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Proofpoint Launches Dedicated MSP Business Unit and Introduces 365 Total Protection for North America
New MSP Platform business unit, AI-powered all-in-one Microsoft 365 protection, and Marketplace partnership with Pax8 strengthen Proofpoint’s commitment to channel and small and mid-size businessesProofpoint launches dedicated MSP Platform business unit and expands its channel-first cybersecurity strategy into North America with AI-powered Microsoft 365 protection for MSPs and SMBs.Proofpoint 365 Total Protection platform unifies email security, phishing and ransomware defense, backup, complianc
Will AI Agents Become the New Distribution Layer?
Dessn raises $6M for its production focused design tool
General AI
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
The 9 biggest new features in Android 17
AI-generated widgets are among the features coming to Android this year. | Screenshot: Google Would it shock you to hear that Android 17 is filled with new AI-enabled features, like improved dictation and vibe-coded widgets? Fortunately, that's not all. The platform is getting non-AI updates too, from an emoji overhaul to a new screentime tool that helps you avoid distracting apps. Google has just revealed the biggest changes coming in its next OS update as part of its dedicated Android Show, ahead of next week's big I/O developer conference. The Android software updates came alongside a tease of upcoming Android-powered Googlebook laptops and a host of Android Auto updates. Here are all the new updates that matter and when you can … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI launches Daybreak, an AI platform for cyber defense
Article URL: https://firethering.com/openai-daybreak-ai-cybersecurity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109759 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing
Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they'll need to pay to use a person's likeness, creative work, characters, and designs. With the Human Consent Standard, people can set terms for the use of their work or likeness, including giving AI systems full permission to use their content, allowing access with certain requirements, or restricting access entirely. The Human Consent Standard builds upon the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard, which launched last year as a way for websites to signal how AI systems use their work. RSL Media, a nonprofit cofounded by Cate B … Read the full story at The Verge.
The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.
Broadcom (AVGO) Is The Biggest Holding in Elon Musk’s Grok AI Chatbot Latest Portfolio
We just covered Grok’s Latest Stock Portfolio in 2026: Elon Musk’s AI Chatbot’s Top 10 Stock Picks. Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) ranks #4 (see Grok’s Latest Stock Portfolio in 2026: AI Assistant’s Top 5 Stock Picks). Number of Hedge Funds: 202 Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) is the biggest position in the Grok portfolio at 8.58%. Grok believes the bull […]
AI in the rare disease news desert
Article URL: https://www.thekabukipapers.org/articles/36 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112732 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Atlassian CEO: Only 4 of 13,000 Employees Could Use Our AI Tool When We First Bought It
Atlassian (NASDAQ:TEAM) co-founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes offered one of the most candid views yet on enterprise AI adoption in a recent appearance on The AI Daily Brief podcast. He shared that before Atlassian acquired Dia, the AI-powered web browser built by The Browser Company of New York, “4 people at Atlassian were allowed to ... Atlassian CEO: Only 4 of 13,000 Employees Could Use Our AI Tool When We First Bought It
Stock Market Today: Dow Futures Dip On $100 Oil, South Korea AI News; CPI Inflation Jumps (Live Coverage)
Tech futures fell as oil prices topped $100 while South Korea news triggered losses in Q1 stocks. CPI inflation picked up.
Show HN: AI to Arse – Chrome text replacer for the new age
Article URL: https://github.com/loadzero/ai-to-arse Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107447 Points: 1 # Comments: 1
China Sought Access to Anthropic’s Newest A.I. The Answer Was No
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Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
Is AI leaving the era of "turn-based" chat? Right now, all of us who use AI models regularly for work or in our personal lives know that the basic interaction mode across text, imagery, audio, and video remains the same: the human user provides an input, waits anywhere between milliseconds to minutes (or in some cases, for particularly tough queries, hours and days), and the AI model provides an output. But if AI is to really take on the load of jobs requiring natural interaction, it will need to do more than provide this kind of "turn-based" interactivity — it will ultimately need to respond more fluidly and naturally to human inputs, even responding while also processing the next human input, be it text or another format. That at least seems to be the contention of Thinking Machines, the well-funded AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati and former OpenAI researcher and co-founder John Schulman, among others. Today, the firm announced a r
Digg tries again, this time as an AI news aggregator
Digg returns (again) as another place to read AI news.
OpenAI launches cybersecuity model to rival Anthropic’s Mythos
Mythos was only released to a select few organizations to help them patch problems; OpenAI will do likewise.
