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Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”
Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do, and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient. There’s often a gap between one per…
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Google releases three new Gemini models — but no 3.5 Pro
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.
techcrunch.com
Threads rolls out parental supervision tools
With the new tools, parents and guardians will be able to view their teen's time spent on Threads, set daily time limits, adjust sleep mode, and manage their privacy settings.
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Dell Technologies Capital: How To Build A Deep-Tech Startup For A Market That Isn’t Ready Yet And Why AI Won’t Kill SaaS
In this interview with Crunchbase News, Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he doesn’t believe the business model is headed for extinction, why he thinks distribution may ultimately separate the winners from th…
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Ryan Reynolds Confirms a New ‘Deadpool’ Movie Is in the Works
The actor dropped the expected news during an appearance at Fanatics Fest.
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Iran Claims It ‘Destroyed’ Amazon’s Central Data Infrastructure In Bahrain
This marks the fifth time Iranian forces have claimed to target Amazon facilities in the Middle East.
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XPENG releases TuringViT for smart driving and humanoid robots
XPENG has published TuringViT, a vision encoder for vision-language and vision-language-action models used in smart driving, smart cockpit systems and its IRON humanoid robot program. XPENG offers TuringViT-18L and TuringViT-24L. At 1536×1536 resolution, the company says TuringVi…
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Zhipu shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips
Shares of Chinese AI giant Z.ai soared 37 per cent in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 (US$155), after the company recently completed a giant data centre powered entirely by Chinese chips. Also known as Zhipu, the firm’s share prices rebounded after a week-long drop of m…
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Scientists spent decades treating Olympus Mons as a dead volcano, a frozen relic three times the height of Everest that stopped erupting long ago, until they found morning frost on its summit and signs that something below is still pushing it higher
Olympus Mons on Mars is 22 kilometres tall and 600 kilometres wide, with slopes so shallow that a person standing on it would see only flat ground to the horizon. The geometry of the largest volcano in the solar system defeats human perception.
siliconcanals.com
E2E Networks Reports ₹44 Cr Profit In Q1, Revenue Zooms 3.3X YoY
AI cloud provider E2E Networks posted a net profit of ₹43.9 Cr in the first quarter of FY27 as against…
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In 1887, a Scottish veterinarian named John Boyd Dunlop watched his son bounce painfully along a cobbled path on a tricycle and glued strips of rubber into a tube of air around the wheels that night, because the boy had complained of headaches from the ride — and the pneumatic tyre he improvised in his garden was working on Belfast streets within a year
How a Scottish vet's improvised rubber tube — built in a Belfast garden shed to stop his son's cycling headaches in 1887 — became the passive suspension system every wheeled vehicle on Earth still uses.
siliconcanals.com
Many people assume those who build powerful AI must grasp how it thinks, but in an important sense they cannot: even a model’s own creators often cannot fully explain why it gave one answer rather than another
The architects of AI's most powerful systems face a humbling limitation: they cannot fully explain their own creations' reasoning, even when they understand every line of code.
siliconcanals.com

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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
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Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-6-flash-3-5-flash-lite-3-5-flash-cyber/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48993414 Points: 358 # Comments: 286
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Java Ring Restored After Nearly 30 Years
Back in the late 90s when absolutely everybody knew that Java was going to become the one programming language to rule them all, the Java Ring was handed out to …read more
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Postal IRCs are Almost a Thing of the Past
Have you ever found out that something you remember from your youth is now gone, and you didn’t even notice? If you are a certain age, you might feel that …read more
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Incremental – A library for incremental computations
Article URL: https://github.com/janestreet/incremental Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987822 Points: 319 # Comments: 60
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Tired of xargs?
What if you want to do something in Linux for a lot of files? [Numerator] was tired of using xarg and other ways to handle this job and created bashumerate. …read more
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20 FPS on E-Paper Display Without Help
If electronic paper displays have one downside, it’s generally refresh rate. Earlier versions of the tech might only have been able to do single-digit frames per second, while modern, mid-range …read more
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Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
https://archive.ph/20260720174223/https://asia.nikkei.com/bu... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863 Points: 328 # Comments: 224
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Giving Resin 3D Printers Another Shot After Six Years
My initial experience with a 3D printer came in 2020, when I got access to a buddy’s Creality LD-002R SLA printer. This was one of those awkward transition phases for …read more
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