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IBM launches Bob with multi-model routing and human checkpoints to turn AI coding into a secure production system
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IBM launches Bob with multi-model routing and human checkpoints to turn AI coding into a secure production system

Bringing AI agents into the enterprise software development lifecycle is fast becoming the norm. As developers experiment with new platforms, organizations are exposed to potential security and orchestration failures. Systems that work in pilots may fail once the agents start working with real-time data. Legacy tech giant IBM is one of several companies trying to address that gap by introducing more structure into how these workflows run. Yesterday, it announced the global launch of its AI-powered software development platform Bob, designed to write and test code across the development cycle, already in use by more than 80,000 of its employees after starting with just 100 internal users in summer 2025. Bob introduces a structured layer that constantly pauses for human-led checkpoints, yet by harnessing AI models to perform agentic tasks, IBM says it has saved some teams up to 70% of time "on selected tasks...equaling an average time savings of 10 hours per week." Specific models suppo

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Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
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Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed

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Google Photos launches an AI try-on feature for clothes you already have
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Google Photos launches an AI try-on feature for clothes you already have

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AI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneck

AI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneck

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KNOREX Targets $80 Billion Market with New AI-Powered XPO Optimizer

KNOREX Targets $80 Billion Market with New AI-Powered XPO Optimizer

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SINGAPORE, April 29, 2026--KNOREX Ltd. (NYSE American: KNRX) ("KNOREX" or the "Company"), a leading provider of AI-driven advertising technology solutions, today announced major advancements to its KNOREX XPO℠ platform. The update introduces an AI-powered Keyword Optimizer for Google Ads and a sophisticated Machine Learning-based Data-Driven Attribution (DDA) model for Meta, Google, TikTok, and other major native platforms. The enhancements are designed to help advertisers im

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AI won’t kill your job — it will kill the path to your first one

AI won’t kill your job — it will kill the path to your first one

The AI disruption story is being told wrong. Firms aren't firing — they're freezing hiring.

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AWS launches Amazon Quick desktop AI assistant

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/quick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944871 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

Meet Shapes, the app bringing humans and AI into the same group chats

Think Discord chats, but with AI characters in addition to humans.

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Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages

Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages

Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.

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TechCrunch AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this career path will thrive in the AI era—and drive a new Industrial Revolution

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this career path will thrive in the AI era—and drive a new Industrial Revolution

Jensen Huang went from washing dishes at Denny's to building the world’s most valuable company—now he says the field he studied in college will be critical to the AI revolution.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this career path will thrive in the AI era—and drive a new Industrial Revolution

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says this career path will thrive in the AI era—and drive a new Industrial Revolution

Jensen Huang went from washing dishes at Denny's to building the world’s most valuable company—now he says the field he studied in college will be critical to the AI revolution.

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Fortune AI
Yahoo Finance AI

Major Wall Street firm makes a bold new call on Intel stock

Wall Street loves a comeback story, but it does not always trust one. Intel has been a graveyard for investor patience for most of the past decade. The chipmaker missed the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, lost ground to Taiwan Semiconductor and Nvidia, and burned through billions trying to fix a ...

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minAction.net: Energy-First Neural Architecture Design -- From Biological Principles to Systematic Validation

arXiv:2604.24805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern machine learning optimizes for accuracy without explicitly accounting for internal computational cost, even though physical and biological systems operate under intrinsic energy constraints. We evaluate energy-aware learning across 2,203 experiments spanning vision, text, neuromorphic, and physiological datasets, using 10 seeds per configuration and performing a factorial statistical analysis. Three findings emerge. First, architecture alone explains negligible variance in accuracy (partial eta^2 = 0.001). In contrast, the architecture x dataset interaction is large (partial eta^2 = 0.44, p < 0.001), demonstrating that optimal architecture depends critically on task modality and rejecting the assumption of a universal best architecture. Second, a controlled lambda-sweep over four orders of magnitude validates a single-parameter energy-regularized objective L = L_CE + lambda * E(theta, x): internal activation energy decreases to 6%

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A New Kind of Network? Review and Reference Implementation of Neural Cellular Automata

arXiv:2604.24990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stephen Wolfram proclaimed in his 2003 seminal work "A New Kind Of Science" that simple recursive programs in the form of Cellular Automata (CA) are a promising approach to replace currently used mathematical formalizations, e.g. differential equations, to improve the modeling of complex systems. Over two decades later, while Cellular Automata have still been waiting for a substantial breakthrough in scientific applications, recent research showed new and promising approaches which combine Wolfram's ideas with learnable Artificial Neural Networks: So-called Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) are able to learn the complex update rules of CA from data samples, allowing them to model complex, self-organizing generative systems. The aim of this paper is to review the existing work on NCA and provide a unified modular framework and notation, as well as a reference implementation in the open-source library NCAtorch.

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Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS

Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS

A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.

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TechCrunch AI
Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins

Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins

The move comes as the trial for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI kicks off in federal court in Oakland.

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WIRED AI
AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round

AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round

Recruitment tool that aims to match scarce AI talent with tech companies gets backing from Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Speedrun, Concept Ventures and other.

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Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

Parallel Web Systems hits $2B valuation five months after its last big raise

The AI agent-tool startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has raised $100 million, led by Sequoia, months after raising a previous $100 million.

