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Melinda Gates’ venture firm backs Magnify Ventures’ $46.6M Fund II
Early-stage firm Magnify Ventures has raised a $46.6 million Fund II from LPs, including Melinda French Gates’ Pivotal Ventures.
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OpenAI proposed donating 5% of its equity to a US sovereign wealth fund
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.
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Popular TV-tracking app TV Time is shutting down as company focuses on AI
TV Time, the popular TV-tracking app, is shutting down on July 15 as parent company Whip Media pivots toward enterprise AI products.
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Lucid Motors’ CFO is out as its new CEO continues leadership shakeup
The company announced a new slate of executive hires meant to help turn things around, as Gravity SUV sales are not taking off as expected.
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Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target
Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.
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Musk’s X poses “serious risk to Americans’ privacy,” advocates warn FTC
FTC urged to reject Elon Musk’s bid to end X monitoring amid AI concerns.
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Tesla sales increase by 25% in Q2 2026
Deliveries outstripped production, suggesting Tesla has cleared some inventory.
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Woman's hip replacement disintegrates, causing severe metal poisoning
Doctors find grey fluid and dead, metallic flesh inside poisoned woman's hip.
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Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) let an untrusted proved show that computation was executed correctly without revealing the inputs to the verifier. However to prove anything, the computation first has to be expressed as a circuit: a system of polynomial
Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
Article URL: https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763035 Points: 78 # Comments: 13
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Launch HN: Manufact (YC S25) – MCP Cloud
Hi HN, we are Pietro and Luigi, cofounders of Manufact ( https://manufact.com ), a cloud for MCP apps and servers. We used to be called mcp-use, and still build open source SDKs for MCP under that name: https://github.com/mcp-use/mcp-use . We did a S
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Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models
Article URL: https://github.com/rafal-qa/slopo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762038 Points: 19 # Comments: 5
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Show HN: Mail Memories – A desktop app to rescue photos from Gmail
Hey HN, I’m the creator of Mail Memories. Like many of you, I've had my Gmail address for more than 20 years. A few years ago, I got curious and wanted to see what photos were buried deep in my account. I ended up finding lots of "lost" pictures of o
AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
Article URL: https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/science-nature/technology/20260306-314930/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761536 Points: 152 # Comments: 58
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Show HN: A graph paper generator that renders vector PDFs in the browser
Article URL: https://freegraphpaper.net/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761294 Points: 29 # Comments: 6