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General-purpose blockchains canāt solve industry disputes over construction changes or equipment usage. Specialized layer 1s are optimized for stateless audit trails and regulatory compliance....
Alexis Ohanian said he doesn't miss Reddit. Amal Alhasan/Getty Images for Fortune Media Reddit's cofounder, Alexis Ohanian, said he does not miss being in leadership at the company. He conducted an &#...
$500bn start-up seeks ways to fund expansion and fend off competition from rivals Google and Anthropic...
The CEOs of Microsoft, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind have set out their visions and fears for AI at Davos....
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The Wikimedia Foundation said it has inked agreements with Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta to use its content for training LLMs....
Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589675 Points: 874 # Comments: 541...
Sam Altman once called ads in AI "uniquely unsettling." Now OpenAI is testing them as it hemorrhages cash and loses market share to Google....
Article URL: https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260115203619 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642560 Points: 8 # Comments: 0...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images/Reuters OpenAI leads enterprise AI adoption, far outpacing Anthropic and Google, according to new data. Ramp data shows 46.6% of US bu...
Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch says its edge over Silicon Valley isn't smarter models, but being a European alternative built for control, sovereignty, and trust. LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Ar...
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Reid Hoffman, an outspoken AI optimist, told a reporter he has gifted AI-generated music to his friends and family. Kimberly White/Getty Images Reid Hoffman, an AI fan, said he gave his friends and fa...
Article URL: https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/weight-transfer-for-rl-post-training-in-under-2-seconds Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683645 Points: 3 # Comments: 0...
Article URL: https://social.kernel.org/notice/B2JlhcxNTfI8oDVoyO Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46651887 Points: 31 # Comments: 0...
Akaash Vishal Hazarika. Courtesy of Akaash Vishal Hazarika Akaash Vishal Hazarika shares how AI is reshaping the skills required for software engineering jobs. Tech companies now expect engineers to i...
Belgian bank KBC will launch bitcoin and ether trading for retail investors via its Bolero platform as Belgiumās MiCA regime comes into force....
The UK is weighing an Australiaāstyle ban on social media for underā16s, as regulators ramp up enforcement of the Online Safety Act....
BitMine Immersion Technologies unveiled a $200 million investment in Beast Industries, a company founded by YouTube creator MrBeast....