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What is Mistral AI? Everything to know about the OpenAI competitor
Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”
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The Disturbing Truth About How Extreme Heat Affects the Body
Much of the U.S. is grappling with severely high temperatures and choking humidity this week. Here's what that means for your health.
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The only AI glossary you’ll need this year
The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.
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Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
As part of an ongoing legal dispute with three Hollywood studios, Midjourney is seeking to compel those studios to reveal how they use AI themselves.
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Anime Expo’s World Premiere of ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2’ Absolutely Ruled
CD Projekt RED and TRIGGER's return to Night City's volatile world shows signs of capturing lightning twice in its premiere episode alone ahead of the anime's Netflix release this fall.
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Trunk Tools' stack cut document review from 60 days to 10 by ditching general-purpose models
Most verticals aren’t clean, well-oiled SaaS databases; the reality is ugly documents, proprietary schemas, implicit workflows, and long‑running tasks that most general-purpose models struggle with. This prompted construction project management company Trunk Tools to build a spe…
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We tend to think using AI well is a technical skill, but the evidence from early adopters suggests it is almost entirely a clarity skill — the people getting extraordinary results are simply unusually clear about what outcome they are actually after
We tend to treat being good at AI as a technical skill, something to do with clever prompts, the right settings and a stock of secret phrases. Watch the people who actually get extraordinary results from these tools, though, and a different pattern shows up. They are rarely the m…
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Anthropic restores Claude Fable 5 after US lifts export controls
Anthropic has restored global access to its flagship Claude Fable 5 AI… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Thought of the day by Helen Mirren: “You die young or you get old. There’s nothing in between.”
For most of human history, the average person did not live to see their thirty-fifth birthday. As late as 1900, the global average life expectancy was around 32 years. Getting old — the thing people now complain about, dread, spend fortunes trying to slow — is, in demographic ter…
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New-Age Tech Stocks Rally On Improving Investor Sentiment; WeWork, ixigo Lead Gains
New-age tech stocks surged this week, driven by improving investor sentiment. Thirty nine out of the 57 new-age tech companies…
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From Gigabit to 10-Gigabit: Huawei AI-FAN Architecture Drives Broadband Home Upgrade
Huawei unveils AI-FAN architecture for home broadband, targeting the shift from gigabit to 10-gigabit connectivity with AI-powered network intelligence.
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Psychologist Carl Rogers suggested the good life is not a state you arrive at but a direction you keep choosing, not a fixed self to defend, but a process of becoming, whether you cling to who you have been or keep opening to who you are becoming
I have caught myself, more than once, defending a version of me that had already moved on. Something in the way I described what I do, or what I care about, or what I am no longer willing to try, would be a year or two out of date the moment I said it out ... Read more
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The bottleneck might be the air in the room
Article URL: https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783117 Points: 677 # Comments: 382
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Five Solar Air Heating Methods Tested
For as good as solar panels are at converting sunlight directly into usable electricity, especially for how cheap they’re becoming, they can still only gather around 20-30% of the energy …read more
hackaday.com
Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785485 Points: 226 # Comments: 112
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Warp Point: a Web Ring for Gaming Sites Built for 2026
At one point in time web rings were one of the best ways to find content on the World Wide Web — involving not just a directory of participating sites, …read more
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Multi-Region Architecture: Going Global Without Going Broke
When an application grows geographically, it is logical to start serving it from a second region to improve latency and availability.
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Proof of Human: How to Verify a Person Is Real and Unique
For this article we spoke with the team behind World, including Tiago Sada and Lily Gordon at Tools for Humanity, on how they try to solve this problem.
bytebytego.com
Time Never Moves Slowly With This Clock
A clock is by its very nature a device for measuring time, and thus it moves forward at a constant rate. But how about in a theatrical setting, where time …read more
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Maybe you should learn something
Article URL: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782435 Points: 366 # Comments: 170
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Yesterday’s Technology, Re-engineered Today
Watching [sprite_tm]’s build of a handheld 486-based gaming computer, we got to thinking about retro computers and the eternal questions of how much of the computer needs to be actually …read more
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