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Lyft and Baidu enter London’s robotaxi battleground as testing begins

Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicles will be available on Freenow, the mobility network that Lyft acquired in 2025.

Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors

Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.

Microsoft launches AI cybersecurity model, agentic defense platform to cut enterprise security costs

Microsoft opened a new front in the AI security wars on Monday, unveiling its first custom-built cybersecurity model and a sweeping agentic defense platform — and making an argument that could reshape how enterprises buy AI: the future belongs not to the biggest model, but to the…

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‘Always Choose the Good Soap’

Jason Snell: Apple’s most valuable asset is its brand. Not its real estate, not its intellectual property, not even any particular product. Even the mighty iPhone has no value if, over time, the traits that differentiate it from competitor products are erased. Apple’s brand has a…

Prediction Markets Saved From Minnesota Ban by Last-Minute Ruling

Passing the law was a bit of an experiment in the first place.

OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, ano…

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Chinese AI developers may shift to ‘paid weights’ commercial licensing: Goldman Sachs

Chinese artificial intelligence developers could start charging cloud platforms commercial licensing fees to host their open-weight models, according to the head of Asia internet research at Goldman Sachs, as firms look to capture more revenue from their soaring global use. The a…

Deconstructing the Kimi K3 Technical Report: Moonshot AI Starts Setting Problems for DeepSeek as Two Scaling Axes Redefine the Frontier

Moonshot AI 47-page K3 report reveals KDA+Gated MLA hybrid attention, AttnRes cross-layer retrieval, Stable LatentMoE with 896 experts, and 51.2M RL sandboxes.

InfiMaker seeks to bring industrial manufacturing to every desktop with AI

When people think of advanced manufacturing, they typically picture multimillion-dollar industrial machines operating inside factories, not a compact device sitting on a desk. But that’s precisely the perception InfiMaker, a startup founded in 2024, is trying to change. The start…

A study asked people to spend fifteen minutes a week walking outdoors while deliberately looking for things that amazed them, and by the eighth week their selfies showed them smaller in the frame and smiling more.

A simple practice—noticing what amazes you on a walk—made people literally shrink in their own photographs, revealing something profound about how awe reshapes our sense of self.

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Indian EV makers beat Tesla and BYD on energy efficiency

Tata Motors and Mahindra topped a global ranking of battery efficiency, showing India's strength in building frugal electric cars — even as they lag on charging speed and driving range.

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Why QOSMIC Pivoted From Building Satellites To Ground Infrastructure For Satellite Data

Modern satellites are producing more data than ever, and the gap between what they capture and what reaches the ground…

Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search

Over the weekend, Reddit user -void1 posted an alarming discovery on the r/ClaudeAI subreddit: some conversations that users of Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot had made "shareable" via a link were being indexed by Google Search, and could be clicked on and accessed by seemingly any…

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Anthropic’s Dario Amodei responds: doesn’t oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AI

Anthropic founder and CEO Dario Amodei made his views clear about open-weight models and China's growing AI capabilities.

Cursor makes its biggest India push yet ahead of SpaceX acquisition with localized pricing

Cursor says India is now its third-largest market globally and plans to expand local hiring and enterprise sales.

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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

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7.1 Earthquake in Japan

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De-Aging Human Tissue Using Special Enzyme to Remove AGEs

With human bodies being bags of mostly salty water and countless messy biochemical processes, it’s little wonder that over time some residues tend to collect in these systems. Although evolution …read more

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/netflix-company-retreat-sp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076923 Points: 339 # Comments: 315

A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum

Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional paper publishing industry did its best to keep up. For a few brief …read more

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

Article URL: https://matthewsaltz.com/blog/using-an-open-model-feels-surprisingly-good/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49078583 Points: 282 # Comments: 105

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Reviving a Retro Mouse with BlueTooth low Energy support

One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee77] changes that by retrofitting a Genius GM-6000 mouse with modern hardware, all …read more

Re-Testing an Apollo Guidance Computer Module that Failed Certification Testing

After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big ‘Scrapped Module’ stamped on it, [Mike Stewart] was naturally left curious as …read more

The Orphaned Sources At The Hacker Camp: What Happened Next

At the 2024 Electromagnetic Field event in the UK, some awkward items turned up at the swap meet: radioactive sources. Fortunately there was [Tryst] at hand, who works in the …read more