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Luma launches AI-powered production studio with faith-focused Wonder Project
The studio's first project will be about Moses and star Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, to be released this spring on Prime Video.
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Netflix co-founder and chair Reed Hastings to leave board
Hastings helped to transform the video rental industry — first with physical, then digital, delivery.
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Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer
There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advanta…
MIT Technology Review
The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up?
When the covid-19 pandemic started, Jennifer Phillips thought about the songs of the sparrows. They were easier to hear, because the world had suddenly become quieter. Car traffic plummeted as people sheltered at home and shifted to remote work. Air travel collapsed. Cities—norma…
MIT Technology Review
Hollywood’s First Big Budget AI-Generated Movie Is About Bitcoin, of Course
Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot star in 'Paycheck: The Movie.'
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Colliding With Reality, Indeed
Anton Troianovski, reporting for The New York Times under the headline “Trump’s Portrayal of the War in Iran Collides With Reality”: President Trump is trying to cast his Iran war as all but over, a done-and-dusted success. But after years of trying to impose his own reality on t…
New York Times
International tech
China’s AI firms scaled up on open-source models. The next phase may be different
In China’s hyper-competitive and lucrative tech industry, releasing cutting-edge artificial intelligence models for free may seem counter-intuitive – but it has become a core business strategy. At the University of Hong Kong last November, Alibaba Group Holding chairman Joe Tsai …
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Claude puts up a wall as ID checks complicate access for Chinese users
AI tool Claude, developed by Anthropic, suddenly announced the rollout of a new identity verification system requiring users to complete a real-time selfie check while holding a government-issued ID. The move has drawn global attention, but for Chinese users in particular, it fee…
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Psychology says adults who still sleep with the television on aren’t just creatures of habit — many of them are filling the room with voices because at some point in their life the silence became the space where the worst thoughts lived, and a stranger talking about the weather at 2 AM is less frightening than whatever their own mind has to say when there’s nothing else competing for the air
The gentle glow of late-night television isn't just keeping millions of adults company—it's drowning out the conversations they're too afraid to have with themselves in the dark.
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Tencent Open-Sources Hunyuan 3D World Model 2.0 for Interactive Content Creation
Tencent released and open-sourced HY-World 2.0, enabling users to generate interactive 3D environments from text or images, compatible with major game engines.
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OpenAI upgrades ‘Codex’ with multi-agent workflows and desktop app control to challenge Anthropic’s Claude Code
OpenAI has released a major update to Codex, expanding it from a… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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TSMC targets over 30% revenue surge in 2026, ramps up capex amid booming AI demand
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) expects a revenue surge of more than 30 per cent in 2026 as the world’s largest contract chipmaker “pulls in all equipment” to ramp up supply, as management downplayed the impact of memory price hikes and Middle East tensions. During i…
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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.
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The New ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Trailer Amps Up the Nostalgia
Disney would *really* like to remind you that 'Star Wars' is back in theaters in a month now.
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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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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: 900 # Comments: 417
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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.
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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: 503 # Comments: 553
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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: 666 # Comments: 360
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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.
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Claude Opus 4.7
Article URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-7 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793411 Points: 1459 # Comments: 1058
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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: 300 # Comments: 65
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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
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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
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