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OpenAI Quietly Turns to Google to Stay Online

gizmodo.com Luc Olinga 2025-07-21 17:30:08

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has quietly added Google Cloud as one of its official service providers, meaning Google will now help power the systems that run ChatGPT and other AI products. This development was disclosed on OpenAI’s website in a list of what are called sub-processors, or companies that handle or process user data on OpenAI’s behalf. For everyday users, it may not seem like a big deal. But behind the scenes, it is a major shift. OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft, has

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Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-07-24 10:00:00

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 Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Tuesday. The financing comes just three months after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor a

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Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records

wired.com Dan Goodin 2025-07-24 23:30:00

Hackers are stashing malware in a place that’s largely out of the reach of most defenses—inside domain name system (DNS) records that map domain names to their corresponding numerical IP addresses. The practice allows malicious scripts and early-stage malware to fetch binary files without having to download them from suspicious sites or attach them to emails, where they frequently get quarantined by antivirus software. That’s because traffic for DNS lookups often goes largely unmonitored by man

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Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction

news.ycombinator.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-07-25 05:48:48

Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous vehicle technology startup founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, has been operating quietly for more than a year. Now, it’s breaking cover with an $80 million funding round from investors Eclipse and 8VC. Bedrock Robotics is focused on developing a self-driving kit that can be retrofitted to construction and other worksite vehicles, according to the company. The announcement confirms some of TechCrunch’s reporting in May. Bedrock is “upgrading existing fleets

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Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics with $80M to automate construction

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-07-26 10:39:07

Bedrock Robotics, an autonomous vehicle technology startup founded by veterans of Waymo and Segment, has been operating quietly for more than a year. Now, it’s breaking cover with an $80 million funding round from investors Eclipse and 8VC. Bedrock Robotics is focused on developing a self-driving kit that can be retrofitted to construction and other worksite vehicles, according to the company. The announcement confirms some of TechCrunch’s reporting in May. Bedrock is “upgrading existing fleets

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It's a huge week for crypto in DC But the industry may not get everything it wants

cnbc.com Greta Reich Emily Wilkins 2025-07-28 14:25:07

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 27, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters It's "Crypto Week" in Washington. The cryptocurrency industry is set to notch a major win this week if the House can pass two bills that would set up a long-lobbied-for regulatory framework for digital assets. The stablecoin bill, known as the GENUIS Act, has already passed the Senate and looks set to become the first standalone crypto measure signed into law should the House do the same. But the real

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It's a huge week for crypto in D.C. But the industry may not get everything it wants

cnbc.com Greta Reich Emily Wilkins 2025-07-28 22:49:08

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 27, 2025. Elizabeth Frantz | Reuters It's "Crypto Week" in Washington. The cryptocurrency industry is set to notch a major win this week if the House can pass two bills that would set up a long-lobbied-for regulatory framework for digital assets. The stablecoin bill, known as the GENUIS Act, has already passed the Senate and looks set to become the first standalone crypto measure signed into law should the House do the same. But the real

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Beware! Research shows Gmail’s AI email summaries can be hacked

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-29 06:32:50

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR A researcher recently demonstrated a Gemini flaw that could be exploited to inject malicious instructions while using Gmail’s email summary feature. These instructions were hidden in plain text under the body of the email. Google responded to the research, stating that it had updated its models to identify such prompt engineering measures and block phishing links. Big tech companies have been billing AI as the ubiquitous tool that frees us from munda

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NetBox Labs secures $35M as demand for network infrastructure management surges

news.ycombinator.com More This Author 2025-07-31 02:43:21

The platform’s technical foundation centers on modeling infrastructure relationships in detail. The NetBox model encodes realistic relationships, such as an IP address’s provision on an interface, where the interface is on the switch, and where the switch sits in a rack. In addition, NetBox Labs has expanded the core platform with complementary products that address operational pain points while leveraging the central data repository. NetBox Discovery provides automated network device and serv

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The Structure of Ice in Space Is Neither Order nor Chaos—It’s Both

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-07-31 21:00:00

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets, and in your drink as you cool off from the summer heat. However, under the microscope, not all ice is the same, even though it is made of the same components. The internal structure of Earth’s ice is a cosmological oddity. Its molecules are arranged in geometric structures, usually hexagons that repeat each other. Ice on Earth forms this way due to the temperature and pressure of the our plane

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Species at 30 makes for a great guilty pleasure

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-31 17:20:53

Earlier this month, Hollywood mourned the passing of Michael Madsen, a gifted actor best known for his critically acclaimed roles in Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, and Donnie Brasco, among others. Few obituaries have mentioned one of his lesser-known roles: a black ops mercenary hired to help hunt down an escaped human/alien hybrid in 1995's Species. The sci-fi thriller turns 30 this year and while it garnered decidedly mixed reviews upon release, the film holds up quite well as a not-quite-campy B

