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[Sponsor] Day One Journal
Day One recognizes that many people struggle with journaling not because they can’t write, but because they don’t know how to begin or what a “good” journal entry about their day looks like. That’s why we built Daily Chat, a guided reflection experience that helps you talk throug…
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Data Breach at Indian Supplier Tata Electronics Exposes iPhone 18 Pro Details and Photos
Munsif Vengattil, Aditya Kalra, and Stephen Nellis, reporting for Reuters: Sensitive lists of components and suppliers, ​and photos of Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models are part of files posted on the dark web by the ransomware group that stole data from the U.S. firm’s India…
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Meituan open sources LongCat-2.0, the 1.6T, near-frontier agentic coding model that's been leading OpenRouter — trained entirely on Chinese chips
A few hours ago, Chinese delivery app company Meituan officially unveiled LongCat-2.0 on GitHub, Hugging Face, and its native platform, unmasking the model as the computational engine behind "Owl Alpha," the anonymous stealth model that has spent the last two months commanding gl…
venturebeat.com
Chamath Palihapitiya raises $135M Series A for his AI coding startup, takes CEO role
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.
techcrunch.com
Agent confidence on the technical frontier
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the meas…
MIT Technology Review
Gemini’s personalized AI image generation is now free for US users
Google is expanding Gemini’s personalized AI image generation to eligible free users in the U.S., allowing the chatbot to create images based on your interests and data from connected Google apps.
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International tech
China’s cooling, e-commerce giants see sales surge as scorched Europe scrambles for relief
A heatwave sweeping across Europe has triggered a massive surge in sales for Chinese home appliances, with e-commerce giant Alibaba recording triple-digit growth for air conditioners and fans on its overseas platforms. On AliExpress, Alibaba’s international retail site, the June …
scmp.com
Zhipu AI's Trillion Valuation Calls for a Market Rethink of MiniMax
China's two publicly listed AI model companies — Zhipu AI and MiniMax — now face a valuation gap exceeding 7x, raising critical questions about whether the mark...
pandaily.com
D2C’s New Media Playbook
Everybody wants to own the media, and the country’s fastest-growing new-age consumer brands are no exception.  Faced with rising customer…
inc42.com
In 1994, a park ranger abseiling into a sandstone gorge 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with bark like bubbling chocolate that turned out to be Wollemi pines, a species the fossil record had declared extinct for 90 million years and whose location the New South Wales government still refuses to publish
In 1994, NSW park ranger David Noble abseiled into a sandstone canyon and found Wollemi pines, a conifer the fossil record had listed as extinct for 90 million years. Three decades on, the location is still a state secret.
siliconcanals.com
The Indus Valley Raises $17 Mn To Scale D2C Kitchenware Business
D2C kitchenware startup The Indus Valley has raised $17 Mn (around ₹161 Cr) in its Series B funding round led…
inc42.com
Chinese AI Team 'MopMonk' Breaks into Global Top 7 on CyberGym Security Benchmark
A mysterious Chinese AI team operating under the codename "MopMonk" has stormed into the global top 7 on the CyberGym cybersecurity benchmark, achieving a 73.1%...
pandaily.com
Why Is a San Diego Charter School Spending $500,000 on Two Humanoid Robots?
Is half a million dollars really worth a bad Nikola Tesla impersonation?
gizmodo.com
Simon Says… Buy This OpenAI Mechanical Keyboard Thingy
It's a collaboration between OpenAI and Work Louder. It does something or other with Codex.
gizmodo.com
Vibe coding platform Base44 launches own model as AI startups seek defensibility
Wix-owned vibe coding platform Base44 has started rolling out its own AI model — with hopes that it will eventually outperform frontier models.
techcrunch.com

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Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding
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How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness
In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.
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Hacking a Reverse Osmosis Water Filter Through its Smart Faucet
Reverse-osmosis (RO) systems are one way to ensure that you get very clean drinking water. The Waterdrop G3P600 variety that [Tomasz Wasilczyk] recently purchased is definitely among the fanciest and …read more
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The Terrifying 2011-Era Case of Max Planck’s Retracted Papers
In the world of scientific publishing there are many reasons why a paper can be retracted, but generally there is an obvious and clearly communicated reason for doing so. Thus …read more
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South Korea to spend $1T on more memory chip production and humanoid robots
Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/south-korea-to-spend-1t-on-more-memory-chip-production-and-humanoid-robots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48726102 Points: 230 # Comments: 163
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Web Tool Lets You Take Steam Controller for a Drive
One of the simplest robots to make is a bristlebot — a motor with an offset weight is attached to the head of a toothbrush, and the resulting vibrations will …read more
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Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development
Article URL: https://quesma.com/blog/qwen-36-is-awesome/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721903 Points: 950 # Comments: 623
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EP220: RAG vs Graph RAG vs Agentic RAG
RAG connects LLMs to your data and there are three different ways to do it.
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