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New embedding model leaderboard shakeup: Google takes #1 while Alibaba’s open source alternative closes gap

venturebeat.com Ben Dickson 2025-07-19 05:21:39

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Google has officially moved its new, high-performance Gemini Embedding model to general availability, currently ranking number one overall on the highly regarded Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB). The model (gemini-embedding-001) is now a core part of the Gemini API and Vertex AI, enabling developers to build applications such as sema

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Hush: Holistic Panoramic 3D Scene Understanding Using Spherical Harmonics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 16:32:47

13D Vision & Robotics Lab, UNIST 2KRAFTON ✝Corresponding Author TL;DR: HUSH conducts various panorama image-based 3D perception tasks by utilizing task-relevant and geometrically aligned spherical harmonics basis functions for each task. 🌟 Key insight: SH basis functions seem geometrically aligned with the signals (e.g., depth/normal) on the unit sphere! Abstract Motivated by the efficiency of spherical harmonics (SH) in representing various physical phenomena, we propose a Holistic panor

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AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 15:59:04

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom As ever, here is what's ahead: Updates on prior pieces My most recent Rough Notes essay A few things worth reading I previously wrote about the perils of building renovation as a Fed chair, especially given an administration bent on finding a reason to fire you "for cause." As anyone who has renovated anything larger than a dog house knows, no one thinks what you spent

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AI CapEx Is Eating the Economy

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-19 20:59:04

AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics, boosting the economy, and beginning to approach the railroad boom As ever, here is what's ahead: Updates on prior pieces My most recent Rough Notes essay A few things worth reading I previously wrote about the perils of building renovation as a Fed chair, especially given an administration bent on finding a reason to fire you "for cause." As anyone who has renovated anything larger than a dog house knows, no one thinks what you spent

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Cursor snaps up enterprise startup Koala in challenge to GitHub Copilot

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-07-20 01:56:12

The startup behind the viral AI coding app Cursor is snapping up top talent from AI enterprise startups in a bid to bolster its competition with Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot and win over businesses looking to supercharge their employees with AI coding tools. In one recent case, Cursor maker Anysphere struck a deal to acquire the AI-powered customer relationship management (CRM) startup Koala, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. As part of the deal, Cursor will bring on several

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Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know

news.ycombinator.com Monica Pitrelli 2025-07-20 20:50:47

Visitors to the United States will need to pay a "visa integrity fee," according to a provision of the Trump administration's recently enacted One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The fee applies to all visitors who need nonimmigrant visas to enter, and cannot be waived. However travelers may also be able to get the fees reimbursed, according to the provision. Details about the new requirement are scant, which has resulted in "significant challenges and unanswered questions regarding implementation,"

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15 Years of Building Jefit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-17 14:18:32

Embrace the Grind: 15 Years of Building Jefit The Start of Something I Didn't Expect to Last 15 Years Fifteen years ago, Jefit wasn't a company. It wasn't even a business idea. It was just a project I started in my dad's living room in North Carolina, fresh out of college, working from my own laptop. I was broke and unsure about the future, frustrated by how hard it was to track workouts. There was no easy way to stay consistent or see real progress. I wasn't chasing a startup dream, jus

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The Folding iPhone Is Getting Real (and Might Use Samsung Parts)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-07-21 00:00:00

This may be the final year without a folding iPhone. New reports this week suggest that Apple will launch the long-rumored folding iPhone in 2026. The latest buzz suggests that Apple is working with Samsung Display to help make the crease-free screen for the folding iPhone. It's no secret that Apple has been tinkering with bendable screen designs for years. The company has filed various patents about screens that fold, scroll and even self-heal from scratches. Last year, Bloomberg reported that

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15 Years If Jefit

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-18 00:18:32

Embrace the Grind: 15 Years of Building Jefit The Start of Something I Didn't Expect to Last 15 Years Fifteen years ago, Jefit wasn't a company. It wasn't even a business idea. It was just a project I started in my dad's living room in North Carolina, fresh out of college, working from my own laptop. I was broke and unsure about the future, frustrated by how hard it was to track workouts. There was no easy way to stay consistent or see real progress. I wasn't chasing a startup dream, jus

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Hundred Rabbits – Low-tech living while sailing the world

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-17 18:45:28

home Receive monthly updates via our RSS feed, or by signing up to our monthly newsletter. June 2025 For a few days, Pino became a land creature, living on stilts, while we scrubbed and re-painted the lower part of the hull. Our propeller had a bit of a wobble, which we hope is now corrected. We also battled with the old wheel quadrant and were finally able to remove it, at least a part of it. Boaters have frequently helped us while we were in boatyards, and we are finally able to pay it forw

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Google may be removing its iconic ‘G’ logo from Messages (APK teardown)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-21 14:25:00

