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Amazon launches an AI shopping assistant for the search bar, powered by Alexa+
Alexa for Shopping is a new personalized AI shopping assistant in the Amazon search bar that replaces its Rufus assistant.
Anthropic courts a new kind of customer: small business owners
Canaccord Raises C3.ai Price Target as Tom Siebel Returns to the CEO Seat
General AI
Physician-Founded Saile Raises $2.2M To Help Doctors Find Side Jobs Using AI
Saile, which just raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding, is building an AI-powered credentialing and staffing platform designed to help physicians quickly pick up side jobs.
WhatsApp adds an incognito mode in Meta AI chats
Meta said these incognito conversations are not saved, and messages will disappear by default once you close the chat.
WhatsApp Adds Meta AI Chats That Are Built to Be Fully Private
The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations.
Micron Just Got A New $950 Price Tag: BofA Raised 4 Other AI Chip Stocks Too
One of Wall Street’s top semiconductor analysts just made one of the most aggressive price-target revisions in this AI cycle. Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya nearly doubled its price target on Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), lifting it from $500 to $950 on Wednesday. The move arrived alongside higher targets on four other AI hardware names and a third upward revision in eleven months to the firm’s 2030 forecast for artificial intelligence infrastructure spending. Bank of America now sees
Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update
The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.
Proofpoint Launches Dedicated MSP Business Unit and Introduces 365 Total Protection for North America
New MSP Platform business unit, AI-powered all-in-one Microsoft 365 protection, and Marketplace partnership with Pax8 strengthen Proofpoint’s commitment to channel and small and mid-size businessesProofpoint launches dedicated MSP Platform business unit and expands its channel-first cybersecurity strategy into North America with AI-powered Microsoft 365 protection for MSPs and SMBs.Proofpoint 365 Total Protection platform unifies email security, phishing and ransomware defense, backup, complianc
Anthropic now has more business customers than OpenAI, according to Ramp data
For the first time, Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI, according to this month’s AI Index from the fintech firm Ramp.
Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life
Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
Forget Nvidia: New Memory-Focused ETF Soars 90% As CEO Calls Chips AI's 'Biggest Bottleneck'
The explosive growth of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure has hit a critical constraint—memory chips—driving a newly launched ETF to staggering gains and pushing top semiconductor stocks to record heights. The AI Memory Squeeze Since its April 6th debut, the Roundhill Memory ETF (BATS:DRAM) has surged 90%, rapidly accumulating over $6.25 billion in assets. The fund’s meteoric rise underscores a stark reality in the tech sector: the global supply of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) cannot ke
Martha Stewart’s new AI startup wants to manage your home before things break
Hint, cofounded by Stewart and backed by Slow Ventures, uses AI to track maintenance, insurance, utility costs, and repairs—turning the home into the next frontier for AI assistants.
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit
Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
Submit Your Questions: AI Is Changing Your Job—Now What?
Pose your questions ahead of our May 27 livestream AMA, where a panel of WIRED experts will discuss how AI is transforming work.
Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry.
The newest AI boom pitch: Host a mini data center at your home
The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.
AI in the rare disease news desert
Article URL: https://www.thekabukipapers.org/articles/36 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112732 Points: 2 # Comments: 1
Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
Is AI leaving the era of "turn-based" chat? Right now, all of us who use AI models regularly for work or in our personal lives know that the basic interaction mode across text, imagery, audio, and video remains the same: the human user provides an input, waits anywhere between milliseconds to minutes (or in some cases, for particularly tough queries, hours and days), and the AI model provides an output. But if AI is to really take on the load of jobs requiring natural interaction, it will need to do more than provide this kind of "turn-based" interactivity — it will ultimately need to respond more fluidly and naturally to human inputs, even responding while also processing the next human input, be it text or another format. That at least seems to be the contention of Thinking Machines, the well-funded AI startup founded last year by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati and former OpenAI researcher and co-founder John Schulman, among others. Today, the firm announced a r
The 9 biggest new features in Android 17
AI-generated widgets are among the features coming to Android this year. | Screenshot: Google Would it shock you to hear that Android 17 is filled with new AI-enabled features, like improved dictation and vibe-coded widgets? Fortunately, that's not all. The platform is getting non-AI updates too, from an emoji overhaul to a new screentime tool that helps you avoid distracting apps. Google has just revealed the biggest changes coming in its next OS update as part of its dedicated Android Show, ahead of next week's big I/O developer conference. The Android software updates came alongside a tease of upcoming Android-powered Googlebook laptops and a host of Android Auto updates. Here are all the new updates that matter and when you can … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI launches Daybreak, an AI platform for cyber defense
Article URL: https://firethering.com/openai-daybreak-ai-cybersecurity/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109759 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing
Hollywood actors and producers are standing behind a new AI licensing standard that will tell AI systems whether they'll need to pay to use a person's likeness, creative work, characters, and designs. With the Human Consent Standard, people can set terms for the use of their work or likeness, including giving AI systems full permission to use their content, allowing access with certain requirements, or restricting access entirely. The Human Consent Standard builds upon the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) Standard, which launched last year as a way for websites to signal how AI systems use their work. RSL Media, a nonprofit cofounded by Cate B … Read the full story at The Verge.
