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Poppy debuts a proactive AI assistant to help organize your digital life
Poppy is an AI-powered app that connects your calendar, email, messages, and other services to surface reminders, suggestions, and tasks based on what’s happening in your life.
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Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
AI that can see and understand what's happening in a video — especially a live feed — is understandably an attractive product to lots of enterprises and organizations. Beyond acting as a security "watchdog" over sites and facilities, such an AI model could also be used to clip ou…
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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M
The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million and $5 million, with the aim to back at least 30 startups.
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Search Ads as a Vector for Travel Scams
Dawn Gilbertson, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Calder says that he tried to rebook at the given link a few times but that it wouldn’t work. He became worried new flight options were dwindling, so he googled the airline’s customer-service number. (There was a li…
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The Download: making drugs in orbit and NASA’s nuclear-powered spacecraft
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. A plan to make drugs in orbit is going commercial A startup called Varda Space Industries is betting that the future of pharmaceuticals lies i…
MIT Technology Review
Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
There is no governmental mechanism to pay for an AI agent that monitors a patient between visits, calls to check in, coordinates a housing referral, or makes sure someone picks up their medication. ACCESS creates that mechanism for the first time.
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International tech
AI dictation startup Wispr could secure $260Mn funding at $2Bn valuation
AI voice startup Wispr is reportedly negotiating a massive new funding round… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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MiniCPM-V 4.6: Tsinghua Spinoff Open-Sources a 1.3B Multimodal Model That Runs on a Single RTX 4090
OpenBMB and Tsinghua University open-source MiniCPM-V 4.6, a 1.3B-parameter multimodal model that runs on a single RTX 4090 while matching larger competitors on key benchmarks.
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SEEKOO Raises Tens of Millions, Launches Multi-Agent Video Platform Anijam.ai
SEEKOO, a Hangzhou video AI startup founded by former ByteDance and Tencent executives, raises tens of millions of dollars and launches Anijam.ai, a Multi-Agent video platform gaining traction with over 1,000 paying users.
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[Update] JFS Incorporates JV With Allianz To Foray Into General Insurance Segment
Update | May 13, 2026,16:15 IST Jio Financial Services (JFS) and Allianz have incorporated their joint venture, Jio Allianz General…
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Zaggle Q4: Profit Jumps 30% To ₹40.6 Cr, Revenue Up 50% YoY
Fintech SaaS company Zaggle reported a 30.4% increase in its consolidated net profit to ₹40.6 Cr in the quarter ended…
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Maharashtra Seeks Shutdown Of Ola, Uber, Rapido Bike Taxi Services
Maharashtra transport minister Pratap Sarnaik wrote to the state’s cyber crime department seeking immediate shutdown of app-based bike taxi services…
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Trying to Fix a GoPro Hero 10 With No Camera Input Issue
In the search for more exciting broken electronics to repair, [Hugh Jeffreys] bought a GoPro Hero 10 for US$100 with an apparently rather common issue of no camera input, along …read more
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Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
Article URL: https://www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115807 Points: 367 # Comments: 101
savethearchive.com
I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
Article URL: https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120629 Points: 297 # Comments: 199
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Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
Article URL: https://github.com/FULU-Foundation/OrcaSlicer-bambulab Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115127 Points: 527 # Comments: 235
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Build The CPU, Then Build The Calculator
It’s possible that among Hackaday readers are the largest community of people who have designed their own CPU in the world. We have featured many here, but it’s possible that …read more
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VTech Toy Becomes PinkPad, the DIY Linux Laptop
Originally envisioned as a simple DIY laptop project, [kati]’s PinkPad V1 ended up being considerably more involved than expected. But the end result is a perfectly usable, stunningly pink, and …read more
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The Truth about the Hindenburg
The Hindenburg disaster recently marked its 89th anniversary, and [The History Guy] marked the event with a video that dispels many of the myths surrounding the airship. Example: the disaster …read more
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Deterministic Fully-Static Whole-Binary Translation Without Heuristics
Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08419 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117810 Points: 236 # Comments: 54
arxiv.org
How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem
In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.
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