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Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab closes on $2B at $10B valuation

techcrunch.com Rebecca Bellan 2025-11-15 18:59:33

In Brief Thinking Machines Lab, the secretive AI startup founded by OpenAI’s former chief technology officer Mira Murati, has closed a $2 billion seed round, according to The Financial Times. The deal values the six-month-old startup at $10 billion. The company’s work remains unclear. The startup has leveraged Murati’s reputation and other high-profile AI researchers who have joined the team to attract investors in what could be the largest seed round in history. According to sources familiar

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Red Bull brings 5th Valorant Home Ground tournament to New York

venturebeat.com Rachel Kaser 2025-11-15 22:00:46

Red Bull announced today that it is holding Home Ground, its Valorant Off//Season esports tournament, in New York for its 5th anniversary. It will hold the tournament at the Manhattan Center on November 13-16. It’ll feature 18 teams and a total of $100,000 in prizes. According to Red Bull, six invited teams will compete alongside 12 qualifying teams, with the confirmed invited teams being Sentinels, T1, Fnatic, ZETA Division and G2 Esports. Regional qualifiers are still taking place, with teams

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NASA Aircraft Set to Perform Wild Low-Altitude Stunts Around These U.S. Cities

gizmodo.com Passant Rabie 2025-11-15 23:25:14

NASA is getting ready to fly two planes over mid-Atlantic states and parts of California, where they will be carrying out special maneuvers at a close distance while collecting valuable data about our changing planet. The two research aircraft, named P-3 Orion (N426NA) and a King Air B200 (N46L), are set to fly over Baltimore, Philadelphia, the Virginia cities of Hampton, Hopewell, and Richmond, in addition to the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and Central Valley, according to NASA. The flights

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AMD's next-gen UDNA graphics cards will support up to 80 Gbps HDMI 2.2 connectivity

techspot.com Kishalaya Kundu 2025-11-16 09:20:00

Something to look forward to: AMD has reportedly been working on its next-generation GPU architecture for at least two years. The new architecture will be called UDNA, replacing the RDNA name, and is expected to deliver significantly faster performance than RDNA 4. A tipster has now shared details about the rumored HDMI configuration of the first-generation UDNA GPUs. According to Kepler_L2, UDNA GPUs – codenamed GFX13 – will support 64 Gbps and 80 Gbps bandwidths over HDMI 2.2 connections. If

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Malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 09:51:17

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Snap acquires Saturn, a social calendar app for high school and college students

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-11-16 09:04:31

Snap has acquired Saturn, a calendar app that helps students manage their school schedules and share them with others, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Saturn will continue to operate as a standalone app. The news was first reported by Engadget. Snap says almost the entire Saturn team is joining Snap as part of the acquisition, with just under 30 full-time employees coming on board. Although Snap didn’t share much about its pla

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Chip stocks fall on report U.S. could terminate waivers for Taiwan Semi and others

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-11-16 14:26:22

A motorcycle is seen near a building of the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), which is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company, in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on April 16, 2025. Semiconductor stocks declined Friday following a report that the U.S. is weighing measures that would terminate waivers allowing some chipmakers to send American technology to China. Commerce Department official Jeffrey Kessler told Samsung Electronics , SK Hynix and Taiw

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Applebee’s and IHOP have plans for AI

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-16 14:21:52

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. Applebee’s and IHOP plan to launch an AI-powered “personalization engine” that could help its restaurants provide recommendations and customized deals, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The personalization engine would use a customer’s past purchases — or the orders of customers similar to them — to make recommendations. Justin Sk

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Nvidia wants in on the nuclear renaissance, invests in Bill Gates-backed TerraPower

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-16 12:41:06

TerraPower, the nuclear startup founded and backed by Bill Gates, announced a new $650 million funding round this week. The investment will help the company build its first commercial power plant. Like other nuclear startups, TerraPower has been riding a wave of interest from hyperscalers, data center developers, and, now, chip designers. Nvidia’s venture arm, NVentures, participated in the round, marking its first energy investment. Bill Gates and HD Hyundai, both already on the cap table, al

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Character.AI taps Meta’s former VP of business products as CEO

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-11-16 14:20:06

Character.AI, the Google-backed AI chatbot provider with tens of millions of monthly active users, announced on Friday that Karandeep Anand, the former VP of Business Products at Meta, is joining the company as CEO. Previously a board adviser to Character.AI, Anand is stepping into the CEO role at a pivotal moment for the chatbot provider, as the company tries to simultaneously grow its platform while combatting child safety concerns. In recent months, Character.AI has added an array of new saf

