Big Tech is poaching energy talent to fuel its AI ambitions

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No Extra Cache Needed! NVIDIA Open-Sources Memory Compression for Large Models, Speeds Up 128K Context by 2.7x

Compresses context into its own weights, learns during inference.

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China launches open-source AI model for agriculture

China’s Zhipu rolls out new AI model trained on Huawei chips

This new tool could tell us how consciousness works

Researchers propose a roadmap for using transcranial focused ultrasound, a noninvasive way to stimulate the brain and see how it functions.

3 Questions: How AI could optimize the power grid

While the growing energy demands of AI are worrying, some techniques can also help make power grids cleaner and more efficient.

How Google & OpenAI scale AI autonomy without losing trust

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Adobe stock slides as AI competition dents growth outlook

Bessemer leads $25m series A for AI biotech startup

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Nvidia rival Cerebras seeks $1b at $22b valuation

DeepSeek founder proposes new AI training method to bypass GPU limits

Nvidia rival AI chip startup Etched raises $500m

Former Xiaopeng Executive Starts Business, Creates an Outdoor Companion Robot for American Families

A companion robot should not be a GPT-style chat tool, but should provide a real connection to the physical world.

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AstraZeneca acquires US biotech firm Modella AI

Taiwan listed firms post record 2025 sales on AI demand

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Y Combinator joins $130m series C for AI voice firm Deepgram

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AI audio startup ElevenLabs hits $330m ARR

Malaysia to take legal action against X over Grok AI misuse

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Wang Xiaochuan Bets on Serious Healthcare: Can AI Outperform Ordinary Doctors?

Not About Innovation, Just About Essential Needs

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US clears path for Nvidia’s H200 AI chip sales to China

China races ahead in AI robotics while SEA plays catch-up

Unitree Goes Left, Fourier Goes Right: The "Coming-of-Age Ceremony" for Humanoid Robots

When a steel body gains a "sense of pain," technology truly acquires warmth.

Gemini Launches Shopping Feature: 1000 Days of AI Reshaping the Consumer Gateway

The history of AI development is also a history of tech giants vying for gateways.

The Office Enters the Agent Era: Is the Worker's "Work Folder" Finally Being Taken Over by AI?

Can it make the worker's life a little easier?

E-commerce Agents Arrive: Google Launches UCP, Amazon Declines to Join, Alibaba Embraces Actively

The era of intelligent e-commerce where "conversation equals transaction" has arrived.

Zenken boosts a lean sales team with ChatGPT Enterprise

A Piece of Fabric, Choking Nvidia's Neck?

Materials Determine the Supremacy of Computing Power.

In-Depth Interpretation of AGI-Next 2026: 40 Key Judgments on Divergence, New Paradigms, Agents, and the Global AI Race

Advancing Global Chinese AGI

Google's Agent Enters the E-commerce Arena: AI Directly Helps Compare Prices and Place Orders, Musk: Interesting

It Can Also Automatically Claim Coupons

A Karpathy Tweet Triggers a Magnitude 9 Earthquake Among Developers

Why Did a Single Tweet from Karpathy Plunge the Entire Developer Community into Anxiety?

The Insecure Evangelism of LLM Maximalists

Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph

Open sourcing Dicer: Databricks's auto-sharder

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'Fast Money' traders react to Microsoft's response to Trump admin on AI data center community impact

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Games Workshop bans staff from using AI

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Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not excited about the tech

Hegseth wants to integrate Musk’s Grok AI into military networks this month

Next generation medical image interpretation with MedGemma 1.5 and medical speech to text with MedASR

January 13, 2026

Confer – End to end encrypted AI chat

Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals

Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

Microsoft vows to cover full power costs for energy-hungry AI data centers

Google’s updated Veo model can make vertical videos from reference images with 4K upscaling

A consumer watchdog issued a warning about Google’s AI agent shopping protocol — Google says she’s wrong

