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Europe Posted Its Strongest Venture Funding Quarter In 4 Years As UK Gains, M&A Holds Up
In Q2, Europe posted its strongest quarter in four years for venture funding, Crunchbase data shows. All told, Europe-based startups raised $24 billion in the just-ended quarter, up around a third quarter over quarter and two-thirds higher than the $14.4 billion raised in Q2 2025…
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★ John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
In September 2014, in the wake of a series of hacks that stole private photos from the iCloud accounts of multiple celebrities, Tim Cook wrote an open letter to customers that was published at apple.com/privacy. Apple seemingly no longer hosts a copy of the letter. (That tends to…
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OpenAI says GPT 5.6 is the ‘preferred model’ for Microsoft Copilot 365 amid breakup chatter
OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is Projected to Have the Year’s Biggest Opening
Early tracking is out for the Tom Holland Marvel sequel, and it's very, very big.
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One interface isn't enough for enterprise AI
Presented by Oracle NetSuite Every major technology transition produces a set of assumptions about where the market is headed. The assumptions are often directionally correct, but they tend to underestimate the degree to which organizations adapt new technologies to their own ci…
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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, used its own AI agent to raise a $100 million round — proof, evidently, that the product actually works.
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Meta launches its first pay-to-use AI model, Muse Spark 1.1
Meta has officially entered the paid AI model business with the launch… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Your next nurse may monitor you from the Philippines
U.S. hospitals are increasingly hiring Filipino nurses for remote roles to fill staffing gaps and for cost savings, but the practice may be aggravating shortages in the Philippines.
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By a new Microsoft tally, a worker is interrupted every two minutes of the working day — around 275 times — as after-hours pings and meetings past eight in the evening keep climbing, blurring the line between work and rest
One number from Microsoft’s June report spread fast: 275. That is how many times, on average, a worker gets interrupted in a day by a meeting, an email, or a chat notification. Spread across normal work hours, that works out to an interruption roughly every two minutes. The figur…
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Keyword Wars: Google Appeals Delhi HC Verdict In Hindware Trademark Case
More than a month after the Delhi High Court (HC) imposed a fine on Google for violating the trademark of…
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ByteDance Seedream 5.0 Pro: The Strongest Image Model Returns With Precision Editing and Multilingual Generation
ByteDance Seed team releases Seedream 5.0 Pro with complex information visualization, precise editing, real photography质感, and native multilingual generation across 17 test scenarios.
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Chasing the 2030 Power Generation Target: China's Artificial Sun Race Heats Up
China private nuclear fusion sector surges as multiple startups adopt differentiated technical routes, driven by AI energy demand and policy support, targeting demonstration reactors by 2030.
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ChatGPT Work
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-your-most-ambitious-work/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849059 Points: 327 # Comments: 165
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ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Claude: How They Differ
In this article, we will look at the various architectural forks the teams building these models encountered and the decisions they took.
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Mechanosynthesis of Atomic Carbon Structures Using Inverted-Mode STM
Generally chemical synthesis involves putting a variety of compounds together in an environment where they will react and self-assemble into the desired product. Direct mechanical manipulation could be significantly more …read more
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Overpowered RC car + Gimbal Cam = The Greatest Chase Vehicle We’ve Ever Seen
Modern cinema relies very heavily on quadrotor drones, because they make for very smooth, very easy to position platforms. From slow pans to chase shots, drones are great– if your …read more
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Reviving Mystery Nintendo 64 Game Cartridge Found in the Woods
As far as things go that you are likely to find during a relaxing walk in the forest, Nintendo 64 game cartridges probably do not rank high on that list. …read more
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GPT-5.6
https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6/gpt-5-6.pdf https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/latest-model https://x.com/levie/status/2075287443411222628, https://xcancel.com/levie/status/2075287443411222628 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849066 Poin…
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A possible future for Damn Interesting
Article URL: https://www.damninteresting.com/a-possible-future/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847511 Points: 236 # Comments: 29
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Get a Handle on This Compact Pi Portable
Between the speed and reliability of modern desktop 3D printers and the abundance of powerful single-board computers, there’s never been a better time to build a personal computing device that …read more
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Hy3
Article URL: https://hy.tencent.com/research/hy3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847552 Points: 390 # Comments: 86
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