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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.
techcrunch.com
Mistral AI launches Workflows, a Temporal-powered orchestration engine already running millions of daily executions
Mistral AI, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion ($13.8 billion), today released Workflows in public preview — a production-grade orchestration layer designed to move enterprise AI systems out of proofs of concept and into the business processes…
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‘Never Talk About Goblins’: OpenAI’s Instructions to Codex Have a Weirdly Emphatic No-Creatures Policy
Goblins are expressly forbidden, along with gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons.
gizmodo.com
How to build custom reasoning agents with a fraction of the compute
Training AI reasoning models demands resources that most enterprise teams do not have. Engineering teams are often forced to choose between distilling knowledge from large, expensive models or relying on reinforcement learning techniques that provide sparse feedback. Researchers …
venturebeat.com
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.
techcrunch.com
Better Hardware Could Turn Zeros into AI Heroes
When it comes to AI models, size matters. Even though some artificial-intelligence experts warn that scaling up large language models (LLMs) is hitting diminishing performance returns, companies are still coming out with ever larger AI tools. Meta’s latest Llama release had a sta…
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China blocks Meta’s Manus deal, raises Mythos concerns
China has stepped up its tech war with the United States, blocking Facebook owner Meta’s US$2.5 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Manus and raising cybersecurity concerns about Anthropic’s new AI model Claude Mythos Preview. The National Development and…
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Google Wallet rolls out Aadhaar-based digital ID support in India
Google has started rolling out support for Aadhaar-based digital ID in Google… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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TSMC accelerates 2nm expansion, targets record five-fab ramp in 2026
At its recent North America Technology Symposium, TSMC said it is doubling the pace of advanced-node capacity expansion to meet booming demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC). Senior Vice President Hou Yongqing said five 2nm fabs are set to enter ramp-up to mass produ…
technode.com
Tencent Music to Launch “Tiantian Changting” App to Rival ByteDance in Audio Market
Tencent Music is launching a new audio app to compete with ByteDance while expanding its long-form audio ecosystem.
pandaily.com
Go Digit Q4: Net Profit Surges 29% YoY To ₹149 Cr
Insurtech company Go Digit General Insurance recorded a 28.8% YoY jump in its PAT to ₹149.4 Cr in the March…
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Alibaba’s plan to list Cainiao logistics hub as Reit will ‘unlock’ value, analysts say
Alibaba Group Holding’s plan to package a key warehousing hub into a real estate investment trust (Reit) for public listing will benefit the company and its shareholders by redeploying capital into higher-growth opportunities, according to analysts. Alibaba, which two years ago s…
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Drone pilot makes US rescind no-fly zones around unmarked, moving ICE vehicles
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/no-fly-zones-around-moving-ice-vehicles-this-drone-pilot-fought-back-and-won/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940271 Points: 203 # Comments: 68
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OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs
https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/openai/ https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/bedrock-openai-models https://openai.com/index/openai-on-aws/ https://x.com/amazon/status/2049178618639839427 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939320 Points: 215 # Comments: 77
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Recycling PLA and Other Plastic Waste with Compression Molding
After previously trying out low-tech compression molding with a toaster oven and 3D printed molds, [future things] is back with a video that seeks to explore some of the questions …read more
hackaday.com
Payphone Tag Is Australia’s New National Sport
Australia’s payphones are an iconic part of the national landscape, even if they’re not as important as they once used to be. However, they’re having a resurgence of late, in …read more
hackaday.com
How Amazon Uses LLMs to Recommend Products
In this article, we will look at how COSMO works and the challenges the engineering team faced.
bytebytego.com
Compact VGA Output Board For The Pi Pico
Many microcontrollers can spit out simple analog video signals if that’s something you desire. However, it normally requires a bit of supporting hardware and, of course, the right connectors to …read more
hackaday.com
How Stripe Detects Fraudulent Transactions Within 100 ms
In this article, we will look at how Stripe’s Radar does this effectively and the architectural decisions the team took while building it.
bytebytego.com
Can you 3D Print a Pinball Machine That’s Fun to Play?
It seems fair to say that pinball machines are among the most universally loved gaming systems known today, yet the full-sized ones are both very expensive and very large, while …read more
hackaday.com
Before GitHub
Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/28/before-github/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940921 Points: 342 # Comments: 101
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