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Beyond Semantic Similarity

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Kevin Hartz’s A* just closed its third fund with $450M

The firm takes a generalist approach, backing companies across categories such as AI applications, fintech, healthcare, and security. The average check size for this fund will be between $3 million an

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Former Tesla exec and Heron Power CEO Drew Baglino has founded a heat pump startup

Sadi Thermal Machines is Drew Baglino's second startup since leaving Tesla in 2024.

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CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq

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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experie

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Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model

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Quack: The DuckDB Client-Server Protocol

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Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim

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Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era

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Googlebook

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Anthropic warns investors against secondary platforms offering access to its shares

"Any sale or transfer of Anthropic stock, or any interest in Anthropic stock, offered by these firms is void and will not be recognized on our books and records," the company's support page reads.

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Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare

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Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Broc

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Potholes cost cities millions: This company is using AI and trucks to fix them

Fleet management company Samsara has developed an AI model to detect different kinds of potholes and gauge how fast they're deteriorating.

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Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit

Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground.

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Show HN: Agentic interface for mainframes and COBOL

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Everything Google announced at its Android Show, from Googlebooks to vibe-coded widgets

Google unveiled its new AI-first Googlebooks laptops, more agentic Gemini features, vibe-coded Android widgets, Gemini in Chrome, refreshed Android Auto, and more ahead of I/O.

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The AI legal services industry is heating up — Anthropic is getting in on the action

Anthropic's new tools are designed to help law firms automate specific clerical functions — things like document search and review, case law resources, deposition prep, document drafting, and other re

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Google adds Gemini-powered dictation to Gboard, which could be bad news for dictation startups

Google's transcription feature will initially launch with Samsung Galaxy and Google Pixel phones.

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Android adds a feature to stop you from doomscrolling

Google’s new Android feature, Pause Point, forces you to wait before opening distracting apps in an effort to curb addictive scrolling habits.

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