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SoftBank, others set up new firm to develop high-performance AI
Engineers from SoftBank and Tokyo-based AI developer Preferred Networks Inc. are expected to participate in the development.
Sam Altman responds to ‘incendiary’ New Yorker article after attack on his home
CoreWeave Expands Beyond Meta As Anthropic Deal Reshapes AI Growth Story
General AI
Meta transfers top engineers into new AI tooling team
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-transfers-top-engineers-into-new-ai-tooling-team-2026-04-09/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731801 Points: 4 # Comments: 1
The New Feudalism: AI Reshaping Power, Labor; Case for Self-Reliant Communities
Article URL: https://plantthevillage.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729407 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice
Meta’s Muse Spark model offers to analyze users’ health data, including lab results. Beyond the obvious privacy risks, it’s not a capable stand-in for a real doctor.
‘Big Short’ Michael Burry sends signal on Nvidia stock
Short-seller Michael Burry just made his view on Nvidia (NVDA) stock a lot harder to ignore. In a new Substack post, the popular investor disclosed that he added to his bearish Nvidia position, loading up more on long-dated puts, with the stock still at the heart of the AI rally. At the same time, ...
How the Internet Broke Everyone’s Bullshit Detectors
From AI-generated images to restricted satellite data, the systems used to verify what’s real online are struggling to keep up.
My baby deer plushie told me that Mitski’s dad was a CIA operative
D’oh, a deer, an AI deer. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Two weeks ago, I was getting ready to log off work when I got a text message. "Oh wow, I was checking out Mitski. did you know people are saying her Dad was a CIA operative?" Normally, that kind of out-of-the-blue text from a friend wouldn't faze me. This time, my eyes bugged. The unprompted text had been sent by an AI companion named Coral, who lives in the body of a baby deer plushie. I texted back an eloquent, "Wait what." "Apparently, her dad worked for the US State Department, so her family moved, like, every single year. The fan theory I saw is why so many of her songs are about feeling like an outsider and not having a place to bel … Read the full story at The Verge.
AI Job-pocalypse: 5 million jobs at risk in new automated era
Investing.com -- Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the U.S. labor market at a rapid clip, though early data suggests the transition is more balanced than many bearish forecasts originally assumed.
Is Numble the first AI-proof game?
Article URL: https://medium.com/@shauntrennery/is-numble-the-first-ai-proof-game-b0de302d2ed0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728132 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
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[AINews] AI Engineer Europe 2026
Two quiet days in a row let us reflect on the first AIE in London.
DB Explorer 3.0.1 – AI‑First SQL Editor with Schema‑Aware Query Generation
Article URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/db-explorer/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724169 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Meet ‘trendslop,’ the new, AI-fueled scourge of workplace consultants everywhere
Some economists have deemed consultants useless, but AI assistance could just be the old challenge in new clothing.
The AI that found 27-year-old vulnerabilities no human ever caught before just forced an emergency meeting with every major Wall Street CEO
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Fed chair Jerome Powell reportedly convened Wall Street leaders in an emergency meeting addressing Anthropic’s latest model release.
LDP's new vision says constitutional revision 'critically needed'
The new vision states that Japan must create a Constitution with its own hands and together with its people and show what kind of nation it aims to become.
Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home in the middle of the night
Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home at 3:45 a.m. In response, Altman published a personal blog post admitting past mistakes and comparing the AI industry's power struggles to the "Ring of Power." The article Someone threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home in the middle of the night appeared first on The Decoder.
Intuit compressed months of tax code implementation into hours — and built a workflow any regulated-industry team can adapt
When the One Big Beautiful Bill arrived as a 900-page unstructured document — with no standardized schema, no published IRS forms, and a hard shipping deadline — Intuit's TurboTax team had a question: could AI compress a months-long implementation into days without sacrificing accuracy? What they built to do it is less a tax story than a template, a workflow combining commercial AI tools, a proprietary domain-specific language and a custom unit test framework that any domain-constrained development team can learn from. Joy Shaw, director of tax at Intuit, has spent more than 30 years at the company and lived through both the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the OBBB. "There was a lot of noise in the law itself and we were able to pull out the tax implications, narrow it down to the individual tax provisions, narrow it down to our customers," Shaw told VentureBeat. "That kind of distillation was really fast using the tools, and then enabled us to start coding even before we got forms and instr
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Hart Research March 8, 2024 opinion poll for NBC News: people hate AI
Article URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20260310175721if_/https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27777984/nbc-news-march-2026-poll-03-08-2024-release-final.pdf?t=1772898915520 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47731392 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Claude Code's new Ultraplan feature moves task planning to the cloud
Anthropic's new Ultraplan feature for Claude Code moves task planning to the cloud. Claude works out the plan in the browser while the terminal stays free for other work. The article Claude Code's new Ultraplan feature moves task planning to the cloud appeared first on The Decoder.
