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DoorDash is building its own drone delivery business

DoorDash has received FAA approval to operate a commercial drone delivery service in the United States.

Cyera agrees to acquire Oasis Security for $1B to safeguard proliferating AI agents

The deal is Cyera's third acquisition this year.

Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A ‘Deal GPS’ For Enterprise Sales

Centralize, an enterprise sales platform, emerges from stealth and shares exclusive news of its $15 million Series A funding round with Crunchbase News.

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Dan Harmon Shares His Hopes for the ‘Rick and Morty’ Movie

It's still in very early stages, but the co-creator's ultimate goal is "to make it the greatest movie ever to exist."

Mercury Has a Radiation Belt After All—But It’s Super Wonky

Like all other planets with magnetic fields, Mercury traps harmful radiation in a belt-like shape. But only sometimes.

Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible

Visa aimed Anthropic's Claude Mythos at the infrastructure behind billions of daily transactions, a network that spans more than 200 countries and territories, moves money in roughly 160 currencies, and connects nearly 5 billion payment credentials to more than 175 million mercha…

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International tech

Alibaba Tencent and 360 Simultaneously Enter the AI Office Agent Arena: Your Desktop Becomes the New Battleground as WorkBuddy Qianwen Office and 360 AI Target Productivity Dominance

Tencent WorkBuddy leads with 20.97M monthly visits, Alibaba consolidates into Qianwen Office under new DingTalk CEO, 360 launches AI assistant with 100M token grants targeting one-person companies.

What will the US foreign robot ban mean for China’s world-leading start-ups?

China’s robotics firms have run into a fresh obstacle in their global expansion, after the United States banned imports of new foreign-made models. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced “advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List on Tuesday, blocki…

AI Teammates Enter the Enterprise: Tencent Cloud CodeBuddy NPC Reimagines Next-Generation R&D Workflow With AI Native Git Paradigm

Tencent Cloud launches CodeBuddy NPC with AI Native Git paradigm, letting developers @ summon NPC teammates that autonomously handle issue investigation, code development, PR submission and CI repair.

Alibaba Qoder Open-Sources Better Harness: An Open-Source Analysis and Continuous Improvement Tool for Programming Agent Workflows From Alibaba Cloud

Qoder releases Better Harness on GitHub, a three-layer open-source framework for coding agent workflow analysis covering Harness Engineering practices, evaluation models, and runnable implementations.

BYD AI Team Revealed for First Time: HyWorldVLA Hybrid World Model Achieves SOTA on NAVSIM v1 With 90.59 PDMS Marking BYD Entry Into Autonomous Driving Foundation Models

BYD AI team publishes HyWorldVLA with hybrid pixel-latent world modeling and VLA architecture, scoring 90.59 PDMS on NAVSIM benchmark, from team including HIT robotics researchers.

China’s Robotaxi enters London for first time as Baidu’s Apollo Go begins UK road tests with Uber and Lyft

FREENOW, the European mobility platform owned by Lyft, announced on Tuesday that it has partnered with Baidu’s Apollo Go to begin testing robotaxis in London, UK. Uber also said Apollo Go vehicles are now operating on public roads in the British capital. Baidu said the deployment…

The Download: a chip talent battle, and deflating AI hype

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. Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK Hynix Lee, an engineer at Samsung’s semiconductor division, used to work late. But latel…

MIT Technology Review

Runway couldn't fix a bug in its AI video model, so it turned the bug into a feature

Runway spent weeks trying to engineer its way out of a stubborn bug: AI-generated avatars would drift off-center during real-time video generation. The fix wasn't a back-end patch — it was a new front-end feature that just worked around the problem. That's the kind of lesson Ryan…

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Our First Look at ‘VisionQuest’ Comes via These Funko Pops

Or, at least, we think it does? Check out these crazy figures for Vision and Ultron figures.

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More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093569 Points: 285 # Comments: 93

Building a Portable Weather Radar

If you run a large meteorology bureau, then you probably have access to a wonderful weather radar for scrying the heavens. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. If you …read more

Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways

In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.

Behold The Most Beautifully Ambitious Starship Simulator Yet

[Kevin Kelm] created something wondrous: Halcyon Dawn, an utterly unique and desperately challenging game that is equal parts intricate starship simulator, imposing hardware console, video game, and love letter to …read more

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene

Article URL: https://www.datagubbe.se/scenegui/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49093434 Points: 289 # Comments: 48

LearnVector – Andrew Ng's AI company building one‑to‑one learning experiences

Article URL: https://learnvector.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49092499 Points: 230 # Comments: 149

How the Vagus Nerve Promotes Healthy Cognition via Acetylcholine Signaling

It’s been said for centuries that you cannot think on an empty stomach, and that love goes through the stomach. Although these may seem like merely cute jabs at the …read more

Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript

HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler…

How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI

Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.