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Building agents using streaming SQL queries

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 11:38:15

LLMs are general-purpose models created from huge bodies of publicly available datasets. However, many, if not most, AI Agents for enterprise use cases require access to context such as internal data and resources, tools and services. How can this be implemented when building an agentic system using Flink SQL? First, let’s consider the case of structured data, for instance details about a given customer stored in an external database. SQL is a natural fit for accessing that kind of data: Flink

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Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 13:00:36

You’ll be given the autonomy to do some of the best work of your life. We’re building a research lab that puts its ideas to the test in one of the most complex, information-rich environments in the world: the financial markets. Much of trading still depends on hand-crafted signals and intuition. We’re approaching it differently - from first principles. We design systems that learn, adapt, and improve with data. Our infrastructure is built to accelerate research: fast iteration loops, real-time

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Via the False Claims Act, NIH puts universities on edge

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-07 13:42:07

Earlier this year, a biomedical researcher at the University of Michigan received an update from the National Institutes of Health. The federal agency, which funds a large swath of the country’s medical science, had given the green light to begin releasing funding for the upcoming year on the researcher’s multi-year grant. Not long after, the researcher learned that the university had placed the grant on hold. The school’s lawyers, it turned out, were wrestling with a difficult question: whethe

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OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-09-07 13:10:58

OpenAI researchers say they’ve discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned “personas,” according to new research published by the company on Wednesday. By looking at an AI model’s internal representations — the numbers that dictate how an AI model responds, which often seem completely incoherent to humans — OpenAI researchers were able to find patterns that lit up when a model misbehaved. The researchers found one such feature that corresponded to toxic behavior i

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Keylogger campaign hitting Microsoft Exchange servers goes global

techspot.com Alfonso Maruccia 2025-09-07 17:58:00

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Facepalm: Keylogging malware is a particularly dangerous threat, as it is typically designed to capture login credentials or other sensitive data from users. When you add a compromised Exchange server to the mix, it creates an even nastier situation for any organization. Researchers from Positive Technologies recently unveiled a new study on a keylogger-based campaign targeting organizations worldw

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Google Search’s AI Mode gets chatty with its new Search Live feature

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-07 17:00:11

Google TL;DR Google is rolling out a new voice search experience for AI Mode in the Google app for Android and iOS. The new Search Live feature lets you have a natural conversation with Google Search, much like Gemini Live. The feature offers AI-generated audio responses to your queries and lets you ask follow-up questions for additional information. Google previewed a new voice search experience called Search Live at I/O this year. Like Gemini Live, this new feature lets users have a natura

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You can search Google with a new voice experience - and it's pretty cool

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-07 17:00:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET The Google Search experience remained relatively unchanged for decades, but the way you browse the web has been reimagined with AI updates such as AI Overviews, AI Mode, Circle to Search, and more. Now, Google is introducing a new way to search -- with your voice. Search Live On Wednesday, Google launched the Search Live with voice input experience in the Google app for both Android and iOS. With this experience, you can have a free-flowing conversation a

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This AI Agent Should Have Been a SQL Query

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-07 16:38:15

LLMs are general-purpose models created from huge bodies of publicly available datasets. However, many, if not most, AI Agents for enterprise use cases require access to context such as internal data and resources, tools and services. How can this be implemented when building an agentic system using Flink SQL? First, let’s consider the case of structured data, for instance details about a given customer stored in an external database. SQL is a natural fit for accessing that kind of data: Flink

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Google tests real-time AI voice chats in Search

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-09-07 17:00:00

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google is building Search Live into AI Mode, allowing you to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with the company’s AI chatbot right from its search engine. The test, which is rolling out now to Labs users in the US, currently doesn’t support camera-sharing, but Google plans to add the capability in the “coming months.” Search Live lets you in

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Google’s AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-09-07 17:00:00

Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode, its experimental Search feature that lets users ask complex, multi-part questions. With the new Search Live integration, users can have a free-flowing voice conversation with Search and explore links from across the web. Users will be able to access the feature by opening the Google app and tapping the new “Live” icon to ask their question aloud. They will then hear an AI-generated audio respon

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Best Buy Has HP’s 14″ 2-in-1 Laptop for Almost 50% Off to Compete With Amazon’s Early Prime Day Deal

gizmodo.com Joe Tilleli 2025-09-07 21:40:00

Why choose between a laptop or a tablet when you can get one device that can be both? Best Buy has the Lenovo Envy 2-in-1 touchscreen laptop at a pretty sizable discount. Normally priced at $800, but for a limited time you can get it for $380 off. That brings it down to just $420—a discount of about 48%. The HP Envy laptop supports Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution in it’s 14-inch touchscreen. The bezel is super thin allowing the active area of the laptop to reach the very edge. It’s running on an

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Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-08 01:48:26

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. Honda successfully conducted a “launch and landing test of an experimental reusable rocket” developed by its research and development subsidiary, the company announced this week. It was the first time Honda landed a rocket after it reached an altitude of 890 feet, according to a press release. The launch took place at a Honda test facility in Ta

