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The AI compute gap: Enterprises are buying infrastructure faster than they can measure what it costs
Across 107 enterprises, AI infrastructure spending is accelerating well ahead of the ability to see or steer its economics. Most organizations run their AI on a familiar base of hyperscalers and model-provider APIs, yet the next dollar is aimed at specialized compute almost none …
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The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, …
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Founders Fund hires former OpenAI exec Ryan Beiermeister (and not because of her ‘Mafia’ skills)
Ryan Beiermeister, who demonstrated cool analysis in the Founders Fund YouTube series "Mafia," has joined the firm as a partner.
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‘Symbol’ Is a Surreal Escape Room Trip Better Experienced Than Explained
Hitoshi Matsumoto's esoteric 2009 film invites you to leave your sanity at the door it won't let you escape from.
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OpenAI Releases Codex Micro, a Stupid $230 Hardware Keypad
Remember back in March when then-co-CEO Fidji Simo announced to the company that “We cannot miss this moment because we are distracted by side quests”? And then weeks later they spent “low hundreds of millions” to purchase the TBPN YouTube show? In their continuing effort to focu…
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Google Vids now lets you star in your own AI videos
Google is adding personalized AI avatars to Vids that let users create videos starring a digital version of themselves, alongside Gemini Omni-powered tools for generating and editing videos from prompts and reference images.
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Eye Security, founded by former Dutch intelligence-service employees, raised €60 million to build a “sovereign” European cyber defense — and two of its backers are American
A cybersecurity firm built by former employees of the Dutch intelligence services raised €60 million to sell “sovereign” European security — but part of the money behind it is American, a useful reminder of what the label does and does not mean.
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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…
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Two men are each called the inventor of email: one chose the @ sign between two computers in 1971, the other wrote a program he named EMAIL as a 14-year-old in 1978, and the fight over whose claim counts ended up in a federal courtroom
In late 1971, Ray Tomlinson wheeled his chair between two PDP-10 mainframes at BBN in Cambridge and sent the first message between computers on ARPANET, choosing the @ symbol because no one's name would ever contain it.
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Most of what you do all day runs on habit, not choice — but a new study found the habits are usually working for you, not against you
Researchers tracked 105 people six times a day for a week. About two-thirds of what they did was triggered by habit, and nearly nine in ten actions were carried out on autopilot. The surprise wasn't the size of the autopilot — it was how often the automatic thing and the intended…
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Kimi K3 Preview: Benchmark Videos Flood Social Media as Moonshot AI New Model Approaches Fable 5 Level
Moonshot AI mysterious Kivine model appears on Arena benchmark, with user tests showing K3 rivaling Fable 5 in video generation detail and animation smoothness.
pandaily.com
WeWork Back In The Red In Q1 FY27, Reports ₹4 Cr Loss
Coworking giant WeWork India slipped into the red in the first quarter (Q1) of fiscal year 2026-27 (FY27), reporting a…
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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.
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Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
https://www.kimi.com/en Kimi K3 Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/kimi-k3 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342 Points: 871 # Comments: 525
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Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them
Article URL: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/15/sony-deletes-a-bunch-more-movies-from-the-accounts-of-people-who-bought-them/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933419 Points: 547 # Comments: 335
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Hackaday Europe 2026 – Build A Cable Modem For Your Arduino
Even for those of us that are quite technically minded, we spend precious little time thinking about the cables that carry our signals and do all the important work we …read more
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SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading
Article URL: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-07-16/spacex-stock-erases-gains-slides-below-ipo-price-in-intraday-trading Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933344 Points: 281 # Comments: 254
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936426 Points: 427 # Comments: 96
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Even Chemical Bonds Obey Einstein’s Relativity
Although Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is typically associated with really large and really heavy things like planets in solar systems and big things in universes in general, it turns out …read more
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Decoy Font
Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 Points: 300 # Comments: 80
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GOES-19 Goes Down, NOAA Investigating
Some breaking news from geostationary orbit, as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that its newest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) satellite unexpectedly went offline last night, …read more
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