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- In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race ha…
- Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
- Three reasons why DeepSeek’s new model matters On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model.
- Microsoft will let you pause Windows Updates indefinitely, 35 days at a time Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day.
- OpenAI’s chief scientist says AI progress has been “surprisingly slow” and promises big leaps ahead OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, and the company's leadership says the real breakthroughs are still ahead.
- CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation.
- Yong Wang Turns Information Into Insights When Yong Wang recently received one of the highest honors for early-career data visualization researchers, it marked a milestone in an ext…
- AI-Designed Drugs by a DeepMind Spinoff Are Headed to Human Trials Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new med…
- OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API GPT-5.5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 - April 2026 (1010 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478…
- Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic Comments URL: https://…
AI tools & model updates
- langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.2.1 Release update (see link for changelog).
- Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity support VPC egress Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity now provide secure and controlled egress traffic management for your applications, enabling s…
- open-webui/open-webui: v0.9.2 Release update (see link for changelog).
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Meta has commandeered a big chunk of Amazon's homegrown CPUs (not GPUs) for AI agentic workloads, signaling that a new kind of chip race ha…
This follows a similar, but smaller, investment by Amazon just days ago.
On Friday, Chinese AI firm DeepSeek released a preview of V4, its long-awaited new flagship model.
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Amazon-backed X-energy was able to raise around 20% more money in its IPO as demand for nuclear power surges.
Hundreds of subdomains from dozens of universities have been hijacked by scammers.
ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30 million.
Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited release of its…
Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab.
Investors flocked to nuclear power startup X-energy in its first day of public trading on the Nasdaq.
Amid RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine agenda, Moderna withdrew its FDA application last year.
FCC defines consumer routers expansively, updates FAQ to include Wi-Fi hotspots.
Treatment options are tricky.
It's like "Pete Rose betting on his own team," Trump says of arrested soldier.
Layer by layer, researchers revealed the jaws of an ancient predator.
The AI-driven memory shortage is hitting Samsung's bottom line.
Beloved wolf gripped the nation after burrowing out of the zoo.
"Preliminary findings indicate that the issue likely results from a combination of factors."
Porsche's stake in Bugatti and Rimac Group have been sold to private equity.
Under Cook, Apple became hugely successful, if not always surprising.
House vote to defang the Endangered Species Act was unexpectedly cancelled
"If it doesn’t rely on a solid, there’s no reason why we can’t launch."
Steve Ballmer wrote a fiery letter in the sentencing of disgraced founder Joseph Sanberg documenting all the harm that's befalling him as a…
The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, The Intercept reports.
Cohere, the Canada-based AI company that makes AI tools for businesses in regulated industries, announced Friday it would merge with Aleph…
Series, a social networking app that's grown popular on college campuses, announced a $5.1 million pre-seed round from some big names in te…
X's new app promises private chats, disappearing messages, audio and video calls, and more.
Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI mo…
Researchers have found a new case where government authorities used a fake Android app to plant spyware on a target’s phone.
Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus.
Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed t…
Windows users will no longer be forced to run automatic updates in the middle of a game or a busy day.
Alex Jones may soon lose Infowars, the digital perch that he's used for decades to traffic in conspiracy theories, to The Onion, the satiri…
Following Paramount Skydance's move to launch an investigation into how its upcoming Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender animated feature leake…
At CES 2022, BMW debuted its BMW iX Flow concept car that could dynamically change its appearance using the same grayscale E Ink panels fou…
Spring has sprung, as they say, and to mark the occasion, Google is running a spring-centric promo until Sunday, April 26th.
The RAM shortage caused by demand from AI datacenters is already driving up prices on phones, PS5s, and Raspberry Pis, but it could be abou…
In the first 24 hours of the assault on Iran, the US military struck more than 1,000 targets, nearly double the scale of the "shock and awe…
The Xreal One Pro are the company’s best AR glasses, touting thin optics that keep out reflections so you can enjoy a crisp, contrast-rich…
Imagine Google Street View, except you can walk around like it's a video game.
Tesla's Cybercab is now in production at the company's Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, but Elon Musk is sounding unusually cautious about the…
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OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, and the company's leadership says the real breakthroughs are still ahead.
CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation.
Users complained about declining quality in Claude Code.
Meta is purchasing tens of millions of AWS Graviton 5 processor cores from Amazon, making it one of the largest Graviton customers in the w…
When Yong Wang recently received one of the highest honors for early-career data visualization researchers, it marked a milestone in an ext…
Isomorphic Labs president Max Jaderberg said at WIRED Health in London that the startup has built a “broad and exciting pipeline of new med…
GPT-5.5 pushes OpenAI back to the top of the AI benchmarks.
Tim Cook was a great CEO, but he didn’t crack AI.
China plans to block tech companies from accepting US capital without government approval, according to Bloomberg.
Just months after founder Jonas Andrulis was pushed out, Canadian AI company Cohere is taking over Aleph Alpha - once hailed as Germany's a…
GPT-5.5 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47879092 - April 2026 (1010 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=478…
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-24/google-plans-to-invest-up-to-40-billion-in-anthropic Comments URL: https://…
Article URL: https://github.com/manankharwar/fusioncore Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47896670 Points: 6 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://www.flowmusic.app/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47895765 Points: 64 # Comments: 32
I've been using Anthropic's hook features [0] since they were introduced.
Article URL: https://hhh.hn/rodecaster-duo-fw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894747 Points: 129 # Comments: 27
Article URL: https://gdm-tipsv2.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894734 Points: 18 # Comments: 1
Article URL: https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2026/04/the-classic-american-diner/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894…
Article URL: https://viewfromthewing.com/san-francisco-airport-removed-90-minutes-of-daily-noise-travelers-say-it-changed-everything/ Comme…
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21691 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893779 Points: 100 # Comments: 39
Article URL: https://github.com/delta-hq/cc-canary Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893620 Points: 37 # Comments: 17
Article URL: https://evdc.me/blog/css-query Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893427 Points: 54 # Comments: 19
Article URL: https://www.recurse.com/blog/192-redesigning-the-recurse-center-application Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id…
Article URL: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892291 Points: 211 # Comment…
Article URL: https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20260424-filco-diatec/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892236 Points: 86…
Article URL: https://nickyreinert.de/en/2026/2026-04-24-claude-critics/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47892019 Points:…
Article URL: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-apps/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47891801…
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.20817 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47890873 Points: 89 # Comments: 35
Hey HN, We got tired of browser frameworks restricting the LLM, so we removed the framework and gave the LLM maximum freedom to do whatever…
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Release update (see link for changelog).
DeepSeek just launched its fourth generation of flagship models with DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, both targeted at enabling highl…
Federated learning (FL) is no longer a research curiosity—it’s a practical response to a hard constraint: the most valuable data is often t…
Amazon Quick now integrates with Vee, the AI assistant from Visier's people analytics platform, through the model context protocol (MCP).
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway and Identity now provide secure and controlled egress traffic management for your applications, enabling s…
Release update (see link for changelog).
Release update (see link for changelog).