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A South Korean Labor Union Is in Revolt Over Robots, or Maybe It’s Surrendering to Them
As Hyundai threatens automation via Boston Dynamics robots, should organized labor take the bait?
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Phone maker OnePlus says it won’t release new phones in the U.S. and Europe
OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027.
techcrunch.com
Applied Computing wants to give oil and gas operators an AI model for the entire plant
Applied Computing has raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation AI model for the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
techcrunch.com
Meta now alerts parents if their teen discussed suicide or self-harm with its AI chatbot
The updates come as Meta and other tech companies are facing scrutiny from regulators and parents around how AI chatbots respond to users in crisis, particularly teenagers.
techcrunch.com
Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says that training it against GPT-Red …
MIT Technology Review
Amazon AGI director says AI agent reliability, not capability, is blocking enterprise deployment at VB Transform 2026
The enterprise AI industry has a math problem. Cisco data shows 85% of enterprises are piloting AI agents, but only 5% have shipped them to production. At VB Transform 2026 on Tuesday, Bryan Silverthorn, Director of AGI Autonomy at Amazon, explained why that gap persists — and wh…
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International tech
Recreating 10 km/s Flight Conditions: How China JF-22 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Works
China JF-22 hypersonic wind tunnel can simulate flight at 10 km/s and 20,000K gas temperature, supporting development of hypersonic aircraft and spaceplanes for 2-hour global travel.
pandaily.com
Aurum PropTech To Acquire Housing.com For ₹458 Cr
Listed real estate tech company Aurum PropTech’s board has approved the acquisition of 100% of Locon Solutions, the company that…
inc42.com
Before it was named Ceratothoa famosa, Nico Smit’s photograph of the parasite staring from a fish’s mouth had already gone viral
Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic isopod that enters a fish through the gills, drinks the blood out of its tongue until the tongue withers away, and then attaches to the stub and spends the rest of its life acting as a functional replacement tongue — the only known case in biology o…
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The gut-sleep axis: how microbial diversity in the colon shapes how rested you feel, according to a 2019 PLOS ONE study of 40 men
A 2019 PLOS ONE study of 40 men in Nova Scotia found that the diversity of bacteria in the colon correlated with total sleep time and sleep efficiency — opening a line of research that now argues afternoon fatigue may be less about the pillow than the plate.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook and successor John Ternus meet POP MART founder Wang Ning at Apple Park
Apple CEO Tim Cook posted on Weibo today, welcoming the POP MART team to visit Apple Park, Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, California. He also shared a photo of himself with Apple’s incoming CEO John Ternus and POP MART founder Wang Ning during their meeting. This marks the se…
technode.com
China completes world’s first commercial brain-computer interface implant
China has completed the world’s first commercial surgery using an invasive brain-computer interface (BCI) device approved in March, marking a leap in the country’s neurotechnology push to rival Elon Musk’s Neuralink. Chinese surgeons implanted a coin-sized brain chip on a patient…
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China And AI Lead Asia’s Startup Funding To Multiyear Peak In Q2
Overall, investors poured $42.8 billion into startup funding rounds across all of Asia in Q2 2026, per Crunchbase data. Led by China's $7.4 billion DeepSeek raise, that’s by far the highest quarterly total in more than three years.
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Cohere VP says enterprise AI sovereignty requires control of the full agent stack at VB Transform 2026
Hundreds of enterprise leaders and technical experts packed the main ballroom of the luxurious Hotel Nia in Menlo Park this week for VB Transform 2026, the year's preeminent conference on using generative AI agents to drive business outcomes. Rachad Alao, vice president of produ…
venturebeat.com
Gurman on OpenAI’s Upcoming Hardware Product: ‘Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion’
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with users. The speaker incorporates mechanical elements that can move on their own, creating a sense that it is alive and not …
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How Microsoft Ships AI Agents at Enterprise Scale
To understand what it actually takes to ship agents at that scale, we spoke with Marco Casalaina, VP of Products for Microsoft Core AI.
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AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
bytebytego.com
Transponder Mania
In order to not hit something, you generally need to know where that thing is. On land, the meager human eyesight tends to be sufficient. On the water, however, the …read more
hackaday.com
The lost joy of music piracy
Article URL: https://www.pigeonsandplanes.com/read/music-piracy-what-cd-oink-nine-inch-nails-streaming Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48930454 Points: 407 # Comments: 252
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DOOM runs (slowly) in a IBM PC-Compatible CSS Sheet
Just when you thought we’d run out of things to port DOOM to, here comes [Ahmed Amer] with his CSS-DOS, a massive 300 MB CSS style sheet, that runs not …read more
hackaday.com
SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
Article URL: https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135 Points: 300 # Comments: 130
mort.coffee
Pinch Puts an Arduino On a USB-C Connector
Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny — especially for the amount of processing power and I/O you get. But if you need something really small, …read more
hackaday.com
Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]
Article URL: https://www.siegelendowment.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/fortune-david-siegel-open-source-ai.pdf Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927095 Points: 211 # Comments: 79
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How LLMs Learn to Be Helpful (RLHF vs DPO)
In this article, we will look at how that learning actually happens, starting with why instruction-following alone falls short, then walking through the two main methods for teaching preferences (RLHF and DPO).
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