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AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them

Article URL: https://davidepiffer.com/p/ai-isnt-outthinking-mathematicians Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49312845 Points: 204 # C…
eigendrum

eigendrum

Article URL: https://eigendrum.com/#p=circle Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305250 Points: 211 # Comments: 1…
Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

Magnitude 7.7 Earthquake – 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia

Article URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000tkt2/executive Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49306577 Points…
Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong

Meta’s ‘open’ AI, and a $250M deal gone very wrong

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse&#1…
Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Does Mark Zuckerberg really believe AI is ‘for everyone’?

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse&#1…
Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba

Apple trained its own AI model for China with help from Alibaba

Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts a…
Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

Article URL: https://www.cerebras.ai/blog/accelerating-gpt-5-6-sol-ultrafast-with-openai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49289844 P…
Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors wanted $15B. It settled on $5B at a $190B valuation.

AI is expensive, Ali Ghodsi tells TechCrunch. With so many investors wanting into his latest round, he said yes to more than planned.…
Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe

Article URL: https://tradersunion.com/news/central-banks/show/2973571-deutsche-bank-becomes/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492847…
Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public

Anthropic could be worth $2 trillion when it goes public

Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history…
Quiet luxury has come for wearables

Quiet luxury has come for wearables

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that sw…
Shade Map

Shade Map

Article URL: https://shademap.app Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49271757 Points: 227 # Comments: 57…
Why This Prediction Market Banned Teens

Why This Prediction Market Banned Teens

Jacob Fortinsky, the CEO and cofounder of the new prediction market Novig, says his outfit isn’t like those other markets. You know the ones.…
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings raises $2B to bring AI to the enterprise

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Alitmeter Capit…
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

AI is removing the middle class of software engineering

Article URL: https://blog.florianherrengt.com/ai-removing-middle-class-software-engineering.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49…
How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures

How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures

Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multipl…
Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M

Lovable confirms new $13.3B valuation, raises another $400M

This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.…
AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith’s valuation jumps almost 10x in less than a year

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.…
Android now has a tap-to-share feature

Android now has a tap-to-share feature

Android's AirDrop-like Quick Share feature will now let some devices exchange files and contact information when tapped together. The update is coming…
You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong

You’re Thinking About Online Trends All Wrong

From pessimism around dating to AI reshaping culture, cyber-ethnographer Ruby J. Thelot tells WIRED why people are putting too much stock into things …
An FCC filing points to new Sonos headphones coming soon

An FCC filing points to new Sonos headphones coming soon

It looks like we'll be getting a successor to the Sonos Ace headphones sometime this fall, which was hinted at by CEO Tom Conrad during a third quarte…
Is It Safe to Eat Lettuce Yet?

Is It Safe to Eat Lettuce Yet?

“That product is off the market, so I think there’s absolutely lower risk for cyclospora in terms of eating lettuce,” one professor of food safety tel…
Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution

Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.…
OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer

San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.…
The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime

The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime

Japan’s strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span. Here’s what to watch.…
These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes

These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes

A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-…
My server is a phone now

My server is a phone now

Article URL: https://seg6.space/posts/phone-server/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226636 Points: 218 # Comments: 84…
Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

https://xcancel.com/un1c0rnioz/status/2084686552299634805 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49215786 Points: 200 # Comments: 151…
Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com…
New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/climate/amazon-data-center-texas-pollution.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=492…