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The Pentagon’s Case Against Anthropic Isn’t Going Well
Shocking this administration isn't a reliable narrator.
gizmodo.com
Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward
As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it to consumers. Companies whose drugs have been through preliminary testing—sometimes in as few as 10 healthy people—can pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established review board…
MIT Technology Review
Looking for the Catch in Apple Upgrade
Damon Beres, writing for The Atlantic under the hed/subhed: “The New iPhone Underclass: Apple’s rental program is a trap”: The Klarna plan — “Apple Upgrade,” which replaces the iPhone Upgrade Program — is truly, legally, a lease. This is confusing! And it’s confusing in part beca…
theatlantic.com
Apple stockpiles inventory as it braces for ‘significant supply constraints’
Apple is worried enough about supply shortages that it reported about $11.1 billion in inventory, which is almost double the $5.7 billion it reported last September.
techcrunch.com
Friend Is Back With a New AI Pendant, and Its Marketing Is More Depressing Than Ever
If AI is going to help mitigate human loneliness, this sure is an odd way to show it.
gizmodo.com
Detect Dark Matter’s Mark From Your Backyard
If you’re wondering what dark matter is, you’re not alone. Astronomers don’t know. But they’ve determined that this invisible material must be far more abundant than the stars and nebulas that they can see. They’ve surmised as much from observing the gravitational effects of all …
spectrum.ieee.org
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OpenAI is offering significant discounts on smaller models in bid to boost enterprise sales
ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has announced some of the most significant price cuts… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Zhongji Innolight raises $6.8 billion in Hong Kong IPO amid strong retail demand
Zhongji Innolight has priced its Hong Kong H-share offering at HK$980 per share and raised HK$53.41 billion, or about $6.81 billion. Trading is scheduled to begin on July 30, making the deal one of Hong Kong’s largest listings in years. Demand was already visible before the debut…
technode.com
IPO-Bound PhonePe Bets On Transaction Data Monetisation With PulsePro
Since the introduction of UPI and digital payments, fintech startups have amassed a goldmine of transaction data. While these datasets…
inc42.com
Sarvam Takes On Claude, Codex With Cheaper, India-Hosted Coding Agent
Amid the string of announcements made during its Epoch 2026 conference, AI unicorn Sarvam unveiled a new AI coding agent…
inc42.com
Coolpad plans 2026 expansion into AI infrastructure
Coolpad plans to expand its AI infrastructure business in 2026, covering AI computing devices, intelligent storage systems and integrated solutions. The company also plans to establish an AI infrastructure delivery center at its Shenzhen industrial park. The move would broaden Co…
technode.com
Zepto Pauses IPO Amid Valuation Concerns, To Raise ₹1,000 Cr Pre-IPO Round
A day after reports said that Zepto’s IPO plans had hit another hurdle over valuation, the quick commerce startup has…
inc42.com

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Best-Ever Brainstem Map Created by Indian Scientists
The elusive brainstem is a small, yet critical part of our brain: the slightest damage to it could prove fatal. But how it works is not fully understood today. Indian …read more
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Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English
Article URL: https://github.com/AminBlg/SimpleEnglish Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49114639 Points: 201 # Comments: 73
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/advancing-the-price-performance-frontier-with-gpt-5-6/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112867 Points: 497 # Comments: 325
openai.com
Wrangling Datacenter GPUs Into a Desktop
As we’ve seen many times before, there’s usually some way wrangle a bit more life out of what would otherwise be considered old and obsolete technology. Perhaps one thing that …read more
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Fixing a JMicron-Based M.2 USB Enclosure That Stopped Working
As useful as USB-to-M.2 SSD adapters are, sometimes you come across a bit of a dud. A case in point is the Orico-branded TCM2-C3 that features both an attractive clear …read more
hackaday.com
How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
bytebytego.com
Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways
In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.
bytebytego.com
Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read-this-before-you-buy-that-tv-streaming-stick/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49112744 Points: 570 # Comments: 337
krebsonsecurity.com
A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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