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Dell Technologies Capital: How To Build A Deep-Tech Startup For A Market That Isn’t Ready Yet And Why AI Won’t Kill SaaS
In this interview with Crunchbase News, Daniel Docter, managing director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses how AI is reshaping SaaS and why he doesn’t believe the business model is headed for extinction, why he thinks distribution may ultimately separate the winners from th…
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Vatican Uses AI-Detector to Show AI Bros Pope’s Anti-AI Encyclical Isn’t AI-Generated
The word of God or the word of AI?
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Closing The Series A Gap Is The Next Great Opportunity For Black Founders In The AI Era
While 2026 has shown encouraging signs, with Black-founded startups raising approximately $643 million by late May, the strongest quarter since mid-2022, the improvement was driven largely by a handful of unusually large financings. James Norman and Sean Green, co-founders of Bla…
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Kaylee Hottle, ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Star, Dies at 18
The 18-year-old actor also appeared in 'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.'
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Writer's AI harness cuts token spend nearly 40% — without sacrificing accuracy
Enterprise AI is facing an ROI paradox. While throwing more compute at the strongest foundation model works well in product experiments, the costs become unbearable when the product is deployed in production. A new paper from researchers at Writer provides a solution that is acce…
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Atlassian: Research shows organizations should approach AI at the team level, not the individual level, to achieve true ROI
Presented by Atlassian Most companies are approaching AI adoption backwards by optimizing how individuals use AI instead of how teams work together, said Dr. Molly Sands, head of the Teamwork Lab at Atlassian, during a fireside chat with VentureBeat senior technology contributo…
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Scientists spent decades treating Olympus Mons as a dead volcano, a frozen relic three times the height of Everest that stopped erupting long ago, until they found morning frost on its summit and signs that something below is still pushing it higher
Olympus Mons on Mars is 22 kilometres tall and 600 kilometres wide, with slopes so shallow that a person standing on it would see only flat ground to the horizon. The geometry of the largest volcano in the solar system defeats human perception.
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XPower Technology Defies Big-Chip Orthodoxy: Small RPP Architecture Chips Use Distributed Computing to Beat Giants at AI Inference
XPower Technology unveils RPP architecture AE7100E chips at WAIC: fingernail-sized chips with 12 on one card, supporting 400B-1.6TB parameter models through distributed computing at lowest token cost.
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BrainCo demos thought-controlled robots at WAIC 2026
BrainCo, a Hangzhou brain-computer interface developer, demonstrated a brain-controlled robot platform at WAIC 2026. The system uses an EEG headset to translate a user’s neural signals into commands for machines. The company says the platform can connect to humanoid robots, robot…
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Zhipu shares surge 37% as firm builds giant data centre powered by Chinese chips
Shares of Chinese AI giant Z.ai soared 37 per cent in Hong Kong on Tuesday to close at HK$1,219 (US$155), after the company recently completed a giant data centre powered entirely by Chinese chips. Also known as Zhipu, the firm’s share prices rebounded after a week-long drop of m…
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BlueStone Rallies 20% After Reporting Third Consecutive Profitable Quarter
Shares of omnichannel jewellery major BlueStone rallied as much as 20% to touch an intraday high of ₹730.10 on the…
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Another ‘DeepSeek moment’? What China’s Kimi K3 means for the global AI industry
The launch of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has revived an intense debate that has raged in Silicon Valley ever since DeepSeek’s shock breakthrough last year: whether China can overcome its limited access to advanced chips to match the performance of the United States’ frontier artificia…
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Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
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ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
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Java Ring Restored After Nearly 30 Years
Back in the late 90s when absolutely everybody knew that Java was going to become the one programming language to rule them all, the Java Ring was handed out to …read more
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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
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Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM
Article URL: https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/apple-defeats-liability-for-not-scanning-icloud-for-csam-but-the-judge-was-not-pleased-amy-v-apple.htm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992870 Points: 231 # Comments: 203
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Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
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Postal IRCs are Almost a Thing of the Past
Have you ever found out that something you remember from your youth is now gone, and you didn’t even notice? If you are a certain age, you might feel that …read more
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Tired of xargs?
What if you want to do something in Linux for a lot of files? [Numerator] was tired of using xarg and other ways to handle this job and created bashumerate. …read more
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Neural Net Reads the Gas Meter
In an ideal world, the role of technology would be to make all of our lives easier. And although all the ads suddenly appearing in our smart TVs and gaming …read more
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