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‘Musk v. Altman’ Closing Arguments
Elizabeth Lopatto, reporting for The Verge (gift link): Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk’s lawyer, stumbled over his words. He at one point called Gre…
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Exclusive: Xpanner Lands $18M To Offer ‘Automation As A Service’ To Construction Sites 
Xpanner, a startup automating construction work by retrofitting construction equipment with robotics and physical AI technology, has raised $18 million in a Series B round, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
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Why RF Coexistence Testing Is Critical for Shared Spectrum
A comprehensive review of how spectrum congestion, dynamic sharing, and cognitive radio systems are reshaping RF coexistence testing for military and commercial applications. What Attendees will Learn Why spectrum congestion threatens wireless reliability — Explore how over 30 b…
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Developers can now debug and evaluate AI agents locally with Raindrop's open source tool Workshop
Observability startup Raindrop AI’s new open source, MIT Licensed "Workshop" tool, launched today, gives developers something that they've likely wanted, perhaps subconsciously, since the agentic AI era kicked off in earnest last year: a local debugger and evaluation tool specifi…
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Claude Code's '/goals' separates the agent that works from the one that decides it's done
A code migration agent finishes its run, and the pipeline looks green. But several pieces were never compiled — and it took days to catch. That's not a model failure; that's an agent deciding it was done before it actually was. Many enterprises are now seeing that production AI a…
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April’s Most Active US Investors Included Some Usual Suspects, And Some Unusual Ones
The April rankings of busiest startup investors were topped by well-established VCs such as Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures, tech giants like Google and Amazon, and a few names that don’t commonly show up in the lists.
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International tech
Uber to build two major engineering centres in India by 2027
Uber is expanding its tech presence in India with plans to build… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Behind Honor's Robot Marathon: 7 Chinese Suppliers Powering the 'Lightning' Robot
Honor robots swept the top six positions at the Beijing Yizhuang half-marathon. A deep dive into the Chinese supply chain — from GigaDevice to Rainbow Technologies — powering the breakthrough.
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AI Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In May
The AI narrative in India is currently dominated by scale, with Google breaking ground on its $15 Bn AI Hub…
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Tesla opens fourth India experience centre in Bengaluru, launches six-seater ‘Model Y L’
Tesla has expanded its India presence by opening its fourth experience centre… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Ex-Meta Chinese star researcher joins race for self-improving AI with US$4.6b start-up
A star Chinese researcher laid off by Facebook owner Meta Platforms has co-founded a start-up focused on self-improving artificial intelligence systems, joining a wave of US and Chinese firms developing models capable of autonomously refining their own code and reasoning. Tian Yu…
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Chinese foundries SMIC, Hua Hong forecast second-quarter growth amid AI boom
China’s leading semiconductor foundries, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and Hua Hong Semiconductor, expect their second-quarter sales to rise amid a dynamic global market defined by surging artificial intelligence demand and a memory supply crunch, w…
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ChargeCap Helps Your Batteries Last Longer By Limiting Charge Level
If you want to maximize the life of your lithium-ion batteries, proper storage voltage is critical. That is, don’t store them empty, and don’t store them completely full either. “Almost …read more
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A Guide To Event-Driven Architectural Patterns
Distributed systems are built out of services that need to communicate, and the simplest way to do that is for one service to call another directly and wait for a response.
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High Performance Rate Limiting at Databricks
In this article, we look at how Databricks implemented rate limiting at scale, how they shrank the critical path, and the accuracy tradeoff that shrinking usually requires.
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New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
Article URL: https://twitter.com/tdietterich/status/2055000956144935055 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140922 Points: 457 # Comments: 146
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RS-485 Sprinkler Control: Scaling Irrigation Across the Farm
Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your system starts to grow, adding more distant areas? To tackle this, …read more
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Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying
Article URL: https://tmctmt.com/posts/mullvad-exit-ips-as-a-fingerprinting-vector/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143880 Points: 285 # Comments: 141
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A few words on DS4
Article URL: https://antirez.com/news/165 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142108 Points: 266 # Comments: 95
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Mix Your Own ECN-2 Development Chemicals
After the digital camera rose to prominence, it became a cool hobby to keep taking photos on film. It was even cooler if you did the same with an old …read more
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Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts
Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/14/ontario-auditors-find-doctors-ai-note-takers-routinely-blow-basic-facts/5240771 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142188 Points: 203 # Comments: 97
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