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Corporate Venture Capital Is Splitting In Two
The wind-downs at PayPal and Fidelity International may look like a retreat, but the data points to a concentration of power at the top of the market that smaller funds will feel first, writes guest author Steve Brotman of Alpha Partners.
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Amazon AGI director says AI agent reliability, not capability, is blocking enterprise deployment at VB Transform 2026
The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap persists — and wh…
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Gurman on OpenAI’s Upcoming Hardware Product: ‘Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion’
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with users. The speaker incorporates mechanical elements that can move on their own, creating a sense that it is alive and not …
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China Just Performed the World’s First Implant of a Commercial Brain-Computer Interface
The device, called NEO, records neuronal activity and translates it to movements made by a metal glove worn by a patient.
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United Said Iran War Cost It $6 Billion In Fuel, Passengers Can Expect Reduced Flights
Fuel cost United 84% more than normal in the past three months as the war raged on.
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'We have maybe 20 months' to rebuild for AI agents, Meta's infrastructure VP tells VB Transform 2026
Organizations need to transform to meet the needs of agentic AI. Meta VP of Engineering Barak Yagour opened his talk at VB Transform 2026 wearing a pair of Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses, a small sign of how far AI has already worked its way into physical life. His argument went further…
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Files Related To India’s Largest Nuclear Plant Surface On Dark Web
Thousands of files linked to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, India’s largest nuclear power facility, have surfaced on the dark…
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Nearly every plant on your plate is quietly chemically defended against being eaten — and a growing line of research suggests that faint, low-dose sting may be one of the underrated reasons a vegetable-heavy diet keeps you healthy
The bitter compounds in kale, broccoli and green tea are plant defence weapons — and the reason vegetables extend human life. A look at hormesis, the gut bacteria that decide who benefits, and why the vegetables engineered to taste mild may deliver less of what makes them medicin…
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TSMC to raise mature-node foundry prices starting January 2027
According to multiple Taiwanese media reports, several chip design companies have recently received price hike notices from TSMC, with foundry prices for mature process nodes set to increase from January next year. The exact adjustment will vary by customer. Analysts say rising A…
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DeepSeek may file mainland IPO application this year
DeepSeek, the Hangzhou-based AI model developer, has begun preparing for a mainland IPO and may file its listing application as soon as this year, according to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is targeting a 2027 debut. DeepSeek is in talks with acco…
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Alibaba Bets $10.6B on CXMT: The Strategy Behind China Largest Memory Maker IPO Support
Alibaba invests 7.6 billion RMB in CXMT ChangXin Memory Technologies ahead of its 29.5B RMB IPO, becoming the largest industrial investor with $130B estimated equity value post-listing.
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Sam Altman signals OpenAI price war as rivalry with Anthropic, China heats up
OpenAI founder and CEO Sam Altman has signalled that the company was prepared to slash the price of its latest artificial intelligence models, as competition intensifies with US rival Anthropic and a growing wave of cheaper, rapidly advancing Chinese alternatives. In a social med…
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Cut And Fold Your 3D Printer’s Next Cover
[cmh]’s ultra-simple top cover for the Snapmaker U1 3D printer has a 3D model, but don’t let that fool you. There’s no 3D printing at all involved in this project. Rather, …read more
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Why I Left Google DeepMind
Article URL: https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925271 Points: 291 # Comments: 153
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DOOM runs (slowly) in a IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet
Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300 MB CSS style sheet, that runs not …read more
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How LLMs Learn to Be Helpful (RLHF vs DPO)
In this article, we will look at how that learning actually happens, starting with why instruction-following alone falls short, then walking through the two main methods for teaching preferences (RLHF and DPO).
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How Microsoft Ships AI Agents at Enterprise Scale
To understand what it actually takes to ship agents at that scale, we spoke with Marco Casalaina, VP of Products for Microsoft Core AI.
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AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
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Grok Build is open source
Article URL: https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48926590 Points: 252 # Comments: 301
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Codex Micro
Article URL: https://openai.com/supply/co-lab/work-louder/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923079 Points: 263 # Comments: 224
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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912 Points: 674 # Comments: 172
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