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Etched fields funding offers at $40B+ valuation, sources say
Just a couple of months after its last big raise, the AI chip startup is already being plied with investment offers at double or more its current value, sources tell TechCrunch.
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Ternus and Cook Tweet Brief Remembrances on the 15th Anniversary of Steve Jobs’s Death
John Ternus, posting on X: The way Steve taught us to care about every detail, every experience, every person, still guides our work today. Forever grateful. Tim Cook, also on X (with a photo I don’t recall seeing before): There are people who leave a mark on the world, and then …
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Steve Jobs, Walking Through a Mockup for Apple Park in 2010
What an apt photo, today of all days. What a gift Make Something Wonderful is.  ★
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Utah Pilots AI-Only Examination and Prescription Process for Certain Patients
No human doctor involved.
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OpenAI Announces Their Text Watermarking Plans
OpenAI, today: The EU AI Act requires generative AI providers to make generated text identifiable in a machine-readable way. Text watermarking and detection remain early technologies with significant limitations, and views about their benefits and responsible uses are still devel…
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After Factory’s public spat with Khosla, Menlo proudly invests
Days after Vinod Khosla called Factory a struggling also-ran, Menlo has shown up with a check and a glowing blog post.
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International tech
Founder Salaries Tracker FY26: How Much Did India’s Startup Founders Earn?
Sixteen founders across 10 new-age tech companies earned a combined ₹43.4 Cr in fixed remuneration in FY26, up 8.2% from…
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RentoMojo Q1: Profit Tanks 39% YoY To ₹7.8 Cr, Revenue Zooms 51%
In its first financial disclosure after becoming a listed entity, furniture and appliance rental startup RentoMojo’s consolidated net profit tanked…
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The AI boom is making the world’s cheapest smartphones disappear
AI data centers are driving demand for memory chips, pushing phone makers to raise prices and abandon some of their most affordable models.
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Marico Acquires Additional Stake In Plix For ₹1,012 Cr, To Complete Buyout By July 2027
Marico has acquired an additional 24.09% stake in plant-based nutrition and personal care brand Plix for ₹1,012.03 Cr in an…
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Zimbabwe banks on India’s UPI to speed up transactions, lower costs
Zimbabwe is in active talks with NPCI International to build its payments infrastructure on UPI. A deal could close by October 31 — which would make it the first Sub-Saharan African country to adopt UPI. Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, la…
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POWERCHINA Connects 1-GW Gonghe Solar PV and Molten-Salt Tower Project in Qinghai to the Grid
POWERCHINA's Gonghe project in Qinghai, pairing 900 MW of PV with a 100 MW molten-salt tower plant and 10,310 heliostats, is on the grid, completing China's first three-tower solar thermal base.
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Crunchbase Data: Q3 2026 Posted A Record Count Of Billion-Dollar Rounds As The Global AI Race Heats Up
Global venture funding totaled $159 billion in Q3 2026 with close to 6,000 startups funded, Crunchbase data shows. And while the third quarter was the lowest for startup investment so far this year, it still exceeded every other quarter since Q2 2022. We take a look at where the …
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Lucid Motors’ EV output falls to lowest level in almost 2 years
The company is deliberately limiting production after years of struggling to find mass-market demand for its EVs.
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[Sponsor] Sunnny
How can B2B software be so friggin’ delicious? Early access drops 10/19. Spread the love.  ★
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US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/05/russia-lab-worker-possibly-dies-of-plague-siberia-quarantine-measures-irkutsk Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49967444 Points: 208 # Comments: 221
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Ambition, Thy Name is a 3D Printed Transonic R/C Jet
Building anything that flies from scratch is an ambitious undertaking, even if it’s ‘just’ radio-controlled. 3D printing the aircraft isn’t that odd these days, but putting a hot jet engine …read more
hackaday.com
ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Article URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chatgpt-is-adding-real-cartoonists-signatures-to-fake-new-yorker-cartoons/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971846 Points: 336 # Comments: 237
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3D-Printed Filter Removes Most Microplastics From Water
With the rise of synthetic polymers in everywhere from clothing, packaging and beyond, we have also seen a corresponding rise in fragments of these polymers in the environment. These micro- …read more
hackaday.com
EP228: How SSH Works
Secure shell is a method to access a remote machine securely over an unsecured network. It starts with a TCP connection from the SSH client to the remote machine (SSH server).
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Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
Article URL: https://reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49969183 Points: 361 # Comments: 107
reflection.ai
How to Grow a Giant Crystal from Copper Sulfate
Copper sulfate crystals are probably among one of the prettiest crystals you can grow at home, with even just a simple setup with some copper scrap and vinegar already capable …read more
hackaday.com
How A British Engineer Homebrewed The Quietest Carbine
Hollywood has a lot to answer for when it comes to “silencers” on firearms. On screen, a suppressed pistol makes a pinging thud, and the bad guy in the next …read more
hackaday.com
The LLM Blindspot: Why Models Forget What’s in the Middle of Your Prompt
In this article, we’ll look at why LLMs have this bias against middle information.
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