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Netomi raises $110 million as Accenture and Adobe bet on AI for customer service
Netomi, the San Francisco-based startup building AI systems for enterprise customer service, said Thursday that it has raised $110 million in new funding in a round led by Accenture Ventures, with participation from Adobe Ventures, WndrCo, Silver Lake Waterman, NAVER Ventures, Metis Strategy and Fin Capital. Jeffrey Katzenberg, managing partner of WndrCo and co-founder of DreamWorks, has joined the company's board. The round builds on early backing from a roster of AI luminaries that includes OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis and Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. On its face, the financing is another large AI round in a market still awash in capital. But the deal is more revealing than that. It suggests that a new line is being drawn inside enterprise AI — not between companies that have a chatbot and companies that do not, but between companies that can show AI works in the messy, brittle, heavily governed environments where large businesses a
OpenAI’s new security model is for ‘critical cyber defenders’ only
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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
SWI Capital Holding Ltd. (SWICH or the Company) announced today that it has published its 2025 Audited Annual Report by Deloitte.
Here is Why Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) is Among the Stocks with the Biggest Share Buybacks
With stock buybacks of $55.75 billion in the 12 months through September 2025, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) is among the 20 Stocks with the Biggest Share Buybacks. Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) faced internal debate on April 27 after more than 560 Google employees reportedly signed a letter urging CEO Sundar Pichai to block the use of company AI tools […]
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 […]
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
These Men Allegedly Profit Off Teaching People How to Make AI Porn
Three Arizona women have filed a lawsuit against a group of men that alleges they used the women’s photos to make AI porn influencers, then offered online courses showing others how to do it.
Meta says its business AI now facilitates 10 million conversations a week
Meta said over 8 billion advertisers have used at least one of its gen AI tools
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.
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.
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.
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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
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.
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E-Commerce Today - CoastalPay Resolve Partnership Enhances B2B Payment Flexibility
A new partnership between CoastalPay, a payment services provider, and Resolve Pay, a B2B payments platform, is enhancing the e-commerce landscape by offering embedded net terms and installment financing to merchants. This collaboration allows CoastalPay merchants to extend flexible payment options—such as 30, 60, and 90-day net terms—at checkout without incurring credit risk or managing collections. By leveraging Resolve's AI-powered credit infrastructure, merchants can receive up to 100% of...
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
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
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.
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.
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
LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor
The retrieval rebuild: Why hybrid retrieval intent tripled as enterprise RAG programs hit the scale wall
Something shifted in enterprise RAG in Q1 2026. VB Pulse data spanning January through March tells a consistent story: the market stopped adding retrieval layers and started fixing the ones it already has. Call it the retrieval rebuild. The survey covered three consecutive monthly waves from organizations with 100 or more employees, with between 45 and 58 qualified respondents per month across platform adoption, buyer intent, architecture outlook and evaluation criteria. The data should be treated as directional. Enterprise intent to adopt hybrid retrieval tripled from 10.3% to 33.3% in a single quarter — even as 22% of qualified enterprise respondents reported having no production RAG systems at all. For data engineers and enterprise architects building agentic AI infrastructure, the data reveals a market in active transition: the RAG architecture most enterprises built to scale is not the one they expect to run by year-end. Hybrid retrieval has become the consensus enterprise strate
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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.”
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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.