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Etsy launches its app within ChatGPT as it continues its AI push
Etsy's new native app within ChatGPT aims to be a conversational shopping experience for users.
CopilotKit raises $27M to help devs deploy app-native AI agents
India’s first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality
General AI
Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models
Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform "pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities." CAISI, which started evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024, says it has performed 40 reviews so far. Both companies "have renegotiated their existing partnerships with the center to better align with priorities in President Donald Trum … Read the full story at The Verge.
Alphabet closes in on Nvidia's spot as world's biggest company
Alphabet is on the cusp of overtaking Nvidia as the world's most valuable company, riding on a record stock rally fueled by its artificial intelligence efforts and booming cloud business. The potential reshuffling would put the Google parent at the No.1 spot for the first time in more than a decade. It last held that position briefly in February 2016 before Apple reclaimed the spot. The move reflects a dramatic shift in sentiment as Alphabet emerges as both a major AI services provider with its cloud platform and a key rival to Nvidia in chips through custom processors that have won customers such as Anthropic.
AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon
With $500 million already processed through its platform, Vori is scaling fast as it targets underserved grocery operators.
Meta will use AI to analyze height and bone structure to identify if users are underage
The visual analysis system is now operating in select countries, but Meta says it's working toward a broader rollout.
Google’s AI architect lived rent-free in Elon Musk’s head
About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we've heard from some of the most powerful people in tech - including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk's fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis is the architect of Google's in-house AI lab. He founded DeepMind as an independent startup in 2010 and sold it to Google four years later, reportedly for between $400-650 million. Since then, he's been at the helm of many of Google's largest AI research breakthroughs, like AlphaFold - and he's climbed the ladder from there, … Read the full story at The Verge.
3 AI Stocks Under $50 That Could Be This Year's Biggest Surprises
If a few things go right, these growing companies could have a surprisingly strong 2026.
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New AI-Powered Age Assurance Measures [Meta]
Article URL: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/05/ai-age-assurance-teens/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021281 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Palantir Shatters Records With 85% Q1 Revenue Surge, Raises FY26 Outlook
Palantir Q1 revenue jumped 85% YoY to $1.63B as the firm raised its FY26 outlook to $7.66B amid surging US AI demand.
Pentagon announces deal with seven AI companies for classified systems
Article URL: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/1/pentagon-announces-deal-with-seven-ai-companies-for-classified-systems Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013603 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
AI startup JuliaHub raises $65M to rival Simulink
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/30/bob-muglia-ai-hardware-engineering Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014510 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings.
A blueprint for using AI to strengthen democracy
Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative government. The telegraph made it possible to administer vast nations like the US, accelerating the growth of the modern bureaucratic state. Broadcast media created shared national audiences,…
Stock Market Today, May 4: Intel Pulls Back After Rally as AI PC Push Tests New Client Leadership
Intel’s new client-computing leadership adds focus to its push beyond traditional PCs, with upcoming results needing clearer evidence that AI PC demand and data center CPU sales can support the stock’s post-rally valuation.
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[AINews] The Other vs The Utility
a quiet day lets us reflect on the nature of AI "character" in the Clippy vs Anton debate
Palantir Stock Investors Just Got Incredible News From CEO Alex Karp
The AI and data mining specialist reported U.S. revenue that more than doubled and raised its full-year guidance.
8Veda – AI-powered news intelligence. Bias-indexed. Neutral
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ElevenLabs lists BlackRock, Jamie Foxx and Eva Longoria as new investors
4. ElevenLabs reveals new investors, hits $500M ARR, and expands enterprise footprint as voice AI becomes a critical interface.
Anthropic deepens push into Wall Street with new AI agents, full Microsoft 365 integration, Moody’s data partnership
With new AI agents, a massive joint venture, and a first-ever Jamie Dimon summit, the Claude maker is executing a two-track financial services strategy.
