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Why Public Speaking Skills Are Worth Investing In

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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller

Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher's new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.

SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish

SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.

PlayStation Plus and Xbox Game Pass Subscriptions

Following up on my earlier post on Valve’s righteous objection to selling game console hardware at a loss, I should have noted that PlayStation Plus starts at $11/month (and goes up to $20/month) and Xbox Game Pass starts at $10/month (and goes up to $23/month). One draw of these…

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Saharan Dust Is Blowing Into the US. Here’s What It Means for Holiday Weekend Weather

This annual phenomenon can influence weather in a variety of ways, from raising local temperatures to inhibiting storm formation.

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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DeepSeek Raises $7B in Record-Breaking China AI Funding Round, Targets Domestic Computing Infrastructure

DeepSeek completes $7 billion funding round to invest in domestic AI chips, expand hiring, and accelerate AGI development.

Smartphone Photography Goes Modular: Telephoto Lenses, Fill Lights, and Gimbals Join the Ecosystem

Chinese smartphone makers embrace external accessories like telephoto lenses, magnetic selfie screens, and compact gimbals as AI reaches physical limits.

PRISM DRHP: A Look At Shareholding Pattern & Key Personnel

OYO parent PRISM has filed its updated DRHP for a fresh issue-only IPO with the SEBI. As per the company’s…

The couples who last into their seventies often aren’t the ones who never fought; they’re the ones who learned which arguments were about something real and which were just exhaustion looking for a target

Here is what is quietly at stake in a long marriage. It is rarely the big, dramatic blowup that ends things. More often it is the slow accumulation of small fights that were never really about what they seemed to be about, the kind that pile up year after year until two people st…

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Meta plans to sell unused AI compute capacity, creating a new revenue stream: Report

Meta is reportedly preparing to launch a cloud computing business that would… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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The agentic AI rollout has a contradiction at its core: the same software that vendors call a colleague is, in controlled studies, making the humans around it measurably worse at their jobs

Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are reportedly selling software that introduces itself by name, holds a Slack handle, and shows up on org charts.

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Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty

The nine-year-old scooter and bike-share company has said it needs the funds to help pay down around $1 billion in liabilities.

Company Plans to Drop 600,000 Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes into DC This Summer

Wolbachia bacteria could offer an environmentally-friendly way of controlling mosquitoes and the many diseases they spread.

Meta Goes the Way of xAI, Considers Renting Computing Power as Own Model Flails

Gotta do something with all those data centers.

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Sony Deletes 551 Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

Article URL: https://reclaimthenet.org/sony-deletes-551-studiocanal-movies-playstation-owners-paid-for Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747389 Points: 427 # Comments: 195

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UDP Broadcasting and Easily Finding Network Services

Local area networks (LANs) that use technologies like Ethernet and Wi-Fi are incredibly useful for letting devices talk with each other. Yet a core problem here is knowing which devices …read more

Engineering Micro-Submarines to Replace Fish

Everybody loves aquariums. There’s something soothing about watching the lil’ critters inside them swimming, crawling and wriggling about. But at the same time few people are up to the task …read more

Positioning Without Satellites Or Base Stations

We’re all used to satellite navigation systems such as GPS or GLONASS, sheer magic in which the combination of a set of reference transmitters and super-accurate timing information can be …read more

How AI Agents Manage Memory and Avoid Forgetfulness

In this article, we will try to understand how that architecture gets built, from the constraint that forces it to exist all the way to the tradeoffs that follow.

ZCode: Claude Code from the Makers of GLM

Article URL: https://zcode.z.ai/cn Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751752 Points: 226 # Comments: 116

For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides

https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48747304 Points: 601 # Comments: 208

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Most arguments are about ego, not ideas

Article URL: https://wangcong.org/2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746445 Points: 631 # Comments: 494

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.