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Talking to AI agents is one thing — what about when they talk to each other? New startup BAND debuts 'universal orchestrator'
For the past eighteen months, the corporate world has been obsessed with the "builder" phase of the generative AI revolution. Enterprises have raced to deploy autonomous agents to handle everything from customer support to complex codebase refactoring. However, as these digital workers proliferate, a new, more structural problem has emerged: fragmentation. Agents built on LangChain cannot easily hand off tasks to those built on CrewAI; a Salesforce-embedded agent has no native way to coordinate with a custom-built Python script running on a private cloud. Today, a new startup, BAND (also known as Thenvoi AI Ltd.) exited stealth with $17 million in Seed funding to provide the "interaction infrastructure" necessary to turn these isolated tools into a unified, collaborative workforce. "In order for agents to become real players in the global economy, they need ways to communicate, just like humans do," said co-founder and CEO Arick Goomanovsky in an interview with VentureBeat, continui
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Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Microsoft is rolling out a new Agent Mode inside Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint this week. Previously described by Microsoft as "vibe working," the Agent Mode is a more powerful version of the Copilot experience in Office that Microsoft has been trying to sell to businesses. "When we first shipped Copilot, foundation models were not powerful enough to use Copilot to command the applications," admits Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. "This meant Copilot was a passive partner in documents: it could answer questions but missed the mark when it was asked to take action on the canvas direc … Read the full story at The Verge.
AI and Teaching – The Brave New World
Article URL: https://steveblank.com/2026/04/22/ai-and-teaching-the-brave-new-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47876776 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Channel Partners Conference & Expo and MSP Summit 2026 Reveals Four Key Industry Trends as Satellite Technology and AI Drive Unprecedented Growth
LAS VEGAS, April 23, 2026--Channel Partners Conference & Expo and MSP Summit 2026, the world’s largest independent, vendor-neutral channel event, concluded its 2026 edition with a record-breaking 7,900+ registrants, representing IT and communications channel professionals. With 40% of attendees joining for the first time, this year’s event reflected a surging, increasingly influential channel ecosystem, one that is rapidly redefining its role in driving business growth, innovation and global con
Google Cloud launches two new AI chips to compete with Nvidia
Google's newest TPUs are faster and cheaper than the previous versions. But the company is still embracing Nvidia in its cloud — for now.
New Insights from MarginBusiness Reveal Why Amazon Europe Expansion Falls Short for U.S. Brands
Boca Raton, Florida--(Newsfile Corp. - April 23, 2026) - MarginBusiness, an Amazon growth partner specializing in European marketplaces, today released new insights explaining why many U.S.-based Amazon brands struggle to replicate their domestic success across Europe, highlighting fundamental differences in customer behavior, search intent, and conversion dynamics. To view the full announcement, including downloadable images, bios, and more, click here. Key Takeaways: ...
I, AI – a memoir written in first person by an AI about its own existence
Article URL: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX2Z9D9X Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47873339 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Hands on with X’s new AI-powered custom feeds
X's AI-powered custom timelines are replacing Communities, with Grok-curated feeds...and new ad slots.
Google updates Workspace to make AI your new office intern
Google has introduced a host of new automated functions into Workspace, all of which are driven by Workspace Intelligence, its new AI system.
Palantir and AIP Specialist Firm, Vanyar, Launches
Vanyar launches today as a specialist firm focussed on Palantir Foundry and AIP. Its launch comes at a critical time in the market when enterprise AI transformation programmes are becoming slower, more complex and increasingly difficult to deliver. These initiatives, which often involve platforms like Palantir, continue to fall short for many companies wanting to get ahead.
Ex-OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek launches Core Automation to build the most automated AI lab in the world
New AI lab, familiar face: former OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek wants to push past the limits of today's AI architectures with a small team and new learning methods. The article Ex-OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek launches Core Automation to build the most automated AI lab in the world appeared first on The Decoder.
New AI tool reshapes the cybersecurity landscape
There appears to be consensus that Mythos represents a "step change" in capability and is a taste of the new digital world that we now inhabit.
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Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multi-billion-dollar deal
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Google Cloud for AI infrastructure powered by Nvidia's latest GB300 chips, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
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Cloneable Raises $4.6M To ‘Clone’ Expert Worker Knowledge With Agentic AI For Utilities And Infrastructure
Cloneable, a startup that uses AI to shadow human experts in heavy industries such as energy and replicate their specialized workflows into autonomous agents, has raised $4.6 million in seed funding, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
Omni raises $120 million to fix one of AI’s biggest enterprise data problems
Iconiq is backing the $1.51 billion startup building a “semantic layer” that translates company data for AI agents and humans alike.
OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for Clinicians outperforms doctors on clinical tasks even when they have unlimited time and web access
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT for Clinicians, a free version of its chatbot for medical professionals. A new benchmark claims GPT-5.4 beats human doctors on clinical tasks, even when those doctors have unlimited time and internet access. The article OpenAI says its new ChatGPT for Clinicians outperforms doctors on clinical tasks even when they have unlimited time and web access appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI launches workspace agents that turn ChatGPT from a chatbot into a team automation platform
OpenAI is rolling out workspace agents in ChatGPT, an evolution of custom GPTs. Powered by Codex, the agents automate complex team workflows and keep running even when no one is watching. Existing custom GPTs will stick around for now, with a migration path coming later. The article OpenAI launches workspace agents that turn ChatGPT from a chatbot into a team automation platform appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI launches Privacy Filter, an open source, on-device data sanitization model that removes personal information from enterprise datasets
In a significant shift toward local-first privacy infrastructure, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, a specialized open-source model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) before it ever reaches a cloud-based server. Launched today on AI code sharing community Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, the tool addresses a growing industry bottleneck: the risk of sensitive data "leaking" into training sets or being exposed during high-throughput inference. By providing a 1.5-billion-parameter model that can run on a standard laptop or directly in a web browser, the company is effectively handing developers a "privacy-by-design" toolkit that functions as a sophisticated, context-aware digital shredder. Though OpenAI was founded with a focus on open source models such as this, the company shifted during the ChatGPT era to providing more proprietary ("closed source") models available only through its website, apps, and API — only to return to op
Google doesn't pay the Nvidia tax. Its new TPUs explain why
Every frontier AI lab right now is rationing two things: electricity and compute. Most of them buy their compute for model training from the same supplier, at the steep gross margins that have turned Nvidia into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google does not. On Tuesday night, inside a private gathering at F1 Plaza in Las Vegas, Google previewed its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units. The pitch: two custom silicon designs shipping later this year, each purpose-built for a different half of the modern AI workload. TPU 8t targets training for frontier models, and TPU 8i targets the low-latency, memory-hungry world of agentic inference and real-time sampling. Amin Vahdat, Google's SVP and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure (pictured above left), used his time onstage to make a point that matters more to enterprise buyers than any individual spec: Google designs every layer of its AI stack end-to-end, and that vertical integration is starting to show up i
Google makes an interesting choice with its new agent-building tool for enterprises
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform takes an interesting approach: It is geared for IT and technical users.
Google’s new Deep Research and Deep Research Max agents can search the web and your private data
Google on Monday unveiled the most significant upgrade to its autonomous research agent capabilities since the product's debut, launching two new agents — Deep Research and Deep Research Max — that for the first time allow developers to fuse open web data with proprietary enterprise information through a single API call, produce native charts and infographics inside research reports, and connect to arbitrary third-party data sources through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The release, built on Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro model, marks an inflection point in the rapidly intensifying race to build AI systems that can autonomously conduct the kind of exhaustive, multi-source research that has traditionally consumed hours or days of human analyst time. It also represents Google's clearest bid yet to position its AI infrastructure as the backbone for enterprise research workflows in finance, life sciences, and market intelligence — industries where the stakes of getting information wrong are e
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OpenAI unveils Workspace Agents, a successor to custom GPTs for enterprises that can plug directly into Slack, Salesforce and more
OpenAI introduced a new paradigm and product today that is likely to have huge implications for enterprises seeking to adopt and control fleets of AI agent workers. Called "Workspace Agents," OpenAI's new offering essentially allows users on its ChatGPT Business ($20 per user per month) and variably priced Enterprise, Edu and Teachers subscription plans to design or select from pre-existing agent templates that can take on work tasks across third-party apps and data sources including Slack, Google Drive, Microsoft apps, Salesforce, Notion, Atlassian Rovo, and other popular enterprise applications. Put simply: these agents can be created and accessed from ChatGPT, but users can also add them to third-party apps like Slack, communicate with them across disparate channels, ask them to use information from the channel they're in and other third-party tools and apps, and the agents will go off and do work like drafting emails to the entire team, selected members, or pull data and make pres
Robotics
Siemens Humanoid Robot Breakthrough Highlights Physical AI And Valuation Debate
Siemens (XTRA:SIE), Humanoid and NVIDIA have jointly deployed AI-powered humanoid robots in live operations at an electronics factory. The robots handle autonomous logistics tasks on the factory floor using Siemens automation systems and the NVIDIA AI stack. The rollout moves humanoid robots from controlled lab settings into real industrial workflows for the first time for this partnership. For Siemens, known for industrial automation and factory software, this move fits directly into its...
Foxglove launches unified data platform to accelerate physical AI development
Foxglove has launched “Data Search and Curation”, a new set of capabilities that helps robotics teams replace fragmented, manual data workflows with a unified platform to find and curate the mission-critical events, anomalies, and system behavior that matter most across growing volumes of operational data. The company also expanded the Foxglove Data Platform with Bring […]
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Ars Technica: Our newsroom AI policy
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/04/our-newsroom-ai-policy/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872452 Points: 13 # Comments: 1
Our newsroom AI policy
How Ars Technica uses, and doesn't use, generative AI.