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TechCrunch AI
DSCP Smart Fulfillment Expands Hybrid E-Commerce Solutions as Amazon FBA Fees Drive Brands to Diversify

DSCP Smart Fulfillment Expands Hybrid E-Commerce Solutions as Amazon FBA Fees Drive Brands to Diversify

Los Angeles, CA, April 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Los Angeles, CA - April 29, 2026 - - DSCP Smart Fulfillment, a US-based third-party logistics provider, reports increased demand for hybrid fulfillment for e-commerce brands as Amazon FBA fee increases push sellers to adopt multi-channel strategies. The company, which operates fulfillment centers in Los Angeles, California, and New Brunswick, New Jersey, has positioned itself to support brands transitioning from single-channel dependency to div

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American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding

The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its rival OpenAI volleys back with one of its own (GPT-5.5). And all the while, Chinese companies like DeepSeek and even Xiaomi are seeking to appeal to users by playing a different game: nearing the frontier, but with open licensing and far lower costs. So it's a big surprise when a new, affordable, highly performant open source contender from the U.S. emerges. Today, we got one from the smaller, lesser-known U.S. AI startup, Poolside, founded in San Francisco in 2023. The company launched its two new Laguna large language models, both of which offer affordable intelligence optimized for agentic workflows (AI that does more than just chat or generate content, but can, in this case, write code, use third-party tools, and take actions autonomously), as well as a new coding agent harness called

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AI Weekly: major partner shifts and new medicine

AI Weekly: major partner shifts and new medicine

STORY: From major partner shifts to new medicine, this is AI Weekly :: AI Weekly OpenAI is now offering its latest AI models and coding agent Codex on Amazon's cloud services platform. That’s after the ChatGPT creator loosened its ties with long-time backer Microsoft.  It’s a major partner shift that came after the two firms renegotiated the exclusivity Microsoft had in selling OpenAI's models on its cloud platform. Amazon and OpenAI have been deepening ties for several months, with investments and spending commitments going both ways.  ______ China moved to block Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of AI startup Manus on Monday.  Beijing has tightened scrutiny of U.S. investment in domestic startups which are developing frontier technologies.  That’s as Washington tries to limit Chinese tech firms' access to advanced U.S. chips. Manus relocated to Singapore to bypass Beijing’s restrictions… And it’s unclear how and if an unwinding of the acquisition could now occur.  _____ Johnson & Johnson

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Yahoo Finance AI
Instacart co-founder launches hedge fund backing AI agents

Instacart co-founder launches hedge fund backing AI agents

Article URL: https://www.privatebankerinternational.com/news/instacart-co-founder-launches-hedge-fund-backing-ai-agents-over-portfolio-managers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943978 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Definity embeds agents inside Spark pipelines to catch failures before they reach agentic AI systems

Definity embeds agents inside Spark pipelines to catch failures before they reach agentic AI systems

For most data engineering teams, managing pipeline reliability often means waiting for an alert, manually tracing failures across distributed jobs and clusters, and fixing problems after they've already hit the business. Agentic AI needs the data to be there, clean and on time. A pipeline that fails silently or delivers stale data doesn't just break a dashboard — it breaks the AI system depending on it. That gap is what Definity, a Chicago-based data pipeline operations startup, is building into: embedding agents directly inside the Spark or DBT driver to act during a pipeline run, not after it. One enterprise customer identified 33% of its optimization opportunities in the first week of deployment and cut troubleshooting and optimization effort by 70%, according to Definity. The company also claims customers are resolving complex Spark issues up to 10x faster. "You need three big things for agentic data operations: full stack context that is real time and production aware. Control of

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VentureBeat AI
I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different

I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different

From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in lightbulbs, Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment for the physical world.

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WIRED AI
Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration engine already running millions of daily executions

Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration engine already running millions of daily executions

Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion), today released Workflows in public preview — a production-grade orchestration layer designed to move enterprise AI systems out of proofs of concept and into the business processes that generate revenue. The product, which launches as part of Mistral's Studio platform, is the company's clearest articulation yet of a thesis that is quietly reshaping the enterprise AI market: that the bottleneck for organizations adopting AI is no longer the model itself, but the infrastructure required to run it reliably at scale. "What we're seeing today is that organizations are struggling to go beyond isolated proofs of concept," Elisa Salamanca, who leads go-to-market for Mistral's enterprise products, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "The gap is operational. Workflows is the infrastructure to run AI systems reliably across business-critical processes." The release arriv

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Bloomberg, the OG of financial data firms, has a potent new AI agent. How it built it holds lessons for other companies

Bloomberg, the OG of financial data firms, has a potent new AI agent. How it built it holds lessons for other companies

Bloomberg's "AskB" shows the potential of AI agents in finance. Building it wasn't easy, Bloomberg CTO says.

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Hacker News

World's First conversational AI skills assessment

Two AIs. One conversation. Measure real AI skills. I like to call it LLMs As Assessment (LLMAA?) One AI talks to you. A second one scores every answer in real time. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941341 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Hacker News

Tencent used Anthropic's Claude to fine-tune it's new Hy3 AI model

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-companies-used-claude-improve-own-models-anthropic-says-2026-02-23/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942759 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu chaos

China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu chaos

A Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The move comes after dozens of robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu ground to a halt in traffic last month in Wuhan, creating chaos. The restrictions will prevent companies from adding new driverless cars to their fleets, expanding into new cities, or starting new test projects. It is unclear when officials will start issuing new licenses again. Bloomberg said the Wuhan incident alarmed authorities in Beijing, prompting regulators to urge local governments to review the sector to prevent similar episodes. … Read the full story at The Verge.

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How AI Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance

How AI Could Help Combat Antibiotic Resistance

At WIRED Health, British surgeon Ara Darzi said AI is set to transform the diagnosis and treatment of drug-resistant infections. But a lack of incentives means innovation may not reach patients.

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