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Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died.

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/exclusive-death-girl-chinese-gene-editing-trial-was-never-made-public Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49027892 Points: 102 # Comments: 40

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Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in eight weeks

Corgi had announced a B1 round of $106 million at a $2.6 billion valuation at the end of May.

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Tesla’s door handles may spur new US safety rules

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck inside cars.

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Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable energy group.

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Anthropic updates Claude voice mode with more capable models

Claude's new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.

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AegisAI, founded by former Google security execs, lands $36M to stop AI-driven spear phishing

AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.

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Show HN: Echo – Fable-level results at 1/3 the cost using open-weight models

I’ve been building Echo ( https://echo.tracerml.ai/ ), an experiment in making one AI system out of a pool of open-weight models rather than choosing a single model and using it for every task. It started with a simple experiment. I took a group of m

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From Evaluation to Guardrails: What We Brought to ACM FAccT 2026

Article URL: https://blog.mozilla.ai/from-evaluation-to-guardrails-what-we-brought-to-acm-facct-2026/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49026059 Points: 6 # Comments: 0

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Building on ATProto

Article URL: https://lukekanies.com/writing/building-on-atproto/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025984 Points: 65 # Comments: 23

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A solid-state “atomic channel” for separating rare earth elements

Article URL: https://pme.uchicago.edu/news-events/news/cleaner-route-purifying-rare-earth-elements Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025831 Points: 32 # Comments: 3

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Geekbench 7

Article URL: https://www.geekbench.com/blog/2026/07/geekbench-7/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49025812 Points: 18 # Comments: 15

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Launch HN: Screenpipe (YC S26) – Record how you work and turn that into agents

Hi Hacker News, I'm Louis. I built Screenpipe ( https://screenpipe.com ), an app that records your screen and audio locally (only!), and gives AI agents a searchable memory of what you've seen, said, and heard. This makes it easier to automate your r

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Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI

Hi HN, we are Marcos and Harrison, cofounders of Palmier ( https://palmier.io ). We are building Palmier Pro, an open source macOS video editor, with built-in AI generation and a local MCP server that connects to your agent. Here are a few demos: - M

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US government says Iran-linked hackers are disrupting American water and energy providers

An updated government advisory warns that Iranian hackers are exploiting systems used by water and energy providers.

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Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.