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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: A Law Firm Operating System, Building Defense Tech Near The Battlefield, And Cell-Based Milk
Most of the interesting companies that caught our eye in the past month were working on problems in the physical world, often far from the glow of a laptop screen. They include a supplier of cell-based milk, a startup that bills itself as the operating system for modern law firms…
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Sam Raimi’s Next Movie Could Be His Creepiest Yet
The horror master will take on the remake of the 1978 cult classic 'Magic,' so start panicking now if you fear ventriloquist dummies.
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Dave Filoni Teases His Plan for the Future of ‘Star Wars’
The new president of Lucasfilm isn't showing his cards yet, but we have an idea of his thinking.
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Silicon Valley’s vacationland needs a new energy provider just as AI is driving prices up
Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.
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Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.
In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as …
MIT Technology Review
How RecursiveMAS speeds up multi-agent inference by 2.4x and reduces token usage by 75%
One of the key challenges of current multi-agent AI systems is that they communicate by generating and sharing text sequences, which introduces latency, drives up token costs, and makes it difficult to train the entire system as a cohesive unit.  To overcome this challenge, resea…
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International tech
From Rapido To HrdWyr— Indian Startups Raised $303 Mn This Week
Indian startup funding momentum witnessed a sharp uptick this week on the back of Rapido’s mega funding round this week.…
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DeepCybo: Beijing Startup Betting on First-Person Human Data for Embodied AGI
Beijing AI startup DeepCybo, founded by Chen Kai, has raised hundreds of millions of RMB pursuing embodied AGI through first-person human video data—now validated by Tesla, NVIDIA, and Figure AI pivoting to the same approach.
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App-Based Gig Workers’ Union Calls For 5-Hour Nationwide Shutdown
The Gig & Platform Service Workers Union (GIPSWU) has called for a nationwide five-hour shutdown of app-based services, demanding higher…
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Nazara Bulk Deal: Zerodha Buys Shares Worth ₹93 Cr, Promoter Mitter Infotech Offloads Stake
Discount brokerage company Zerodha (Zerodha Broking Ltd) has purchased over 35 Lakh shares of listed gaming firm Nazara Technologies on…
inc42.com
SMIC: AI Boom Drives Power Management Chip Demand, Automotive BCD Platform in High Demand
SMIC (中芯国际) co-CEO Zhao Haijun reports AI boom is boosting demand for power management and data transmission chips, tightening memory supply chains and driving strong orders for the company's automotive-grade analog BCD platform.
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Rapido secures $240Mn in fresh funding led by Prosus at $3Bn valuation
Indian ride-hailing startup Rapido has raised $240 million in a fresh funding… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud
Article URL: https://analytics.fixelsmith.com/posts/sql-fraud-patterns/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155212 Points: 205 # Comments: 62
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High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that shrinking usually requires.
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Building A Die Filer From Scratch
A die filer is a useful tool to have if you find yourself filing parts on the regular. It’s basically a machine that reciprocates a file up and down for …read more
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'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens
Article URL: https://kevinpatel.xyz/posts/no-way-to-prevent-this/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155690 Points: 347 # Comments: 159
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I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
https://xcancel.com/mitchellh/status/2055380239711457578 https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116580433508108130 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153379 Points: 1329 # Comments: 651
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Inside the Heathkit Factory
If you are a certain age, you doubtlessly remember Heathkit. They produced a wide array of electronic kits that were models of completeness and clear instructions. They started with surplus …read more
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 6
Our 6th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, May 16. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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Adding Capabilities to Inexpensive Solar Modules
Solar power has gotten cheap enough that putting up panels is among the cheapest ways of providing energy. This isn’t just the case for bulk electricity on a power grid, …read more
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A Precision Drill Press for Tiny Bits
Anyone who’s worked with even a 1 mm bit knows that while a drill press is all but essential, it isn’t proof against broken bits. Working with a 0.1 mm …read more
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