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Apple’s New CEO Looking to Cut Jobs and Push for Faster Product Launches
John Ternus reportedly wants to make Apple leaner and faster.
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Tesla secures $30B in new credit lines as it looks to scale Cybercab, Optimus
The company says it won't draw on the new debt facilities this year, as it has already planned at least $25 billion in capital expenditures.
techcrunch.com
Making AI an asset, not an expense
When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation goes. As AI moves fro…
MIT Technology Review
Tech to Replace Animal Testing Is Almost Ready. Scientists Are Not
Seventeen years ago, cell biologist Donald Ingber and his colleagues at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering submitted a paper to the journal Science describing their model human lung. It was smaller than a USB stick and made of a clear polyme…
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a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B
EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation in a year.
techcrunch.com
The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem
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. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies being unraveled, and…
MIT Technology Review
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The open-source AI platforms vying to become China’s Hugging Face
AI model platforms ModelScope and MoArk are competing to serve Chinese-speaking developers behind the Great Firewall.
restofworld.org
[Update] AceVector IPO Closes With 4.93X Oversubscription
Update | September 29, 2026 19:55 IST Snapdeal parent AceVector’s ₹420 Cr IPO was oversubscribed 4.93X at the end of…
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Manus 2.0 Debuts Cascade Agent Harness and Cue App for Personal Agents
Manus 2.0 brings the Cascade agent harness, which cut tokens 23.2% and cost 32% in one test, and Cue, an app giving each agent its own email, phone number and wallet. A China version is in the works.
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Kimi K3.1 identifier reportedly surfaces in Moonshot API registry
Developers reportedly spotted a “kimi-k3-1” identifier in Moonshot AI’s API model registry, alongside a preview indicating a context window of up to 1 million tokens. The surfaced information also pointed to several reasoning levels, though the details have not been confirmed. Mo…
technode.com
StockGro Confidentially Files IPO Papers, Eyes Up To ₹2,500 Cr Issue
Investment advisory startup StockGro pre-filed its draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with the Securities and Exchange Board of India for…
inc42.com
The Man Who Built China’s Screen Giant Is Betting on RISC-V
Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. Wang Dongsheng has already spent one career proving that a Chinese company could compete in one of the technology industry’s most capital-intensive businesses. In 1993, he led the creation of…
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GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-sol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896586 Points: 817 # Comments: 748
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Tcl/Tk 9.1
Article URL: https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/tcltk/9.1.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896712 Points: 247 # Comments: 90
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The Deep Magic of 3D Graphics Perspective
Many of us of a certain age will have had their first true, good 3D video game experience with Super Mario 64. Unlike previous 3D games, the camera was an …read more
hackaday.com
Dots: Always-on agents
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/introducing-dots/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896604 Points: 477 # Comments: 357
openai.com
Designing a Fully 3D-Printed Mechanical Calculator
Even if almost tragically impractical in a world where digital calculators are cheap as chips, mechanical calculators and their big mechanical computer brethren remain an absolute marvel of engineering. Using …read more
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Improved Double-Sided Toner Transfer Method
In the era before PCB shops would make almost any PCB imaginable, as well making many other manufacturing processes for prototypes available to hobbyists, there were several ways of making …read more
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Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
Article URL: https://github.com/ninjahawk/livenerf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49901736 Points: 306 # Comments: 134
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Why Do LLMs Lie?
In this article, we will look at why this problem of hallucinations happens with LLMs and the techniques that can help make LLMs more dependable for answering.
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DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/09/draftkings-using-ai-supercharge-harms-online-behavioral-advertising Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49896050 Points: 531 # Comments: 378
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