Sudden heavy rain lashes parts of city on August 3, Kapra records 51 mm rainfall in one hour
Hyderabad Police Commissioner VC Sajjanar urged people to be cautious as the Weather Department has forecast heavy rains until the night
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
Artificial Intelligence: Germany's youngest AI professor dispels the biggest myths
At just 30 years old, Alicia von Schenk has founded the chair for "Economics of AI" at the University of Würzburg. She advises to look beyond the current hype surrounding the technology.
Schneider Electric releases pioneering study assessing arc flash risk in 800 VDC data centers aligning with world’s leading hyperscalers
Study provides some of the industry’s first data on managing 800 VDC safety risks and safely adopting new power architectures for AI data centers Simulations and arc flash risk analyses assessed two…
Canon Medical Systems USA Announces Tsuneo ‘Neo’ Imai as President and Chief Executive Officer
Tustin, Ca, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Canon Medical Systems USA, Inc., a leader in innovative diagnostic imaging solutions, today announced the appointment of Tsuneo “Neo” Imai as President and…
Atlas Air Worldwide Completes Strategic Investment in Air Atlanta
NEW YORK, Aug. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Atlas Air Worldwide (“Atlas”) today announced the successful completion of its previously announced strategic investment in Air Atlanta.
‘Just cruel’: Medicaid halt in California and Minnesota plunges caregivers and disabled people into uncertainty
Shock and fury as Trump administration holds back Medicaid funding to states over alleged caregiving fraud By now, when Shannon Rosa hears about cuts to Medicaid and misinformation from the Trump…
Musk: Anthropic CEO dug his own grave by telling everyone that Mythos is super scary
Elon Musk believes Dario Amodei scared people about AI's Mythos model. He stated that AI will soon perform all digital jobs better than humans.
Japan, US confirm joint yen-buying intervention, signal more action
The rare joint intervention – the first since 2011 - aimed to prevent a selloff in the yen and Japanese government bonds from causing global spillovers.
Warsh Does Not Believe in Current Data Sources: Walser
Rebecca Walser of Walser Wealth Management joins Vonnie Quinn on "Bloomberg Brief" to discuss the implications of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh mulling changes to the frequency and timing of the Fed's policy…
The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet
Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast
Italy’s Aflabox raises €1.35 million to scale AI-powered portable aflatoxin detection across Africa and Europe
Aflabox, an Italian AgTech startup that aims to revolutionise food safety by making aflatoxin detection accessible, affordable, and efficient, has closed a €1.35 million Seed funding round.
The age of AI warfare has arrived, and speed will determine victory - opinion
From intelligent headquarters to the autonomous tactical edge- how artificial intelligence is reshaping modern warfare
'AI's Decimation of Call Center Jobs Has Begun'
"AI's decimation of call center jobs has begun," reports Bloomberg: Companies including the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Microsoft Corp., Uber Technologies Inc. and Hyatt Hotels Corp. are using automated chat and phone systems to handle work that previously required humans.
AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU
Article URL: https://github.com/lyogavin/airllm Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49154228 Points: 185 # Comments: 75
When AI starts pretending to be your PR team, it's a problem
The comms, PR, and journo world is a small one. Over the weekend, I had half a dozen people send me the same Futurism article via WhatsApp.
Microsoft Confirms Copilot ‘Super App’ Is Coming This Year — and It’s About More Than Convenience
Microsoft is combining Copilot Chat, Code, Cowork and Autopilots into one super app, raising new questions about agent governance, identity, licensing and security.
Heavy Siri AI usage could cost more than we expected, given Cook’s comment
What seems like a deliberately vague comment by outgoing Apple CEO Tim Cook during the earnings call suggests that heavy Siri AI usage could be more expensive than we’ve so far expected.
China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy
Chinese tech giant Alibaba released what it says is its largest and "most capable AI model to date," claiming performance rivaling the best systems from US frontier labs Anthropic and OpenAI, as well…
Receptor.AI and Sethera Plan to Create Closed-Loop Discovery and Optimization Workflow for Difficult Therapeutic Targets
The collaboration is specifically focused on applying Receptor.AI's computational platform to Sethera's proprietary polymacrocyclic peptide chemistry, encoded screening data, and resulting therapeutic…
‘A Rare Land-Grab Moment’: Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy On The Next Wave of AI And Putting $3B In New Capital To Work
We speak with Menlo Ventures' Matt Murphy about why AI is pushing the firm toward larger deals, what it has learned from its Anthropic relationship, and where he sees the next big opportunities.
ChatGPT dominates early AI spending in Congress as lawmakers weigh regulation
At least 70 House offices used identifiable AI tools in early 2026, with Democrats leading visible spending and broader use likely undercounted.
How AI is killing smartphone apps in China
Chinese smartphone makers have been followers in the global market, embracing the concepts and paradigms set in the past 20 years by Apple and Google.
Caterpillar Faces Earnings Test After AI Selloff Punished Stock
Caterpillar Inc.’s stock is limping into the earnings report after losing nearly a quarter of its value, setting the results up as a test for investors to see if enthusiasm about the company being an…
Palantir Is Stuck in Worst-of-Both-Worlds Bind With AI, Software
It’s been a sobering stretch for Palantir Technologies Inc. shareholders, who have watched their once high-flying positions lose more than 40% of their value since the stock hit a peak in November.
The US might lose the AI race to China. Should Americans care?
Both Washington and Silicon Valley are in the midst of a collective freak-out over China’s recent advancements in artificial intelligence.
Anthropic, OpenAI among firms facing new scrutiny under EU AI Act enforcement powers
The European Commission can demand to inspect AI models, restrict market access and fine providers up to 15 million euros or 3% of turnover.
