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Banana Pi Announces RISC-V Based BPI‑SM10 Developer Kit and K3 Pico‑ITX AI SBC
Article URL: https://forum.banana-pi.org/t/banana-pi-major-release-based-on-spacemit-k3-launching-bpi-sm10-developer-kit-and-k3-pico-itx-sbc/27238 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958778 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
SWI Capital Holding Ltd. presents its results for 2025, a pivotal year marked by acceleration of AI and digital infrastructure strategy and integration of investment manager Stoneweg
Here is Why Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) is Among the Stocks with the Biggest Share Buybacks
General AI
Is NVIDIA (NVDA) Among the Stocks with the Biggest Share Buybacks?
With stock buybacks of $51.76 billion in the 12 months through September 2025, NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is among the 20 Stocks with the Biggest Share Buybacks. NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) benefited from ecosystem expansion on April 27 when LiveRamp Holdings, Inc. announced native support for NVIDIA AI infrastructure. The upgrade enables brands and partners to train and deploy […]
Satya Nadella says he’s ready to ‘exploit’ the new OpenAI deal
Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said.
Sanctioned Chinese AI Firm SenseTime Releases Image Model Built for Speed
With US restrictions limiting its access to advanced tech, SenseTime is doubling down on open source with a new model optimized to run on Chinese-made chips.
Google Photos launches an AI try-on feature for clothes you already have
Google Photos is launching a new AI-powered feature you can use to virtually try on clothes you already have. Using the photos in your gallery, Google will create a virtual "wardrobe," allowing you to mix and match outfits, save the looks you like, and share them with friends. A video shared by Google shows how Photos organizes your outfits and individual pieces of clothing into a virtual "wardrobe." You can browse through the outfits you were captured wearing, as well as create new ones by choosing from tops, bottoms, skirts, dresses, and shoes to put together a new look. You can also select the button in the bottom right corner of each o … Read the full story at The Verge.
A New Chapter in AI’s Most Powerful Partnership
The team reviews more earnings reports and what they may signal about the state of the economy.
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[AINews] The Inference Inflection
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Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.
Shopify's AI-first engineering playbook
Article URL: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/inside-shopifys-ai-first-engineering-playbook Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47955284 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
AI evals are becoming the new compute bottleneck
AI won’t kill your job — it will kill the path to your first one
The AI disruption story is being told wrong. Firms aren't firing — they're freezing hiring.
Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.
AI-powered recruiting startup Dex raises $5.3 million seed round
Recruitment tool that aims to match scarce AI talent with tech companies gets backing from Notion Capital, with participation from a16z Speedrun, Concept Ventures and other.
AWS Quick's personal knowledge graph is making orchestration decisions most control planes can't see
Enterprise AI teams running centralized orchestration stacks now have a new variable to account for: AWS Quick, which expanded this week to a desktop-native agent that builds a persistent personal knowledge graph and executes actions across local files and SaaS tools — outside the visibility of most control planes. Unlike chat-based copilots that reset with each session, Quick now maintains a continuously updated knowledge graph built from the user's local files, calendar, email and connected SaaS apps. It uses it to proactively trigger actions without waiting to be asked. AWS launched Quick in October last year as an alternative to AI workflow and productivity platforms coming from Google, OpenAI and Anthropic. It was a way for enterprise employees to access insights from connected applications, an agent builder, deep research, and workflow automation. Now, it’s grown beyond a simple AI assistant and acts more as a proactive workflow agent with a stateful, real-time knowledge graph of
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LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/29/llm/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959504 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Coding Was Never the Hard Part: What I Wish Every Business Leader Knew About AI
Article URL: https://koushikdasika.com/blog/coding-was-never-the-hard-part/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959498 Points: 3 # Comments: 1
Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B
The maker of Claude has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to sources familiar with the matter.
IBM launches Bob with multi-model routing and human checkpoints to turn AI coding into a secure production system
Bringing AI agents into the enterprise software development lifecycle is fast becoming the norm. As developers experiment with new platforms, organizations are exposed to potential security and orchestration failures. Systems that work in pilots may fail once the agents start working with real-time data. Legacy tech giant IBM is one of several companies trying to address that gap by introducing more structure into how these workflows run. Yesterday, it announced the global launch of its AI-powered software development platform Bob, designed to write and test code across the development cycle, already in use by more than 80,000 of its employees after starting with just 100 internal users in summer 2025. Bob introduces a structured layer that constantly pauses for human-led checkpoints, yet by harnessing AI models to perform agentic tasks, IBM says it has saved some teams up to 70% of time "on selected tasks...equaling an average time savings of 10 hours per week." Specific models suppo
Capgemini's first-quarter revenue up 7%, in line with estimates
April 30 - French IT services group Capgemini reported a 7% rise in first-quarter revenue at constant exchange rates on Thursday, in line with guidance. The company, which serves government agencies, critical infrastructure operators and large regulated businesses, said growth would have been 11% without currency swings. CEO Aiman Ezzat told reporters AI is rapidly reshaping the company's business mix, with generative and agentic AI accounting for more than 10% of group bookings in the quarter.
