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Daniel Ek-backed defense tech Helsing to raise $1.2B at $18B valuation

Five-year old European military drone startup Helsing is close to raising another monster round.

Amazon Stops Selling Fast E-Bikes To Californians

If you want to go faster than 28 mph on two wheels in California, get a motorcycle license.

Implementing advanced AI technologies in finance

In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strategy after the fact. The result …

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Riding an AI rally, Robinhood preps second retail venture IPO

Robinhood files confidentially for its second venture fund, this time targeting growth and early-stage startups.

Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon …

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iPhone Models Ranked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 6th in Counterpoint’s List of 10 Bestselling Phones Worldwide in Q1 2026

Samsung phones took spots 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9. The one phone not from Apple or Samsung in the top 10 was the Xiaomi Redmi A5 at #10. As I always say, take these numbers with a grain of salt, but according to Counterpoint, the bestselling phones, in order, are: iPhone 17 iPhone 17 P…

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Quote of the day by Helen Mirren: “When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re 60, nothing seems ancient.”

“When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re 60, nothing seems ancient.” — Helen Mirren Read it back slowly. The first three lines feel like things you’ve actually thought. The fourth one feels like a trick. Wh…

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The psychology of attention residue and how I have started minimizing it

Imagine this. You’re forty minutes into a piece of work. The thinking is finally clicking, the sentences are starting to land in roughly the right order, and you can feel the shape of what you’re trying to say. Your laptop pings. A Slack message. You glance at it. It can wait. Yo…

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Fractal Analytics Jumps 6% To Hit All-Time High After Q4 Profit Soars

AI and analytics company Fractal Analytics’ stock jumped 5.77% during the intraday trading to touch an all-time high at ₹1,119.6…

Tencent T15 and Adobe Scientists Launch AI Animation Startup: 'Big Companies Make Printers, We Make the Soul of AI Video'

Former Adobe Research scientists—including a former Principal Scientist who developed image deblurring used by the FBI—have co-founded an AI animation startup with Tencent T15. Their first product targets professional animation studios, having raised tens of millions of dollars f…

The CCTV Gold Rush: Indian Startups, OEMs Race To Fill Surveillance Vacuum

On April 1, 2026 India imposed severe restrictions on uncertified internet-connected CCTV cameras, effectively banning dominant Chinese brands such as…

InCred Capital Acquires Singapore-Based S Cube Capital

InCred Capital, the wealth management arm of IPO-bound InCred Holdings, has acquired Singapore-based fund management company S Cube Capital (SAIML…

Remember Digg? It’s Back, in AI News Outlet Form

Digg once reshaped the internet. It's been reshaping itself over and over ever since.

iOS 26.5 Includes Beta Support for End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging

Apple Newsroom: Starting today, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages. When RCS messages are end-to-end encrypted, they can’t be read while…

AI agents are running hospital records and factory inspections. Enterprise IAM was never built for them.

A doctor in a hospital exam room watches as a medical transcription agent updates electronic health records, prompts prescription options, and surfaces patient history in real time. A computer vision agent on a manufacturing line is running quality control at speeds no human insp…

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Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise

https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706 Points: 850 # Comments: 333

Reverse-Engineering and Documenting the Fisher Price Pixter

Between 2000 and 2002 the Fisher Price Pixter was sold to children as an educational handheld toy with a touch screen that enabled drawing and listening to music in addition …read more

Interaction Models

Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524 Points: 218 # Comments: 26

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The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does

You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber …read more

Another Gift To The World From CERN: Their Entire Set Of KiCad Libraries

As the foremost boffins of Europe toil deep underneath the border between Switzerland and France in their never-ending quest to truly understand the fabric of the Universe, they rely on …read more

EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions

Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.

Honda Wants to Complicate Your E-Motorcycle

If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike. Electric motorcycles lose some of that. You usually …read more

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.

If AI writes your code, why use Python?

Article URL: https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433 Points: 497 # Comments: 543