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Google says it is testing new ad formats in search results and AI Mode, including Conversational Discovery ads, Highlighted Answers, and AI-powered Shopping ads

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This startup raised $43M to build a hive mind for ships

Oceans — to state the obvious — are big. That makes it hard for governments, shipping companies, and insurance providers to know exactly what’s happening on them at any particular moment. It doesn’t help that these modern-day ships often aren’t equipped with modern technology or the right software behind

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Airbnb says it is adding luggage storage, airport pickups, car rentals, grocery delivery, and thousands of boutique and independent hotels to its platform

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Sources: OpenAI is preparing to file confidentially for an IPO as early as Friday; the company plans to be ready to go public as early as September

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Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO

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Ubisoft reports a record operating loss of $1.40B for the year to March and says sales in 2026-27 would fall by about 8% to 9%; UBI falls 6%+

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Internal memo: Mark Zuckerberg told employees that he does not expect more company-wide layoffs this year

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AVIAN Raises $2.6M to Turn Industrial Risk Into Data Opportunity the Insurance Market Can Underwrite

What does it take to make an industrial site insurable again in a market that no longer wants to underwrite it? AVIAN, a Zurich-based industrial AI company building always-on thermal monitoring for fire-prone facilities, has raised a $2.6 million pre-seed round led by Founderful, Switzerland's largest pre-seed

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500 Blog Posts To Learn About Career Advice

Let's learn about Career Advice via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Whether you're 17 or 55, we could all use some

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An interview with Match Group CEO Spencer Rascoff about plans for Tinder, including a redesign, AI features, live events, and group dating to win over Gen Z

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OpenAI's Chris Lehane says he is pursuing “reverse federalism”, lobbying blue states to pass AI safety laws and create a de facto US standard, as DC dithers

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Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs

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