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Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/apple-buys-israeli-startup-q-ai-as-the-ai-race-heats-up/
57•ishener•1h ago
https://www.reuters.com/business/apple-acquires-audio-ai-sta...

Comments

bnchrch•45m ago
Wake me up when they let one of these acqui-hires update Siri to be on par with a voice assistant I could make in an afternoon with off the shelf tools.
alighter•35m ago
This. And next word prediction / autocorrect that doesn’t look like it’s from the previous century.
tobmlt•20m ago
On both my nokia and my blackberry it was far far better than on my iphone. That wasn't quite 199X but pretty close.

I wish the iphone had word prediction and autocorrect that was from the previous centruy

darth_avocado•2m ago
Apple autocorrect has gotten actually worse over the last decade. Before it used to be duck instead of a similar sounding word and it took one action to correct it. Now it’s just fuschia and it takes 5 mins to correct the correction to the autocorrect.
wahnfrieden•17m ago
that already made the news. it will be powered by gemini and may launch before next wwdc.
assaddayinh•40m ago
The ability to impress CEOs and signal hotness to investors, may not corelate at all with the ability to produce breakthrough technology. Thus companies like google grow up unbought to then become ..
clueless•25m ago
Could Q.ai be commercializing the AlterEgo tech coming out of MIT Lab? i.e. "detects faint neuromuscular signals in the face and throat when a person internally verbalizes words"

Yep, looks like that is it. Recent patent from one of the founders: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

deepfriedchokes•5m ago
Sounds pretty invasive for privacy, if this was ever paired with smart glasses in public.
robinsoncrusue•4m ago
Yeah why am I not surprised that an Israeli company would spend time analyzing whispers.

Ask HN: How do solid products get noticed once the launch hype is gone?

1•skicoachapp•59s ago•0 comments

Backseat Software

https://blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-software/
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https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/21/hpv-vaccine-recommendation-age/
1•hn_acker•1m ago•0 comments

AIPRs.lol – Curated AI Pull Request Chaos

https://aiprs.lol/
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Show HN: NipahWatch – A real-time OSINT dashboard running on Cloudflare Workers

https://nipahwatch.com
1•aggeeinn•3m ago•1 comments

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2•NickC25•4m ago•0 comments

Encrypt It Already

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/introducing-encrypt-it-already
2•ChrisArchitect•4m ago•1 comments

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3•bigwheels•5m ago•0 comments

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Explain Plan Visualizer

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https://www.dianapfeil.com/ai/2026/01/20/golden-datasets.html
1•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

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https://jobswithgpt.com/blog/ai_jobs_jan_2026/
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Good Bye Athena Hello Clawdbot

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1•gjarrosson•14m ago•1 comments

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2•doener•14m ago•0 comments

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https://joinsharkey.org/
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Apple announces all-time record in revenue, iPhone sales

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1•bentocorp•16m ago•1 comments

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Yale Offers Free Tuition to Families with Incomes Under $200k

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Engram llama.cpp POC for GTP-OSS:120B

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Capybara themed free file converter

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Film/TV bookmarks (chaos resolved)

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I stopped fighting C++ and built a graphics runtime with Rust instead

https://twitter.com/Salazar_INT_Dev/status/2016269949367398892
1•QDanteX•23m ago•1 comments