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Indian EV startup River raises $120M Series C to scale production, launch more models
River plans to build a new factory, launch additional models from 2027, and target profitability as it scales production.
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‘Nobody Wanted to Give A Former Principal Money’: How An Educator Built An Edtech AI Startup With $63M From VCs
Founded by an educator fascinated by the educational potential of ChatGPT, MagicSchool AI leads off a series of articles featuring startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies.
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Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient
Mitti Labs plans to expand beyond India and enter the Philippines and Indonesia while growing its carbon credits and agricultural data business.
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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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MacPaw taps Liquid AI to offer on-device inference to devs building for its app store
MacPaw is building a local version of its AI assistant Eney using Liquid AI's models.
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Former ‘Doctor Who’ Showrunner Says the BBC ‘Can’t Afford’ the Series
Henry Cavill confirms he has a role in the live-action 'Warhammer 40,000' TV series.
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International tech
China’s Moonshot AI aims for US$50b round as year-end Hong Kong IPO targeted: sources
Chinese unicorn Moonshot AI has started and is expected to close its latest financing round by the end of this month, as it dismantles its offshore structure to pave the way for a potential Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) as early as the end of the year, according to two …
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The Next Hundred-Billion-Dollar Robot Battlefield May Be the Kitchen
Capital, home-appliance giants, and humanoid-robot startups are all converging on the Chinese commercial kitchen, with one industry projection putting the AI cooking-robot market above 109.6 billion yuan by 2030.
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Tracxn Reports ₹3 Cr Loss In Q1, Revenue Flat At ₹21 Cr
Market intelligence platform Tracxn reported its fourth consecutive loss-making quarter, reporting a net loss of ₹3 Cr in the June…
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When Quantum Meets AI: Six Academicians Chart a New Blueprint for Smart Computing
At the 5th CCF Quantum Computing Conference in Shenzhen, six CAS and CAE academicians outlined a national road map for AI-enabled quantum error correction and a unified quantum-supercomputing-AI infrastructure.
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Tencent Expands International Access to Flagship Hy3 Model, Offers Free WorkBuddy Access Until Aug 31
Tencent rolls out its flagship Hy3 LLM internationally via WorkBuddy, Tencent Design Miora, and TokenHub — free on WorkBuddy until Aug 31, 2026.
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Psychology says people who say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ without thinking twice usually learned it so early and so thoroughly that politeness stopped being manners and became something closer to instinct, like breathing out before breathing in
The politeness reflex reveals something surprising: the manners we think we choose are actually hardwired from childhood, automatic as breathing.
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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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Thanks FedEx, This Is Why We Keep Getting Phished (2024)
Article URL: https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175192 Points: 313 # Comments: 77
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Polystyrene Foam can be Gasoline With Some Help
Styrofoam – or closed-cell extruded polystyrene (XPS) foam if you want to be precise – is one of those materials that is both super versatile for packaging and insulation, but …read more
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Could Camera Hardware Be The Physical Equivalent to USB-C?
[Mansour] presents an interesting idea in his essay A Common Thread — just as USB-C has become the “One Connector To Rule Them All” in the world of electronics, so …read more
hackaday.com
Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
Article URL: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3807963 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176830 Points: 254 # Comments: 210
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Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Article URL: https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176038 Points: 451 # Comments: 224
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libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
Article URL: https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/libexpat-city-of-munich-open-source-sabbatical/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49176606 Points: 306 # Comments: 66
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AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
https://www.interpol.int/Media/Documents/Publications/Cyberc... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175826 Points: 273 # Comments: 217
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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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