to figure out trusted access for Cyber." It's not clear who will get access to the model first, though previous "trusted access" schemes involved vetted professionals and institutions. Details of the model and its capa … Read the full story at The Verge.
Anthropic's new benchmark claims Claude can match human experts in bioinformatics
With BioMysteryBench, Anthropic wants to show that Claude can solve real bioinformatics problems at an expert level. The results are promising, but come with important caveats. The article Anthropic's new benchmark claims Claude can match human experts in bioinformatics appeared first on The Decoder.
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Softbank plans IPO for new AI and robotics company valued at up to $100 billion
Softbank is planning to launch and take public a new AI and robotics company called Roze in the United States, the Financial Times reports. The article Softbank plans IPO for new AI and robotics company valued at up to $100 billion appeared first on The Decoder.