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Today: Aussie and Kiwi dollars surge as traders position for global in… · Energy bills to fall in April after charges shake-up · AI: Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all bracing for Deepsee….
Top 10 — News
- Aussie and Kiwi dollars surge as traders position for global interest rate rises Commodity-linked currencies acting as ‘canaries in coal mine’ for shift towards rises in borrowing costs
- Energy bills to fall in April after charges shake-up Changes announced in the Budget mean domestic energy prices should fall sharply in April.
- Using big data for good A photogenic green-eyed Russian Blue named Petra might just be the world’s most sequenced cat.
- Nvidia challenger AI chip startup MatX raised $500M The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.
- OpenAI defeats xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit OpenAI won a victory Tuesday in one of its legal battles with xAI, which involved allegations of poaching and theft of trade secrets.
- WBD says Paramount’s new, higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix’s WBD's board is still reviewing the offer.
- [AINews] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Closing the Loop Through the dozens of midsize launches today (see the rest of the recaps below), one theme that we’re seeing is something I’ve come to call…
- Anthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge Article URL: https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
- US Military leaders meet with Anthropic to argue against Claude safeguards Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/anthropic-claude-military-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
- Capybara: A Unified Visual Creation Model
Article URL: https://github.com/xgen-universe/Capybara Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146247 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
AI tools & model updates
- Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are all bracing for Deepseek’s next big release Deepseek apparently trained its next model on Nvidia's banned Blackwell chips and the timing of the leak, combined with growing complaints…
- Comfy-Org/ComfyUI: comfyanonymous/ComfyUI: v0.15.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-python: v2.24.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- openai/openai-node: v6.25.0 Release update (see link for changelog).
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-anthropic==1.3.4 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Bedrock now supports server-side tool execution with AgentCore Gateway Amazon Bedrock now enables server-side tool execution through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway integration with the Responses API.
- BerriAI/litellm: v1.81.12-stable.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
Full list — News (50)
Commodity-linked currencies acting as ‘canaries in coal mine’ for shift towards rises in borrowing costs
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor denounced in House of Commons as ‘rude, arrogant and entitled’ man
AI start-up’s Dario Amodei summoned to Washington after trying to limit military use of its technology
David Ellison’s media group assumes pole position in race to buy Hollywood studio
Lawmakers briefed by Marco Rubio suggest new offensive on Islamic republic could be imminent
David Luan will leave the company this week to ‘cook up something new’
President hits immigration and other campaign themes in State of the Union address targeted at midterm elections
Network Rail will take control of Barking site that could replace the equivalent of more than 100,000 lorries from UK roads
Self-driving group valued at $8.6bn as it gears up to launch robotaxi service in London this year
S&P software index ends day up 1.8% but remains down nearly 24% in 2026
Changes announced in the Budget mean domestic energy prices should fall sharply in April.
Warner Bros says the latest proposal could convince it to abandon the deal it struck with Netflix.
The AI developer laid out red lines on military use of its products, a source said.
Some areas have seen average house prices increase by 7% in the past year, according to ONS data.
His speech follows years of the firm focusing away from China as it moved its headquarters to Singapore.
From 25 February, a new system will come into force which will affect many people, including British dual nationals.
A photogenic green-eyed Russian Blue named Petra might just be the world’s most sequenced cat.
The startup was founded by former Google TPU engineers in 2023.
Users were unhappy about plans for age verification to require facial or ID scans.
The technology giant had pledged to increase investment in the US by $600bn, under pressure from Trump.
OpenAI won a victory Tuesday in one of its legal battles with xAI, which involved allegations of poaching and theft of trade secrets.
MIT researchers have developed a new method for designing 3D structures that can spring up from a flat sheet of interconnected tiles with a…
In the vision disorder amblyopia (or “lazy eye”), impaired vision in one eye early in life causes neural connections in the brain’s visual…
As people age, their immune function weakens.
Researchers at MIT and Microsoft have used artificial intelligence to create molecular sensors that could detect early signs of cancer via…
Antibody treatments for cancer and other diseases are typically delivered intravenously, requiring patients to go to a hospital and potenti…
In the horticultural world, some vines are especially grabby.
Launching from the Lab: Building a Deep-Tech StartupBy Lita Nelsen ’64, SM ’66, SM ’79, former director of the MIT Technology Licensing Off…
Several years ago, Suzanne Berger was visiting a manufacturing facility in Ohio, talking to workers on the shop floor, when a machinist off…
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority moves hundreds of thousands of people across Greater Boston each day—thanks to a vast syste…
WBD's board is still reviewing the offer.
ChatGPT and rivals are testing whether India's massive AI user boom can translate into paying customers as free offers wind down.
Major automakers, tech giants, AI companies, and chipmakers are all trying to get a piece of Wayve.
Spare a thought for the intrepid graduate students who spent last summer in Africa collecting chimp urine.
Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's m…
Apple complies with new age-assurance laws in the U.S.
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to…
Stripe might be looking to buy PayPal, or parts of it, per early reports.
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Apple, like many others, has had to launch age verification features in response to new requirements for age checks in many regions, and on…
Apple's OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros set to launch this fall will get a Dynamic Island feature like what's available on iPhones, according…
Through the dozens of midsize launches today (see the rest of the recaps below), one theme that we’re seeing is something I’ve come to call…
Article URL: https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/24/anthropic-claude-military-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i…
Article URL: https://github.com/xgen-universe/Capybara Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47146247 Points: 5 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/corgi-labs/jobs/ZiEIf7a-founders-associate Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/it…
Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/amazon-busted-for-widespread-price Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145…
Article URL: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144464 Points: 10…
I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively.
Full list — AI tools & model updates (30)
Deepseek apparently trained its next model on Nvidia's banned Blackwell chips and the timing of the leak, combined with growing complaints…
Meta and AMD have agreed on a multi-year partnership covering up to six gigawatts of AMD GPUs, with a focus on inference.
Release update (see link for changelog).
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OpenAI brings a new audio model and faster connections for AI agents.
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Today, AWS announces the general availability of Amazon Q Developer artifacts in the AWS Management Console.
Overview This blog walks through two crucial DeepSpeed updates: (1) a PyTorch-identical backward API that enables efficient training of mul…
Amazon Bedrock now enables server-side tool execution through Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway integration with the Responses API.
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).
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Mercury 2 from Inception is the first diffusion-based reasoning model.
Today, AWS announces AWS Observability as a Kiro power, enabling developers and operators to investigate infrastructure and application hea…
AI systems should sometimes give tasks to humans they could easily handle themselves, just so people don't forget how to do their jobs.
Amazon RDS Snapshot Export to S3 is now available in AWS GovCloud (US) regions, enabling you to export snapshot data in Apache Parquet form…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) and South…
Starting today, the general-purpose Amazon EC2 M8a instances are available in AWS Europe (Frankfurt) region.
Release update (see link for changelog).
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