Google announces "Googlebook": Android-based, AI-focused Chromebook replacement
Article URL: https://www.pcguia.pt/2026/05/adeus-chromebook-a-google-anunciou-uma-nova-geracao-de-computadores-portateis-centrados-em-ia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107202 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.
Google adds Gemini-powered Dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups
Google's transcription feature will initially launch with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones
Anthropic targets $900 billion valuation in massive new funding round - Bloomberg
Investing.com -- The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC is seeking to raise at least $30 billion in a new financing round, according to reporting from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. This capital injection would represent the firm's largest funding effort to date as it scales to meet intense market demand. Discussions are currently centered on a pre-money valuation exceeding $900 billion for the developer of the Claude chatbot. While one source indicated the round c
Anthropic expands legal AI offerings with new Claude Cowork plugins
Anthropic launches twelve new Claude plugins for legal work covering contract law, employment law, and litigation, while connecting the chatbot to services like Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Legal and Harvey. According to Anthropic's chief legal officer, lawyers use Claude more than almost any other profession. The article Anthropic expands legal AI offerings with new Claude Cowork plugins appeared first on The Decoder.
Even as hallucinations show up in legal filings, Big Law goes all in on AI with new Anthropic release
Quinn Emanuel's Christopher Kercher built his firm's litigation platform on Claude and it's "far beyond what I would've done on my own — probably ever."
Gemini’s latest updates are all about controlling your phone
Gemini Intelligence comes with a Liquid Glass-ish visual treatment. | Image: Google It is, once again, Gemini season. Google is announcing a host of new Gemini features during its pre-I/O Android showcase, many of which aim to help use your phone for you. You'll find Gemini in more places, like Chrome on Android, in your autofill suggestions, and all up in your apps - if you want. Google also has a new name for us to remember, because it just can't help itself: Gemini Intelligence. It "brings the very best of Gemini to our most advanced Android devices," according to Google's director of Android experiences, Ben Greenwood. Google is bundling some existing and new Gemini features under this name, and seems to be reserving t … Read the full story at The Verge.
Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice
Mira Murati's start-up presents its first AI model and aims to free voice AI from the question-and-answer model. The model processes audio, video and text in 200-millisecond chunks in parallel and aims to beat OpenAI's GPT Realtime 2 and Google's Gemini Live in terms of interaction quality. The article Thinking Machines Lab ships its first model and argues interactivity is what OpenAI gets wrong about voice appeared first on The Decoder.
Lovable is the first coding agent platform to adopt AIUC-1 (SoC-2 for AI Agents)
Article URL: https://www.aiuc-1.com/research/setting-the-standard-for-agentic-development Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109924 Points: 7 # Comments: 0
New Qwen3.6 27b Autoround Quant (int4) Best Recipe
I've been using the int4 Autoround quant from "Lorbus/Qwen3.6-27B-int4-AutoRound" and it has been pretty good! Great quality and performance on an RTX 5090 vllm. I decided to use a similar Autoround recipe but use the "autorund-best" preset instead, it uses more iterations to increase the quality. I have created a default version and a code calibrated quant both at int4. Recipe and calibration dataset can be found within the model card. webhie/Qwen3.6-27B-int4-AutoRound (Best Recipe) webhie/Qwen3.6-27B-int4-AutoRound · Hugging Face webhie/Qwen3.6-27B-int4-AutoRound-Code (Best Recipe) webhie/Qwen3.6-27B-int4-AutoRound-Code · Hugging Face Token Generation: 60-80tps (w/o mtp) & 130-160tps (w mtp 3) Note: This model is extremely sensitive to chat template changes, if you encounter issues (looping, incomplete responses, etc.) with any other Qwen 3.6 model try v11 from here: froggeric/Qwen-Fixed-Chat-Templates · Hugging Face V11 is included with the HF quant. submitted by /u/Oth
White Circle raises $11 million to stop AI models from going rogue in the workplace
The Paris startup, backed by leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral, and Hugging Face, says companies need real-time tools to control what AI systems do after they are deployed.
Research
Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion to scale AI drug discovery toward clinical trials
Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug research company led by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, has closed a $2.1 billion Series B round led by Thrive Capital. The funding will go toward expanding its in-house platform IsoDDE and advancing drug candidates toward clinical trials. The article Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion to scale AI drug discovery toward clinical trials appeared first on The Decoder.
Robotics
Hello Robot unveils Stretch 4: A simply useful robot that puts people first
Hello Robot, the team behind the Stretch mobile manipulation platform, have announced the release of Stretch 4. Available now for $29,950, Stretch 4 is an open-source robotics platform designed for researchers, developers, and application engineers building the next wave of Physical AI applications for general purpose robotics. “In the last few years, Physical AI has […]