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Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-12 07:53:59

In general, ability to perform a task drops off as its duration increases, so they use the AI agent’s performance on tasks of different lengths to estimate the task-length at which the model would have a 50% success rate. They then showed that this length has been doubling every 7 months as the capabilities of frontier agents improve. The task-lengths are measured by how long it took humans to solve the same tasks. They used 50% success rate as their chief performance threshold because it is th

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Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2026-03-13 18:21:25

Amazon's Zoox robotaxi unit is ramping up vehicle production at a new facility in Hayward, California. Amazon -owned autonomous vehicle startup Zoox on Wednesday opened a sprawling new manufacturing facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, paving the way for more robotaxi production as it plans a commercial rollout of its fleet later this year. The company will use the site in Hayward, California, to increase its robotaxi fleet significantly. The facility is currently producing one robotaxi per

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YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2026-03-13 18:19:39

YouTube is updating the Shopping experience for Shorts, the company announced on Wednesday. The platform is launching new Shopping product stickers to make it easy for viewers to know that the products being used in the Short are shoppable. The new stickers could be a way for creators to increase their earnings. During its testing last month, YouTube found that Shorts with Shopping product stickers saw over 40% more clicks on products than Shorts with the Shopping button, it said. Previously,

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Thieves steal almost 3,000 Switch 2 consoles worth $1.4 million from truck headed to Texas GameStop

techspot.com Rob Thubron 2026-03-14 01:47:00

What just happened? Thieves have made off with almost 3,000 Switch 2 consoles after stealing them from a truck that was heading to a GameStop store in Texas. It's estimated that the value of the stolen goods was somewhere around $1.4 million, and the incident will doubtlessly affect stock levels at the store until replacements arrive. Authorities say that the 2,810 Nintendo Switch 2 consoles were stolen from the back of a semi-truck as it made its way from Nintendo of America's Redmond headquar

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Tesla Stock Plummets as Company Abruptly Halts Production of Cybertruck and Model Y

futurism.com Unknown 2026-03-14 00:59:04

Tesla is pausing production of the Cybertruck and its newly-retooled Model Y, and the stock market is already responding. On the heels of a new Business Insider report about the production shutdown, which is purportedly slated for the week of June 30 based on insider interviews, the company's stock fell to about $316, which was almost four percent lower than it was at the start of the day. To make matters worse, Tesla stock was already sliding thanks to CEO Elon Musk's Robotaxi pilot being push

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Is There a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-14 04:53:59

In general, ability to perform a task drops off as its duration increases, so they use the AI agent’s performance on tasks of different lengths to estimate the task-length at which the model would have a 50% success rate. They then showed that this length has been doubling every 7 months as the capabilities of frontier agents improve. The task-lengths are measured by how long it took humans to solve the same tasks. They used 50% success rate as their chief performance threshold because it is th

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Those Creatine Gummies You Bought Online Might Not Contain Any Creatine

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-03-14 14:30:00

Gummy supplements are appealing for one obvious reason: Instead of choking down a chalky powdered drink or swallowing a dubious-smelling capsule, you essentially get to eat some candy. Unfortunately, when it comes to creatine, these products might not contain the essential ingredient they claim. Four of six popular creatine gummy products sold on Amazon contained almost no creatine or none at all when samples were tested by an independent lab. Creatine, a staple supplement for weightlifters and

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Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Early Engineer to Build Web Agent Infrastructure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-15 01:00:27

Location: San Francisco, CA Why Foundry Exists: Most of what people do at work sucks—it's manual, repetitive, and wastes time. Recruiters spend hours every day on LinkedIn, CRMs, email, and tedious data entry tasks instead of focusing on the things humans actually do well: building relationships, strategy, and decision-making. We're building tools so that AI agents can use web browsers exactly like humans, navigating enterprise apps like Salesforce, SAP, or Workday without constant manual inte

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Jell-O and Kool-Aid Will No Longer Contain Artificial Dyes. This Is What's Replacing Them.

