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OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent  — and it's already in the API
OpenAI has made a significant update to its most widely used language model, GPT-5.5 Instant, which is the default in the free version of ChatGPT. The company announced the upgraded version of GPT-5.5 Instant yesterday on X, calling it "much more fun to talk to" and saying it is…
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Xbox follows Apple with price increases 
The company says the increases are being driven by rising memory and console storage prices, with costs more than 2.5x higher than previous levels.
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Liquid AI's smallest model yet LFM2.5-230M beats models 4X its size at data extraction, can run 'anywhere'
Liquid AI, founded by former MIT computer scientists, today released its smallest AI language model yet, LFM2.5-230M, and enterprises would do well to consider it for their uses in data extraction and local deployment on smartphones, laptops and robotics. This is a 230-million-pa…
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‘Barbarian’ Gets First Physical Media Release 4 Years After Its Premiere
Zach Cregger's first horror film will be available as a 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray SteelBook.
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Why Does a Bank Need a Chief Scientist?
This article is brought to you by Capital One. After five years leading natural language understanding and eventually the entire Alexa AI organization at Amazon, Prem Natarajan made a nontraditional move: He became Chief Scientist at a bank. Not just any bank: Capital One, a fina…
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★ Spensive Thoughts
Some quick thoughts on the hardware prices Apple increased — and didn’t increase — today. Here’s a table with most of the base models whose prices increased: .table-65EBF365-4DEE-4E25-8A8B-E9D8F4B95492 th:nth-child(1) { text-align: left } .table-65EBF365-4DEE-4E25-8A8B-E9D8F4B9…
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Apple shares plummet over 6% amid price increase for Macs, iPads, home and Vision Pro
As Apple announced a rare extreme step of steep price increases across… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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ByteDance's AI Engine Roars Ahead But Compute Costs Crush Margins
ByteDance's Doubao hits 200M DAU and 180 trillion daily tokens, but compute costs may exceed RMB 200 billion in 2026 as MaaS revenue targets soar 10x.
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How Let’s Try Tripled Revenue To Cross ₹200 Cr In A Year
India’s snacking market doesn’t usually reward newcomers, and for good reasons. Shelf space is fiercely contested, distribution is expensive, and…
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UBTECH Sells 5,000 Companion Robots in Two Weeks, Eyes Consumer Market Breakthrough
UBTECH's U1 full-size humanoid companion robot records 5,000+ pre-orders in under three weeks, signaling growing consumer appetite for emotional AI robots in China.
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Alibaba's TRAE Work Adds Design Mode, Closing the Loop From Requirements to Code
Alibaba's TRAE Work platform adds Design mode, enabling full workflow from requirements through design to code generation in a single unified AI development environment.
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China keeps an eye on AI smart glasses as privacy concerns come into focus
China has issued the first industry code of conduct for smart glasses powered by artificial intelligence, following public outrage over videos taken by users covertly filming strangers with the increasingly popular devices. The voluntary code calls on smart eyewear manufacturers …
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Hackers Steal Funds From Polymarket Users, Potentially Millions
"We're contacting impacted users & refunding them in full."
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Heat waves mess with your brain. Scientists are trying to figure out why.
It’s been hot in London this week. Really hot. A dangerous heat wave has hit Western Europe. Yesterday, the UK recorded its highest ever June temperature at 36.1 °C (about 97 °F). But as the weather app on my phone confirmed, it felt like 39 °C. It’s frightening that we are seein…
MIT Technology Review
‘House of the Dragon’ Season 3 Ratings Are Only Slightly Down From Season 2
The numbers are still a far cry from the HBO show's record-breaking first season.
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Alan Turing’s Remarkable, Nearly-Forgotten Voice Encryption Device
[Popular Mechanics] has an interesting article about Alan Turing’s nearly-forgotten speech encryption device. Codenamed Delilah, it was in many ways an early form of digital encryption. It was secretly developed alongside …read more
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Increasing Photon Upconversion Efficiency with Structural Exciton Localization
In structures like photovoltaic cells there is only a limited spectrum of wavelengths that can perform useful work, with the remaining wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation effectively wasted. If the energy …read more
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An Ex-Meta L8’s Agentic Engineering Setup
If you’re on the same journey of making your work with agents more productive and enjoyable, I hope this gives you a head start and shortcuts some of your own exploration.
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The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy
Article URL: https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679608 Points: 778 # Comments: 357
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This Kid-Friendly Laptop Build is The Antidote to Age Verification
Age-verification has been a topic of hot debate recently, with many in the community feeling that keeping kids safe online is better handled by the parents. But what does that …read more
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Make That Smart TV into a Computer
The smart TV is a fixture in most houses, variously an entertainment portal, corporate data gathering tool, or sometimes an outright spy. It’s a nice monitor with a computer built …read more
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We All Depend on Open Source. We Will Defend It Together
Article URL: https://akrites.org/letter/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48682737 Points: 214 # Comments: 109
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What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant
Article URL: https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681687 Points: 200 # Comments: 72
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Large Language Models vs Small Language Models
In this article, we will explore those constraints through three layers of model design, look at the tradeoffs that come with each approach, and investigate the production systems that combine both small and large models.
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