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Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn’t.
AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.
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Rivian spinoff Also to start delivering e-bikes after months of delays
Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a "vehicle" company and has plans to make four-wheel pedal-assist cargo vehicles for Amazon.
techcrunch.com
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals
Another week, another bevy of big rounds. The largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia-backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe Superintelligence, followed by a $1 billion investment in Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
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How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud
The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need? Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing…
venturebeat.com
Flock Cameras Got the Wrong License Plate 71% of the Time in California City
Good thing we're passing along so much responsibility to these systems.
gizmodo.com
Authorities Investigating Mysterious Deaths of 15 Elephants at Kenyan National Park
The animals may have been poisoned from pesticides on nearby farms.
gizmodo.com
International tech
Psychology says people who are the first to check on everyone else but the last to be checked on aren’t unlucky in their friendships — they’ve built a role in every relationship that quietly disqualifies them from ever being the one who needs something
Some people can hear a change in a friend’s voice before the friend has admitted that anything is wrong. They remember the difficult meeting, the medical appointment and the anniversary everyone else forgot. They send the message after the bad week, when the noise has died down a…
siliconcanals.com
Tesla China rolls out Doubao-powered voice assistant to four vehicle lines
Tesla China has begun rolling out version 2026.14.13 of its in-car software, formally integrating ByteDance’s Doubao large language model into the Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X. The update is being delivered in batches to newly delivered vehicles and some existing cars. D…
technode.com
Smartphone Batteries Enter the Silicon-Carbon 10,000mAh Era in 2026: OPPO, Honor, and vivo Lead Capacity Race as AI Power Consumption Drives Energy Density Breakthroughs
OPPO A7 Pro Max joins the 10,000mAh club with spherically structured silicon-carbon, as mainstream Chinese brands race into the 10K era driven by AI inference power and 35% share for 6000mAh-plus phones.
pandaily.com
CXMT LPDDR6 Hits Key Breakthrough: Research Validation Nearing Completion as ChangXin Memory Technologies Closes In on Mass Production of 12,800 Mbps Mobile DRAM
CXMT LPDDR6 development validation nearing completion, 12,800 Mbps design rate, 16Gb density, positioning for H2 2026 mass production against SK Hynix as Apple evaluates CXMT DRAM.
pandaily.com
ByteDance launches Seedance 2.5 video-generation model
ByteDance has released Seedance 2.5, the latest version of its Seed video-generation model. The model can generate a 30-second high-quality video clip in a single run and supports multi-turn extension for longer sequences. Users can provide up to 30 images, 10 videos and 10 audio…
technode.com
Xiaomi opens pre-orders for N90 Max extended-range SUV at RMB299,900
Xiaomi has opened pre-orders for the N90 Max, an extended-range SUV under its Pengcheng vehicle line, at RMB299,900. The company said the model will be formally released in September. The N90 Max combines Xiaomi’s HAD assisted-driving system and XLA cognitive model with Nvidia’s …
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
bytebytego.com
Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Points: 460 # Comments: 170
tailscale.com
Tiny Desktop Robot Has Radar
One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like. [solitary dev] is helping to rectify that problem by building a little robot …read more
hackaday.com
NES Advantage Stick Gets Bluetooth Upgrade
The NES Advantage was a cool bit of hardware back in 1987, bringing an arcade stick to the home console gaming experience. Naturally they don’t get much use these days, …read more
hackaday.com
A Complex Way to Push a Button
We’ve likely all looked at a simple problem in our lives and thought that it would be an easy fix, only to realize that the project is enormously more complicated …read more
hackaday.com
Elevators
Article URL: https://john.fun/elevators Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124218 Points: 879 # Comments: 220
john.fun
qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work
Article URL: https://github.com/yc-software/qm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604 Points: 459 # Comments: 94
github.com
Turning Glass Into a Touch-Sensitive Button
Although generally glass isn’t associated with touch-sensitive surfaces, the addition of an ITO (indium tin oxygen) coating adds the exciting property of not only being transparent to the visible light …read more
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