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Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit
Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.
Schematic Raises $6.5M To Help Companies Update Their Pricing Faster And Easier In The AI Era
John Ternus’ first big problem is AI
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YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.
Australia's Syenta raises $26 million to ease AI chip bottleneck, former Intel CEO joins board
Syenta, an Australian semiconductor technology startup, said on Tuesday that it has raised $26 million for a new manufacturing technique that could help ease persistent supply chain bottlenecks for artificial intelligence. Along with the funding, the company said it will open an office in the U.S. state of Arizona, near the manufacturing facilities of Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, and that former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger will be joining its board of directors. Modern AI chips such as those from Nvidia, Google and others are not a single chip, but rather multiple chips bonded together with what is known as advanced packaging technology, mostly from TSMC.
Amazon deepens AI partnership with Anthropic with $5B investment
Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced a $5 billion investment in AI company Anthropic, alongside plans for up to an additional $20 billion in future funding tied to commercial milestones. The funding builds on an earlier investment of approximately $8 billion and is part of a broader...
GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists
AI music startup GRAI says fans want to remix tracks, not generate songs from scratch.
Siemens launches AI engineering agent to automate PLC coding and industrial workflows
Siemens has launched the Eigen Engineering Agent, its purpose-built AI for automation engineering, now generally available. The Eigen Engineering Agent represents a new class of industrial AI product: one that no longer just generates suggestions but instead uses multi-step reasoning and self-correction to carry out tasks autonomously. Unlike generic AI tools, the Eigen Engineering Agent […]
This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men
A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.
Japanet expands its VC fund after bets on Anthropic and xAI pay off
The Nagasaki-based retailer known for infomercials targeting seniors in aging Japan will allocate $200 million to the fund, up from an initial $50 million in 2021.
Yelp is making its AI chatbot way more useful
Yelp is giving its chatbot assistant a major upgrade, turning the platform into something closer to a digital concierge with a suite of new features designed for "getting things done." The move, one of several AI-focused updates in recent months, is part of a broader industry push to make AI more relevant and practically useful to consumers while turning huge troves of user-generated data into a competitive edge. In a press release, Yelp says the Yelp Assistant chatbot will be at "the center of the app experience," where it can answer questions, make recommendations, and even handle bookings in a single conversation. The bot will be availa … Read the full story at The Verge.
Apple's new CEO is a product perfectionist taking on the AI age
To understand how Apple's new CEO John Ternus will run the company, pay attention to what he refuses to sell. "We never think about shipping a technology," Ternus, 50, said in a recent interview about AI with tech review site Tom's Guide. "We always think about how can we leverage technology to ship amazing products."
Google Bets on New Chips to Boost AI Results, Challenging Nvidia
In a matter of months, Google's AI chips have become one of the hottest commodities in the tech sector. Leading artificial intelligence developers, including some of the firm's biggest rivals, are stocking up on them. Now, the Alphabet Inc.-owned company aims to build on its momentum with the likely introduction of new chips dedicated to inference, or running AI models after they've been trained. With this push, Google is poised to further challenge market leader Nvidia Corp. in a fast-growing category for semiconductors that's fueled by surging adoption of AI software. Bloomberg News AI Infrastructure Reporter Dina Bass joins Bloomberg Businessweek Daily to discuss. She speaks with Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec.
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[AINews] Moonshot Kimi K2.6: the world's leading Open Model refreshes to catch up to Opus 4.6 (ahead of DeepSeek v4?)
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AI Algorithm Enables Biological Imaging Breakthroughs
Article URL: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/ai-algorithm-enables-biological-imaging-breakthroughs Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841460 Points: 5 # Comments: 0
Migrant Voices, Local News: Insights on Bridging Community Needs with Media Content
arXiv:2604.16651v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Research shows news consumption differs across demographics, yet little is known about non-mainstream audiences, especially in relation to local media. Our study addresses this gap by examining how French-speaking migrants in a mid-size European city engage with local news, and whether their needs are reflected in coverage. Eight community members participated in focus groups, whose insights guided the selection of natural language processing methods (topic modeling, information retrieval, sentiment analysis, and readability) applied to over 2000 hyper-local news articles. Results showed that while articles frequently covered local events, gaps remained in topics important to participants. Sentiment analysis revealed a generally positive tone, and readability measures indicated an intermediate-advanced French level, raising questions about accessibility for integration. Our work contributes to bridging the gap between local news platform
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3 new ways Ads Advisor is making Google Ads safer and faster
Three new agentic safety and policy features integrated into Ads Advisor will help protect and streamline your Google Ads account.
