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Your AI Strategy May Be Destroying Your Exit Value
While integrating AI into a startup's product strategy is often viewed as a way to enhance valuation, it can inadvertently reduce exit value, argues tech strategic adviser Itay Sagie. In this guest commentary he shares three ways your AI strategy can provide a positive impact on …
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Hark previews its browser use agent for completing tasks
Hark claims that its browser use agent is faster and cheaper than competition.
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Apple Seeks Preliminary Injunction Against OpenAI in Trade Secrets Case
Reuters: Apple on Monday asked a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction barring two former employees ​and OpenAI from accessing, acquiring, using or disclosing alleged confidential information as it moves ahead with its trade secrets case. [...] The iPhone maker also filed a con…
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It’s So Hot That Japan’s Human Refrigerators Are Actually Racking Up Sales
In the future, you will get in the human refrigerator and you'll like it.
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The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs
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. NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids   At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Sp…
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As Gen Z reconsiders dating apps, Tinder’s IRL events expand to dozens more cities
Tinder is expanding its in-person events feature from an initial Los Angeles test to 26 cities worldwide by the end of September.
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International tech
Tencent rolls out Hy3 in WorkBuddy’s international edition with limited-time free access
Tencent has integrated its Hy3 large language model into the international edition of WorkBuddy, marking the model’s first rollout in the global version of the AI workspace. Users worldwide can access Hy3 at no cost through Aug. 31, 2026, Pacific Time, under a limited-time offer.…
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The people who remember every song lyric from their teenage years but can’t remember what they did last Tuesday aren’t losing their memory, they’re revealing which decade of their life their brain decided was worth encoding in the highest resolution
Our brains aren't failing us in old age—they're revealing which chapters of our lives we deemed worth preserving in crystalline detail.
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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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China’s AI revenue projected to reach US$13b on breakthroughs, adoption: Goldman Sachs
Rising cost efficiency and rapidly advancing capabilities from players like DeepSeek and MiniMax have prompted Goldman Sachs to raise its run-rate revenue forecast for China’s artificial intelligence model market by 30 per cent to US$13 billion. In a research note published on Mo…
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China's Optical Modules, PCBs, and Domestic AI Chips: A Day in the Market
Broker views from Nomura and Citi see limited damage from a hypothetical US optical-module ban, while Macquarie raised Biren Technology's target price 4.5x on new GPU wins and rising domestic chip ASPs.
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Exclusive: AC Maker Optimist In Talks To Raise $10 Mn From TDK Ventures
Delhi NCR-based cooling solutions startup Optimist is in talks to raise about $10 Mn in a fresh funding round from…
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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
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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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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: 481 # Comments: 253
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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: 307 # Comments: 70
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Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking
Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-civilian-plane-crashed-in-new-mexico-was-the-militarys-tech-to-blame/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49181099 Points: 302 # Comments: 142
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996 Points: 201 # Comments: 107
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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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How Big Models Teach Small Models to Be Smart
In this article, we will walk through the idea from the ground up.
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Cell Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System
Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems. There were options for three-way and conference calls out there, but by and large the plain old telephone system was …read more
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