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Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.
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AI agents need context everywhere they run, even where the cloud can't follow
The competitive edge in enterprise AI is shifting to context: which platform can give an agent the right memory, the right retrieval and the right data at the moment of decision. Couchbase on Tuesday announced its AI Data Plane, combining persistent agent memory, real-time contex…
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China Prepares Its First Asteroid Landing on Earth’s Quasi-Moon
The Tianwen-2 probe will attempt to collect samples from Kamo’oalewa and bring them back to Earth.
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GV’s Dave Munichiello On Qualcomm’s Modular Purchase, The Firm’s 10x Return And The Shift In AI Software
The artificial intelligence space saw two major developments last week that highlight how technology companies are trying to manage the soaring costs and complexity of AI computing. In an interview with Crunchbase News, Dave Munichiello, a managing partner at GV, discusses the me…
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The ‘House of the Dragon’ Cast Breaks Down Episode 2’s Most Pivotal Moments
Matt Smith, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Steve Toussaint, and Abubakar Salim talk about what their characters face in 'Queen's Landing.'
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Tesla starts testing Cybercab without pedals or a steering wheel in Austin
The company may finally be ready to try to deliver on Elon Musk's years-long promise of launching a robotaxi network of its own.
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Psychology says adults who reread the same three or four novels every few years aren’t avoiding new books, they’re checking in with the versions of themselves who first underlined those particular sentences
Adults who reread the same three or four novels across decades aren't running from new fiction. They're using a fixed text to measure a moving self — the underlined sentence becomes a time stamp on who they used to be.
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Nvidia to boost its China robotics team amid emergence of physical AI
US chip giant Nvidia is ramping up a talent drive for its robotics team in China, a market whose vendors account for the lion’s share of global shipments. The Silicon Valley firm is recruiting for more than a dozen roles across Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, according to a post …
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Finance Ministry Approves ₹1.25 Lakh Cr Outlay For Semiconductor Mission 2.0
The Centre has moved a step closer towards launching the India Semiconductor Mission 2.0 (ISM 2.0) after the finance ministry’s…
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Chinese AI Team 'MopMonk' Breaks into Global Top 7 on CyberGym Security Benchmark
A mysterious Chinese AI team operating under the codename "MopMonk" has stormed into the global top 7 on the CyberGym cybersecurity benchmark, achieving a 73.1%...
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IPO-Bound Fibe’s FY26 PAT More Than Doubles To ₹257 Cr
Ahead of filing for an IPO, digital lending startup Fibe posted its strongest financial performance yet in the fiscal year…
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Zhipu AI's Trillion Valuation Calls for a Market Rethink of MiniMax
China's two publicly listed AI model companies — Zhipu AI and MiniMax — now face a valuation gap exceeding 7x, raising critical questions about whether the mark...
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Data Breach at Indian Supplier Tata Electronics Exposes iPhone 18 Pro Details and Photos
Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, and Stephen Nellis, reporting for Reuters: Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, ​and photos of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the dark web by the ransomware group that stole data from the U.S. firm’s India…
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We Need To Save Venture Capital From Bad Data
Venture capital firms are using AI the wrong way, argues Gilion's Henrik Landgren, who says that building better data infrastructure and connecting directly to sources like financial, payment and accounting systems would improve due diligence, help investors identify overlooked s…
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Arcturus could halve the grid’s electrical losses using its nano-infused copper
Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to conduct electricity.
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Web Tool Lets You Take Steam Controller for a Drive
One of the simplest robots to make is a bristlebot — a motor with an offset weight is attached to the head of a toothbrush, and the resulting vibrations will …read more
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Inside Thinking Machines’ Interaction Models
In this article, we will look at what the research preview covers and the concept of an interaction model proposed by Thinking Machines.
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South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-humanoid-robots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726102 Points: 243 # Comments: 190
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The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
Article URL: https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/the-us-ambassador-had-belgian-police-stop-our-reporting Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730608 Points: 571 # Comments: 228
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US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers
Article URL: https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48728740 Points: 218 # Comments: 179
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European digital ID wallets rely on safety services of Google and Apple
Article URL: https://waag.org/en/article/european-digital-id-wallets-are-gift-google-and-apple/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48730729 Points: 537 # Comments: 224
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LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE model with 1.6T total and 48B Active
Article URL: https://longcat.chat/blog/longcat-2.0/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48727116 Points: 214 # Comments: 60
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How Airspeed Sensors Work
When you’re driving your car, you’re probably regularly looking at the speedometer to make sure you comply with the local speed limits. The method by which it works is simple …read more
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Making a Magnetic Core Memory USB Drive
Some of us have felt somewhat nervous about the collapse of DRAM and NAND Flash memory supply in the consumer market, while others seem to have fully embraced it. Someone …read more
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