Julie Bort

The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman

Ring founder details the camera company’s ‘intelligent assistant’ era

Sarah Perez

Doctors think AI has a place in healthcare – but maybe not as a chatbot

Amanda Silberling

Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

AI Generated Music Barred from Bandcamp

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation

ElevenLabs CEO says the voice AI startup crossed $330M ARR last year

Ivan Mehta

Neo humanoid maker 1X releases world model to help bots learn what they see

Rebecca Szkutak

Mozilla's open source AI strategy

Google removes AI health summaries

The U.S. Government Just Followed Through on Its Ban of DJI Drones

HP Reveals Keyboard Computer with Ryzen AI Chip

ElevenLabs CEO says the voice AI startup crossed $330 million ARR last year

Ivan Mehta

The UK is shaping a future of Precrime and dissent management (2025)

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Owners, not renters: Mozilla's open source AI strategy

Microsoft announces initiative to offset AI data center impact on local communities

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Salesforce releases updated Slackbot powered by Anthropic's AI model

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Deepgram raises $130M at $1.3B valuation and buys a YC AI startup

Ivan Mehta

DeepSeek's parent company earned 5 billion yuan last year, enough to fund 2380 R1s

Full-speed AGI without financing or commercialization

Slackbot is an AI agent now

Rebecca Szkutak

Crazier than iPhone, 15 years after Jobs' passing, 'the person most like him' spearheads the first AI hardware

OpenAI's latest hardware is designed to hide behind your ear

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Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

Brazil orders Meta to suspend policy banning third-party AI chatbots from WhatsApp

Ivan Mehta

No More Questions, Yet Stack Overflow Makes More Money! AI Hasn't Wiped It Out

Annual revenue doubled, reaching a new high

Ant Group Pushes Medical AI to New Heights Again! Ant's Anzhen'er Medical Large Model is Open-Source and SOTA Upon Release

Inference speed exceeds 200 tokens/s, runs on H20

2025 Overseas Market Review: A Landmark Year for Social Apps Going Global, AI Makes or Breaks Success

After the bubble bursts, where is the next growth engine?

China's First AI Pornography Case Nears Verdict, No Wonder Big Tech Avoids AI Companions

While AI can provide emotional value, getting users to pay continuously is not easy.

2025: How Far Have AI Applications Come?

From "Tool" to "Partner".

Aiming to Replace AirPods, OpenAI's New Hardware Officially Unveiled

For OpenAI, the greater challenge lies in supply chain integration.

Continuous Limit-Ups: What Exactly is GEO, the Concept Driving the A-Share Market Frenzy?

From being remembered by people to being remembered by AI.

Moonshot AI Bets Big on the Next-Generation AI Paradigm

The trade-off between the moon and sixpence.

AI Holds a Grudge: Remembers 'Being Abused by Engineers' Even After Therapy

Even gave AI an MBTI test; only Gemini is an Introvert.

UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz

Kate Park

Superhuman AI exfiltrates emails

After Dozens of AI Interviews, I Learned to Adapt to the Machine

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In 2026, Security is Becoming the "New Standard" for AI Selection

The Most Challenging, Yet Most Valuable AI Threshold

Ditching RoPE, AI Understands Long Context Better: Transformer Authors' Team Open-Sources New Pre-training Method for Large Models

Treating Positional Embeddings as a Temporary Training Tool

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Buzz transcribes and translates audio offline on your personal computer. Powered by OpenAI's Whisper. | like: 16,480 fork: 1,231

adam-maj / tiny-gpu

A minimal GPU design in Verilog to learn how GPUs work from the ground up | like: 9,596 fork: 762

Ant International hits 2 billion AI-driven payments in 2025

Another AI4S Bottleneck Overcome: Two AIs 'Argue', Boosting Deployment Success Rate of Research Code Beyond 95%

Deploying 50,000 Scientific Computing Tools in a Day: This Could Be the True Starting Point for AI4S

DeepSeek's New Paper May 'Leak' V4's Killer Feature: A Breakthrough That Turns CPU into GPU?

