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CEO writes hundreds of thank you notes to staff and still eats in the break room—which ‘always, for whatever reason, blows new employees away’
First Watch CEO Chris Tomasso isn’t afraid to pick up pen and paper—something similarly embraced by top business leaders at Chevron and even OpenAI.
Big Tech is shelling out up to $1 million for new hires who will never have to write a line of code
Sebastian Proactive: a local‑first AI companion that initiates conversations
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Apple Raises Mac Mini's Starting Price to $799 After AI Frenzy Drains Supply
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-01/apple-raises-mac-mini-s-starting-price-to-799-after-ai-frenzy-drains-supply Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985729 Points: 2 # Comments: 0
The best AI dictation apps, tested and ranked
AI-powered dictation apps are useful for replying to emails, taking notes, and even coding through your voice
Salesforce launches Agentforce Operations to fix the workflows breaking enterprise AI
Enterprise AI teams are hitting a wall — not because their models can't reason, but because the workflows underneath them were never built for agents. Tasks fail, handoffs break, and the problem compounds as organizations push agents deeper into back-office systems. A new architectural layer is emerging to address it: workflow execution control planes that impose deterministic structure on processes agents are expected to run. One of the companies bringing this to the forefront is Salesforce, with a new workflow platform that turns back-office workflows into a set of tasks for specialized agents to complete. Users can upload their processes or use one of the set Blueprints provided by Salesforce, and Agentforce Operations will break it down for agents. Salesforce senior vice president of Product, Sanjna Parulekar, told VentureBeat in an interview that the problem is that many enterprise workflows are not built for agents. “What we’ve observed with customers is that a lot of times, the
Life update: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more [video]
Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhhPUrizZcw Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987696 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
A New Mental Model for Work in the AI Age
Article URL: https://dalehurley.com/posts/newmentalmodelforworkintheaiage/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985600 Points: 1 # Comments: 2
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
Plus: The NSA tests Anthropic’s Mythos Preview to find vulnerabilities, a Finnish teen is charged over the Scattered Spider hacking spree, and more.
Google is testing newer AI sites much faster than I expected
I’ve been tracking an interesting SEO pattern while building a small AI tools site over the last ~6 weeks. The site crossed 1M impressions recently, but CTR stayed extremely low despite average positions around 5–7. What surprised me most: Current version and AI-news queries get huge visibility but weak clicks Comparison pages perform much better Best X tools queries survive AI Overviews better Publishing before demand spikes matters more than I expected It honestly feels like Google is shifting from: who ranks? to who becomes the answer layer? Curious if others in SEO/AI niches are seeing similar behavior lately. submitted by /u/Think-Score243 [link] [comments]
Nebius Acquires Eigen AI To Speed Up Cloud Computing Services
Nebius stock rose amid the cloud computing services provider's acquisition of artificial intelligence software maker Eigen AI.
C Squared Social Expands Media Buying Division 3x Following Meta's Andromeda Update, Launches Advanced Systems-Driven Performance Engine
C Squared Social today announced a major expansion of its media buying division, tripling the team of specialists as part of a strategic transformation initiative launched in September 2025. The expansion follows the rollout of Meta's Andromeda update, which represents a significant shift toward AI-driven ad delivery and creative-first optimization.
Snap CEO praises AI for writing two-thirds of the company’s code but warns fellow tech executives underestimate ‘societal pushback’ to the tech
A survey in March found only 26% of Americans had a favorable view of AI.
A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content
A new US-wide cell phone network marketed to Christians is set to launch next week. It blocks porn, which experts in network security say marks the first time a US cell plan has used network-level blocking for such content that can’t be turned off even by adult account owners. It’s also rolling out a filter…
Alphabet checks boxes, Meta raises AI worries, says investor
STORY: Meta Platforms raised its 2026 capital expenditure forecast by $10 billion to a range of $125 billion to $145 billion. "Meta, for example, may actually lose money, so negative free cash flow in the next year or two as they spend more than they're earning," said Bailey. "So I think investors are really kind of struggling with that question today." Google-parent Alphabet is "selling their own chips, selling their own microchips, and that is really becoming a big business for them," added Bailey, who views the company's growing hardware division as a long-term positive.
Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models
In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into bankrolling the company. Along the way, he warned that AI could destroy us all and sat through…
Nvidia, Google, Microsoft Win Major Pentagon AI Contracts
AI Goes Classified: Pentagon Signs Deals With Google, Nvidia, OpenAI
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Defense Tech Leads With Multiple Large Deals, Topped By $600M For Space Security Startup True Anomaly
Large U.S. venture deals this week were led by a massive defense tech raise for space security startup True Anomaly. We also saw sizable deals for startups applying AI to fintech, marketing, customer service, healthcare and developer tools.
