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The Download: Musk and Altman’s legal showdown, and AI’s profit problem
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. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are going to court over OpenAI’s future Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman head to trial this week in a case with sw…
MIT Technology Review
Microsoft and OpenAI gut their exclusive deal, freeing OpenAI to sell on AWS and Google Cloud
Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two companies together for years and replacing them with a looser, time-limited arrang…
venturebeat.com
Dead Internet Theory Is 17% of the Way to Becoming Reality, Study Finds
The researchers also found that 35.3% of all newly published websites were created with the assistance of AI
gizmodo.com
The Chip That Made Hardware Rewriteable
Many of the world’s most advanced electronic systems—including Internet routers, wireless base stations, medical imaging scanners, and some artificial intelligence tools—depend on field-programmable gate arrays. Computer chips with internal hardware circuits, the FPGAs can be rec…
spectrum.ieee.org
“Entanglement: A Brief History of Human Connection”
It started with word, cave, and storytelling, A line scratched on stone walls: “Meet me when the young moon rises.” The first protocol for connection. Coyote tales, forbidden scripts, Medieval texts hidden from flame. What lived in Aristotle’s lost Poetics II? Was it God who laug…
spectrum.ieee.org
Amazon is already offering new OpenAI products on AWS
A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.
techcrunch.com
International tech
OpenAI reportedly misses key growth and revenue targets; Oracle, Nvidia, and SoftBank shares fall
OpenAI reportedly missed important financial and growth targets. The company has fallen… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
ByteDance, Zhipu AI, and Alibaba named to TIME’s top 10 most influential AI companies of 2026
TIME released its list of the 10 most influential AI companies of 2026. Unlike rankings that focus purely on model performance, this list highlights companies that are shaping the industry through their broader impact on technology pathways, industrial applications, and society a…
technode.com
Quote of the day by Carl Jung: “No one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man”
The more desperately you crave connection, the more every unanswered text feels like abandonment—but what if this hypersensitivity to companionship is actually your superpower in disguise?
siliconcanals.com
Alibaba DAMO Academy Unveils AI Model for Non-Invasive Colorectal Cancer Screening
Alibaba DAMO Academy introduced an AI model capable of detecting colorectal cancer from routine CT scans without invasive preparation, achieving high accuracy in clinical validation.
pandaily.com
Apple introduces installment-based App Store subscription model with 12-month commitment
Apple is rolling out a new App Store subscription option that changes… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
Go Digit Q4: Net Profit Surges 29% YoY To ₹149 Cr
Insurtech company Go Digit General Insurance recorded a 28.8% YoY jump in its PAT to ₹149.4 Cr in the March…
inc42.com
Audiences Aren’t Turning Up for ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2
A new report says the second season of the Marvel show has about half the audience of season one.
gizmodo.com
Rec League
My thanks to Rec League for sponsoring last week at DF. Rec League is a new app/social network for sharing what you’re into. (Get it? The “rec” in “Rec League” is for recommendations. It’s a damn clever name, and sometimes a clever name is half the battle.) It’s really well done,…
recleague.com
Amazon launches an AI-powered audio Q&A experience on product pages
Amazon's new "Join the chat" feature lets you ask questions about products and receive AI-powered audio responses.
techcrunch.com

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A Tube Amplifier That’s Oven Ready
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The GPS III Rollout is Almost Complete, But What is it?
Considering how integral it is to our modern way of life, you could be excused for thinking that the Global Positioning System (GPS) is a product of the smartphone era. …read more
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How Stripe Detects Fraudulent Transactions Within 100 ms
In this article, we will look at how Stripe’s Radar does this effectively and the architectural decisions the team took while building it.
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How Amazon Uses LLMs to Recommend Products
In this article, we will look at how COSMO works and the challenges the engineering team faced.
bytebytego.com
2026 Green Powered Challenge: Supercapacitor Enables High-Power IoT
With all the battery technologies and modern low-current sleep modes in most microcontrollers, running a sensor and microcontroller combo off-grid and far away from any infrastructure is usually not too …read more
hackaday.com
Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
Article URL: https://www.blender.org/press/anthropic-joins-the-blender-development-fund-as-corporate-patron/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936370 Points: 229 # Comments: 170
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Payphone Tag Is Australia’s New National Sport
Australia’s payphones are an iconic part of the national landscape, even if they’re not as important as they once used to be. However, they’re having a resurgence of late, in …read more
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Google and Pentagon reportedly agree on deal for 'any lawful' use of AI
Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/919494/google-pentagon-classified-ai-deal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47936156 Points: 248 # Comments: 240
The Verge
Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/9l93x2ht4s5w Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938097 Points: 221 # Comments: 187
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