Efficiency, Still Efficiency

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Google uses AI to detect scams, fix vulnerabilities faster

Smartphone Industry Upheaval: Apple Bows to Google, Doubao Besieged by Ecosystem

The most valuable capability of AI might precisely be the one it is least permitted to exercise.

Chromium Has Merged JpegXL

AI Pornography Triggers Global Alarms

Who should be held responsible for AI-generated pornographic content?

OpenAI's First Hardware: An AI Headset Aiming for 50 Million Sales This Year

A design "never seen before."

ChatGPT Boasts Hundreds of Millions of Users but Less Than 10% Pay; How Can AI Convert to Sustained Profits?

Computing Power Expansion Outpaces Profit Growth

UAE fintech firm Mal raises $230m to launch AI Islamic digital bank

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Musk is furious as Google secures major Apple AI deal, market value approaches Nvidia's

Apple and Google join forces in a landmark deal, bringing Google's Gemini model to iOS!

Anthropic drops another killer feature late at night: coding AI that clears your desktop with one click. Is the white-collar apocalypse here?

The "worker's edition" Claude is now online.

Nexus-backed AI gaming firm Liquidnitro raises $19.1m series A

AI Holds a Grudge! Still Remembers 'Being Abused by Engineers' After Therapy

Also gave the AI an MBTI test; only Gemini is an Introvert.

"Shelling" Google Gemini, but Apple hasn't given up on developing its own model

The trillion-parameter model is still under development

From Dishwasher to "Godmother of AI", She Predicts the Next Decade Again

For Fei-Fei Li, where does the crucial "North Star" of spatial intelligence originate, and how has it evolved?

Large Model Unicorn: From Sustained Losses to a Trillion-Dollar Valuation, What's the Logic Behind Betting on the Future?

The commercialization of large models is rapidly taking off. Consequently, the market holds these companies in high regard.

The rebellious instincts that made Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli an AI pioneer

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Hyderabad AI gaming firm Liquidnitro raises $19.1m series A

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Combining Transformer with Traditional N-gram Modules Leads to Unexpectedly Enhanced Reasoning Capabilities

Anthropic Builds Walls, DeepSeek Paves Roads

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Meta-backed SG AI sales coaching startup nets $10m series A

Having seen a thousand To B products, the youngest former vice president of DingTalk started a business and created a non-To B Agent.

"The era of starting a business purely focused on AI tools has ended. 2026 is the first year of paying based on results."

The rebellious instincts that turned Synthesia's Victor Riparbelli into a generative‑AI trailblazer

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CaoCao Mobility Acquires Mercedes-Benz Premium Platform + Geely Business Travel Company, Making a Strategic Move for Robotaxi

One-stop solution for corporate travel

Meituan LongCat Tech Upgrade! New Attention Mechanism Decodes 10x Faster, Handles 1M Ultra-Long Text

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Library "Face Swap", Search "Life Swap": Baidu's AI Reconstruction

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Hyundai stocks jump $24b as Atlas robot drives AI hype

Apple picks Gemini to power Siri

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Kate Park

Dialogue with Intel's Jim Johnson: Where is the AI PC Heading

AI is reshaping every workflow, every industry, and every device from the cloud to the edge. Intel aims to make this intelligence accessible, efficient, and ubiquitous.

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Nvidia denies upfront H200 payments as China scrutiny grows

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SK Hynix bets $13 billion on AI boom with new advanced chip packaging plant

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"Almost all large models have visual capabilities inferior to those of a 3-year-old child"

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Anthropic launches new tool for Claude desktop users

SK Hynix plans $12.9b chip plant to meet AI chip demand

Liang Wenfeng Authors New Paper, DeepSeek V4 Architecture First Revealed? Tackling Transformer's Fatal Flaw Head-On

Late at night, a new DeepSeek paper authored by Liang Wenfeng has arrived once again. This time, they propose a novel Engram module, solving Transformer's memory challenge and freeing model capacity from reliance on simply stacking parameters!

The AI Showdown Among Cloud Providers

The AI showdown among cloud providers has entered the comprehensive battlefield of AI Infrastructure.