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Finding the right editing tool in Google Photos is about to get easier (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-08 15:30:07

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that the Google Photos app is getting a search button for editing tools. This will allow you to type the name of an editing tool or option to quickly access it. This search option would save time compared to manually sifting through menus to find the correct tool. We just discovered that Google Photos will get its biggest redesign in years, featuring a Material 3 Expressive visual style and functional upgrad

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IEEE Computer Society Announces André Seznec as the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award Recipient

computer.org Jasmine Ang 2025-09-08 18:32:08

Seznec is recognized for seminal work in branch prediction and cache memories LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 17 June 2025 – The IEEE Computer Society (CS) is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award: André Seznec, SiFive Fellow on leave from INRIA/IRISA. The award honors Seznec’s extensive impact on computing, most notably his pioneering contributions to branch prediction and cache memories. “André Seznec is a luminary in computer architecture,” said Hironori Washi

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Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-09 14:02:12

As announced in 2021, Honda has been pursuing research and development in the field of space technologies while viewing it as a place to take on challenges to realize the “dreams” and “potential” of people worldwide while leveraging its core technologies. Honda has the aim to enable people to transcend the constraints of time, place or ability and make people’s daily lives more enjoyable. Examples of Honda initiatives toward creating new value in the ultimate environment of outer space include r

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ChatGPT search just got smarter - but can it replace Google for you yet?

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-09-10 01:56:08

Dmitry Kovalchuk/Getty Watch out, Google. OpenAI has beefed up its ChatGPT search tool to try to win over more people. And it may be working. In a new support article published last Friday, OpenAI described a recent upgrade designed to improve the quality and performance of its search option. In general, ChatGPT search has been enhanced to provide more comprehensive and up-to-date responses. Based on its own testing, OpenAI said that users preferred the new search process over the previous exp

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Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimental Reusable Rocket

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 05:02:12

As announced in 2021, Honda has been pursuing research and development in the field of space technologies while viewing it as a place to take on challenges to realize the “dreams” and “potential” of people worldwide while leveraging its core technologies. Honda has the aim to enable people to transcend the constraints of time, place or ability and make people’s daily lives more enjoyable. Examples of Honda initiatives toward creating new value in the ultimate environment of outer space include r

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Gemini preps a ‘Saved info’ rebrand as work on chat history search continues (Updated: Beta)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-10 08:25:18

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has recently updated Gemini with a boatload of in-development UI tweaks. Some include dropping the “Gemini” name from headers, and rebranding “Saved info.” We also see further progress on multiple changes to the way you view and access chat history. Update 2: June 17, 2025 (09:25 AM ET): The updated sidebar is now rolling out in beta with Google app v16.23.69. AssembleDebug / Android Authority However, the ability to search past conversation

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Firefox quietly starts testing Perplexity AI as a built-in search engine

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-10 13:59:41

Mozilla is making its first official move toward AI-powered search in Firefox. As part of a new experiment, Perplexity AI is now being offered as an optional search engine directly in the browser’s address bar. Here’s how to try it. A test running on select countries, but with a global workaround As noted by Windows Report, the integration is still in the early stages. Perplexity won’t appear as your default search engine just yet, but Firefox users in select countries can now select it from t

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Inside LinkedIn’s AI overhaul: Job search powered by LLM distillation

venturebeat.com Emilia David 2025-09-11 04:52:31

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more The advent of natural language search has encouraged people to change how they search for information, and LinkedIn, which has been working with numerous AI models over the past year, hopes this shift extends to job search. LinkedIn’s AI-powered jobs search, now available to all LinkedIn users, uses distilled, fine-tuned models trained on

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Circle to Search could be getting an AI Mode upgrade, and here’s what it looks like (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-11 05:50:09

Rita El Khoury / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing integrating Search’s AI Mode into the Circle to Search feature. When the feature rolls out, users may be able to launch AI mode via text or voice from within the Circle to Search screen. Google Search’s AI Mode breaks down your question into subtopics and conducts multiple simultaneous queries. It can be accessed by users in the US through the AI Mode icon in the Google widget on your home screen, or by selecting AI Mode from the Goog

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Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-11 20:51:33

From today, all new submissions to Nature that are published will be accompanied by referees’ reports and author responses — to illuminate the process of producing rigorous science. A published research paper is the result of an extensive conversation between authors and reviewers, guided by editors.Credit: Getty Since 2020, Nature has offered authors the opportunity to have their peer-review file published alongside their paper. Our colleagues at Nature Communications have been doing so since

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Traces of Toxic Industrial Chemical Found in U.S. Air for the First Time

gizmodo.com Ed Cara 2025-09-12 09:10:52

Americans’ air is teeming with all sorts of known toxin pollutants—now scientists have found a new one to add to the list. Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder detailed their discovery in a study published earlier this month. They sampled agricultural sites in Oklahoma and found clear traces of medium-chain chlorinated paraffins (MCCPs) in the surrounding air. The health effects of MCCPs on people are still being studied, though countries are already planning to debate whether thes

