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Frontier Labs And Robotics Companies Again Top List Of New Unicorns In April 
A total of 28 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the second consecutive month.
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Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’
The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.
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Scaling AI into production is forcing a rethink of enterprise infrastructure
Presented by Nutanix Across industries, organizations are focused on how to move from AI pilots, proofs of concept, and cloud-based experimentation to deploying it at scale — across real workloads, for real users, in real business environments. VentureBeat spoke with Tarkan Mane…
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Ten Technology Enablers Shaping the Future of 6G Wireless
A guide to ten technological components — from THz communications and AI/ML to reconfigurable intelligent surfaces — poised to define 6G wireless networks. What Attendees will Learn Which frequencies 6G will use — Understand why THz bands (above 100 GHz) and the7–24 GHz range ar…
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Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin Treasury Company Posts $12.5 Billion Loss, Boasts That People Are Still Giving It Money
The company, Strategy, is effectively a levered play on bitcoin.
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The Download: seafloor science and military chatbots
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. Inexpensive seafloor-hopping submersibles could stoke deep-sea science—and mining Last week, two oblong neon submersibles started to descend n…
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Paytm’s Q4 Show, Freshworks To Axe 500 Jobs & More
Paytm’s Profitability Streak Paytm turned in yet another profitable quarter in Q4. Buoyed by growing revenues, expenses under control and…
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DeepSeek reportedly seeks first funding round at $45 billion valuation
China’s state-backed semiconductor investment vehicle, known as the Big Fund, is in talks to lead DeepSeek’s first external fundraising, which could value the AI company at about $45 billion, according to the Financial Times. Tencent is also among the investors still in discussio…
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Samsung crosses $1Tn valuation as shares rise over 120% in 2026 amid strong AI chip demand
Samsung has crossed the $1 trillion market valuation for the first time,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Kimi reportedly nears $2 billion funding round at over $20 billion valuation
Kimi developer Moonshot AI is close to completing a new $2 billion funding round that would value the company at more than $20 billion, according to LatePost. The round is reportedly led by Meituan’s Long-Z Fund, with China Mobile and CPE joining as investors. Moonshot AI had alr…
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Meesho stock surges as Q4 losses shrink, margins improve
Meesho, the recently listed Indian e-commerce challenger to Amazon and Flipkart, saw… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Samsung to halt home appliance sales in China, exiting retail market
Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it will stop selling home appliances in mainland China, marking the company’s full exit from the country’s consumer appliance retail market amid shifting market conditions. The South Korean tech giant said the decision takes effect immediately a…
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Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.
Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.
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Claris CEO Ryan McCann on FileMaker in the Age of Agentic Coding
That previous item led me to look at Claris’s website for the first time in a while. And, lo, there’s a banner promoting a message from CEO Ryan McCann that was posted just yesterday, under the headline “How Claris Is Building for What’s Next”: Every AI-generated application crea…
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Market research is too slow for the AI era, so Brox built 60,000 identical 'digital twins' of real people you can survey instantly, repeatedly
In a world where a viral TikTok video can cause a brand to trend globally in mere hours, the traditional market research cycle — often spanning 12 weeks — is becoming a liability. The lag between a survey question and the answers from a wide (or targeted) pool of respondents has…
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A 1947 Radio Gets A Face Lift
We’ve all done it. We spy an old radio at a garage sale or resale shop. We know someone should bring it back to life, but it looks like a …read more
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How To Better Enjoy VR on Linux
Linux folks are used to having to roll many of their own solutions, and better Linux desktop usability is a goal of the WayVR project, which aims to provide desktop …read more
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Connecting LLMs to the Real World: Tool Use, Function Calling, and MCP
In this article, we will look at this progression that has happened from basic tool use to function calling to the Model Context Protocol, allowing the LLMs to go from isolated text generation tools to assistants that can do interesting stuff for the end users.
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Inkscape 1.4.4
Article URL: https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040622 Points: 279 # Comments: 84
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Learn Programming Without a Computer
Presumably aimed at children, NHK World’s Texico program teaches the main ideas about programming without actually using a computer. Instead, it uses items like a toy train, playing cards, and …read more
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Taking Polyphony to a New Level
There are all manner of musical synthesis techniques, from the early electromechanical instruments through analogue tape systhesis, the all-electronic waveform synthesisers of the 1960s onwards, and Yamaha’s FM systhesis of …read more
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BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039739 Points: 237 # Comments: 392
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Direct FDM Printing with Granules
The idea of FDM 3D printing using granules rather than filament is an appealing one: rather than having to wrangle spools of filament that need to adhere to strict dimensions …read more
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Programming Still Sucks
Article URL: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269 Points: 289 # Comments: 117
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