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95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

news.ycombinator.com Oliver Flynn 2025-11-09 09:36:24

Over the last three years, companies worldwide have invested between 30 and 40 billion dollars into generative artificial intelligence projects. Yet most of these efforts have brought no real business return. A new study from MIT found that 95 percent of enterprise organizations report zero measurable gains from the adoption of AI tools. Only a small group has seen strong benefits. “Just five percent of integrated AI pilots are extracting millions in value,” the report said. In contrast, the v

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Pokémon looks scary again in the new Z-A trailer

theverge.com Charles Pulliam-Moore 2025-11-09 15:35:31

One of the most brilliant things about Pokémon Legends: Arceus was the way it dropped you into the wilderness to fend for yourself as wild monsters tried to kill you. It was a surprising deviation from the franchise’s typically chill vibe that complimented the game’s story about how humans once lived in constant fear of pokémon. Arceus’ mild horror elements felt like something that might not carry over to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, but the new game’s latest trailer makes it seem like Nintendo wants t

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Masimo files lawsuit over Apple's 'redesigned' blood oxygen monitoring feature

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-10 00:00:54

Masimo, the medical technology company whose lawsuit led to the temporary sales pause of the Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2, has sued the US Customs and Border Protection days after Apple released its redesigned blood oxygen monitoring feature. This is just the latest update in the lengthy legal saga between Masimo and Apple, which started when the former sued the iPhonemaker in 2021, accusing it of infringing on several of its light-based blood oxygen monitoring patents. After a court sided w

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Qualcomm could release not one, but two flagship Snapdragon chips this year

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-10 05:14:16

Robert Triggs / Android Authority TL;DR Leaks suggest Qualcomm is preparing two new top-tier SoCs: the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 2 (SM8850) and the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 (SM8845). The Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 is said to feature Qualcomm’s custom Oryon CPU cores and share the same TSMC process as the Snapdragon 8 Elite. Curiously, a Snapdragon 8s Gen 5 isn’t expected anytime soon. Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset late last year for Android flagships. With it, the company also took the opp

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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

news.ycombinator.com James Titcomb 2025-11-10 16:04:08

Stock market volatility was largely prompted by a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which claimed that 95pc of companies were getting “zero return” on their AI investments. A Meta spokesman sought to downplay the freeze, saying: “All that’s happening here is some basic organisational planning: creating a solid structure for our new superintelligence efforts after bringing people on board and undertaking yearly budgeting and planning exercises.” It comes after the company h

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Apple's iOS 18.6.1 Brings This Redesigned Feature Back to Some Devices

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-10 15:00:02

Apple released iOS 18.6.1 on Aug. 14 after the tech giant mentioned the mobile software update in a blog post earlier that day. The update introduces a redesigned blood oxygen experience to iPhones paired with certain Apple Watches, but not much else. You can download iOS 18.6.1 by going to Settings, then tapping General. Next, select Software Update, then tap Update Now and follow the prompts on your screen. People with an Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 or Apple Watch Ultra 2 can also downlo

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Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 16:20:11

DiffMem: Git-Based Differential Memory for AI Agents DiffMem is a lightweight, git-based memory backend designed for AI agents and conversational systems. It uses Markdown files for human-readable storage, Git for tracking temporal evolution through differentials, and an in-memory BM25 index for fast, explainable retrieval. This project is a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploring how version control systems can serve as a foundation for efficient, scalable memory in AI applications. At its core, Dif

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Masimo sues US Customs over Apple Watch blood oxygen workaround

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-11 05:40:37

Last week, when Apple announced the release of a “redesigned Blood Oxygen feature” to the Apple Watch, many figured Masimo (who had been suing Apple over patents related to the feature), would look for a way to fight back. Today, the company did just that and filed a new lawsuit. But this time, it’s against the US Customs and Border Protection. Here’s why. A bit of background When Apple released the Blood Oxygen feature on the Apple Watch, medical device maker Masimo sued over alleged patent i

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Sequoia backs Zed

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-10 18:13:16

Nathan Sobo August 20th, 2025 Today we're announcing our $32M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to over $42M. For the past four years, we've been building the world's fastest IDE, but that's just the foundation for what comes next. Our ultimate vision is a new way to collaborate on software, where conversations about code remain connected to the code itself, instead of being tied to aging snapshots or scattered across dif

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Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows

techcrunch.com Zack Whittaker 2025-11-11 15:29:01

In Brief U.S. border agents searched more electronic devices during a three-month period than ever before, according to new government statistics. The data shows that U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency tasked with immigration screening at the U.S. border, searched 14,899 devices of international travelers between April through June, a 17% rise on the previous record high recorded in early 2022. Most of these searches are “basic,” where U.S. border agents demand the password to the

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Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 20:44:31

Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an "extremely sophisticated attack." Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is caused by an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered by Apple security researchers in the Image I/O framework, which enables applications to read and write most image file formats. An out-of-bounds write occurs when attackers successfully exploit such vulnerabilities by supplying input to a program, causing it t

