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Big Tech are the new Soviets
2025-12-10 10:32 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Are We over the "Jaws Effect?"
2025-12-10 05:32 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Microsoft Research, Providence, and UW develop the GigaTIME AI model, aiming to perform tumor analysis in a fraction of the time and cost of existing methods (Lisa Stiffler/GeekWire)
2025-12-10 05:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a "lower level" since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K (The Guardian)
2025-12-10 07:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Nvidia has privately demonstrated its unreleased location verification tech in recent months, which could show the country its chips are operating in (Reuters)
2025-12-10 06:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Coupang CEO Park Dae-jun resigns after the company incurred South Korea's largest-ever data breach, in which the personal data of 30M+ people was compromised (Mark Anderson/Bloomberg)
2025-12-10 06:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
'Source available' is not open source (and that's okay)
2025-12-10 05:32 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho opened up 54% in its stock market debut, giving the company a ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO (Bloomberg)
2025-12-10 05:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Dependable C
2025-12-10 06:32 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
DEEP Robotics, a Hangzhou-based startup that builds quadruped and humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series C to expand R&D and production capacity (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
2025-12-10 04:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Stellantis partners with Estonian ride-hailing service Bolt, which serves 200M+ riders, to test Level 4 driverless vans across Europe in 2026 (Romolo Tosiani/Reuters)
2025-12-10 04:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Boom's move to modify its supersonic engine to power AI data centers is another example of industrial capacity being repurposed to serve the AI supply chain (Bloomberg)
2025-12-10 03:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenEvolve: Teaching LLMs to Discover Algorithms Through Evolution
2025-12-09 23:31 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Agentic AI Foundation
2025-12-09 21:30 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Sources: China added AI chips from Chinese groups to its government-approved list of suppliers for the first time, before Trump's move to allow Nvidia exports (Zijing Wu/Financial Times)
2025-12-10 01:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Clearspace (YC W23) Is Hiring a Founding Designer
2025-12-09 17:30 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
224× Compression of Llama-70B with Higher Accuracy (Paper and Code)
2025-12-10 03:31 - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
 
Study: ~200 Instacart shoppers in four US cities were shown different prices for the same 20 grocery items; Instacart confirms it is running short term "tests" (Ben Casselman/New York Times)
2025-12-10 01:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Crunchyroll announces it is shutting down its free ad-supported streaming option on December 31; Crunchyroll subscriptions start at $7.99/month or $79.99/year (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
2025-12-09 23:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese AI startup Z.ai releases the GLM-4.6V series of vision models, with support for native function calling, available with 106B and 9B parameters (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
2025-12-10 00:31 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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