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Hacking Coroutines into C

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-31 14:12:37

Hacking Coroutines into C 12.7.2025 A while ago, I was part of a team developing embedded software. The software was deeply rooted in state machines - dozens of them—spread across multiple functions. While this architecture is common in embedded development, especially for systems without an operating system, I started to question: Is this really the clearest way to express control flow? The state machines in our code worked fine, but understanding and maintaining them was often a headache. T

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Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better

news.ycombinator.com Chris Feilbach 2025-08-02 07:34:04

Branch instructions are the primary means by which a program running on a CPU makes a decision. This post is part of a series of posts on CPU performance, as part of the Pointer Wars: Linked List Edition challenge. This challenge is great for undergraduates, graduate students, and new engineers who want feedback about writing high performance C or C++ code. Much more info here. The Sequential Execution Model and Branch Instructions Programs written to execute on a CPU follow something called

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OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta

wired.com Will Knight 2025-08-07 22:00:00

OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the company’s scaling team, WIRED has learned. The news came via an internal Slack message sent by OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on Tuesday. Lau is joined by Uday Ruddarraju, the former head of infrastructure engineering at xAI and X, Mike Dalton, an infrastructure engineer from xAI, and Angela Fan, an AI researcher from Meta. Both Dalton and Rudda

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# [derive(Clone)] Is Broken

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-06 13:31:59

use std::sync::Arc; struct NoClone ; struct WrapArc <T>(Arc<T>); fn main () { let foo = WrapArc (Arc:: new (NoClone)); let foo_ = foo. clone (); } Do you think this code should compile? What about the following code: struct AlwaysEq <T>(T); impl <T> PartialEq for AlwaysEq <T> { fn eq (& self , _other: & Self ) -> bool { true } } impl <T> Eq for AlwaysEq <T> {} struct NotEq ; struct WrapAlwaysEq <T>(AlwaysEq<T>); fn assert_is_eq (_: impl Eq ) {} fn main () { let x = WrapAlwaysEq ( AlwaysEq (No

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The Download: how AI could improve construction site safety, and our Roundtables conversation with Karen Hao

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-08-18 14:10:00

More than 1,000 construction workers die on the job each year in the US, making it the most dangerous industry for fatal slips, trips, and falls. A new AI tool called Safety AI could help to change that. It analyzes the progress made on a construction site each day, and flags conditions that violate Occupational Safety and Health Administration rules, with what its creator Philip Lorenzo claims is 95% accuracy. Lorenzo says Safety AI is the first one of multiple emerging AI construction sa

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Cua (YC X25) is hiring an engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-19 16:00:30

Cua is building the infrastructure that lets general AI agents safely and scalably use Computers and Apps like humans do. With 8.9k+ GitHub stars in just 4 months and backing from Y Combinator, we’re providing: An open-source framework for building and evaluating general-purpose AI agents A cloud container platform for sandboxed, scalable agent execution environments A blueprint for what production-grade general agent systems should look like - backed by research We're looking for our first

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Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-08-19 18:13:15

In Brief Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed that the company is no longer working on migrating its Tumblr blogging platform to WordPress, as previously announced. The exec shared the news on The Verge’s Decoder podcast, published on Monday, saying that the project is “on hold” for an indefinite period. “What we decided is that we want to focus as much on the things that are going to be noticeable to users and that users are asking for,” he told the site. “This was more like an infrastruct

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Cua (YC X25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-20 02:00:30

Cua is building the infrastructure that lets general AI agents safely and scalably use Computers and Apps like humans do. With 8.9k+ GitHub stars in just 4 months and backing from Y Combinator, we’re providing: An open-source framework for building and evaluating general-purpose AI agents A cloud container platform for sandboxed, scalable agent execution environments A blueprint for what production-grade general agent systems should look like - backed by research We're looking for our first

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The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-21 06:41:04

The Email Startup Graveyard: Why 80%+ of Email Companies Fail While many email startups have invested millions in solving perceived problems, we at Forward Email have focused on building reliable email infrastructure from scratch since 2017. This analysis explores the patterns behind email startup outcomes and the fundamental challenges of email infrastructure. Note Key Insight: Most email startups don't build actual email infrastructure from scratch. Many build on top of existing solutions li

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Performance Debugging with LLVM-mca: Simulating the CPU

news.ycombinator.com Ivica Bogosavljević 2025-08-23 08:41:09

Some time ago I had a performance problem that wasn’t easy to explain by just looking at the code, since the version I expected to be faster was actually slower. Since the problem is simple yet illustrative, I am using it as a showcase on how to debug performance issues using llvm-mca. According to it’s documentation llvm-mca is a performance analysis tool that uses information available in LLVM (e.g. scheduling models) to statically measure the performance of machine code in a specific CPU. In

