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Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI

Score: 213 | Comments: 140

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A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)

Score: 164 | Comments: 50

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Decisions API is in public beta

Score: 350 | Comments: 188

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Silicon Valley’s AI wunderkind launches Underdog, the most private Instinct/Muse competitor yet

Sigil Wen, backed by a Silicon Valley who's who, has built an on-device AI assistant that promises to be free, fully private, and capable for everyday tasks.

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Bloody Cavemen

Score: 19 | Comments: 2

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How AI decision models could change content moderation

On Tuesday, Musubi announced a lightweight decision model made for real-time moderation called PolicyLM-1.7B, released with open weights.

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AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO

Nvidia-backed Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation ahead of a planned 2027 IPO, led by Coatue and Blackstone.

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The next hurdle for AI agents: getting websites to let them in

Personal AI agents promise to shop, book flights, and make reservations for you. But deliberate blocks and anti-bot defenses are getting in the way, leaving consumers caught in the middle. A new stand

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Cleo (Mathematician)

Score: 186 | Comments: 37

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Hark releases an AI personal assistant with a focus on privacy

The AI lab's personal assistant is an operating system from the future designed to compete with Muse, Dots, and Instinct.

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Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model

Score: 233 | Comments: 132

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Noto means "no tofu": fixing dotted circles in Myanmar text

Score: 19 | Comments: 10

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India’s JioHotstar takes partnership route for Middle East expansion

JioHotstar will be offered inside Starzplay rather than through a stand-alone service.

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How to head into VR without wearing a headset

Score: 43 | Comments: 21

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Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior

Mirror Particle will launch at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with a world model built from scratch to predict human behavior, arguing that LLM role-play falls short for market research

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Furientis lands $25M from Benchmark to mass-produce low-cost missile interceptors

The storied Silicon Valley firm makes its first pure defense investment.

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OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI

Score: 310 | Comments: 358

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Learn all about scaling, fundraising, founder how-tos, and more at TechCrunch Founder Summit, November 4

There isn’t a single manual to read or prompt to give an LLM that can equip you with the skills and knowledge to build a company. But on November 4, TechCrunch Founder Summit gives founders the next-b

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How machines learned precision

Score: 196 | Comments: 66

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EmbeddingGemma 2: An open, lightweight multimodal embedding model

Score: 368 | Comments: 36

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