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Bending Spoons to Buy Airtable for $1.3 Billion

Ivan Mehta, reporting for TechCrunch: In its first acquisition since going public last month, Bending Spoons on Tuesday said that it has agreed to buy spreadsheet and database startup Airtable for $1.28 billion in cash. Founded in 2013, Airtable has so far raised over $1.4 billio…

Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about

Presented by Rezolve Ai Most brands know something is shifting in how consumers find and choose products. What most don't know is how much of that shift has already taken place, where it's happening, or whether they're on the right side of it. That uncertainty is the problem. An…

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‘Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money’: How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs

Founded by an educator fascinated by the educational potential of ChatGPT, MagicSchool AI leads off a series of articles featuring startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies.

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Has So Many Easter Eggs in Its Graphics

One of the film's designers has been posting some amazing work on social media.

AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it

At Kilo Code, engineers are reading or writing code themselves only about 1% of the time now, according to co-founder Emilie Schario — the rest is agents. That shift is forcing new questions onto dev teams: which systems are safe to hand over, who cleans up when models goof up, h…

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‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe – Vrach Frankenshteyn’ Has a Perfectly Creepy Trailer

Chris Carter's R-rated director's cut of the 2008 'X-Files' film hits Disney+ and Hulu August 14.

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A Gallup survey of more than 19,000 US workers found Gen Z employees who work fully remote report feeling lonely on a given day nearly three times as often as baby boomers, despite being the generation assumed to be most comfortable working through a screen

The generation raised on screens faces an unexpected crisis: digital natives working from home are lonelier than their grandparents.

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Psychology says people who say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ without thinking twice usually learned it so early and so thoroughly that politeness stopped being manners and became something closer to instinct, like breathing out before breathing in

The politeness reflex reveals something surprising: the manners we think we choose are actually hardwired from childhood, automatic as breathing.

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Sarvam To Raise $74 Mn In Series B Extension From NVIDIA, Others

AI unicorn Sarvam is set to raise another $74 Mn (about ₹697.8 Cr) in an extension of its ongoing Series…

Safety Risks Behind China's Top Open-Source LLMs: 76 percent Vulnerability Reproduction, Zero Refusal

An independent SaferAI audit of Zhipu's GLM-5.2 found cyber-offense capability on par with GPT-5.5 but a complete absence of content-filtering guardrails, exposing structural risks for open-weight releases.

Bombay HC Directs Meta, Google To Take Down Defamatory Content Against Union Minister Nitin Gadkari

The Bombay High Court (HC) on Wednesday (August 5) reportedly directed Meta, Google and other intermediaries to take down allegedly…

People who keep the thermostat lower than they’d actually like aren’t always frugal or tough, they may have grown up in houses where comfort felt earned and never quite believed they were allowed to set the dial where their body wanted it

The chilly-house adult is often not frugal or tough but running an old rule about who is allowed to be comfortable. The thermostat becomes a daily referendum on permissions absorbed in childhood — and the guest test reveals exactly what is happening.

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Lucid’s turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finishing a factory in Saudi Arabia, cutting expenses, and robotaxis.

NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids

At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its quest is to help us better understand how the universe works, from the glue-like dark matter that keeps galaxies together to the elusive dark energy that dr…

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Your AI Strategy May Be Destroying Your Exit Value

While integrating AI into a startup's product strategy is often viewed as a way to enhance valuation, it can inadvertently reduce exit value, argues tech strategic adviser Itay Sagie. In this guest commentary he shares three ways your AI strategy can provide a positive impact on …

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Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI

Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830 Points: 223 # Comments: 181

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.

AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol

https://www.interpol.int/Media/Documents/Publications/Cyberc... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175826 Points: 251 # Comments: 196

A Full Motion Video Codec For the Atari ST

Who says an old dog can’t do new tricks? The Atari ST has got to qualify as an “old dog” 41 years after launch, and if playing Full Motion Video …read more

Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038 Points: 390 # Comments: 173

Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)

Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175192 Points: 300 # Comments: 74

LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model

In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.

Polystyrene Foam can be Gasoline With Some Help

Styrofoam – or closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam if you want to be precise – is one of those materials that is both super versatile for packaging and insulation, but …read more

Train Simulator Controller: July 2026 Progress Roundup

For the past three years [Christopher Mitchell] has been working on his replica of a British Rail Class 800 control cab for a physical train simulator, with the July blog …read more