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The Download: rogue agent liability and the AI Hype Index
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. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI …
MIT Technology Review
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
techcrunch.com
‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ May Be Re-Released With New Footage
'Avengers: Endgame' did it, so why not the film that beat several of its box office records?
gizmodo.com
Not Even $10,000 Could Convince These Locals To Stop Protesting a Data Center Project
A developer is offering Pennsylvania locals cash to stop protesting a new data center.
gizmodo.com
OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
techcrunch.com
This Early Groq Investor Expects Half Her Bets To Fail
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Sandhya Venkatachalam, founder and managing partner of Axiom Partners, discusses why she looks beyond familiar founder profiles, what makes an AI company durable, and how an early investment in Groq shaped her approach.
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International tech
Youshu Quantum Ships UnitarySpark Desktop Base and UnitaryLab 2.5
Youshu Quantum launched UnitarySpark, a local desktop hetero compute base, and UnitaryLab 2.5 public beta on September 20, 2026, pairing NL Agent control with Schrödingerization-based quantum science workflows.
pandaily.com
Ola Electric’s Board Approves ₹1,000 Cr Rights Issue
Ola Electric’s board of directors have cleared a rights issue of partly paid-up equity shares amounting to an aggregate of…
inc42.com
SpaceX Starship just reached orbit for the first time
SpaceX's Starship reached orbit for the first time on Flight 14 this morning, deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, and splashed down in the Pacific. It took 14 flights and three years to get here. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gad…
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China accounted for 59% of global industrial-robot installations in 2025
China installed 354,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 20% year on year and accounting for 59% of global installations, according to the International Federation of Robotics. China remained the world’s largest industrial-robot market for a second consecutive year. The global opera…
technode.com
Tencent Yuanbao Native HarmonyOS App Ships With Hunyuan Hy4 Preview
Tencent launched a native HarmonyOS Yuanbao app on September 25, 2026, powered by Hunyuan Hy4 preview with Expert mode, document deep-read and WeChat ecosystem search—not an Image 3.5 lead.
pandaily.com
Huawei Open-Sources openPangu-2.0 Pretrain, SFT and RL Training Code on Ascend
On September 28, 2026 Huawei open-sourced openPangu-2.0 pretrain, SFT and post-training RL code for its Ascend-native MoE stack, complementing earlier Pro (505B) and Flash (92B) weight releases.
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Trending

Synthetic Aperture Radar Drone Gets Interferometric Imaging
It’s been more than a year since [Henrik Forstén] built the first iteration of his synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) imaging drone, and he’s certainly been productive in the meantime. Not only …read more
hackaday.com
Windows 11½
Article URL: https://definitelynotwindows.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881747 Points: 422 # Comments: 129
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EP227: Top 9 Places to Use Jev
Jev is TypeSafe AI’s first System One Model. It is 100x faster and cheaper than frontier LLMs.
bytebytego.com
Places To Visit: Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
There are many benefits to spending time in the park, but perhaps few of them have a Hackaday angle. There’s a park in Germany you might want to make an …read more
hackaday.com
So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
Article URL: https://lecaro.me/20260921-google-less.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881951 Points: 207 # Comments: 82
lecaro.me
AI Agents Can Think. Now They Can Pay.
I attended a MPP event at Stripe HQ, where I spoke with Emily Sands and Matt Schulman from Stripe, along with Brendan Ryan from Tempo.
bytebytego.com
Jet Megatextures Demo for ESP32-S3
Mipmapping is a good way to add a lot more detail to a 3D scene without overburdening the rendering hardware with detail that won’t be seen by the user. This …read more
hackaday.com
Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms
Article URL: https://github.com/firelex/jeff Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49883844 Points: 228 # Comments: 77
github.com
Sonnet 5.5
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49881850 Points: 544 # Comments: 375
anthropic.com