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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
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A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal
Financial markets have always relied on timely information, and the drive for timeliness has always adapted to the latest technology. From clipper ships transiting the oceans to telegraph wires connecting cities to fiber-optic cables conducting trades in microseconds, traders hav…
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The Crunchbase Tech Layoffs Tracker
Over 127,000 workers at U.S.-based tech companies were laid off in mass job cuts in 2025, per a Crunchbase News tally, and the layoffs have continued into 2026. See the latest companies to cut roles.
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Singapore Is Proving to Be One of the Worst Places in the World to Post AI Slop
FAFO.
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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Has a ‘Surprise’ Ending, But Is That Actually a Surprise?
Since we know 'Secret Wars' is coming soon, does it even matter how 'Doomsday' ends?
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Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
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Meta and Tencent’s Two Paths to the Personal AI Agent
Meta’s Muse and Tencent’s Xiaowei share one ambition, a personal AI agent for ordinary people, but take different paths: an AI-first assistant versus AI built into WeChat.
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Apple Pay launches in India with an Axis Bank partnership, no UPI
Apple Pay is live in India, twelve years after its US debut. It supports Axis Bank credit cards at NFC terminals. It does not support UPI — which handles 84% of India's digital payments. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news …
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Peking University, Tsinghua and Alibaba Open-Source SparkDiffusion for Up to 265x Faster Wan Video Generation
SparkDiffusion pairs 97% sparse attention, 3-step distillation and FP8 to cut a 720P Wan2.1 14B video from 4,769 to 18 seconds on one RTX 5090, a 265x speedup. Code and weights are open.
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ByteDance reportedly tests standalone Doubao personal assistant app
ByteDance is reportedly testing a personal AI assistant tied to Doubao and plans to release it as a standalone app. The product has been given the tentative Chinese name Xiaodou (小豆), according to a report cited by IT Home. The app remains in internal testing, and its public name…
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Anthropic raises alarm over elite hacking ability of Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3
The US artificial intelligence giant Anthropic has warned of the potential danger posed by Chinese firm Z.ai’s GLM-5.3, with the open-weight model showing a troubling mix of powerful hacking abilities but weak safety constraints. GLM-5.3 almost matches Anthropic’s most advanced m…
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YMTC Wins Munich Injunctions Against Micron Over Two 3D NAND Utility Models
Munich Regional Court I found Micron infringed two YMTC German utility models covering 3D NAND structures and granted injunctions on related sales in Germany. Micron has appealed.
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You said no MCP
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/you-said-no-mcp/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49906637 Points: 609 # Comments: 340
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Open Source Tricorder Is In It For The Science
If you’re reading Hackaday there’s pretty good odds you’re at least somewhat fond of Star Trek. We’d bet good money most of you would quit your jobs today if a Starfleet …read more
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Assembling and Testing a DIY Jet Turbine
After many months of painstaking work, [AlfMart CNC Garage] over at YouTube has finally reached the stage where he can fully assemble his DIY jet turbine and commence testing. Even …read more
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Gemini 4 Argon
See also: Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49914236 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49913571 Points: 918 # Comments: 629
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Roman Telescope Saves Fuel, Doubles Mission
Contemplate the events that might end a space mission, and you might picture something dramatic: detonation on the pad, a dead guidance system, or micrometeoroids shattering delicate solar panels. More …read more
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Why Do LLMs Lie?
In this article, we will look at why this problem of hallucinations happens with LLMs and the techniques that can help make LLMs more dependable for answering.
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A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/bloomberg-terminal Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49909583 Points: 221 # Comments: 87
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How DoorDash Built a Toolbox for AI Agents
In this article, we will look at how the DoorDash engineering team built this gateway and the decisions they made.
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The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Article URL: https://insufferable.dev/posts/the-ai-race-just-got-awkward/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49910553 Points: 373 # Comments: 409
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