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Lovelace.ai Launches with Context Engine Builder for Mission-Critical AI
Article URL: https://lovelace.ai/articles/lovelace-emerges-from-stealth-with-industry-defining-context-engine-builder-for-mission-critical-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041684 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps
Microsoft Weighs AI Data Center Growth Against 2030 Renewable Goal
General AI
ServiceNow (NOW) Valuation Check After Knowledge 2026 AI Partnerships And Product Launches
ServiceNow (NOW) is back in focus after a packed Knowledge 2026 event, where it expanded partnerships with Nvidia, Microsoft, Google Cloud, and Lenovo and unveiled Project Arc, ServiceNow Otto, and an expanded AI Control Tower. See our latest analysis for ServiceNow. Despite all the AI news and partnerships, the stock is still working through a reset. It has a 30 day share price return of 9.79% and a year to date share price return of 37.60%, while the 1 year total shareholder return of...
Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
Is xAI a neocloud now?
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
Google updates AI search to include ‘expert advice’ from Reddit and other web forums
While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.
NVIDIA Climbs 5% on $500M Corning Deal: Optical Connectivity Becomes the New AI Bottleneck
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares are up by about 5% midday Wednesday, trading near $206 after the chip leader unveiled a $500 million strategic supply agreement with Corning (NYSE:GLW) focused on optical connectivity for AI data centers. Corning stock is the bigger winner, jumping 14% to $185. The deal landed before noon on the same day Corning ... NVIDIA Climbs 5% on $500M Corning Deal: Optical Connectivity Becomes the New AI Bottleneck
Core Scientific jumps 7% in morning markets as data center firm announces 440 MW expansion at Oklahoma site
Core Scientific targets its Oklahoma site for a second 1.5-gigawatt AI/HPC buildout, mirroring the same playbook it unveiled days earlier at its Pecos, Texas campus.
District, founded by three Snapchat alumni, raises a $14.7 million seed round to help independent sellers build community-driven marketplaces
The a16z-backed AI startup wants to bring the corner store experience to online shopping.
Google DeepMind partners with EVE Online for AI model testing
Move comes as CCP Games spends $120M to go independent, rebrands as Fenris Creations.
Market research is too slow for the AI era, so Brox built 60,000 identical 'digital twins' of real people you can survey instantly, repeatedly
In a world where a viral TikTok video can cause a brand to trend globally in mere hours, the traditional market research cycle — often spanning 12 weeks — is becoming a liability. The lag between a survey question and the answers from a wide (or targeted) pool of respondents has become a primary bottleneck for Fortune 500 decision-makers who are forced to navigate volatile geopolitical and economic shifts with data that is frequently outdated by the time it reaches a slide deck, as industry experts have observed. Brox, a predictive human intelligence startup, recently announced a strategic funding round following a year where they reported 10X revenue growth. Their proposition is as ambitious as it is technical: the creation of a "parallel universe" populated by 60,000 digital twins of real, living human beings and their entire demographic profiles and consumer preferences, allowing enterprises to run unlimited experiments in hours rather than months. “These digital twins are one-to-
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
New research suggests that reliance on AI assistants can have a negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem solve.
Why Amazon Might Be the Real Winner of the Microsoft and OpenAI Partnership Shakeup
The Amazon Web Services ecosystem now has a chance to get a lot stronger.
Cybercriminals Are Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Forums
It's not just you. Hackers and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity.
Blitzy Raises $200M At $1.4B Valuation For Autonomous Software Development
Blitzy, an autonomous software development startup, said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values it at $1.4 billion, making it the latest company to receive major investor backing to streamline coding for large enterprises with the help of AI. Cambridge, Mass.-based Blitzy has now raised more than $204.4 million. Northzone led […]
Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform "pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities." CAISI, which started evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024, says it has performed 40 reviews so far. Both companies "have renegotiated their existing partnerships with the center to better align with priorities in President Donald Trum … Read the full story at The Verge.
AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon
With $500 million already processed through its platform, Vori is scaling fast as it targets underserved grocery operators.
Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die
The far-left Twitch streamer says AI is rotting our brains. He’s also addicted to Twitter and listens to at least eight podcasts.
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DeepSeek could hit $45B valuation from its first investment round
The Chinese AI lab came to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that trained on a fraction of the compute power and at a fraction of the cost of the big U.S. models like those from OpenAI and Anthropic.
New Airbyte Agents: Cleaning Up Messy Data for AI Agents
Article URL: https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/new-airbyte-agents-cleaning-up-messy-data-for-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039541 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Time to add option in Hacker News "AI excluded Show HN"
Bored of AI advertisement. Thinking to stop visiting hacker news just because these LLM projects and updates. There should be an option to users which will exclude AI related things. Even if that going to be done using artificial intelligence in backend, no problem. I’m satisfied! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039702 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
Anthropic announced “dreaming” for AI agents to sort through “memories” at its developer conference. Can we not?
OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less
OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factuality across the board." The company claims that, based on "internal evaluations," GPT-5.5 Instant produced "52.5% fewer hallucinated claims" than its Instant model for GPT-5.3 "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance." GPT-5.5 Instant also "reduced inaccurate claims by 37.3% on especially challenging conversations users had flagged for factual errors." (OpenAI has some information about how it ev … Read the full story at The Verge.
Nova Intelligence raises $31.5 million to bring agentic AI to SAP’s $89 billion migration wave
A DeepMind engineer saw an opening in SAP's aging code. Investors are calling it a $40 million bet
Robotics
Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range
New AI-enabled software aims to identify small drone threats earlier and support faster response Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has announced the launch of Prism C-UAS, a new software solution designed to improve the detection and tracking of small, hard-to-detect drones. The company positions Prism as a software layer that enhances existing […] The post Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones
Loggerhead Ventures leads the round with follow-on from One Planet Capital, fueling AI-powered drones for wind farm maintenance. Perceptual Robotics has secured fresh funding to scale its autonomous wind turbine inspection platform. Loggerhead Ventures led the round, with follow-on investment from One Planet Capital. The Thessaloniki-based company announced the deal on May 5, 2026. The […] The post Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones appeared first on DRONELIFE.
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QCraft Expands its Autonomous Driving Stack into the Physical AI Frontier
The autonomous driving company is moving beyond self-driving cars and into the broader world of Physical AI QCraft, one of the major providers of autonomous driving technology to OEMs, used this year’s Beijing Auto Show to unveil what it calls the QCraft Physical AI Model. This was a signal that the company sees its future […]