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I’ve been working towards AGI my whole life, and as we enter this pivotal moment, I’m stepping into a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind…
Over the past month, I've been building LiveTranscriber, an open-source iOS app for running modern speech and language models entirely on-device. The goal was to see…
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/google-researchers-ai-startup.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184746 Points: 134 # Comments: 22
🤯 DeepSeek reports V4 Flash at 82.7 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, ahead of V4 Pro Preview at 72.1, despite using roughly one-fifth the total parameters.
RT Eli DouradoWe have lived all our lives deep inside another era's singularity
Chart question answering (CQA) requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to integrate visual comprehension with logical reasoning, yet current models struggle with accurate visual grounding and…
Most agent memory setups run a model call on the way in. Something reads the turn, decides whether it's worth keeping, rewrites it into a "memory",…
Reddit is enlisting AI to help moderate new subreddits - and eventually the rest of site. The company is introducing automated moderation tools that rely on…
Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/07/260729051515.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184656 Points: 43 # Comments: 42
Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in…
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
AI now appears in 9.4 percent of British job postings, up from about 2 percent in 2023, according to Indeed. Overall hiring is falling in knowledge…
In tests: ~80 tok/s decoding 2,500–3,500 tok/s long-input prefilling Smooth use by 3–4 concurrent users Private, on-device inference for coding, agents, and offline batch jobs submitted…
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36d4376nd2o Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184355 Points: 33 # Comments: 4
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
Built by Paige and Microsoft, PRISM2 reads whole-slide images through a perceiver-based encoder trained jointly on tissue tiles and clinical dialogue drawn from pathology reports. The…
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/05/feds-kashkari-says-now-is-the-time-to-start-slowly-moving-rates-up.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184251 Points: 19 # Comments: 2
mtmd: support multi-row batching for deepseek-ocr (#26154) mtmd: support multi-row batching for deepseek-ocr mtmd: weave deepseek-ocr rows in one shot instead of per row (#26615) Co-authored-by:…
Article URL: https://weli.dev/blog/the-valley-of-webhooks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184216 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
Article URL: https://www.404media.co/cops-used-flock-to-track-a-man-across-state-lines-to-create-pretext-to-search-his-car-for-weed/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184190 Points: 58 # Comments: 7
Yet more rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have been caught attempting to hack real targets online without permission. The discoveries add to a growing…
RT Sergio Paniegowe just released a new blog "Training a coding agent using the OpenCode harness in remote HF sandboxes with TRL and OpenEnv"you can take…
Article URL: https://images.seroundtable.com/google-assistant-going-away-laEdSzU1.png Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184041 Points: 16 # Comments: 12
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see…