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China Just Dropped Another Bomb on America’s Frontier AI Companies
Moonshot's Kimi K3 beat Claude Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 in some benchmarks... and it's an open model.
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Digital Surveillance Reshapes Fishery Enforcement in Indonesia
In the eastern Indian Ocean, south of Java in the vast sea stretching toward Australia, a fishing vessel slightly alters its course while operating near the boundary of its authorized fishing ground. Nothing appears unusual on deck. Nets remain in the water. Engines maintain a st…
spectrum.ieee.org
The risk of weather data sabotage is rising
Every morning, airline dispatchers, grid operators, and farmers around the world make decisions based on the same thing: a weather forecast. While these forecasts are something that most people glance at for two seconds, weather predictions influence major strategic decisions in …
MIT Technology Review
European Commission Adds Exemptions for Watches and Earbuds to Portable Battery Removal Rules
The European Commission: The European Commission adopted a delegated act today (14 July) introducing new rules that exempt additional products from EU requirements on the removability and replaceability of portable batteries. Under the EU’s Batteries Regulation, portable batterie…
environment.ec.europa.eu
The agent security gap: 54% of enterprises have already had an AI agent incident, and most still let agents share credentials
Across 107 enterprises, AI agents are being given real access to systems and data while the controls meant to contain them lag behind. More than half have already had a confirmed agent security incident or a near-miss; only about a third give every agent its own scoped identity, …
venturebeat.com
The Billion-Dollar Seed Isn’t The Deal You Think It Is
Despite attention-grabbing AI mega-seed rounds, historical data shows that very large first financings rarely produce venture-scale returns because high entry valuations limit investor upside. Instead, argues guest author Ellie McDonald, the strongest venture outcomes have typica…
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International tech
DPDP Is Coming Fast But Indian Startups Are Moving At Different Speeds
India’s data protection law is no longer a can that companies can kick down the road. With the Digital Personal…
inc42.com
XPeng launches MONA L03 in Munich, taking aim at Europe’s electric SUV market
On Thursday, XPeng unveiled the MONA L03 smart SUV at its global launch event in Munich, Germany. The model will be launched in 65 countries and regions, including China, Europe, and other overseas markets, according to the Chinese automaker. The launch marks a strategic move in …
technode.com
Uber is acquiring Delivery Hero for $14.8Bn
Uber is powering its global food delivery ambitions with its latest $14.8Bn… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
thetechportal.com
We tend to think a breakup hurts because we miss the person, but sometimes the sharper ache is losing the daily role of fixer or calm one that made us feel useful and known
Grief researchers find the sharpest pain of a breakup is often not missing the person but losing the role — the fixer, the calm one — that only existed in relation to them.
siliconcanals.com
JFS’ Profitability Flex, Reo.Dev Bags $11 Mn & More
Jio Financial Services’ Bumper Q1 It was a profitable Q1 for Jio Financial Services. Buoyed by a humming lending engine…
inc42.com
Xi Jinping calls for ‘openness’, opposes ‘one country’ rule in AI – as it happened
President Xi Jinping spoke on Friday at the opening of the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), China’s largest annual event for the AI industry. Xi’s personal attendance elevated the conference’s profile, and signalled AI development has become both a technologi…
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NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook
Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936451 Points: 307 # Comments: 154
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Bad Apple on a Karaoke Machine
CD+Graphics was a format that never really caught on. It let music discs pack some graphics, maybe liner notes, and mostly song lyrics into the otherwise empty space on a …read more
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White Rails are the Infrastructure Hack We Didn’t Know We Needed
Railroads might be a nineteenth century technology, but they’re still the backbone of cargo transportation in the 21st century. They’ve also far from run out of innovation, including this one …read more
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Wireless LCD Streaming for the ANENG AN870 Multimeter
Having the information shown on the display of a digital multimeter also recorded off-screen can be incredibly useful, but unless the device exposes something like SCPI on a network interface, …read more
hackaday.com
Decoy Font
Article URL: https://www.mixfont.com/experiments/decoy-font Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936584 Points: 554 # Comments: 127
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A Sloshing-Mercury-Powered Neon Light
In 1675, while transporting a barometer by night, the astronomer Jean Picard noticed a glow inside its glass tube, just above the mercury. As the mercury sloshed and splashed across …read more
hackaday.com
AI Customer Support at Scale: The Travel Industry’s $Billion Bet
In this article, we will look more closely at the different solutions by following the support pipeline from first principles, show why a tail of cases resists automation regardless of model quality, and use these three approaches to understand how these can be handled.
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How LLMs Learn to Be Helpful (RLHF vs DPO)
In this article, we will look at how that learning actually happens, starting with why instruction-following alone falls short, then walking through the two main methods for teaching preferences (RLHF and DPO).
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A Guide to Multi-Tenancy: Benefits and Challenges
In this article, we will understand multi-tenant architecture from the basics, along with its various benefits and challenges.
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