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Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash

news.ycombinator.com Business Columnist 2025-11-11 20:12:52

Most people not deeply involved in the artificial intelligence frenzy may not have noticed, but perceptions of AI’s relentless march toward becoming more intelligent than humans, even becoming a threat to humanity, came to a screeching halt Aug. 7. That was the day when the most widely followed AI company, OpenAI, released GPT-5, an advanced product that the firm had long promised would put competitors to shame and launch a new revolution in this purportedly revolutionary technology. As it hap

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Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

wired.com Will Knight 2025-11-11 20:00:00

During sleep, the human brain sorts through different memories, consolidating important ones while discarding those that don’t matter. What if AI could do the same? Bilt, a company that offers local shopping and restaurant deals to renters, recently deployed several million agents with the hopes of doing just that. Bilt uses technology from a startup called Letta that allows agents to learn from previous conversations and share memories with one another. Using a process called “sleeptime compu

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Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-11 23:31:13

A study looking into agentic AI browsers has found that these emerging tools are vulnerable to both new and old schemes that could make them interact with malicious pages and prompts. Agentic AI browsers can autonomously browse, shop, and manage various online tasks (like handling email, booking tickets, filing forms, or controlling accounts). Perplexity’s Comet is currently the primary example of agentic AI browsers. Microsoft Edge is also embedding agentic browsing features through a Copilot

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This is the chip powering the new Google Pixel Watch 4

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-12 05:00:11

TL;DR The Google Pixel Watch 4 is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon W5 Gen 2. Qualcomm’s new wearables platform is the first to sport satellite connectivity, as well as more accurate GPS tracking. The chip should also be slightly more power-efficient, but performance remains about the same. It’s not often that we’re treated to new wearable processors, but the new Google Pixel Watch 4 has some new internals courtesy of Qualcomm. The new chip is the Snapdragon W5 Gen 2, though Qualcomm also ha

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Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-12 06:13:16

Nathan Sobo August 20th, 2025 Today we're announcing our $32M Series B led by Sequoia Capital with participation from our existing investors, bringing our total funding to over $42M. For the past four years, we've been building the world's fastest IDE, but that's just the foundation for what comes next. Our ultimate vision is a new way to collaborate on software, where conversations about code remain connected to the code itself, instead of being tied to aging snapshots or scattered across dif

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Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 09:43:04

Today, we’re introducing Tidewave Web for Rails and Phoenix: a coding agent that runs directly in the browser alongside your web application, in your own development environment, with full page and code context. Unlike traditional coding agents that require constant back-and-forth, Tidewave Web knows your UI state, understands your framework, and runs within your actual development environment. No more describing what’s on your screen, copying stacktraces, or losing context between tools. Our

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Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

wired.com Jason Koebler 2025-11-13 11:00:00

The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office printers. She has a phone in one hand and often checks it as if to read a sales script or monitor the viewer comments coming in. “My friends, I’ve gotta plug this game-changing office tool that c

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Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 11:06:15

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — August 19, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to close soon with backing from existing investors. This funding values the company at >$100 billion. The company expects to use the new capital to accelerate its AI strategy — expanding Agent Bricks, investing in its new database offering Lakebase, and fueling global growth. At the June Data + AI Summit, Databricks introduced a new produ

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Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life

news.ycombinator.com Alice Sun 2025-11-13 09:18:48

Scientists recently discovered a microbe with one of the tiniest genomes on Earth. More surprising, the creature is almost entirely dependent on its host: Its genes don’t support any of the functions of metabolism, one of the key processes of life. As such, it challenges fundamental notions of what it means to be a living organism. The discovery was “pure serendipity,” says Takuro Nakayama, an evolutionary microbiologist at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. Takayama wanted to study the many m

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How to Draw a Space Invader

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-13 14:41:16

This is an interactive article. To fully experience it, you'll need to turn JavaScript on. I recently made the Space Invader Generator for Creative Coding Amsterdam code challenge. I made it for fun of course... and galactic domination too! You can see how it looks below and in this post I'll show you how it works using an interactive animation. Here are a few invaders it can generate: While showing friends how it works, I realized the process would look great animated. So I decided to write

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Is Meta’s Superintelligence Overhaul a Sign Its AI Goals Are Struggling?

gizmodo.com Ece Yildirim 2025-11-13 15:37:18

Meta is splitting its AI division Meta Superintelligence Labs less than two months after the company announced its formation in June. The group will be split into four smaller groups, according to a New York Times report. One group will focus on AI research, another one on infrastructure and hardware projects, one on AI products, and another one on building out AI superintelligence, a hypothetical AI system that could outperform human intelligence on any and all scales. Facebook did not respon

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Grammarly Pushes Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing Guidance

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-13 18:45:04

Grammarly is expanding beyond its grammar-checking roots. The company has announced the launch of several specialized AI "agents" and a new writing tool called Grammarly Docs, designed to help students and professionals with everything from drafting essays to polishing workplace emails. It's another example of generative AI expanding beyond general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini into more specialized domains. Other examples of gen AI in educational circles include Google's NotebookLM

