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If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably an AI Bot
A recent report showed that over 35 percent of new webpages are AI-written. They're increasingly AI-consumed as well.
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We’re Squandering LEDs’ Potential to Save Our Night Skies
In the chill of a London spring night, under overcast skies, iconic Trafalgar Square opens around me. Admiral Nelson rises on his pedestal, the National Gallery rests behind, the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields sits nearby. From the 13th century, the site served as the Royal Me…
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Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation
The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
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At VB Transform 2026, Zillow's engineering chief said AI ROI numbers only hold up if you measure before you build
Zillow, the real estate technology company, doesn't get one conversation with its customers. They move from a phone screen to a loan officer to a real estate agent, sometimes over months or years, and expect the context to follow them. A single chatbot could never carry that thre…
venturebeat.com
The cleanup trap: Stop asking RAG to fix bad data
The enterprise technology ecosystem is caught in a costly cycle. Over the past two years, millions of dollars have been funneled into generative AI pilots, yet many of these initiatives stall out before ever reaching a live production environment. When a project fails, the immedi…
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Weak AI Regulation Is Worse Than No Regulation, Researchers Claim
Game theory says the best AI safety regulation is strict and targets everyone in the supply chain, according to the paper.
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International tech
17 American deaths, a bombed nuclear site, and a shattered ceasefire — the US-Iran war Washington won’t call a war
The U.S. and Iran are locked in an undeclared war that neither side wants to openly acknowledge, even as American troops die and Iranian missiles fly.
siliconcanals.com
AI Chip Cooling Breakthrough: Scientists Create Theta-TaN Metal With 3x Copper Thermal Conductivity, Ending a Century-Long Record
UCLA and Tohoku University create theta-phase TaN single crystal with 1,100 W/mK thermal conductivity, approaching diamond-level heat dissipation with metal process compatibility for AI chip packaging.
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XPower Technology Defies Big-Chip Orthodoxy: Small RPP Architecture Chips Use Distributed Computing to Beat Giants at AI Inference
XPower Technology unveils RPP architecture AE7100E chips at WAIC: fingernail-sized chips with 12 on one card, supporting 400B-1.6TB parameter models through distributed computing at lowest token cost.
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BlueStone Zooms 20% After Reporting Third Consecutive Profitable Quarter
Shares of omnichannel jewellery major BlueStone rallied as much as 20% to touch an intraday high of ₹729 on the…
inc42.com
Alibaba outlines Qwen3.8 with 2.4 trillion parameters
Alibaba’s Qwen team has previewed Qwen3.8, a forthcoming model with 2.4 trillion parameters, and said its weights will be released soon. A preview version, Qwen3.8-Max-Preview, is already available through Alibaba’s Token Plan, Qoder and QoderWork. Alibaba has not yet provided de…
technode.com
China’s AI talent race is starting in high school
As demand for elite AI engineers outpaces supply, companies are recruiting teenagers through camps, research programs, and guaranteed job pipelines.
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Detection of a Four-Carbon Sugar in Interstellar Space
Although life tends to find a way, something first has to kickstart said lifeforms. Exactly how the first biological cells formed on Earth – and potentially on other worlds – …read more
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Sail Virtually Aboard the “Itanic” with IA-64 Emulator
Intel’s Itanium architecture was an interesting experiment, but it has gone down in history as one of the chip giant’s bigger flops, so much so that it earned the name …read more
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MCP vs A2A vs ACP: How AI Agents Actually Talk to Each Other
Agents are capable on their own. Combined with tools and other agents, their capabilities compound.
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What is the value of one hour of a startup founder's time?
Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.
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Echolocation for Drones
Bats are remarkable creatures, able to fly at night or inside the confines of caves without light to guide their way. A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) …read more
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Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team
Article URL: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-project-leadership-changes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986091 Points: 256 # Comments: 200
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20 FPS on E-Paper Display Without Help
If electronic paper displays have one downside, it’s generally refresh rate. Earlier versions of the tech might only have been able to do single-digit frames per second, while modern, mid-range …read more
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Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Police, & Public
Article URL: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48986731 Points: 408 # Comments…
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Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding
https://archive.ph/20260720174223/https://asia.nikkei.com/bu... Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987863 Points: 291 # Comments: 186
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