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The Trailer for the Final ‘Jumanji’ Movie Is a Lot

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan return to the fantasy franchise, out on Christmas day.

Encore AI raises $30M to build AI agents that learn from customer calls

The startup analyzes calls, messages, and CRM data to identify effective sales techniques and turn them into playbooks for AI agents.

Laboratoria’s Mariana Costa Empowers Women in Tech

In shaping her career, Peru native Mariana Costa has asked herself a question: What can I do to make life better for women in Latin America? The answer she landed on was training them for tech jobs. Mariana Costa Employer Laboratoria Title Co-founder and president Alma Maters …

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Spacecraft Sent to Rescue NASA Telescope Is Having Its Own Issues

Katalyst's Link spacecraft is tumbling in orbit, which is a troubling sign for a rescue mission.

Exclusive: Former Meta And Slack Engineers Raise $15M For New Startup Centralize To Build A ‘Deal GPS’ For Enterprise Sales

Centralize, an enterprise sales platform, emerges from stealth and shares exclusive news of its $15 million Series A funding round with Crunchbase News.

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6.5 Million Americans Live in Landslide Hazard Zones. A New Map Reveals if You’re One of Them

These disasters can be deadly, and understanding your risk will become increasingly important as the world warms.

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Alibaba Qoder Open-Sources Better Harness: An Open-Source Analysis and Continuous Improvement Tool for Programming Agent Workflows From Alibaba Cloud

Qoder releases Better Harness on GitHub, a three-layer open-source framework for coding agent workflow analysis covering Harness Engineering practices, evaluation models, and runnable implementations.

BlueStone, SafeGold Partner To Convert Household Gold Into Digital Gold

Omnichannel jewellery retailer BlueStone has partnered with digital gold platform SafeGold to launch a gold-monetisation initiative that converts offline household…

Anxious Chinese students are trusting AI to help pick colleges and majors

Alibaba, ByteDance, Baidu, and Tencent guide hundreds of millions of high-school grads to optimize the high-stakes university match system.

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Samsung weighs using Chinese-made DRAM to expand share in China’s budget smartphone market

According to South Korean media outlet Asia Times, China’s smartphone market has contracted significantly amid turbulence in the global semiconductor industry driven by rising chip and component prices. Samsung Electronics is reportedly considering adopting cost-competitive Chine…

What will the US foreign robot ban mean for China’s world-leading start-ups?

China’s robotics firms have run into a fresh obstacle in their global expansion, after the United States banned imports of new foreign-made models. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced “advanced robotic devices” to its Covered List on Tuesday, blocki…

Electronics Development Fund-Backed 128 Startups Raise ₹22.5K Cr

Startups and companies backed through the government’s Electronics Development Fund (EDF) have collectively raised about ₹22,553.82 Cr, union minister of…

Negotiating Your Salary Is About More Than Money

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! Scroll through LinkedIn right n…

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GM redesigned its engineering workflows around AI agents — and tripled its merged pull requests

Software engineers at General Motors' (GM's) autonomous driving division spend only 15% of their time writing code, according to Rashed Haq, GM's VP of autonomous vehicles, in a recent onstage interview at VB Transform 2026. GM is now using AI agents to accelerate much of the oth…

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Visa used Mythos to hunt for bugs in its own payment network, then open-sourced the harness that made it possible

Visa aimed Anthropic's Claude Mythos at the infrastructure behind billions of daily transactions, a network that spans more than 200 countries and territories, moves money in roughly 160 currencies, and connects nearly 5 billion payment credentials to more than 175 million mercha…

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Building a Portable Weather Radar

If you run a large meteorology bureau, then you probably have access to a wonderful weather radar for scrying the heavens. The rest of us aren’t so lucky. If you …read more

The ESP32 Gets a Web Browser

At the Hackaday Europe conference in Italy earlier in the year, we were shown a rather interesting device. The work of [Alun Morris], it was an ESP32-powered Cheap Black Display …read more

Behold The Most Beautifully Ambitious Starship Simulator Yet

[Kevin Kelm] created something wondrous: Halcyon Dawn, an utterly unique and desperately challenging game that is equal parts intricate starship simulator, imposing hardware console, video game, and love letter to …read more

French musician Kavinsky found dead

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/07/29/dj-kavinsky-known-for-his-track-nightcall-found-dead-at-his-paris-home Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49096290 Points: 287 # Comments: 65

Thingino Teaches Cheap IP Cameras New Tricks

I recently found myself in the market for a few IP cameras to keep an eye on my Prusa 3D printers, and quickly found that the options on the market …read more

Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac

Hi HN, I built a specialized inference engine for running 4-bit Gemma 4 26B-A4B-IT on any M-series Mac using about 2 GB of RAM. It is called TurboFieldfare and is written in Swift and Metal. I have always adored on-device AI. It feels like magic that you can run a powerful NN on …

Why DoorDash, Instacart, and Uber Eats Integrated LLMs Into Search Three Different Ways

In this article, we will walk through their differing solutions and try to make sense of their choices and understand the pattern behind them.

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How ChatGPT Optimizes its Agent Loop: Harness, API, and Inference

To understand what techniques are adopted in frontier labs to make AI applications more efficient, we met with the OpenAI engineers who developed and shipped various efficiency techniques into the systems behind Codex and ChatGPT Work.