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Super Mario is mathier than you think
Here’s a problem you probably didn’t solve in school: You’re an ambitious young plumber from Brooklyn in a world inhabited by violent human-size mushrooms called Goombas. The love of your life has been kidnapped, so you embark on a quest to rescue her, venturing through stretches…
MIT Technology Review
Anthropic Backer Menlo Ventures Raises $3B In New Funds To Back AI Startups Across Stages
Venture firm Menlo Ventures has raised $3 billion across two new funds, the largest capital raise in its 50-year history, to invest in AI startups from seed through growth stage. The firm says the new capital will target companies in sectors from enterprise tools to healthcare.
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India’s MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents
The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.
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Someone Is Suing the U.S. For Making Them Go Without Anthropic’s Fable 5 Model
Legion, a startup, says being denied access to Fable is damaging its business.
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Enterprise-grade AI image generation in 2 seconds is here: Krea 2 Raw and Turbo available as open weights under custom license
While many enterprises have already begun integrating AI-generated images, visuals, graphics and videos into their production workflows — there is also a growing pool of data and subjective commentary indicating AI imagery ultimately looks non-distinct, monotonous, and too unorig…
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The Dragonseeds of ‘House of the Dragon’ Are Excited for What Lies Ahead
It's not a spoiler to say these characters will play a major role in the Dance of the Dragons.
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International tech
Alibaba unveils HappyHorse 1.1 video generation model, launches global AI filmmaking competition
Alibaba on Monday released HappyHorse 1.1, the latest version of its video generation model, while simultaneously launching the HorsePower AI Video Competition in partnership with Huajing Entertainment Group. Compared with version 1.0, HappyHorse 1.1 delivers upgrades across seve…
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McKinsey surveyed C-suite executives and found they believed only 4% of their staff used AI for at least 30% of daily work; the real figure, from the employees themselves, was 13% — meaning AI has already spread three times further than leadership knows
A McKinsey survey gap suggests workplace AI may be spreading through everyday employee habits faster than leadership dashboards can see.
siliconcanals.com
India Wants Its AI Talent Back; But What’s The Incentive?
For decades, India has exported some of its brightest minds to the world’s leading research labs. Researchers of Indian origin…
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Axolotls can regrow entire limbs, parts of their heart, sections of their spinal cord, and even portions of their brain, and they do it without forming scar tissue, which is why labs from Vienna to Boston keep colonies of them alive specifically to figure out what humans lost
Axolotls regrow limbs, heart tissue, spinal cord and brain without forming scars. From Vienna's Hand2 discovery to a 2026 PNAS paper on the SP8 gene, here's why labs worldwide keep the Mexican salamander alive.
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Alibaba reportedly seeks sale of gaming unit Lingxi Games, valuation starts at $1.03 billion
Alibaba Group is planning to sell its gaming unit Lingxi Games, according to people familiar with the matter. Alibaba has approached at least five potential buyers, including Chinese game developers 37 Interactive Entertainment, China Ruyi, Century Huatong and Giant Network, as w…
technode.com
DeepSeek’s Harness team races to recruit talent in booming AI agent market
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek is rapidly expanding its new Harness team as it pushes itself into the booming AI agent market, joining the high-stakes global race to transform foundational language models into fully autonomous products. Cui Tianyi, the former J…
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An Ex-Meta L8’s Agentic Engineering Setup
If you’re on the same journey of making your work with agents more productive and enjoyable, I hope this gives you a head start and shortcuts some of your own exploration.
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Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning
Article URL: https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/events/extreme-heat-improving-governance-and-strengthening-action-around-the-world/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653060 Points: 325 # Comments: 320
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Reviving MSN Messenger’s i-Buddy USB Accessory
Some of our esteemed readers were not yet out of diapers back in 2013 when Microsoft decided to put MSN Messenger out to pasture, but the memories that this instant …read more
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Vulnerability reports are not special anymore
Article URL: https://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653216 Points: 210 # Comments: 115
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One Commodore, Five Displays
If you had one monitor back in the 8-bit era, instead of having to wait to use the family TV, you were already amongst the blessed. If you had five, …read more
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Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-pauses-employee-tracking-program-following-internal-security-breach/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653575 Points: 201 # Comments: 116
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California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business
Article URL: https://www.the3dprintingnerd.com/ab2047 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652184 Points: 257 # Comments: 179
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A Commodore Boombox: The 1350 as You’ve Never Heard it Before
No, this isn’t another product from [PeriFractic]’s revived company, though we hope he’s taking notes. This is, in fact, a hack on the beloved 1530 Datasette, using the tape mechanism …read more
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Jerry's Map
https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/this-man-has-been-drawin... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649435 Points: 426 # Comments: 51
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