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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead
AI once again dominated venture funding this week, claiming five of the 10 largest announced rounds, including a pair of billion-dollar financings for AI infrastructure and cybersecurity that led the pack.
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57% of enterprises have watched AI agents be confidently wrong. The fix is an agentic context layer, but who has one?
An enterprise AI agent answers with total confidence, but the number is wrong. Nobody catches it until someone traces it back to a stale metric definition or a document the retrieval system never pulled. The model did not fail. The context it was given did. In the past six months…
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Ice Cold
Alex Heath, on Threads: At WWDC, Apple execs I met with were ice-cold when I asked about their OpenAI partnership. Now we know why: Apple just sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to consumer hardware (Apple and OAI senior leaders are in Sun Valley this week. …
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Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.
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US cybersecurity agency CISA had to build its incident playbook during the incident, agency reveals
Independent cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs reported in May that a security researcher with cyber firm GitGuardian alerted him to reams of exposed passwords stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository, which an employee of a CISA contractor had uploaded.
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Narwal Freo Z10 Turbo Review: Midrange Vacuum, High-End Performance
Good autonomous vacuuming doesn't have to cost more than $1,000.
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International tech
ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro Hands-On: Three Directions, 10 Scenarios Tested
A comprehensive test of ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro across realism, complex visualization, and design reveals impressive gains in infographic generation and UI mockups.
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Exclusive: GoKwik Lays Off Around 120 Employees Amid AI Push
Ecommerce enabler GoKwik has fired 100-120 employees as part of a restructuring exercise carried out over the past few weeks,…
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Zetwerk Cofounder Rahul Sharma Steps Into Non Executive Role To Launch AI Venture
IPO-bound contract manufacturer Zetwerk’s cofounder and managing director of its precision business (electronics), Rahul Sharma, is transitioning from an executive…
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Indian Listed New-Age Tech Company Tracker: Market Cap, Revenue & More
For years, we at Inc42 have tracked the Indian tech startup ecosystem and seen it grow from a kid to…
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The Great Green Wall stretches 8,000 km across Africa’s entire width — from the Atlantic coast to the Red Sea, a green belt long enough to cross the United States twice
The African Union's Great Green Wall is meant to run 8,000 kilometres from Senegal's Atlantic coast to Djibouti's Red Sea shore — a belt of restored land long enough to cross the continental United States twice. Nearly two decades in, only a fraction has actually taken root, and …
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Chinese chip start-up aims to build 5-nanometre equivalent chips without using EUV by 2029
A Chinese chip start-up has launched what it claims to be the world’s first 8-inch production line for two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, marking the country’s latest push to develop alternative chip technologies amid US curbs on its access to advanced chipmaking equipment. Sha…
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OpenAI bets on families as ChatGPT goes deeper into households
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
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Fan-Favorite ‘Scooby-Doo’ Series ‘Mystery Inc.’ Comes to Blu-Ray
Just in time for Halloween season, you probably can't go wrong with 'Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated' for the first or latest time.
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Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.
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Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C.
We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our wizened eyes the lad looks only slightly older than a …read more
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Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei1285 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866134 Points: 341 # Comments: 148
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EP221: How Docker Works Under the Hood
A Docker container starts with a single command, but that command has to be turned into a running Linux process. Here is what actually happens.
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Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019 Points: 1398 # Comments: 757
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A Look Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator
Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were broadcast invisibly with the TV signal. In order to get this teletext …read more
hackaday.com
Clay Extruder Enables Printable Pottery
Ceramic 3D printers, despite using the same fundamental mechanism as standard FDM printers, are much harder to find. Part of this comes down to the material properties of fired ceramics …read more
hackaday.com
LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, July 11. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805, https://xcancel.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805 Prompt: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863490 Points: 497 # Comments: 414
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When Changing Scale Isn’t Just More of the Same
[Jenny] and I were talking about [Bitluni]’s experiment in scale, where he will take 65,536 cheap microcontrollers, network them all together, and give each one an RGB pixel. From there, …read more
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