Airbound's ultra-lightweight approach to drone delivery has attracted backing from Greenoaks, DoorDash, and Silicon Valley investor Lachy Groom.

Article URL: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/press-releases/2026/august/thomson-reuters-leverages-its-world-class-data-assets-to-launch-its-own-frontier-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49428318 Points: 10 # Comments: 0

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IBM has revealed it is working on a chip with processor cores that can execute instructions for its own mainframe chips and for the Arm architecture – and for the LinuxONE architecture too for good measure. Big Blue says the unnamed chip will be built on a...

Like a sleeper cell awaiting activation, a never-before-seen Windows backdoor dubbed Sleepwalker waits silently in memory for one specifically crafted network packet to wake it up and deliver commands using the malware's 23-instruction language. The commands can do...

When Anthropic disclosed earlier this month that it would be applying a statistical word-choice watermark to its Claude text output, the company noted that at least 190 AI providers have agreed to abide by Europe's AI transparency rules. One such company is Microsoft,...

If you're curious how easily tech companies can fingerprint your browser and device and potentially single them out from the crowd, a new utility Glassbox will show you. Aside from pinging a public geolocation API, it runs entirely in a user’s browser and doesn’t ship...

Schematic diagram of the touch-sensitive skin. (Credit: Haofeng Chen et al., ArXiv, 2026) Hypoesthesia, more commonly referred to as numbness, is one of the more distressing ailments that can affect us humans, primarily because it reminds us of just how much we rely...

Article URL: https://plicara.ai/research/agent-skill-languages/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427825 Points: 3 # Comments: 0

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The AI hedge fund went from "the talk of Wall Street" to "subject of federal subpoenas" faster than you can say "diversify your portfolio."

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Target has removed a children’s Halloween costume from its website after social media users pointed out that it closely resembled imagery from Jim Crow-era blackface minstrelsy. The $25 costume—listed as “Kids’ Glows Under Blacklight Circus Clown Halloween Costume...

The AM29000 series of processors were AMD’s entry into the world of super-fast next-generation silicon of the late 1980s. It was a time when ARM was still a niche architecture in a British educational computer, the 68000 series was still a major player, and it was by...

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Almost anywhere in the world, the six-seven hand gesture and the dab are simply nonsensical relics of internet culture. But in public squares and university courtyards across Latin America, these moves are the weapons of choice among teenagers and college students in...

A worker blocks on a channel nobody reads, the handler that spawned it returns, and your process now carries a goroutine that will live until the next deploy. Nothing in your logs mentions it. Do that once per request, and you have a memory graph that climbs for days...

Introduction: The Evolution of AI Crypto Trading The cryptocurrency market operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, creating both opportunities and challenges for traders. Unlike traditional financial markets, crypto markets never close. Monitoring price movements,...

Seoul, South Korea, August 24th, 2026/Chainwire/--FlyEdge, a B2B platform focused on tokenizing airline loyalty value, has opened a multilingual public preview that allows airlines and travelers to experience and independently verify the full on-chain process—from...

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, August 24th, 2026/Chainwire/--The human.tech Wallet Protocol is live today on the Ika decentralized network. This extension lets developers build multi-chain apps across EVM, Sui, and Solana, with additional chains to be added. CEO of the...

The revenue meeting starts with a number nobody trusts. Pipeline creation is down, but only in one region. Marketing says demand has not changed. Sales says leads stopped routing correctly two days ago. The CRM team finds the cause: a well-intended workflow edit...

Artificial intelligence is usually discussed through the products people can see. New models become more capable, AI assistants enter more workplaces, image and video generation improve, and autonomous agents begin handling increasingly complex tasks. But beneath...

In the first part of this series we laid the foundations, covering what the internet really is, how the web works, how search engines crawl and index it and why 96% of it remains invisible to Google. If you haven’t read it yet I’d recommend starting there before...

Lots of people—dare we say most people—hate Flock. And, lately, they’ve been going to increasingly creative lengths to make it known.  Privately held Flock Safety is an Atlanta-based surveillance technology company that operates a nationwide network of automated...