The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a warning to U.S. broadcasters that their licenses are a privilege, not a right, and ordered TV and radio stations to review their current practices to ensure they a…
Mandy Fields, CFO of e.l.f. Beauty, has taken on oversight of the company's AI strategy after seven years of steering the cosmetics firm through 29 consecutive quarters of net sales growth. Fields now oversees the newly …
Researchers have introduced a fixed-budget, cluster-aware standard for evaluating LLM-as-a-Judge systems, using a multi-hop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) stress test to measure fairness. The new method aims to add…
The French government is accelerating its shift away from American technology, with over 40,000 officials already using a home-grown video platform as part of a broader push to reduce reliance on US systems. France's dig…
Quanton has launched a high-performance compute engine for Apache Spark that delivers faster execution through SIMD-vectorized processing and storage-aware planning, with no migration or code rewrites required. The engin…
The California Senate approved legislation Thursday that would impose a four-year ban on the sale and manufacture of AI-enabled toys with chatbot capabilities for children under 18. State Sen. Steve Padilla authored Sena…
Ferrari unveiled its first electric vehicle, the Luce, featuring design and technology contributions from Sir Jony Ive. The car's unconventional styling and departure from Ferrari's legacy have sparked significant contro…
A backend engineer has developed a mental model for understanding how AI, large language models (LLMs), and agents work together, focusing on the core pillars of transformers and vector databases. The engineer, who began…
Anthropic has surpassed OpenAI as the most valuable artificial intelligence company, reaching a $900 billion valuation after a $65 billion fund-raising round. The company’s rise was fueled by its Claude models and the Cl…
A developer who built PDF Pro AI, a WebAssembly-based PDF editor and AI document analyzer, migrated from Supabase Storage to Vercel Blob Storage after Supabase's free-tier inactivity detection repeatedly threatened to pa…
BuzzFeed and Vox Media, once celebrated pioneers of the audience-era digital media, have been acquired for a fraction of their former valuations, with Vox Media going to James Murdoch for $300 million and BuzzFeed sold t…
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, a new flagship AI model, just 41 days after its predecessor Opus 4.7. The update introduces dynamic workflow orchestration, enabling the model to coordinate hundreds of parallel subage…
The global memory market is projected to reach $1.28 trillion by 2027, driven by surging demand from AI expansion, according to new research from TrendForce. The firm raised its forecast as the rise of Agentic AI systems…
A new benchmark called BenchBench tests AI models on their ability to create benchmarks for other models, revealing that only GPT 5.2 succeeded in generating a practically solvable yet challenging evaluation. Other leadi…
AI infrastructure startup XCENA raised $135 million in a Series B funding round, achieving a $570 million valuation as investors target solutions for rising generative AI costs. The company, founded by former Samsung and…
Rail Vision, a NASDAQ-listed Israeli AI company, has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding with Railserve, a Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary, to deploy its AI-powered obstacle-detection sensor systems across rai…
Model distillation is a standard deep learning technique that trains a smaller "student" model to imitate a larger "teacher" model by matching the teacher's full probability distribution, not just the correct answer. Con…
A Hacker News user asked the community how often they receive emails and messages written entirely by AI, noting hollow contrast phrases like "This isn't about X, it's about Y." The user also questioned how often people …
Japan's three megabanks—MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho—will receive OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber model for cyber defense through a verified-defender program, Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama announced. The deal, brokered with direct …
Schneider Electric, a French multinational energy technology company, is using artificial intelligence to make its 160,000 workers more productive rather than replacing them. The company identified repetitive and tedious…