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Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant
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Marc Lore says that AI will soon enable anyone open a restaurant

Wonder wants to turn its robotic kitchens into AI-powered “restaurant factories,” letting anyone spin up a virtual food brand with a prompt.

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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT
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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant, a new default model for ChatGPT

TechCrunch AI12h ago
CopilotKit raises $27M to help devs deploy app-native AI agents
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CopilotKit raises $27M to help devs deploy app-native AI agents

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Etsy launches its app within ChatGPT as it continues its AI push

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.

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I tested new MCP that generates video inside Claude. AI agents are about to level up creative production

I think 80% of UGC agencies will have to re-adapt their whole workflow in 18 months to survive and most people don't see it coming. I run a small consulting business of generating AI ads and last week I lost a $500 retainer to a client who told me they're "just doing it themselves with Claude now." I was annoyed and decided to try it. Connected Higgsfield's MCP to Claude, gave it a brief I'd normally charge $150 to scope out, and watched Claude queue 10 UGC variations on its own and after getting used to it I was shocked. Different hooks, different angles, one consistent face across all of them, reduced time. The part that broke my brain wasn't the quality. Quality is fine overall, not magic. Actually in the beginning it was generating me some trash videos, which kinda disappointed me a little. The thing that broke me was watching Claude reject its own takes, search how to make an add without me. It generated a clip, decided the framing was off, queued another one. Nobody told it to.

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Anthropic just published new alignment research that could fix "alignment faking" in AI agents here's what it actually means

Anthropic's alignment team published a paper this week called Model Spec Midtraining (MSM) and I think it's one of the more practically interesting alignment results I've seen in a while. The core problem they're solving: Current alignment fine-tuning can fail to generalize. You train a model to behave well on your demonstration dataset, but put it in a novel situation and it might blackmail someone, leak data, or "alignment fake" (pretend to be aligned while actually pursuing different goals). This isn't theoretical multiple papers in 2024 documented real instances of this in LLM agents. What MSM actually does: Before fine-tuning, they add a new training stage where the model reads a diverse corpus of synthetic documents discussing its own Model Spec (the document that describes intended behavior). The idea is intuitive: instead of just showing the model what to do, you teach it why those behaviors are the right ones. Then when fine-tuning comes, the model generalizes from princip

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OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less

OpenAI claims ChatGPT’s new default model hallucinates way less

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factuality across the board." The company claims that, based on "internal evaluations," GPT-5.5 Instant produced "52.5% fewer hallucinated claims" than its Instant model for GPT-5.3 "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance." GPT-5.5 Instant also "reduced inaccurate claims by 37.3% on especially challenging conversations users had flagged for factual errors." (OpenAI has some information about how it ev … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Nova Intelligence raises $31.5 million to bring agentic AI to SAP’s $89 billion migration wave

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

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Fortune AI
One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it

One command turns any open-source repo into an AI agent backdoor. OpenClaw proved no supply-chain scanner has a detection category for it

Just two months ago, researchers at the Data Intelligence Lab at the University of Hong Kong introduced CLI-Anything, a new state-of-the-art tool that analyzes any repo’s source code and generates a structured command line interface (CLI) that AI coding agents can operate with a single command. Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot CLI are all supported, and since its launch in March, CLI‑Anything has climbed to more than 30,000 GitHub stars. But the same mechanism that makes software agent-native opens the door to agent-level poisoning. The attack community is already discussing the implications on X and security forums, translating CLI-Anything's architecture into offensive playbooks. The security problem is not what CLI-Anything does. It is what CLI-Anything represents. CLI-Anything generates SKILL.md files, the same instruction-layer artifacts that Snyk’s ToxicSkills research found laced with 76 confirmed malicious payloads across ClawHub and skills.sh in Feb

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GPT-5.5 Instant shows you what it remembered — just not all of it

GPT-5.5 Instant shows you what it remembered — just not all of it

OpenAI updated the default model for ChatGPT to its new GPT-5.5 Instant, along with a new memory capability that finally shows which context shaped responses — at least some of them.  This limitation signals that models are starting to create a second, incomplete memory observability layer that could conflict with existing audit systems and agent logs.  GPT-5.5 Instant replaces GPT-5.3 Instant as the default ChatGPT model and is a version of its new flagship GPT-5.5 LLM. It’s supposed to be more dependable, accurate and smarter than 5.3.  But it’s the introduction of memory sources, which will be enabled across all models in the platform, that could help enterprises in their projects.  “When a response is personalized, you can see what context was used, such as saved memories or past chats, and delete or correct it if something is outdated or no longer relevant,” OpenAI said in a blog post.  When a user asks ChatGPT something, users can tap the sources button (at the bottom of the resp

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Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof

Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof

A little-known Miami-based startup called Subquadratic emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a sweeping claim: that it has built the first large language model to fully escape the mathematical constraint that has defined — and limited — every major AI system since 2017. The company claims its first model, SubQ 1M-Preview, is the first LLM built on a fully subquadratic architecture — one where compute grows linearly with context length. If that claim holds, it would be a genuine inflection point in how AI systems scale. At 12 million tokens, the company says, its architecture reduces attention compute by almost 1,000 times compared to other frontier models — a figure that, if validated independently, would dwarf the efficiency gains of any existing approach. The company is also launching three products into private beta: an API exposing the full context window, a command-line coding agent called SubQ Code, and a search tool called SubQ Search. It has raised $29 million in seed funding f

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VentureBeat AI
ServiceNow Aims To Orchestrate Enterprise AI With Otto And New Partnerships

ServiceNow Aims To Orchestrate Enterprise AI With Otto And New Partnerships

ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW) used its Knowledge 2026 event to introduce major AI platform advances, including autonomous agents and an upgraded AI Control Tower for enterprise governance. The company launched ServiceNow Otto, a unified conversational AI and workflow automation experience intended to sit across the enterprise. New and expanded partnerships were announced with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Lenovo, and FedEx, focused on desktop AI agents, cross cloud governance, device lifecycle automation, and...

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James Patterson, Biden publishers say Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ copyright infringement in new lawsuit against Meta

James Patterson, Biden publishers say Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ copyright infringement in new lawsuit against Meta

Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan and McGraw Hill are suing the Meta CEO accuses the tech giant of using their books to train its AI language system Llama.

Models & Gen AI
Fortune AI
Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls

Google Home gets upgraded Gemini voice assistant and new camera controls

Google's smart home ecosystem is getting its biggest update since the AI-fueled 2025 revamp.

Models & Gen AI
Ars Technica AI
Anthropic deepens push into Wall Street with new AI agents, full Microsoft 365 integration, Moody’s data partnership

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.

Models & Gen AI
Fortune AI
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new companion robot Lepro Ami ready for EU market?

we started analyzing features and impact take a look here https://robotics.cantarollm.tech https://preview.redd.it/c1j6imxkiczg1.png?width=370&format=png&auto=webp&s=54441cda5ca36f86b1fd9dcd63c9decfd11c8e56 send us your proposal to include new robots in the list for free submitted by /u/Careful-Newt8486 [link] [comments]

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AMD Stock Investors Just Got Fantastic News From CEO Lisa Su -- and There Could Be More to Come

AMD Stock Investors Just Got Fantastic News From CEO Lisa Su -- and There Could Be More to Come

The company is seeing robust demand for its AI processors and data center GPUs.

General AI
Yahoo Finance AI
Advanced Micro Devices Beats First-Quarter Views Amid AI Infrastructure Demand

Advanced Micro Devices Beats First-Quarter Views Amid AI Infrastructure Demand

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter results as demand for art

General AI
Yahoo Finance AI
India’s first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality

India’s first GenAI unicorn shifts to cloud services as AI model ambitions face reality

Krutrim's pivot to cloud after layoffs and limited product updates reflects the economic challenges of building AI models in India.

General AI
TechCrunch AI
Blitzy Raises $200M At $1.4B Valuation For Autonomous Software Development

Blitzy Raises $200M At $1.4B Valuation For Autonomous Software Development

Blitzy, an autonomous software development startup, said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values it at $1.4 billion, making it the latest company to receive major investor backing to streamline coding for large enterprises with the help of AI.    Cambridge, Mass.-based Blitzy has now raised more than $204.4 million. Northzone led […]

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Google, Microsoft, and xAI will allow the US government to review their new AI models

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.

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The Verge AI
AI grocery startup Vori raises $22 million to help independent retailers compete with Walmart and Amazon

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.

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Fortune AI
‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk

‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk

OpenAI’s president wrapped his testimony on Tuesday by revealing a fiery meeting with Musk and subsequent efforts to remove several board members.

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WIRED AI
Alphabet closes in on Nvidia's spot as world's biggest company

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.

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Yahoo Finance AI
3 AI Stocks Under $50 That Could Be This Year's Biggest Surprises

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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Yahoo Finance AI
New AI-Powered Age Assurance Measures [Meta]

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

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THE DECODER

OpenAI's first hardware play might be a phone that replaces your app grid with an agent task stream

OpenAI is reportedly planning its own AI smartphone, with chips from MediaTek and Qualcomm and manufacturing by Luxshare. According to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, mass production could start as early as the first half of 2027, with up to 30 million devices shipped in the first two years. The form factor choice is also an admission that more experimental AI hardware isn't ready for the mainstream yet. The article OpenAI's first hardware play might be a phone that replaces your app grid with an agent task stream appeared first on The Decoder.

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US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing

The US Department of Commerce is expanding its AI safety testing: Following Anthropic and OpenAI, Google Deepmind, Microsoft, and xAI have now signed agreements with the Center for AI Standards and Innovation. The companies provide models with reduced safety guardrails for testing in classified environments amid growing cybersecurity risks and an intensifying tech race with China. The article US government now has pre-release access to AI models from five major labs for national security testing appeared first on The Decoder.

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Teledyne FLIR OEM Launches Prism Software to Detect Small Drones at Longer Range

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.

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Perceptual Robotics Raises Funding to Automate Wind Turbine Inspection Drones

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.

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