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Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong

A VB Pulse survey this June found that 57% of enterprises had traced a confidently wrong agent answer back to missing or inconsistent context — the latest sign of how central context has become to whether AI agents can be trusted to act on their own. Most of the fixes so far have…

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Simon Willison on Blogging

Simon Willison, with Cynthia Dunlop for her tech blogger interview series (from back in January, but he just got around to linking to it so I just got around to seeing it): Any lessons learned that you want to share with the community? My number one tip for blogging is to lower y…

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‘Lynx’ Is a Sapphic Neo-Noir Thriller About a Damaged Detective and Her Snarky Cat Battling Angels [Exclusive]

Viz Media's upcoming original series throws readers into a post-climate-collapsed city where a bio-enchanced detective contends with the cosmic horror of biblically accurate angels and the ghost of her ex.

Stanford is running 37,000 AI agents as a virtual biotech — and one of its drug designs got independently confirmed by Merck

For developers, the operating assumption has been one engineer, one agent — the model Claude Code and similar tools. At VB Transform 2026, James Zou, associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University, argued that assumption is about to break: the next frontier…

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After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and team employee AI spending.

The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI

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. How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censorship-industrial compl…

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Alibaba Ships Qwen App Update and Puts Wan 3.0 Into Public Test, With One Eye on Enterprise Buyers

Alibaba released five new features on the Qwen App on August 7, all powered by the new Qwen3.8-MAX flagship model and all free for now. The next day, Alibaba Cloud opened Wan 3.0 to public testing, with the first document-input video model in the family and a price list aimed str…

L3 Is Just the Starting Line for China's AI-Agent Phones

Eleven mobile devices cleared the first batch of China's national AI-terminal intelligence grading tests in July, including nine smartphones from Huawei, Motorola, Honor, vivo, OPPO, Xiaomi and Stepfun. Vendors are calling L3 the highest level, but the real bottleneck for L4 is n…

Meet The 14 D2C Brands From The Inaugural D2CX Runway Cohort

After growing into a $65 Bn market, India’s D2C ecosystem is entering its next phase of evolution. While new brands…

DeepSeek Takes RMB141 Million Strategic Placement in Unitree IPO

Unitree Robotics has priced its Shanghai STAR Market IPO at RMB150.80 per share, with 40.45 million shares to be issued. The final strategic-placement list allocated 933,900 shares worth about RMB141 million to Hangzhou DeepSeek AI Basic Technology Research, the developer of Deep…

China Pushes AI Compute Into Orbit, and the Satellites Start Doing Their Own Thinking

In late July, a satellite called Chenguang-1 carried an eight-card server into orbit from the Dongfeng commercial space innovation test zone, marking a new step in China's space-based compute push. Industry experts say the country now sits in the global first tier for orbital com…

After Boycott Calls, Swiggy To Refund Alleged Unauthorised Charges To Restaurants

After restaurateurs threatened to boycott Swiggy, the foodtech giant has reportedly agreed to refund promotional charges, which were allegedly levied…

Data Center Reps Face the Guillotine, Flee Public Hearing

Seems like they got the message.

Wacom’s MovinkPad 11 is a fun, midpriced entry point for digital artists

The MovinkPad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.

No Summer Doldrums For Active Startup Investors In July

Active startup investors kept up the pace in July, with familiar names topping the ranks in several metrics including most prolific venture dealmakers, most active lead backers, biggest spenders and highest-volume seed investors.

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Hackaday Podcast Episode 381: Airless Tires, Full-color Prints, and 28 MW of LEDs

This week’s Hackaday podcast is a European affair again, as Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List on a summer evening to review the week. And we have a feast …read more

Hacking a $6000 Cotton Candy Machine to Fully Control It

Having a fully automated cotton candy vending machine in your possession is a great thing, but not if you do not have full access to its software. With [Block’s Retro …read more

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

Article URL: https://arcprize.org/results/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214008 Points: 491 # Comments: 301

How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart

In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

Article URL: https://app.dealroom.co/news/feed/oracle-bans-ai-generated-code-from-openjdk-despite-ellison-s-claim-oracle-isn-t-writing-its-own-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213754 Points: 403 # Comments: 272

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Road to Staff+ TPM: The Mindset

2026.05 — Part of the Road to Staff+ TPM series, examining the gap between succeeding as a mid-level TPM and thriving as a Staff+ TPM.

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This Filesystem is Born to Fail

Sandboxing a Linux process usually means spending a lot of effort deciding what it isn’t allowed to see. You might put it in a mount namespace, bind-mount a few directories …read more

Chernobyl’s Robots, or the Hackathon From Hell

When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s #4 reactor experienced an extreme criticality event on that infamous day in 1986, the resulting steam explosion and lack of any kind of containment …read more

The Read Path versus the Write Path: Strategies and Techniques

In this article, we will look at read path and write path operations and techniques in detail.