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Databricks confirms new $100B valuation on $4B ARR

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-13 00:33:26

In Brief Just nine months after raising a whopping $10 billion (plus $5 billion in debt) in January, Databricks has confirmed another $1 billion raise at a $100 billion valuation. When rumors of the raise first broke last month, Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi told TechCrunch that the company is using the funds to invest in its Supabase-competitor database for AI agents. “A year ago, we saw in the data that 30% of the databases were not created by humans,” said Ghodsi. “For the first time, they wer

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Google wants Gemini to keep the conversation going, and here’s how it’s going to do it

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 04:26:22

Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing a feature within Gemini that suggests follow-up questions. The suggestion prompts help users explore topics and engage in in-depth conversations to get more out of their AI interactions. The feature seems to be a limited test for now. If you’re old enough to have used search engines before their AI-fication, you’re most likely using your AI digital assistant more like a search engine and less like a digital assistant. That means more

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EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-13 04:36:17

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Dish parent company EchoStar is selling wireless spectrum licenses to SpaceX for around $17 billion, the companies announced on Monday. SpaceX says it will use the spectrum to create the “next generation” of Starlink’s cellular satellite service, which customers

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Starlink direct-to-cell satellite connectivity expanding beyond T-Mobile

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-13 08:27:56

SpaceX and the company behind Boost Mobile have struck a deal that will bolster Starlink’s direct-to-cell satellite mobile service. EchoStar has agreed to license AWS-4 and H-block spectrum to SpaceX. The agreement is worth up to $17 billion with half in cash and half in SpaceX stock. For iPhone users, the deal will also expand Starlink’s satellite mobile service beyond T-Mobile, which is currently the exclusive U.S. mobile service provider with Starlink service. In connection with the transa

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

news.ycombinator.com Frank Gasking 2025-10-13 07:01:18

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The iPhone 17’s potential makeover might be just enough

theverge.com Allison Johnson 2025-10-13 08:00:00

is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in mobile photography and telecom. Previously, she worked at DPReview. There’s probably a lot of market research out there by fancy people who analyze consumer data trying to answer one question: Why do people choose an iPhone? Is it a reputation for better privacy? Long-term reliability? Targeted ad campaigns? I think it’s a lot simpler than anyone wants to acknowledge: Their previous

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2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

technologyreview.com Helen Thomson 2025-10-13 20:30:00

Goenka saw a better way: Build a real-time system that could “stream” the sequencing data, analyzing it as it was being generated, like streaming a film on Netflix rather than downloading it to watch later. To do this, she designed a cloud computing architecture to pull in more processing power. Goenka’s first challenge was to increase the speed at which her team could upload the raw data for processing, by streamlining the requests between the sequencer and the cloud to avoid unnecessary “chat

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OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-13 20:56:43

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is on a mission to show Hollywood that generative artificial intelligence can deliver results and is throwing its weight behind an animated feature film it hopes will stand toe-to-toe with much costlier productions, according to the Wall

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AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies

news.ycombinator.com Torsten Sløk 2025-10-13 20:56:48

The US Census Bureau conducts a biweekly survey of 1.2 million firms, and one question is whether a business has used AI tools such as machine learning, natural language processing, virtual agents or voice recognition to help produce goods or services in the past two weeks. Recent data by firm size shows that AI adoption has been declining among companies with more than 250 employees, see chart below. This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in w

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Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 12:14:08

Verified Nominee: Taco Bell Corporation for deploying voice AI ordering systems at 500+ drive-throughs and discovering that artificial intelligence meets its match at “extra sauce, no cilantro, and make it weird.” Reported by: Isabelle Bousquette, Technology Reporter for The Wall Street Journal - August 28, 2025. The Innovation Taco Bell boldly deployed voice AI-powered ordering systems across more than 500 drive-through locations, convinced that artificial intelligence could finally solve hu

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Default musl allocator considered harmful to performance

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-11 11:42:04

TLDR: In a real world benchmark, the default musl allocator caused a 7x slowdown compared to other allocators. I recommend all Rust projects immediately add the following lines to their application’s main.rs : // Avoid musl's default allocator due to lackluster performance // https://nickb.dev/blog/default-musl-allocator-considered-harmful-to-performance #[cfg(target_env = "musl" )] #[global_allocator] static GLOBAL : mimalloc ::MiMalloc = mimalloc::MiMalloc; And Cargo.toml [ target . 'cfg(ta

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Report: Apple planning to launch Apple Intelligence in China before end of 2025

9to5mac.com Dylan Mcdonald 2025-10-13 15:24:32

Since launching Apple Intelligence in 2024, Apple has been working to release the set of features in China, the largest smartphone market in the world. But, from the very start, they have faced pressure from both China and the United States. Now they might finally be close to launching. Apple’s past struggles One of the primary issues Apple is facing is that any company looking to launch generative AI product in the country must have approval from a local regulator. In order to get this approv

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Serverless Horrors

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:00:03

ServerlessHorrors is a simple blog where you can read all the horror stories of serverless. Yikes! Made by Andras who is working on an open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative called Coolify. Have a story?

