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California Claims that Amazon’s (AMZN) Collusion Drove up Consumer Prices, Citing New Evidence
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is one of the 8 Best AI Stocks to Buy According to Billionaire Ken Griffin. On April 20, 2026, Reuters reported that California accused Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) of collaborating with retailers to drive up consumer prices, referring to newly released evidence in a 3-1/2-year antitrust action led by Attorney General Rob Bonta. […]
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General AI
Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters
On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model. Notably, the model can process much longer prompts than its last generation, thanks to a new design that helps it handle large amounts of text more efficiently. Like DeepSeek’s previous models, V4 is open source, meaning it is available…
VAST Data CEO discusses AI startup's new $30B valuation
Private AI infrastructure company VAST Data has powered ahead to a new valuation of $30 billion after raising over $1 billion in its latest Series B funding round. VAST Data founder and CEO Renen Hallak speaks with Asking for a Trend's Josh Lipton about this news, where he plans to put the money to work, and who could be his firm's biggest rivals in the next phase of the AI Revolution and major data center projects.
Stock Market Today, April 24: S&P 500 and Nasdaq Set New Highs on Tech Surge
On April 24, 2026, Intel’s breakout quarter reignited chip leadership and intensified the AI giants’ grip on U.S. indexes.
DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.
NYSE Content Update: AI Company Vast Data Announces $30 Billion Valuation
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today's NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins.
China's DeepSeek launches new AI model
DeepSeek said the open-source model would compete with OpenAI’s and Google DeepMind’s advanced products.
Era raises $11M to build a software platform for AI gadgets
Era thinks that we will see many form factors of AI hardware, including glasses, rings, and pendants.
Google CEO says 75% of company's new code is AI-generated
Meta targets similar levels by midyear.
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: AI, Autonomy And Biotech Top The Ranks
This week, just half of the top 10 rounds crossed the $100 million mark, which is somewhat unusual in this high-flying era for venture megarounds. Nonetheless some large checks did get written, led by Amazon’s $5 billion investment and partnership deal with Anthropic.
Show HN: Harmonic Progression Podcast on Humans, AI and Tech News
Article URL: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Q03ytkssZxw2YUKzwUkKZ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893331 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Report: Samsung execs worried company could lose money on smartphones for the first time
The AI-driven memory shortage is hitting Samsung's bottom line.
Nigerian billionaire Dangote proposes new East Africa refinery
The new crude oil refinery in Tanzania would replicate the output of his giant plant in Lagos.
DeepSeek unveils its newest model at rock-bottom prices and with ‘full support’ from Huawei chips
The narrow gap between DeepSeek and leading U.S. models, as well as its low prices, raises questions about OpenAI and Anthropic's competitive moat.
Upstart’s new millennial CEO, a Yale dropout, thinks AI can make every American 10% richer
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AutoFlight completes first 2-ton-class eVTOL tea delivery in China
AutoFlight has successfully completed China’s first 2-ton-class eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft) dedicated spring tea transport trial in Guizhou, a mountainous province in western China. The trial deployed AutoFlight’s CarryAll (V2000CG) – a fully autonomous, unmanned eVTOL aircraft – to transport fresh spring tea between Anshun and Guiyang, two Guizhou cities approximately 120 […]
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.
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GPT 5.5 sets new record in proofreading benchmark
Article URL: https://revise.io/errata-bench Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896710 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals
Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its hotly anticipated next-generation AI model V4 on Friday, saying that the open-source model can compete with leading closed-source systems from US rivals including Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. DeepSeek says V4 marks a major improvement over prior models, especially in coding, a capability that has become central to AI agents and helped drive the success of tools like ChatGPT Codex and Claude Code. The release is also a milestone for China's chip industry, with DeepSeek explicitly highlighting compatibility with domestic Huawei technology. The release comes a year after DeepSeek rattl … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/changelog Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894000 Points: 12 # Comments: 1
ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media
ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, bringing company one step closer to an AI ‘superapp’
OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories.
LLM research on Hacker News is drying up
Article URL: https://dylancastillo.co/til/llm-research-on-hacker-news-is-dying.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893860 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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
Infor launches new AI orchestration tools as research highlights scaling challenges
Infor has introduced new capabilities across its AI portfolio, alongside research suggesting many businesses are still struggling to scale artificial intelligence beyond pilot stages. The company’s April release includes updates to its Infor Velocity Suite and the limited availability of an enhanced Infor Agentic Orchestrator. The announcement is supported by findings from the Infor Enterprise […]
Kollmorgen launches layout analysis tool to improve mobile robot performance
Kollmorgen has introduced a new software tool designed to help companies plan and optimize the movement of automated vehicles and mobile robots inside factories and warehouses. Called the NDC Layout Assistant, the tool is aimed at improving how routes are designed for automated guided vehicles and autonomous mobile robots. (NDC stands for Navigation and Driving […]
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 amid a shift to rapid-fire AI updates
Just weeks after its last update, OpenAI is back with GPT-5.5—promising more intuitive, agentic performance and fewer hallucinations for business users.
Robotics
Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications
Pudu plans to use the funding to develop its embodied AI, grow its product portfolio, and expand in global markets beyond service robots. The post Pudu Robotics raises nearly $150M as it targets industrial applications appeared first on The Robot Report.