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[AINews] Agents for Everything Else: Codex for Knowledge Work, Claude for Creative Work
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AI and the Future of News 2026
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Alphabet checks boxes, Meta raises AI worries, says investor
STORY: Meta Platforms raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast by $10 billion to a range of $125 billion to $145 billion. "Meta, for example, may actually lose money, so negative free cash flow in the next year or two as they spend more than they're earning," said Bailey. "So I think investors are really kind of struggling with that question today." Google-parent Alphabet is "selling their own chips, selling their own microchips, and that is really becoming a big business for them," added Bailey, who views the company's growing hardware division as a long-term positive.
X announces a rebuilt ad platform powered by AI
X is rolling out a rebuilt ads platform powered by AI as it works to grow revenue again.
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
Elon Musk's 7 biggest stumbles on the stand at OpenAI trial
Elon Musk spent three days testifying as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI.
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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Good Luck Getting a Mac Mini for the Next ‘Several Months’
Apple CEO Tim Cook told analysts that AI adoption has happened faster than expected.
How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider
Messages presented at trial reveal how Zilis, the mother of four of Musk's children, acted as an intermediary between him and OpenAI.
Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs
Apple said it will be supply-constrained on Mac mini, Studio, and Neo in the next quarter, too.
Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks
Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter
The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf, and now have dueling ad campaigns.
Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.
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,...
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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
OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts. The new security initiative includes a new partnership with security key provider Yubico.
Show HN: LLM-Powered News –> Event Map, Timeline, and Analysis
Been working on this for a few months, since the day the USA hit Iran. It started out as a simple OSS conflict monitor of which many were popping up at the time, but it developed into an entirely domain-agnostic pipeline which extracts claims + evidence, synthesizes events, and maps them on a timeline. It also attributes actors, relates events to each other, and contributes analysis. There are a lot of features under the hood that I'm not sure what to do with yet - various contextual analyses, a storytelling mode that will fly you around and voice-over a series of events automatically, a system which makes and later scores predictions. There's also an entire "newsroom" editorial and journalistic layer which writes and publishes articles based on developments, using its own judgement. Currently running (astonishingly well at the price point) on deepseek-3.2, which tends to reject Chinese military news. American models tend to refuse on Iran-Israel. I've had a lot of fun and felt very we
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…
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.
Alibaba's Metis agent cuts redundant AI tool calls from 98% to 2% — and gets more accurate doing it
One of the key challenges of building effective AI agents is teaching them to choose between using external tools or relying on their internal knowledge. But large language models are often trained to blindly invoke tools, which causes latency bottlenecks, unnecessary API costs, and degraded reasoning caused by environmental noise. To overcome this challenge, researchers at Alibaba introduced Hierarchical Decoupled Policy Optimization (HDPO), a reinforcement learning framework that trains agents to balance both execution efficiency and task accuracy. Metis, a multimodal model they trained using this framework, reduces redundant tool invocations from 98% to just 2% while establishing new state-of-the-art reasoning accuracy across key industry benchmarks. This framework helps create AI agents that are not trigger-happy and know when to abstain from using tools, enabling the development of responsive and cost-effective agentic systems. The metacognitive deficit Current agentic models fa
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
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.