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Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in 7 new countries
Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company is rolling this feature out to both desktop and iOS in all of these countries except Japan.
Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business
Siemens launches AI engineering agent to automate PLC coding and industrial workflows
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Google Bets on New Chips to Boost AI Results, Challenging Nvidia
In a matter of months, Google's AI chips have become one of the hottest commodities in the tech sector. Leading artificial intelligence developers, including some of the firm's biggest rivals, are stocking up on them. Now, the Alphabet Inc.-owned company aims to build on its momentum with the likely introduction of new chips dedicated to inference, or running AI models after they've been trained. With this push, Google is poised to further challenge market leader Nvidia Corp. in a fast-growing category for semiconductors that's fueled by surging adoption of AI software. Bloomberg News AI Infrastructure Reporter Dina Bass joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. She speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.
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[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world's leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?)
Yay Kimi!!!
AI Algorithm Enables Biological Imaging Breakthroughs
Article URL: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ai-algorithm-enables-biological-imaging-breakthroughs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841460 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Prediction: The Nasdaq Will Hit New All-Time Highs This Year. This Is the Best Artificial Intelligence (AI) Growth Stock to Own When It Does
The Nasdaq entered correction territory in late March, but the index could bounce back this year on the heels of renewed enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) stocks.
Lumentum Holdings Inc. (LITE): Light-Based AI Networking Is New Big Thing
We just covered the 12 Best AI Data Center Stocks to Buy Right Now and Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LITE) ranks 4th on this list. Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:LITE) stock has been in the headlines recently after the company announced a multi-year deal for Optical Circuit Switching (OCS) products worth billions of dollars during the Optical […]
Stock Market Today, April 20: BlackBerry Surges After QNX Expands Integration With Nvidia Edge AI Platform
Today, April 20, 2026, investors are zeroing in on how QNX’s NVIDIA edge AI push reshapes BlackBerry’s safety‑critical software story.
Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.
Stack Overflow Adds AI Assist Chat
Article URL: https://beta.stackoverflow.com/ai-assist Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840578 Points: 1 # Comments: 2
2 Major AI Companies Are About to Report Earnings. Here's Why Investors Should Tune In
These two closely followed AI companies are set to report their latest results, and investors will be watching closely to see if their latest numbers justify their premium valuations.
Deezer says 44% of new music uploads are AI-generated, most streams are fraudulent
AI tracks account for a small fraction of Deezer streams, and most are demonetized for fraud.
Adobe fights AI disruption of its own business model with new enterprise agent platform
The software giant is responding to growing pressure from AI-native competitors with a new enterprise agent platform. At the same time, the company is looking for its next chief executive. The article Adobe fights AI disruption of its own business model with new enterprise agent platform appeared first on The Decoder.
It’s not just one thing — it’s another thing
This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guarantee.
NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud
NSA is said to be using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model.
CEO and CFO suddenly depart AI nuclear power upstart Fermi
The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.
Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them
Following last year's AI-powered Darth Vader in Fortnite that swore in a re-creation of James Earl Jones' voice, Epic Games is now letting Fortnite creators experiment with a new "conversations" tool to create AI-powered characters that players can talk and interact with. "Instead of authoring dialogue trees for characters in your islands, conversations transforms an NPC into an AI-powered character capable of unscripted dialogue and interactions with players, like a quest giver or narrator," Epic says. "You define who the character is with simple prompts-how they think, what they know, and how they behave-and then select a voice that match … Read the full story at The Verge.
TSMC Earnings, New N3 Fabs, The Nvidia Ramp
TSMC's earnings suggest that the company's leadership is not truly bought into the AI growth story.
Google plans nearly two million new AI chips as it turns to Marvell for custom designs
Google is in talks with chip designer Marvell Technology to develop two new specialized chips for its data centers, according to The Information, citing two sources. The article Google plans nearly two million new AI chips as it turns to Marvell for custom designs appeared first on The Decoder.
[D] It seems that EVERY DAY there are around 100 - 200 new machine learning papers uploaded on Arxiv
Only counting those categorized as cs.LG. I'm sure there are multiple other subcategories with even more ML papers uploaded such as cs.AI, and math.OC How are you keeping up with the research in this field? submitted by /u/NeighborhoodFatCat [link] [comments]
Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control.
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Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its platform for AI agents
Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/technology/salesforce-launches-headless-360-to-turn-its-entire-platform-into-infrastructure-for-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839183 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
LLM from scratch (32l) – Interventions: updated instruction fine-tuning results
Article URL: https://www.gilesthomas.com/2026/04/llm-from-scratch-32l-interventions-instruction-fine-tuning-tests Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842959 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
The long-term risks of the All-In Podcast, illustrated. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Turbosquid, Getty Images One of the most mortifying things about knowing a lot of techies is listening to them tell me excitedly about some very important discovery that they believe they have made. Recently, I ran into an acquaintance of mine, who began talking my ear off about an amazing discovery he'd made with LLMs. Knowledge, it turns out, is structured into language! You could put one word into ChatGPT and it might understand what you wanted, or make up a word and see if it understood what you meant! These amazing new tools have revealed that the English corpus contains so much about its speakers! He concluded that LLMs are a discovery on par with writing. … Read the full story at The Verge.
GPT 5.4 solves major open math problem- Comments by Terry Tao and Jared Lichtman
Article URL: https://www.erdosproblems.com/forum/thread/1196 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839372 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
built my first AI agent yesterday
So I've been putting this off for months because every tutorial made it sound like you need a PhD and a startup budget to even begin. Turns out that's bullshit. Started yesterday at 2pm with literally just OpenAI's API and a Python script. No frameworks, no fancy vector databases, just me trying to make something that could answer questions about my company's support docs. First attempt was embarrassing. The thing would confidently tell customers we sold motorcycles (we don't, we make accounting software). But I kept going. By 9pm I had something that actually worked. Like, genuinely helpful responses that pulled the right info from our knowledge base. The secret wasn't some complex architecture, it was just understanding the basic flow. You feed the user question to a search function that finds relevant docs. Those docs get stuffed into a prompt with the original question. Send it all to GPT. Done. Obviously this is the kiddie pool version and I'm already hitting walls (the thin
New Local LLM Rig: Ryzen 9700X + Radeon R9700. Getting ~120 tok/s! What models fit best?
Hi ! I just finished building a workstation specifically for local inference and wanted to get your thoughts on my setup and model recommendations. •GPU: AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (32GB GDDR6 VRAM) •CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9700X •RAM: 64GB DDR5 •OS: Fedora Workstation •Software: LM Studio (Vulkan backend), wanna test LLAMA •Performance: Currently hitting a steady ~120 tok/s on simple prompts. (qwen3.6-35b-a3b) What is the largest model architecture you recommend running comfortably? Should I be focusing on Q4_K_M quantizations ? submitted by /u/jsorres [link] [comments]
Google launches generative UI standard for AI agents
Google's A2UI 0.9 is a framework-agnostic standard that lets AI agents generate UI elements on the fly, tapping into an app's existing components across web, mobile, and other platforms. The article Google launches generative UI standard for AI agents appeared first on The Decoder.
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Nvidia and partners showcase AI-driven manufacturing systems at Hannover Messe 2026
Nvidia and a broad ecosystem of industrial partners are showcasing the latest advances in AI-driven manufacturing at Hannover Messe 2026, highlighting how artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape engineering, factory operations, and robotics deployment at scale. The event, running April 20-24 in Hannover, Germany, brings together companies including Siemens, SAP, ABB, Dassault Systèmes, Microsoft and […]