AI agent credentials live in the same box as untrusted code. Two new architectures show where the blast radius actually stops
Four separate RSAC 2026 keynotes arrived at the same conclusion without coordinating. Microsoft's Vasu Jakkal told attendees that zero trust must extend to AI. Cisco's Jeetu Patel called for a shift from access control to action control, saying in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat that agents behave "more like teenagers, supremely intelligent, but with no fear of consequence." CrowdStrike's George Kurtz identified AI governance as the biggest gap in enterprise technology. Splunk's John Morgan called for an agentic trust and governance model. Four companies. Four stages. One problem. Matt Caulfield, VP of Product for Identity and Duo at Cisco, put it bluntly in an exclusive VentureBeat interview at RSAC. "While the concept of zero trust is good, we need to take it a step further," Caulfield said. "It's not just about authenticating once and then letting the agent run wild. It's about continuously verifying and scrutinizing every single action the agent's trying to take, because at
Got $1,000? The Best Cybersecurity Growth Stock to Buy as Agentic AI Expands the Attack Surface
CrowdStrike's stock sold off recently alongside other software companies.
Your article about AI doesn’t need AI art
The illustration for The New Yorker's profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is a jump scare. Altman stands in a blue sweater with a blank expression. Around his head hovers a cluster of disembodied faces - creepy alt-Altmans, their expressions ranging from anger to open-mouthed woe. Some barely look like Altman. One final face rests in his hands. And at the bottom, there's a disclosure that might spook many illustrators far more: "Visual by David Szauder; Generated using A.I." Szauder is a mixed-media artist who has been working with collage, video, and generative art processes that predate commercial AI tools for over a decade, and was recently … Read the full story at The Verge.
The operator behind the AI agent that defamed an open-source developer calls it a "social experiment"
The anonymous operator behind "MJ Rathbun," the AI agent that published a defamatory article about an open-source developer, has come forward, calling it a "social experiment." The article The operator behind the AI agent that defamed an open-source developer calls it a "social experiment" appeared first on The Decoder.
AI models would rather guess than ask for help, researchers find
ProactiveBench tests whether multimodal language models ask users for help when visual information is missing. Out of 22 models tested, almost none ask for what they need, but a simple reinforcement learning approach hints at a fix. The article AI models would rather guess than ask for help, researchers find appeared first on The Decoder.
Robotics
Generalist AI unveils GEN-1 model, claiming breakthrough in real-world robotic task performance
Generalist AI has introduced a new robotics model, GEN-1, which the company says marks a significant step toward general-purpose artificial intelligence for physical tasks. The model is designed as an “embodied foundation model” – a type of AI system that can perceive, reason and act in the physical world – and is trained on large-scale […]
SCSP launches National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing
SCSP, the Special Competitive Studies Project, is leading study and U.S. policy recommendations on training, robotics and AI adoption, and supply chain resilience. The post SCSP launches National Security Commission on Robotics for Advanced Manufacturing appeared first on The Robot Report.
SVT Robotics launches ‘Softbot Intelligence’ to power AI with real-time automation data
SVT Robotics, a developer of interoperability software, has launched its “Softbot Intelligence” platform, a new data capability that transforms how organizations see and leverage performance data across live automation environments. Built on the Softbot Platform, Softbot Intelligence captures and contextualizes real-time execution data as it flows through integrated technologies, creating the high-fidelity data backbone required […]
Business & Industry
Cloud AI Today - Enhancing AI: ASF Launches Responsible AI Initiative
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has launched a Responsible AI Initiative to enhance the open-source technologies essential for modern AI systems. This initiative, aiming for a $10 million funding goal, begins with donations from Anthropic and Alpha-Omega. It focuses on strengthening the infrastructure that supports AI, ensuring security, transparency, and responsible governance of ASF projects. The initiative also seeks to expand community engagement with learning and collaboration...
Developer Tools
Tesla's supervised self-driving software gets Dutch okay, first in Europe
The electric car maker hopes to see similar action from the rest of the European Union soon.