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General Catalyst Takes The Lead Over Y Combinator In Backing $5M+ Fintech Deals
For the first time in several quarters, General Catalyst in Q2 overtook Y Combinator when it came to participating in the most fintech deals of $5 million or more, per Crunchbase data. The quarter also marked the busiest one for General Catalyst since 2021 in terms of investing i…
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Multi-turn attacks broke AI models 88% of the time — single-turn testing missed it, Cisco AI security lead warns at VB Transform 2026
When Cisco ran 6,986 multi-turn attacks against 15 flagship models, attackers who adapted across the conversation broke through as often as 88.3% of the time. Amy Chang, Cisco's head of AI threat intelligence and security research, brought that finding to the agentic security pan…
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Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics
Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.
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John Dvorak on Computer Chronicles in 1987 to Discuss the Then-New IBM PS/2
Dvorak is best known for all the takes he was jacktastically wrong about, but what gave his schtick staying power is that he was technically savvy. His take here on the PS/2 was actually spot-on: that it was technically impressive in many ways, especially the way it was assembled…
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Microsoft Forces LG to Quit Shoving McAfee Ads Into Your PC
Though that doesn't mean LG will stop auto-installing bloatware onto your PC.
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Boox’s New Tiny E-Reader Could Shake Up the Market
The Boox Picco will be the company's smallest e-reader yet.
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International tech
Delhi HC Rejects ANI’s Plea For Interim Injunction Against OpenAI In Copyright Suit
The Delhi High Court has dismissed ANI’s plea seeking an interim injunction against OpenAI in the news agency’s copyright infringement…
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Inside Zomato’s Monetisation Stack: Where The Margins Come From In Food Delivery
Before 10-minute deliveries, dark stores and quick commerce wars, there were red-shirted Zomato riders racing across cities with pizzas, biryanis…
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Token Factories Emerge as WAIC 2026 Theme: Is Selling Token the Next Big Business Model for the AI Economy?
Token factories proliferate at WAIC 2026 as computing shifts from card-rental to token-delivery; soft and hard infrastructure models compete to standardize AI productivity measurement.
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China Embodied Intelligence Enters Early Commercialization: PwC White Paper and Morgan Stanley Forecast $15 Billion Market by 2030
PwC China AI Research Institute inaugural report forecasts three-robot-form division by 2030; Morgan Stanley projects 446,000 humanoid units shipped annually with $15B market size.
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Tencent fires WeChat manager after 7-figure bonus leaks online, sparks uproar
Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has fired a manager at its WeChat division after details of his multimillion-yuan bonus package leaked online, sparking animated discussion across social media. The employee, surnamed Ye, was dismissed for passing sensitive corporate informatio…
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Turning Celebrity Endorsements From One-Time Announcements Into Long-Term Operations: Yaowang Technology AI-Driven Marketing Platform Builds Continuous Brand Assets
Yaowang Technology, China first listed live-streaming e-commerce company, transforms celebrity endorsements into continuous brand operations through content production, livestream conversion, and asset management systems.
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This Week in Security: AI is a Mess, Hacking Car Chargers, an OpenSSL DoS, and Factories Under Attack
[Ayush Paul] posts about extracting data from Claude agents while it accesses web data to fulfill user requests. But it wasn’t that easy. [Ayush] discovered that Anthropic anticipated many of …read more
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Flux 3 X Mimic: The Next Generation of Video-Action Models
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A Beginner’s Guide to Clocks, Causality, and Ordering in Distributed Systems
Why does something as simple as reading the time become a hard problem for distributed systems?
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Nothing works and everyone is euphoric
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Flux 3
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Targeting Allele-Specific Faulty mRNA in SCNA2 Mutation Patients
When an individual is born with genetic defects, there are a few ways to deal with the impact of the faulty genes. The most extreme solution is direct DNA editing …read more
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New Method Accelerates Color 3D Printing
Multi-color 3D printing is notorious for being difficult to get right. Even with modern printers, you often end up much using more filament (and tool changes) than you would for …read more
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It's getting harder to focus every day
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