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Microsoft Will Soon Release an AI Super App
The Copilot super app will span both consumer and enterprise use cases.
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Microsoft logs $3.2B from Anthropic investment, but OpenAI was a mixed bag
When Microsoft reported killer fourth-quarter earnings for its fiscal 2026 year (which ended June 30), it tucked in an interesting little tidbit about how its investments in the two biggest, and competing, AI labs are doing.
techcrunch.com
Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than ever
Microsoft pitched its own homegrown AI models, harnesses, and even a Mythos competitor on Wednesday, telling Wall Street it plans for continued growth.
techcrunch.com
Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.
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AI Is Hyper-Scaling Digital Inequality
Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of everyday infrastructure–in some places. It helps write emails and software code, filters job applications, powers recommendation systems, and is increasingly being integrated into education, health care, finance, and public admi…
spectrum.ieee.org
Enterprise AI agents can't talk to each other, can't be trusted with permissions, and can't be audited — 5 startups are already fixing that
Enterprise AI agents can do the work — but the infrastructure to let them talk to each other, prove they should be trusted, and be audited when something goes wrong is still being built. Here's a look at how five startups are tackling that gap — around orchestration, observabilit…
venturebeat.com
International tech
China’s renewable energy generation surpasses 40% of total power output for first time in H1 2026
According to CCTV News, the National Energy Administration (NEA) held a press conference on Wednesday, announcing that China’s renewable energy sector saw rapid growth in the first half of 2026, with renewable power generation accounting for more than 40% of total electricity gen…
technode.com
Fintech IPO Wave, Zepto May Defer Listing & More
The Next Big Fintech IPO Rush Nearly five years after Paytm and PB Fintech paved the way for fintech listings,…
inc42.com
US foreign robot ban to benefit Tesla, other American developers, analysts say
China’s robotics firms have run into a fresh obstacle in their global expansion, after the United States banned imports of new foreign-made models, which analysts say could benefit Tesla and other American developers. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-prod…
scmp.com
Psychology says older parents who insist they’re fine when they aren’t aren’t being stoic, they worked out long ago that the honest answer costs one of their children a day off work
The small lie older parents tell themselves about why they're lying to their children.
siliconcanals.com
Domestic Chinese LLMs Too Expensive for Heavy Users: Per-Token Cost Advantage Vanishes When Real Development Workflows Reach Tens of Billions of Tokens Daily
Chinese heavy AI coding users spend 300 yuan/week on Codex vs 7800 yuan/day on domestic models like GLM-5.2, as subscription bundling rather than per-token pricing determines real-world cost.
pandaily.com
Peak XV Partners Again Dumps Go Digit Shares Worth ₹139 Cr
For the second time in two months, early backer and VC giant Peak XV Partners has offloaded shares worth nearly…
inc42.com

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Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Article URL: https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/07/keychron-announces-first-open-source-firmware-for-gaming-mice Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49099715 Points: 325 # Comments: 127
digitalfoundry.net
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
The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser
At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display …read more
hackaday.com
AI's top startups are barely publishing their research
Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103285 Points: 306 # Comments: 166
science.org
Keyboard Lights As An Airgap Attack Vector
What do you do when you need to get data into an airgapped machine? Well, you might find yourself limited to basic input devices to interact with the computer in …read more
hackaday.com
Kimi K3-256k
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101852 Points: 379 # Comments: 114
kimi.com
Using Video Glasses As a Camera Viewfinder Is Harder Than It Looks
[John Dingley] has a Sony ZV-E10 camera that is excellent, but the design lacks a built-in electronic viewfinder. This means it relies entirely on its rear-mounted touchscreen for framing shots. …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
How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.
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