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From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026
Hosted by TechCrunch in partnership with Fidelity Private Shares, the full-day event goes beyond fundraising and AI to explore the realities of finding customers, building teams, sharpening a pitch, developing…
Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users (Part II)
Learn how OpenAI scaled Habitat with reliable multi-tenancy, global caching, and Azure Cosmos DB to deliver 12× faster reads for ChatGPT.
IBM AI Releases Granite Speech 5.0 2B for Multilingual Transcription and Translation
IBM released Granite Speech 5.0 2B, an Apache 2.0 speech recognition and translation model. It ranks #2 on the Open ASR Leaderboard with 5.68% average English WER, alongside updated Turbo…
Perplexity and NVIDIA Researchers Introduce JOLT: a Joint Teacher-Student Reinforcement Learning Method
Perplexity and NVIDIA introduced JOLT, a post-training method that trains one model as both teacher and student. On MATH it matched GRPO’s accuracy with 6.5x fewer processed training tokens. The…
A Coding Guide to Cactus Whistle: Does a 16.9 MB Speech Model Hold Up Against Whisper Base? Word Error Rate, Speed, Streaming, Timestamps, Keywords, and Speech-to-Tool Calls on a CPU
Explore a comprehensive coding guide benchmarking Cactus Compute's 16.9 MB speech model against Whisper base. Learn about word error rates, CPU speed, streaming latency, and speech-to-tool integration. The post A…
NVIDIA Nsight Python Tutorial: How to Profile GPU Kernels
Discover NVIDIA Nsight Python, an open-source interface that allows developers to profile GPU kernels, analyze hardware metrics, evaluate cache and clock controls, and measure kernel fusion directly from Python code.…
Recursive launches Flint, a laptop coding model it says was largely built by AI
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
Show HN: I made a free Mac app to annotate screen for AI agents
Hey HN, I'm Nika. I've built a tool for myself that lets user draw on the screen to annotate important parts and use it as simpler pointers for AI agents…
Ask HN: How do you handle AI security for automated vulnerability management?
Hello World! So I am new to the world of cybersecurity, and after some back and forth with AI, I chose to use a specific tool that was recommended for…
While Amazon blocks AI agents, Walmart rolls out the welcome mat
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls…
AI promises productivity, but for managers, it’s mostly a headache for now
More than 50% of managers say they're finding it harder to evaluate employees' work after adopting AI, according to a new survey.
OpenAI models are coming to Google Cloud
OpenAI and Google Cloud are bringing frontier models and Codex workflows to Gemini’s Model Garden, available through Google Cloud Marketplace.
Show HN: Multiplayer AI
so recently i was working on a hackathron project with a friend and we were both using claude code however as it so happened we had to code one at…
Mistral AI Releases Voxtral 3: Speech-to-Text, TTS and a Voice Agent SDK
Mistral AI released Voxtral 3, a family of 3 transcription models, 1 text-to-speech model and a LiveKit-based voice agent SDK. Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 scores 2.1% AA-WER, ranking #3 on…
Using thousands of AI agents to uncover new leads in biological data
See how OpenAI, PerturbAI, and Scripps Research used distributed AI agents to uncover promising research leads in data from millions of brain cells.
Google Cloud Ships llm-d 1.0 With Cache-Aware Routing for TPU and GPU Fleets
Google, Red Hat and IBM released llm-d 1.0, an open-source Kubernetes-native stack for distributed LLM inference. It adds multi-tenant flow control, zero-downtime upgrades and agent-aware routing across vLLM, SGLang, TPUs…
Democratic governance of frontier AI, part II: Empowering cyber defenders
OpenAI outlines a blueprint for empowering cyber defenders with frontier AI, stronger safeguards, modernized cybersecurity, and more resilient public institutions.
Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei
The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
Meta’s Muse hits 10M U.S. downloads in 40 days, a milestone reached by only 11 other apps
Meta's AI companion Muse has surpassed 10 million U.S. downloads in its first 40 days, joining an exclusive group of apps that includes Threads. New data also shows Muse is…
Show HN: Koody for Business – AI bookkeeping for people who aren’t accountants
Hi HN, I'm Hallie, founder of Koody. Today, I'm launching Koody for Business: AI-powered accounting, bookkeeping, and tax prep software for sole proprietors and small businesses. For years, I used…
Show HN: Worklicant – Lightweight ATS. Pay per Vacancy. AI Enabled
I have noticed that a lot of job posts that do not use any ATS, and in order to apply, they put their emails and ask candidates to apply with…
Ask HN: As developers from low-income countries,how to cope with AI replacement?
programming is fun and all of that is fine but how do I compete with a developer with a 200$/500$ Claude subscription? I was fine with making pennies,now I can't…
Google Open-Sources TorchTPU, a Native PyTorch Backend for Cloud TPUs
Google and Meta open-sourced TorchTPU, a native PyTorch backend for Cloud TPUs. It runs eager by default, compiles through torch.compile and XLA, and replaces PyTorch/XLA for new workloads. The post…
Launch HN: Respan (YC W24) – Open-source Rust AI gateway built around plugins
Hey HN, this is Andy from Respan ( https://www.respan.ai ). We are building an open-source Rust AI gateway. It is a decoupled gateway, so everything is a plugin, including different…