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Instacart co-founder launches hedge fund backing AI agents
Article URL: https://www.privatebankerinternational.com/news/instacart-co-founder-launches-hedge-fund-backing-ai-agents-over-portfolio-managers/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943978 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
AWS launches Amazon Quick desktop AI assistant
American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding
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minAction.net: Energy-First Neural Architecture Design -- From Biological Principles to Systematic Validation
arXiv:2604.24805v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern machine learning optimizes for accuracy without explicitly accounting for internal computational cost, even though physical and biological systems operate under intrinsic energy constraints. We evaluate energy-aware learning across 2,203 experiments spanning vision, text, neuromorphic, and physiological datasets, using 10 seeds per configuration and performing a factorial statistical analysis. Three findings emerge. First, architecture alone explains negligible variance in accuracy (partial eta^2 = 0.001). In contrast, the architecture x dataset interaction is large (partial eta^2 = 0.44, p < 0.001), demonstrating that optimal architecture depends critically on task modality and rejecting the assumption of a universal best architecture. Second, a controlled lambda-sweep over four orders of magnitude validates a single-parameter energy-regularized objective L = L_CE + lambda * E(theta, x): internal activation energy decreases to 6%
A New Kind of Network? Review and Reference Implementation of Neural Cellular Automata
arXiv:2604.24990v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Stephen Wolfram proclaimed in his 2003 seminal work "A New Kind Of Science" that simple recursive programs in the form of Cellular Automata (CA) are a promising approach to replace currently used mathematical formalizations, e.g. differential equations, to improve the modeling of complex systems. Over two decades later, while Cellular Automata have still been waiting for a substantial breakthrough in scientific applications, recent research showed new and promising approaches which combine Wolfram's ideas with learnable Artificial Neural Networks: So-called Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) are able to learn the complex update rules of CA from data samples, allowing them to model complex, self-organizing generative systems. The aim of this paper is to review the existing work on NCA and provide a unified modular framework and notation, as well as a reference implementation in the open-source library NCAtorch.
Alphabet (GOOGL) Expands Anthropic Partnership with Up to $40B Investment
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is one of the 10 Best Edge Computing Stocks to Buy Right Now. On April 24, 2026, Bloomberg reported that Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic, with both companies confirming the expansion of their partnership as competition intensifies in artificial intelligence. Anthropic said the agreement builds […]
Windows 11's 5GB monthly .msu updates, AI is only part of the problem
Article URL: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/04/29/i-investigated-windows-11s-massive-5gb-monthly-msu-updates-ai-is-only-part-of-the-problem/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944511 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.
Major Wall Street firm makes a bold new call on Intel stock
Wall Street loves a comeback story, but it does not always trust one. Intel has been a graveyard for investor patience for most of the past decade. The chipmaker missed the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, lost ground to Taiwan Semiconductor and Nvidia, and burned through billions trying to fix a ...
Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.
BTIG Raises Twilio Price Target to $175: Is This the AI Communications Infrastructure Play?
BTIG raised its price target on Twilio (NYSE:TWLO) to $175 from $155, while maintaining a Buy rating ahead of Q1 results. The price target hike by BTIG reinforces a growing Wall Street thesis: Twilio is becoming the communications infrastructure for the AI era. For prudent investors, the call lands with a real asterisk, since BTIG ... BTIG Raises Twilio Price Target to $175: Is This the AI Communications Infrastructure Play?
Mizuho Raises Amazon Price Target to $325: Is AWS the Real AI Winner of 2026?
Mizuho raised its price target on Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) stock to $325 from $315 and kept an Outperform rating, sharpening the bull case that AWS is becoming the cloud backbone of the AI era. The firm lifted its estimates to reflect incremental disclosures around scaling chip and AI revenue at AWS, with hyperscale customer wins driving ... Mizuho Raises Amazon Price Target to $325: Is AWS the Real AI Winner of 2026?
AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round
Recruitment tool that aims to match scarce AI talent with tech companies gets backing from Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Speedrun, Concept Ventures and other.
