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Broadcom Strengthens Partnerships with Google and Anthropic Through Expanded Chip Agreements

Broadcom has revealed new agreements to supply chips to Google and Anthropic, aimed at enhancing their AI technologies. Following the announcement, Broadcom's stock experienced a notable rise.

Editorial Staff Apr 19

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The Challenges Facing Live-Service Games

This week's edition of The Stepback examines the ongoing issues plaguing live-service games in the tech industry.

Editorial Staff Apr 19

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Every GPU That Mattered

Strategic angle: A comprehensive look at the GPUs that have shaped the tech landscape.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Anthropic's research shows that AI can already do a huge portion of many jobs

Strategic angle: Its top economist discusses how that could shape the future of work.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Google says its AI-powered ads help some brands lift online sales by 80%

Strategic angle: Modern Retail reports on the impact of Google's AI-driven advertising solutions.

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Contextual Control without Memory Growth in a Context-Switching Task

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context-dependent sequential decision making is commonly addressed either by providing context explicitly as an input or by increasing recurrent memory so that contextual i

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Through a Christian Understanding of Human Flourishing

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) alignment is fundamentally a formation problem, not only a safety problem. As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly mediate moral deliberat

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Hume's Representational Conditions for Causal Judgment: What Bayesian Formalization Abstracted Away

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03387v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hume's account of causal judgment presupposes three representational conditions: experiential grounding (ideas must trace to impressions), structured retrieval (association

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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IC3-Evolve: Proof-/Witness-Gated Offline LLM-Driven Heuristic Evolution for IC3 Hardware Model Checking

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03232v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: IC3, also known as property-directed reachability (PDR), is a commonly-used algorithm for hardware safety model checking. It checks if a state transition system complies wi

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Position: Science of AI Evaluation Requires Item-level Benchmark Data

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI evaluations have become the primary evidence for deploying generative AI systems across high-stakes domains. However, current evaluation paradigms often exhibit systemic

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Structural Segmentation of the Minimum Set Cover Problem: Exploiting Universe Decomposability for Metaheuristic Optimization

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Minimum Set Cover Problem (MSCP) is a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem with numerous applications in science and engineering. Although a wide range

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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TABQAWORLD: Optimizing Multimodal Reasoning for Multi-Turn Table Question Answering

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03393v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal reasoning has emerged as a powerful framework for enhancing reasoning capabilities of reasoning models. While multi-turn table reasoning methods have improved re

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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To Throw a Stone with Six Birds: On Agents and Agenthood

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03239v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Six Birds Theory (SBT) treats macroscopic objects as induced closures rather than primitives. Empirical discussions of agency often conflate persistence (being an object) w

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Toward Full Autonomous Laboratory Instrumentation Control with Large Language Models

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03286v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The control of complex laboratory instrumentation often requires significant programming expertise, creating a barrier for researchers lacking computational skills. This wo

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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VERT: Reliable LLM Judges for Radiology Report Evaluation

Strategic angle: arXiv:2604.03376v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current literature on radiology report evaluation has focused primarily on designing LLM-based metrics and fine-tuning small models for chest X-rays. However, it remains un

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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Google just dropped a new AI dictation app on iOS, and it looks like Android is coming soon - Chrome Unboxed

Strategic angle: Google just dropped a new AI dictation app on iOS, and it looks like Android is coming soon Chrome Unboxed

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok

Article URL: https://bramcohen.com/p/the-cult-of-vibe-coding-is-insane Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664912 Points: 530 # Comments: 452

Editorial Staff Apr 7

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After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites

Strategic angle: A personal reflection on the decision to discontinue Google Adsense after two decades.

Editorial Staff Apr 6

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Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute

Strategic angle: Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-compute Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47667717 Points: 224 # Comments: 97

Editorial Staff Apr 6

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Wisconsin governor says ‘no’ to age checks for porn

Strategic angle: Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would've required residents to verify their age before accessing porn sites, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a letter to the members of the assembly last week, Evers writ

Editorial Staff Apr 6