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The Creators of ‘Wednesday’ Tease Their Season 3 Plans

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-13 14:50:16

The second season of Netflix’s Wednesday came to a close earlier this week, and with season three on the way, creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have just one objective: “Make it the best season of [the show] we possibly can, and continue digging deeper into our characters,” according to Millar. In a recent Tudum blog, the duo teased some things viewers can expect the third time around. While keeping mum on spoilers, they told audiences to examine season two’s final episode, which lays “a n

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‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Summons a Franchise-Best Box Office

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-10-13 16:15:13

After a longer-than-expected wait, the fictionalized versions of Ed and Lorraine Warren have financially gone out with a bang. Per the Hollywood Reporter, this weekend’s The Conjuring: Last Rites has made $187 million worldwide. Of that, $83 million came domestically, becoming the best launch for a Conjuring movie, the third-biggest open for a horror movie overall, and well past initial projections from Warner Bros. and box office analysts. Internationally, its $104 million take also defied exp

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Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

techcrunch.com Anthony Ha 2025-10-13 17:23:23

A new research paper from OpenAI asks why large language models like GPT-5 and chatbots like ChatGPT still hallucinate, and whether anything can be done to reduce those hallucinations. In a blog post summarizing the paper, OpenAI defines hallucinations as “plausible but false statements generated by language models,” and it acknowledges that despite improvements, hallucinations “remain a fundamental challenge for all large language models” — one that will never be completely eliminated. To ill

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AI Companion App Shuts Down Amid Controversy

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 12:30:19

In the frenetic world of artificial intelligence, virtual companions have exploded into a market all their own. A recent survey found that some 72 percent of teens said they've experimented with artificial buddies. Of those, over 50 percent say they have a regular relationship with the chatbots. But there's no guarantee those companions will stick around forever — something users of the AI startup Dot are learning the hard way after the company announced it was going belly up on Friday. Found

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Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study finds

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 15:56:51

While scientists are still working to understand the effects an extended trip to space can have on the human body, research in recent years has suggested that astronauts may experience some pretty dramatic changes on both the physiological and psychological levels. In the latest study led by a team at University of California San Diego, researchers found signs of accelerated aging in human stem cells that spent roughly a month in space. The research focused on hematopoietic stem and progenitor

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Belling the Cat

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 14:15:35

Medieval fable attributed to Aesop Gustave Doré's illustration of La Fontaine's fable, c. 1868 Belling the Cat is a fable also known under the titles The Bell and the Cat and The Mice in Council. In the story, a group of mice agree to attach a bell to a cat's neck to warn of its approach in the future, but they fail to find a volunteer to perform the job. The term has become an idiom describing a group of persons, each agreeing to perform an impossibly difficult task under the misapprehension

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Garmin Beats Apple to Market with Satellite-Connected Smartwatch

news.ycombinator.com Juli Clover 2025-10-09 18:18:09

Less than a week ahead of when Apple plans to unveil the Apple Watch Ultra with satellite capabilities, Garmin introduced its own smartwatch with satellite connectivity. The Fenix 8 Pro is Garmin's first smartwatch to feature its inReach satellite and cellular connectivity. InReach is the technology that Garmin uses for its handheld navigation devices. With inReach, the Fenix 8 Pro can send location check-ins and text messages over satellite using the Garmin Messenger app. There is also incl

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Here’s How Much More AI-Skilled Workers Make

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-13 15:05:13

Employers are increasingly offering pay boosts for workers with artificial intelligence skills, even in roles beyond tech. How much more? We looked at three different studies to see just how much more artificial intelligence skills will pay. According to CNBC, roles specifying AI competencies are trending across job postings, with employers adding salary incentives for candidates who bring the right mix of AI know-how—even in traditionally non-technical roles. The emerging trend reflects the g

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Starlink Halves the Cost of Its Dish for New Sign-Ups

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 11:00:00

For households in rural areas or regions where traditional ISPs still fall short, Starlink has become a lifeline for fast, reliable internet. The satellite service has opened up access in places that once had few options, and now it's rolling out one of its most affordable offers yet for new customers. Right now, the Starlink standard kit is marked down to $175, which is a 50% cut from its usual $349 price. Unlike past promotions that were limited to certain areas, this discount is available na

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Apple's iPhone 17 Event Is Just Two Days Away. Here's How to Watch

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 12:00:03

Apple's annual fall iPhone launch event is just days away. The keynote kicks off Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT. Apple is expected to unveil the iPhone 17 lineup, which could include a slimmer version of the phone, as well as the Apple Watch Series 11 and the AirPods Pro 3. The invite, which Apple sent on Aug. 26, shows the title "Awe Dropping," with a dynamic Apple logo that seems to reference Siri's colorful glow. There's also an interactive element when you view the invite on Apple.com. With a finge

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Sunday Night Football: How to Watch Ravens vs. Bills Tonight