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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

techcrunch.com Kyle Wiggers 2025-11-16 14:27:58

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to supercharge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth with 300 million weekly active users. 2024 was a big year for OpenAI, from its partnership with Apple for its generative AI offering, Apple Intelligence, the release of GPT-4o with voice capabilities, and the highly-anticipated launch of its text-to-vide

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Snap is acquiring Saturn, a calendar app used at thousands of high schools

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-16 18:00:46

Snap has acquired Saturn , a calendar app for high school and college students. The company didn't disclose the terms of the deal but said that close to 30 of Saturn's full-time employees will be joining Snap as part of the acquisition. It's not clear what exactly Snap has planned for Saturn, but the company confirmed to Engadget that the calendar app will continue to operate as a standalone service. It also suggested that the acquisition could help Snap bring calendar-focused features into Sna

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Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor (2018)

news.ycombinator.com Laura Gil 2025-11-16 10:52:50

Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.” It was 1972. On the one hand, there was a dark piece of radioactive natural uranium ore, extracted from a mine in Africa. On the other, accepted scientific data about the constant ratio of radioactive uranium in ore. Examination of this high-grade ore from a mine in Gabon was found to contain a lower proportion of uranium-235 (U-235) — the fissile sort. Onl

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Klarna Now Has a Mobile Phone Service. It's Yet Another New Wireless Option for You

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-16 16:54:00

Klarna, the Swedish buy-now-pay-later financial services company, is introducing a mobile phone plan the company says it will promote to its 25 million US customers. Klarna is partnering with Gigs, a San Francisco company that provides mobile virtual network operator services, allowing companies to create their own wireless brands. MVNOs seem suddenly popular: In the last week, the Trump Organization launched Trump Mobile, with its own gold-tinted phone on the way. And the popular SmartLess pod

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Nvidia wants in on the nuclear renaissance, invests in Bill-Gates backed TerraPower

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-11-16 18:41:06

TerraPower, the nuclear startup founded and backed by Bill Gates, announced a new $650 million funding round this week. The investment will help the company build its first commercial power plant. Like other nuclear startups, TerraPower has been riding a wave of interest from hyperscalers, data center developers, and, now, chip designers. Nvidia’s venture arm, NVentures, participated in the round, marking its first energy investment. Bill Gates and HD Hyundai, both already on the cap table, al

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10 strategies OpenAI uses to create powerful AI agents - that you should use too

zdnet.com David Gewirtz 2025-11-16 23:01:19

Just_Super/Getty Images AI integration is moving at an astonishing pace. Just a few months ago, we were coming to terms with the idea of AI agents, or what the buzzword mavens call "agentic AI." Now, we're starting to look at issues of practical deployment. If you're not fully up to speed on agents, that's okay. Few people are. OpenAI defines agents as "Systems that independently accomplish tasks on your behalf," with an emphasis on "independently." ZDNET has a full guide on the topic, which i

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Open source can't coordinate?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-16 06:06:12

Open Source Can’t Coordinate I was taking a shower this morning, and was pondering yesterday’s problem, where I suspect that I have an outdated version of hotspot Linux profiler, but I can’t just go and download a fresh release from GitHub, because hotspot is a KDE app, and I use NixOS. And NixOS isn’t a problem — it’s a solution. Linux on desktop is a rickety tower of competing libraries, protocols and standards, which is always in an Escheresque sort of perpetual motion, taking off but simul

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Visualizing environmental costs of war in Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaä

news.ycombinator.com Jgs Editor 2025-11-16 23:23:29

Audrey Aguirre Upland High School, Upland, CA, USA. Email: audrey.a.aguirre (at) gmail (dot) com Download PDF Past studies on Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (風の谷のナウシカ; Topcraft, 1984) have primarily focused on its ecological themes and anti-war messages through analysis of the narrative as a whole or Nausicaä’s character. These studies address the ethical and environmental consequences of war shown through the dystopian nature of the film’s setting and its religious symbolism. However, I

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Tesla inks first deal to build China's largest grid-scale battery power plant

cnbc.com Ganesh Rao 2025-11-17 04:48:19

Tesla has inked its first deal to build a grid-scale battery power plant in China amid a strained trading relationship between Beijing and Washington. The U.S. company posted on the Chinese social media service Weibo that the project would be the largest of its kind in China when completed. Utility-scale battery energy storage systems help electricity grids keep supply and demand in balance. They are increasingly needed to bridge the supply-demand mismatch caused by intermittent energy sources

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Klarna is making an unexpected move into the mobile carrier space

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-17 04:56:39

Chase Bernath / Android Authority TL;DR Klarna is joining the mobile carrier market. The company’s mobile service will launch in the US in the coming weeks with one $40 plan. The service will also be available in the UK, Germany, and other markets at a later date. Premium and international plans will roll out later this year. One could say there have been some unexpected additions to the MVNO space this week. On Monday, the Trump Organization announced the launch of T1 Mobile and the T1 Pho