Adamya Sharma / Android Authority TL;DR The Google Messages app could be getting a branding tweak that removes the famous “G” logo. It seems that the company plans to use the full “Google” wordmark in the app’s header going forward. The new Google Messages branding seems to be consistent with other Google apps, such as Photos, Calendar, Drive, and more. Google is constantly making subtle changes to the look and feel of its core apps, and we’ve discovered that Google Messages may be in line f

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Why is AI so slow to spread?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-21 13:38:55

T alk to executives and before long they will rhapsodise about all the wonderful ways in which their business is using artificial intelligence. Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase recently said that his bank has 450 use cases for the technology. “ AI will become the new operating system of restaurants,” according to Yum! Brands, which runs KFC and Taco Bell. AI will “play an important role in improving the traveller experience”, says the owner of Booking.com. In the first quarter of this year executiv

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Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-22 05:14:22

Since mozilla announced the sunsetting of pocket, I started looking for alternatives, including building a light version for my personal use. But nothing came out of my research. What options are there and how are you transitioning?

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All AI models might be the same

news.ycombinator.com Jack Morris 2025-07-22 02:28:49

Project CETI is a large-scale effort to decode whale speech. If AI models do learn a universal language, we might be able to use it to talk to whales. Growing up, I sometimes played a game with my friends called “Mussolini or Bread.” It’s a guessing game, kind of like Twenty Questions. The funny name comes from the idea that, in the space of everything, ‘Mussolini’ and ‘bread’ are about as far away from each other as you can get. One round might go like this: Is it closer to Mussolini or bre

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All AI Models Might be The Same

news.ycombinator.com Jack Morris 2025-07-22 07:28:49

Project CETI is a large-scale effort to decode whale speech. If AI models do learn a universal language, we might be able to use it to talk to whales. Growing up, I sometimes played a game with my friends called “Mussolini or Bread.” It’s a guessing game, kind of like Twenty Questions. The funny name comes from the idea that, in the space of everything, ‘Mussolini’ and ‘bread’ are about as far away from each other as you can get. One round might go like this: Is it closer to Mussolini or bre

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Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian closes $260 million funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2025-07-22 17:20:40

Defense manufacturing startup Hadrian on Thursday announced the closing of $260 million Series C funding round led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Lux Capital. The machine parts company said it will use the funding to build a new 270,000 square foot factory in Mesa, Arizona, and expand its Torrance, California, location as it looks to beef up its shipbuilding and naval defense capabilities. "What we really need in this country is this quantum leap above China's manufacturing model," said CE

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Senate votes to kill entire public broadcasting budget in blow to NPR and PBS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-07-22 17:35:59

The US Senate voted to rescind two years' worth of funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), delivering a blow to public radio and television stations around the country. The CPB is a publicly funded nonprofit corporation that supports NPR and PBS stations. The 51-48 vote today on President Trump's rescissions package would eliminate $1.1 billion that was allocated to public broadcasting for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. All 51 yes votes came from Republicans, while Sens. Susan

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Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO, and more

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-07-22 16:10:33

In Brief Substack announced on Thursday that it has raised $100 million in Series C funding led by investors at BOND and The Chernin Group (TCG). The round included participation from Andreessen Horowitz; Rich Paul, CEO and founder of Klutch Sports Group; and Jens Grede, CEO and co-founder of Skims. The New York Times reports that the funding brings Substack’s valuation to $1.1 billion, almost 70% higher than its 2021 valuation of $650 million. Founded in 2017, Substack has gained popularity

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Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO and more

techcrunch.com Aisha Malik 2025-07-22 21:10:33

In Brief Substack announced on Thursday that it has raised $100 million in Series C funding led by investors at BOND and The Chernin Group (TCG). The round included participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Rich Paul, CEO and founder of Klutch Sports Group, and Jens Grede, CEO and co-founder of Skims. The New York Times reports that the funding brings Substack’s valuation to $1.1 billion, almost 70% higher than its 2021 valuation of $650 million. Founded in 2017, Substack has gained popularity

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Hackers are trying to steal passwords and sensitive data from users of Signal clone

techcrunch.com Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 2025-07-23 01:42:48

Hackers are targeting a previously reported bug in the Signal clone app TeleMessage in an effort to steal users’ private data, according to security researchers and a U.S. government agency. TeleMessage, which earlier this year was revealed to be used by high-ranking officials in the Trump administration, already experienced at least one data breach in May. The company markets modified versions of Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram for corporations and government agencies that need to archive chats

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Eddington gets the pandemic right but still isn’t a great movie

theverge.com Kevin Nguyen 2025-07-23 09:00:00

A24 is known for its prestige arthouse films, but in its early days as a distributor, it made most of its money from elevated horror films like Ari Aster’s Hereditary and Midsommar. Over a decade in, the ambitions of A24 and Aster have expanded beyond genre film. But for both, the more recent results have been mixed. Eddington, Aster’s latest, feels like a continuation of the maximalist guilt-trip Beau Is Afraid. Joaquin Phoenix stars once again, though the concerns here are less Jewish and Oed

