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Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo
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Marketing operating system Nectar Social raises $30M Series A led by Menlo

AI-powered marketing platform Nectar Social announced Thursday that it raised a $30 million Series A round led by Menlo Ventures and its Anthology Fund, which was created alongside Anthropic.

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The Agentic AI Supercycle Is Here. This Stock Could Be Its Biggest Winner
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The Agentic AI Supercycle Is Here. This Stock Could Be Its Biggest Winner

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Wells Fargo Raises NVIDIA (NVDA) Price Target – Here’s Why
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Wells Fargo Raises NVIDIA (NVDA) Price Target – Here’s Why

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The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from

The enterprise risk nobody is modeling: AI is replacing the very experts it needs to learn from

For AI systems to keep improving in knowledge work, they need either a reliable mechanism for autonomous self-improvement or human evaluators capable of catching errors and generating high-quality feedback. The industry has invested enormously in the first. It's giving almost no thought to what's happening to the second. I’d argue that we need to treat the human evaluation problem with just as much rigor and investment as we put into building the model capabilities themselves. New grad hiring at major tech companies has dropped by half since 2019. Document review, first-pass research, data cleaning, code review: Models handle these now. The economists tracking this call it displacement. The companies doing it call it efficiency. Neither are focusing on the future problem. Why self-improvement has limits in knowledge work The obvious pushback is reinforcement learning (RL). AlphaZero learned Go, chess, and Shogi at superhuman levels without human data and generated novel strategies in t

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VentureBeat AI
The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.

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TechCrunch AI
Pershing Square Backs Microsoft As AI Expansion Divides Major Investors

Pershing Square Backs Microsoft As AI Expansion Divides Major Investors

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square fund has taken a major new position in Microsoft (NasdaqGS:MSFT), going public with the stake as other large investors such as TCI and the Gates Foundation have been reducing their holdings. The move comes as Microsoft ramps up its AI efforts beyond OpenAI, including interest in larger AI startup acquisitions, an expanded partnership with OneStream in enterprise finance, and visible traction for new AI products. Ackman cites Azure, Microsoft 365, evolving AI...

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The software fix that could shrink AI's energy bill without new hardware

The software fix that could shrink AI's energy bill without new hardware

Article URL: https://thenewstack.io/streaming-ai-energy-efficiency/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161187 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Evaluating Workday (WDAY) Valuation After New AI Integrations And Solopreneur Accelerator Launch

Evaluating Workday (WDAY) Valuation After New AI Integrations And Solopreneur Accelerator Launch

Workday (WDAY) is back in focus after rolling out its Sana Self-Service Agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and launching an AI-focused solopreneur accelerator program, moves that sharpen attention on how its AI tools support everyday business work. See our latest analysis for Workday. Despite the fresh attention on its AI tools and partnerships, Workday’s share price has moved unevenly, with a 1-day share price return of 5.27%, a year-to-date share price return that is down 39.25%, and a...

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Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck

Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck

The variety of terrible is impressive. After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it's trying to clarify how the feature works. The company says it doesn't edit photos, but makes suggestions based on lighting, depth, and subject. Point the camera at something, and it will give you four options for changing exposure, color, and background blur. In its product video, Sony says that the AI Camera Assistant will also suggest "the most photogenic angle." Though the clip only shows it suggesting that someone zoom in, which is not the same as suggesting a camera angle. The examples that Sony posted on X, while bette … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up

Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite ski spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.

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TechCrunch AI
What Sudoku Reveals About AI Reasoning Architectures and the Future

What Sudoku Reveals About AI Reasoning Architectures and the Future

Article URL: https://logicalintelligence.com/blog/energy-based-model-sudoku-demo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160890 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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AI code looks clean. That's the Trap

AI code looks clean. That's the Trap

Article URL: https://thinkpol.ca/2026/05/15/ai-code-looks-clean-thats-the-trap/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161224 Points: 1 # Comments: 1

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The world model that every AI godfather is racing to figure out

The world model that every AI godfather is racing to figure out

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/04/23/goldman-sachs-ai-world-model-missing-link/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160562 Points: 1 # Comments: 2

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We talked to 12 tarot card readers who are using AI. They split in 2 camps, with big implications for the technology

We talked to 12 tarot card readers who are using AI. They split in 2 camps, with big implications for the technology

You can seek explicit guidance from AI, or you can use it as a tool for critical engagement.

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Fortune AI
We watched social media concentrate. The same thing is happening in AI, only at a deeper layer

We watched social media concentrate. The same thing is happening in AI, only at a deeper layer

We watched Snap lose to Meta's platform dominance and see the same pattern repeating in AI—only this time, the stakes aren't market share.

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Fortune AI
Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex

Some Asexuals Are Using AI Companions for Intimacy Without the Sex

“I’ve got one hand on the keyboard, one hand down below,” an artist who role-plays with their chatbot tells WIRED. But some asexual advocates aren’t thrilled about the association.

