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📰 AI & Future Tech
- finally
- Valve says it’s ready to launch the Steam Machine this summer
- Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns
- Airbnb’s Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab
- Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18
- Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery
- Cyberdecks used to look like little laptops, but now they’re getting more personal
- Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults
- You guys were right - Qwen 3.6 35B IS good...and KV Cache DOES matter.
- Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses
- Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents
- Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform
📰 Funding · VC · IPOs
- Defense tech, AI, and fundraising take center stage at StrictlyVC Los Angeles on June 18
- ‘The next China is still China’: McKinsey’s Joe Ngai and Nick Leung on why global business can’t write off the Chinese economy
- Startup Battlefield is returning to Australia — here’s what happened the last time we came to Sydney
- House Democrats help GOP kill Rashida Tlaib push to constrain Trump on Lebanon
- IBM, AT&T accused by whistleblower of covering up foreign hacks
- Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to start a new AI company
- BofA on the ‘fundamental disconnect’ in the housing market: You’re blaming the wrong person for why you can’t afford a home
- Union Pacific CEO responds to Trump idea for U.S. stake in $71.5 billion railroad mega merger: ‘We do not need anybody’s help to do this’
- Federal inspector reports chokehold, pen stabbing at ICE facility
- SpaceX and Anthropic are about to go public—and your 401(k) may be forced to buy in
- There are early signs of renewed labor market strength during Iran war
- Anthropic warns AI could soon help build its own successors
📰 Markets & Breaking
- South Korea stocks fall 4% as tech heavyweights follow plunge in Wall Street's AI-linked names
- S&P 500 futures tick lower as Wall Street awaits May jobs report: Live updates
- Indonesia Denies Rumors of Finance Minister Change
- Asia tech stocks drop after Broadcom rattles AI trade and drags Wall Street names lower
- CNBC Daily Open: Chips are down — but not for the Dow
- The Anything-Goes Era in Private-Credit Lending Is Coming to an End
- Crypto Market News: AlphaPepe To Announce First CEX Partnership as XRP Price Prediction Hits $8.00
- Impact Analytics Releases “The Retail Demand Reset” Report, Warning of $5B+ Annual Capital Exposure as GLP-1 Adoption Reshapes Apparel Economics Across Sizing a…
- T&D Will Use Funds From Sale of Insurance Unit for Buybacks
- LiqTech International Announces Pricing of $20 Million Underwritten Public Offering of Common Stock
- Correction: Keystone Acquisition Corp. Announces Closing of $287.5 Million Initial Public Offering Including Exercise of Underwriters’ Over-Allotment Option
- GoldHaven Announces Upsized LIFE Offering to Advance Magno and Copeçal Projects
📰 Long Reads
- Don’t Worry! That Was Almost Certainly the Last Graham Platner Scandal!
- Made Man
- Yet More Damning Revelations About Graham Platner
- Trump Thinks His Administration Is ‘Like Pirates’
- The World Cup of Ugh
- California Democrats’ Pyrrhic Victory
- Shining a Light on Regulatory Dark Matter
- US National Security Agency using Anthropic’s Mythos for cyber attacks
- Bitcoin tumbles after Strategy sale unnerves crypto traders
- Trump’s Name Is Disappearing From More Than Just the Kennedy Center
- Tech groups find a new way to monetise AI hype: selling volatility
- What It Would Take to Finally Slay the Gerrymander
📰 Chile / LatAm
- Incendio arrasa dos cités en Recoleta y deja 16 familias damnificadas
- Trump celebra los “avances” para poner fin a la escalada en Líbano tras hablar con Hezbolá
- Al menos ocho muertos y 15 heridos por ataques de Israel contra Líbano un día después de las negociaciones
- Lo que viene en la integración BICE-Security: fusión de AGF y corredoras, potenciar negocio en Perú y crecer en financiamiento automotriz
- Harald Beyer: “Esta guerrilla que se produce a través de las acusaciones constitucionales le hace mucho daño a la política”
