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The DeepMind trio who built a poker AI are now making money for quant hedge funds

EquiLibre Technologies, a Prague-based AI lab founded by three ex-DeepMind researchers, is now valued at more than $500 million.

The Download: AI “coworkers” and stratospheric internet

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. AI agents are not your “coworkers” Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but …

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Of Course, Influencers Have Seen ‘The Odyssey’ Early

Christopher Nolan's latest epic is out on July 17 and the early screenings have already begun.

Gnome is a deceptively clever animated GIF app by Lex Friedman: The truest thing about animated GIFs is that they are a critical pillar of modern human communication, and yet getting one into a Slack message or an iMessage thread or an email reply usually requires opening a brows…

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The History and Mystery of Fireworks

In the 1970s, American Fireworks, a family-run pyrotechnics company in Hudson, Ohio, used a “home run box” to offer quick and easy fireworks displays for the Cleveland Indians (now the Cleveland Guardians) baseball games. The red wooden crate had metal silos to store the rockets…

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Google unveils Nano Banana 2 Lite aka Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for low cost, 4-second fast enterprise image generations

Google is upgrading its AI image generation capabilities today with the debut of Nano Banana 2 (NB2) Lite, an optimized model built for rapid execution and tight infrastructure budgets. Technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image on Google's application programming int…

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Anthropic launches ‘Claude Science’ to expand enterprise business and pharma revenue ahead of IPO

Anthropic has introduced Claude Science, a specialized AI platform designed for scientists,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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A new study modeling six of history’s deadliest heatwaves found that conditions had already crossed the threshold for human survival, and every single one of those events stayed below the wet bulb temperature long treated as the line between danger and death

A new study in Nature Communications modelled six of the deadliest heatwaves on record and found something the field has been slow to acknowledge: every single one of them killed thousands of people while staying below the wet-bulb temperature long treated as the threshold betwee…

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The children of parents who never said sorry often grow into adults who over-apologize for everything, still trying to model a repair they were never shown

The most considerate people in any room are often the worst offenders when it comes to apologizing. They say sorry when someone bumps into them. They apologize before asking a colleague a perfectly ordinary question. It looks like humility, and sometimes it is, but often it is so…

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Momenta launches Hong Kong IPO with GIC, Fidelity and BlackRock as cornerstone investors

Chinese autonomous driving company Momenta launched its Hong Kong public offering on June 29, with plans to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s main board under the ticker 6880.HK. The company is offering 19.94 million Class A ordinary shares at HK$295.60 each, aiming to raise…

Too many options breed hesitation, regret, and less satisfaction in the end

I have a decision sitting open that I should have closed days ago. Before I get to that, the research is worth laying out, because it reframes what I thought was just my own quirk. Psychologist Barry Schwartz, in his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice, argued that past a certain poi…

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I asked ChatGPT to describe my personality and forbade it from flattering me — it didn’t hold back

“You come across as highly self-directed, analytical, private, and restless. Not restless in the extroverted, chaotic sense. More like your mind keeps scanning: better wording, better option, better explanation, better product, better life structure, better way to understand your…

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★ The Supreme Court Rules That Law Enforcement’s Use of ‘Geofence Warrant’ Was a ‘Search’ (But May Be Moot, Technically, Since 2024)

Amy Howe, writing at the ever-excellent SCOTUSblog: The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that when law enforcement officials used a “geofence warrant” — a warrant that instructed Google to provide location data for cellphone users who were near a particular place during a specific t…

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Google's Gemini Omni Flash hits the API, turning enterprise video production into a conversation

For most enterprises, a 90-second training video or a product explainer has never been an easy ask. It means a well planned brief, an internal film crew or an outside vendor, a shoot, an edit, and a round of revisions. Change one line of on-screen text due to a legal review and t…

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Morgan Stanley cut its riskiest reconciliation job in half — by making its agents less autonomous

Most enterprise AI deployments so far have focused on coding assistants and customer service bots. Morgan Stanley has deployed agents in one of banking's most accuracy-critical, deadline-driven workflows instead — profit and loss (P&L) reconciliation — and cut the work in half. T…

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Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Article URL: https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771 Points: 232 # Comments: 90

How to Remove Bounce When Bouncy Objects Encounter Bounciness

We all love a good bit of bounce now and then, with everything from trampolines to bouncy castles and bouncy balls forming the staple of a wholesome childhood for many. …read more

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Microsoft’s Topological Quantum Computing Claims Once Again In Question

A central problem with the arguably overhyped field of quantum computing remains the difficulty in objectively ascertaining performance and new developments, as much here relies on indirect measurements. Such is …read more

We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works

Article URL: https://unix.foo/posts/last-people-who-know-how-it-works/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48735633 Points: 287 # Comments: 237

Claude Sonnet 5

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48736605 Points: 889 # Comments: 499

How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness

In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.

Building a Fiber-Coupled Laser Source for Precision Optics

Laser diodes are convenient light sources, but for precise optical work their often-elliptical beam profile leaves something to be desired. One way to get around this is to couple the …read more

Inside Thinking Machines’ Interaction Models

In this article, we will look at what the research preview covers and the concept of an interaction model proposed by Thinking Machines.