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Closing The Series A Gap Is The Next Great Opportunity For Black Founders In The AI Era
While 2026 has shown encouraging signs, with Black-founded startups raising approximately $643 million by late May, the strongest quarter since mid-2022, the improvement was driven largely by a handful of unusually large financings. James Norman and Sean Green, co-founders of Bla…
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The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout
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. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President Donald Trump on AI p…
MIT Technology Review
Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient. There’s often a gap between one pers…
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Burnt Grass in Australian Cave Hints at Prehistoric ‘Magic’ Rituals
For the past 25,000 years or so, this cave bore witness to the lives of the GunaiKurnai, an Australian Aboriginal nation.
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Hugging Face Said Last Week It Was Attacked. An Unreleased OpenAI Model Did It, OpenAI Now Says
It was reportedly an evaluation that went haywire involving GPT-5.6 Sol, along with another even more advanced OpenAI model.
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Volkswagen Thinks Your E-Bike Needs a Pair of Smart Glasses
The German automaker licensed its name to two new e-bikes made by n+.
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International tech
InMobi Ropes In Four Bankers To Helm Its $1 Bn IPO
InMobi’s initial public offering (IPO) is back on track. The SoftBank-backed adtech unicorn has now reportedly appointed four merchant bankers…
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Alibaba outlines Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameters
Alibaba’s Qwen team has previewed Qwen3.8, a forthcoming model with 2.4 trillion parameters, and said its weights will be released soon. A preview version, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, is already available through Alibaba’s Token Plan, Qoder and QoderWork. Alibaba has not yet provided de…
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AI Music Without the AI Smell: Kunlun Tech Mureka V9.5 Delivers Score-Worthy Music Through Reflective Reasoning and Agentic Creation
Kunlun Tech Mureka V9.5 with O3 reflective reasoning and MuCo creation agent delivers production-grade AI music that sounds human-made rather than machine-generated.
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BrainCo demos thought-controlled robots at WAIC 2026
BrainCo, a Hangzhou brain-computer interface developer, demonstrated a brain-controlled robot platform at WAIC 2026. The system uses an EEG headset to translate a user’s neural signals into commands for machines. The company says the platform can connect to humanoid robots, robot…
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Children who grew up in the 1970s with empty afternoons and no structured playdates were not being neglected — they were practising self-directed play, the vanishing skill of inventing a world without adults running it
The unstructured hours of childhood—dismissed today as neglect—were actually training ground for a critical skill we're now watching disappear: the ability to construct meaning and adventure without adult direction.
siliconcanals.com
China’s AI talent race is starting in high school
As demand for elite AI engineers outpaces supply, companies are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines.
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Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash model cuts AI agent token costs by up to 65% on long horizon engineering tasks —and 3.5 Pro is on the way
Google DeepMind today released three new proprietary AI models it says are among its most token-efficient yet: Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber. The models aim to make AI agents faster, smarter, and cheaper at scale. Google is pricing Gemini 3.…
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Dimension Capital’s $800M third fund shows the intersection of science and compute is booming
The four-year-old firm's latest fund is 60% larger than its second vehicle announced 18 months ago.
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Stop adding more GPUs: Weka's new storage platform reduces load by caching 100% of an AI model's pre-calculated tokens
GPU memory is the most expensive resource in production AI, and it's also the one running out fastest. Long context windows and multi-turn conversations force AI models to repeatedly recompute information they've already processed, consuming GPU memory and compute that could oth…
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A Smarter DIY Air Filter
As predominantly indoor creatures, it’s important to maintain a healthy habitat for the hacker. [Kishan Pratap Singh] designed a clever solution in AirSense, an ESP32-powered air filter. If you’re thinking …read more
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Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude
Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/ai-anthropic-copyright-settlement-claude-books-bartz-74b140444023898aeba8579b6e9f0d63 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996652 Points: 217 # Comments: 157
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A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample
Article URL: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/a-digestion-of-the-jacobian-conjecture-counterexample/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998362 Points: 220 # Comments: 73
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Kimi K3 Is Competitive with Fable; Kimi K3 and Fable Is SoTA
Article URL: https://fireworks.ai/blog/kimik3-fable Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999291 Points: 438 # Comments: 262
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Who’s Building that Data Center?
One of the biggest “David versus Goliath” stories in tech right now is the towns beset by AI data center projects they may or may not have asked for. Powered …read more
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Counterfeit Retro Mainboards with Fake AGP Slots Are a Thing
Sometimes that retro gaming itch strikes, and you just have to source components for a Pentium 4 build, like [Computer Retro Bus] did recently. Unfortunately, along the way he learned …read more
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'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling
Article URL: https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpns-are-lawful-technical-tools-says-eu-court-in-landmark-anne-frank-copyright-ruling Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997221 Points: 447 # Comments: 77
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OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-br... See also Security incident disclosure – July 2026 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48956248 (9 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 Points: 892 # Comments: 626
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Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models
We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplayer games look photorealistic, the key insights that have come from taking that approach, and the next big thing that the…
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