Meta’s loss is Thinking Machines gain
TechCrunch AI | 1h ago | Score 110.8271
Meta has been poaching talent from Thinking Machines Lab. But it's a two-way street.
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ComfyUI hits $500M valuation as creators seek more control over AI-generated media
TechCrunch AI | 2h ago | Score 110.3796
ComfyUI, whose tools give creators more control over AI image, video, and audio generation, just raised $30M.
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OpenAI's chief scientist says AI progress has been "surprisingly slow" and promises big leaps ahead
THE DECODER | 3h ago | Score 112.7741
OpenAI has released GPT-5.5, and the company's leadership says the real breakthroughs are still ahead. Chief scientist Jakub Pachocki expects "extremely significant improvements" in the medium term, calling recent AI progress "surprisingly slow." The article OpenAI's chief scientist says AI progress has been "surprisingly slow" and promises big leaps ahead appeared first on The Decoder .
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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute
TechCrunch AI | 4h ago | Score 107.8441
Google plans up to $40B investment in Anthropic as AI rivals race to secure massive compute capacity, following the limited release of its powerful, cybersecurity-focused Mythos model.
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Apple’s new CEO, and why Elon Musk wants to buy Cursor for $60B
TechCrunch AI | 4h ago | Score 107.5177
A new era is on the way for Apple as Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus. Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystem than the one Cook spent decades shaping. The App […]
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DeepSeek AI Releases DeepSeek-V4: Compressed Sparse Attention and Heavily Compressed Attention Enable One-Million-Token Contexts
MarkTechPost | 4h ago | Score 114.4111
DeepSeek-AI has released a preview version of the DeepSeek-V4 series: two Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language models built around one core challenge making one-million-token context windows practical and affordable at inference time. The series consists of DeepSeek-V4-Pro, with 1.6T total parameters and 49B activated per token, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, with 284B total parameters and 13B activated per token. […] The...
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MIT scientists build the world’s largest collection of Olympiad-level math problems, and open it to everyone
MIT News Machine Learning | 5h ago | Score 110.9554
New dataset of 30,000-plus competition math problems from 47 countries gives AI researchers a harder test — and students worldwide a better training ground.
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Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by AI
TechCrunch AI | 5h ago | Score 106.0447
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 models and tools.
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Introduction to Approximate Solution Methods for Reinforcement Learning
Towards Data Science | 5h ago | Score 111.7925
Learn about function approximation and the different choices for approximation functions The post Introduction to Approximate Solution Methods for Reinforcement Learning appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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GPT-5.5 tops benchmarks but still hallucinates frequently and costs 20 percent more over the API
THE DECODER | 6h ago | Score 108.3659
GPT-5.5 pushes OpenAI back to the top of the AI benchmarks. The price went up, but it still looks like the best bang for your buck among proprietary models. The article GPT-5.5 tops benchmarks but still hallucinates frequently and costs 20 percent more over the API appeared first on The Decoder .
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I Built an AI Pipeline for Kindle Highlights
Towards Data Science | 7h ago | Score 109.7092
A local, zero-cost project that cleans, structures, and summarizes your reading automatically The post I Built an AI Pipeline for Kindle Highlights appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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China moves to block tech firms from taking US money without government approval
THE DECODER | 7h ago | Score 107.2818
China plans to block tech companies from accepting US capital without government approval, according to Bloomberg. The article China moves to block tech firms from taking US money without government approval appeared first on The Decoder .
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Meta buys tens of millions of AWS Graviton 5 processor cores from Amazon
THE DECODER | 7h ago | Score 106.7953
Meta is purchasing tens of millions of AWS Graviton 5 processor cores from Amazon, making it one of the largest Graviton customers in the world. The article Meta buys tens of millions of AWS Graviton 5 processor cores from Amazon appeared first on The Decoder .
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Tim Cook is stepping down. What happens to Apple now?
TechCrunch AI | 8h ago | Score 102.2874
Tim Cook plans to step down from his CEO role in September, handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus. Ternus may be inheriting one of the most durable businesses in tech, but he’s also stepping into a very different ecosystemthan the one Cook spent decades shaping. The App Store’s 30% cut is under pressure, the behind-the-scenes power Apple once […]
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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins stacked StrictlyVC SF lineup for April 30 event
TechCrunch AI | 8h ago | Score 102.2874
Surprise! StrictlyVC San Francisco, which will kick off this year’s events lineup for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Sentro Filipino Cultural Center, is getting a new addition to its increasingly stacked lineup of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join the rest of the lineup to discuss operating at scale in the age of AI.
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Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool
TechCrunch AI | 8h ago | Score 101.8638
Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.
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DeepSeek previews new AI model that ‘closes the gap’ with frontier models
TechCrunch AI | 8h ago | Score 101.6157
DeepSeek says both models are more efficient and performant than DeepSeek V3.2 due to architectural improvements, and have almost "closed the gap" with current leading models, both open and closed, on reasoning benchmarks.
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How to Improve Claude Code Performance with Automated Testing
Towards Data Science | 8h ago | Score 107.6259
Learn how to get the most out of Claude Code The post How to Improve Claude Code Performance with Automated Testing appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Cohere takes over Aleph Alpha shortly after the German startup ousted its original founder
THE DECODER | 9h ago | Score 104.9978
Just months after founder Jonas Andrulis was pushed out, Canadian AI company Cohere is taking over Aleph Alpha - once hailed as Germany's answer to OpenAI. The Schwarz Group is putting $600 million into the deal. The article Cohere takes over Aleph Alpha shortly after the German startup ousted its original founder appeared first on The Decoder .
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How to Select Variables Robustly in a Scoring Model
Towards Data Science | 10h ago | Score 105.5425
More variables don't make a better scoring model. Stable variables do. Here's how to find them. The post How to Select Variables Robustly in a Scoring Model appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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