Amazon’s OpenAI gambit signals a new phase in the cloud wars — one where exclusivity no longer applies
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched one of the most consequential enterprise AI plays in the company's 20-year history, simultaneously bringing OpenAI's most powerful models to its Bedrock platform, unveiling a new agentic developer framework, releasing a desktop AI productivity tool called Amazon Quick, and expanding its Amazon Connect service from a single contact-center product into a family of four agentic AI solutions targeting supply chains, hiring, healthcare, and customer experience. The announcements, made at a live event in San Francisco titled "What's Next with AWS," landed just 24 hours after OpenAI and Microsoft publicly restructured their exclusive cloud partnership — a move that, for the first time, freed OpenAI to distribute all of its products across rival cloud providers. AWS CEO Matt Garman called it "a huge partnership" and said customers have been asking for OpenAI models inside AWS "from the very early days." The timing was no accident. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy h
American AI startup Poolside launches free, high-performing open model Laguna XS.2 for local agentic coding
The AI race lately has felt a bit like a game of tennis: first, Anthropic releases a new, pricey state-of-the-art proprietary model for general users (Claude Opus 4.7), then, a week or so later, its rival OpenAI volleys back with one of its own (GPT-5.5). And all the while, Chinese companies like DeepSeek and even Xiaomi are seeking to appeal to users by playing a different game: nearing the frontier, but with open licensing and far lower costs. So it's a big surprise when a new, affordable, highly performant open source contender from the U.S. emerges. Today, we got one from the smaller, lesser-known U.S. AI startup, Poolside, founded in San Francisco in 2023. The company launched its two new Laguna large language models, both of which offer affordable intelligence optimized for agentic workflows (AI that does more than just chat or generate content, but can, in this case, write code, use third-party tools, and take actions autonomously), as well as a new coding agent harness called
Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration engine already running millions of daily executions
Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion), today released Workflows in public preview — a production-grade orchestration layer designed to move enterprise AI systems out of proofs of concept and into the business processes that generate revenue. The product, which launches as part of Mistral's Studio platform, is the company's clearest articulation yet of a thesis that is quietly reshaping the enterprise AI market: that the bottleneck for organizations adopting AI is no longer the model itself, but the infrastructure required to run it reliably at scale. "What we're seeing today is that organizations are struggling to go beyond isolated proofs of concept," Elisa Salamanca, who leads go-to-market for Mistral's enterprise products, told VentureBeat in an exclusive interview ahead of the launch. "The gap is operational. Workflows is the infrastructure to run AI systems reliably across business-critical processes." The release arriv
LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor
GPT-5.5's biggest blind spot: the Java bugs your tests won't catch
Article URL: https://www.sonarsource.com/blog/gpt-5-5-biggest-blind-spot Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954322 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
Is AI video just a prequel? Runway’s CEO thinks world models are next
AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway has a front row seat to the shift. The New York-based company has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation, and its models are going toe-to-toe with the most well-funded labs in the world, including Google and OpenAI. The technology goes way beyond […]
Robotics
China freezes new robotaxi licenses after Baidu chaos
A Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The move comes after dozens of robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu ground to a halt in traffic last month in Wuhan, creating chaos. The restrictions will prevent companies from adding new driverless cars to their fleets, expanding into new cities, or starting new test projects. It is unclear when officials will start issuing new licenses again. Bloomberg said the Wuhan incident alarmed authorities in Beijing, prompting regulators to urge local governments to review the sector to prevent similar episodes. … Read the full story at The Verge.
SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety
New platform aims to reduce operator workload while enabling coordinated drone response at scale SkyfireAI has announced an $11 million seed funding round to accelerate development of its AI-driven platform for autonomous, multi-drone operations. The round was led by Mucker Capital, with participation from AI Fund, SaaS Ventures, and others. The Huntsville, Alabama-based company is […] The post SkyfireAI Raises $11M to Advance Autonomous Multi-Drone Operations for Public Safety appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Research
Reid Hoffman Thinks Doctors Should Ask AI for a Second Opinion
The LinkedIn cofounder now has an AI drug discovery startup—and thinks not asking chatbots for medical advice is “bordering on committing malpractice.”