Is AI creating the next wave of software sprawl?
Perhaps the drive to adopt AI is exposing existing, disconnected processes as a deeper, more urgent problem.
The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle
This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy . Earlier this month, two of OpenAI’s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild .
Comment | Why AI’s attempts at art historical analysis are a load of phooey
Many of those applying artificial intelligence to art history do not understand the basics of our discipline
Artificial Analysis: DeepSeek's V4-Flash costs $0.14/1M input and $0.28/1M output tokens, or $0.03 per test, far below Kimi K3's $0.86 and GPT-5.6 Sol's $1.86 (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
A version of Chinese startup DeepSeek's flagship AI model is by far the least expensive to run on benchmark tests among …
Sci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft
LLMs are theft by 'absolute scum' who make life harder for writers by putting them in copyright peril
SpaceX's first results put Elon Musk's AI spending under Wall Street microscope
SpaceX is poised to reveal its next earnings report, signaling Starlink's profitability and its pivotal role in financing AI and space initiatives.
Google picks 20 AI startups for 2026 Play Accelerator India cohort
Google has selected 20 AI-powered Indian startups for its 2026 Google Play Accelerator India, offering three months of equity-free mentorship on AI, security, app quality, growth and monetisation to…
Ikea’s AI bot didn’t replace workers. It made them more valuable
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I paired Gemini with Google Keep and never lost a great idea again
Don't underestimate the power of pairing the two
Why Silicon Valley is divided over China’s powerful, cheap AI models
Low-cost Chinese open-weight models are splitting tech executives and Washington over national security and competitiveness.
Alibaba unveils its largest AI model yet, DeepSeek's latest model is ultra-low cost
The developments highlight the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence by Chinese tech firms as Alibaba and DeepSeek aim to gain traction among global developers.
Europe’s AI challenge is not invention, but momentum
Europe has the talent and the ambition to lead in AI, but it is struggling to translate that into sustained scale. The issue is whether it can keep moving and translate momentum into impact. Across industries, a familiar pattern is emerging: promising prototypes, successful pilots, and early traction, followed by a slowdown just as…
The White House is fixated on China copying U.S. AI. Experts say that’s the wrong threat
Ask most people about the biggest concern in AI right now, and they’ll likely point to models from OpenAI and Anthropic breaking out of the boundaries of their tests and trying to access systems they…
Why even the biggest brands have low AI readiness
AI presents what it finds across your digital estate including out-of-date and inaccurate content.
Human-Centric Methodologies In AI Reliability By Mayank Vadaliya
Mayank Vadaliya explains how incident response, root cause analysis, and traceability improve AI reliability across manufacturing and autonomous systems.
A former Oracle engineer on an H-1B visa says AI and tech layoffs pushed him into constant career-prep mode
A former Oracle engineer says AI and layoffs have raised the stakes for H-1B visa holders. Here's how he's adapting.
As Larry Ellison bets the farm, Oracle says it loves AI-written code, just not in OpenJDK
Use it to debug and review, says Big Red, but don't submit its output
Helsinki-based Aiforia secures €20 million EIB financing to advance AI-powered cancer diagnostics
Aiforia, a Helsinki-based life-science company providing deep learning AI solutions for pathology, has secured €20 million in venture debt financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Germany news: Calls intensify to ban Meta Glasses
Both rights groups and regulators say the new AI tech is dangerous to consumers. At the same time, debate is heating up over pension reforms. DW has more.
Gemini Notebook may soon let you build custom learning games out of your study material
The revered tool, previously called NotebookLM, could also create interactive web pages and apps to engage you better.
AI exacerbates ‘class divide,’ progressive poll shows
Black workers are also more likely than white workers to predict AI will replace their job.
The blurring lines between hedge funds and AI labs
As firms compete with frontier labs for elite researchers, building an in-house AI capability is becoming as much a hiring challenge as a technical one
China acknowledges ‘temperature gap’ between tech boom and traditional slump
A top theoretical journal of the Communist Party has acknowledged that a stark economic divide exists between China’s booming AI sector and its struggling traditional industries.
The AI Index Nobody Is Tracking: Why Storm Duncan Thinks It’s the Most Important AI Metric
Storm Duncan argues the AI Anxiety Index may become the decade's most important AI metric, measuring workforce disruption and society's ability to adapt.
AI is starting to rewrite the software that made Nvidia untouchable
Nvidia has long dominated because of its CUDA software. Now, AI-driven software is challenging this moat as startups and giants innovate.
This $150 lifetime AI-powered app listens while you play piano and coaches you in real time
Learn piano with AI-powered feedback using a Skoove Premium Lifetime Subscription for $149.99 and enjoy 400+ lessons with no recurring subscription.
To power AI, Khosla and a16z bet this startup can reinvent mining
Mariana Minerals is now valued at $1.5 billion.
Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here.
Most CIOs Can't Define "Agentic Architecture." That's Becoming a Problem
Google research shows multi-agent AI can reduce performance by up to 70%. Learn why agentic architecture—not agent count—is the key to enterprise AI.
Your agent returned 200 OK. Was it actually right?
I've been building agentic AI systems for a while now, and the thing that finally got under my skin enough to write about is that our whole stack is really good at telling us what an agent did, and…
INTERPOL report finds AI linked to more than half of cybercrime in Africa
Artificial intelligence is enabling 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa, making attacks faster, more scalable, and increasingly difficult for victims and platforms to detect, according…
Chinese AI Firm Siphoned American AI Knowledge From Anthropic Claude By Using Millions Of Prompts
Anthropic told Congress that a Chinese AI firm ripped-off digital knowledge from Claude. This Cold War tactics in a modern-era. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.