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Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e-bikes after months of delays

Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a "vehicle" company and has plans to make four-wheel pedal-assist cargo vehicles for Amazon.

OpenAI reportedly finds evidence that more of its agents ran amok

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

Google nixes its Earth AI feature one day after launch, amid criticism it would spread misinformation

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

A London Startup Is Selling Permanent Stick-On Tattoos—and It Wants to Do Mail Order

Concerned parents of the world, unite.

In a Warming World, Air Conditioning Is a Necessary Evil. Or Is it?

Advancements in passive cooling technologies are showing promise, but technical, economic, and climatic barriers remain.

The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals

Another week, another bevy of big rounds. The largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia-backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe Superintelligence, followed by a $1 billion investment in Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

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After A Stellar Q1, Shadowfax Elevates FY27 Revenue Guidance

Fresh off a record Q1 FY27, Shadowfax is now setting the stage for a standout fiscal year. Fuelled by a…

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…

From Freehand To Sid’s Farms — Indian Startups Raised $142 Mn This Week

Indian startup funding cooled in the final week of July. Between July 27 and 31, Indian startups cumulatively raised about…

Smartphone Batteries Enter the Silicon-Carbon 10,000mAh Era in 2026: OPPO, Honor, and vivo Lead Capacity Race as AI Power Consumption Drives Energy Density Breakthroughs

OPPO A7 Pro Max joins the 10,000mAh club with spherically structured silicon-carbon, as mainstream Chinese brands race into the 10K era driven by AI inference power and 35% share for 6000mAh-plus phones.

Psychology says people who are the first to check on everyone else but the last to be checked on aren’t unlucky in their friendships — they’ve built a role in every relationship that quietly disqualifies them from ever being the one who needs something

The care you give becomes a cage: the more you show up for others, the less they can imagine you falling apart.

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Kissht’s Next Growth Play: Better Borrowers, Lower Costs & Loan Against Property

Recently listed NBFC Kissht is entering its “quality over quantity” phase, as it looks to build a more sustainable lending…

How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud

The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need? Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing…

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Structured AI data pipelines score 10.9 points below free-form code — DataFlow-Harness closes the gap

If you ask an AI coding agent to write a standalone Python script to parse a single JSON file, it will likely give you a perfect answer in seconds. But the same agent often breaks if you ask it to build a systematic data processing pipeline, like ingesting thousands of messy docu…

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The Talk Show: ‘What’s in Louie’s Wallet’

Louie Mantia returns to the show to talk about the state of UI and icon design on Apple’s platforms, and some speculation on Apple’s trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI. Sponsored by: Notion: The collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents work side by side, with a Develop…

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Hiring: Part Time Instructor, Write Production Grade Code with AI

We’re hiring a part-time instructor for “𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐈”.

Turning Glass Into a Touch-Sensitive Button

Although generally glass isn’t associated with touch-sensitive surfaces, the addition of an ITO (indium tin oxygen) coating adds the exciting property of not only being transparent to the visible light …read more

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Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion

Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Points: 560 # Comments: 206

Big Food vs. the People

Article URL: https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/big-food-vs-the-people/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124858 Points: 235 # Comments: 149

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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication

What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?

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.

A Complex Way to Push a Button

We’ve likely all looked at a simple problem in our lives and thought that it would be an easy fix, only to realize that the project is enormously more complicated …read more