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Your AI Strategy May Be Destroying Your Exit Value

While integrating AI into a startup's product strategy is often viewed as a way to enhance valuation, it can inadvertently reduce exit value, argues tech strategic adviser Itay Sagie. In this guest commentary he shares three ways your AI strategy can provide a positive impact on …

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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks

Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.

Apple Seeks Preliminary Injunction Against OpenAI in Trade Secrets Case

Reuters: Apple on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged confidential information as it moves ahead with its trade secrets case. [...] The iPhone maker also filed a con…

It’s So Hot That Japan’s Human Refrigerators Are Actually Racking Up Sales

In the future, you will get in the human refrigerator and you'll like it.

The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs

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. NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Sp…

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As Gen Z reconsiders dating apps, Tinder’s IRL events expand to dozens more cities

Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of September.

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Tencent rolls out Hy3 in WorkBuddy’s international edition with limited-time free access

Tencent has integrated its Hy3 large language model into the international edition of WorkBuddy, marking the model’s first rollout in the global version of the AI workspace. Users worldwide can access Hy3 at no cost through Aug. 31, 2026, Pacific Time, under a limited-time offer.…

The people who remember every song lyric from their teenage years but can’t remember what they did last Tuesday aren’t losing their memory, they’re revealing which decade of their life their brain decided was worth encoding in the highest resolution

Our brains aren't failing us in old age—they're revealing which chapters of our lives we deemed worth preserving in crystalline detail.

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The Next Hundred-Billion-Dollar Robot Battlefield May Be the Kitchen

Capital, home-appliance giants, and humanoid-robot startups are all converging on the Chinese commercial kitchen, with one industry projection putting the AI cooking-robot market above 109.6 billion yuan by 2030.

China’s AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs

Rising cost efficiency and rapidly advancing capabilities from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax have prompted Goldman Sachs to raise its run-rate revenue forecast for China’s artificial intelligence model market by 30 per cent to US$13 billion. In a research note published on Mo…

China's Optical Modules, PCBs, and Domestic AI Chips: A Day in the Market

Broker views from Nomura and Citi see limited damage from a hypothetical US optical-module ban, while Macquarie raised Biren Technology's target price 4.5x on new GPU wins and rising domestic chip ASPs.

Exclusive: AC Maker Optimist In Talks To Raise $10 Mn From TDK Ventures

Delhi NCR-based cooling solutions startup Optimist is in talks to raise about $10 Mn in a fresh funding round from…

Pumas Are Helping Make Our Roads Safer, Study Finds

New research shows that pumas often steer deer populations away from human roads.

Paul Thurrott Reviews the HP OmniBook Ultra 14, With Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2

Paul Thurrott: We didn’t need more evidence that Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 compute platform is superior to anything in the x86 world. But here it is, regardless: The HP OmniBook Ultra 14 is yet another nearly-perfect laptop running Windows 11 on Arm, an ideal combination of hardwa…

Zoox to start charging for robotaxi rides in Las Vegas

This marks the official launch of Zoox's commercial operations.

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Could Camera Hardware Be The Physical Equivalent to USB-C?

[Mansour] presents an interesting idea in his essay A Common Thread — just as USB-C has become the “One Connector To Rule Them All” in the world of electronics, so …read more

LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model

In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038 Points: 481 # Comments: 253

libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

Article URL: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606 Points: 307 # Comments: 70

Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099 Points: 302 # Comments: 142

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996 Points: 201 # Comments: 107

Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It

In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.

How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart

In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.

Cell Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System

Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system was …read more