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Cognition hits $48B valuation, signaling investors believe AI coding is far from a winner-take-all market

Cognition's valuation multiple is higher than Cursor's was before selling to SpaceX.

The Exploration Company nabs $450 million to challenge SpaceX

The Exploration Company (TEC) has raised $450 million to build reusable spacecraft, in what it describes as “the…

Mercury 2.5

Mercury 2.5, a new diffusion-based language model, delivers a 40% intelligence improvement over Mercury 2 while…

Animation in Bevy: The Big Picture

The article explains how animation works in Bevy, a game engine, by building a mental model for beginners.

Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs

Researchers have successfully optimized Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter language model, to run on a MacBook Pro at 1…

Muse: Meta's personal AI agent, features and capabilities

Top chipmakers embrace ASML’s $400M machines, agree to crucial chipmaking change

Chipmaking changes could boost productivity of new ASML machines by 40 percent.

Function Arguments Are Not Function Colors

The article argues that function arguments are not "function colors" (a programming concept where changes propagate…

Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making…

“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens

Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.

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Update to Google’s AI weather model improves forecast accuracy

Like traditional weather models, it benefits from an expanded set of inputs.

OpenAI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem using $15m of AI effort

One of the trickiest problems in mathematics has now fallen to AI after just days of work.

How to watch Apple’s foldable iPhone announcement

Apple's annual iPhone event will stream live on September 9 at 10 AM PDT, and we're expecting big news.

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness…

Show HN: LLM Attention Visualization

This article introduces an interactive visualization tool that demonstrates how transformer-based language models use…

Google complies with EU rules for travel searches, says the new results stink

The EU continues to go after Google search practices it sees as anticompetitive.

Connecting the Machines

Herdr, a tool with over 700,000 downloads, has introduced the ability to connect and manage multiple machines from a…

The White House made a "Tetris" clone. The Tetris Company was not amused.

Trump admin's propaganda "arcade" hits some apparent legal limits.

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Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and…

Do you think it happened? Research stolen from their Codex private chats

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

LG smart TVs are continuously logging and uploading data about owners and their homes even when offline or on standby…

Why I'm Not Excited About the Graphene OS and Motorola Partnership

GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused custom Android operating system, has partnered with Motorola to develop phones running the…

The combat demo for Free Stars: Children of Infinity is out, and it's free

Blast your opponents in 1v1 arcade space battles like it's 1992 all over again.

C*: Unifying Programming and Verification in C

Researchers have introduced C*, a proof-integrated language that extends C with built-in verification capabilities,…

Into the depths of C: Elaborating the de facto standards (2016)

US Police Fear Meta Glasses Are Watching Them Back: Report

Memos from the NYPD to Homeland Security warn the devices could be used for covert filming inside jails and police…

Google’s revived nuclear power plant gets $1.9B loan from US government

Google said it would bring an Iowa nuclear power plant back from the dead.