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The Download: 10 climate tech companies to watch

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. 10 climate tech companies to watch Each year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of the most promising climate tech companies in the w…

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Apple is reportedly partnering with LG to launch a smart lock, thermostat, and doorbell

Apple appears poised to push into the smart home market with a slate of new devices and a key partner.

How to find out if Amazon thinks you have ‘flat buttocks’

"I stumbled upon a page of assumptions that Amazon has made about me based on my purchases and I’m literally speechless," one shopper wrote on Threads.

We Finally Know What Mike Flanagan’s New ‘Exorcist’ Is About

'The Exorcist: Martyrs,' starring Scarlett Johansson, opens March 12, 2027.

We Asked Starbucks Why Their ‘Sugar-Free’ Drinks Have Sugar and Now We’re Just More Confused

There's a big difference between "sugar free" and "no added sugar."

Happy IEEE Day!

Happy IEEE Day 2026! IEEE Day is an annual event that celebrates the first time in history when engineers worldwide gathered to share their technical ideas in 1884. One of the IEEE Day’s objectives is to show the ways IEEE members, in local communities, join together to collabora…

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International tech

BAQIS and CAS Physics Ship 2000 uW Modular Dilution Fridge Below 10 mK for Quantum Chips

BAQIS and the CAS Institute of Physics report a modular cryogen-free dilution refrigerator prototype that holds dual modules below 10 mK with roughly doubled cooling power.

The Case For Evals In A Multi-Model World

Another day and another new model grabs the limelight. Product teams scramble to see how it can be used for…

Tencent Rolls Out a Wave of Vertical AI Agents, From CraftBuddy to MusicBuddy, Inside Its Own Apps

Between July and September Tencent launched around eight vertical AI agents, each built into an existing business, from game creation and music to meetings and freelance matching.

byteXL Raises $9 Mn To Take Tech, AI Skilling To More Engineering Colleges

Hyderabad-based B2B edtech startup byteXL has raised $9 Mn (about ₹86.7 Cr) in a funding round led by Elevar Equity,…

Shanghai AI Lab Open-Sources Intern-Decision, Small Models That Output Decisions, Not Text

Shanghai AI Lab's Intern-Decision comes in 0.8B, 2B and 4B sizes and returns choices, scores and yes/no answers with probabilities; MetaX shipped Day-0 support.

As China’s AI race accelerates, ‘model fatigue’ becomes the next challenge

On September 22, the global artificial intelligence landscape spun on its axis within a matter of hours. In Beijing, Xiaomi engineers went live with an unusual broadcast, streaming the training run of their new MiMo-V2.6 model. In San Francisco, Anthropic unveiled its frontier Op…

WeLion New Energy and its semi-solid-state batteries

WeLion New Energy is on a quest to make safer, better batteries. The company’s semi-solid-state cells could improve safety and offer greater energy density than lithium-ion batteries to power electric cars, boats, and drones. From the EVs that carry commuters home to the ships th…

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Ex-Ramp engineers raise $20M for platform Melius after scrapping their first product

Instead of helping marketers manage and optimize ad spend, the company is focusing on building the tools that generate the creative assets and campaigns.

Crunchbase Data Shows AI’s Most Active Startups Are Becoming Serial Acquirers

Some of the AI industry’s fastest-growing startups are becoming serial acquirers, buying smaller companies to fill product gaps, enter new markets and bring specialized teams in-house, a review of Crunchbase data shows. While AI giant OpenAI is by far the busiest of these buyers,…

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AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)

Article URL: https://github.com/boykopovar/AnyPS5 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985664 Points: 227 # Comments: 174

Last 3 days: AI Evals, October cohort

Secure your spot in AI Evals in Practice. Enrollment closes in just 3 days! If you’ve been thinking about joining, now’s the time.

Decisions API is in public beta

Article URL: https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/guides/decisions Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984025 Points: 260 # Comments: 118

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SmallTV Hacking With Surprisingly Little Fuss

We’ve seen the GeekMagic SmallTV line of devices before — these cheap gadgets combine a microcontroller and a display in a little plastic case that can be used to show …read more

Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/paramount-completes-111b-warner-merger-creating-skydance-behemoth/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983703 Points: 228 # Comments: 377

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OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

Article URL: https://github.com/FeSens/openTPU Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49980715 Points: 278 # Comments: 334

Don’t Worry, This R/C Airship is Supposed To Be On Fire

We’ve had a lot of flying hacks here over the years, and that includes just about any way to get airborne you can think of — but very few of …read more

Scientists Create Hexagonal Packed Ice at Extreme Pressures

One of the problems with planetary science is that you generally cannot easily investigate the exact conditions in their interior, so you’re left to extrapolate what is happening inside them …read more

Upgrading An iPhone Lens To The Max

The camera in a typical mobile phone is now at a standard at which it can be considered a serious device rather than a toy, such has been the effort …read more