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Aurora gets McLane deal to operate self-driving truck routes in Texas

Aurora gets McLane deal to operate self-driving truck routes in Texas

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,aurora,Aurora Innovation,autonomous vehicles,self-driving trucks ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Aurora Innovation will begin hauling loads in self-driving trucks for distribution giant McLane, the latest company to adopt the startup's self-driving vehicle technology after a multi-year pilot program. Under the commercial agreement announced Wednesday, trucks equipped with Aurora's autonomous driving system will be used to transport freight between Dallas and Houston. These trucks will operate autonomously and will not have a human safety driver on board who can take over the task. However, Aurora will still have what it describes as a…
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wojtczyk/trust: TRUST โ€“ Coding Rust like it’s 1989 ยท GitHub

wojtczyk/trust: TRUST โ€“ Coding Rust like it’s 1989 ยท GitHub

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: TRUST is a retro TUI IDE for Rust projects inspired by classic blue-screen DOS development environments. Status: experimental nostalgia project. It edits files, browses Rust projects, and runs Cargo commands. Building and running "Hello World" in TRUST. Starting a project Running a console program TRUST can build TRUST. TRUST Editor Running Tests Why?Because Rust deserves a blue-screen IDE from the olden days and someone had to do this. Does it save my files?Yes. Use F2 or Ctrl+S. TRUST marks dirty buffers with * in the…
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Apple pays $250 million to settle a lawsuit over delayed artificial intelligence features in Siri

Apple pays $250 million to settle a lawsuit over delayed artificial intelligence features in Siri

๐Ÿš€ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Hardware,Apple,Apple Intelligence,lawsuit,siri โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over how it marketed its AI features ahead of the launch of the iPhone 16. The Financial Times was first to report the news. The lawsuit alleged that Apple exaggerated the breadth of features Apple Intelligence would bring, which included a significantly upgraded version of its assistant Siri. The complaint alleges that the company created the impression that advanced AI capabilities would be available to users sooner than they actually were.…
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How to Make LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA

How to Make LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: How to Make LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIAAuthors: Daniel, Michael, Mathew and Datta, with help from NVIDIAFine-tuning is one of today's most computationally intensive workloads, and it continues to push hardware to its limits. NVIDIA GPUs are purpose-built for these workloads: they break complex problems into pieces and process them in parallel. Unsloth works across the breadth of NVIDIA GPUs, from local RTX laptops to DGX Spark personal AI supercomputers. To help developers get the most out of their GPUs, Unsloth has teamed…
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Tinder owner Match Group is slowing its hiring process to pay for its increasing use of artificial intelligence tools

Tinder owner Match Group is slowing its hiring process to pay for its increasing use of artificial intelligence tools

๐Ÿš€ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Apps,dating apps,Match Group ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: You might think that the big story of Match Group's first-quarter earnings was Tinder's turnaround. Dating app revenue is up slightly again after quarter after quarter of declines. But we'd like to point out a comment the CFO made about how the company is slow to hire right now because it needs more money to pay for AI tools for its employees. Ah, yes, a good โ€œlet's blame the AIโ€ strategy! Speaking to analysts on a first-quarter earnings call, Match Group CFO Stephen…
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darkrishabh/agent-skills-eval: A test runner for agentskills.io-style AI agent skills ยท GitHub

darkrishabh/agent-skills-eval: A test runner for agentskills.io-style AI agent skills ยท GitHub

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Agent Skills โ€” the open standard from Anthropic for giving agents domain knowledge โ€” make it easy to ship a SKILL.md and assume your agent is now better at the task. The hard part is proving it. agent-skills-eval is the missing piece. It runs your skill against the same prompts twice โ€” once with_skill loaded into context, once without_skill (baseline) โ€” has a judge model grade both outputs, and gives you a side-by-side report. If the skill doesn't make a measurable difference, you'll see…
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Demos show that Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has reached full scale

Demos show that Khosla-backed robotics startup Genesis AI has reached full scale

๐Ÿš€ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Robotics,Startups,foundational models,genesis,Genesis AI ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Genesis AI, a startup that has raised $105 million to build basic AI for robots, has unveiled its first prototype, the GENE-26.5, and it comes with surprising hands. In a demo video, the company demonstrated several advanced tasks performed by a group of robotic hands that it designed in-house. โ€œModel has always been the goal, because better model means better intelligence,โ€ Zhou Qian, co-founder and CEO of Genesis, told TechCrunch. But the company soon realized it needed to control the devices. โ€œSo we…
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RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google โ€“ Terence Edenโ€™s Blog

RSS Feeds Send Me More Traffic Than Google โ€“ Terence Edenโ€™s Blog

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my site. I've been writing this blog for a while. I've never much bothered with "aggressive" SEO - I have a fairly semantic layout, all my reviews have metadata, and stuff like that - but I'm not cramming in keywords, using AMP, or whatever other chickens Google…
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DeepSeek could be valued at up to $45 billion from its first investment round

DeepSeek could be valued at up to $45 billion from its first investment round

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Startups,China,deepseek,In Brief โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: DeepSeek is in talks to raise its first round of venture capital, and within a few weeks, its potential valuation has risen from $20 billion to $45 billion, the Financial Times and Bloomberg reported. The Chinese AI lab rose to prominence in early 2025 after launching a large language model that was trained on a fraction of the computing power and at a fraction of the cost of large American models such as those at OpenAI and Anthropic. Since then, I have maintained a…
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Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: The TD4 is a famous 4-bit CPU featured in the book How to Build a CPU by Kaoru Tonami. The book focuses on constructing a functional processor entirely from basic 74-series TTL logic ICs. While the book is unfortunately only available in Japanese, a friend from Japan sent me a copy along with a TD4 PCB. I believe the PCB is based on the open-source design files available on BG5DIW's GitHub repository. "How to Build CPU" book and the PCB. Recently, I finally found the…
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