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Pony.ai Announces New Generation Autonomous Driving Compute Platform Built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion
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Pony.ai Announces New Generation Autonomous Driving Compute Platform Built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion

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Assessing Lumentum Holdings (LITE) Valuation After Nvidia’s US$2b AI Data Center Optics Partnership

Assessing Lumentum Holdings (LITE) Valuation After Nvidia’s US$2b AI Data Center Optics Partnership

Nvidia’s new multiyear partnership with Lumentum Holdings (LITE), including a reported US$2b investment in manufacturing and R&D for AI data center optics, has pushed the stock firmly into focus for many investors. See our latest analysis for Lumentum Holdings. The Nvidia partnership headlines sit on top of an already very strong run, with a 30 day share price return of 13.44% and year to date share price return of 128.34%. The 1 year total shareholder return is extremely high, pointing to...

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Meet the Biggest Threat to Nvidia in AI Chips. It's Not AMD, Intel, or Broadcom

Meet the Biggest Threat to Nvidia in AI Chips. It's Not AMD, Intel, or Broadcom

Alphabet is enjoying strong demand for the AI processors it designed in-house.

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California Claims that Amazon’s (AMZN) Collusion Drove up Consumer Prices, Citing New Evidence

California Claims that Amazon’s (AMZN) Collusion Drove up Consumer Prices, Citing New Evidence

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the 8 Best AI Stocks to Buy According to Billionaire Ken Griffin. On April 20, 2026, Reuters reported that California accused Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) of collaborating with retailers to drive up consumer prices, referring to newly released evidence in a 3-1/2-year antitrust action led by Attorney General Rob Bonta. […]

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[AINews] DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T-A49B) and Flash (284B-A13B), Base and Instruct — runnable on Huawei Ascend chips

[AINews] DeepSeek V4 Pro (1.6T-A49B) and Flash (284B-A13B), Base and Instruct — runnable on Huawei Ascend chips

The prodigal Tiger returns... but is no longer the benchmarks leader.

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Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters

Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters

On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s previous models, V4 is open source, meaning it is available…

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Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos

Plus: Spy firms tap into a global telecom weakness to track targets, 500,000 UK health records go up for sale on Alibaba, Apple patches a revealing notification bug, and more.

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WIRED AI
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Autonomy And Biotech Top The Ranks

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Autonomy And Biotech Top The Ranks

This week, just half of the top 10 rounds crossed the $100 million mark, which is somewhat unusual in this high-flying era for venture megarounds. Nonetheless some large checks did get written, led by Amazon’s $5 billion investment and partnership deal with Anthropic.

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Show HN: Harmonic Progression Podcast on Humans, AI and Tech News

Show HN: Harmonic Progression Podcast on Humans, AI and Tech News

Article URL: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Q03ytkssZxw2YUKzwUkKZ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893331 Points: 1 # Comments: 0

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Report: Samsung execs worried company could lose money on smartphones for the first time

Report: Samsung execs worried company could lose money on smartphones for the first time

The AI-driven memory shortage is hitting Samsung's bottom line.

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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.

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China's DeepSeek launches new AI model

China's DeepSeek launches new AI model

DeepSeek said the open-source model would compete with OpenAI’s and Google DeepMind’s advanced products.

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AI security leaders gather in Washington as risks mount—and Mythos raises the stakes

AI security leaders gather in Washington as risks mount—and Mythos raises the stakes

Security experts debate best practices to secure AI systems in a world they admit "favors attackers."

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Fortune AI
AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials

AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials

Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new medicines.”

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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute

Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited release of its powerful, cybersecurity-focused Mythos model.

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Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by AI

Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by AI

Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.

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A Look At Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Valuation After New TSMC Partnership And Agentic AI Reveal

A Look At Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) Valuation After New TSMC Partnership And Agentic AI Reveal

Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) is back in focus after expanding its partnership with TSMC to support AI focused chips on leading process nodes, alongside fresh attention on its agentic AI design tools unveiled at CadenceLive 2026. See our latest analysis for Cadence Design Systems. The recent TSMC and Google AI alliances appear to have coincided with stronger momentum, with a 30 day share price return of 18.30% and a 1 year total shareholder return of 14.94%, building on a 5 year total...

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API

Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894000 Points: 12 # Comments: 1

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘superapp’

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘superapp’

OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories.

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GPT 5.5 sets new record in proofreading benchmark

GPT 5.5 sets new record in proofreading benchmark

Article URL: https://revise.io/errata-bench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896710 Points: 2 # Comments: 1

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Infor launches new AI orchestration tools as research highlights scaling challenges

Infor launches new AI orchestration tools as research highlights scaling challenges

Infor has introduced new capabilities across its AI portfolio, alongside research suggesting many businesses are still struggling to scale artificial intelligence beyond pilot stages. The company’s April release includes updates to its Infor Velocity Suite and the limited availability of an enhanced Infor Agentic Orchestrator. The announcement is supported by findings from the Infor Enterprise […]

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Kollmorgen launches layout analysis tool to improve mobile robot performance

Kollmorgen launches layout analysis tool to improve mobile robot performance

Kollmorgen has introduced a new software tool designed to help companies plan and optimize the movement of automated vehicles and mobile robots inside factories and warehouses. Called the NDC Layout Assistant, the tool is aimed at improving how routes are designed for automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots. (NDC stands for Navigation and Driving […]

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China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals

China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals

Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its hotly anticipated next-generation AI model V4 on Friday, saying that the open-source model can compete with leading closed-source systems from US rivals including Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. DeepSeek says V4 marks a major improvement over prior models, especially in coding, a capability that has become central to AI agents and helped drive the success of tools like ChatGPT Codex and Claude Code. The release is also a milestone for China's chip industry, with DeepSeek explicitly highlighting compatibility with domestic Huawei technology. The release comes a year after DeepSeek rattl … Read the full story at The Verge.

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 amid a shift to rapid-fire AI updates

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 amid a shift to rapid-fire AI updates

Just weeks after its last update, OpenAI is back with GPT-5.5—promising more intuitive, agentic performance and fewer hallucinations for business users.

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Fortune AI
DeepSeek’s long-awaited new model fails to narrow U.S. lead in AI

DeepSeek’s long-awaited new model fails to narrow U.S. lead in AI

DeepSeek unveiled the V4 Flash and V4 Pro series on Friday, touting top-tier performance in coding benchmarks and big advancements in reasoning and agentic tasks.

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ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media

ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media

ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.

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OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding

OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 model is more efficient and better at coding

OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing research online, making spreadsheets and documents, and doing that work across different tools. "Instead of carefully managing every step, you can give GPT-5.5 a messy, multi-part task and trust it to plan, use tools, check its work, navigate through ambiguity, and keep going," according to OpenAI. The company also notes that … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications

Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications

Pudu plans to use the funding to develop its embodied AI, grow its product portfolio, and expand in global markets beyond service robots. The post Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications appeared first on The Robot Report.

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