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Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain’s CEO says it’s part of a bigger shift

Ramp spent months testing managed agent APIs, open-source frameworks, and third-party platforms before concluding it would be better off building The post Ramp built an AI agent harness in six weeks — and LangChain’s CEO says it’s part of a bigger shift appeared first on The New Stack .

Developers & Open Source · GitHub Changelog

Industry comparisons in the Copilot impact dashboard

The Copilot impact dashboard now includes an “Industry comparison” section. Enterprises, and organizations that aren’t owned by an enterprise, can compare their Copilot agentic adoption and leverage with aggregated benchmarks… The post Industry comparisons in the Copilot impact dashboard appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

AI · The Decoder

Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds

Only 13 percent of companies are getting real business value from their AI investments, according to a Gartner survey of 2,002 CIOs. At the same time, 51 percent expect AI to actually increase their operating costs. Yet 75 percent of CEOs plan to keep raising their technology budgets. So far, strategic conviction is beating measurable results. The article Only 13 percent of companies see real returns from AI, Gartner survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Society · BBC Technology

Zuckerberg wins Meta deal to help him foot bill for possible California billionaire tax

The Meta boss had said he would exit the state over a wealth tax that has not yet come into force.

Cybersecurity · The Hacker News

Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion After Court Finds 43 Million Privacy Violations

Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multiple reports from the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal, state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew called

Developers & Open Source · Hugging Face Blog

OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet

Hugging Face Blog published: OlmoEarth v1.3: State-of-the-art embeddings for the whole planet

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation

OpenAI on Thursday announced that it is donating the Open Responses API specification to the open source Agentic AI Foundation The post OpenAI donates Open Responses, its spec for a common LLM API, to the Agentic AI Foundation appeared first on The New Stack .

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Trump says Sundar Pichai talked him out of renaming the Atlantic Ocean

After renaming Lake Ontario and the Gulf of Mexico on Google Maps following Trump's executive orders, Google CEO Sundar Pichai might be drawing the line at the Atlantic Ocean. As reported earlier by the Washington Post, Trump said at a Wednesday night rally that he would "probably pass" on renaming the Atlantic after he contacted […]

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

Microsoft shuts down its beloved maker space

Microsoft is closing down The Garage, a set of popular maker spaces where employees worked on experimental projects and collaborated on surprising new apps and hardware during the company's annual hackathon events. "We're winding down The Garage program as a centralized function," says Microsoft in an internal FAQ to employees, seen by Notepad. "We will […]

Developers & Open Source · The Changelog

Building what's next

This week I'm talking with Zeno Rocha, CEO of Resend, about scaling "boring" email to 3 million users, the secret Go rewrite behind it, and building for agents. We cover pricing.md, MCP, spam gangs, and why Resend keeps what's next for email.

Startups & Funding · TechCrunch Startups

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Startup Battlefield 200: Celebrating outstanding achievements

Among the Startup Battlefield 200 were many industry-defining companies exhibiting and pitching on the Showcase Stage. Here are the standouts.

AI · TechCrunch AI

Uber puts all 30,000 employees on ChatGPT Work

The ride-share giant previously deployed a much smaller pilot for ChatGPT Work but is now taking the enterprise agent company-wide.

Developers & Open Source · Chrome Releases

Chrome Beta for Android Update

Hi everyone! We've just released Chrome Beta 157 (157.0.8103.14) for Android. It's now available on Google Play . You can see a partial list of the changes in the Git log . For details on new features, check out the Chromium blog , and for details on web platform updates, check here . If you find a new issue, please let us know by filing a bug . Chrome Release Team Google Chrome

World · BBC Middle East

Newborn twins fight for survival as conflict fuels Yemen's hunger crisis

Raghad and Raad's family had to flee their home on foot because of the fighting between pro-government forces and the Houthis.

World · Deutsche Welle

Are Europeans putting profits over human rights in Vietnam?

Europe and Vietnam are deepening economic and diplomatic ties, but closer cooperation raises concerns about whether Brussels is doing enough to address Hanoi's human rights record, labor standards and trade imbalances.

World · Deutsche Welle

Is Iran ready for another major US attack after midterm elections?

Iranian officials say the goal is to keep the regime in power and threaten enough regional costs to make a prolonged campaign unattractive. US media reports indicate that Trump is considering strikes after the midterms.

Products & Consumer Tech · The Verge

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia had record lobbying quarters

It was a busy summer for AI lobbyists. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nvidia each had their highest-spending lobbying quarter between July and September, federal disclosures show. Nvidia spent the most of the group at $2.2 million, followed by Anthropic's $2.1 million and OpenAI's $1.5 million. Compared to other Big Tech companies with long-established presences in Washington, […]

Business · CNBC Technology

Meta stock sinks 7% as AI spend pushes free cash flow negative

Prices for the social media giant's five-year credit default swaps are reaching all-time highs as investors signal growing credit concerns.

Business · CNBC Technology

Third-party evaluators find vulnerabilities in OpenAI monitoring system during test pilot

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pledged to grant independent evaluators "employee-like access" to the company to help address mounting safety concerns.

Cloud & Infrastructure · The New Stack

OpenAI’s COBOL migration score has made a striking leap

This week, OpenAI put COBOL in the spotlight. It announced benchmark results suggesting its latest models are getting much better The post OpenAI’s COBOL migration score has made a striking leap appeared first on The New Stack .

Notable Blogs · Simon Willison

Quoting Armin Ronacher

As fun as AI is, we built so much bad software over the last 30 years, and now the universe is punishing us for our sins. — Armin Ronacher Tags: security , generative-ai , armin-ronacher , ai , ai-security-research , llms

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest

Article URL: https://www.techspot.com/news/114100-google-cleared-300-hectares-finnish-forest-data-center.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50196837 Points: 316 # Comments: 231

Society · The Guardian Society

One in 10 adults in England and Wales experienced domestic abuse in last year, ONS finds

Charities say ‘tip of iceberg’ figures show government is not fulfilling pledge to halve violence against women and girls Almost one in 10 adults in England and Wales have experienced domestic abuse in the last year, a survey from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has found. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) found that 9.6% of people aged 16 and over had experienced domestic abuse in the last year – which equates to about 4.7 million people. Continue reading...

Startups & Funding · Hacker News Best

Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

https://hackios-web.vercel.app/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50196718 Points: 321 # Comments: 124