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Scaling AI into production is forcing a rethink of enterprise infrastructure
Presented by Nutanix Across industries, organizations are focused on how to move from AI pilots, proofs of concept, and cloud-based experimentation to deploying it at scale — across real workloads, for real users, in real business environments. VentureBeat spoke with Tarkan Mane…
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AI Is Rewriting What Investors Should Look For In Early Startup Teams
Technical expertise still matters, but when everyone can build, thanks to AI, it no longer differentiates, writes guest author Aaron Tainter, director of accelerator programs at Innovation Works. And that forces a harder question for investors: If the product isn’t the moat, what…
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Market research is too slow for the AI era, so Brox built 60,000 identical 'digital twins' of real people you can survey instantly, repeatedly
In a world where a viral TikTok video can cause a brand to trend globally in mere hours, the traditional market research cycle — often spanning 12 weeks — is becoming a liability. The lag between a survey question and the answers from a wide (or targeted) pool of respondents has…
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The app store for robots has arrived: Hugging Face launches open-source Reachy Mini App Store with 200+ apps
There's an app for nearly every imaginable user and use case these days, but one thing they all have in common is that they're centered around one device: the smartphone. That changes today as Hugging Face, the 10-year-old New York City startup best known for being the go-to plac…
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Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
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The Download: seafloor science and military chatbots
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining Last week, two oblong neon submersibles started to descend n…
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Apna Mart Moves Base To Gurugram, Lays Off 10% Workforce
Peak XV-backed quick commerce startup Apna Mart has reportedly laid off around 10% of its workforce as part of a…
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Will Apple’s iOS 27 open third-party AI options and help Chinese iPhones escape their AI dilemma?
Apple is reportedly planning to allow users to choose third-party AI models for the first time in its upcoming iOS 27 release, expanding Apple Intelligence capabilities to power core system features such as Siri, writing tools, and image generation, according to Bloomberg. The sh…
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DeepSeek targets $50Bn valuation in first-ever fundraising round: Report
DeepSeek, a two-year-old Chinese AI startup that has quickly gained global attention… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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I stopped initiating with my closest friends for ninety days, no calls, no texts, no checking in, and the silence I got back wasn’t cruelty, it was the simple confirmation that I had been the entire weather system in every one of those friendships
For ninety days I stopped reaching out to my closest friends, and what came back wasn't anger or hurt feelings, it was the quiet arithmetic of who I'd actually been to them all along.
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I asked 5 of my friends what they’d say at my funeral and then I sat quietly in my kitchen reading the answers and understood for the first time what I actually meant to the people around me — and what I had been getting wrong
The kitchen was quiet in that particular Wednesday-morning way, after the school run, after the coffee had been made and forgotten and reheated. I was sitting at the island with my phone in one hand and the mug in the other, scrolling through five messages from five different peo…
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Anthropic secures massive SpaceX compute deal as it expands Claude Code limits
Anthropic has announced an expansion of its infrastructure and product capacity through… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A
Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.
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Broadcast Booths Around Baseball Tip Their Caps to John Sterling
Great stuff around MLB: Those around the league quickly honored that legacy during Monday night’s slate of games. Tributes rolled in from across the league, with various play-by-play announcers deviating from their typical routines to give a nod to Sterling’s distinct style. It s…
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A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom
The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.
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AI On Every Machine: The LLM You Probably Didn’t Want
It’s been a story of the last week or so if you follow the kind of news channels a Hackaday scribe does, that Google have quietly installed an LLM as …read more
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A 1947 Radio Gets A Face Lift
We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should bring it back to life, but it looks like a …read more
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Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362 Points: 222 # Comments: 217
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Inkscape 1.4.4
Article URL: https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040622 Points: 227 # Comments: 65
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How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.
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Appearing productive in the workplace
Article URL: https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48038001 Points: 769 # Comments: 298
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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.
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Learn Programming Without a Computer
Presumably aimed at children, NHK World’s Texico program teaches the main ideas about programming without actually using a computer. Instead, it uses items like a toy train, playing cards, and …read more
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Taking Polyphony to a New Level
There are all manner of musical synthesis techniques, from the early electromechanical instruments through analogue tape systhesis, the all-electronic waveform synthesisers of the 1960s onwards, and Yamaha’s FM systhesis of …read more
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