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Peter Sarlin’s QuTwo reaches $380M valuation in angel round
QyTw0, the Finnish AI lab founded by former AMD Silo AI CEO Peter Sarlin, is now valued at €325 million (approximately $380 million) after raising a €25 million angel round ($29 million). It's a sign of enduring tailwinds for AI, quantum computing, and sovereign tech, especially …
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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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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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Apple Cuts More Mac Studio and Mac Mini RAM Options as Memory Shortage Worsens
Juli Clover, MacRumors: Apple has removed more desktop Macs from its online store as the global memory shortage continues. Mac mini models with 32GB and 64GB of RAM are no longer available for purchase, nor is the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 256GB RAM. The M3 Ultra Mac Studio is now…
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Nuro receives driverless testing permit ahead of Uber robotaxi service launch
The Silicon Valley AV startup has not started driverless testing yet.
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Blitzy Raises $200M At $1.4B Valuation For Autonomous Software Development
Blitzy, an autonomous software development startup, said it has raised $200 million in a funding round that values it at $1.4 billion, making it the latest company to receive major investor backing to streamline coding for large enterprises with the help of AI.    Cambridge, Mass…
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International tech
Foxconn, BYD among top exporters as Chinese-listed firms hit overseas revenue milestone
Companies listed in mainland China have reached a historic milestone in their global operations. Total overseas revenues hit a record, with electronic and automobile giants such as Foxconn Technology Group and BYD among the top performers. Total overseas revenues of A-share compa…
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Telecom giant China Mobile to launch AI-eSIM product
China Mobile said it will unveil its AI-eSIM product at the 2026 Mobile Cloud Conference, set to take place in Suzhou from May 7 to 9, as the state-owned telecom giant steps up efforts to integrate AI into connected devices. The AI-eSIM integrates what the company describes as an…
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Apple could allow users to switch between AI providers like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic in iOS 27 features
Apple is reportedly planning a major change with iOS 27, where users… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Meesho Q4: Loss Narrows 88% To ₹166 Cr
Ecommerce marketplace Meesho trimmed its consolidated net loss by 88% to ₹166.3 Cr in Q4 FY26 from ₹1,391.4 Cr in…
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Supersized and scaling: China pushes 10,000-card computing clusters in AI race
In China, computing facilities have emerged as a new form of infrastructure over the past two years, sparking an arms race among cities and technology companies to build 10,000-card computing clusters. These clusters – which link 10,000 or more artificial intelligence accelerator…
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Will Apple’s iOS 27 open third-party AI pptions and help Chinese iPhones escape their AI dilemma?
Apple is reportedly planning to allow users to choose third-party AI models for the first time in its upcoming iOS 27 release, expanding Apple Intelligence capabilities to power core system features such as Siri, writing tools, and image generation, according to Bloomberg. The sh…
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Apple Settles Class Action Lawsuit Over AI Features That Were Advertised but Didn’t Ship for $250 Million
Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: Last March, Apple was hit with a class action lawsuit after delaying the launch of the “more personalized Siri” that was first announced at WWDC 2024. Apple agreed to settle the case in December, and the full settlement terms are now available. Apple is se…
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Pedometer++ 8.0
David Smith, “Six Years Perfecting Maps on watchOS”: I love going on wilderness adventures. I am rarely happier than when I am far off into the mountains without a soul in sight. As a result, I have spent a lot of time learning how to safely explore and navigate when I’m away fro…
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Miami startup Subquadratic claims 1,000x AI efficiency gain with SubQ model; researchers demand independent proof.
A little-known Miami-based startup called Subquadratic emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a sweeping claim: that it has built the first large language model to fully escape the mathematical constraint that has defined — and limited — every major AI system since 2017. The compan…
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RGB Laser Projector Does Colorful Asteroids and Much More
Have you thought about building a galvonometer-based laser projector, but don’t know where to start? There are a lot of resources out there, but you could do worse than to …read more
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StarFighter 16-Inch
Article URL: https://us.starlabs.systems/pages/starfighter Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031261 Points: 460 # Comments: 228
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Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me
Article URL: https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2026-04-23/stripes-former-ombudsman-pentagon-trying-to-silence-21465037.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031769 Points: 274 # Comments: 83
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NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address
Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/05/05/nx-s1-5807918/polymarket-panama-prediction-market Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029114 Points: 251 # Comments: 130
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How Instacart Built a Search for Billions of Products
In this article, we will learn how Instacart’s search infrastructure evolved over the years and the challenges its engineering team faced.
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Earthworms Don’t Bio-Accumulate Microplastics, So There May be Hope For Us
Microplastics absolutely saturate the Earth’s environment, and that’s probably not a good thing unless you’re looking for a sediment marker for the Anthropocene period. On the other hand, environmental contamination …read more
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Defeating the [Works By Design]’s Unpickable Lock
Even though the very concept of an ‘unpickable lock’ is as plausible as making water not be wet, this doesn’t take away from the intellectual thrill of devising solutions to …read more
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Using Hamster Power to Charge a Phone
It seems fair to say that hamsters are a somewhat divisive pet, between their fluffiness, high-strung nature, short lifespan and incessant squeaking that sounds like some electronic device is trying …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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