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Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward

As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it to consumers. Companies whose drugs have been through preliminary testing—sometimes in as few as 10 healthy people—can pay $12,500 to apply to a newly established review board…

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Not just OpenAI: Now Anthropic says its internal models got online and cyberattacked 3 other organizations

Days after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped containment measures and autonomously cyberattacked the AI code sharing platform Hugging Face, OpenAI's top U.S. rival Anthropic tonight revealed that — lo and behold — it has also had models surreptitiously access t…

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Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers

Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding.

The Differences Between the New ‘Apple Upgrade’ and the Old ‘iPhone Upgrade Program’

Ryan Christoffel, writing for 9to5Mac: Apple Upgrade launched this week, and the iPhone Upgrade Program is being discontinued as a result. But despite some similarities, the two offerings are not the same. Here are the key differences. I wrote yesterday that there seemingly is no…

These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year

We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.

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The Download: Montana’s new experimental drug rules

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. Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward As of this week in Montana, biotech companies whose drugs have been …

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DeepSeek puts V4-Flash API into public beta

DeepSeek has put the formal version of its V4-Flash API into public beta, with an upgrade focused on agent tasks. The company says the model scored 82.7 on Terminal Bench 2.1 and 54.4 on DeepSWE, among other benchmarks. The release adds support for the Responses API and is adapte…

ByteDance Seedance 2.5 Released: 30-Second Single-Generation Video With Breakthrough Long-Narrative Capability, Multi-Modal Reference, and Precise Editing

ByteDance Seed team launches Seedance 2.5 with 30s single generation, multi-round extension, 30 images plus 10 videos plus 10 audio references, and timestamp-controlled editing.

ChinaJoy 2026: where cars, characters and games collide

ChinaJoy 2026 opened today at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. On the first day of the event, TechNode completed its first-round tour of the exhibition halls, exploring multiple areas covering automotive technology, gaming entertainment, and IP collaborations. This yea…

MiniMax Releases Open-Source Full-Modal Model H3: Video Editing Ranks No.1 Globally With Pricing Cut to One-Third of Competitors

MiniMax H3 supports 15-second 2K native dual-channel audio-video generation, ranks first in video editing on Artificial Analysis, and prices video generation at 0.8 yuan per second.

Xiaomi opens pre-orders for N90 Max extended-range SUV at RMB299,900

Xiaomi has opened pre-orders for the N90 Max, an extended-range SUV under its Pengcheng vehicle line, at RMB299,900. The company said the model will be formally released in September. The N90 Max combines Xiaomi’s HAD assisted-driving system and XLA cognitive model with Nvidia’s …

Psychology says the weird little habits that people have quietly judged you for your entire life may actually turn out to be the clearest signs of a highly intelligent mind

You know the ones. The muttering under your breath while you work. The chronic doodling in the margin of every notebook you have ever owned. The tendency to overthink a two-line email for the better part of an afternoon. The occasional swear word that arrives, fully formed, in th…

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The Great Lakes Are Hiding a Secret Underworld of Tardigrades and Rock-Eating Fungi

Scientists have discovered an almost entirely hidden world of living organisms hundreds of feet below Earth's surface.

Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size

Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati today introduced Inkling-Small without sacrificing much of any performance — and in fact, the new mo…

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Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security tests

After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents

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The session you cannot take with you

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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference

To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update

Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49119559 Points: 421 # Comments: 218

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Rebuilding an Obsolete IC to Save a Betacam SP Tapedeck

Betacam is not the Betamax you may have had at home– it was a professional format that lived on into the 21st century, in the “SP” form. In many places, …read more

The AI Aesthetic

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/ai-aesthetic/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49117099 Points: 340 # Comments: 153

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Building a Reproduction PlayStation Motherboard

Thanks to things like spilled drinks, leaky batteries, and the general ravages of time, older consoles can be tough to keep going. In particular, excessive damage to a motherboard can …read more

Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways

In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.

Using the Chimney Effect to Drop Passively Cooled PC Temperatures

The stack effect — also known as the chimney effect — is the basic principle that hot air not only rises, but if guided through a tube, the rising hot …read more

Best-Ever Brainstem Map Created by Indian Scientists

The elusive brainstem is a small, yet critical part of our brain: the slightest damage to it could prove fatal. But how it works is not fully understood today. Indian …read more