Nvidia Is Worth $5 Trillion Once Again. Here's Why It Could Become the First $10 Trillion Stock Within the Next 3 Years
Its focus on chips that are well-suited to inference workloads will help it maintain its power in the artificial intelligence space.
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How Casey Newton is revamping his newsletter to compete with AI
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/more-scoops-less-aggregation-and-analysis-how-casey-newton-is-revamping-his-newsletter-to-compete-with-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47984844 Points: 1 # Comments: 0
xAI's new Custom Voices feature turns a minute of speech into a usable voice clone
xAI now lets developers clone their own voices for AI applications. The new "Custom Voices" feature builds on the recently launched Grok Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs. The article xAI's new Custom Voices feature turns a minute of speech into a usable voice clone appeared first on The Decoder.
xAI launches Grok 4.3 at an aggressively low price and a new, fast, powerful voice cloning suite
While Elon Musk faces off against his former colleague and OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman in court, Musk's rival firm xAI, founded to take on OpenAI, isn't slowing down on launching competitive new products and services. Last night, xAI shipped a new, proprietary base large language model (LLM), Grok 4.3, and a new voice cloning suite on the web. The new products arrive after months of tumult from xAI that saw all of Musk's 10 original co-founders of the lab and dozens more researchers exit the firm and Grok was eclipsed on performance by many new competing LLMs from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Chinese firms DeepSeek, Moonshot (Kimi), Alibaba (Qwen), z.ai, and others. While Grok 4.3 does mark a significant leap in performance on third-party benchmarks over its direct predecessor Grok 4.2, according to the independent AI model evaluation firm Artificial Analysis, it still remains below the state-of-the-art set by OpenAI and Anthropic's latest models. But the marquee fe
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New rules 1 week check-in
Its been 1 week since we announced new rules: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1su3ao4/rlocalllama_rule_updates/ We'd like to check in to see how the community is liking them so far. We are specifically interested in long time contributors and those who sort by new (which is the area that was most impacted by slop/spam) On the stats side that we can see, there's a very positive indication. Not only is Automod doing a lot more of the removals, reports from users has also gone down significantly. Specifically for Rule 4 - Self Promotion which was the area of largest abuse. This is thanks to the minimum karma requirements that were picked based on the kind of patterns we saw and the stategy looks to be well validated by the results so far. Given that Automod is removing the posts instantaneously (and avoids the lag we had with us human mods getting to it hours after posting), the New feed should be much more usable - this is important to enable healthy engagement and ensur
Anthropic launches Claude Security to give defenders the same AI edge attackers already have
Anthropic wants to give cyber defenders an edge with Claude Security, drawing on the same offensive capabilities it recently deemed too dangerous to release in another model. The article Anthropic launches Claude Security to give defenders the same AI edge attackers already have appeared first on The Decoder.
Microsoft wants lawyers to trust its new AI agent in Word documents
Microsoft is launching a new AI agent inside Word that's specifically designed for legal teams. Legal Agent handles document edits, negotiation history, and complex documents to help legal teams handle tasks like reviewing contracts. "Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeatable tasks like reviewing contracts clause by clause against a playbook," explains Sumit Chauhan, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Office Product Group. The Legal Agent can work with existing documents that have tracked changes, and analyz … Read the full story at The Verge.
ChatGPT now tracks users for ads by default as OpenAI looks for new revenue
OpenAI has turned on marketing cookies by default for free ChatGPT users in countries where ads are running. Tracking is automatically active for free accounts but not for paying subscribers. You can disable it in your account settings. The article ChatGPT now tracks users for ads by default as OpenAI looks for new revenue appeared first on The Decoder.
Vibe Coding Universal v2.0 update
The worst thing isn't bugs—it's realizing halfway through that you built the wrong thing. This flips the script: 7 rounds of chatting to nail down what you actually need, then design specs, architecture, and a task list auto-generate. No PRDs, no mockups—just a conversation. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and others. Open source. submitted by /u/mage0535 [link] [comments]
Robotics
Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to accelerate humanoid robot push
Meta has acquired robotics AI startup Assured Robot Intelligence to accelerate its work on humanoid robots. The goal is an open platform for the entire industry, similar to what Android did for smartphones. The article Meta acquires Assured Robot Intelligence to accelerate humanoid robot push appeared first on The Decoder.
Meta buys robotics startup to bolster its humanoid AI ambitions
Meta bought humanoid startup Assured Robot Intelligence to beef up its AI models for robots, the company said.