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When A.I. is a member of the family
Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/07/20/when-ai-is-a-member-of-the-family Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922487 Points: 49 # Comments: 66
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Towards a harness that can do anything
Article URL: https://eardatasci.github.io/c/ambiance/index.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921077 Points: 127 # Comments: 66
Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)
Article URL: https://dev.moe/en/3025 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48920475 Points: 200 # Comments: 95
Briar is in maintenance mode
Article URL: https://briarproject.org/news/2026-maintenance-mode/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48919869 Points: 119 # Comments: 83
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Apple quietly reveals how its Maps ads will differ from Google’s
Apple has published the policies governing its upcoming Maps advertising business, revealing a strategy that differs from Google’s. The new rules prohibit home services businesses like plumbers, electricians, locksmiths, and roofers from advertising
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SpaceX slips below its $135 IPO price ahead of Starship launch
The stock has steadily fallen from the euphoric post-IPO high, showing that markets may be sobering up to the promises CEO Elon Musk made before and after SpaceX went public.
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Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling
It's the company's first public proof point after a year and a half spent building AI infrastructure largely out of public view.
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Phone maker OnePlus reportedly plans to wind down US and Europe operations
OnePlus could also wind down its operations in India by 2027
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Google’s biggest clean power project is 40 miles north of xAI’s unpermitted gas power plant
Google's biggest solar and battery project stands in sharp contrast with xAI's nearby unpermitted power plant.
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Hack suggests AI music generator Suno scraped YouTube for training data
The hacker used an employee's credentials to access source code, which revealed how Suno scraped decades of audio.
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Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations
Livestream shopping platform Whatnot has acquired AI startup Shaped, a machine learning company focused on real-time recommendations and search. The deal will bolster Whatnot’s personalization and discovery features as it expands into new product cat
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Inside Ode with Anthropic, the startup betting AI services are the future of enterprise
Can a handful of engineers really do the work of an army of consultants? That’s the bet behind Ode with Anthropic — the joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms, backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Fr
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Show HN: Painterly – Turn pictures into digital paintings without generative AI
Painterly is an application that "paints" input images stroke by stroke to produce digital paintings. GenAI is not used in any part of the production pipeline. There is a free demo available under Releases on the GitHub repo. Let me know what you thi
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Artie (YC S23) Is Hiring Software Engineers
Article URL: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/artie Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923833 Points: 0 # Comments: 0
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A General Goal-Conditioned Minecraft Model
Article URL: https://pantograph.com/journal/pan-1 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48923412 Points: 17 # Comments: 9