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Potholes cost cities millions: This company is using AI and trucks to fix them
Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.
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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies
Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew "founders who h…
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Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup
Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.
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Perceptron Mk1 shocks with highly performant video analysis AI model 80-90% cheaper than Anthropic, OpenAI & Google
AI that can see and understand what's happening in a video — especially a live feed — is understandably an attractive product to lots of enterprises and organizations. Beyond acting as a security "watchdog" over sites and facilities, such an AI model could also be used to clip ou…
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World Models: 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now
World models recently made our list of 10 Things That Matter in AI Right Now. Watch executive editor Niall Firth explain why this emerging area of AI is gaining so much attention. Join MIT Technology Review editors and reporters for a subscriber-only Roundtables discussion, “Can …
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Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares
"Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records," the company's support page reads.
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Google introduces AI-powered ‘Googlebook’ laptops, ‘Gemini Intelligence’ and more at Android Show I/O Edition 2026
Ahead of its annual developer conference, Google I/O 2026, Google held a… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Tencent QClaw AI Integrates With Docs and ima Knowledge Base
Tencent's QClaw AI has integrated with Tencent Docs and the ima knowledge base, letting enterprise users query across documents and knowledge bases in one conversation — a significant expansion of Tencent's AI productivity tooling.
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AI Hardware Startups: VCs Favoring Young Founders, But Is There a Valuation Premium?
China's AI hardware startup scene is divided over whether young founders deserve the valuation premiums they command — or whether VCs are simply chasing hype and labels rather than fundamentals.
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Kuaishou's Kling AI Pursues Independent Listing at $20B Valuation
Kuaishou is preparing to spin off its Kling AI video generation business for an independent listing at a $20 billion valuation, with a Pre-IPO funding round already underway.
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Nazara Q4: PAT Jumps Over 13X To ₹56 Cr, Revenue Declines 23%
Gaming major Nazara Technologies’ consolidated net profit for the fourth quarter of FY26 (Q4 FY26) zoomed multifold to ₹55.7 Cr…
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Research suggests the problem with using AI as a therapist isn’t that it sounds wrong — it’s that it can sound right while still crossing serious ethical lines
A recent study summarized in a ScienceDaily report found that even when large language models were explicitly instructed to act like trained therapists and apply evidence-based methods, they still violated core ethical standards in mental health care. The Brown University summary…
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Spotify Rolls Out a ‘Wrapped’ for Users’ Entire Streaming History
The decades-long recap is part of the streamer’s 20th anniversary celebration.
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Is your enterprise adaptive to AI?
Presented by EdgeVerve For most enterprises, AI adoption began with a straightforward ambition: automate work faster, cheaper, and at scale. Chatbots replaced basic service requests, machine‑learning models optimized forecasts, and analytics dashboards promised sharper insights.…
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Search Ads as a Vector for Travel Scams
Dawn Gilbertson, writing for The Wall Street Journal (gift link): Calder says that he tried to rebook at the given link a few times but that it wouldn’t work. He became worried new flight options were dwindling, so he googled the airline’s customer-service number. (There was a li…
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How Pinterest Built a Production MCP Ecosystem
In this article, we look at how Pinterest designed that ecosystem and what they had to get right beyond the protocol itself.
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How Figma Upgraded Data Pipeline from Multi-Day Latency to Real-Time
In this article, we will learn what happened as Figma grew and how its engineering team handled the growth in terms of the data pipeline issues.
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eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible
Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/ebay-rejects-gamestop-s-56-billion-takeover-as-not-credible Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48110021 Points: 209 # Comments: 203
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The History of Altec Lansing
If you bought computer audio hardware a few decades ago, you may remember coming across products from Altec Lansing. That you probably haven’t thought of that name in some time …read more
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CRTs Are Too Mainstream, So Game on a Mechanical TV Instead
Aside from nostalgia, people claim to like CRTs because they’re apprehendable– the technology just makes more sense than the arcane wibbly-wobbly solid-state madness going on inside the driver chip of …read more
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Googlebook
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1tb8xls/introducin... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48111545 Points: 467 # Comments: 760
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2026 Hackaday Europe: Pre-party, More Workshops, and Everything Else
With Hackaday Europe no more than two days away, we want to help you wrap up all of the last loose ends. And that means last-minute changes in the workshop …read more
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This Random Number Generator Does It With Neon
The quest for true randomness has roots in cryptography and is a rabbit hole that gets surprisingly deep with alarmingly rapidity. Still, the generation of random-enough numbers is a popular …read more
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The Future of Obsidian Plugins
Article URL: https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109970 Points: 259 # Comments: 104
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