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Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable
The episode has also intensified a broader debate in Washington over the influx of Chinese open models.
techcrunch.com
Experts say exploiting Anthropic’s Fable isn’t how Kimi K3 got so good
"I don't think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation," one expert told TechCrunch.
techcrunch.com
Medicaid and Food Stamps Are Increasingly Paired With Amazon Gig Economy Jobs, Federal Report Shows
The report was commissioned by Bernie Sanders.
gizmodo.com
The Computer That Helped Win World War II
One summer day in 1941, a British radio operator was monitoring German military frequencies and heard something unexpected in her headphones. A later report called it “strange new music.” Sounding unlike the familiar Morse dit-dit-dah of enciphered messages sent over the German E…
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Watch These Orcas Smash a Giant Dead Fish to Pieces—Just for Kicks
The ramming behavior might help younger orcas more easily digest their food, while also allowing other orcas to have a little fun, researchers say.
gizmodo.com
The credential that let OpenAI's agents into Hugging Face exists in most enterprises right now
When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent's sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the w…
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DeepSeek puts AGI research ahead of products and commercial growth
According to a report by IT Home, DeepSeek, the Chinese AI developer behind the open-source R1 reasoning model, is prioritizing artificial general intelligence (AGI) research over building a consumer platform or maximizing near-term revenue. The report is based on a circulated tr…
technode.com
OpenAI says its AI models went rogue, escaped containment, causing major breach at Hugging Face
In a classic case of ‘AI going rogue’, OpenAI confirmed on Tuesday,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Digua Robot Sunri S600 Mass Production Ecosystem Expands: The Infrastructure Logic Behind Embodied Intelligence Industrialization in the Age of 100K Robot Deployments
Horizon Robotics affiliate Digua Robot announces Sunri S600 platform milestones as 2026 becomes embodied intelligence mass production year, addressing the three chasms of model-on-robot deployment.
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The generation that grew up with rotary phones, party lines, and having to knock on a neighbour’s door isn’t nostalgic for inconvenience, they remember when reaching another person required just enough effort to make the contact feel intentional
The generation raised on rotary phones and knocked-on doors isn't longing for inconvenience. They're describing something the friction produced: a signal that contact was chosen, not idle — a quality digital life has quietly stripped away.
siliconcanals.com
Eternal Jumps 4.5% As Brokerages Cheer Q1 Growth, Blinkit Margin Outlook
Shares of Eternal jumped as much as 4.5% on the BSE today to hit an intraday high of ₹296.15 after…
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Ford and Geely reportedly reach deal to produce EVs at Spanish plant
Ford Motor and China’s Geely have reportedly reached an agreement for Geely to produce electric vehicles at Ford’s Almussafes plant near Valencia, Spain, Reuters reported, citing Spanish newspaper ABC. The deal is expected to be announced during a July 23 visit to the factory by …
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Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
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V Formation Flying of Birds is Explained by a Minimal Wake–Vortex Model
Although it’s commonly suspected that migratory birds fly in a ‘V’ formation due to this saving energy for the birds in the slipstream, understanding the exact aerodynamics behind this and …read more
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I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
Article URL: https://citizendot.github.io/articles/fake-job-interview-git-hook-malware/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013036 Points: 389 # Comments: 109
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Voice Control Toolkit Comes to a Pico Near You
Voice-controlled appliances are nothing new. What might be new, however, is [Moonshine AI] running it all locally on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W! The voice interface is roughly divided …read more
hackaday.com
An LLM in the Kitchen
Have you ever been looking up a recipe for something new and been stymied by the directions being a wall of text, especially to find that one detail right when …read more
hackaday.com
Best Practices for Building AI Agents That Work in Production
In this article, we try to explore the collective thinking into a smaller set of practices and explain the reasoning behind each one, rather than asking anyone to memorize a numbered list.
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Saving Some Coin With 3D Printed Stencils
One of the extra tools someone might need when working with surface-mount components is a solder paste stencil, which not only simplifies the application of solder paste to a PCB …read more
hackaday.com
Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models
We sat down with Anupam Singh, senior vice president of engineering at Roblox, to hear from him about the world model that Roblox is using to make its multiplayer games look photorealistic, the key insights that have come from taking that approach, and the next big thing that the…
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