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OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 Astra, and the tech community is undergoing the usual benchmark observing ritual. Did we actually finally cross into the “AGI era”? The numbers behind Astra are, yes, crazy: 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 72.6% on OSWorld 2.0, which might be a sign of us entering
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I’ve been building realtime products for years: group chat, voice pipelines, streaming AI assistants. Two kinds of pain kept following me around. The first was WebSockets. Every project grew the same untyped receive_json handler with an if/else chain, hand-written validation, and no contract the frontend could rely
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Flock AI Now Tracking People Based on Behavior For years, Flock Safety, a leading vehicle surveillance company, has marketed its technology as simply reading license plates. This technology entered the marketplace as a tool for "crime prevention", although it's not entirely clear how that works. A
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There's a specific kind of pull request happening right now that would have been unthinkable three years ago: a feature branch opens, tests run, a bot writes the implementation, a human clicks "approve," and the change ships — and the human never typed a line of the
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Welcome to HackerNoon’s Writing Prompts! Would you like to take a stab at answering some of these questions? The link for the template is HERE. 1. What is your company in 2–5 words? AI that writes like you. 2. Why is now the time for your company to
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Autonomous vehicles are the future, and they're not just cars. Boats, trucks, aircraft, and everything is quietly going driverless. As an AI researcher, the corner of that world I care about most is fully autonomous, AI-integrated unmanned systems, including UAVs and UGVs. I've spent the last
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Taiwan spent this week’s SEMICON trade show in Taipei making the same argument twice over, once to Washington and once to Brussels: that its chips arrive with democratic governance attached. The commercial half of that argument came with a number, and economy minister Kung Ming-hsin supplied it, announcing a
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TL;DR Maxim Magaziner, a Staff Software Engineer at Taboola, argues that sustainable engineering velocity comes from reducing uncertainty early, maintaining CI/CD stability, and treating AI as a tool that accelerates delivery without weakening architecture, testing, or maintainability. Software teams are under constant pressure to move faster. Better development
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Fluencify, a Stockholm company that runs creator marketing campaigns with software agents rather than account managers, has raised an oversubscribed $4.3M pre-seed round led by byFounders. It comes six months after the platform launched, a period in which the company says it passed $2M in annual recurring revenue. Wave
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Sophos, a global cybersecurity leader, today announced Exploit Path Verification (EPV), a new capability that will be built into Sophos Managed Risk to help security teams better prioritize and manage exploitable vulnerabilities in their environment. The capability will be built with OpenAI’s GPT cyber models through the Daybreak Defense
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* 2027 UBS recruits told they must have AI proficiency and a willingness to learn * The bank's AI Fluency Pathway will continue to support junior workers' development * While thousands of jobs could be at risk, we're starting to see shifts rather than outright displacement Swiss investment
