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Marked-up Mac minis flood eBay amid shortages driven by AI

Apple’s sold-out Mac mini is spawning marked-up eBay listings as demand surges for the compact desktop, now favored for running local AI models and tools.

Cohere valued at around $20B in Aleph Alpha deal

The valuation aligns with a concurrent Series E fundraise.

Submodular Optimization for Text Selection, Passage Reranking & Context Engineering

After my previous article on submodular optimization for fan-out queries in DeepResearch, I received great feedback asking for a deeper dive into submodularity especially in information retrieval and agentic search. Today, I'll introduce two more applications of submodular optimization: text selection and passage reranking. Both tackle the same core challenge—optimal subset selection—that every DeepResearch-like system must solve.

Submodular Optimization for Diverse Query Generation in DeepResearch

Learn more from the part 2 of the submodularity series. More applications of submodular optimization on text selection, passage reranking and context engineering.

jina-reranker-m0: Multilingual Multimodal Document Reranker

Today we're releasing jina-reranker-m0, our new multilingual multimodal reranker model for ranking visual documents across multiple languages: it accepts a query alongside a collection of visually rich document images, including pages with text, figures, tables, infographics, and various layouts across multiple domains and over 29 languages. It outputs a ranked list of documents ordered by their relevance to the query. Compared to jina-reranker-v2-base-multilingual, jina-reranker-m0 also improves text reranking for multilingual content, long documents, and code searching tasks.

JinaVDR: New Visual Document Retrieval Benchmark with 95 Tasks in 20 Languages

We're releasing JinaVDR (Visual Document Retrieval), a new benchmark for evaluating how well models retrieve visually complex documents. JinaVDR encompasses multilingual documents with intricate layouts—combining graphs, charts, tables, text, and images alongside scanned copies and screenshots. The benchmark pairs these diverse visual documents with targeted text queries, enabling comprehensive evaluation of retrieval performance across real-world document complexity and broader domain coverage.

Watch the Cybercab robotaxi roll off Tesla's production line

Elon Musk says Tesla's Cybercab robotaxi is now in production, as the company pushes toward an AI-driven future.

Man faces 5 years in prison for using AI to fake sighting of runaway wolf

Beloved wolf gripped the nation after burrowing out of the zoo.

Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway's primary modules are corroded

“Preliminary findings indicate that the issue likely results from a combination of factors.”

AirPods, Touch Bars, and the rest of Tim Cook’s legacy

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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins StrictlyVC SF

StrictlyVC San Francisco adds Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga to the stacked lineup. This event kicks off on April 30. Register now to save your seat.

Nothing introduces an AI-powered dictation tool

Nothing's new on-device dictation tool supports over 100 languages.