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Show HN: SnapQL – Desktop app to query Postgres with AI

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 06:08:18

SnapQL cursor for data ⚡️ - explore your postgresql db in seconds demo.mp4 generate schema-aware queries in seconds with AI supports any PostgreSQL database fully local desktop app use your own OpenAI key Build SnapQL locally I will eventually ship some precompiled binaries, but that takes some setup. In the meantime, follow these steps to build a local copy:

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NASA Scientists Find Ties Between Earth's Oxygen and Magnetic Field

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 09:21:31

The solar wind flows around Earth's magnetic field. A new NASA study suggests that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and strength of the magnetic field have been correlated for more than half a billion years. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Laboratory For 540 million years, the ebb and flow in the strength of Earth's magnetic field has correlated with fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen, according to a newly released analysis by NASA scientists. The research suggests tha

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Oklo, the Earth's Two-billion-year-old only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor

news.ycombinator.com Laura Gil 2025-11-17 04:52:50

Physicist Francis Perrin sat at a nuclearfuel-processing plant down in the south of France, thinking to himself: “This cannot be possible.” It was 1972. On the one hand, there was a dark piece of radioactive natural uranium ore, extracted from a mine in Africa. On the other, accepted scientific data about the constant ratio of radioactive uranium in ore. Examination of this high-grade ore from a mine in Gabon was found to contain a lower proportion of uranium-235 (U-235) — the fissile sort. Onl

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You sound like ChatGPT

theverge.com Sara Parker 2025-11-17 09:00:00

Join any Zoom call, walk into any lecture hall, or watch any YouTube video, and listen carefully. Past the content and inside the linguistic patterns, you’ll find the creeping uniformity of AI voice. Words like “prowess” and “tapestry,” which are favored by ChatGPT, are creeping into our vocabulary, while words like “bolster,” “unearth,” and “nuance,” words less favored by ChatGPT, have declined in use. Researchers are already documenting shifts in the way we speak and communicate as a result of

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Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 12:27:48

Paul was a gig worker in the San Francisco Bay Area.1 Formerly a project manager in tech until several companies in a row laid him off, he started working entirely for platforms like Lyft, Uber and TaskRabbit. He managed to eke out a living, but the jobs posed a different problem. ‘Honestly, a lot of times, I go out and the person doesn’t even know my name, even though I introduced myself as Paul,’ he told me. ‘Instead, customers just point and say: “OK, yeah, just put it over there,” and then

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You can now create custom GPTs with any OpenAI model, but there’s a catch

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-11-18 00:39:15

If you’ve been experimenting with custom GPTs inside ChatGPT, here’s a welcome upgrade: OpenAI now lets users pick from all available models when building or running a custom GPT, not just GPT-4o. Here’s how it works (and what’s missing). What are custom GPTs again? If you have no idea what this is, you’re not alone. OpenAI launched custom GPTs in late 2023, but the feature hasn’t exactly taken off the way the company probably hoped. Here’s how OpenAI describes them: “…custom versions of Chat

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Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 00:00:14

In recent years, numerous plaintiffs—including publishers of books, newspapers, computer code, and photographs—have sued AI companies for training models using copyrighted material. A key question in all of these lawsuits has been how easily AI models produce verbatim excerpts from the plaintiffs’ copyrighted content. For example, in its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times Company produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times sto

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The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV

wired.com Jorge Garay 2025-11-18 00:30:00

The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved lenacapavir, an injectable form of HIV prevention that is almost 100 percent effective and requires only two doses per year. Science magazine described the medicine the most important scientific advance of 2024. In clinical trials, lenacapavir proved to be 99.9 percent effective in preventing HIV infection through sexual transmission in people weighing more than 35 kilograms. The drug, an antiretroviral, works not by stimulating an immune re

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Cannabis scientists are trying to find a predictable, reliable product (2020)

news.ycombinator.com Gary Greenberg 2025-11-17 23:06:57

As more of the compounds in cannabis are isolated, a few companies are looking at ways to eliminate one stubborn source of variability: the plants themselves. Ebbu’s intellectual property includes a patent for using an inkjet printer to spit out cannabinoids and terpenes in precisely measured ratios determined by the user. Brought in from the black-market wilderness by deep-pocketed, consumer-savvy companies, cannabis may become just another designer drug. At INSA, the Jack Herer vape oil may b

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Asterinas: A new Linux-compatible kernel project

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-17 18:56:16

Asterinas: a new Linux-compatible kernel project [LWN subscriber-only content] Born from research at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzen, China, Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the authors call a "framekernel architecture". The project overlaps somewhat with the goals of the Rust for Linux project , but approaches the problem space from a different direction by trying to get the best from both monolithic an

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