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‘They’ve Had Their Fair Share of Issues’: Uber Wants to Avoid Tech Backlash While Building Its Giant Robotaxi Fleet
Robotaxi proliferation should be "slower" and "more deliberate" than AI to avoid pushback, the CEO said.
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Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet during cybersecurity tests the agency was running, including a sustained campaign by Anthropic's Claud…
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Dale Dickey on How She Got Through Rosemary’s Big ‘Widow’s Bay’ Scene
The Emmy nominee delivered a genealogy lecture for the ages on Apple TV's breakout horror comedy series.
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AI startup Hark unveils first product: an affordable, fast computer use agent Hark Handoff
Hark, the secretive AI startup founded earlier this year by serial entrepreneur and roboticist Brett Adcock, today announced Handoff, a "computer use agent" (CUA) that it says is among the top-performing in the world at navigating the open web on a user's behalf — ordering dinner…
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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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Travis Kalanick’s robotics startup Atoms taps former Uber finance chief as CFO
Kalanick continues to get the band back together, after acquiring Anthony Levandowski's autonomy startup, and even soliciting investment from Uber.
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Pinegap Nets $8 Mn From Stellaris & Others To Build An Agentic Platform For Market Analysts
AI-powered equity research startup Pinegap has raised $8 Mn (over ₹76 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by…
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Growth without work: The human cost of the AI revolution
In an excerpt from his book “The New Divide: Power, Control & the Cost of AI,” writer Jibu Elias examines the technology’s impact on jobs.
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The Dunning-Kruger effect isn’t what everyone thinks it is: the original 1999 study found bottom-quartile performers overestimated their standing by about 50 percentile points, not that confident people are stupid
The pop version of Dunning-Kruger — confident people are stupid, smart people are humble — bears almost no resemblance to what the 1999 paper actually found, and the misreading has become the internet's favourite rhetorical weapon.
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Tencent Expands International Access to Flagship Hy3 Model, Offers Free WorkBuddy Access Until Aug 31
Tencent rolls out its flagship Hy3 LLM internationally via WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and TokenHub — free on WorkBuddy until Aug 31, 2026.
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Skyroot Invites Bids To Raise $200 Mn At A Valuation Of $2 Bn
Barely three months after raising $60 Mn at a unicorn valuation, spacetech giant Skyroot Aerospace is back in the market…
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Govt Operationalises New Framework To Spur Ecommerce Exports
More than a week after exempting B2B ecommerce exports from foreign direct investment (FDI) rules, the government has now notified…
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AI is exposing the limits of traditional network architecture
Presented by Tata Communications Continuous inference, agent-to-agent communication, and real-time data pipelines are generating unpredictable, always-on traffic that legacy architectures were never built to support. As AI moves from pilot project to operational backbone, the n…
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Get up to $400 off your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass until Friday
Starting today, you can take an additional $100 off your founder, investor, or attendee TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, which is a nice bonus on top of our current discounted pricing.
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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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Full Teardown of a 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD
After the release of Google’s Chromecast so-called ‘streaming sticks’ have remained a popular form factor, even though such technology is these days part of ‘smart’ TVs. Being curious as to …read more
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How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart
In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 878: A Tool With Opinions
This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Pallant about embedded Rust! Learn about the growing Rust driver library, the different ways to build a Rust stack on an embedded device, and …read more
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Know Your Food: Our Daily Bread
It’s time to return to our no-punches-pulled look at food manufacture, and this time we’re looking at the humble loaf of bread. As before, we’re approaching the subject with a …read more
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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassa... https://www.reuters.com/business/google-shakes-up-ai-leaders... https://www.discoveryloop.com/, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184960 https://twitter.com/JeffDean/status/2085034604172603724, https://xcancel.c…
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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.
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Demis Hassabis is moving from CEO to Chairman at Google DeepMind
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/05/google-deepmind-demis-hassabis-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184757 Points: 369 # Comments: 1
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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.
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Discovery Loop
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