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X cracks down on creators who steal content
X will use Grok AI to better detect stolen content, redirect payouts to original creators, and crack down on engagement bait.
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Stripe’s Acquisition Pace Has Accelerated In The Past Five Years, But Nothing Comes Close To Its Reported $53B PayPal Bet
Payments giant Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have teamed up to make an offer to buy troubled PayPal in a deal valued at more than $53 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday.
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The Download: OpenAI unveils GPT-Red and heat pumps rise in the US
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. Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a …
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The agent evaluation gap: Enterprise AI organizations have a reality-alignment problem, not a coverage problem — and most are shipping to production anyway
Across 157 enterprises, organizations are granting AI agents more autonomy while trusting the evaluations meant to gate that autonomy less. Half have already shipped an agent that passed their internal evaluations and then failed a customer in production; only one in twenty fully…
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Agentic orchestration: Enterprise AI organizations have a deployment problem, not a platform problem — and most are calling chatbots agents
Across 101 enterprises, agent orchestration is consolidating onto model-provider platforms — Anthropic’s Claude leads by a wide margin — chosen for the gravity of the underlying model and judged on reliable multi-step execution. But the ambition runs well ahead of the reality: mo…
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Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia
In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground. Nothing appears unusual on deck. Nets remain in the water. Engines maintain a st…
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Recreating 10 km/s Flight Conditions: How China JF-22 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Works
China JF-22 hypersonic wind tunnel can simulate flight at 10 km/s and 20,000K gas temperature, supporting development of hypersonic aircraft and spaceplanes for 2-hour global travel.
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PhysicsWallah Acquires Majority Stake In Sarrthi IAS For ₹72 Cr
Listed edtech major PhysicsWallah (PW) has acquired an additional 11% stake in UPSC coaching institute Sarrthi IAS for a cash…
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Scrapped Before Launch: ByteDance Doubao AI Glasses Gen 2 Speeds Ahead With Dual Models as Meta Ray-Ban Rivalry Heats Up
ByteDance cancels first-gen Doubao AI glasses for being too generic, accelerates dual-model second generation while planning third-gen, as AI glasses market surges 130% year-on-year.
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Huawei to Publicly Demonstrate Atlas 950 SuperPoD AI Computing Hardware at WAIC 2026
Huawei Atlas 950 SuperPoD delivers 8 ExaFLOPS FP8 with 8,192 NPU cards interconnected via proprietary Lingqu protocol, outpacing NVIDIA NVL144 by 6.7x total compute.
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The gut-sleep axis: how microbial diversity in the colon shapes how rested you feel, according to a 2019 PLOS ONE study of 40 men
A 2019 PLOS ONE study of 40 men in Nova Scotia found that the diversity of bacteria in the colon correlated with total sleep time and sleep efficiency — opening a line of research that now argues afternoon fatigue may be less about the pillow than the plate.
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Skyroot Aerospace eyes July 18 for India’s first private orbital rocket launch
In a historic first, India’s booming private space-tech sector is set to… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Kimi K3 is now live
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Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly
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OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
Article URL: https://community.oneplus.com/thread/2170715118587871237 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48932539 Points: 392 # Comments: 210
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Transponder Mania
In order to not hit something, you generally need to know where that thing is. On land, the meager human eyesight tends to be sufficient. On the water, however, the …read more
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How LLMs Learn to Be Helpful (RLHF vs DPO)
In this article, we will look at how that learning actually happens, starting with why instruction-following alone falls short, then walking through the two main methods for teaching preferences (RLHF and DPO).
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Hackaday Europe 2026 – Build A Cable Modem For Your Arduino
Even for those of us that are quite technically minded, we spend precious little time thinking about the cables that carry our signals and do all the important work we …read more
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Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity
Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like plants in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out …read more
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SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-16/spacex-stock-erases-gains-slides-below-ipo-price-in-intraday-trading Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933344 Points: 264 # Comments: 228
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Sony Deletes a Bunch More Movies from the Accounts of People Who 'Bought' Them
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/sony-deletes-a-bunch-more-movies-from-the-accounts-of-people-who-bought-them/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933419 Points: 339 # Comments: 183
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