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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: A Pair Of Billion-Dollar Deals For Cyber And AI Infrastructure Lead
AI once again dominated venture funding this week, claiming five of the 10 largest announced rounds, including a pair of billion-dollar financings for AI infrastructure and cybersecurity that led the pack.
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‘No Interest’
Drew Pusateri, director of communications at OpenAI, on Twitter/X (or XCancel): Our statement in response to this suit: We have no interest in other companies’ trade secrets. We remain focused on building innovative technology that empowers people everywhere. Let’s say I think yo…
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Phia accused of ‘cookie stuffing,’ taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn’t earn
Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloomberg investigation.
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OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Work, a cloud-based AI agent that manages tasks across email, Slack and calendars
OpenAI on Thursday launched ChatGPT Work, a new AI agent embedded inside its flagship chatbot that aims to transform ChatGPT from a question-and-answer tool into an autonomous work platform capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks across users' email, calendars, code reposi…
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5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed: AI That Dispatches The Plumber, Underground Warfare And Cutting Down Private-Market Paperwork
The five most intriguing startup deals from the past month include one that’s simultaneously developing AI models for biology, a company that wants to prevent modern day private markets from the kind of paperwork crisis that shut down Wall Street in the ‘60s, and AI agents that c…
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Google's TabFM skips per-dataset training and still predicts on tables it's never seen
The vast majority of business data is tabular — living in data warehouses, CRMs, and financial ledgers — yet building a reliable model from it still means training a new one from scratch for every dataset, then maintaining hyperparameter tuning loops, feature engineering, and ret…
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International tech
From Elevate Education To Aukera — Indian Startups Raised $72 Mn This Week
Indian startup funding  remained largely flat in the second week of July. Between July 4 and July 10, Indian startups…
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Shein receives approval for Hong Kong IPO from Chinese regulators
Online retail giant Shein Global Holdings has secured approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to seek an initial public offering in Hong Kong, a long-awaited step for the firm after its attempts to list in New York or London stalled. The firm plans to issu…
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The quiet grief of outgrowing a friendship neither of you did anything to break
Some friendships don't end in conflict — they simply thin until neither of you is quite sure when the last real conversation happened. Psychologists call this ambiguous loss, and it may be one of the most under-grieved experiences of adult life.
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logicalqubit Launches Quantum Cloud for All Industries, as First Quantum Computing Companies Begin Harvesting
Hangzhou-based logicalqubit releases its quantum cloud platform with both physical and logical qubit capabilities, marking a shift from hardware sales to cloud-based quantum computing services.
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Shanghai Low-Altitude Unicorn Volant Aerotech Secures $66 Billion in Orders for eVTOL Aircraft
Shanghai-based Volant Aerotech has secured over 1,900 orders worth $66 billion for its VE25-100 eVTOL, completed China first manned transition flight, and restructured for IPO.
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China Enters the Reusable Rocket Era: What Makes the World-First Net Recovery System Tick
China Long March 10B world-first sea-based net recovery system eliminates landing legs for higher payload and reliability, using a 144m recovery ship with 0.5m positioning accuracy.
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Write code like a human will maintain it
Article URL: https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859701 Points: 328 # Comments: 282
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Fixing the Fix for a 3dfx Voodoo Card’s Overly Bright Picture
After previously fixing an overly bright picture from a Voodoo graphics card with a simple resistor on one of the RAMDAC’s pins to correct its faulty internal Vref, [Bits und …read more
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GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
https://x.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805, https://xcancel.com/__eknight__/status/2075643450196971805 Prompt: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/04d1d1e4-bc75-476a-97cf-49055cd98... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863490 Points: 400 # Comments: 308
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How To Use Those Cute But Slightly Odd 7-Segment LCDs
If you’re not aware, there is such a thing as adorable little three digit LCD 7-segment displays. They come in a ten-pin DIP package and are just begging to be …read more
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New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/07/mayor-mamdani... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863464 Points: 474 # Comments: 234
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Reject Modernity, Return to 80s, Learn C.
We’re not exactly sure how old [SnailMail] is, but he’s probably a member of Generation Alpha considering that to our wizened eyes the lad looks only slightly older than a …read more
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Streaming vs Batch: Two Philosophies of Data Processing
When is the data complete enough to be moved to the compute stage?
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Documenting the IR Protocol of the PumpSaver Plus Device
Having a pump in a remote location where you aren’t constantly monitoring it is a common scenario, which can be unfortunate when said pump runs into problems like a dry …read more
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Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/10/apple-sues-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48865019 Points: 780 # Comments: 386
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