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Elephant alert! AI warning systems aim to avoid deadly clashes
India is home to about 60% of the world’s wild Asian elephants, and around 80% of the animals’ habitat lies outside protected areas, according to the Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change. That brings people and wildlife into close contact, and clashes can turn leth…
MIT Technology Review
AppsFlyer Reportedly Lands $1B At $2.7B Valuation To Help Companies Track Digital Ads
Data analytics company AppsFlyer is eyeing the public markets after reportedly securing more than $1 billion in a Series E funding round.
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Greenspan Penned ‘Irrational Exuberance’ 30 Years Ago. It Aged Well.
Longstanding Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan passed away Monday at age 100. But for those of us old enough to remember the dot-com boom, his legacy looms large.
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Gurman Says Second-Gen iPhone Air, Coming in Early 2027, Will Sport a 0.5× Ultra-Wide Second Camera
Mark Gurman, reporting for Bloomberg: Apple Inc. is preparing a second-generation iPhone Air for spring 2027, aiming to boost the appeal of the slimmed-down device, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Current prototypes of the new model, code-named V62, add a second…
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Commemorating 70 Years of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the transformative, strategic technology of the early 21st century. It is significantly reshaping practically every aspect of our lives, including in ways that probably no one anticipated. Its rate of adoption and impact have been unprecedented when com…
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Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away
Alibaba Cloud on Sunday released HappyHorse 1.1, a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that the company says delivers production-ready video synthesis across core content creation scenarios. The model is now live on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio with full API access for e…
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The AI-powered World Cup runs on thousands of data workers
Human annotators in Brazil, Cambodia, and the Philippines are tracking every movement in the football tournament for teams, broadcasters, and the betting industry.
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Tata Electronics suffers massive data breach, leaked files allegedly include Apple and Tesla documents: Report
Tata Electronics has suffered a major cyber breach that reportedly exposed sensitive… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Alibaba unveils HappyHorse 1.1 video generation model, launches global AI filmmaking competition
Alibaba on Monday released HappyHorse 1.1, the latest version of its video generation model, while simultaneously launching the HorsePower AI Video Competition in partnership with Huajing Entertainment Group. Compared with version 1.0, HappyHorse 1.1 delivers upgrades across seve…
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IKEA is owned by a Dutch foundation with no shareholders and no owner, an arrangement that protects the company from any takeover, keeps its tax bill low, and for years left it running the world’s wealthiest charity and one of its least generous
Ask who owns IKEA and the honest answer is that almost nobody does, by design. The Swedish furniture retailer, founded by Ingvar Kamprad in 1943, is not listed on any stock exchange, is not controlled by the Kamprad family in any straightforward sense, and has no shareholders who…
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Nexus Venture Partners Sells More Delhivery Shares Worth ₹208 Cr
Logistics major Delhivery’s early backer Nexus Venture Partners  has sold shares worth ₹208 Cr via a block deal today, marking…
inc42.com
Anthropic confirms another Claude AI outage, claims services are recovering across models
Anthropic’s Claude AI faced another service disruption on June 23, adding to… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Long-Theorized GPS Weakness Exploited on Large Scale
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Spying on kids to save kids from spying is stupid
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Unlimited OCR: One-Shot Long-Horizon Parsing
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Rickrolling the World Cup
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Linux Fu: Upcycling an Old Router
You’re wandering through a thrift store and spot an old router for ten bucks. Worthless, right? But in this case, it was a Google OnHub, which, at the time, was …read more
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AI-Native Leaders: The Organizational Playbook for Engineering Transformation at Scale
Individual gains do not become organizational gains on their own. This is the playbook for making that leap. Let’s dive in.
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Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place
Article URL: https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/bad_place_2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642699 Points: 297 # Comments: 359
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