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Alation says new query feature offers 30% accuracy boost, helping enterprises turn data catalogs into problem solvers

venturebeat.com Sean Michael Kerner 2025-11-13 23:43:19

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The enterprise data catalog market has undergone dramatic shifts in the modern gen AI era. Traditional data catalogs served as static repositories where users searched for datasets and documentation. The market expanded to include data governance capabilities with many vendors branding the technology as data intelligence platforms. Early

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Apple Intelligence gets 20+ brand new features in iOS 26, here’s the full list

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-14 10:19:07

Apple Intelligence may not yet include the major Siri upgrades that were promised, but there are a ton of other new features coming in iOS 26. Here’s everything new New Apple Intelligence features coming in iOS 26 Apple Intelligence currently offers just over 20 features, but in iOS 26 there are another 20+ new features and improvements coming—all in a single software release. Here’s the full list of new AI features across four categories: Communication Communication is a big focus with App

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Apple Watch regains edge in one key way

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-14 14:15:24

Apple Watch users in the United States are finally seeing Blood Oxygen readings return after nearly a year-long absence. Apple was forced to disable the feature on new Apple Watch hardware sold in the US following a patent dispute with medical technology company Masimo. The fix, released across this week and last, is a practical solution that works well, especially in helping Apple Watch remain competitive with the health and fitness focused Whoop product. With the release of iOS 18.6.1 and wa

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Apple Watch regains edge over Whoop in one key way

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-14 20:15:24

Apple Watch users in the United States are finally seeing Blood Oxygen readings return after nearly a year-long absence. Apple was forced to disable the feature on new Apple Watch hardware sold in the US following a patent dispute with medical technology company Masimo. The fix, released across this week and last, is a practical solution that works well, especially in helping Apple Watch remain competitive with the health and fitness focused Whoop product. With the release of iOS 18.6.1 and wa

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Razer’s Gengar Edition headphones are now available in the US

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-11-15 05:00:00

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. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Razer has announced that one of its most popular PC gaming peripherals from a Pokémon collaboration that was exclusive to China will soon be available in the US. The Gengar Edition of the Razer Kraken Kitty V2 headphones, which trade cute cat ears for the Pok

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VB AI Impact Series: Can you really govern multi-agent AI?

venturebeat.com Vb Staff 2025-11-15 09:50:00

Single copilots are yesterday’s news. Competitive differentiation is all about launching a network of specialized agents that collaborate, self-critique, and call the right model for every step. The latest installment of VentureBeat’s AI Impact Series, presented by SAP in San Francisco, tackled the issue of deploying and governing multi-agent AI systems. Yaad Oren, managing director SAP Labs U.S. and global head of research & innovation at SAP, and Raj Jampa, SVP and CIO with Agilent, an analyt

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The AYN Odin 3 could be the big Android handheld upgrade that retro gamers have been waiting for

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-15 09:32:55

TL;DR AYN has teased an upgrade to its leading Android handheld, the Odin 3. The company confirmed it will run Android, but no other details were revealed. AYN teased the Odin 3 alongside the announcement of a dual-screened Android handheld, the AYN Thor. AYN’s Odin 2 handheld lineup has been extremely popular, primarily due to the decently capable Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on board, which makes them perfect for emulating demanding retro consoles like the Nintendo Switch and others. However

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Latest Tech News

95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend

Pokémon looks scary again in the new Z-A trailer

Masimo files lawsuit over Apple's 'redesigned' blood oxygen monitoring feature

Qualcomm could release not one, but two flagship Snapdragon chips this year

Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

Apple's iOS 18.6.1 Brings This Redesigned Feature Back to Some Devices

Show HN: I replaced vector databases with Git for AI memory (PoC)

Masimo sues US Customs over Apple Watch blood oxygen workaround

Sequoia backs Zed

Device searches at the US border hit record high, new data shows

Apple fixes new zero-day flaw exploited in targeted attacks

Say farewell to the AI bubble, and get ready for the crash

Do Large Language Models Dream of AI Agents?

Perplexity’s Comet AI browser tricked into buying fake items online

This is the chip powering the new Google Pixel Watch 4

Sequoia Backs Zed's Vision for Collaborative Coding

Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

Databricks is raising a Series K Investment at >$100B valuation

Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life

How to Draw a Space Invader

Is Meta’s Superintelligence Overhaul a Sign Its AI Goals Are Struggling?

Grammarly Pushes Beyond Proofreading With AI-Powered Writing Guidance

Alation says new query feature offers 30% accuracy boost, helping enterprises turn data catalogs into problem solvers

Apple Intelligence gets 20+ brand new features in iOS 26, here’s the full list

Apple Watch regains edge in one key way

Apple Watch regains edge over Whoop in one key way

Razer’s Gengar Edition headphones are now available in the US

VB AI Impact Series: Can you really govern multi-agent AI?

The AYN Odin 3 could be the big Android handheld upgrade that retro gamers have been waiting for

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