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OpenAI has bought AI personal finance startup Hiro
The acquisition indicates a capability that OpenAI is building into ChatGPT: financial planning.
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OpenAI Exec Reveals New Strategy in Leaked Memo: Attack Anthropic
Shots fired.
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Tahoe Nitpick of the Day: ‘Reduce Transparency’ Makes Layers Harder to See, Not Easier
Tuomas Hämäläinen, on Mastodon: We’re at Mac OS 26.4 and seems like the accessibility toggles should be way more considered than they are. Here’s a comparison between “Reduce transparency” off and on. How does it make sense that turning this setting on actually reduces contrast b…
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Is Anthropic 'nerfing' Claude? Users increasingly report performance degradation as leaders push back
A growing number of developers and AI power users are taking to social media to accuse Anthropic of degrading the performance of Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code — intentionally or as an outcome of compute limits — arguing that the company’s flagship coding model feels less capabl…
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Microsoft is officially killing its Outlook Lite app next month
Launched in 2022, Outlook Lite is a lightweight version of the regular Outlook app, designed for Android phones with limited storage and regions with slower internet connections. The app had already been scheduled for retirement.
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China Leads Asia’s Startup Funding To Its Highest Level In More Than 3 Years
Overall, investors put $27.4 billion to work across seed- through growth-stage financings for Asian companies in Q1, per Crunchbase data. That’s up about 20% from the prior quarter and nearly double year-ago levels, with total funding also hitting its highest level in more than t…
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International tech
In its push to become Big Tech’s data center hub, India is overlooking local resistance
Google and Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar projects under construction in India are facing backlash from farmers, while the government offers huge tax relief to foreign companies setting up data centers.
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SenseTime Launches Care U, Expanding AI from Vehicles to Home Scenarios
SenseAuto launched Care U, an AI home companion extending in-vehicle intelligence into household scenarios with cross-device memory and coordination. The product aims to connect car, home, and office environments through a unified AI system.
pandaily.com
Gourmet On The Pet Plate
Picture a sweltering Delhi evening: a young professional is busy preparing dinner while her golden retriever watches her with hopeful…
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NODWIN Appoints Ex-Nazara CEO Manish Agarwal To Board Ahead Of IPO
Gaming and esports media platform NODWIN Gaming has onboarded Manish Agarwal to its board as a non-executive director in preparation…
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Geely Unveils i-HEV Hybrid System with 48.4% Thermal Efficiency
Geely unveiled its i-HEV hybrid system with a thermal efficiency of 48.4% and fuel consumption as low as 2.22L/100km, among the highest for mass-produced engines. The system will be deployed across its core vehicle lineup.
pandaily.com
TraqCheck Raises $8 Mn To Build AI Agents For Recruitment
Enterprise tech startup TraqCheck has raised $8 Mn (about ₹74.6 Cr) in its Series A funding round led by IvyCap…
inc42.com
An Amazon warehouse worker died on the job at Oregon facility
Though Amazon has faced issues with warehouse safety, the company said that the death was not work related.
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Uber and Nuro begin testing premium robotaxi service in San Francisco
Uber employees can now hail a Lucid robotaxi as part of the testing.
techcrunch.com
Agentic coding at enterprise scale demands spec-driven development
Presented by AWS Autonomous agents are compressing software delivery timelines from weeks to days. The enterprises that scale agents safely will be the ones that build using spec-driven development. There’s a moment in every technology shift where the early adopters stop being o…
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Reverse-Engineering Human Cognition and Decision Making in a Modern Age
Cognitive processes are not something that we generally pay much attention to until something goes wrong, but they cover the entire scope of us ingesting sensory information, the processing and …read more
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Electric Truck Sets Racing Record
The 24 Hours of Le Mans races is an extremely prestigious endurance motorsport event which attracts the best cars and drivers from around the world. It’s one of the longest-running …read more
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Your Own Tool Changer
All the cool new 3D printers have tool-changing heads. Instead of multiplexing filament through one hot end, you simply park one hot end and pick up another. Or pick up …read more
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ESP32 Weather Display Runs Macintosh System 3
It seems like everybody takes their turn doing an ESP32-based weather display, and why not? They’re cheap, they’re easy, and you need to start somewhere. With the Cheap Yellow Display …read more
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EP210: Monolithic vs Microservices vs Serverless
A monolith is usually one codebase, one database, and one deployment.
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How LinkedIn Feed Uses LLMs to Serve 1.3 Billion Users
In this article, we will look at how the LinkedIn engineering team rebuilt the Feed and the challenges they faced.
bytebytego.com
DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor
Article URL: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/photo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760529 Points: 408 # Comments: 96
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A new spam policy for "back button hijacking"
Article URL: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760764 Points: 242 # Comments: 129
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They Weren’t Joking: Gentoo WAS ported to GNU Hurd
Long ago, in the aftermath of the UNIX wars, three kernels emerged from the rubble: BSD, Linux, and Hurd. BSD, being UNIX, was held back by legal wrangling in the …read more
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