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Japanet expands its VC fund after bets on Anthropic and xAI pay off
The Nagasaki-based retailer known for infomercials targeting seniors in aging Japan will allocate $200 million to the fund, up from an initial $50 million in 2021.
Agibot unveils new generation of embodied AI robots and models for real-world deployment
Apple's new CEO is a product perfectionist taking on the AI age
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[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world's leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?)
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Migrant Voices, Local News: Insights on Bridging Community Needs with Media Content
arXiv:2604.16651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research shows news consumption differs across demographics, yet little is known about non-mainstream audiences, especially in relation to local media. Our study addresses this gap by examining how French-speaking migrants in a mid-size European city engage with local news, and whether their needs are reflected in coverage. Eight community members participated in focus groups, whose insights guided the selection of natural language processing methods (topic modeling, information retrieval, sentiment analysis, and readability) applied to over 2000 hyper-local news articles. Results showed that while articles frequently covered local events, gaps remained in topics important to participants. Sentiment analysis revealed a generally positive tone, and readability measures indicated an intermediate-advanced French level, raising questions about accessibility for integration. Our work contributes to bridging the gap between local news platform
Siemens launches AI engineering agent to automate PLC coding and industrial workflows
Siemens has launched the Eigen Engineering Agent, its purpose-built AI for automation engineering, now generally available. The Eigen Engineering Agent represents a new class of industrial AI product: one that no longer just generates suggestions but instead uses multi-step reasoning and self-correction to carry out tasks autonomously. Unlike generic AI tools, the Eigen Engineering Agent […]
Jeff Bezos nears $10 billion funding round for AI lab "Project Prometheus"
Jeff Bezos is about to close a $10 billion funding round for his AI lab codenamed "Project Prometheus," the Financial Times reports. The article Jeff Bezos nears $10 billion funding round for AI lab "Project Prometheus" appeared first on The Decoder.
Marvell adds $5B in market cap on potential partnership
Marvell Technology (MRVL) just added roughly $5 billion in market cap, with the stock jumping about 6% after reports that Alphabet is exploring a potential AI chip partnership with the company. Investors are starting to price in what a real hyperscaler design win could mean for Marvell’s role in ...
Google Bets on New Chips to Boost AI Results, Challenging Nvidia
In a matter of months, Google's AI chips have become one of the hottest commodities in the tech sector. Leading artificial intelligence developers, including some of the firm's biggest rivals, are stocking up on them. Now, the Alphabet Inc.-owned company aims to build on its momentum with the likely introduction of new chips dedicated to inference, or running AI models after they've been trained. With this push, Google is poised to further challenge market leader Nvidia Corp. in a fast-growing category for semiconductors that's fueled by surging adoption of AI software. Bloomberg News AI Infrastructure Reporter Dina Bass joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. She speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.
AI Algorithm Enables Biological Imaging Breakthroughs
Article URL: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ai-algorithm-enables-biological-imaging-breakthroughs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841460 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Prediction: The Nasdaq Will Hit New All-Time Highs This Year. This Is the Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Growth Stock to Own When It Does
The Nasdaq entered correction territory in late March, but the index could bounce back this year on the heels of renewed enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) stocks.
Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE): Light-Based AI Networking Is New Big Thing
We just covered the 12 Best AI Data Center Stocks to Buy Right Now and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LITE) ranks 4th on this list. Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LITE) stock has been in the headlines recently after the company announced a multi-year deal for Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) products worth billions of dollars during the Optical […]
Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent
AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.
Adobe fights AI disruption of its own business model with new enterprise agent platform
The software giant is responding to growing pressure from AI-native competitors with a new enterprise agent platform. At the same time, the company is looking for its next chief executive. The article Adobe fights AI disruption of its own business model with new enterprise agent platform appeared first on The Decoder.
Google plans nearly two million new AI chips as it turns to Marvell for custom designs
Google is in talks with chip designer Marvell Technology to develop two new specialized chips for its data centers, according to The Information, citing two sources. The article Google plans nearly two million new AI chips as it turns to Marvell for custom designs appeared first on The Decoder.
Salesforce Announces AI Initiative and Calls It 'Headless 360'
Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/salesforce-announces-huge-ai-initiative-and-calls-it-headless-360-2000748243 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829523 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.
It’s not just one thing — it’s another thing
This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guarantee.
NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud
NSA is said to be using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model.
CEO and CFO suddenly depart AI nuclear power upstart Fermi
The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.
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Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in 7 new countries
Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company is rolling this feature out to both desktop and iOS in all of these countries except Japan.
Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business
Skild AI has acquired Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business, including its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform. Central to the company’s plans is its “Skild Brain” – described as “the industry’s first omnibodied AI software designed to operate without prior knowledge of a robot’s exact body form” – is claimed to be able to control any robot, […]
Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its platform for AI agents
Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/technology/salesforce-launches-headless-360-to-turn-its-entire-platform-into-infrastructure-for-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839183 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
LLM from scratch (32l) – Interventions: updated instruction fine-tuning results
Article URL: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/llm-from-scratch-32l-interventions-instruction-fine-tuning-tests Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842959 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
GPT 5.4 solves major open math problem- Comments by Terry Tao and Jared Lichtman
Article URL: https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/1196 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839372 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
New Local LLM Rig: Ryzen 9700X + Radeon R9700. Getting ~120 tok/s! What models fit best?
Hi ! I just finished building a workstation specifically for local inference and wanted to get your thoughts on my setup and model recommendations. •GPU: AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (32GB GDDR6 VRAM) •CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X •RAM: 64GB DDR5 •OS: Fedora Workstation •Software: LM Studio (Vulkan backend), wanna test LLAMA •Performance: Currently hitting a steady ~120 tok/s on simple prompts. (qwen3.6-35b-a3b) What is the largest model architecture you recommend running comfortably? Should I be focusing on Q4_K_M quantizations ? submitted by /u/jsorres [link] [comments]
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
The long-term risks of the All-In Podcast, illustrated. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Turbosquid, Getty Images One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he'd made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns out, is structured into language! You could put one word into ChatGPT and it might understand what you wanted, or make up a word and see if it understood what you meant! These amazing new tools have revealed that the English corpus contains so much about its speakers! He concluded that LLMs are a discovery on par with writing. … Read the full story at The Verge.
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China flashes new tech swagger to world markets convulsed by war
The world's factory floor is increasingly getting retrofitted for a new era of artificial intelligence and robotics, churning out technological innovation the world craves.
Cadence and Nvidia expand partnership to advance AI-driven engineering and digital twin technologies
Cadence and Nvidia have expanded their long-standing partnership to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence, physics-based simulation, and digital twin technologies across engineering workflows, targeting industries ranging from semiconductor design to robotics and hyperscale AI infrastructure. The collaboration brings together Cadence’s expertise in electronic design automation (EDA) and system design with Nvidia’s accelerated computing, CUDA-X […]
Pudu Robotics deploys AI-powered cleaning robot in Europe through partnership with Gom
Pudu Robotics, a provider of commercial service robotics, has announced a strategic partnership with Gom Schoonhouden, one of the Netherlands’ premier professional cleaning service providers. The agreement, facilitated by Pudu’s regional partner Fulin Robot Technologie, marks the first deployment of the AI-Native Large Scrubber-Dryer Robot PUDU BG1 Series in Europe. This milestone represents a significant […]