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Why Google’s AI can’t spell the word Google (or anything else)

Why Google’s AI can’t spell the word Google (or anything else)

🚀 Read this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Google,spelling đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: How many Ps are there in Google? According to Google, there are two types. There's also exactly one "1" in the word "poop," says Google's AI overview, as well as two "d's" in the word "journalism," yet it's spelled "journadism." Google identified at least one P in the last name of the President of the United States, but wrote it as trpum. You didn't need to be a prophet to predict that Google's AI-forward search overhaul would be bad. We've done this before. The first…
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The future of aerospace software

The future of aerospace software

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: ‍Overview‍Today we're open-sourcing a practice rig for Anduril's AI Grand Prix (a $500K autonomous drone-race competition) so contestants and anyone else curious can start writing autopilot code against a working stack now, before the official Virtual Qualifier 1 simulator drops: github.com/elodin-sys/ai-grand-prix. It's open source, runs on macOS and Linux, and the whole setup is uv sync plus a 5-minute Betaflight build. (WSL should be workable too)‍The Elodin Journey‍The path here was longer than we expected. I came into this from the games side. One of…
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With new $100 million raise, Princeton University’s Thea Energy is now top-funded merger startup

With new $100 million raise, Princeton University’s Thea Energy is now top-funded merger startup

🔥 Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Climate,Climate Capital,fusion power,Gaingels,linse capital,nuclear fusion,Thea Energy,Timescale đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Thea Energy has raised a $100 million Series B round led by US Innovative Technology Fund, the merger startup told TechCrunch. This amount places the company among the best-funded fusion startups, giving it a better chance of creating a commercial reactor. The new funding will help Thea scale up manufacturing of its uniquely designed micromagnets and begin building Eos, a “power station-related” demonstration device, starting next year. Thea previously closed a $20 million Series A in early 2024. The…
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Machine Learning Engineer at Pelica

Machine Learning Engineer at Pelica

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: About Us Pelica Health is the operating system for value-based care. We unify claims, EHR, pharmacy, lab, and ADT data into one live record per member, then put an AI copilot next to every team that depends on it, across risk adjustment, Quality and Stars, pharmacy and Part D, provider network, and care management. Pelica was founded by former engineering and AI leaders from Google and YouTube, including co-founders who built large-scale infrastructure and machine learning systems. You will work alongside people who built massive…
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Remote Payroll says it has achieved a 50% increase in revenue per employee without adding headcount

Remote Payroll says it has achieved a 50% increase in revenue per employee without adding headcount

🚀 Read this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,AI adoption,Remote âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Remote, a seven-year-old Amsterdam-based payroll services provider, says it recently surpassed $300 million in annual recurring revenue and became cash flow positive. But she insists the real story is what happened behind the scenes: a 50% increase in revenue per employee after the startup embraced AI at every level of the organization. “As we speak, on the second screen of my laptop, I have five different instances of Claude running, building different things — some of which are for me, but a lot of…
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Improving AI labels for viewers and creators

Improving AI labels for viewers and creators

🔥 Discover this insightful post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Introducing automatic AI detectionWhile we still require creators to manually disclose when they use realistic AI, we want to make the process more seamless and reliable. Starting in May 2026, we’re rolling out new internal signals to help identify AI-generated content.If a creator doesn’t specify whether or not they used AI, but our systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, we will now automatically apply a label.As this technology continues to improve, creators remain in control. If a creator thinks their content was incorrectly identified as…
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Triomics received $22 million to bring oncology AI to cancer centers

Triomics received $22 million to bring oncology AI to cancer centers

✨ Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Biotech & Health,Startups,Venture,cancer,clinical trials,Triomics âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Triomics, a startup building an AI-powered platform to help oncologists and administrative staff automate data-heavy tasks like clinical trial matching and appointment setting, has raised $22 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Battery Ventures, with participation from returning backers Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed, Y Combinator and others. The good news is that breakthroughs in oncology are keeping patients alive longer. However, a welcome trend is the creation of dense, multi-year medical records, which take healthcare personnel a…
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Warm Up Your MacBook

Warm Up Your MacBook

đź’Ą Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: 18 Nov 2019 You’ve been there - after putting your backpack in a frigid car, walking against the Wisconsin wind, or biking across the frozen lake, you arrive at work. You rest your palms on the keyboard to begin typing your password, and recoil in pain from the sudden cold of the metal sucking the heat from your skin. How do you quickly warm up a laptop? Make it do a lot of work. Here’s a one-line, built-in command that will peg your CPU…
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In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake has signed a $6 billion deal with AWS to buy AI CPU chips

In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake has signed a $6 billion deal with AWS to buy AI CPU chips

✨ Discover this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Enterprise,TC,AI,Amazon,AWS,Snowflake,AI chips 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Cloud data storage giant Snowflake has signed a new five-year, $6 billion agreement with Amazon Web Services, the companies announced Wednesday. Snowflake has always run on AWS, although apparently these days it's also available on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. For comparison, Snowflake has sold $7 billion worth of its services across the total AWS Marketplace since its founding in 2012, AWS says. So this new contract is getting close to all the money it brought in from that cloud. It can do this…
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YouTube to Automatically Label AI-Generated Videos & Enhance Labels

YouTube to Automatically Label AI-Generated Videos & Enhance Labels

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Is that YouTube video clip you’re watching real or was it made with AI? YouTube wants to make it easier for viewers to know when content on its platform is AI-generated. In 2024, it started labeling content when creators disclosed they have used AI tools. Now YouTube is making AI-generated content labels more prominent for viewers — and it’s going to start automatically applying the labels if it detects that a video includes “significant photorealistic AI use.” “We’ve heard consistently from our community that they…
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