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Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%

Xiaomi has permanently reduced prices for its MiMo-v2.5 Series API by up to 99%, with the base MiMo-v2.5 model now…

Stack Overflow’s forum is dead but the company’s still kicking

3D-printable humanoid legs let robotics experiments run wild

Hugging Face debuts $2,500 bipedal robot project for builders and researchers.

Sage Care (YC S24) Is Hiring Software Engineers

Sage Care, a YC S24-funded startup, is hiring founding software engineers to build an AI-native operating system for…

Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive

Ferrari's share price dropped up to 8% following the launch of its first electric vehicle, the Luce, designed by former…

Windows' classic 3D Space Cadet pinball is getting a physical re-creation

But there are some real-world constraints that virtual pinball could easily ignore.

This startup is betting India’s gig economy can train the world’s robots

Human Archive, a startup founded by Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear…

What Color is Your Function? (2015)

This article uses a fictional programming language with "colored" functions (red and blue) to illustrate a concept about…

Language Models Need Sleep

Researchers propose a "sleep-like" mechanism for transformer language models that periodically consolidates recent…

StepFun's Voice AI Topped Every Benchmark. It Also Hears Your Sighs

The Shanghai lab that builds LLMs that punch above their weight just turned that same energy on voice—and the results…

Ghost hackers: the cybersecurity mystery that nobody has solved

A shadowy group that stole and dumped the NSA’s most powerful hacking tools still has implications for how companies…

Iranian hackers blamed for breach of Los Angeles transit system that took weeks to recover

An Israeli cybersecurity firm said Iran’s government is behind Ababil of Minab, a fake hacktivist persona that has…

AI guardrail removals raise questions over limits of open-source model regulation

Financial Times testing found safety controls on open AI models from Meta and Google could be stripped in minutes,…

Vatican Drops Scary AI Ethics Warning: Danger For Crypto?

Big tech executive sounds alarm on mass job losses as Vatican drops an AI-related warning that hits home to crypto.

Ferrari’s first EV is not for you

The Ferrari Luce seems to be more aimed at regulatory compliance and China, putting a lot of pressure on the Jony…

Launch HN: Minicor (YC P26) – Windows desktop automations at scale

Hey we’re Faiz and Saheed and we built Minicor so AI companies who need to integrate to desktop systems with no API can…

Universal Music Group and TikTok renew agreement to combat unauthorized AI music

For years, UMG has pushed platforms, streaming services, and AI companies to implement stricter content moderation…

Don't Subscribe So Casually

The article argues that subscriptions—particularly AI services like ChatGPT—deserve more careful consideration than most…

Stockholm poised to become leading European geospatial intel player

Sweden is acquiring five Pelican satellites from US company Planet Labs, positioning itself to have more spy satellites…

Spotify now lets you stream narrated magazine articles, too

Spotify is adding narrated magazine articles to its app as it expands beyond music into audiobooks, podcasts, AI audio,…

A global brand but local cars is Audi's future, says CEO

We talk with Gernot Döllner, CEO of Audi AG, about where he's taking the company.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Early Bird ticket rates end May 29

Save up to $410 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass before prices increase on May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT.

C64 Basic: Game Map Overhead "Camera View"

This article explains how to implement an Ultima-style overhead camera view in Commodore 64 BASIC by separating the…

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down

https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/dropbox-leadership-u...

AWS Fired the One Employee Who Gave a Damn

AWS fired Tarus Balog, a 20-year open-source veteran whose proudest accomplishment was helping restore a developer's…

7-Eleven data breach affects over 185,000 people’s personal data

The data breach included names, dates-of-birth, postal addresses, and Social Security numbers, according to a state…

Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car

The interior is spectacular; the exterior looks better in person than on screen.

Outsourcing plus LocalAI will soon become more economical vs. Frontier labs

Driving Porsche's most powerful car—and no, it's not a 911

1,139 horsepower, 400 kW charging, brutally fast, and brutally expensive.