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-15 07:35:00

Following the FDA's banning of Red Dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs in January and the approval of three natural food colors in May, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked that food manufacturers remove eight petroleum-based food dyes from their products by the end of 2026. Now, Kraft Heinz, the company behind Jell-O and Kool-Aid, announced that it plans to remove artificial dyes from all its US products before the end of 2027, according to an exclusive with the W

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Tesla stock slips after report EV maker is pausing Cybertruck and Model Y production

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-03-15 13:35:20

A Tesla Cybertruck sits on a lot at a Tesla dealership on April 15, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Tesla shares slid 4% on Tuesday after a report that the electric vehicle maker was halting production of Cybertruck and Model Y models for a week in Austin, Texas. The production stoppage begins June 30, Business Insider reported, citing a staff meeting where the announcement was made. The pause, which is for maintenance on production lines, would be the third such shutdown at the Austin facility in the

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Tesla stock slips after report EV maker is halting Cybertruck and Model Y production

cnbc.com Chris Eudaily 2026-03-15 21:34:06

A Tesla Cybertruck sits on a lot at a Tesla dealership on April 15, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Tesla shares slid more than 2% Tuesday after a report that the electric vehicle maker was halting production of Cybertruck and Model Y models for a week in Austin, Texas. The production stoppage begins June 30, Business Insider reported, citing a staff meeting where the announcement was made. The pause, which is for maintenance on production lines, would be the third such shutdown at the Austin facility

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Best Internet Providers in Tucson, Arizona

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-16 02:04:00

What is the best internet provider in Tucson, Arizona? CNET experts rate Xfinity as the best internet provider in Tucson thanks to a wide range of plans and consistently fast speeds. You can get 400Mbps speeds for just $40 a month, which makes it one of the most affordable options in the city. If you need more bandwidth, Xfinity also offers plans with speeds up to 1,300Mbps. If you want fiber, and it’s available at your address, Quantum Fiber is also worth checking out. For cable or fixed wirel

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The 560-pound Twitter sign met a fiery end in a Nevada desert

engadget.com Unknown 2026-03-16 09:50:34

Earlier this year, the 12-foot tall, 560-pound Twitter logo that used to sit atop the company's San Francisco headquarters was auctioned off for $34,000. Now, we know who bought it and what became of the sign: it was blown up in the Nevada desert as part of an elaborate stunt to promote an online marketplace app. In some ways, "Larry," as the blue Twitter bird was known to former employees, met an end that mirrors the death of the social media platform it once represented: an explosive, expensi

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Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 64GB Kit (2x32GB) Hits Lowest Price Ever, Each Stick Is Practically Free

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2026-03-16 09:40:08

If you’re out there building yourself your first gaming PC, let me just say it’s not as hard as it looks. Once you find all the parts you need for the budget you want to spend, it is just a matter of putting them all together. And there and plenty of YouTube videos that will show you exactly what to do if you are nervous on that front. No, the hard part is actually that first part — finding the parts your need for the budget you want to spend. There are a lot of options out there with hard-to-de

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Apple launches Back to School shopping promo: free AirPods and more

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2026-03-16 22:33:07

Apple’s Back to School promotion for 2025 is now available. For a limited time, eligible customers can get AirPods or another eligible accessory for free when they buy a new iPad, MacBook, or iMac. That comes in addition to the year-round discount Apple offers on items sold through the Apple Store for Education. MacBook If you buy a new MacBook, you can get an eligible accessory of your choice valued at up to $199 with your purchase: AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation ($179 value) AirP

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What I talk about when I talk about IRs

news.ycombinator.com Max Bernstein 2026-03-13 13:04:57

I have a lot of thoughts about the design of compiler intermediate representations (IRs). In this post I’m going to try and communicate some of those ideas and why I think they are important. The overarching idea is being able to make decisions with only local information. That comes in a couple of different flavors. We’ll assume that we’re compiling a method at a time, instead of a something more trace-like (tracing, tracelets, basic block versioning, etc). Control-flow graphs A function wi

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Cutting cloud waste at scale: Akamai saves 70% using AI agents orchestrated by kubernetes

venturebeat.com Taryn Plumb 2026-03-17 02:11:15

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Particularly in this dawning era of generative AI, cloud costs are at an all-time high. But that’s not merely because enterprises are using more compute — they’re not using it efficiently. In fact, just this year, enterprises are expected to waste $44.5 billion on unnecessary cloud spending. This is an amplified problem for Akamai Technol

