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Why R&D Waste Persists Despite Widespread AI Adoption
This report examines R&D waste and how AI adoption has outpaced the intelligence needed to make consequential decisions well. What Attendees will Learn Where R&D budget is lost. More than a third of organizations spend 25 to 40 percent of their R&D budget on projects that never …
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AI coding agents are blowing through budgets — Replit, Kilo Code, and Symbotic explain how they're managing it
At Kilo Code, engineers are reading or writing code themselves only about 1% of the time now, according to co-founder Emilie Schario — the rest is agents. That shift is forcing new questions onto dev teams: which systems are safe to hand over, who cleans up when models goof up, h…
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Texas Pauses New Data Center Projects Looking to Connect to the State’s Grid
Gov. Greg Abbott directed regulators to audit data center projects seeking to connect to the grid amid growing backlash.
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Destin Daniel Cretton Is as Bummed as You Are That ‘Wonder Man’ Isn’t Coming Back
The director of 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' was a producer and director on the Marvel Disney+ show.
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[Sponsor] MCP vs. REST: The Right Way to Connect Agents to Your API
REST serves the developers building against your API. MCP serves the agents now trying to use it. Most teams treat these as competing standards and have to pick one. They’re not rivals, they’re layers: most MCP servers just call REST internally to do the real work. The best ones …
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SpaceX doubles revenue on Anthropic and Google compute deals, Starlink growth
SpaceX doubled its revenue compared to last year, according to its first quarterly earnings since going public in June.
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Between Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4: Why Native Multimodal Capability Defines the Next Phase of Chinese Frontier Models
Moonshot AI Kimi K3, Alibaba Qwen3.8-Max, and ByteDance Doubao-Seed-2.1 commit to native multimodal training while DeepSeek, Zhipu, and Tencent Hunyuan stay text-only as vision-in-the-loop becomes decisive for long agent tasks.
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Embodied-AI startup PaXini raises RMB1 billion to scale tactile-sensing technology
PaXini has completed a RMB1 billion strategic funding round, bringing its cumulative fundraising to RMB3.5 billion, the company said on Aug. 3. The new round was jointly led by an unnamed global consumer electronics and semiconductor group, BOC International Investment, Kunpeng F…
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We treat happiness as one thing, a good mood to maximise, but psychologists find it splits in two: the pleasant feeling of getting what you want, and the deeper sense that your life means something, and it is the second that lasts once the pleasure fades
The pursuit of feeling good and the search for meaning are not the same thing—and only one of them survives the initial rush.
siliconcanals.com
Elevation Capital Offloads Paytm Shares Worth ₹2,038 Cr
Venture capital firm Elevation Capital today offloaded Paytm shares worth ₹2,038 Cr via multiple bulk and block deals.  As per…
inc42.com
Wukong Disappears Four Months After Launch: Alibaba Consolidates Into Qianwen Office Public Beta as Big Tech Races to Integrate AI Work Into Single Unified Agent Products
Alibaba Qianwen Office opens public beta integrating QoderWork, Wukong, and MuleRun, as the four-month Wukong cycle shows AI office competition moving beyond single agents.
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Productivity advice usually starts after the plan is made, but decades of research suggest many missed deadlines begin earlier, with an optimistic estimate of how long the work will take
The estimates we make before starting work shape everything that follows—yet we're terrible at making them accurately.
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Show HN: Simple algorithm and color space to generate diverse skin tones
Hello HN! I found that picking out plausible but diverse skin tones for my digital art and game development projects was kind of difficult, and I got curious about if there was a way to define a color space that made it easy. I've built a color picker and procedural generation al…
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Un Ordinateur Pour Le Minitel-1 (A Computer For The Minitel-1)
In the 1980s, France was the stage for one of the boldest public computing projects of the era. Minitel was the French take on viewdata, and instead of making it …read more
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Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/apple-says-more-ex-employees-may-have-taken-confidential-data-to-openai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170479 Points: 259 # Comments: 198
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Strengthening 3D Prints with a Carbon-Fiber Epidermis
As strong and light as carbon fiber-epoxy composites are, the same can’t always be said of carbon-fiber reinforced 3D printer filaments. Of those that do improve over stock filament, the …read more
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LLM Security Basics: The Full Threat Model
In this article, we try to build a map of the full attack surface that threatens an LLM’s security.
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In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years
Article URL: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/08/in-memory-of-my-wife-elise-cawley-1961-2026-with-thanks-for-36-wonderful-years/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49173165 Points: 285 # Comments: 14
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BornHack Radio 102.8 FM, Playing Radio At A Hacker Camp
Over the years I have been to many hacker camps and done a lot of very cool things, but BornHack 2026 brought me something entirely new: Radio. By which I …read more
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At Last! CP/M for Protected Mode
If you used a serious computer pre-IBM PC, there was a fair chance its operating system was CP/M. CP/M was a staple among 8080 and Z80 computers and while there …read more
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Why An LLM’s Memory Gets Expensive and How to Fix It
In this article, we will learn how LLMs use memory, how it gets expensive, and how to fix it.
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