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China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu chaos
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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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KNOREX Targets $80 Billion Market with New AI-Powered XPO Optimizer
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KNOREX Targets $80 Billion Market with New AI-Powered XPO Optimizer

Yahoo Finance AI3h ago
AI Weekly: major partner shifts and new medicine
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AI Weekly: major partner shifts and new medicine

Yahoo Finance AI3h ago

General AI

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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Fortune AI
Hacker News

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

General AI
Hacker News
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.

General AI
TechCrunch AI
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.

General AI
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.

General AI
Yahoo Finance 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.

General AI
Fortune AI
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.

General AI
TechCrunch AI
Rocket Lab And Meta Partnership Highlights Orbital Power And Vertical Integration

Rocket Lab And Meta Partnership Highlights Orbital Power And Vertical Integration

Rocket Lab and Meta Platforms are working together on space based solar power, using satellites to collect solar energy in orbit. The project highlights new commercial uses for space infrastructure beyond traditional communications and Earth observation. Rocket Lab has introduced a new High Performance Star Tracker aimed at long duration missions in high radiation orbits. The developments point to broader vertical integration for Rocket Lab beyond launch services into key satellite...

General AI
Yahoo Finance AI
Windows 11's 5GB monthly .msu updates, AI is only part of the problem

Windows 11's 5GB monthly .msu updates, AI is only part of the problem

Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/29/i-investigated-windows-11s-massive-5gb-monthly-msu-updates-ai-is-only-part-of-the-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944511 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

General AI
Hacker News
Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal

Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal

After Anthropic refused to allow the DoD to use its AI for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Google has signed a new contract with the department.

General AI
TechCrunch AI
Study Finds a Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated

Study Finds a Third of New Websites Are AI-Generated

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937407 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

General AI
Hacker News
arXiv cs.LG

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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arXiv cs.LG
arXiv cs.CV

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.

General AI
arXiv cs.CV
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.

General AI
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.

General AI
Fortune AI

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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

Models & Gen AI
Yahoo Finance AI
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

Models & Gen AI
VentureBeat AI
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

Models & Gen AI
VentureBeat 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

Models & Gen AI
Hacker News
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.

Models & Gen AI
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

Models & Gen AI
VentureBeat AI
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.

Models & Gen AI
Fortune AI
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
r/AI_Agents

Gemini CLI subagents make context isolation a first-class coding workflow

TL;DR: Google’s Gemini CLI subagents release matters because it packages a real coding-agent painkiller: separate context windows, restricted toolsets, and parallel specialist delegation inside one terminal workflow. The useful story is not “Google now has subagents too” — it’s that context isolation is becoming a visible product primitive instead of a hidden prompt trick. What stood out to me: - Practical changes for builders/ops (runtime, tooling, reliability). - Where the claims are strong vs. where they’re still speculative. - Question: what would you change in your stack this week because of this? Questions for folks here: - Biggest implication you see (product, infra, safety, cost)? - Any counterpoints / missing context? submitted by /u/Competitive_Dark7401 [link] [comments]

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Robotics

SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety

SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety

New platform aims to reduce operator workload while enabling coordinated drone response at scale SkyfireAI has announced an $11 million seed funding round to accelerate development of its AI-driven platform for autonomous, multi-drone operations. The round was led by Mucker Capital, with participation from AI Fund, SaaS Ventures, and others. The Huntsville, Alabama-based company is […] The post SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety appeared first on DRONELIFE.

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DRONELIFE
Flex and Teradyne expand partnership to scale physical AI

Flex and Teradyne expand partnership to scale physical AI

Flex and Teradyne Robotics expanded their partnership to accelerate physical AI across global manufacturing facilities. The post Flex and Teradyne expand partnership to scale physical AI appeared first on The Robot Report.

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The Robot Report
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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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WIRED AI