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‘Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?’
Ben Thompson, on the hype regarding Kimi K3, at Stratechery: This is a point that bears repeating: because U.S. open weight model makers must follow the frontier labs’ terms of service, they (1) are worse than Chinese alternatives and (2) end up distilling the distillation, just …
stratechery.com
The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage
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. AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it…
MIT Technology Review
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests that LLMs can also …
MIT Technology Review
Mexico Extends Its Venture Lead Over Brazil As More Global VCs Enter Latin America
Mexico’s startups led the LatAm pack in Q2 — by a wide margin. The country’s startups raised $944 million in the second quarter, up 131% compared to $409 million in last year’s Q2, and up 136% from the $401 million raised in this year’s first quarter, per Crunchbase data. For com…
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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
techcrunch.com
AI Tends to Develop New Stereotypes to Base Hiring Decisions On, Study Says
LLMs are more likely to develop biases than humans, a new study claims.
gizmodo.com
International tech
We picture loneliness as an old person’s burden, yet a global 2023 survey found this may not be the case: across 142 countries, adults aged 19 to 29 reported the most loneliness of any age group, more than a quarter of them
The loneliest generation isn't the one we think it is—it's young adults, and the reasons why challenge everything we assumed about isolation and age.
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says the men who are genuinely, deeply unhappy in their 40s and 50s rarely look unhappy from the outside—they look fine, functional, even successful—and what they’re actually carrying is the weight of a life that no longer feels like their own
The men who seem most fine are often the ones slowly suffocating under the weight of someone else's life.
siliconcanals.com
Wealthtech Startup Veriqus Raises ₹387 Cr To Build AI-Led Investment Platform
Wealthtech startup Veriqus Group has raised ₹387 Cr (about $40.1 Mn) in a funding round led by global VC firm…
inc42.com
Moonshot AI K3 Triggers AI Trading Reckoning: Winners and Losers in the New Landscape Reshaped by 2.8 Trillion Parameters
Kimi K3 launch triggers global AI stock revaluation: Chinese semiconductor and memory chip makers win, OpenAI and Anthropic valuations lose $314B, and model developers face brutal competition.
pandaily.com
China develops more than 400 humanoid robot products, accounting for over half of the global total
China has developed more than 400 humanoid robot products, accounting for more than half of the global total, according to data released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on July 20. The ministry also said Chinese quadruped robots accounted for close to 70% o…
technode.com
WAIC 2026 Robotics Exposed: Four Fundamental Changes After 30K Steps Through the Exhibition Hall
After walking 30,000 steps across WAIC 2026 robot exhibition hall, four shifts emerge: from spectators to buyers, motion control democratization, universal to vertical scenarios, and embodied AI moving from demo to delivery.
pandaily.com

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Kimi Work
Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/products/kimi-work Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981703 Points: 464 # Comments: 201
kimi.com
A Feature-Rich Drum Machine
A little over a month ago, we featured a project from [Igor] who built 64 bits of DRAM from scratch using discrete components. Jokes about memory pricing aside, he did …read more
hackaday.com
Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Article URL: https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/human-mathematicians-are-being-outcounterexampled/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48983382 Points: 281 # Comments: 97
xenaproject.wordpress.com
Echolocation for Drones
Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) …read more
hackaday.com
Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space
Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds – …read more
hackaday.com
Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator
Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name …read more
hackaday.com
What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
longform.asmartbear.com
Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986731 Points: 259 # Comments…
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Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac
Article URL: https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48982681 Points: 226 # Comments: 80
blaizzy.github.io