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Seed Funding Is Bigger Than Ever — And Harder To Get

More than half of seed dollars last year went into deals of $10 million or above. At the same time, deal counts for seed-stage startups have fallen since the 2021-2022 peak, as has funding going into rounds below $10 million, Crunchbase data shows.

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Meta is still burning money on AR/VR

Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending.

The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents

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. It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste Today, nuclear energy enjoys rare support across the political spectrum. Public approval has spiked…

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‘Marvel Rivals’ Wants You to Prepare for ‘Doomsday’ by Watching ‘Avengers’ Clips In-Game

Even beyond its regular cavalcade of hero additions, 'Rivals' is kicking off the 'Doomsday' hype train with... YouTube clips?

Google Gives OpenAI 20 Billion Reasons To Worry

Google posted giant revenue growth this past quarter and it was thanks to Gemini.

Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India

PhonePe and Google Pay command 80% of India's UPI instant payments network. Rivals are set to meet with regulators to lobby for restrictions.

International tech

IPO-Bound Kissht Nets ₹278 Cr From Anchor Investors

Ahead of the commencement of the bidding for its public issue on April 30, lending tech startup Kissht’s parent OnEMI…

The quiet layoffs sweeping China’s tech giants

Alibaba reduced its head count by a third in 2025, while Baidu’s workforce declined nearly 7%. “There’s constant churn,” a Chinese tech worker said.

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Ant International serves 150m merchants, 2b consumers, bets on AI commerce infrastructure

Ant International, the overseas spin-off of Chinese fintech giant Ant Group, has connected more than 150 million merchants with over 2 billion consumer accounts around the world, as it positions its payments network as core infrastructure for the emerging AI commerce economy. The…

OPPO Enters Gimbal Camera Market with “Fuyao” Project, Targeting Q4 Launch

OPPO, vivo, and Honor are accelerating into the handheld gimbal camera market, challenging DJI and Insta360 as smartphone brands leverage imaging AI and supply chain power to reshape the sector.

Apple could introduce a ‘Siri Camera Mode’ with real-time visual AI in iOS 27

Apple is reportedly preparing a major AI upgrade with iOS 27, where… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Nobody talks about what actually keeps a person ahead in an AI world, and it isn’t learning every new tool or prompting better than the next person, it’s the old unglamorous skills, sitting with a hard problem, noticing what’s actually being asked, and caring enough to get the small things right

A 2024 Microsoft and LinkedIn report found 75% of knowledge workers now use AI at work. Adoption nearly doubled in six months. Performance hasn’t doubled. Output has gotten faster. The work itself has gotten flatter. The gap between AI use and actual workplace impact is where the…

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Playing With Fire

Jer Crane, in an article earlier this week posted on Twitter/X: I’m Jer Crane, founder of PocketOS. We build software that rental businesses — primarily car rental operators — use to run their entire operations: reservations, payments, customer management, vehicle tracking, the w…

An Untapped Energy Goldmine Is Buried Beneath the US—and No, It’s Not Oil

Massive lithium reserves in eastern states could replace 328 years of U.S. imports, according to new research by the U.S. Geological Survey.

FOMO is why enterprises pay for GPUs they don't use — and why prices keep climbing

Enterprises can't fix their GPU waste problem because the fix makes the problem worse. Releasing idle capacity would improve utilization, but the same shortage driving GPU prices up is exactly why no team will give capacity back. So the fleet sits at roughly 5%, billed by the hou…

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Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431

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AI inference: 24,240 TPS vs 1,863 TPS H100 (Sponsored)

HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/53262 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952722 Points: 976 # Comments: 417

How Stripe Detects Fraudulent Transactions Within 100 ms

In this article, we will look at how Stripe’s Radar does this effectively and the architectural decisions the team took while building it.

FLOSS Weekly Episode 869: Linux on Your Toaster

This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support …read more

Digital Signal Processing on the Pi Pico

If you want to dabble in audio digital signal processing, you would probably think of grabbing a dedicated DSP chip. But thanks to [WeebLabs], you could just pick up a …read more

Using a VT-100 Today

You may not know what a ADM-3, a TV910, or a H1420 are, but you probably have at least heard of a VT-100. They are all terminals from around the …read more

How to Kill Humidity Sensors With Humidity

An often overlooked section in the datasheets for popular humidity sensors like the BME280 and DHT22 is the ‘non-condensing humidity’ bit, which puts an important constraint on which environments you …read more

FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies

Article URL: https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/fastcgi_is_the_better_protocol_for_reverse_proxies Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950510 Points: 242 # Comments: 64