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Prediction Markets Saved From Minnesota Ban by Last-Minute Ruling

Passing the law was a bit of an experiment in the first place.

OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer systems of Hugging Face, ano…

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San Diego Comic-Con 2026: Our Favorite Moments (and How to Travel Connected With Ubigi)

From Doomsday and a new Black Panther to Ryan Gosling's Ghost Rider, here are our favorite San Diego Comic-Con 2026 moments, plus the Ubigi eSIM to travel connected.

Why SAP says enterprise AI agents need knowledge graphs and governance

Presented by SAP At VB Transform 2026, Max McPhee, senior solution advisor at SAP, spoke with Rob Stretchay, lead analyst at VentureBeat Research, about what it takes for enterprises to move beyond chatbots to autonomous AI agents that can execute real business processes. He ar…

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How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors

Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste material from a now-closed nuclear enrichment facility. Lasers could help get it out. A company called Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) is looking to r…

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Thea Energy lands $20M federal grant to build its magnets for fusion reactors

Fusion power startup Thea Energy snagged a $20 million award from ARPA-E to scale production of its high-temperature superconducting magnets.

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Temple’s Valuation Jackpot, PhonePe’s FY26 Losses & More

Temple Hits $375 Mn Valuation Temple is riding a valuation surge. Deepinder Goyal’s wearable startup is undertaking its first ESOP…

CXMT surge shows why China stock buyers see IPOs as one-way bet

Chipmaker CXMT surged more than fivefold on its Shanghai trading debut to become the largest mainland-listed company by market value as the artificial intelligence boom stokes demand for memory chips. The stock closed at 49 yuan, versus a sale price of 8.66 yuan. That gave the He…

Tata Digital Posts Nearly ₹5,000 Cr Loss In FY26 As BigBasket Bleeds

Digital juggernaut Tata Digital’s net losses ballooned 7.9% to ₹4,974 Cr in the fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26) as against ₹4,610…

Moonshot AI to make Kimi K3 available for public download

Moonshot AI is set to release the model weights for Kimi K3 on July 27, allowing developers to download, modify, and host the model independently. Kimi K3 was launched earlier this month with 2.8 trillion parameters, native visual understanding, and a one-million-token context wi…

CiDi targets overseas growth for autonomous mining equipment

Hong Kong-listed CiDi plans to expand deployments of its autonomous mining equipment outside China, including a larger rollout of partially automated excavators in Australia this year. The company is also seeking contracts in the Middle East, South America, and Europe. CiDi expec…

Alibaba Launches 20+ Apps With 50+ Innovation Features on HarmonyOS: From Qwen AI Agent to Amap AR Navigation, Ali Ecosystem Goes Deep on Huawei Platform

Alibaba delivers over 50 HarmonyOS-native innovations across 20+ apps including Amap AR walking, DingTalk AI meeting via Xiaoyi, Taobao immersive browsing, and Qwen unified drag-drop AI analysis.

Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery

Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, the cost of developing new pharmaceuticals has roughly doubled every nine years—a phenomenon known as Eroom’s Law. Today,…

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You Can Finally Trust All Your Money to X, the Everything App

X Money has landed.

Schneider Electric’s VC Fund: The AI Buildout Is Creating A New Industrial Investment Cycle

Crunchbase News recently spoke with SE Ventures managing partner Amit Chaturvedy about how the company is backing startups building the technologies that underpin the AI economy — everything from data center infrastructure and grid resilience to robotics and industrial AI.

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A Labour Of Love Brings A Kids Book To The Spectrum

Back in the early 1980s when 8-bit home computers became affordable educational toys for children, the traditional paper publishing industry did its best to keep up. For a few brief …read more

Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise

https://www.inc.com/amaya-nichole/netflix-company-retreat-sp... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076923 Points: 265 # Comments: 227

Re-Testing an Apollo Guidance Computer Module that Failed Certification Testing

After getting his hands on a rope driver module from the Apollo project era that had a big ‘Scrapped Module’ stamped on it, [Mike Stewart] was naturally left curious as …read more

De-Aging Human Tissue Using Special Enzyme to Remove AGEs

With human bodies being bags of mostly salty water and countless messy biochemical processes, it’s little wonder that over time some residues tend to collect in these systems. Although evolution …read more

Using an open model feels surprisingly good

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A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/police-missed-one-underscore-and-sent-the-wrong-man-to-prison/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076116 Points: 252 # Comments: 134

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Reviving a Retro Mouse with BlueTooth low Energy support

One of the disadvantages to collecting retro peripherals is that they’re not necessarily easy to use anymore. [eSPee77] changes that by retrofitting a Genius GM-6000 mouse with modern hardware, all …read more

How NVIDIA Builds Open Models for the Age of AI

Bryan Catanzaro, VP of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, walked us through how his team builds the company’s open models, the reasoning behind their architecture, and why NVIDIA open-sources so much of it.

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

Article URL: https://github.com/humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/blob/main/benchmarking-opus-5-on-slop-code-bench.md Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076391 Points: 244 # Comments: 56