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Google doesn't pay the Nvidia tax. Its new TPUs explain why.
Every frontier AI lab right now is rationing two things: electricity and compute. Most of them buy their compute for model training from the same supplier, at the steep gross margins that have turned Nvidia into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google does not. On…
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OpenAI launches Privacy Filter, an open source, on-device data sanitization model that removes personal information from enterprise datasets
In a significant shift toward local-first privacy infrastructure, OpenAI has released Privacy Filter, a specialized open-source model designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information (PII) before it ever reaches a cloud-based server. Launched today on AI code sh…
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The modern data stack was built for humans asking questions. Google just rebuilt its for agents taking action.
Enterprise data stacks were built for humans running scheduled queries. As AI agents increasingly act autonomously on behalf of businesses around the clock, that architecture is breaking down — and vendors are racing to rebuild it. Google's answer, announced at Cloud Next on Wedn…
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A Better Way To Fail: How This Platform Aims To Turn Startup Shutdowns Into Something Salvageable
Los Angeles-based SimpleClosure has launched Asset Hub, a marketplace aimed at helping founders sell assets such as source code, data and equipment during the wind-down process. Crunchbase News spoke with founder Dori Yona about the new offering as closures rise and investors pla…
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NASA’s Artemis II Moon mission shows space-to-Earth laser comms can scale
Observable Space and Quantum Wave teamed up to capture data beamed back from space.
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The Download: introducing the 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
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. Introducing: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now What actually matters in AI right now? It’s getting harder to tell amid the constant launch…
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Alibaba Introduces “Qwen XiaoJiuWo” Avatar to Unify AI Assistant Ecosystem
Alibaba launched “Qwen XiaoJiuWo,” a unified AI assistant avatar integrated across its ecosystem, as the Qwen app reached 166 million monthly active users in China.
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Microsoft appoints Daniel Shapero as new LinkedIn CEO amid major leadership restructuring and AI push
Microsoft has announced a significant leadership transition at its professional networking subsidiary… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Meta rolls out ‘Live Chats’ feature on Threads amid growing competition with X
Meta is introducing a new ‘Live Chats’ feature on Threads to bring… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Daalchini’s FY26 Revenue Doubled YoY To ₹140 Cr: CEO Kalra
Retail tech startup Daalchini’s operating revenue for the fiscal year FY26 doubled to ₹140 Cr from ₹70 Cr in FY25,…
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The most dangerous phase of any long marriage isn’t the first year or the seven-year mark — it’s the year after the kids leave, when two people who have been co-parenting for two decades have to suddenly remember how to be two people who chose each other, and most couples have forgotten what that looks like and aren’t sure they’d choose again
When the last child leaves home, forty-year marriages face their greatest test: two people who've spent decades perfecting the business of co-parenting suddenly sit across from each other at silent dinner tables, realizing they've become polite strangers who must now decide if th…
siliconcanals.com
Not everyone who works through the weekend is ambitious. Some people learned a long time ago that the cost of stopping isn’t lost productivity, it’s the immediate surfacing of everything the work was keeping quiet
Not every workaholic is ambitious. Many are using the schedule to outrun feelings that would arrive the second the work stopped — and the cost of that avoidance is almost never visible until much later.
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AI For The Skeptics: The Universal Function For Some Things Only
It’s a phrase we use a lot in our community, “Drink the Kool-Aid”, meaning becoming unreasonably infatuated with a dubious idea, technology, or company. It has its origins in 1960s …read more
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3.4M Solar Panels
Article URL: https://tech.marksblogg.com/american-solar-farms-v2.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862386 Points: 246 # Comments: 176
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Repairing a Mercedes EQC 300 BEV Battery
When [OGS Mechanics] got a Mercedes EQC 300 battery-electric car in for repair, it was found to have a bit of a weird issue: after sitting in a garage for …read more
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Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-27b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47863217 Points: 470 # Comments: 236
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 868: Remove the Noodles
This week Jonathan chats with Johannes Millan about Super Productivity and Parallel Code! Those are two very different projects, but both aiming for helping us get our work done. Super …read more
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Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tpu-8t-and-tp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47862497 Points: 327 # Comments: 158
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The Security Architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflow
In this article, we will look at how GitHub built a security architecture that assumes the agent is already compromised.
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Autonomous Coin Flipper Flips Expensive Coin
[Térence Grover] had a very special coin—a  €1,000 commemorative piece only available to Monégasque nationals. If you want to flip one, normally you’d have to go snatch one up from …read more
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What Have We Dumped on the Moon?
If you read a headline that signs of intelligent life were found on the moon, you might suspect a hoax. But they are there! Humans have dumped a lot of …read more
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