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[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API
REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re not rivals, they’re layers: most MCP servers just call REST internally to do the real work. The best ones …
workos.com
EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers
Endeavour Optical Networks is planning to launch the fastest space laser communications system yet built.
techcrunch.com
Rosamund Pike Rumored to Join ‘Ghost Rider’
Plus, Louis Leterrier has no idea whether he's still directing 'Fast Forever.'
gizmodo.com
Asana's AI agents share memory across your company — but not your secrets
Enterprise teams building AI agents keep hitting the same wall: a chatbot that can answer a prompt but can't remember what the last five people asked it, and can't tell you whether last month's version actually worked. In a fireside chat with VentureBeat's Sam Witteveen at VB Tra…
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Qwen3.8-Max arrives with a bold claim: it outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol Max and Fable 5 on agentic computer use
Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba's famed Qwen team of AI researchers last night unveiled Qwen3.8-Max, a new flagship 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) multimodal large language model (LLM) that targets one of the most competitive corners of the frontier AI…
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It’s No Longer Morbin’ Time: Sony CEO ‘Doesn’t Know’ if There Will Be More Spider-Man Spin-Off Movies
Tom Rothman confirms there are currently no Spider-Man Universe films in development at Sony.
gizmodo.com
International tech
Between Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4: Why Native Multimodal Capability Defines the Next Phase of Chinese Frontier Models
Moonshot AI Kimi K3, Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max, and ByteDance Doubao-Seed-2.1 commit to native multimodal training while DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Tencent Hunyuan stay text-only as vision-in-the-loop becomes decisive for long agent tasks.
pandaily.com
The global grassroots gatherings trying to humanize the AI boom
Local tech groups in Kenya, India, and the U.S. are building communities and conversations around AI, but also face questions about privilege and reach.
restofworld.org
We tend to picture gold as an Earth metal pulled from mines, but every atom of it, in every wedding ring and central bank vault, was forged in the collision of two neutron stars before the Sun existed and rained onto the young Earth as stellar shrapnel
Every atom of gold on Earth was forged in the collision of two neutron stars — city-sized stellar corpses spinning together at nearly light speed — and delivered to the young planet as debris older than the Sun itself.
siliconcanals.com
Wukong Disappears Four Months After Launch: Alibaba Consolidates Into Qianwen Office Public Beta as Big Tech Races to Integrate AI Work Into Single Unified Agent Products
Alibaba Qianwen Office opens public beta integrating QoderWork, Wukong, and MuleRun, as the four-month Wukong cycle shows AI office competition moving beyond single agents.
pandaily.com
Nykaa To Acquire Majority Stake In D2C Skincare Brand Aminu
Beauty and personal care marketplace Nykaa’s board of directors has approved a 51% stake acquisition of D2C skincare brand Aminu…
inc42.com
How does a single company in a Dutch town of roughly 48,000 people build the only machines able to print the world’s most advanced chips, with its newest model costing about €350 million?
The company is ASML , headquartered in Veldhoven , a Dutch town of roughly 45,000 people about ten minutes' drive from Eindhoven.
siliconcanals.com
TerminalWidget 1.0
New app from Brett Terpstra: TerminalWidget lets you send output from commands, scripts, APIs, and Shortcuts directly to widgets across macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with rich formatting, progress bars, sparklines, and image support. It is available as a universal app on the App Store f…
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AWS is helping vibe-coding startup Superblocks, and the implications are big
AWS now allows vibe-coding tool Superblocks to be embedded into the private clouds of AWS customers. It's another step toward decoupling apps from models.
techcrunch.com
The Information on Apple’s Unusual Use of iCloud for Confidential Work
Aaron “Homeboy” Tilley, reporting for The Information (paywalled without gift links, alas, but MacRumors has a summary): When new employees join Apple, the company often issues them an iPhone and Mac and pays for an iCloud account with a large amount of online storage capacity. C…
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Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/smaller-faster-safer-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158581 Points: 231 # Comments: 59
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Yellow YAG Produces Powerful Pulses in Les’ Leftover Laser
[Les] likes lasing lasers, and who doesn’t? [Les] likes larger lasers than lots of folks, with his current project being an Nd:YAG (that’s Neodymium:Yttrium Aluminum Garnet) flash pumped laser intended …read more
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LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
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FFmpeg 9.0
Article URL: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/n9.0/RELEASE_NOTES Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49166202 Points: 288 # Comments: 50
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A Versatile PDP-11/70 Emulator
The PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer that was very influential in its time. That’s what inspired [vanheusden] to start working on an emulator for the machine in 2018, which has …read more
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LLMs reward expertise
Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49161518 Points: 1068 # Comments: 452
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There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]
Article URL: https://users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/BradburyStories(1).pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49162653 Points: 201 # Comments: 72
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Sketching Temporary Circuits with a Light-Triggered Floquet Topological Insulator
In semiconductor technology, a base material like silicon is permanently modified to induce certain electrical behavior. In comparison a topological insulator material could be used to create temporary circuits using …read more
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Apple is getting this wrong
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/apple-is-getting-this-wrong/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164649 Points: 224 # Comments: 220
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