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Ford EV and tech chief leaving automaker

Doug Field had stints at Apple and Tesla before joining Ford in 2021.

OpenAI updates its Agents SDK to help enterprises build safer, more capable agents

OpenAI has expanded the capabilities of its agent-building toolkit, as agentic AI continues to grow in popularity.

Meta researchers introduce 'hyperagents' to unlock self-improving AI for non-coding tasks

Creating self-improving AI systems is an important step toward deploying agents in dynamic environments, especially in enterprise production environments, where tasks are not always predictable, nor consistent. Current self-improving AI systems face severe limitations because th…

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Building trust in the AI era with privacy-led UX

The practice of privacy-led user experience (UX) is a design philosophy that treats transparency around data collection and usage as an integral part of the customer relationship. An undertapped opportunity in digital marketing, privacy-led UX treats user consent not as a tick-bo…

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The Download: NASA’s nuclear spacecraft and unveiling our AI 10

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. NASA is building the first nuclear reactor-powered interplanetary spacecraft. How will it work? Just before Artemis II began its historic sli…

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So Close to Getting It

David Pierce, last week in his Installer column/newsletter for The Verge, singing the praises of the version 5.0 update to Sofa (the praises of which I just sung): Sofa 5. A huge update to an Installerverse favorite, this app is now a great way to manage everything you want to wa…

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Zelio E-Mobility Ropes In Ex-Navi Executive Divyanshu Agarwal As CEO

BSE SME listed EV manufacturer Zelio E-Mobility has appointed former Navi UPI business head Divyanshu Agarwal as its CEO, with…

Loneliness doesn’t always look like an empty room. Sometimes it looks like a person who laughs at every joke, remembers every birthday, shows up at every event, and drives home afterward in total silence wondering why none of it ever reaches the part of them that’s still starving.

The people who starve the most from loneliness are often the ones who feed everyone else's need to feel seen.

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JD.com launches robot ambulance service, plans expansion to 50+ cities across China

JD.com on Wednesday launched its robot ambulance service, offering maintenance and repair solutions for humanoid robots, quadruped robots, AI companion robots, and more. The service covers basic repairs, fault diagnosis, battery replacement and recharging, testing and certificati…

DJI to launch Lito X1 series on April 23, likely to feature 360-degree obstacle avoidance system

Chinese drone maker DJI said it will launch its Lito X1 series on April 23, marking the debut of what is expected to be its first new consumer drone line this year. The model, which has appeared in filings with the FCC under the code SS3-DGP14, is widely expected to succeed the M…

Alibaba Launches Meoo AI Development Tool Targeting Non-Technical Users

Alibaba’s Meoo enables non-technical users to build full-stack applications via natural language, integrating multiple AI models and one-click cloud deployment.

IPO-bound Anthropic receives investor offers at $800Bn valuation: Report

Anthropic is emerging as a key player in the AI investment race,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Microsoft patched a Copilot Studio prompt injection. The data exfiltrated anyway.

Microsoft assigned CVE-2026-21520, a CVSS 7.5 indirect prompt injection vulnerability, to Copilot Studio. Capsule Security discovered the flaw, coordinated disclosure with Microsoft, and the patch was deployed on January 15. Public disclosure went live on Wednesday. That CVE matt…

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Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit

AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise workflows, and they're still failing roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks. That gap between capability and reliability is the defining operational challenge for IT leaders in 2026, according to Stanford HAI's ninth a…

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Scientists Found Literal Ink From Ballpoint Pens in Martian Meteorites

This doesn't devalue scientific research thus far, but we might need a more unified approach for cleaning important samples, the study says.

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AI For The Skeptics: Attempting To Do Something Useful With It

There are some subjects as a writer in which you know they need to be written, but at the same time you feel it necessary to steel yourself for the …read more

Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained

This article covers how Figma’s design-to-code and code-to-design workflows actually work, starting with why the obvious approaches fail, how MCP solves them, and the engineering challenges that remain.

The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew

Article URL: https://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/en/menu/burger/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785738 Points: 241 # Comments: 137

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Python Comes to the Arduino Uno Q

MicroPython is a well-known and easy-to-use way to program microcontrollers in Python. If you’re using an Arduino Uno Q, though, you’re stuck without it. [Natasha] saves the day by bringing …read more

Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?

Article URL: https://github.com/gastownhall/gastown/issues/3649 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785053 Points: 220 # Comments: 109

How LinkedIn Feed Uses LLMs to Serve 1.3 Billion Users

In this article, we will look at how the LinkedIn engineering team rebuilt the Feed and the challenges they faced.

Haiku Isn’t Just for X86 Anymore, Boots on ARM in QEMU

Ever since it was called OpenBeOS, Haiku has targeted the x86 platform. That makes good sense: it’s hard enough maintaining a niche system on ubiquitous hardware. But x86 isn’t the …read more

YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero-minutes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47786791 Points: 206 # Comments: 84

A Look at Full Spectrum 3D Printing

Many modern desktop 3D printers include the ability to print in multiple colors. However, this typically only works with a few colors at a time, and the more colors you …read more