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Apple Updates Advertising Services Policy With New Rules for Ads in Maps

Sarah Perez, TechCrunch: In a newly published Apple Advertising Services policy, effective as of July 14, 2026, the iPhone maker shares its rules for advertising on Apple Maps. Notably, it prohibits the broad category of home services businesses, like plumbing, electrical, locksm…

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI Labs, dismisses the word.

OnePlus’ Death in the U.S. Only Makes Our iPhone Chains Heavier

The 'Never Settle' phone maker has settled.

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…

Stripe’s Acquisition Pace Has Accelerated In The Past Five Years, But Nothing Comes Close To Its Reported $53B PayPal Bet

Payments giant Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have teamed up to make an offer to buy troubled PayPal in a deal valued at more than $53 billion, Reuters reported Wednesday.

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Pour One Out for Physical Media With a Library of Drool-Worthy Golden-Era Game Box Art

The Big Box Collection is a throwback to an era when games' packaging and artwork was an art in itself.

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Jio Financial Services Q1: Profit Surges 2.6X YoY To ₹830 Cr

Fintech company Jio Financial Services’ (JFS) net profit zoomed 2.6X to ₹830.3 Cr in the first quarter (Q1) of FY27…

Huawei to Publicly Demonstrate Atlas 950 SuperPoD AI Computing Hardware at WAIC 2026

Huawei Atlas 950 SuperPoD delivers 8 ExaFLOPS FP8 with 8,192 NPU cards interconnected via proprietary Lingqu protocol, outpacing NVIDIA NVL144 by 6.7x total compute.

Baidu to power AI search for Apple’s Apple Intelligence in China

According to sources, Apple and Baidu are partnering to bring AI features to iPhone users in China. Baidu is developing an AI-powered search experience as part of the Apple Intelligence suite, enabling image and text understanding while also enhancing Siri with capabilities tailo…

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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Scrapped Before Launch: ByteDance Doubao AI Glasses Gen 2 Speeds Ahead With Dual Models as Meta Ray-Ban Rivalry Heats Up

ByteDance cancels first-gen Doubao AI glasses for being too generic, accelerates dual-model second generation while planning third-gen, as AI glasses market surges 130% year-on-year.

The problem AI content moderation cannot solve

Meta and other big tech companies are increasingly using AI for content moderation, but as the backlash to Muse Image shows, it cannot protect users because it does not account for consent.

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Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba and Baidu

The deal, which was rumored to be in the works last year, marks an important step for Apple's AI ambitions in a key market.

Why heat pumps are still so hot in the US

It feels as if it should be illegal to even think about heating appliances during the height of summer—seriously, these heat waves in New York have been brutal—but we need to talk about heat pumps. The appliances use electricity for heating, they’re incredibly efficient, and they…

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Gurman on OpenAI’s Upcoming Hardware Product: ‘Movable, Screenless Speaker Built as AI Companion’

Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: OpenAI believes the product’s defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with users. The speaker incorporates mechanical elements that can move on their own, creating a sense that it is alive and not …

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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

Where are YC founders now? OpenAI and Anthropic, mostly

Article URL: https://joinedanthropic.com Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48931588 Points: 225 # Comments: 118

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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: 326 # Comments: 151

Transponder Mania

In order to not hit something, you generally need to know where that thing is. On land, the meager human eyesight tends to be sufficient. On the water, however, the …read more

Google Earth Desktop Client to be Retired in 2027

Come next year, those looking to explore the globe virtually via Google Earth will have to do so on their smartphone or from within their browser, as the search giant …read more

Chromatography as Art

You may or may not remember in some ancient chemistry class studying or even performing chromatography. The short definition is using media like paper or powder to separate a mixture. …read more

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: 248 # Comments: 211

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.

Pinch Puts an Arduino On a USB-C Connector

Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny — especially for the amount of processing power and I/O you get. But if you need something really small, …read more