Year: 2026

Cohere releases an open source audio template specifically for transcription

Cohere releases an open source audio template specifically for transcription

✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Automatic speech recognition,Cohere,text to speech,voice AI 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first audio model: Transcribe, an open source automatic speech recognition model that can be used for tasks like note-taking and speech analysis. Relatively lightweight at just 2 billion parameters, the model is intended for use with consumer GPUs for those who want to self-host it. It currently supports 14 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Dutch, Polish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Arabic. Cohere says Transcribe outperforms models like Zoom Scribe…
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jsongrep is faster than ✨

Check out must-read this 📌 post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💬 **What You’ll Learn**: This article is both an introduction to a tool I have been working on called jsongrep, as well as a technical explanation of the internal search engine it uses. I also discuss the benchmarking strategy used to compare the performance of jsongrep against other JSON path-like query tools and implementations.In this post I'll first show you the tool, then explain why it's fast (conceptually), then how it's fast (the automata theory), and finally prove it (benchmarks).Upfront I would like to say that this article…
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Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build AI-powered search engine for security video systems

Conntour raises $7M from General Catalyst, YC to build AI-powered search engine for security video systems

✨ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Security,Startups,General Catalyst,Y Combinator,Conntour 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Today the surveillance technology industry is in the spotlight, but not for the best reasons. With controversy over US Immigration and Customs Enforcement exploiting the Flock camera network to monitor people, and criticism of home camera maker Ring for building new features that would enable law enforcement to ask homeowners for footage of their neighborhoods, there is currently a wide debate over safety, privacy, and who can watch who. But controversy doesn't erase markets, and the continued improvement of vision language models has…
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AllSky7.net

🔥 Discover this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The network is based on the AllSky7 systems manufactured by Mike Hankey. Details about the systems were published in a paper at Meteoroids 2020 conference. Each system contains seven highly sensitive NetSurveillance NVT cameras with the SONY STARVIS IMX291 CMOS Sensor and a 4 mm f/1.0 lens. Five of them are horizonally oriented at an altitude of about 25°, camera six and seven point in northern and southern direction at an altitude of about 70° All together they cover the full sky down…
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Why does hiring eccentrics work?

Why does hiring eccentrics work?

✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Build Mode,Build Mode Video,Bland AI,Isaiah Granet 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: When you're building at breakneck speed, hiring a reliable team is crucial to an early-stage startup. In this episode of Build Mode, Isabel Johansen sits down with Isaiah Granit, CEO and co-founder of Bland, a voice AI company that has grown from pre-seed to Series B in just 10 months. Their team has swelled to 75 people, and Granit has tactical advice on how the company can find hidden talent in unexpected places. With a founding team fresh out…
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Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi

🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After learning Apple killed off FireWire (IEEE 1394) support in macOS 26 Tahoe, I started looking at alternatives for old FireWire equipment like hard drives, DV cameras, and A/V gear.I own an old Canon GL1 camera, with a 'DV' port. I could plug that into an old Mac (like the dual G4 MDD above) with FireWire—or even a modern Mac running macOS < 26, with some dongles—and transfer digital video footage between the camera and an application like Final Cut Pro.But with Apple killing off…
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Google launches Search Live globally

Google launches Search Live globally

💥 Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Apps,Search,Google,AI,Search Live ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Google announced Thursday that it is expanding its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live, globally to include all languages ​​and locations where AI mode is available. With this expansion, people in more than 200 countries and regions will be able to access this feature, Google says. First launched in July 2025, Search Live allows users to point their phone's camera at objects for real-time help, enabling back-and-forth conversations based on visual context from the camera feed. Before this global expansion, Search Live was only…
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Schedule tasks on the web

Schedule tasks on the web

🚀 Discover this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A scheduled task runs a prompt on a recurring cadence using Anthropic-managed infrastructure. Tasks keep working even when your computer is off. A few examples of recurring work you can automate: Reviewing open pull requests each morning Analyzing CI failures overnight and surfacing summaries Syncing documentation after PRs merge Running dependency audits every week Scheduled tasks are available to all Claude Code on the web users, including Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise. Compare scheduling options Claude Code offers three ways to schedule recurring work: CloudDesktop/loopRuns…
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Defense startup Shield AI gets a valuation of $12.7 billion, up 140%, after US Air Force deal

Defense startup Shield AI gets a valuation of $12.7 billion, up 140%, after US Air Force deal

✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,TC,Transportation,drones,defense tech,anduril,autonomous aircraft,shield ai,In Brief 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Autonomous military aircraft maker Shield AI has raised $1.5 billion in Series G funding at a post-money valuation of $12.7 billion, the company announced Tuesday. The deal was led by private equity firm Advent (which has a $1 billion budget to invest in defense technology, it says) and investment group JPMorganChase. In addition, Shield AI sold $500 million worth of preferred stock to funds managed by Blackstone (and also created a $250 million loan it could draw on later). This capital…
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We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

We Rewrote JSONata with AI in a Day, Saved $500K/Year

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A few weeks ago, Cloudflare published “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week.” One engineer and an AI model reimplemented the Next.js API surface on Vite. Cost about $1,100 in tokens.‍The implementation details didn’t interest me that much (I don’t work on frontend frameworks), but the methodology did. They took the existing Next.js spec and test suite, then pointed AI at it and had it implement code until every test passed. Midway through reading, I realized we had the exact same problem -…
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