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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
techcrunch.com
The real cost, security, and culture problems behind enterprise AI agents
Presented by Red Hat At VentureBeat's recent AI Impact event, where the discussion centered on what separates enterprises that scale agentic AI from those that stall in pilot mode, Brian Gracely, senior director of portfolio strategy at Red Hat, detailed what companies actually…
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Scientists Find Super-Rare Soft Tissue Fossil From 450-Million-Year-Old Sea Creature
Crinoid fossils turn up by the millions, but this is just the second time that scientists have found one with soft tissues still intact.
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Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution
Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickman, a tiny town in the state’s agricultural heartland. He reaches down with both hands and pulls up a clump of muck, turning it over to reve…
MIT Technology Review
The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury’s AI warning
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI Sam Altman’s proposal that Americans should share in the wealth created by AI is back in the spotlight, wit…
MIT Technology Review
Box survey: Why enterprise AI leaders are outperforming their peers
Presented by Box Content access, governance, and platform flexibility are emerging as the dividing lines between AI leaders and laggards, according to the new State of AI in the enterprise report from Box, which surveyed 1,640 IT decision makers across the US, UK, France, and J…
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International tech
China's AIFU Semiconductor Targets 1 Billion BAW Filter Chips Annually, Breaking Overseas Monopoly
Guangzhou-based AIFU Semiconductor ramps BAW filter chip production to 1 billion units, breaking Broadcom and Qorvo's 5G RF filter monopoly with proprietary single-crystal aluminum nitride technology.
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Microsoft begins replacing OpenAI, Anthropic models with in-house MAI AI across key products: Report
Microsoft has reportedly begun deploying its own AI models across some of… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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China’s AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur
Backed by the state, Chinese workers are using AI to deal with limited resources and drive innovation to compete with Silicon Valley.
restofworld.org
My dad is almost 70 and has no close friends, and I’ve stopped trying to fix it, because I finally understood he doesn’t experience it as a problem — he built a whole life on not needing anyone, and to him the quiet isn’t loneliness, it’s just how a man is supposed to live
My father is almost seventy and he has no close friends. Not one. No mate he rings on a Sunday, no old colleague he meets for a beer, nobody who would notice, in the first day or two, if he went quiet. For years this frightened me. So I did what you do. I tried ... Read more
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Psychology says boomers who feel invisible in their 60s and 70s aren’t imagining it — research consistently finds that Western cultures systematically withdraw social attention from older adults in ways that measurably alter how those adults see themselves
I first watched my mother disappear at a dinner party about three years ago. Nobody was rude. That is the strange part. She was sitting right there, glass in hand, and the conversation simply flowed around her, the way a river goes around a rock. Someone asked me about a restaura…
siliconcanals.com
From R&D to Data Analysis, AI Is Rewriting How Game Companies Operate
YOOZOO Interactive deploys AI agents across 75% of its workforce, using Tencent Cloud WorkBuddy to transform game development from coding to global marketing analytics.
pandaily.com

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Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
Article URL: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Showdown-in-Strasbourg-The-unexpected-return-of-Chat-Control-1-0-11356680.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819008 Points: 508 # Comments: 221
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LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Become an AI Engineer - Cohort 7
Our 7th cohort of Becoming an AI Engineer starts in less than a week. This is a live, cohort-based course created in collaboration with best-selling author Ali Aminian and published by ByteByteGo.
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Is Now the Time for Volumetric 3D Printing?
Of all innovations adopted by the maker community within the past couple of decades, one stands among the rest on top for anything regarding manufacturing. It goes without saying here …read more
hackaday.com
SB Mini II is a Homebrew Apple II Clone
On the one hand, the original Apple II has been copied over and over again since at least the early 80s, so maybe this hack is old hat to the …read more
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30papers.com – Ilya's 30 essential ML papers, in a beginner friendly format
Article URL: https://30papers.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48819608 Points: 282 # Comments: 49
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China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c33y0n1v1xjo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820220 Points: 242 # Comments: 284
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When An Engineering Education Doesn’t Teach You How To Really Make Anything
In the sweltering temperatures of an unusually hot European heatwave, I found myself having a chat with  a friend of mine from my university days. After discussing the health of …read more
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Good Judgment Beats Good Prompts
2026.04 - "Judgement is the last human skill AI can't replace". Everyone is saying it. I am trying to understand it. I want you to get good at it. Let's get philosophical and practical.
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Reverse Engineering and Self-Hosting the OBI Smart Energy Tracker
Sold by German DIY store OBI, the OBI Energy Tracker is a €15 set of two devices, one of which you essentially stick on top of your existing electricity meter. …read more
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