OpenAI launches cybersecuity model to rival Anthropic’s Mythos
Mythos was only released to a select few organizations to help them patch problems; OpenAI will do likewise.
Google announces "Googlebook": Android-based, AI-focused Chromebook replacement
Article URL: https://www.pcguia.pt/2026/05/adeus-chromebook-a-google-anunciou-uma-nova-geracao-de-computadores-portateis-centrados-em-ia/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107202 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
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Will AI Agents Become the New Distribution Layer?
I have been pondering whether ai agents could potentially become a true distribution channel for software, services, and APIs. For a long time, scientific discoveries have been made through those familiar channels: Search engines App Store Social media Comment website Advertisement Friends and Communities However, these agents might become another form of "barrier". If users start asking the agents to select tools, compare suppliers, recommend APIs, book services, and even complete the purchase process, then this agent is no longer merely an interface role. It has become part of the entire distribution process. This raises some practical questions： How can the product be made easy for the agents to understand? How should the agents decide which products are worth recommending? When it comes to money， what should be disclosed? How do attribution， conversion tracking， and settlement work? Then， can small developers obtain a fair development path？ Or will this become another
Anthropic targets $900 billion valuation in massive new funding round - Bloomberg
Investing.com -- The artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC is seeking to raise at least $30 billion in a new financing round, according to reporting from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. This capital injection would represent the firm's largest funding effort to date as it scales to meet intense market demand. Discussions are currently centered on a pre-money valuation exceeding $900 billion for the developer of the Claude chatbot. While one source indicated the round c
Anthropic expands legal AI offerings with new Claude Cowork plugins
Anthropic launches twelve new Claude plugins for legal work covering contract law, employment law, and litigation, while connecting the chatbot to services like Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel Legal and Harvey. According to Anthropic's chief legal officer, lawyers use Claude more than almost any other profession. The article Anthropic expands legal AI offerings with new Claude Cowork plugins appeared first on The Decoder.
White Circle raises $11 million to stop AI models from going rogue in the workplace
The Paris startup, backed by leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Mistral, and Hugging Face, says companies need real-time tools to control what AI systems do after they are deployed.
Robotics
SkyDrive Signs First Japanese Helicopter Operator for SD-05 eVTOL
Tohoku Air Service, owned by Tohoku Electric Power, signs a letter of intent for one SKYDRIVE SD-05 with delivery targeted for 2028. SkyDrive has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Tohoku Air Service (TAS) for the purchase of one SKYDRIVE SD-05 eVTOL. The Toyota-based manufacturer announced the deal on May 13, 2026. SkyDrive aims […] The post SkyDrive Signs First Japanese Helicopter Operator for SD-05 eVTOL appeared first on DRONELIFE.
Research
Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion to scale AI drug discovery toward clinical trials
Isomorphic Labs, the AI drug research company led by DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, has closed a $2.1 billion Series B round led by Thrive Capital. The funding will go toward expanding its in-house platform IsoDDE and advancing drug candidates toward clinical trials. The article Alphabet's Isomorphic Labs raises $2.1 billion to scale AI drug discovery toward clinical trials appeared first on The Decoder.