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Save up to $190 on your pass to TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 by June 26, 11:59 p.m. PT. Designed for founders first on November 4 in Boston. Register today.
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A Companion Cube Cover for Your Steam Machine (Which You Still Can’t Buy) Is Now for Sale
I'm making a note here about this $100 Companion Cube cover, even though I don't know how much the Steam Machine will actually cost.
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WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India’s CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
WhatsApp gets a new boss, as Will Cathcart moves to a new role at Meta, while Shah steps down as CEO of Indian fintech giant CRED to replace Cathcart.
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Sector Snapshot: Robotics Startups On Fire As Venture Funding Surges To Record Numbers In 2026
Globally, robotics startups have so far raised $18.8 billion in 2026, compared to $15 billion in the full year of 2025. The figure also handily surpasses the $14.1 billion raised in the peak venture funding year of 2021, and we still have more than six months of fundraising left.…
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European Investor Seedcamp Closes On $320M Across Two Funds To Back Seed Startups And Reaches $1B AUM
Seedcamp, one of Europe’s earliest seed investors, has closed on its 7th fund of $220 million and a select fund 2 of $100 million to invest in winners from the core fund.
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AI hit the memory wall — now it needs a new context tier
Presented by Solidigm As inference workloads evolve from discrete question-and-answer exchanges into persistent, multi-step agentic systems, GPU availability is no longer the most critical AI bottleneck. Instead, the bottleneck has migrated from compute to context, says Jeff Har…
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Xpeng unveils MONA L03, first SUV in MONA lineup
Chinese electric vehicle maker Xpeng today announced that its MONA brand’s first SUV, the MONA L03, is set to make its debut soon. Xpeng CEO He Xiaopeng explained the naming logic behind the model, saying that “M stands for sedan, L stands for SUV,” together forming the name MONA…
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A single cumulus cloud the size of a small village weighs roughly 500,000 kilograms, about the weight of 100 elephants, yet stays aloft because its water is dispersed as tiny droplets through air denser than the cloud itself
A fair-weather cumulus cloud the size of a small village holds about 500,000 kilograms of water — the mass of 100 elephants — yet floats because the droplets are scattered across a volume larger than a stadium and the warm air beneath is denser than the cloud spread through it.
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Zypp Electric Gears For $200 Mn IPO, Eyes Listing In FY28
EV logistics startup Zypp Electric is gearing up for a public market debut and is looking to raise up to…
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ByteDance-owned Pico’s Project Swan leak reveals Vision Pro-like design and external module
A demonstration video of Project Swan, the next-generation mixed-reality headset from ByteDance-owned Pico, has been leaked through a publicly accessible SDK. Based on the video, the headset’s rear head strap appears nearly identical to the solo knit band used on Apple’s Apple Vi…
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Info Edge’s AI, Deeptech Playbook: ₹1,003 Cr Portfolio Across Over 50 Startups
In a shareholders’ letter explaining its investment thesis, Zomato-backer Info Edge revealed that it has invested ₹1,003 Cr across 54…
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Claude Fable 5 Blocked for Non-US Users: Why Domestic AI Is the Only Safe Bet for China
The US government's sudden order blocking foreign access to Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 signals a new era of AI export control, reinforcing the strategic importance of China's domestically developed AI models.
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Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel
It’s cold, it’s very, very noisy, and—if I can be quite honest with you—I’m not feeling super relaxed. I’m currently around 300 meters, or 1,000 feet, beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank cave. It smells weird. And I am increasingly aware of the pressure from millions of tons o…
MIT Technology Review
Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint
After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest fund which will see it expanding its presence in the United States.
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Saas Isn’t Coming Back. Something Much Bigger Is Replacing It
The next wave of software will be AI-native, industry-specific platforms, writes guest author Richard de Silva who believes the biggest winners will be vertical AI companies with deep domain expertise, proprietary data and strong customer relationships, as these advantages create…
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Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs
Article URL: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/28224 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626930 Points: 319 # Comments: 176
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EP219: 12 Open-source LLMs
Twelve models worth knowing in 2026, each with one standout strength.
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Never Give Them Your Face
Article URL: https://nevergivethemyourface.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630066 Points: 424 # Comments: 238
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Won’t Somebody Please Think Of Banning The British Children!
The British government is in a headlong rush to ban under-16s from social media, and restrict the access of under-18s. And in typical form, the EFF is here with a …read more
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AI-Native Leaders: The Organizational Playbook for Engineering Transformation at Scale
Individual gains do not become organizational gains on their own. This is the playbook for making that leap. Let’s dive in.
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GLM 5.2 vs. Opus
Article URL: https://techstackups.com/comparisons/glm-5.2-vs-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626866 Points: 356 # Comments: 251
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Graphics Upgrade for Nintendo Entertainment System
Modern video game consoles rarely have expansion ports, but in the 80s and 90s it was practically guaranteed. With the speed that hardware was advancing it made sense to build …read more
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Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation
Article URL: https://mitchellh.com/writing/zig-donation-2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630020 Points: 441 # Comments: 132
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SDS-Remote Brings Power-User Features to Siglent Scope
Many oscilloscopes have provisions to be connected to a computer and used remotely, but most of those interfaces are fairly rudimentary. To address this, [Winfried] has developed the SDS-Remote, a …read more
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