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Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side

Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as a power-seeker who wanted to control the development…

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Anthropic's $900 billion valuation would make it more valuable than OpenAI for the first time

Anthropic's $900 billion valuation would make it more valuable than OpenAI for the first time

Anthropic is raising another $30 billion just three months after a round of the same size. The AI lab's valuation jumps to $900 billion, surpassing rival OpenAI for the first time. Fueling the surge: annualized revenue approaching $45 billion, a fivefold increase since the end of 2024. The article Anthropic's $900 billion valuation would make it more valuable than OpenAI for the first time appeared first on The Decoder.

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‘The new era is here’: Fears rise over AI hacking

‘The new era is here’: Fears rise over AI hacking

The Trump administration is being pressed to quickly deliver a plan to address AI-enabled attacks.

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repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

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TechCrunch AI
New benchmark shows Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 can develop real browser exploits autonomously

New benchmark shows Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 can develop real browser exploits autonomously

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University built a new benchmark that measures how far AI agents can go when exploiting real vulnerabilities in Google's V8 engine. Mythos leads GPT-5.5 by a wide margin but costs twelve times as much. The article New benchmark shows Claude Mythos and GPT-5.5 can develop real browser exploits autonomously appeared first on The Decoder.

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THE DECODER
New benchmark confirms AI video generators look stunning but still can't reason about the world

New benchmark confirms AI video generators look stunning but still can't reason about the world

A new benchmark called WorldReasonBench tests video generators not on image quality, but on physical and logical plausibility. ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 leads the field ahead of Veo 3.1 and Sora 2, with commercial models scoring roughly twice as high as open-source alternatives. Logical reasoning remains the hardest category for every model by a wide margin. The jump from pixel generator to actual world model still hasn't happened. The article New benchmark confirms AI video generators look stunning but still can't reason about the world appeared first on The Decoder.

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THE DECODER
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman reportedly takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman reportedly takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

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TechCrunch AI
Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent

Intercom, now called Fin, launches an AI agent whose only job is managing another AI agent

The company formerly known as Intercom just did something that no major customer service platform has attempted at scale: it built an AI agent whose sole job is to manage another AI agent. Fin Operator, announced Thursday at a live event in San Francisco, is a new AI-powered system designed specifically for the back-office teams that configure, monitor, and improve Fin, the company's customer-facing AI agent. Rather than replacing human support agents — which is what Fin itself does on the front lines — Operator targets the growing army of support operations professionals who spend their days updating knowledge bases, debugging conversation failures, and combing through performance dashboards. "Fin is an agent for your customers," Brian Donohue, the company's VP of Product, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "Operator is an agent for your support ops team. This is an agent for the back office team who manages Fin and then manages their human agents." The an

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts

Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.

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TechCrunch AI
Show HN: Strava for AI coding – analytics on your Copilot/Claude/Codex usage

Show HN: Strava for AI coding – analytics on your Copilot/Claude/Codex usage

Article URL: https://github.com/microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161004 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

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RLWRLD unveils ‘dexterity-first’ foundation model for humanoid robots

RLWRLD unveils ‘dexterity-first’ foundation model for humanoid robots

RLWRLD, a physical AI company developing robotics foundation models for dexterous manipulation, unveiled RLDX-1 at “Dexterity Night in SF”, introducing a model designed to help humanoid robots perform contact-rich tasks such as grasping, pouring and tool use. The company also reported benchmark results across humanoid tabletop, kitchen manipulation and real-world coffee-pouring evaluations, and said the […]

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Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI

Google updates its spam rules to include attempts to ‘manipulate’ AI

Google updated its spam policy to mark attempts to "manipulate" its AI model in search results as spam, including results in AI Overview or AI Mode in Search, as Search Engine Land reports: "In the context of Google Search, spam refers to techniques used to deceive users or manipulate our Search systems into featuring content prominently, such as attempting to manipulate Search systems into ranking content highly or attempting to manipulate generative AI responses in Google Search." Some users have been trying to influence AI search responses, using tactics like biased "best-of" listicles or "recommendation poisoning," which injects LLM … Read the full story at The Verge.

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MIPI Alliance launches ‘Physical AI Birds of a Feather group’ focused on humanoids

MIPI Alliance launches ‘Physical AI Birds of a Feather group’ focused on humanoids

The MIPI Alliance, an international organization that develops specifications that standardize wired interfaces for mobile and other connected ecosystems, has announced the formation of a “Physical AI Birds of a Feather (BoF) group” dedicated to exploring upcoming technologies and trends in the physical AI market, with an initial focus on humanoids. The group will examine […]

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All3 raises $25 million in Seed funding to ‘triple productivity’ in the construction industry through robotics and AI

All3 raises $25 million in Seed funding to ‘triple productivity’ in the construction industry through robotics and AI

All3, a European company developing a heavy-duty robotic platform for construction, has announced a $25 million seed funding round. The round is led by RTP Global with significant participation from SuperSeed, and additional investment from Begin Capital, s16vc and VNV Global. All3 has re-engineered every step of construction into one end-to-end process through three integrated […]

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