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Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
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Michigan sees explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite with over 700 cases
Cases have risen quickly as officials are working to identify a common source.
GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
Article URL: https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-26-108193 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48824826 Points: 36 # Comments: 4
We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code
Article URL: https://odra.dev/slopfix/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823359 Points: 37 # Comments: 13
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Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
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Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan
Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.
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Surprisingly large number of people may have marker for tick-linked meat allergy
There's still a slew of questions about why some people develop alpha-gal syndrome.
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SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls "censorship regime"
Texas win at 5th Circuit left in place as attempts to overturn age law continue.
Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera
Article URL: https://allaboutcookies.org/eu-mandatory-distracted-driver-system Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48823557 Points: 252 # Comments: 316
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Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.
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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
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Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and fixed the problem.
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Google’s Pixel event is set for August 12
Google's upcoming event in August will introduce new Pixel devices.
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Figma acquires team behind a vibe-coding app
The Y Combinator-backed company started a vibe-coding platform and later built an agent-creation product.
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VC firm Chemistry is raising $500M for its second fund
Chemistry Ventures, the VC firm launched by Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz alums, is raising $500M for its second fund.