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Run Generative AI inference with Amazon Bedrock in Asia Pacific (New Zealand)
Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon Bedrock is now available in the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (ap-southeast-6). Customers in New Zealand can now access Anthropic Claude models (Claude Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6, Sonnet 4.5, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5) and Amazon (Nova 2 Lite) models directly in the Auckland Region with cross region inference. In this post, we explore how cross-Region inference works from the New Zealand Region, the models available through geographic and global routing, and how to get started with your first API call. We
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Intercom's new post-trained Fin Apex 1.0 beats GPT-5.4 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 at customer service resolutions
Anthropic Supply-Chain-Risk Designation Halted by Judge
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Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing
The site, whose policies are subject to change, has struggled with the issue of AI-generated writing.
Meta gets ready to launch two new Ray-Ban AI glasses
Second-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. Meta and its AI glasses hardware partner EssilorLuxottica are getting ready to launch the next generation of their Ray-Ban AI glasses. That's according to a series of FCC filings for two new Meta Ray-Ban models that were published by the agency earlier this month. The filings describe the tested devices as production units, suggesting that Meta may launch them soon. When the company unveiled its second-generation Ray-Bans in late 2023, it did so a little over a month after the … Read the full story at The Verge.
Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build an AI search engine for security video systems
Conntour uses AI models to let security teams query camera feeds using natural language to find any object, person, or situation.
New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535371 Points: 80 # Comments: 16
Blossom Health raises $20 million to bring an AI ‘copilot’ to psychiatry
The startup says its “AI-native” model can deliver faster access to care while keeping clinicians in control of treatment decisions.
The AI boom wasn't built for the polycrisis
Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/ai-boom-polycrisis/686559/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536296 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
Apple’s AI Playlist Playground is bad at music
Apple Music: "What do you want to hear?" Me: "Atmospheric instrumental black metal to write to." Apple Music: "Here's three metal songs with vocals, a field recording, an ambient electronic track, and a piece of doom jazz." I am skeptical of AI's ability to serve up the music I want to begin with, but even I was caught slightly off guard by how underwhelming Apple's new Playlist Playground beta is. YouTube Music's AI playlist generator is far from perfect, but when I gave it the same prompt for instrumental black metal, it wasn't until the fifth track that it delivered something with lyrics, and that was the exception, rather than the ru … Read the full story at The Verge.
Normal Computing raises $50M from Samsung Catalyst to tackle soaring AI chip costs and power demands
Part of a growing wave of startups rethinking how AI is computed, Normal Computing is betting on new architectures to move beyond GPUs.
AI-powered benefits platform Origin raises $30 million in fresh funding to bring CHROs visibility into benefits usage and spend
Notion Capital is leading the round into the software startup that helps companies monitor their benefits offerings
‘She’s Never Going to Age’: Porn Stars Are Embracing AI Clones to Stay Forever Young
AI companion platforms like OhChat and SinfulX are offering adult creators digital twins, who are always at their peak and stay monetizing.
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez push bill to impose AI data center moratorium - AP News
Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez push bill to impose AI data center moratorium AP News
Teens get probation after using AI to create fake nudes of classmates - AP News
Teens get probation after using AI to create fake nudes of classmates AP News
New college grad unemployment will spike to 35% in 2 years, senator warns, forcing ‘Dario, Sam’ to quit AI fear-mongering
“If you take Dario, Sam, you take all the evangelists. I think they are literally consciously pulling back on their predictions,” Mark Warner said.
New Bernie Sanders AI Safety Bill Would Halt Data Center Construction
The US senator said on Tuesday that a moratorium would give lawmakers time to "ensure that AI is safe." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will introduce a similar bill in the House in the weeks ahead.
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You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini
Google is launching "switching tools" that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.
Mistral releases a new open-source model for speech generation
Mistral's new speech model can run on a smartwatch or a smartphone.
Google is making it easier to import another AI’s memory into Gemini
After Anthropic updated its tool for copying another AI's memory into Claude earlier this month, Google Gemini is rolling out new "Import Memory" and "Import Chat History" features on desktop that can help users quickly copy over everything their current AI already knows about them. To use the "Import Memory" tool, users copy and paste a suggested prompt from Gemini into their previous AI, then paste the output from the previous AI into Gemini, which should get Gemini caught up on their preferences. The "Import Chat History" feature has users request an export of all of their chats from their previous AI, which they upload to Gemini in th … Read the full story at The Verge.
