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World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology Review editors and reporters for a subscriber-only Roundtables discussion, “Can …
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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies
OpenAI's CEO recalls a "particularly hair-raising" conversation with the SpaceX founder.
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Scientists Think Africa May Be Cracking Along a New Tectonic Plate Boundary
If the rift keeps growing larger, the African continent could end up splitting in half, researchers say.
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Running Claude Code or Claude in Chrome? Here's the audit matrix for every blind spot your security stack misses
Between May 6 and 7, four security research teams published findings about Anthropic’s Claude that most outlets covered as three separate stories. One involved a water utility in Mexico, another targeted a Chrome extension, and a third hijacked OAuth tokens through Claude Code. I…
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European AI Funding Is Growing. Will That Boost The Region’s Startup Scene?
A growing percentage of European venture funding in 2026 was AI-driven. That includes investments in three new frontier model companies as well as startups in a wide variety of AI-centric sectors.
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Neutralizing the Gigascale Problem: How to Solve the Physical Power Paradox of Extreme AI Training Loads
This sponsored article is brought to you by Ampace. As AI workloads grow to gigascale levels, the global data center industry has hit a hidden physical wall. The real bottleneck is no longer just the thermal limit of the chip or the capacity of the cooling system — it is the dyna…
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Taiwan’s chips power the global economy. China holds the leverage
Big Tech’s reliance on TSMC makes the China-Taiwan dispute the world’s most dangerous geopolitical flashpoint, says writer Eyck Freymann ahead of this week’s Xi-Trump meeting in Beijing.
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Semiconductor Startup HrdWyr Raises $13 Mn To Build AI-Native Chips
Bengaluru-based semiconductor startup HrdWyr has raised $13 Mn (about ₹124 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by Ideaspring…
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AI Hardware Startups: VCs Favoring Young Founders, But Is There a Valuation Premium?
China's AI hardware startup scene is divided over whether young founders deserve the valuation premiums they command — or whether VCs are simply chasing hype and labels rather than fundamentals.
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Tencent QClaw AI Integrates With Docs and ima Knowledge Base
Tencent's QClaw AI has integrated with Tencent Docs and the ima knowledge base, letting enterprise users query across documents and knowledge bases in one conversation — a significant expansion of Tencent's AI productivity tooling.
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Electronics Manufacturing Platform Mekr Raises ₹67 Cr To Fuel R&D
Electronics manufacturing platform Mekr has secured ₹67 Cr (about $7 Mn) in its Series A funding round led by Avaana…
inc42.com
After Lock-In Expiry, Backers Sell Groww Shares Worth ₹5,326 Cr
As Groww’s six month IPO lock-in period expired today, existing investors sold the fintech major’s shares worth ₹5,325.8 Cr via…
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A Cyberdeck That Runs Linux…in an Altoids Tin
In the time Hackaday has been in existence we must have brought you plenty of projects housed in Altoids tins, as well as a sizeable number of cyberdecks. But until …read more
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Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets
Article URL: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-rendering-the-sky-sunsets-and-planets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48107997 Points: 296 # Comments: 24
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2026 Hackaday Europe: Pre-party, More Workshops, and Everything Else
With Hackaday Europe no more than two days away, we want to help you wrap up all of the last loose ends. And that means last-minute changes in the workshop …read more
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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
Article URL: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109224 Points: 706 # Comments: 240
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How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem
In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.
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How Figma Upgraded Data Pipeline from Multi-Day Latency to Real-Time
In this article, we will learn what happened as Figma grew and how its engineering team handled the growth in terms of the data pipeline issues.
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This Random Number Generator Does It With Neon
The quest for true randomness has roots in cryptography and is a rabbit hole that gets surprisingly deep with alarmingly rapidity. Still, the generation of random-enough numbers is a popular …read more
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Another Gift To The World From CERN: Their Entire Set Of KiCad Libraries
As the foremost boffins of Europe toil deep underneath the border between Switzerland and France in their never-ending quest to truly understand the fabric of the Universe, they rely on …read more
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The History of Altec Lansing
If you bought computer audio hardware a few decades ago, you may remember coming across products from Altec Lansing. That you probably haven’t thought of that name in some time …read more
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