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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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Even Honda is pivoting to data centers
Honda wants in on the lucrative energy storage market. This week it began producing batteries destined for data centers, not driveways.
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The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California’s carbon manure math
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. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers yesterday, …
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Gnome
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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Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
The AI neocloud provider, which specializes in hosting open source models, last raised at a $3.3 billion valuation in early 2025.
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Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freight
The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people wh…
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NVIDIA expands robotics hiring in China, opens roles in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen
US chipmaker NVIDIA announced a major recruitment drive for its robotics team, with openings across four core areas of embodied AI, simulation, deployment, and solution architecture. Positions are available in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. According to NVIDIA, the embodied AI …
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Six mental health conditions long treated as distinct from one another may share more biological ground than psychiatry assumed — with three genes emerging as a molecular bridge between two of them
Schizophrenia and insomnia, two conditions that live in very different corners of the diagnostic manual, appear to share a molecular bridge — three genes running through the same regulatory pathway. That’s the finding at the center of a new paper in Nature Mental Health, and it s…
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Ex-Xiaomi Executive Tang Mu Launches Food Service Humanoid Robot, Targets Year-End Production
InSpace Technology, the robotics company founded by former Xiaomi executive Tang Mu, unveiled three new food-service robots at a product launch event on June 30...
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China’s Kling AI nears US$3 billion round at US$18 billion valuation: sources
Kuaishou-backed Kling AI is close to completing a US$3 billion fundraising round that would value the company at US$18 billion post-investment, according to people familiar with the matter, as competition intensifies in China’s artificial intelligence video generation sector. The…
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ByteDance's Doubao Pivots to Enterprise AI, Mirroring Zhipu AI's B2B Strategy
ByteDance shifts Doubao's focus from consumer chat to enterprise AI coding and agent tools, following Zhipu AI's successful B2B playbook.
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Sony to end physical PlayStation game discs from 2028, shifts fully to digital releases
Sony has announced one of the biggest changes in PlayStation’s history, confirming… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 873: Wait, That’s Not Open Source!
This week Jonathan chats with Andy Gryc and Aaron Basset about QNX, and the interesting Open Source history and future of that embedded OS. Why does QNX Everywhere feel more …read more
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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.
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Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For
Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/sony-deletes-551-studiocanal-movies-playstation-owners-paid-for Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747389 Points: 278 # Comments: 139
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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.
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Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation
Article URL: https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745456 Points: 331 # Comments: 414
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Engineering Micro-Submarines to Replace Fish
Everybody loves aquariums. There’s something soothing about watching the lil’ critters inside them swimming, crawling and wriggling about. But at the same time few people are up to the task …read more
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Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
Article URL: https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746445 Points: 576 # Comments: 451
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How OpenAI Delivers Low-Latency Voice AI for 900M Users
In this article, we will look at the entire journey in detail and challenges the OpenAI engineering team faced.
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Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
Article URL: https://box2d.org/posts/2026/06/announcing-box3d/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48745445 Points: 270 # Comments: 54
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