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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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57% of enterprises have watched AI agents be confidently wrong. The fix is an agentic context layer, but who has one?
An enterprise AI agent answers with total confidence, but the number is wrong. Nobody catches it until someone traces it back to a stale metric definition or a document the retrieval system never pulled. The model did not fail. The context it was given did. In the past six months…
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Wall Street is debating the AI buildout. Enterprises just answered: 86% say their GPUs run at half capacity or less
Enterprise companies are running AI agents ahead of the controls needed to manage them — and they deployed that way knowingly. That is the central finding from VentureBeat Research's June survey of 573 technical leaders at companies with 100 or more employees, fielded across five…
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The Download: Claude’s inner workings and OpenAI’s “super app”
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. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really goin…
MIT Technology Review
Ice Cold
Alex Heath, on Threads: At WWDC, Apple execs I met with were ice-cold when I asked about their OpenAI partnership. Now we know why: Apple just sued OpenAI for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to consumer hardware (Apple and OAI senior leaders are in Sun Valley this week. …
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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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Ola Electric Faces Third Insolvency Petition, Gets NCLT Notice
Days after it emerged that Sterling E-Mobility Solutions and Anevolve Mando eMobility had initiated insolvency proceedings against Ola Electric, the…
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Global First Rocket Net Recovery: China Achieves Multiple Major Breakthroughs in One Week
China completes world-first rocket net recovery, activates 100K-card AI supercluster, and reaches asteroid with Tianwen-2 probe in a landmark week for space and computing infrastructure.
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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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The Boring Billion is the name geologists give to the stretch between roughly 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago, when low-oxygen oceans slowed complex life — but evolution did not pause and Earth was not simply a billion years of slime
For roughly a billion years — from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago — Earth's oceans went chemically stagnant, oxygen stalled, and life did nothing much except reproduce as microbial slime. Geologists call it the Boring Billion, and it is the longest uneventful chapter in the planet'…
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Justdial Posts ₹166 Cr Profit In Q1, CEO VSS Mani To Step Down After 30 Years
Digital classifieds platform Justdial’s net profit rose a meagre 4.1% to ₹166 Cr in the first quarter (Q1) of fiscal…
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In 1991, Cambridge computer scientists got so tired of climbing two or three flights for an empty coffee pot that they rigged up a grayscale camera — and two years later, their tiny office fix became the world’s first webcam
In 1991, Cambridge computer scientists Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky pointed a grayscale camera at a coffee pot outside the Trojan Room to spare themselves three flights of stairs — and accidentally built the world's first webcam. Here's how a 128×128 pixel workaroun…
siliconcanals.com
Sony Music to Close Punk Merch Warehouse That Just Voted to Unionize
Punk's not dead, it's just being union-busted.
gizmodo.com
Razer Found a New Way to Print Money: Cinnamoroll Gaming Headphones
There's also a Cinnamoroll-themed gaming chair, keyboard, mouse, and mouse pad.
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Bluesky’s interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the ‘interim’
Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts tomorrow, Saturday, July 11. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
Article URL: https://casp.ac/reports/ai-enabled-terrorism Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863707 Points: 205 # Comments: 172
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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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A Look Inside a 1997 BBC Ceefax Generator
Ceefax was the BBC’s broadcast teletext service that ran until 2012, providing text and rudimentary graphics that were broadcast invisibly with the TV signal. In order to get this teletext …read more
hackaday.com
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
hackaday.com
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: 511 # Comments: 250
The Guardian
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: 450 # Comments: 362
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Einstein's relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aei1285 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866134 Points: 231 # Comments: 79
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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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