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Exclusive: GetWhys Raises $5.2M To Help Companies Like Intel And Verizon Better Understand Their Customers

GetWhys, a Boise, Idaho-based AI-powered customer intelligence platform, has raised $5.2 million in funding, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.

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Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, narrowly retaking lead for most powerful generally available LLM

Anthropic is publicly releasing its most powerful large language model yet, Claude Opus 4.7, today — as it continues to keep an even more powerful successor, Mythos, restricted to a small number of external enterprise partners for cybersecurity testing and patching vulnerabilitie…

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Factory hits $1.5B valuation to build AI coding for enterprises

The three-year-old startup raised $150 million led by Khosla Ventures.

Bonus Thought Regarding the Name ‘iPhone Ultra’

One more thought re: the item I posted this week speculating on what Apple will name their much-rumored two-screen folding iPhone this year. If they do name it “iPhone Ultra”, I think Apple using that name for the folding iPhone will imply that they have no plans whatsoever to ev…

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OpenAI debuts GPT-Rosalind, a new limited access model for life sciences, and broader Codex plugin on Github

The journey from a laboratory hypothesis to a pharmacy shelf is one of the most grueling marathons in modern industry, typically spanning 10 to 15 years and billions of dollars in investment. Progress is often stymied not just by the inherent mysteries of biology, but by the "fr…

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Salesforce launches Headless 360 to turn its entire platform into infrastructure for AI agents

Salesforce on Wednesday unveiled the most ambitious architectural transformation in its 27-year history, introducing "Headless 360" — a sweeping initiative that exposes every capability in its platform as an API, MCP tool, or CLI command so AI agents can operate the entire system…

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International tech

JD.com launches robot ambulance service, plans expansion to 50+ cities across China

JD.com on Wednesday launched its robot ambulance service, offering maintenance and repair solutions for humanoid robots, quadruped robots, AI companion robots, and more. The service covers basic repairs, fault diagnosis, battery replacement and recharging, testing and certificati…

XPeng Launches GX Flagship SUV with Pre-sale Price of RMB 399,800

XPeng Motors has officially launched pre-sales for its all-new full-size flagship SUV, the XPeng GX, starting at RMB 399,800 (approx. $55,500). The model offers both BEV and extended-range variants, with up to 750 km of electric range and advanced autonomous driving capabilities …

People who research every decision exhaustively before acting aren’t thorough — they’re trying to build a guarantee in a world that doesn’t sell them because the last time they trusted their gut without evidence something expensive happened and the body never forgot the bill

The spreadsheets, the endless reviews, the weeks of research before buying a coffee maker — it's not thoroughness, it's your nervous system trying to protect you from a pain that already happened, and it's costing you more than any wrong decision ever could.

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Pocket FM Claims EBITDA Profitability, Crosses $400 Mn ARR

Audio entertainment platform Pocket FM’s cofounder and CEO Rohan Nayak yesterday said that the company crossed the $400 Mn (₹3,720…

Anthropic launches ‘Claude Opus 4.7’ with stronger coding and vision capabilities

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, an upgraded version of its flagship… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.

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Decoding Agnikul’s Cosmos Race With SpaceX On 3D-Printed Rocket Engine

Fourth country to achieve a soft-landing on the Moon. First to reach the lunar south pole. First to reach Mars…

White House Is Reportedly Ready to Drop Its Anthropic Beef and Embrace the Spooky New Model

Anthropic's Mythos might soon be deployed across the federal government.

The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram Inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee ope…

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Chance Miller: ‘Netflix Ruined Its Apple TV App by Switching to a Custom Video Player’

Chance Miller, 9to5Mac: The change began rolling out a few weeks ago, and user frustration is mounting. On Reddit, there’s a growing thread of Netflix subscribers saying they are canceling their subscription because of this change to the Apple TV app. [...] The change also means …

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Codex for almost everything

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/codex-for-almost-everything/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796469 Points: 608 # Comments: 335

Emergency Bolt-Action Launcher for EpiPens

Imagine you and your friend are enjoying a nice sunny day, and BAM — they start to have a severe allergic reaction to who knows what. You have an EpiPen, …read more

The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?

Article URL: https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792718 Points: 461 # Comments: 501

The Kentucky Cave Wars, and Going Viral in 1925

Information, it seems, flows at the speed of media. In the old days, information traveled with people on ships or horses, so if, say, a battle was won or lost, …read more

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/16/qwen-beats-opus/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796830 Points: 245 # Comments: 59

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Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all

Article URL: https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.6-35b-a3b Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47792764 Points: 842 # Comments: 398

FPGA Powers DIY USB Scope and Signal Generator

Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools for analyzing, testing and diagnosing circuits but we often take for granted how they work. Luckily, [FromConceptToCircuit] is here to …read more

Figma Design to Code, Code to Design: Clearly Explained

This article covers how Figma’s design-to-code and code-to-design workflows actually work, starting with why the obvious approaches fail, how MCP solves them, and the engineering challenges that remain.

A Guide to Relational Database Design

In this article, we cover the core concepts that inform those decisions. We’ll look at tables, keys, relationships, normalization, and joins, with each concept building on the last.