Context: A Japanese cooling-tower maker searches 70 years of drawings with the OpenAI API; engineers find a repair drawing in 4.5 minutes instead of nearly an hour.
From OpenAI: Kuken Industries uses the OpenAI API to search 70 years of cooling tower drawings. Engineers can find the drawing for a repair in 4.5 minutes, down from nearly an hour.
Businesses in ChatGPT (beta) lets businesses claim verified profiles and see how often ChatGPT mentions them; US e-commerce and online-service firms can launch their own agents.
Path automates industrial welding; Georgian led, joined by a consortium including Yamaha Motor's venture arm.
Mercor supplies human experts to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a network of more than 5 million domain experts.
Strands (AWS) says Amazon replaced Sonnet 4.6 with its Strands Decider in an agent workflow and saved millions; 689 points and 242 comments on HN.
Odessia was founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson; OpenAI has not said what it plans for travel.
An analysis of the tech job market in late 2026: product managers seem to be benefiting most in the AI era, demand for engineers is plateauing, and more — PMs are winning, engineers are plateauing, designers are hurting, and the biggest AI hiring boom isn't in software