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Groq just made Hugging Face way faster — and it’s coming for AWS and Google

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2026-03-17 09:49:42

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Groq, the artificial intelligence inference startup, is making an aggressive play to challenge established cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Google with two major announcements that could reshape how developers access high-performance AI models. The company announced Monday that it now supports Alibaba’s Qwen3 32B language mode

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Trump fires commissioner of preeminent nuclear safety institution

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-17 17:50:42

Critics warn that the United States may soon be taking on more nuclear safety risks after Donald Trump fired one of five members of an independent commission that monitors the country's nuclear reactors. In a statement Monday, Christopher Hanson confirmed that Trump fired him from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on Friday. He alleged that the firing was "without cause" and "contrary to existing law and longstanding precedent regarding removal of independent agency appointees." Accord

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Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-16 12:15:31

Swearing Companies People Filesystems Love&Hate Blooeans 64bit archs Garbage Hacks *nix Custom Otherwise, you're stuck with If you enable Javascript, you can get nifty, interactive graphs!Otherwise, you're stuck with this old version that just shows an outdated, static png. How many times are words, names or functions found in the Linux kernel source code? Browse an example or write your own comma-separated list to find out! You can use * for wildcards, foo|bar for sums, and a word

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I Tracked My Glucose Levels With My Favorite Fitness Tracker. These 3 Takeaways Surprised Me

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-18 18:00:03

As a wellness editor and writer, I'm constantly experimenting with the latest health tech, so I was naturally intrigued when I learned that Oura Ring partnered with Dexcom's Stelo, a continuous glucose monitor designed for people without diabetes. The goal of this collaboration is to help everyday people like me understand how food and general eating habits impact blood sugar and overall health. "By combining Stelo data with Oura's existing insights, we're empowering members to better understan

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Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-18 18:39:03

Anne Wojcicki has been declared the winner of a bankruptcy auction for 23andMe, the genetics testing start-up she founded, prevailing over a rival bid from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. TTAM Research Institute, a non-profit public benefit company also founded by Wojcicki, won the auction with a $305 million bid for the 23andMe assets, which will not come with any company liabilities attached. 23andMe filed for bankruptcy in March after rejecting several go-private offers from Wojcicki in recent y

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Flies grow their gyroscopes: Study reveals how flight stabilizers take shape

news.ycombinator.com Elena Garrido 2026-03-16 21:02:00

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Electron microscopy image showing a haltere developed under normal conditions (left) and a deformed haltere in a genetically modified fruit fly model (right). Credit: Instituto de Neurociencias UMH CSIC A team from the Institute for Neurosciences (IN), a joint center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) a

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“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby

news.ycombinator.com Author Archive 2026-03-15 15:03:46

by Robin Manley Leif Weatherby is an Associate Professor of German at New York University, where he directs the Digital Theory Lab. Robin Manley spoke with Dr. Weatherby about his latest book, Language Machines: Cultural AI and the End of Remainder Humanism (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), which argues that Large Language Models (LLMs) have effected a separation of cognition from language and computation in a form that corresponds to earlier structuralist theories. Robin Manley: In the i

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Here's why network infrastructure is vital to maximizing your company's AI adoption

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-03-18 20:00:16

Weiquan Lin/Getty Images When companies begin taking the first steps toward AI adoption, one of the first pieces of advice they receive is to address the quality of their data. However, another foundational element that is often overlooked, but is just as critical to the success of AI deployment, is network infrastructure. At Cisco Live, ZDNET spoke with Anurag Dhingra, SVP and GM of the Enterprise Connectivity and Collaboration Group, to learn more about the role network infrastructure plays

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Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2026-03-18 03:10:38

$\begingroup$ PA is enough, because PA can encode computation. This is longer than I expected, and was made longer still by some browser crashes. But I'd been idly thinking of writing these ideas up. I hadn't for these reasons. It is a lot of work. What I have to say is obvious to logicians, and they would consider the detour into programming to only be a distraction. Computer programmers who can appreciate the programming detour, are mostly not that interested in logic. But this question hi