Three AI coding agents leaked secrets through a single prompt injection. One vendor's system card predicted it
A security researcher, working with colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, opened a GitHub pull request, typed a malicious instruction into the PR title, and watched Anthropic’s Claude Code Security Review action post its own API key as a comment. The same prompt injection worked on Google’s Gemini CLI Action and GitHub’s Copilot Agent (Microsoft). No external infrastructure required. Aonan Guan, the researcher who discovered the vulnerability, alongside Johns Hopkins colleagues Zhengyu Liu and Gavin Zhong, published the full technical disclosure last week, calling it “Comment and Control.” GitHub Actions does not expose secrets to fork pull requests by default when using the pull_request trigger, but workflows using pull_request_target, which most AI agent integrations require for secret access, do inject secrets into the runner environment. This limits the practical attack surface but does not eliminate it: collaborators, comment fields, and any repo using pull_request_target with a
What AI model should you use for revenue intelligence? Von says all the big ones, and it will automate mixing and matching for you
Looking at enterprise AI adoption, VentureBeat has anecdotally observed a fairly wide divergence when it comes to specific roles: For those who build—engineers and developers—the arrival of AI has been transformative, moving through the workflow with the speed of tools like Claude Code and Cursor to automate the heavy lifting of syntax and architecture. Yet, for those who sell, the "revenue stack" has remained a fragmented collection of data silos, manual CRM entries, and anecdotal reporting. Von, a new AI platform emerging from the team behind process automation startup Rattle, aims to bridge this gap. By positioning itself not as another "point solution" but as a foundational "intelligence layer," Von seeks to do for Go-To-Market (GTM) teams what the modern IDE has done for the developer: provide a single, reasoning interface that understands the entire business context. “AI has revolutionized the workflow for people who build things, but there is nothing that has revolutionized th
Cloud AI Update - Osirus AI Unveils Comprehensive Enterprise AI Management Platform
Osirus AI has launched a new unified platform designed for the comprehensive building, deploying, and management of enterprise AI agents. This platform consolidates various AI capabilities such as Chat, Search, Image, Video, Speech, and Storage, integrated with major AI providers like AWS Bedrock, Google, and OpenAI. Alongside this, Osirus AI introduces the Agent Studio, a system enabling organizations to manage AI agents efficiently with substantial control and scalability across business...
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Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in 7 new countries
Google is rolling out Gemini in Chrome in Australia, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, and Vietnam. The company is rolling this feature out to both desktop and iOS in all of these countries except Japan.
Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business
Skild AI has acquired Zebra Technologies’ robotics automation business, including its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform. Central to the company’s plans is its “Skild Brain” – described as “the industry’s first omnibodied AI software designed to operate without prior knowledge of a robot’s exact body form” – is claimed to be able to control any robot, […]
Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its platform for AI agents
Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/technology/salesforce-launches-headless-360-to-turn-its-entire-platform-into-infrastructure-for-ai-agents Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47839183 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
Xkcd 2510 (2021 AD) describes LLM generated code
Article URL: https://xkcd.com/2510/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847892 Points: 4 # Comments: 0
Adversaries hijacked AI security tools at 90+ organizations. The next wave has write access to the firewall
Adversaries injected malicious prompts into legitimate AI tools at more than 90 organizations in 2025, stealing credentials and cryptocurrency. Every one of those compromised tools could read data, and none of them could rewrite a firewall rule. The autonomous SOC agents shipping now can. That escalation, from compromised tools that read data to autonomous agents that rewrite infrastructure, has not been exploited in production at scale yet. But the architectural conditions for it are shipping faster than the governance designed to prevent it. A compromised SOC agent can rewrite your firewall rules, modify IAM policies, and quarantine endpoints, all with its own privileged credentials, all through approved API calls that EDR classifies as authorized activity. The adversary never touches the network. The agent does it for them. Cisco announced AgenticOps for Security in February, with autonomous firewall remediation and PCI-DSS compliance capabilities. Ivanti launched Continuous Complia
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Dronamics Opens Japan Subsidiary, Names Asia Air Survey as First Japanese Investor
Dronamics has announced a strategic investment from Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd. (TSE: 9233). The company is also establishing a Japanese subsidiary, Dronamics Japan Holdings Co., Ltd. Asia Air Survey, investing through its Corporate Venture Capital arm, becomes the first Japanese investor in Dronamics. Black Swan Drone Targets Japan’s Geospatial Sector Founded in 1954, Asia Air Survey […] The post Dronamics Opens Japan Subsidiary, Names Asia Air Survey as First Japanese Investor appeared first on DRONELIFE.
The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure
A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.
Agibot unveils new generation of embodied AI robots and models for real-world deployment
Agibot has unveiled a new generation of embodied AI robots and foundation models, signaling what the company describes as a shift toward large-scale deployment of “physical AI” across industrial and commercial environments. The announcements were made at the company’s 2026 Partner Conference, where Agibot introduced multiple robotic platforms and AI systems built around its “One […]
China flashes new tech swagger to world markets convulsed by war
The world's factory floor is increasingly getting retrofitted for a new era of artificial intelligence and robotics, churning out technological innovation the world craves.