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How Much Has the Iran War Cost the Average Family So Far?

About $2,000 per household, according to Moody's.

Why ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping’ Is So Colorful Despite Its Dark Story

The brightness of the film is meant to contrast just how deadly the arena is this time around.

The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

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. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a powerful new model released by…

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Cerebras CEO pushes back on AI doomsday warnings

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman has a message for AI leaders spreading doomsday warnings: Maybe stop talking? At TechCrunch Disrupt, he argued that the industry's focus on AI's risks is drowning out its potential benefits.

AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models

When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted roughly $25,000 for his code ba…

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Where The Next Generation Of Super Apps Will Be Built

The next generation of super apps will likely emerge in markets where widespread mobile access, weak competition, poor financial services and crises that erode trust in banks create demand for a single trusted platform, writes guest author Nnamdi Okike, co-founder and managing pa…

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[Update] Adani Enterprises, Jabil Sign MoU To Set Up AI-Focused Joint Venture

Update | October 13, 20:00 IST Adani Group’s flagship business Adani Enterprises and US-based manufacturing company Jabil Inc have signed…

Huawei Shows Full Kirin 9050 Pro Architecture, Says Kirin Devices Have Shipped Over 100 Million

At its first Kirin technical briefing in six years, Huawei showed the full Kirin 9050 Pro block diagram, said Kirin devices passed 100 million shipments and called Kirin 2027 ready.

AI Is Getting a Factory Job

Editor’s note: This article is republished from Jumpstart, a TechNode Group publication. The robot could follow the route. The worker knew when to skip it. Around 2022, Microintelligence encountered a problem that exposed the difference. A customer needed to inspect and grind a l…

Alibaba Opens Sign-Ups for Qwen Go!, a Personal Agent That Files Flight-Delay Claims and Refunds

Alibaba's Qwen app is preparing Qwen Go!, a personal agent that files flight-delay claims, requests price-protection refunds and books services. Access is opening in phases.

China’s five-ton-payload robot debuts at Shanghai’s CIIF, but real-world performance is what counts

Industrial robots have traditionally competed on precision, speed and repeatability. But as the rated payload of a single robot exceeds five tons, a new set of technical challenges emerges: how to handle and process large industrial components reliably and consistently. The 26th …

DeepSeek's Liang Wenfeng Is Meeting Embodied AI Founders as the Company Weighs a Move Into Robotics

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng has been talking with embodied AI founders and is considering whether to build a team or enter the field another way, Phoenix Tech reports. DeepSeek has not responded.

Shifting AI Doomsday Predictions Reportedly Worry Banking Regulators

European regulators are expecting AI-driven financial chaos sooner than later.

Helix Carbon says it can make iron cheaper by recycling blast furnace pollution

The steel industry is a big polluter, but Helix Carbon can upcycle pollution from blast furnaces to drive down emissions and improve margins.

Apple Newsroom: Apple today introduced Apple HomeView, designed to be central to the home and personal to everyone in it. With a stunning 7-inch Liquid Retina display, HomeView brings entertainment, connection, and smart home management together in one place, from playing music a…

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Show HN: Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard

Guitoro is a free browser guitar using recordings of real instruments. You can strum with your keyboard, mouse, or touchscreen, choose acoustic, classical, electric guitar or bass, and see chord fingering and each stroke. Song practice can be slowed to 20%, and there are free cho…

The FPGA Chronicles: Ready to Probe

In the last few installments, we looked at using the Tang Nano 20K with both the GOWIN tools and some open-source tools. The open-source tools certainly had the advantage of …read more

I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

Article URL: https://www.sammystraus.com/#i-posted-to-hn-and-then-my-website-was-flooded-with-ai-bot-traffic Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073221 Points: 233 # Comments: 145

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Redesigning source control at Anthropic

Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/redesigning-source-control Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073633 Points: 502 # Comments: 500

OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

https://x.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/2110095403198849132 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50078141 Points: 376 # Comments: 338

See also: Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074869 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50073879 Points: 949 # Comments: 734

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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.

Counting the PET Bottles Needed to Make 1 Kg of Printer Filament

In countries where PET bottles do not get slapped with an additional fee that induces you to return it for recycling and said fee back, the resulting piles of discarded …read more

JawnCon 0x3 Kicks off in Philadelphia this Friday

Philadelphia’s homegrown hacker con returns this weekend, and this time it’s starting a day early to pack in even more talks, demos, and activities. Tickets are still available for anyone …read more