Eva Live Inc. (NASDAQ: GOAI) Launches “Eva Brain,” a Fully Autonomous AI Marketing Agent Designed to Replace Traditional Advertising Agencies
Las Vegas, NV, April 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eva Live Inc. (NASDAQ: GOAI), a fast-growing leader in AI-driven digital advertising, today announced the launch of “Eva Brain,” a fully autonomous artificial intelligence marketing agent designed to manage, optimize, and scale digital advertising campaigns without the need for traditional campaign teams. The launch marks a significant milestone in the company’s evolution from a performance marketing platform into a next-generation AI infrastruct
How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute
Training AI reasoning models demands resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often forced to choose between distilling knowledge from large, expensive models or relying on reinforcement learning techniques that provide sparse feedback. Researchers at JD.com and several academic institutions recently introduced a new training paradigm that sidesteps this dilemma. The technique, called Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards with Self-Distillation (RLSD), combines the reliable performance tracking of reinforcement learning with the granular feedback of self-distillation. Experiments indicate that models trained with RLSD outperform those built on classic distillation and reinforcement learning algorithms. For enterprise teams, this approach lowers the technical and financial barriers to building custom reasoning models tailored to specific business logic. The problem with training reasoning models The standard method for training reasoning models i
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
“Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant,” reads OpenAI’s coding agent instructions.
At his OpenAI trial, Musk relitigates an old friendship
It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
The judge also warned Musk and Sam Altman to curb their “propensity to use social media to make things worse outside the courtroom” after both sides traded attacks online.
Google expands Pentagon’s access to its AI after Anthropic’s refusal
After Anthropic refused to allow the DoD to use its AI for domestic mass surveillance and autonomous weapons, Google has signed a new contract with the department.
Celebrating 20 years of Google Translate: Fun facts, tips and new features to try
Google’s sharing 20 fun facts to celebrate Google Translate turning 20, from its roots as a 2006 AI experiment to supporting almost 250 languages today.
Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning, New model?
It is Audio-Image/vids-Text -> Text Original BF 16 https://huggingface.co/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-BF16 GGUF: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni-30B-A3B-Reasoning-GGUF submitted by /u/Altruistic_Heat_9531 [link] [comments]
Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins
The move comes as the trial for Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI kicks off in federal court in Oakland.
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Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration engine already running millions of daily executions
Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion), today released Workflows in public preview — a production-grade orchestration layer designed to move enterprise AI systems out of proofs of concept and into the business processes that generate revenue. The product, which launches as part of Mistral's Studio platform, is the company's clearest articulation yet of a thesis that is quietly reshaping the enterprise AI market: that the bottleneck for organizations adopting AI is no longer the model itself, but the infrastructure required to run it reliably at scale. "What we're seeing today is that organizations are struggling to go beyond isolated proofs of concept," Elisa Salamanca, who leads go-to-market for Mistral's enterprise products, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "The gap is operational. Workflows is the infrastructure to run AI systems reliably across business-critical processes." The release arriv
Bloomberg, the OG of financial data firms, has a potent new AI agent. How it built it holds lessons for other companies
Bloomberg's "AskB" shows the potential of AI agents in finance. Building it wasn't easy, Bloomberg CTO says.
World's First conversational AI skills assessment
Two AIs. One conversation. Measure real AI skills. I like to call it LLMs As Assessment (LLMAA?) One AI talks to you. A second one scores every answer in real time. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941341 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Tencent used Anthropic's Claude to fine-tune it's new Hy3 AI model
Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-companies-used-claude-improve-own-models-anthropic-says-2026-02-23/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942759 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
I used Claude’s new Dispatch feature for a month. Here’s everything I was able to do
The new AI feature is less “chatbot on your phone” and more a way to send your computer errands while you’re away.
Gemini CLI subagents make context isolation a first-class coding workflow
TL;DR: Google’s Gemini CLI subagents release matters because it packages a real coding-agent painkiller: separate context windows, restricted toolsets, and parallel specialist delegation inside one terminal workflow. The useful story is not “Google now has subagents too” — it’s that context isolation is becoming a visible product primitive instead of a hidden prompt trick. What stood out to me: - Practical changes for builders/ops (runtime, tooling, reliability). - Where the claims are strong vs. where they’re still speculative. - Question: what would you change in your stack this week because of this? Questions for folks here: - Biggest implication you see (product, infra, safety, cost)? - Any counterpoints / missing context? submitted by /u/Competitive_Dark7401 [link] [comments]
Robotics
SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety
New platform aims to reduce operator workload while enabling coordinated drone response at scale SkyfireAI has announced an $11 million seed funding round to accelerate development of its AI-driven platform for autonomous, multi-drone operations. The round was led by Mucker Capital, with participation from AI Fund, SaaS Ventures, and others. The Huntsville, Alabama-based company is […] The post SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Flex and Teradyne expand partnership to scale physical AI
Flex and Teradyne Robotics expanded their partnership to accelerate physical AI across global manufacturing facilities. The post Flex and Teradyne expand partnership to scale physical AI appeared first on The Robot Report.