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Are you paying an AI ‘swarm tax’? Why single agents often beat complex systems
Enterprise teams building multi-agent AI systems may be paying a compute premium for gains that don't hold up under equal-budget conditions. New Stanford University research finds that single-agent systems match or outperform multi-agent architectures on complex reasoning tasks w…
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Google and AWS split the AI agent stack between control and execution
The era of enterprises stitching together prompt chains and shadow agents is nearing its end as more options for orchestrating complex multi-agent systems emerge. As organizations move AI agents into production, the question remains: "how will we manage them?" Google and Amazon W…
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Sector Snapshot: EV Funding On Track For Modest Gains 
Funding to EV-related startups reflects a mix of optimism and restraint. While investors are backing big rounds for a handful of upstart brands, funding remains far below prior peaks and exit activity appears muted.
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Will fusion power get cheap? Don’t count on it.
Fusion power could provide a steady, zero-emissions source of electricity in the future—if companies can get plants built and running. But a new study suggests that even if that future arrives, it might not come cheap. Technologies tend to get less expensive over time. Lithium-io…
MIT Technology Review
Exclusive: Cloneable Raises $4.6M To ‘Clone’ Expert Worker Knowledge With Agentic AI For Utilities And Infrastructure
Cloneable, a startup that uses AI to shadow human experts in heavy industries such as energy and replicate their specialized workflows into autonomous agents, has raised $4.6 million in seed funding, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
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Bluesky now supports better quality photos
The max size is now 2MB and max resolution is 4000x4000.
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smart #2 EV concept and #6 EHD hybrid hatchback unveiled at brand night ahead of Beijing Auto Show
On Wednesday, at the smart Global Brand Night event held in Beijing, the China-Germany joint venture electric vehicle brand smart unveiled the new smart #2 concept car and the smart #6 EHD under the theme Change of Perspectives. As the brand continues to expand its electric vehic…
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People who answer emails at 11 PM aren’t more committed than people who don’t — they’ve lost the boundary between availability and identity, and the late-night reply isn’t proof that they care more about the work, it’s proof that the work has colonized every hour of their day, and they stopped noticing because the invasion happened so gradually it felt like dedication instead of surrender
When that late-night work email arrives and your fingers instinctively reach for the keyboard, you're not proving dedication — you're revealing how completely work has invaded the territory that used to be your life.
siliconcanals.com
Psychology says the hardest truth about aging isn’t that your body slows down — it’s that you become invisible in rooms you used to command, and most people never acknowledge this shift because it implies something they’re not ready to admit about how much of their identity was built on being seen
Everyone wants to talk about aging gracefully. Nobody wants to talk about aging invisibly. And honestly, those are two very different conversations, even though we keep pretending they’re the same one. Look, the hardest part of getting older isn’t the wrinkles or the slower recov…
siliconcanals.com
Karnataka Govt Mulls Policy To Legalise Bike Taxis
The Karnataka government is reportedly considering formulating a policy to legalise bike taxi services in the state, even as it…
inc42.com
Why Is Anthropic’s Mythos Keeping Regulators On The Edge?
Finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman today held a meeting with heads of banks amid growing concerns over cybersecurity risks posed…
inc42.com
Beyond the Model Race: How Tencent Is Building Its Global AI Moat
Tencent just open-sourced Hy3 preview, a 295B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 256K context window, capping a week that also delivered a 3D world model and the global beta of its QClaw consumer agent. The flurry reveals a deliberate bet on the “harness” layer—the enginee…
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VCF East and Maker Faire Make For a Busy Weekend
For those of us with an interest in hacking and making, events where we can meet up with like minded folks and check out the projects they’re working on don’t …read more
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Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/apple-fixes-bug-that-cops-used-to-extract-deleted-chat-messages-from-iphones/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47868867 Points: 778 # Comments: 177
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Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image
Article URL: https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-now-has-a-reproducible-docker-image/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871519 Points: 217 # Comments: 76
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GameCube Bot Records Your Play In A Weird Way
If you wanted to record yourself playing on a GameCube, you could use a VCR to capture the video output on tape. But there is a more interesting way to …read more
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I am building a cloud
Article URL: https://crawshaw.io/blog/building-a-cloud Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47872324 Points: 818 # Comments: 420
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B-Trees vs LSM Trees: Comparison and Trade-Offs
In this article, we will look at B-Trees and LSM trees in detail, along with the trade-offs associated with each of them.
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KernelUNO, An OS For The Arduino Uno
If you were to point to a single device responsible for much of Hackaday’s early success, it might be the Arduino Uno. The little board from an Italian university with …read more
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Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns
https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47874814 Points: 315 # Comments: 109
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How DoorDash Launches a New Country in One Week
In this article, we will look at how this architecture was designed and the challenges they faced.
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