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Exclusive: Stella & Dot Founder Raises $5M For Her Next Act, AI Marketing Startup Marklo

In this Crunchbase News exclusive, we spoke to Marklo AI founder Jessica Herrin about her solution to the marketing problems she encountered when building earlier startups, and how a group of investors, led by Forerunner, are backing that early experience with a $5 million seed f…

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Audible’s Star-Studded Take on ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ Is a Horned Up, Full-Body Experience

Starring Hollywood actors Jonathan Bailey, Ella Purnell, and Maggie Gyllenhaal, the Audible Original transforms the classic gothic tale into an intimate, ASMR-style theatrical performance.

YouTube Music launches new labels as AI-generated music floods streaming platforms

The label will appear on the player page and include songs entirely generated by AI or partially, such as involved in composition and vocals.

Apate sends AI agents undercover to get scammed so they can gather fraud intelligence

Most companies use AI agents to ship products faster or speed up workflows. Apate.ai sends them undercover to get scammed.

38 Companies Join The Crunchbase Unicorn Board In Blockbuster September, Led By Semiconductor, Fintech And Space Tech Companies

Semiconductors, financial services and space technology led for new Unicorn Board counts with the remainder hailing from a broad swath of industries including biotech, AI infrastructure, AI training, security and frontier labs.

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How I Learned That Some Startup Problems Are Too Big For A Minimum Viable Product

Complex, interconnected problems like compliance require a comprehensive product from the outset, argues guest columnist Daniel Kjellén, CEO and co-founder of Freda. Drawing on his experience selling Tink, he explains how repeat founders can combine capital, credibility and hard-…

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Dobot Launches VEGA 7, a Seven-Axis Force-Controlled Arm for Embodied AI With 50,000-Hour MTBF

Dobot's VEGA 7 has torque sensors and brakes in every joint, 0.15N force control accuracy, a 7kg payload and 725mm reach, aimed at wheeled dual-arm robots and embodied AI work.

Alibaba launches Qwen N1 AI glasses with swappable batteries, starting at RMB 2,899

Alibaba launched its Qwen N1 and N1 Pro AI glasses in China on October 13, with standard packages priced from RMB 2,899 and RMB 3,399, respectively. Both models feature replaceable batteries in the temples, allowing users to swap batteries during use. The glasses combine a 50-meg…

Scimplify Bags $25 Mn To Scale Its Semiconductor Chemicals Business

Speciality chemical manufacturing startup Scimplify has raised $25 Mn (around ₹238 Cr) in a fresh funding round led by Hitachi…

Doubao Phone Assistant Opens Screen Automation to Third-Party Apps as 151 Apps Opt Out

ByteDance's Doubao phone assistant ended the 30-day notice period for its SAEP protocol and will gradually allow AI screen automation in third-party apps that have not opted out.

Infotech Acquires Lightspeed-Backed SaaS Startup Zluri

IT advisory firm Infotech has acquired Bengaluru-based SaaS startup Zluri to add the latter’s application discovery, identity governance and administration…

Tencent launches free short-drama service inside WeChat

Tencent has launched a free short-drama mini program inside WeChat called Lüpaopao Duanju. The service offers live-action, animated and AI-generated dramas, with advertisements shown between episodes. The mini program includes a browsing section and a vertically scrolling recomme…

Mosqitter is turning its mosquito traps into an AI-powered surveillance network

Mosqitter is turning its mosquito-trapping hardware into an AI-powered surveillance network designed to identify species, monitor populations, and provide earlier warnings of mosquito-borne disease risks.

Hiyd is a health tracker that attaches to the watch you already wear

Former Apple engineers figured out how to get a biometric sensor to attach to your watch without any magnets or adhesives.

Fujifilm’s New Square 3 Instax Camera Comes With Analog Filters

The instant camera will let you alter the color and tone of photos with no digital assistance.

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Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet

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Tiny e-Paper Display Delivers 30 FPS of Game Boy Fun

Slow refresh, ghosting and low-contrast — wait, are we talking about passive matrix LCDs, or e-paper displays? That might be why e-paper Game Boy emulators are a thing: the limitations …read more

Testing Oneself for AI Slop

The feed of a Hackaday writer brings many surprises, some rubbish, and the occasional diamond which of course we bring to you. Sometimes a page catches the eye that’s not …read more

How the Math Used in 19th-Century Heat Physics Helps LLMs Understand Sentences

In this article, we are going to understand how this connection works and why a model needs help understanding the order of the words even when the words already arrive in an ordered list.

Switzerland proposes banning profiling-based ads to minors

Article URL: https://www.admin.ch/en/newnsb/NMn5s24l8NjQ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50087328 Points: 229 # Comments: 143

DIY Force Sensing Joysticks are a Cheap Way To Go

Traditional joysticks typically use potentiometers or hall effect sensors to determine the displacement of the stick itself when moved by the operator. Force-sensing joysticks are considered more desirable for certain …read more

2026 Hackaday Supercon: Workshops are Open!

Supercon is Hackaday’s annual gathering, and you absolutely need to be there. Today, we’re pleased to announce our lineup of workshops, and it’s more than we’ve ever offered, thanks to …read more

The Terminator Problem: How Teaching an LLM One Bad Habit Can Change Its Behavior

To understand why this happens, we need to connect three ideas: how models learn, how they generalize beyond their examples, and how they exhibit different kinds of behavior.