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Doctors Find They Can Detect Cancer in Blood Years Before Diagnosis

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-12 12:15:53

Image by Getty / Futurism Cancer Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have discovered that cancer can be detected in the bloodstream a full three years before it's spotted by doctors for an official diagnosis. As detailed in a partially government-funded study published in the journal Cancer Discovery last month, the team found that genetic material being shed by cancer tumors can show up in the bloodstream far earlier than previously thought, paving the way for promising new cancer screeni

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You can turn your Google search into a podcast now - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-12 12:10:00

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Last fall, Google unveiled a new feature for NotebookLM -- an option to turn your research into a fake podcast that helps you easily digest information. Now, your favorite faux podcast hosts are coming to Search. Also: How to remove your personal info from Google Search - it's quick and easy When you search for something in Google, you'll now see an option to make a podcast summarizing the information. It's for more in-depth queries, not straightforward

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You can turn your Google Search into a podcast now - here's how

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-09-12 17:10:02

Google / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Last fall, Google unveiled a new feature for NotebookLM -- an option to turn your research into a fake podcast that helps you easily digest information. Now, your favorite faux podcast hosts are coming to Search. Also: How to remove your personal info from Google Search - it's quick and easy When you search for something in Google, you'll now see an option to make a podcast summarizing the information. It's for more in-depth queries, not straightforward

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I tried replacing Google Search with Perplexity. It didn’t go well

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-13 09:00:45

Joe Maring / Android Authority It’s no secret that Google Search is in a weird place right now. The regular search experience has seen better days, with ads and unhelpful results making the search engine feel far less helpful than it was a few years ago. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence features like AI Overviews and AI Mode aren’t where they need to be. Despite its imperfections, Google Search has remained my go-to search engine. But why should it when there are so many other options out th

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Play Store search tab pops with color in latest Material 3 Expressive refresh

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-13 09:31:08

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR The Play Store is getting a taste of Google’s Material 3 Expressive design language with colorful new icons in the search tab. The new icons make search shortcuts more vibrant and easier to tell apart at a glance. The update was spotted on version 46.5.19 of the Play Store app and seems to be a server-side change. Google is rolling out a colorful and visually appealing update to the Play Store’s search tab. The tab now features colorful new icons ins

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First 2D, non-silicon computer developed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-10 03:26:43

The team used metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) — a fabrication process that involves vaporizing ingredients, forcing a chemical reaction and depositing the products onto a substrate — to grow large sheets of molybdenum disulfide and tungsten diselenide and fabricate over 1,000 of each type of transistor. By carefully tuning the device fabrication and post-processing steps, they were able to adjust the threshold voltages of both n- and p-type transistors, enabling the construction

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Scientists Discover Startling Trick to Defeat Insomnia

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-13 04:30:28

Image by Getty / Futurism Studies Insomnia is a curse we wouldn't wish on our worst enemy — and scientists have discovered a startlingly simple lifestyle change that appears to be very statistically effective at preventing it. In a new study published in the journal Sleep Health, researchers from Columbia and the University of Chicago report that eating a full day's serving worth of fruits and vegetables strongly appears to help people sleep more soundly throughout the night. Interrupted slee

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Building agents using streaming SQL queries

Attimet (YC F24) – Quant Trading Research Lab – Is Hiring Founding Engineer

Via the False Claims Act, NIH puts universities on edge

OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

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Google Search’s AI Mode gets chatty with its new Search Live feature

You can search Google with a new voice experience - and it's pretty cool

This AI Agent Should Have Been a SQL Query

Google tests real-time AI voice chats in Search

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Best Buy Has HP’s 14″ 2-in-1 Laptop for Almost 50% Off to Compete With Amazon’s Early Prime Day Deal

Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

Finding the right editing tool in Google Photos is about to get easier (APK teardown)

IEEE Computer Society Announces André Seznec as the 2025 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award Recipient

Honda conducts successful launch and landing of experimental reusable rocket

ChatGPT search just got smarter - but can it replace Google for you yet?

Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing of Experimental Reusable Rocket

Gemini preps a ‘Saved info’ rebrand as work on chat history search continues (Updated: Beta)

Firefox quietly starts testing Perplexity AI as a built-in search engine

Inside LinkedIn’s AI overhaul: Job search powered by LLM distillation

Circle to Search could be getting an AI Mode upgrade, and here’s what it looks like (APK teardown)

Transparent peer review to be extended to all of Nature's research papers

Traces of Toxic Industrial Chemical Found in U.S. Air for the First Time

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You can turn your Google search into a podcast now - here's how

You can turn your Google Search into a podcast now - here's how

I tried replacing Google Search with Perplexity. It didn’t go well

Play Store search tab pops with color in latest Material 3 Expressive refresh

First 2D, non-silicon computer developed

Scientists Discover Startling Trick to Defeat Insomnia

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