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Spanish ‘soonicorn’ Multiverse Computing releases free compressed AI model

Spanish startup Multiverse Computing has released a new version of its HyperNova 60B model on Hugging Face that, it says, bests Mistral's model.

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Apple rolls out age-verification tools worldwide to comply with growing web of child safety laws

Apple complies with new age-assurance laws in the U.S. and abroad, including those that block users from downloading apps aimed at adults.

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Uber engineers built an AI version of their boss

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said the company’s employees have gone all in on AI, going so far as to build a chatbot of him that they use to practice their pitches.

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Stripe is reportedly eyeing deal to buy some or all of PayPal

Stripe might be looking to buy PayPal, or parts of it, per early reports.

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WBD says Paramount’s new, higher offer could be “superior” to Netflix's

WBD's board is still reviewing the offer.

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Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

Coal makes a bit of a comeback, if only by accident.

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Fed's Cook says AI triggering big changes, sees possible unemployment rise

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/feds-cook-says-ai-triggering-big-changes-sees-possible-short-term-unemployment-2026-02-24/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47145088 Points: 26 # Comments: 7

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Mercury 2: The fastest reasoning LLM, powered by diffusion

Article URL: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/blog/introducing-mercury-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144464 Points: 6 # Comments: 1

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Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid

Article URL: https://www.cape.co/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144325 Points: 24 # Comments: 14

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Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/paypal-stock-stripe-acquisition-report.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144064 Points: 41 # Comments: 25

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Dream Recorder AI – a portal to your subconscious

Article URL: https://dreamrecorder.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143976 Points: 9 # Comments: 9

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Show HN: Moonshine Open-Weights STT models – higher accuracy than WhisperLargev3

I wanted to share our new speech to text model, and the library to use them effectively. We're a small startup (six people, sub-$100k monthly GPU budget) so I'm proud of the work the team has done to create streaming STT models with lower word-error

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Pi – a minimal terminal coding harness

Article URL: https://pi.dev Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47143754 Points: 101 # Comments: 44

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Show HN: Tag Promptless on any GitHub PR/Issue to get updated user-facing docs

Hi HN! I'm Prithvi—my co-founder Frances and I launched Promptless almost a year ago here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43092522 ). It's an AI teammate that watches your workflows—code changes, support tickets, Slack threads, etc.—and automa

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Former L3Harris Trenchant boss jailed for selling hacking tools to Russian broker

Peter Williams, the former head of U.S. hacking tools maker L3Harris Trenchant, was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing and selling his former company’s hacking and surveillance tools to a Russian firm.