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Gurman on OpenAI’s Device: ‘A Doughnut-Shaped Speaker That Costs Over $300’
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg (gift link): OpenAI expects users to rely on the smart speaker throughout the day. It will work similarly to the company’s ChatGPT voice mode on smartphone apps, but with more advanced models for humanlike interactivity. The device is designed…
bloomberg.com
OpenAI’s new AI smart speaker will reportedly sell for between $300 and $400
Additional details about OpenAI's mysterious new AI device make it sound like a pricey smart speaker.
techcrunch.com
New Mexico court orders Meta to pay additional $567M in child safety case
Meta's total fine has raked up to $942 million in this case
techcrunch.com
Over 26,000 US Public Parks Border a Toxic Superfund Site—But It’s Worse Than That
Tens of thousands of U.S. parks—everything from national forests to local hiking trails—sit precariously close to EPA-designated toxic sites, researchers found.
gizmodo.com
Vogue just gave another nod of approval to the tech world
Vogue World is coming to San Francisco next year — perhaps another indication that tech bros are now part of the fashion zeitgeist.
techcrunch.com
Brendan Leonard: ‘Do It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick’
This comic from Brendan Leonard is a fine companion to yesterday’s items (here and here) on pausing to consider if our use of AI is helping us focus our time on what we love to do, or, instead, robbing us of the things that make us human. The bit about making a sandwich hit close…
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GWM Says Haval H10 Secures 31,826 Orders in First 24 Hours
Great Wall Motor’s Haval brand said its H10 boxy SUV received more than 31,826 orders during its first 24 hours on the market. The five- and six-seat SUV was launched on Aug. 5, with promotional prices ranging from RMB201,800 to RMB223,800. The H10 uses GWM’s Hi4 plug-in hybrid s…
technode.com
New Tax Laws Amendment Bill Clears Path For Simpler Data Centre Incentive Regime
India’s push to become a global cloud and AI infrastructure hub received a boost after the Lok Sabha passed the…
inc42.com
An elderly man in London lost his wife and then his son, and didn’t know what to do with the grief, so he started running. Eleven years later, at 100, he crossed the finish line of a full marathon in just over eight hours.
When grief hollowed him out, running became his only answer—and a hundred-year-old man became the first of his age to cross a marathon finish line.
siliconcanals.com
Retirement planning is almost entirely about money, yet a meta-analysis of 94 tests found what predicts follow-through is naming when, where and how you will do a thing: the plan that holds is not the ambitious one, it is the one with a day attached
The spreadsheet matters less than the schedule: what makes retirement stick is not better math but specific plans for Tuesday afternoon.
siliconcanals.com
China Rolls Out a Cluster of Heavyweight Technological Breakthroughs
From thinner-than-A4 high-end steel and a hardware refresh for the FAST telescope, to a pair of AI-enabled experimental satellites, China's late-summer 2026 scientific push covers industries from heavy manufacturing to astronomy and from orbital compute to next-generation display…
pandaily.com
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…
pandaily.com

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Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
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Wrist Welcomes Wii Nunchuk As Gloriously Ergonomic Macropad
[John Dingley] spends a lot of time editing videos, and as many of us know, when it comes to repetitive tasks the more ergonomic the better. Keyboard shortcuts exist for …read more
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AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
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Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It
In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.
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Road to Staff+ TPM: The Mindset
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How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart
In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.
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Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
Article URL: https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003 Points: 243 # Comments: 170
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FlipBuddy is Borg, You Will Be Assimilated
When you think about it, time is all we’ve really got. Where to go from there is ultimately up to you. Maybe you use an app to track every task, …read more
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