Show HN: A Kanban board where AI agents are first-class team members
Article URL: https://agent-kanban.dev/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535671 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Cloudflare's new Dynamic Workers ditch containers, run AI agent code 100x faster
Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/cloudflares-new-dynamic-workers-ditch-containers-to-run-ai-agent-code-100x Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47535575 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
ByteDance’s new AI video generation model, Dreamina Seedance 2.0, comes to CapCut
The new model in CapCut will have built-in protections for making video from real faces or unauthorized intellectual property.
Apple Plans to Open Up Siri to Rival AI Assistants in iOS 27 Update
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/apple-plans-to-open-up-siri-to-rival-ai-assistants-beyond-chatgpt-in-ios-27 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533931 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?
Apple will reportedly allow other AI chatbots to plug into Siri
Siri currently has an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. | Photo: Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple's iOS 27 update will allow users to choose the AI chatbot they want to link with Siri. That's according to a report from Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who says third-party chatbots downloaded from the App Store, like Google's Gemini or Anthropic's Claude, will be able to fetch replies for Siri - similar to how the voice assistant already works with OpenAI's ChatGPT. The new system, reportedly called "Extensions," will give users the ability to enable or disable the chatbots they want to connect with Siri on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, Bloomberg reports. The upcoming integrations will also work with the standalone app Apple reportedly plans … Read the full story at The Verge.
‘Intelligence may be scalable, but accountability is not’: A new report exposes the hidden cost of the AI agent revolution
Accenture and Wharton mapped AI's impact across 18 industries, concluding: the smarter your agents get, the more irreplaceable your best humans become.
Google's new TurboQuant algorithm speeds up AI memory 8x, cutting costs by 50% or more
As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache bottleneck." Every word a model processes must be stored as a high-dimensional vector in high-speed memory. For long-form tasks, this "digital cheat sheet" swells rapidly, devouring the graphics processing unit (GPU) video random access memory (VRAM) system used during inference, and slowing the model performance down rapidly over time. But have no fear, Google Research is here: yesterday, the unit within the search giant released its TurboQuant algorithm suite — a software-only breakthrough that provides the mathematical blueprint for extreme KV cache compression, enabling a 6x reduction on average in the amount of KV memory a given model uses, and 8x performance increase in computing attention logits, which could reduce costs for enterprises that implement it on their models by more than 50%
Mistral AI just released a text-to-speech model it says beats ElevenLabs — and it's giving away the weights for free
The enterprise voice AI market is in the middle of a land grab. ElevenLabs and IBM announced a collaboration just this week to bring premium voice capabilities into IBM's watsonx Orchestrate platform. Google Cloud has been expanding its Chirp 3 HD voices. OpenAI continues to iterate on its own speech synthesis. And the market underpinning all of this activity is enormous — voice AI crossed $22 billion globally in 2026, with the voice AI agents segment alone projected to reach $47.5 billion by 2034, according to industry estimates. On Thursday morning, Mistral AI entered that fight with a fundamentally different proposition. The Paris-based AI startup released Voxtral TTS, what it calls the first frontier-quality, open-weight text-to-speech model designed specifically for enterprise use. Where every major competitor in the space operates a proprietary, API-first business — enterprises rent the voice, they don't own it — Mistral is releasing the full model weights, inviting companies to
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David Sacks is no longer the White House AI and Crypto Czar
David Sacks, the venture capitalist and tech billionaire who'd become Silicon Valley's primary advocate inside the White House and a key architect of its aggressive AI policy initiatives, revealed on Thursday that he was no longer a special government employee - and therefore no longer President Donald Trump's Special Advisor on AI and Crypto. Sacks' official status as an SGE allowed him to work simultaneously in the private sector and for the government, but for no more than 130 days, raising questions about why he was still in the job more than a year after his appointment. But in an interview with Bloomberg Television discussing the Whit … Read the full story at The Verge.