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-10-13 13:00:05

The first Sunday Night Football game of the season is the best matchup of week 1, with the Bills hosting the Ravens tonight in Buffalo. Both teams are again among the favorites in the AFC to get to the Super Bowl, and each has an MVP QB. Josh Allen of the Bills won the award last season, and Baltimore's Lamar Jackson earned the honor the season before that. The Bills knocked the Ravens out the playoffs last year, so tonight gives the Ravens a chance to start the new season off by exacting reven

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The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 07:26:44

Smalltalk MVC is defined in Design Pattern as: MVC Consists of three kinds of objects. The Model is the application object, the View is its screen presentation, and the Controller defines the way the user interface reacts to user input. However this definition has been abused over the years - Back in 2003 I gave a talk citing how bad Apple’s definition was. At the time it stated: A view object knows how to display and possibly edit data from the application’s model… A controller object acts a

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Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

wired.com Kyle Orland 2025-10-13 16:00:00

If you were trying to learn how to get other people to do what you want, you might use some of the techniques found in a book like Influence: The Power of Persuasion. Now, a preprint study out of the University of Pennsylvania suggests that those same psychological persuasion techniques can frequently "convince" some LLMs to do things that go against their system prompts. The size of the persuasion effects shown in "Call Me a Jerk: Persuading AI to Comply with Objectionable Requests" suggests t

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The MVC definition has been abused

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 12:26:44

Smalltalk MVC is defined in Design Pattern as: MVC Consists of three kinds of objects. The Model is the application object, the View is its screen presentation, and the Controller defines the way the user interface reacts to user input. However this definition has been abused over the years - Back in 2003 I gave a talk citing how bad Apple’s definition was. At the time it stated: A view object knows how to display and possibly edit data from the application’s model… A controller object acts a

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Amazon Startup Announces Plans to "Finish" Orson Welles' Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage

futurism.com Unknown 2025-10-13 09:00:07

Recently, a minor miracle was achieved in the world of film preservation. A long-lost version of "A Better Tomorrow II" (1987), John Woo's sequel to his heroic bloodshed classic "A Better Tomorrow" (1986), was discovered and is now slated to be released to the public. For nearly 40 years, Woo's preferred cut of the Hong Kong action movie had been considered destroyed. When it was being made, the studio demanded that Woo's workprint, which ran nearly three hours, be pared down to less than two,

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Apple could reintroduce iPhone mini thanks to this recent lineup change, here’s how

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-13 10:28:59

In 2020, Apple surprised a lot of people by re-entering a neglected segment of the smartphone market: small phones. With iPhone 12 mini, Apple did something fairly special, by squeezing all of the same technologies of the iPhone 12 into a 5.4-inch form factor. Unfortunately, it didn’t live for too long, but thanks to a recent lineup change, a new window might’ve opened for its resurgence. iPhone mini history The iPhone mini ultimately lived a 2 year life. There was the iPhone 12 mini, then a s

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8BitDo's Ultimate 2 controller for Switch 2 is on sale for only $54

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-13 09:09:40

8BitDo makes some of our favorite gaming accessories, and right now you can get one of its Nintendo Switch 2 controllers for the lowest price we've seen yet. A deal on Amazon shaves 14 percent off the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 controller's usual $70 price tag, bringing it down to $60 — and with a coupon you can apply before checkout, it drops a bit more to $54. The discount only applies to the white color option. The Ultimate 2 Bluetooth controller is one of the best Switch 2 accessories out there. (It

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Latest Tech News

Databricks confirms new $100B valuation on $4B ARR

Google wants Gemini to keep the conversation going, and here’s how it’s going to do it

EchoStar offloads satellite spectrum to SpaceX for $17 billion

Starlink direct-to-cell satellite connectivity expanding beyond T-Mobile

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Adventure Prototype Recovered for the C64

The iPhone 17’s potential makeover might be just enough

2025 Innovator of the Year: Sneha Goenka for developing an ultra-fast sequencing technology

OpenAI comes for Hollywood with Critterz, an AI-powered animated film

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Taco Bell AI Drive-Thru

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Report: Apple planning to launch Apple Intelligence in China before end of 2025

Serverless Horrors

The Creators of ‘Wednesday’ Tease Their Season 3 Plans

‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’ Summons a Franchise-Best Box Office

Are bad incentives to blame for AI hallucinations?

AI Companion App Shuts Down Amid Controversy

Human stem cells age more rapidly in space, study finds

Belling the Cat

Garmin Beats Apple to Market with Satellite-Connected Smartwatch

Here’s How Much More AI-Skilled Workers Make

Starlink Halves the Cost of Its Dish for New Sign-Ups

Apple's iPhone 17 Event Is Just Two Days Away. Here's How to Watch

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The key to getting MVC correct is understanding what models are

Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules

The MVC definition has been abused

Amazon Startup Announces Plans to "Finish" Orson Welles' Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage

Apple could reintroduce iPhone mini thanks to this recent lineup change, here’s how

8BitDo's Ultimate 2 controller for Switch 2 is on sale for only $54

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