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Scaling smarter: How enterprise IT teams can right-size their compute for AI

venturebeat.com Joe Maglitta 2025-08-23 22:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI pilots rarely start with a deep discussion of infrastructure and hardware. But seasoned scalers warn that deploying high-value production workloads will not end happily without strategic, ongoing focus on a key enterprise-grade foundation. Good news: There’s growing recognition by enterprises about the pivotal role infrastructure plays in e

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The inference trap: How cloud providers are eating your AI margins

venturebeat.com Shubham Sharma 2025-08-23 22:00:00

This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI has become the holy grail of modern companies. Whether it’s customer service or something as niche as pipeline maintenance, organizations in every domain are now implementing AI technologies — from foundation models to VLAs — to make things more efficient. The goal is straightforward: automate tasks to deliver outcomes more efficiently and s

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PJ5 TTL CPU

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 11:05:58

Well, we did it… we cracked 4MIPS on our TTL CPU. I have to admit I’m both relieved and surprised. The key parts to achieving this was to decrease the latency for the instruction decode and also the flag register writing. The time to decode an instruction, perform a bit of math and then write to the flags was at around 270nS. With the changes we made, the instruction decode had a radical reworking and the flag writing had some big changes as well, means we go this down to under 200nS. Which m

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Parameterized types in C using the new tag compatibility rule

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-25 14:31:56

June 26, 2025 nullprogram.com/blog/2025/06/26/ C23 has a new rule for struct, union, and enum compatibility finally appearing in compilers starting with GCC 15, released this past April, and Clang later this year. The same struct defined in different translation units (TU) has always been compatible — essential to how they work. Until this rule change, each such definition within a TU was a distinct, incompatible type. The new rule says that, ackshually, they are compatible! This unlocks some

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Structured Output with LangChain and Llamafile

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-23 19:01:10

2 minutes read This article shows how one can teach Llamafile to handle structured outputs like JSON. If you’re already familiar with LangChain, you’ll know that popular models like OpenAI include their own implementations of with_structured_output. Using it is straightforward: All we need is to derive a new class from Pydantic’s BaseModel. The rest happens transparently. You don’t need to teach the LLM anything. Using Llamafile This isn’t currently possible with Llamafile, which I’m using i

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How a data-processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-08-31 01:00:00

When Eventual founders Sammy Sidhu and Jay Chia were working as software engineers at Lyft’s autonomous vehicle program, they witnessed a brewing data infrastructure problem — one that would only become larger with the rise of AI. Self-driving cars produce a ton of unstructured data from 3D scans and photos to text and audio. There wasn’t a tool for Lyft engineers that could understand and process all of those different types of data at the same time — and all in one place. This left engineers

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How CISOs became the gatekeepers of $309B AI infrastructure spending

venturebeat.com Louis Columbus 2025-08-31 18:05:00

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Enterprise AI infrastructure spending is expected to reach $309 billion by 2032. The winners won’t be determined by who has the best models; it’ll come down to who controls the infrastructure layer that makes AI operational at scale. Security vendors are making the most aggressive moves. Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike and Cisco each repo

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How a data processing problem at Lyft became the basis for Eventual

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-09-01 02:00:00

When Eventual founders Sammy Sidhu and Jay Chia were working as software engineers at Lyft’s autonomous vehicle program, they witnessed a brewing data infrastructure problem — and one that would only become larger with the rise of AI. Self-driving cars produce a ton of unstructured data from 3D scans and photos to text and audio. There wasn’t a tool for Lyft engineers that could understand and process all of those different types of data at the same time — and all in one place. This left engine

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How fast are Linux pipes anyway?

news.ycombinator.com Francesco Mazzoli 2025-09-03 10:27:27

2022-06-01 How fast are Linux pipes anyway? The challenge, and a slow first version # First of all, let’s start with measuring the performance of the fabled FizzBuzz program, following the rules laid down by the StackOverflow post: % ./fizzbuzz | pv >/dev/null 422GiB 0:00:16 [36.2GiB/s] pv is “pipe viewer”, a handy utility to measure the throughput of data flowing through a pipe. So fizzbuzz is producing output at a rate of 36GiB/s. fizzbuzz writes the output in blocks as big as the L2 cache,

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OpenAI Quietly Turns to Google to Stay Online

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Hackers Are Finding New Ways to Hide Malware in DNS Records

Ex-Waymo engineers launch Bedrock Robotics to automate construction

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It's a huge week for crypto in DC But the industry may not get everything it wants

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Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold

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