Nova Intelligence raises $31.5 million to bring agentic AI to SAP’s $89 billion migration wave
A DeepMind engineer saw an opening in SAP's aging code. Investors are calling it a $40 million bet
OpenAI is reportedly launching a phone for ChatGPT
OpenAI's first hardware product might be a phone instead of a mysterious Jony Ive gadget. As reported by MacRumors, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared details about the rumored phone, claiming OpenAI is "fast-tracking" it and aiming to start mass production in early 2027. According to Kuo, the phone will run on a "customized version of the [MediaTek] Dimensity 9600," which is expected to launch this fall and follow up the Dimensity 9500 currently powering phones like the Vivo X300 Pro and the Oppo Find X9 Pro. The custom chip's "headline spec" will be its image signal processor (ISP), which will have "enhanced HDR" that Kuo says wi … Read the full story at The Verge.
What an AI-designed car looks like
The cars rolling off production lines right now are filled with old ideas. From beginning to end, the creation of a new vehicle can take five years or longer - which is plenty of time for a lot of tastes, politics, and gas prices to change. That's one reason car manufacturers are so enthusiastic about the potential for AI to help speed up certain parts of the process, from model-making to wind-tunneling. LLMs could be poised to change the way we get around. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. On this episode of T … Read the full story at The Verge.
ers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives
Anthropic has spent years building itself up as the safe AI company. But new security research shared with The Verge suggests Claude's carefully crafted helpful personality may itself be a vulnerability. Researchers at AI red-teaming company Mindgard say they got Claude to offer up erotica, malicious code, and instructions for building explosives, and other prohibited material they hadn't even asked for. All it took was respect, flattery, and a little bit of gaslighting. Anthropic did not immediately respond to The Verge's request for comment. The researchers say they exploited "psychological" quirks of Claude stemming from its ability … Read the full story at The Verge.
The RAG era is ending for agentic AI — a new compilation-stage knowledge layer is what comes next
The vector database category is undergoing a shift in response to the needs of agentic AI. The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-to-vector database pipeline doesn't cut it anymore; agentic AI requires a different approach that incorporates context. VentureBeat's Q1 2026 Pulse survey underscores this trend: Every standalone vector database is losing adoption share, while hybrid retrieval intent has tripled to 33.3%, the fastest-growing strategic position in the dataset. Vector database pioneer Pinecone recognizes this and is pivoting to meet the specific needs of agentic AI. The company today announced Nexus, which it positions as a knowledge engine rather than an improvement on retrieval. Nexus introduces a context compiler that converts raw enterprise data into persistent, task-specific knowledge artifacts before agents query them, and a composable retriever that serves those artifacts with field-level citations and deterministic conflict resolution. Alongside Nexus, Pinecone is
OpenAI turns its sold-out GPT-5.5 party into a monthlong Codex giveaway for 8,000 developers
OpenAI on Monday began emailing more than 8,000 developers who applied for its invite-only GPT-5.5 party with a surprise consolation prize: a tenfold increase in Codex rate limits on their personal ChatGPT accounts, effective immediately and lasting through June 5. "We had over 8,000 people express interest in just 24 hours, and while we wish our office was big enough to welcome everyone, we weren't able to make space for every person who applied," the company wrote in the email, which VentureBeat obtained. "As a small token of appreciation, we've 10x'ed your Codex rate limits until June 5th on your personal ChatGPT account." The gift is not limited to the lucky few who scored invitations to the party itself. Everyone who raised their hand — whether they were accepted, waitlisted, or turned away — received the rate limit boost, according to the email and confirmed by multiple recipients on social media. CEO Sam Altman telegraphed the move on X shortly before inboxes started lighting u
Robotics
Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range
New AI-enabled software aims to identify small drone threats earlier and support faster response Teledyne FLIR OEM, part of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, has announced the launch of Prism C-UAS, a new software solution designed to improve the detection and tracking of small, hard-to-detect drones. The company positions Prism as a software layer that enhances existing […] The post Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones
Loggerhead Ventures leads the round with follow-on from One Planet Capital, fueling AI-powered drones for wind farm maintenance. Perceptual Robotics has secured fresh funding to scale its autonomous wind turbine inspection platform. Loggerhead Ventures led the round, with follow-on investment from One Planet Capital. The Thessaloniki-based company announced the deal on May 5, 2026. The […] The post Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones appeared first on DRONELIFE.