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These Are Sectors Where Seed Rounds Of $5M To $10M Are Clustering This Year
We identified popular themes for seed-stage investment this year, including cancer therapeutics and space tech.
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How is your enterprise tracking AI agent telemetry? Groundcover thinks it should never leave your cloud
The AI agent observability space is taking off — but how can enterprises be sure what observability products and solutions they need? Observability startup groudcover (lower case "g" intentional) announced this week that it raised $100 million in a round led by One Peak, bringing…
venturebeat.com
Sam Raimi to Produce New Stephen King Adaptation From ‘Final Destination’ Directors
Raimi and King will team up for the first time on an adaptation of King's 1996 novel 'Desperation.'
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The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Safe Superintelligence And Commonwealth Fusion Lead With Billion-Dollar Deals
Another week, another bevy of big rounds. The largest round was a reported $5 billion Nvidia-backed financing for foundational AI unicorn Safe Superintelligence, followed by a $1 billion investment in Commonwealth Fusion Systems.
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Thinking Machines debuts Inkling Small open source AI model nearing performance of predecessor at about 1/4 size
Just two weeks after Thinking Machines released Inkling, its first open source AI language model, the well-funded startup led by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati today introduced Inkling-Small without sacrificing much of any performance — and in fact, the new mo…
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India is starting to pay for apps, not just download them
India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.
techcrunch.com
International tech
ByteDance Seedance 2.5 Released: 30-Second Single-Generation Video With Breakthrough Long-Narrative Capability, Multi-Modal Reference, and Precise Editing
ByteDance Seed team launches Seedance 2.5 with 30s single generation, multi-round extension, 30 images plus 10 videos plus 10 audio references, and timestamp-controlled editing.
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Zepto To Now Re-Attempt IPO By May 2027: Report
Barely a day after reports surfaced that Zepto had deferred its IPO plans, the quick commerce giant’s cofounder and CEO…
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A study recorded strangers having their first conversation and found that people consistently walked away believing they had been liked less than they really were—a “liking gap” that persisted among new college suitemates for several months.
The most agreeable person in a group often appears to fit everywhere. They are happy with either restaurant. They do not mind which weekend. They soften a disagreement before it gathers weight and laugh when somebody apologises for changing the plan again. Other people describe t…
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A study sent groups of friends and relatives to eat at a café and asked half to keep their phones on the table. Those diners used their phones for only about a tenth of the meal, yet still reported enjoying the experience less, feeling more distracted and being slightly more bored than diners who put their phones away.
A phone on a café table rarely looks like a decision. It looks practical. Someone might call. The map, payment app and family group chat all live in the same rectangle, so placing it beside the cutlery can feel no more significant than putting down your keys. I understand that in…
siliconcanals.com
Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?
Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.
restofworld.org
Psychology says the reason the most generous person you know goes home to a silent phone isn’t bad luck — it’s that giving without ever asking for anything back reads to other people as self-sufficiency, and nobody reaches out to someone who seems fine
The generous person’s phone is rarely silent because nobody knows their number. People know it very well. They use it when the relationship ends, the parent becomes ill, the job feels impossible or the decision cannot be made alone. The generous person replies, remembers the deta…
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Hacking a Commercial Colorimeter to add RAL Color Code Support
When you need to match paint colors, one of the tools you’ll reach for is a deck of reference colors. Another might be a colorimeter. But what if you want …read more
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A Detailed Guide to Idempotency, Delivery Semantics, and Deduplication
What happens when a service sends a request to charge a customer, but the request times out with no response?
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Tiny Desktop Robot Has Radar
One thing our futuristic world is largely lacking in is droids and robot companions and the like. [solitary dev] is helping to rectify that problem by building a little robot …read more
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DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120299 Points: 506 # Comments: 279
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qm
Article URL: https://github.com/yc-software/qm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126604 Points: 352 # Comments: 79
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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference
To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.
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The End of an Era
Article URL: https://hughhowey.com/the-end-of-an-era/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49121980 Points: 377 # Comments: 416
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Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
Article URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/hugging-face-intrusion Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127306 Points: 314 # Comments: 125
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 380: 3D Printing the Rainbow, IR and IP Camera Hacks, and Americium 241 on the Loose
Elliot Williams and Al Williams got together to compare notes on the most interesting posts this week on the site. As usual, there are just too many choices, so you’ll …read more
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