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Watch These Orcas Smash a Giant Dead Fish to Pieces—Just for Kicks
The ramming behavior might help younger orcas more easily digest their food, while also allowing other orcas to have a little fun, researchers say.
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The credential that let OpenAI's agents into Hugging Face exists in most enterprises right now
When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent's sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the w…
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The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI
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. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags  During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electr…
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Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
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Musk Leaves Room For a Potential SpaceX-Tesla Merger
First came xAI-SpaceX. Now brace yourselves for SpaceXAI-Tesla.
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How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines
Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made…
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The quiet reason some adults keep a drawer of pens, notepads, and unopened stationery they never use may have less to do with clutter and more to do with the self who once believed the right tools would finally make the writing happen
The unused notebooks and unopened pens in a household drawer are rarely about disorganisation. They are the archaeological residue of an ideal self who once believed the right tools would finally make the writing happen, and the psychology of why they stay is quieter and more ten…
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OpenAI says its AI models went rogue, escaped containment, causing major breach at Hugging Face
In a classic case of ‘AI going rogue’, OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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DeepSeek puts AGI research ahead of products and commercial growth
According to a report by IT Home, DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term revenue. The report is based on a circulated tr…
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Samsung announces a re-sized Galaxy Z Fold8, larger Z Fold8 Ultra, starts at $1899
Samsung today unveiled two new foldable devices — two, because the Korean… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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iQIYI launches China’s first licensed AIGC online story film
Chinese streaming platform iQIYI has launched Qitan: Paper Blade Across the Wasteland (《奇谭:纸刃渡荒墟》), which it describes as the first AIGC online story film in China to receive a Network Drama/Film Distribution License and go online. The film runs for more than 60 minutes and was j…
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Alibaba unit says 5-in-1 AI gives robots unified brain, body and limbs
Alibaba Group Holding’s mapping unit has unveiled an upgrade to what it calls the world’s first technology framework that unites a robot’s “feet, hands, brains, central nerves and motor nerves” into a single system. Amap’s ABot system marks the latest move in Chinese tech players…
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Industrial GPU Adapted for the Desktop
As technologies change and adapt, we’re often left with seemingly useless junk that has nowhere to go. Certainly anyone still sitting on a pile of floppy disks feels this way …read more
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V Formation Flying of Birds is Explained by a Minimal Wake–Vortex Model
Although it’s commonly suspected that migratory birds fly in a ‘V’ formation due to this saving energy for the birds in the slipstream, understanding the exact aerodynamics behind this and …read more
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An LLM in the Kitchen
Have you ever been looking up a recipe for something new and been stymied by the directions being a wall of text, especially to find that one detail right when …read more
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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Article URL: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015588 Points: 309 # Comments: 512
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Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models
We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplayer games look photorealistic, the key insights that have come from taking that approach, and the next big thing that the…
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John C. Dvorak has died
https://xcancel.com/na_announce/status/2079952538040672302 https://www.twit.community/t/john-c-dvorak-has-passed-away/2... https://www.facebook.com/aric.mackey/posts/john-c-dvorak-194... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49012070 Points: 811 # Comments: 273
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Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
A digestion of the Jacobian conjecture counterexample - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48998362 - July 2026 (133 comments) Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973869 - July 2026 (508 comments) Comments U…
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Best Practices for Building AI Agents That Work in Production
In this article, we try to explore the collective thinking into a smaller set of practices and explain the reasoning behind each one, rather than asking anyone to memorize a numbered list.
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Saving Some Coin With 3D Printed Stencils
One of the extra tools someone might need when working with surface-mount components is a solder paste stencil, which not only simplifies the application of solder paste to a PCB …read more
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