Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event
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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will speak at StrictlyVC San Francisco on April 30 about operating at scale in the age...

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Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool
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Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool

Nothing has introduced an on-device AI-powered dictation tool that supports over 100 languages. This feature appears to...

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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models
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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models

DeepSeek announces new AI models that are more efficient and performant than its V3.2 version, with architectural...

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Cohere takes over Aleph Alpha shortly after the German startup ousted its original founder
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Cohere takes over Aleph Alpha shortly after the German startup ousted its original founder

Canadian AI company Cohere is acquiring German AI startup Aleph Alpha, which was previously hailed as Germany's answer...

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In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs
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In another wild turn for AI chips, Meta signs deal for millions of Amazon AI CPUs

Meta has secured a significant agreement with Amazon to purchase millions of custom-designed CPUs for AI agentic...

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Musk vs. Altman is here, and it’s going to get messy
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Musk vs. Altman is here, and it’s going to get messy

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, with trial scheduled for April 27th in Oakland,...

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Anthropic confirms Claude Code problems and promises stricter quality controls
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Anthropic confirms Claude Code problems and promises stricter quality controls

Anthropic identified and fixed three separate sources of error affecting Claude Code quality after user complaints...

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China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals 
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China’s DeepSeek previews new AI model a year after jolting US rivals 

Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its next-generation V4 AI model, claiming it can compete with leading...

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Prestigious photo contest answers ‘what is a photo?’
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Prestigious photo contest answers ‘what is a photo?’

The World Press Photo competition announced its 2026 winner and addresses the definition of photography in the age of...

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These AI Thirst Trap Creators Say They’re Misunderstood
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These AI Thirst Trap Creators Say They’re Misunderstood

The article discusses AI-generated influencers on Instagram who create attractive content, highlighting a viral red...

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5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
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5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice

The article warns about the risks of using AI chatbots like ChatGPT for financial advice, emphasizing that users should...

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As agentic AI pushes rivals to raise prices and cap usage, Deepseek ships a good-enough model for almost nothing
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As agentic AI pushes rivals to raise prices and cap usage, Deepseek ships a good-enough model for almost nothing

Deepseek has released V4-Pro and V4-Flash models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters and pricing significantly below...

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How AI models use real-time cryptocurrency data to interpret market behaviour
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How AI models use real-time cryptocurrency data to interpret market behaviour

AI systems are increasingly processing real-time cryptocurrency market data as streams rather than fixed batches, with...

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Google DeepMind Introduces Decoupled DiLoCo: An Asynchronous Training Architecture Achieving 88% Goodput Under High Hardware Failure Rates
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Google DeepMind Introduces Decoupled DiLoCo: An Asynchronous Training Architecture Achieving 88% Goodput Under High Hardware Failure Rates

Google DeepMind has introduced Decoupled DiLoCo, an asynchronous training architecture designed to address hardware...

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Mend Releases AI Security Governance Framework: Covering Asset Inventory, Risk Tiering, AI Supply Chain Security, and Maturity Model
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Mend Releases AI Security Governance Framework: Covering Asset Inventory, Risk Tiering, AI Supply Chain Security, and Maturity Model

Mend.io has released an AI security governance framework designed to help engineering and security teams manage AI...

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Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax
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Claude is connecting directly to your personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, and TurboTax

Anthropic has expanded Claude's capabilities by adding connectors to personal apps like Spotify, Uber Eats, TurboTax,...

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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5, a Fully Retrained Agentic Model That Scores 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and 84.9% on GDPval
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.5, a Fully Retrained Agentic Model That Scores 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and 84.9% on GDPval

OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, a fully retrained agentic model capable of handling the complete stack of computer work...

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A Coding Tutorial on OpenMythos on Recurrent-Depth Transformers with Depth Extrapolation, Adaptive Computation, and Mixture-of-Experts Routing
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A Coding Tutorial on OpenMythos on Recurrent-Depth Transformers with Depth Extrapolation, Adaptive Computation, and Mixture-of-Experts Routing

This tutorial explores OpenMythos, a theoretical reconstruction enabling deeper reasoning in transformer models through...

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Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment
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Bret Taylor’s Sierra buys YC-backed AI startup Fragment

Sierra, an AI customer service agent startup founded by Bret Taylor, has acquired Fragment, a YC-backed French startup....

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