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Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Scienc…

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London-Based Tapestry VC Closes On $80M Third Fund To Invest In Repeat European Founders

Tapestry VC has closed an $80 million third fund to double down on Europe’s repeat founders and expects the coming wave of AI exits to produce yet another generation of experienced founders.

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The ‘Father of the Internet’ is finally retiring

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

You Don’t Have to Be an Otaku to Know Clancy Brown Starring in ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2’ Absolutely Rips

Brown will voice Weak Kingsley in Netflix's upcoming anime.

The Orbital Data Center Hype Machine Is Already in Orbit

“The lowest-cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true within two years, maybe three at the latest,” SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the World Economic Forum in Davos this past January, as his company was preparing to go public. Later that month, SpaceX filed an a…

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Morgan Stanley cut its riskiest reconciliation job in half — by making its agents less autonomous

Most enterprise AI deployments so far have focused on coding assistants and customer service bots. Morgan Stanley has deployed agents in one of banking's most accuracy-critical, deadline-driven workflows instead — profit and loss (P&L) reconciliation — and cut the work in half. T…

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UBTECH unveils consumer humanoid robot U1, says orders secure 11,000 ahead of first deliveries

Chinese robotics company UBTECH on Tuesday unveiled its first full-sized consumer humanoid robot, the U1 Series, marking a major push into the home robotics market as demand for AI-powered companions gains momentum. The launch event, held in Shenzhen, introduced the U1 Series und…

China’s Kling AI nears US$3 billion round at US$18 billion valuation: sources

Kuaishou-backed Kling AI is close to completing a US$3 billion fundraising round that would value the company at US$18 billion post-investment, according to people familiar with the matter, as competition intensifies in China’s artificial intelligence video generation sector. The…

Ex-Xiaomi Executive Tang Mu Launches Food Service Humanoid Robot, Targets Year-End Production

InSpace Technology, the robotics company founded by former Xiaomi executive Tang Mu, unveiled three new food-service robots at a product launch event on June 30...

Dovetail Capital Raises ₹100 Cr To Expand Asset Servicing Business Globally

Investment asset servicing startup Dovetail Capital has raised ₹100 Cr (about $10.5 Mn) in its Series A round led by…

X launches hosted MCP server to offer easier integration for Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants

X has introduced a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, allowing AI… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Supply6 Nets ₹48 Cr To Expand Product Portfolio, Enter New Markets

D2C nutrition and wellness startup Supply6 has raised ₹48 Cr (about $5 Mn) in a funding round led by Unilever…

AI agents need context everywhere they run, even where the cloud can't follow

The competitive edge in enterprise AI is shifting to context: which platform can give an agent the right memory, the right retrieval and the right data at the moment of decision. Couchbase on Tuesday announced its AI Data Plane, combining persistent agent memory, real-time contex…

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And the Latest Social Media Giant to Settle a Safety Lawsuit Is: TikTok

TikTok parent ByteDance avoided a potentially messy jury trial.

Google unveils Nano Banana 2 Lite aka Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for low cost, 4-second fast enterprise image generations

Google is upgrading its AI image generation capabilities today with the debut of Nano Banana 2 (NB2) Lite, an optimized model built for rapid execution and tight infrastructure budgets. Technically designated as Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image on Google's application programming int…

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I ported Kubernetes to the browser

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Inside Thinking Machines’ Interaction Models

In this article, we will look at what the research preview covers and the concept of an interaction model proposed by Thinking Machines.

Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Article URL: https://twitter.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072106151890809341 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740771 Points: 763 # Comments: 475

Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/open-source-game-engine-godot-will-no-longer-accept-ai-authored-code-contributions-we-cant-trust-heavy-users-of-ai-to-understand-their-code-enough-to-fix-it/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48743472 Points: 3…

Watch a Steam Controller Skitter Itself To Its Charge Puck

Hacks don’t have to be practical but it helps if they are educational or clever or amusing, as [Ray Foss] demonstrates with his auto-docking Steam Controller. It’s an open-source web …read more

Building a Fiber-Coupled Laser Source for Precision Optics

Laser diodes are convenient light sources, but for precise optical work their often-elliptical beam profile leaves something to be desired. One way to get around this is to couple the …read more

How to Remove Bounce When Bouncy Objects Encounter Bounciness

We all love a good bit of bounce now and then, with everything from trampolines to bouncy castles and bouncy balls forming the staple of a wholesome childhood for many. …read more

From Sugar to Ethanol Fuel With a Little Microbial Help

In these trying times it seems appropriate to work through some ‘what if ‘ scenarios, such as the local gas station suddenly not having any more gasoline to sell you, …read more

Google copybara: moving code between repositories

Article URL: https://github.com/google/copybara Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740698 Points: 242 # Comments: 44