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The AI bubble today is bigger than the IT bubble in the 1990s

news.ycombinator.com Torsten Sløk 2025-07-23 11:42:02

The difference between the IT bubble in the 1990s and the AI bubble today is that the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 today are more overvalued than they were in the 1990s, see chart below. This presentation may not be distributed, transmitted or otherwise communicated to others in whole or in part without the express consent of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with its subsidiaries, “Apollo”). Apollo makes no representation or warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the accura

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We now have a better idea of when the Samsung tri-fold will launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-07-23 23:24:51

Samsung TL;DR A long-time leaker claims that Samsung will launch its first triple-screen foldable or tri-fold device in September. This comes a week after Samsung’s mobile head said the company wants to launch the device before the end of 2025. Samsung’s tri-fold is said to offer a Snapdragon 8 Elite chip, a 10-inch folding screen, and the same rear cameras as the Z Fold 7. Samsung‘s mobile chief confirmed last week that the company aims to launch its first triple-screen foldable phone (also

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Weave (YC W25) is hiring an AI engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-07-24 05:00:47

At Weave, we’re building the best software for the best engineering teams to move faster, and we want to hire exceptional engineers to help us do so. We are a well-funded startup, backed by top investors, growing rapidly and currently profitable. You'll be working directly with me (Andrew), the CTO. Before I was CTO of Weave I was the founding engineer at Causal, and I want to give you all the support and growth opportunities in this role that I got when I went through it. You’ll also be work

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Claude Code's new tool is all about maximizing ROI in your organization - how to try it

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-07-24 15:00:00

Anthropic / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Anthropic has distinguished itself from industry competitors for two major reasons: user privacy and coding capabilities. In particular, it's Claude Code's solution -- which allows users to run the coding assistant directly in their workspace to write or manage code -- that has attracted an exponential number of users. It's now a highly requested feature. Also: Anthropic's Claude dives into financial analysis. Here's what's new On Tuesday, Anthropic la

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With 81 total Emmy nominations, how did each Apple TV+ title do?

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-07-25 01:38:30

Yesterday, Apple broke its own record and received 81 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations across multiple categories. Below is a full title-by-title breakdown, listing every nominated Apple TV+ series and film, along with every category they’re up for. Severance (27 nominations) Severance didn’t just top Apple TV+’s list of nominees. It also earned more Emmy nominations than any other show this year. Outstanding Drama Series Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Adam Scott Outstanding Lea

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What's happening to reading?

news.ycombinator.com Joshua Rothman 2025-07-21 23:16:48

What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing industry, in the nineteenth century. In a 2017 Shouts & Murmurs titled “Before the Internet,” the writer Emma Rathbone captured the spirit of reading as it used to be: “Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would

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What's Happening to Reading?

news.ycombinator.com Joshua Rothman 2025-07-22 04:16:48

What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged since the advent of the modern publishing industry, in the nineteenth century. In a 2017 Shouts & Murmurs titled “Before the Internet,” the writer Emma Rathbone captured the spirit of reading as it used to be: “Before the Internet, you could laze around on a park bench in Chicago reading some Dean Koontz, and that would be a legit thing to do and no one would

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What Actually Happens When Programmers Use AI Is Hilarious, According to a New Study

futurism.com Unknown 2025-07-25 12:03:29

AI has taken the programming world by storm, with a flurry of speculation about the tech replacing human coders, and Google's CEO recently claiming that 25 percent of the company's code is now AI-generated. But it's possible that in practice, AI is actually hindering efficient software development. As flagged by Ars Technica, a new study from the nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) found that in practice, programmers are actually slower when using AI assistance tools than maki

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Grok 4 benchmark results: Tops math, ranks second in coding

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-07-26 05:35:10

Grok 4 is a huge leap from Grok 3, but how good is it compared to other models in the market, such as Gemini 2.5 Pro? We now have answers, thanks to new independent benchmarks. LMArena.ai, which is an open platform for crowdsourced AI benchmarking, has published the results of Grok 4. We're talking about Grok 4 API (grok-4-0709), which received about 4k+ community votes and ranks #3 overall in Text Arena. This is a huge leap from Grok 3, which ranked 8th. According to LMArena's tests, Grok 4

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New embedding model leaderboard shakeup: Google takes #1 while Alibaba’s open source alternative closes gap

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Substack raises $100M from Chernin Group, Andreessen Horowitz, Skims CEO, and more

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What's Happening to Reading?

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Grok 4 benchmark results: Tops math, ranks second in coding

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