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GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
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iOS 26.5 Includes Beta Support for End-to-End Encrypted RCS Messaging
Apple Newsroom: Starting today, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out in beta for iPhone users running iOS 26.5 with supported carriers and Android users on the latest version of Google Messages. When RCS messages are end-to-end encrypted, they can’t be read while…
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Thinking Machines shows off preview of near-realtime AI voice and video conversation with new 'interaction models'
Is AI leaving the era of "turn-based" chat? Right now, all of us who use AI models regularly for work or in our personal lives know that the basic interaction mode across text, imagery, audio, and video remains the same: the human user provides an input, waits anywhere between mi…
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AI voice startup Vapi hits $500M valuation after winning Amazon Ring over 40 rivals
Vapi says its enterprise business has grown 10-fold since early 2025 as companies shift customer support and sales calls to AI agents.
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Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. A few months before he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2024, Daron Acemoglu published a paper that earned him few fans in Silicon …
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European AI Funding Is Growing. Will That Boost The Region’s Startup Scene?
A growing percentage of European venture funding in 2026 was AI-driven. That includes investments in three new frontier model companies as well as startups in a wide variety of AI-centric sectors.
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The CCTV Gold Rush: Indian Startups, OEMs Race To Fill Surveillance Vacuum
On April 1, 2026 India imposed severe restrictions on uncertified internet-connected CCTV cameras, effectively banning dominant Chinese brands such as…
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India’s space-tech startup Agnikul Cosmos could raise up to $75Mn at $500Mn valuation
India’s private space sector is seeing fresh investor interest as Chennai-based startup… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Shangyue Technology's Flyer O1: The World's First Home Flying Robot, Raising Millions in Seed Round
Shenzhen-based Shangyue Technology (熵约科技) announces a millions-of-dollars seed round, led by Chuxin Capital. The company has launched the Flyer O1—the world's first home flying robot designed for family spaces—expected to officially launch by end of this year.
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InCred Capital Acquires Singapore-Based S Cube Capital
InCred Capital, the wealth management arm of InCred Group, has acquired Singapore-based fund management company S Cube Capital (SAIML Pte…
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Tencent T15 and Adobe Scientists Launch AI Animation Startup: 'Big Companies Make Printers, We Make the Soul of AI Video'
Former Adobe Research scientists—including a former Principal Scientist who developed image deblurring used by the FBI—have co-founded an AI animation startup with Tencent T15. Their first product targets professional animation studios, having raised tens of millions of dollars f…
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Quote of the day by Helen Mirren: “When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re 60, nothing seems ancient.”
“When you’re 16, 30 seems ancient. When you’re 30, 45 seems ancient. When you’re 45, 60 seems ancient. When you’re 60, nothing seems ancient.” — Helen Mirren Read it back slowly. The first three lines feel like things you’ve actually thought. The fourth one feels like a trick. Wh…
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Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
https://github.com/TanStack/router/issues/7383 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100706 Points: 903 # Comments: 374
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The Walls Don’t Have Ears, But Fiber Optic Does
You normally think of fiber optic as something used in network cables. However, scientists employ dedicated fibers to detect earthquakes. In simple terms, they fire a laser down the fiber …read more
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Reverse-Engineering and Documenting the Fisher Price Pixter
Between 2000 and 2002 the Fisher Price Pixter was sold to children as an educational handheld toy with a touch screen that enabled drawing and listening to music in addition …read more
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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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Honda Wants to Complicate Your E-Motorcycle
If you ride a motorcycle, you know it is a bit of an art to manage the transmission on a typical bike. Electric motorcycles lose some of that. You usually …read more
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I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
Article URL: https://martin.sh/i-let-ai-build-a-tool-to-help-me-figure-out-what-was-waking-me-up-at-night/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100662 Points: 204 # Comments: 214
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EP214: Claude Code vs. OpenClaw: 5 Design Dimensions
Both are highly capable, but they have key architectural differences.
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Interaction Models
Article URL: https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100524 Points: 247 # Comments: 30
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They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker
Article URL: https://github.com/davmlaw/they_live_adblocker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102700 Points: 328 # Comments: 104
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