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Apple Intelligence OK’d to Launch in China, Using AI Models from Baidu and Alibaba
Ben Jiang, reporting from Beijing for the South China Morning Post: Chinese regulators have granted Apple a long-awaited licence to roll out its artificial intelligence service on iPhones in the country, with Alibaba Group Holding and Baidu serving as technical partners. The Cybe…
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Microsoft is reportedly training salespeople to talk down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.
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Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship'
Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual private clouds have a strong new contender to consider. Today, Thinking Machines—the highly capitalized American AI startup founded …
venturebeat.com
NTSB Confirms Texas Tesla Had 100% Floored Accelerator Pedal During Fatal Crash
In a way, this exonerates Tesla FSD. But it certainly leaves one with questions.
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The Download: a useful quantum machine and a record-breaking subsea tunnel
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. PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that lo…
MIT Technology Review
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…
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Exclusive: AI Sales Intelligence Startup Reo.Dev Raises $11.3 Mn To Expand In US
AI-powered sales intelligence startup Reo.Dev has raised $11.3 Mn (about ₹109 Cr) in a Series A funding round led by…
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Laundry Startup Quick Clean Raises ₹133 Cr To Expand Its Footprint
Institutional laundry startup Quick Clean has raised ₹133 Cr (about $14 Mn) in a Series B funding round led by…
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In 1936, a British mathematician named Alan Turing published a 36-page paper on a machine that didn’t exist — an imaginary tape reader that could compute anything computable — and every processor on Earth today is a physical descendant of the abstract device he sketched to settle a question about mathematical logic
In 1936, a 23-year-old Cambridge graduate student named Alan Turing published a 36-page paper describing an imaginary tape reader to settle a question in mathematical logic — and inadvertently defined what a computer is.
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Psychology suggests memory is not a recording but a story we rebuild each time: in one experiment, a quarter of people came to ‘remember’ being lost in a mall as a child — an event that never happened
Picture a memory you are sure of. Not a fuzzy one, a solid one. Say a childhood scene where you got separated from your parents in a big shop, felt that cold drop in your stomach, and then a stranger or a shop assistant brought you back. You can almost see the aisle. You remember…
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Xiaomi introduces Xiaomi-Robotics-U0 for embodied AI and robot generation
Xiaomi on Wednesday unveiled Xiaomi-Robotics-U0, a 38-billion-parameter multimodal autoregressive foundation model for embodied AI. The company said the model unifies four core capabilities within a single framework: embodied scene generation, embodied transfer, robot interaction…
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Psychology suggests we don’t reason toward truth so much as defend what we already believe: we seek out the facts that confirm us and quietly wave away the rest — the ‘confirmation bias’ baked into how we think
In 1998, a Tufts psychologist named Raymond Nickerson published a long review article pulling together decades of scattered experiments under one heading. The title called confirmation bias a ubiquitous phenomenon in many guises. What he described was a habit most of us would rec…
siliconcanals.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
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
China Just Performed the World’s First Implant of a Commercial Brain-Computer Interface
The device, called NEO, records neuronal activity and translates it to movements made by a metal glove worn by a patient.
gizmodo.com

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Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/news/introducing-inkling/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924912 Points: 896 # Comments: 220
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Grok Build is open source
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FLOSS Weekly Episode 875: JavaScript as a Systems Language
This week Jonathan chats with Nariman Jelveh about Puter! It’s the project that takes the idea of the Browser-as-the-OS seriously. Why did a simulated desktop on the web take off, …read more
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Why I Left Google DeepMind
Article URL: https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925271 Points: 317 # Comments: 156
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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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Collection of Digital Clock Designs
Article URL: https://clocks.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923380 Points: 222 # Comments: 40
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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
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Cut And Fold Your 3D Printer’s Next Cover
[cmh]’s ultra-simple top cover for the Snapmaker U1 3D printer has a 3D model, but don’t let that fool you. There’s no 3D printing at all involved in this project. Rather, …read more
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SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions
Article URL: https://mort.coffee/home/sqlite-editions/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928135 Points: 219 # Comments: 80
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