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How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors
Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste material from a now-closed nuclear enrichment facility. Lasers could help get it out. A company called Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is looking to r…
MIT Technology Review
Shark Sightings Surge This Summer as They Seek Relief From the Heat
Rising ocean temperatures are forcing the apex predators to alter their migration patterns northward.
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Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors
Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.
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As rivals chase acquisitions, Peacock bets on bundles through a new deal with YouTube
The deal means content will be integrated into the YouTube experience, allowing viewers to discover and watch Peacock content without leaving the platform.
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The path to artificial superintelligence
Imagine a healthcare system made up of multiple AI agents: one that manages symptom assessment, another scheduling, a third insurance, and a fourth pharmacy. Each is an expert in its domain. But they all have their own distinct knowledge and objectives. Today they can exchange da…
MIT Technology Review
OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before. 
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, ano…
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Moonshot AI to make Kimi K3 available for public download
Moonshot AI is set to release the model weights for Kimi K3 on July 27, allowing developers to download, modify, and host the model independently. Kimi K3 was launched earlier this month with 2.8 trillion parameters, native visual understanding, and a one-million-token context wi…
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Why Enterprise Trust Is India’s Next AI Growth Frontier
Zero data retention is today a promise, not an architecture. As enterprise knowledge flows into the models, a new trust…
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IndiaMART To Invest ₹65 Cr More In Fleetx, Raise Stake To 25.8%
B2B ecommerce platform IndiaMART InterMESH has entered into an agreement to invest about ₹65 Cr in fleet management startup Fleetx,…
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Delhi HC Restrains ‘Zepto Finance’ From Using Zepto Trademark
Delhi High Court (HC) has granted Zepto an ex-parte interim injunction against entities operating under the name “Zepto Finance”, restraining…
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China Reusable Rocket Launch Costs Drop by Two-Thirds: CZ-10B Net Recovery Success Marks Reusable Rocket Era as Space Economy Reaches Trillion-Yuan Inflection Point
China first CZ-10B net-based rocket recovery opens reusable era with 60-70% cost reduction, as space economy paradigm shifts from disposable launches to reusable assets across commercial and government programs.
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Chinese Academy of Sciences ZhiJing Zing Social Intelligence Model Tackles AI Most Embarrassing Weakness: AI System That Understands Social Context, Emotions, and Unspoken Signals
CAS ICT releases ZhiJing social intelligence system including SoMBench evaluation benchmark and Zing model that surpasses GPT-5.5 on social cognition with FLARE self-evolving training and OPD distillation.
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Microsoft launches its first cybersecurity model, plus a new agentic cybersecurity system
Microsoft bolstered its AI cybersecurity offerings this week with the launch of its first AI security model and a new security platform.
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Uh-oh: Some Claude shared conversations and Artifacts appear to be indexed and publicly accessible on Google Search
Over the weekend, Reddit user -void1 posted an alarming discovery on the r/ClaudeAI subreddit: some conversations that users of Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot had made "shareable" via a link were being indexed by Google Search, and could be clicked on and accessed by seemingly any…
venturebeat.com
Smart Glasses Are the One Privacy Nightmare Apple Can’t Solve
Apple has to choose between privacy and selling smart glasses that few want.
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Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/27/ed-zitron-apple-watch-it-burn-ai-bubble-bursts/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070427 Points: 229 # Comments: 288
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M.A.S.K.-Inspired Cyberdeck for all your Portable Computing needs
There are infinite varieties of cyberdeck you could make, each with their own inspirations. Today, [RadioactiveArtist] shows us a M.A.S.K. lunchbox cyberdeck faithful to the 80s show. To know why …read more
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How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI
Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.
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Kimi-K3 Technical Report [pdf]
Related: Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49065752 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49070985 Points: 351 # Comments: 155
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Flexible PCBs: Not Only For The Few
Flexible printed circuit boards are a fascinating technique for making electronics venture beyond the two-dimensional, but surprisingly they’re not something many of us have worked with. [Jessica Stanley] gave a …read more
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Canceling "Hey"
Article URL: https://chadnauseam.com/random/cancelling-my-hey Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073007 Points: 220 # Comments: 190
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Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
Article URL: https://www.sgieurope.com/e-commerce/decathlon-germany-launches-wero-payment-on-its-website/122397.article Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49072310 Points: 284 # Comments: 197
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Reviving a Retro Mouse with BlueTooth low Energy support
One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee77] changes that by retrofitting a Genius GM-6000 mouse with modern hardware, all …read more
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AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying
https://archive.ph/PASMJ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49069939 Points: 246 # Comments: 138
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