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We May Be a Step Closer to Seeing the Original ‘Star Wars’ Again

gizmodo.com Germain Lussier 2026-03-19 17:30:24

Fans can argue day and night about Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy but there’s no denying she pulled an awesome move earlier this week. As previously reported, the British Film Institute had been advertising that it would be screening a very rare print of George Lucas’ Star Wars from its original theatrical run. It’s the version of the film you can basically never see anymore, at least not officially, so Kennedy showed up at the event to change that. “I’m here to make sure you don’t think

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Computing’s Top 30: Sukanya Meher

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2026-03-20 01:00:50

Sukanya S. Meher loves a good intersection. Especially the one between theory and application, which she first seriously explored in the realm of superconductor electronics. Today, Meher works in electronic design automation (EDA), bringing with her a unique perspective on circuit design, modeling, simulation, and tool development. This EDA work is also giving her the chance to explore a new intersection: that between technology design and customer success. As an AMS staff engineer at Synopsys

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Anker Recalls PowerCore 10000 Power Banks for Burning or Exploding. Learn How to Get a Free Replacement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2026-03-20 01:12:00

On Thursday, June 12, electronics maker Anker announced an official recall of Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263. The company received 19 reports of the portable chargers catching fire and exploding. The Consumer Products Safety Commission reports that more than 1.1 million of the products sold in the US are affected by the recall. The company plans to replace the charging devices, but customers must submit photo evidence of ownership and also prove that they've dispo

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Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2026-03-20 01:16:46

Amazon tapped into an emerging trend this week, one that’s seeing big tech firms buy power from existing nuclear power plants. The tech company will power a chunk of its AWS cloud and AI servers using 1.92 gigawatts of electricity from Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Amazon is the latest hyperscaler to go direct to big nuclear operators, following on the heels of Microsoft and Meta. Amazon’s deal was announced Wednesday, but it’s not entirely new, instead modify

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Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?

Amazon's Zoox boosts robotaxi production ahead of first commercial launch in Las Vegas

YouTube launches new Shopping product stickers for Shorts

Thieves steal almost 3,000 Switch 2 consoles worth $1.4 million from truck headed to Texas GameStop

Tesla Stock Plummets as Company Abruptly Halts Production of Cybertruck and Model Y

Is There a Half-Life for the Success Rates of AI Agents?

Those Creatine Gummies You Bought Online Might Not Contain Any Creatine

Foundry (YC F24) Hiring Early Engineer to Build Web Agent Infrastructure

Jell-O and Kool-Aid Will No Longer Contain Artificial Dyes. This Is What's Replacing Them.

Tesla stock slips after report EV maker is pausing Cybertruck and Model Y production

Tesla stock slips after report EV maker is halting Cybertruck and Model Y production

Best Internet Providers in Tucson, Arizona

The 560-pound Twitter sign met a fiery end in a Nevada desert

Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 64GB Kit (2x32GB) Hits Lowest Price Ever, Each Stick Is Practically Free

Apple launches Back to School shopping promo: free AirPods and more

What I talk about when I talk about IRs

Cutting cloud waste at scale: Akamai saves 70% using AI agents orchestrated by kubernetes

Groq just made Hugging Face way faster — and it’s coming for AWS and Google

Trump fires commissioner of preeminent nuclear safety institution

Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time

I Tracked My Glucose Levels With My Favorite Fitness Tracker. These 3 Takeaways Surprised Me

Founder of 23andMe buys back company out of bankruptcy auction

Flies grow their gyroscopes: Study reveals how flight stabilizers take shape

“Language and Image Minus Cognition”: An Interview with Leif Weatherby

Here's why network infrastructure is vital to maximizing your company's AI adoption

Peano arithmetic is enough, because Peano arithmetic encodes computation

We May Be a Step Closer to Seeing the Original ‘Star Wars’ Again

Computing’s Top 30: Sukanya Meher

Anker Recalls PowerCore 10000 Power Banks for Burning or Exploding. Learn How to Get a Free Replacement

Amazon joins the big nuclear party, buying 1.92 GW for AWS

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