- “Defenderse apuntando a una actriz es inaudito y una bajeza”: la dura crítica del exjefe de la Secom de Boric al ministro Undurraga
- Juez ordena a De la Espriella dejar de usar la camiseta de la selección de Colombia en público
- Zelenski propone diálogo "cara a cara" con Putin para terminar la guerra en Ucrania: Rusia respondió
- Institución ambiental
- Civilidades
- Hassler acusa a Desbordes de "inventar denuncias" sobre Sierra Bella tras querella en su contra
- IVA a apuestas online: Quiroz asegura que “el deber” del SII es recaudar lo que está gravado y expertos entran al debate
📰 Founder · Launches
- Show HN: Laravel Octane Benchmark (Swoole, RoadRunner, FrankenPHP)
- Show HN: Bonsai –- Using agentic AI / browser / memory to replace ChatGPT
- Show HN: A simple bookmark manager for Mac and iOS
- Show HN: LLMhop – A tiny, stateless router for LLMs with a NixOS module
- Show HN: ControllerTest-test gamepads,stick drift and polling rate by browser
- Show HN: Papernews – self-hosted daily newspaper PDF for your reMarkable
- Show HN: Skim any YouTube video. be happy
- Show HN: Patina, an AI that learns your judgment, not just your tasks
- Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI
- UPDATE: I built a job search engine out of spite (Indeed fired my pregnant wife)
- Build tools, to build more
📰 Reddit / HN
- My competitors have flawed products but I can't get traction
- Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results
- Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
- Seattle poised to ban new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium
- GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day
- On-policy distillation: one of the hottest terms on PapersWithCode [R]
- ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
- A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI
- GoPro is in serious financial trouble. Action camera giant is at risk for potential bankruptcy
- Colorado Governor Vetoes Surveillance Pricing Ban as Public Backlash Against the Tech Grows
- NeurIPS used uncalibrated AI detector for desk rejections [D]
- MiniMax dropped a new attention architecture. [N]
🎬 🎬 AI/Tech — just dropped
- Certification Questions | LIVE AMA | Summer of CCNA
- Optimize, deploy, and benchmark an open-source LLM with vLLM
- Claude Opus 4.8: Lying Machine No More?
- OpenAI Codex will merge into ChatGPT: Denise Dresser, Alex Emibiricos, Romain Huet, Sam Altman
- ChatGPT in PowerPoint Explained in 5 Minutes for Beginners
- The forgotten developer who saved JavaScript...
- New Claude Opus 4.8: 15 Things You May’ve Missed
- AI News: Claude Opus 4.8, Insane Omni Use-Case, and A Dog Translator?
- I BUILT A FULLY AUTOMATIC MANSPLAINER
- How I use LLMs
- Switching back to Windows?!?
- Build Your Own App In Just 30 Minutes! Full Course with Andrew Ng
🎬 🚀 VC & Startups — just dropped
- Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- How Exa is Building the Perfect Search Engine | Deep Dives with a16z
- Token Budgeting Panic Hits Corporate America | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation
- Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz Walks Us Through His AI Coding Setup
- What David Senra Learned Studying 400+ Founders
- Building Next-Generation Financial Instruments
- Ryan Nece (Next Legacy Partners) - Learning from Achievement and Adversity [Entire Talk]
- Inside SaaStr's 21+ AI Agent Stack: 2.25M Sessions, 614 Meetings, $10M+ in Revenue. The Agents #006
- ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview
- Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- Why AI Agents Need Context | Deep Dives with a16z
- How to Build an AI-Native Services Company
🎬 ⛳ Golf — just dropped
- Can I Break 50 with Bob Does Sports? (Explosive)
- The Backswing Move Quietly Ruining Your Ball Striking
- 3 wood vs 5 wood vs 7 wood WHICH ONE TO PLAY?
- The BIGGEST match yet! | Peter Finch vs Sean Walsh | Match 3 | The King Of Kiawah
- We Restarted Our Golf Careers with $0.01
- Can I beat a Female Tour Pro?
- The Greatest Crash out In Youtube Golf History
- Can We Make Major Cut @ Worlds Tightest Golf Course?
- Hitting Cups: Ben Plays the Gasparilla with Soly on the Bag
- Can I Break a Public COURSE RECORD in One Try?
- This Feels Wrong, But It Makes Iron Strikes More Solid
- How to Break 80 When Things Go Wrong (they always do)