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Anthropic Executive, One Year Ago: Fully AI Employees Are a Year Away

Sam Sabin, writing for Axios one year ago: Anthropic expects AI-powered virtual employees to begin roaming corporate networks in the next year, the company’s top security leader told Axios in an interview this week. [...] Virtual employees could be the next AI innovation hotbed, …

Surprise: A Lot of People Streamed ‘Star Wars’ for May 4 Last Year

'Andor' was the top title in 2025 amid its acclaimed second season—followed by some surprising and not-so-surprising movie choices.

Week one of the Musk v. Altman trial: What it was like in the room

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing …

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X, the Platform of Free Speech

Gil Durán, posting on Bluesky: It’s official! I’m permanently banned from X for tweeting “TLDR: Fascism.” (appeal denied) “TLDR: Fascism” was Durán’s two-word response to this 1,000-word essay from Palantir describing their vision for a “Technological Republic”. (Alternative link…

Hot Toys’ New Ahsoka Figure Is Weird for All the Wrong Reasons

Sometimes things don't need the live-action treatment.

Sierra raises $950M as the race to own enterprise AI gets serious

The raise gives Sierra more than $1 billion to work with — capital the company says it will use to become the "global standard" for AI-powered customer experiences.

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D2C Skin & Haircare Brand CHOSEN Bags $5 Mn

D2C skin and hair care brand CHOSEN has raised $5Mn (about 47.5 Cr) in its Series A round led by…

Apple could introduce ‘Create a Pass’ feature to Wallet in iOS 27, allowing users to generate custom passes

Apple is reportedly planning a new ‘Create a Pass’ feature for the… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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The most painful thing about having parents who love you but don’t quite know you is that they will spend the rest of their lives describing a son they invented to people who will never meet the one you actually became.

The cousin called on a Tuesday. She had been at a dinner party my mother also attended, and she wanted me to know how proud my mother had sounded when my name came up. The phrase she used was “absolutely glowing.” I sat down on the floor of my apartment somewhere around the secon…

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[Update] Kissht IPO: Issue Subscribed 60% On Day 2

Update | May 4, 18:30 IST The IPO of Kissht was subscribed 60% at the end of the second day…

Retirement isn’t hard because of the empty hours — it’s hard because the silence finally meets the feelings work kept at bay

A 2023 Transamerica survey found that nearly half of retirees said retirement turned out differently than they had pictured, and the gap was rarely about money or time. It was about something they could not quite name. For decades, the standard guidance has run in the other direc…

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Motorola’s India lawsuit could make platforms police speech faster

The American phonemaker's Indian arm has named X, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Google, and Meta in a lawsuit asking to take down existing and future “defamatory” content.

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Hackers are still exploiting the cPanel bug to gain control of thousands of websites

Days after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability in popular web hosting software cPanel and WHM, hackers keep targeting and hacking websites.

Musk Seemingly Tried to Strong-Arm a Settlement Out of OpenAI Before Trial

"By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be."

This AI-Powered Talking C-3PO Head Lets You Feel What It’s Like to Be R2-D2

Now you too can sputter and bleep in response.

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EP213: MCP vs Skills, Clearly Explained

Both MCP and Skills extend what an agent can do. But they solve different problems, and picking the wrong one adds cost or complexity you don't need.

A Shortwave Sensor to Monitor the Ionosphere

The ionosphere is of great importance to shortwave radio transmissions, since it allows radio waves to be refracted and reflected over the horizon, and it’s therefore unfortunate that the height …read more

Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP

In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.

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Why Leaded Fuel Is Still A Thing

Leaded fuel is considered one of the greatest environmental failures in modern human history. Adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knock in internal combustion engines, which was widely considered a …read more

Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym

Article URL: https://thienantran.com/talking-to-35-strangers-at-the-gym/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007438 Points: 722 # Comments: 362

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TagTinker Lets You Hack Electronic Shelf Labels

Was there ever anything wrong with simple paper price labels? Absolutely not. And yet, the world invented the electronic price tag anyway. If you happen to come across some of …read more

Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027

Article URL: https://www.ecopv-eu.com/en/blog-en/replaceable-smartphone-batteries-2027-eu-regulation/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48009697 Points: 498 # Comments: 428

GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0p8yled1do Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48006402 Points: 499 # Comments: 435