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Google removes AI health summaries after investigation finds dangerous flaws

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Anthropic Drops a Bombshell Late at Night, Are White-Collar Jobs About to Be Taken by AI? Netizens: No Linux Support, Bad Review

Today, Anthropic officially launched Cowork.

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Manus and Its "80 Million Employees"

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UK regulator probes X’s Grok AI over sexual deepfake images

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Show HN: Agent-of-empires: OpenCode and Claude Code session manager

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ByteDance's AI Global Expansion Enters a New Phase

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OpenAI acquires health-care technology startup Torch for $60 million, source says

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Indonesia and Malaysia block Grok over nonconsensual, sexualized deepfakes

Anthony Ha

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Apple picks Google's Gemini to power Siri

Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse

Anthropic made a big mistake

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Harmattan AI raises $200M Series B led by Dassault Aviation, becomes defense unicorn

Anna Heim

DioxusLabs / dioxus

Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, and mobile. | like: 33,385 fork: 1,460

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Hyper-personalized services begin to materialize and land.

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🌊 The leading agent orchestration platform for Claude. Deploy intelligent multi-agent swarms, coordinate autonomous workflows, and build conversational AI systems. Features enterprise-grade architecture, distributed swarm intelligence, RAG integration, and native Claude Code support via MCP protocol. Ranked #1 in agent-based frameworks. | like: 11,457 fork: 1,473

OpenBMB / ChatDev

ChatDev 2.0: Dev All through LLM-powered Multi-Agent Collaboration | like: 28,228 fork: 3,575

Gen Z's Hardcore AI Gadgets: AI Hardware Enters the "Understand-You Era"

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Globally Popular AI Framework in Dire Straits, Founder Cries Out in Despair Late at Night: 75% Staff Laid Off, Only 6 Months of Lifespan Left

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Without returns, who would pay the AI "monthly subscription" every month?

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A16z cofounder Andreessen on AI’s next big shift

The Woman Who Rang the Bell with Yan Junjie: 31 Years Old, Worth 4.8 Billion

MiniMax COO, Born in 1994

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Google Steps In for Emergency Rescue

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In 2025, large model technology continues to advance rapidly.

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Show HN: Engineering Schizophrenia: Trusting yourself through Byzantine faults

Tech firms push global open-source AI cooperation at CES 2026

2025 AI Year in Review: After Reading 200 Papers, Looking at DeepMind, Meta, DeepSeek – What Kind of AGI Narrative Are Chinese and American Giants Describing?

One article covering the core technical points of 2025 AI models.

Paying Ex-Big Tech Employees $1k/Hour to Train AI, Then Kicking Them Out: "How Many Data Companies Are Squeezing Senior Workhorses Dry as Fodder?"

Are humans seen as long-term collaborators for AI, or just disposable consumables?

Chinese Universities Dominate the 2026 CSRankings, with SJTU and Tsinghua Tied for First, Peking University's AI Reigns Supreme

Tsinghua and SJTU Top CSRankings, Chinese Universities Dominate AI Listings

Too Good to Resist: Linux Founder's First Vibe Coding Project Launches Right After Criticizing AI

"Officially announced, Vibe Coding is legit."

Alibaba’s Qwen AI tops 700 million downloads on Hugging Face

The New King of Embodied Open-Source Models! Qianxun Spirit v1.5 Tops RoboChallenge, Ending Pi0.5's Leading Era

The first embodied AI model to achieve a success rate exceeding 50% on RoboChallenge

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The AI Pet Toy Craze Has Arrived

Capital is accelerating its influx into the AI toy sector.

Linux Founder's Delicious U-Turn: Once Mocked AI Programming as Garbage, Now Personally Dives into Ambient Programming

What? Is the founding father also getting into ambient programming?

Embodied AI's Largest Funding Round of the Year: ByteDance and Sequoia Lead a 1 Billion Investment

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Behind the Boom of Electronic Pets: Can AI Robots Accompany People into Old Age?

The Evolution of Electronic Pets