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Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI
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Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project
Nvidia's investment in SoftBank's data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.
Apple ordered to change app data consent prompts on iPhones and iPads
Apple's changing its rules for data collection consent prompts after Germany's Federal Cartel Office accused Apple of giving the prompts a design that favored its own apps. Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompts reportedly cost social media apps nearly $10 billion when they launched with iOS 14.5, making cross-app tracking of users largely opt-in. But as a designated "gatekeeper" under the EU's DMA rules, it is facing additional scrutiny over whether the program provides a level playing field. The regulator says the prompts steer users away from agreeing to let third-party apps use their data, while encouraging them to give consent for … Read the full story at The Verge.
Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.
As enterprises confront AI agent sprawl, xpander wants them to own their own control and context layer
Enterprise AI has a new infrastructure problem: companies are accumulating agents faster than they are developing systems to govern them.Gartner estimates that the average global Fortune 500 company will have more than 150,000 AI agents in use by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025. Yet only 13% of organizations believe they currently have the right AI agent governance in place, according to the research firm.That widening gap is creating a market for infrastructure that sits above individual models and agents — handling execution, permissions, observability, memory, access to enterprise systems and lifecycle management without forcing developers to reconstruct those services for every new agent.xpander.ai, a startup founded by three former AWS principal engineers, is the latest company trying to own that layer.The company is making its enterprise AI agent platform generally available today, positioning it as a vendor-neutral control plane for building, running and governing agents acr
WiiM’s capable HomePod-esque smart speaker is almost $50 off
The smart speaker market is more or less dominated by major tech companies: Apple, Google, Sonos, and Amazon. But WiiM’s powerful 100W Sound smart speaker is an attractive alternative because it’s not locked down to play nicely with select music services. It supports over 20 services, and it sports Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 and ethernet, giving you multiple ways to connect. Additionally, it taps into standards used by other speakers, including Chromecast, Spotify Connect, DLNA, Alexa Cast, and more (AirPlay 2 is off the table, though its Pro Music Streamer supports it). In other words, it can be added to multi-room setups you may already have in the Google Home or Amazon Echo ecosystem. The black and white versions are rarely discounted, but they’re each 15 percent off at Amazon and directly through WiiM. Normally $299.99, they’re $254.15. WiiM Sound Smart Speaker Where to Buy: $299 $254.15 at Amazon $299 $254.15 at WiiM WiiM also makes the Sound Lite, which is also discounted by 15 perc
How Heidi built production-ready AI for healthcare at global scale
Presented by MongoDBBuilding AI that is accurate, secure, and reliable is a major engineering feat for organizations subject to the compliance obligations that govern healthcare, financial services, and transportation. The challenge of delivering AI-driven products is compounded by the fact that technology in these industries has tended to lag behind other sectors because regulation requires organizations to move carefully — and slowly. Now, many are also confronting data infrastructure modernization projects as they try to catch up with today’s demand for AI.Australian-founded AI Care Partner Heidi offers an example of successful modernization. Its flagship product, Heidi Scribe, now automates much of the administrative work that consumes clinicians’ days across more than 190 countries, supporting roughly 2.7 million patient interactions each week. That expansion rests on infrastructure decisions taken years before the company reached global scale, says Yu Liu, co-founder and chief te
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot "Autofix" Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
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Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo
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It’s about ethics in journalism, with Ben Smith
Today I’m talking to Ben Smith, the editor-in-chief of Semafor. Everywhere you go, people say they don’t trust the media — and yet they’ve never consumed more of it. Audiences have moved on from legacy names in favor of Substacks and podcasts and TikTok news influencers that seem to be everywhere in our feeds. Why would anyone want to start a new global news organization in the middle of all that, when even once-storied brands like CBS News can’t seem to figure it out? Well, that’s what Ben did four years ago. He’s the guy who ran BuzzFeed News at the height of the Facebook traffic boom, and even wrote a book about it, called Traffic, which he discussed with me on Decoder back in 2023. Verge subscribers, don t forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Decoder wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. Around that same time, he cofounded Semafor, which launched in 2022 with a stated goal of reaching 200 million college-educated readers. You’re go
Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models
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Uber adds Zipline drones to its Eats delivery network
Uber is also making investing in Zipline as part of the tie-up.