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Intuit scrapped its own AI agent architecture twice in four months. At VB Transform 2026, its AI VP called that the fast path
Intuit was an early pioneer in the usage of agentic AI, but its path to success has hardly been a straight line. At VB Transform 2026, Intuit VP of AI Nhung Ho described how the company rebuilt its agent architecture twice in the span of about four months, first moving from a fle…
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The Download: perimenopause misinformation and China’s latest AI leap
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. There’s a lot of hype around perimenopause. Don’t buy it. Perimenopause used to be considered taboo, but not anymore. Thanks at least in part …
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Capital One releases VulnHunter, an open-source AI tool that finds software flaws before hackers do
Capital One on Thursday released VulnHunter, an open-source, agentic AI security tool that scans source code for exploitable vulnerabilities, maps out how an attacker would reach them, and proposes targeted fixes — all before a single line ships to production. The tool, built int…
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Apple Raises Prices for Apple Music and Apple One Subscriptions
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Here are the new monthly prices for Apple Music and Apple One as of today: Apple Music: Individual: $11.99 (up from $10.99) Family: $19.99 (up from $16.99) Student: $6.99 (up from $5.99) Apple One: Individual: $19.95 (unchanged) Family: $27.95 (up from $25…
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: No Summer Doldrums As Dollars Still Flow To AI
It was not a holiday week on the funding front, as a raft of largely AI-focused companies closed big rounds. The largest of these was a $1.5 billion financing to enterprise AI startup Fireworks AI, and a Series D for meal and delivery provider Wonder.
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This Graduate Student Equips NASA’s Robots With Assembly Skills
Like many engineers, Sarah Downs says she knew she wanted to pursue a STEM career from a young age. As a teenager, she discovered robotics through her Tulsa, Okla., middle school’s First Lego League team, and she fell in love with the field, she says. Downs participated in the in…
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International tech
The EU’s AI Act starts requiring chatbot and deepfake labels on August 2 — while its tougher rules on hiring, biometrics and migration are pushed back to December 2027
The transparency obligations are the cheap ones to meet. The expensive, rights-protective rules are the ones that just got more time.
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BREAKING India’s Skyroot successfully launches country’s first private rocket ‘Vikram-1’
In a historic first for India’s rapidly evolving space-tech sector, Skyroot Aerospace… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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New-Age Tech Stocks: Fino Payments Bank Surges 29%, Go Digit Leads Weekly Losers
As the June quarter earnings season gathered pace, investors remained largely cautious on listed new-age tech stocks this week despite…
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People who find it physically uncomfortable to look someone in the eye during a compliment aren’t insecure or evasive — they’re often the ones who take in emotional information so directly that full eye contact during something kind becomes almost too much to hold
The last time I paid someone a proper compliment, they looked at the floor like I’d dropped a twenty and were deciding whether to tell me. Not a “nice jacket.” The kind that names something true about who a person actually is. For years I read that gesture the lazy way. Shy. Awkw…
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Xiaomi 18 Pro Series Certified: Dual 200MP Cameras, 2nm Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen6, and a Likely Price Increase
Xiaomi 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max pass network certification with dual 200MP LOFIC cameras, 2nm TSMC N2P chip, up to 8000mAh battery — expected to launch September 24.
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Moonshot AI Delivers the Third Shockwave: How Kimi K3 Changed the Narrative From Cheap Chinese Models to Premium AI Capability
Kimi K3 marks third major China AI shockwave after DeepSeek and Manus: priced at $3-15/M tokens, it forces global markets to reassess whether US AI premium pricing and valuation are sustainable.
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Brex built its AI agent policy by watching what agents actually do, not by writing rules first
OpenClaw has become one of the most widely adopted agentic frameworks, but it has yet to prove itself at enterprise scale. Agents need real credentials — API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts — to work effectively, and Brex found that traditional guardrails couldn't contain wh…
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Apple Books and Amazon Are Lousy With AI-Generated Books Ripping Off Legitimate Authors
Joanna Stern at New Things, last month: Last month, just days after my book went on sale, AI knockoffs of the ebook version flooded Apple Books. There was Joanna Stern On I Am Not A Robot by Sophie Mercer. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Finn Tech. I AM NOT A ROBOT by Joana Stern — with one …
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Google Runs Out of Appeals, Must Pay Record $4.7 Billion EU Antitrust Fine
Arjun Kharpal, reporting for CNBC, back on July 2: Europe’s top court on Thursday upheld Google’s fine of around 4.1 billion euros ($4.67 billion) over alleged anti-competitive practices. In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grou…
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Spidery Drone Goes Near-invisible By Spinning Really, Really Fast
Researchers demonstrate that something interesting happens when a small drone with a spindly airframe spins at a high speed: it very nearly turns invisible. The spidery device is shown mounted …read more
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Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse
Article URL: https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/07/15/kaiser-nurses-say-ai-workplace-surveillance-are-making-their-jobs-and-patient-care-worse/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48952880 Points: 518 # Comments: 341
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Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser
Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to heat …read more
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How Octopuses Hacked their Ribosome to Become Smart
A fascinating aspect in evolutionary biology is that of convergent evolution — whereby similar structures and functions evolve independently from each other. The highly advanced nervous system of octopuses is …read more
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A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
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The Zilog Z80 has turned 50
Article URL: https://goliath32.com/blog/z80.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951461 Points: 238 # Comments: 95
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Learning a few things about running SQLite
Article URL: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/07/17/learning-about-running-sqlite/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950122 Points: 265 # Comments: 69
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Using Solar Air Heating to Dry Clothes
About a month ago, [Greenhill Forge] built a few solar panels to collect energy from the sun. Unlike solar photovoltaics, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, these were designed to …read more
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Regressive JPEGs
Article URL: https://maurycyz.com/projects/bad_jpeg/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48954851 Points: 410 # Comments: 42
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