IMAGEAI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.
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IMAGEBarret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder ousted before joining OpenAI, is now at GoogleZoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
IMAGETime is running out for cyber security, warn top tech firmsThe letter warns cyber-attacks which use AI will become more sophisticated in a matter of months.
IMAGEShow HN: Telem – Route agent web search across providers and inspect the tracesTL;DR: Web search open router that routes agent web search across providers (Exa, Parallel, Tavily, Brave, SerpAPI etc.), and traces web search results with quality metrics, so you can visualize whether a bad agent run is a web search problem or a reasoning problem.I work in venture capital, and before that I worked in information retrieval. When agents went viral, I built a due diligence agent for my day job. I vibe-coded the first version. It was pretty bad. My first reaction is to blame the model. I tried to change backend models, maybe because Fable doesn't want to help me do people search? Maybe because GPT 5.5 overthinks things? I tried DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen; I changed prompts again and again, no good. Then I stopped just simply checking the final answer and started reading the actual trajectories: what did the agent search for? What came back? What pages did it read? At what point agents were off the rail?Pretty interesting: Sometimes the agent is stuck and confused because the i
IMAGEFrench presidential candidates clash at first debate before upcoming electionsSeven of France's leading candidates locked horns on Thursday in their first debate, eight months ahead of an increasingly tight and crowded election to succeed President Emmanuel Macron. The debate comes less than eight months ahead of the 2027 election to choose France's new leader, with centrist incumbent Macron having served the maximum two consecutive terms.
IMAGEWerro edges closer to 800m mark as world records fall in ZurichEuropean champion Audrey Werro came tantalisingly close to downing the oldest outdoor world record in athletics, finishing a little more than four tenths of a second off Jarmila Kratochvilova's 800m mark.
IMAGEFrance relaxes strict cheese-making rules after prolonged droughtMakers of some of France's most famous cheeses get waivers on where herds graze due to the lack of grass.
IMAGEChelsea agree £7.5m fee for Villa's MartinezChelsea agree a £7.5m fee to sign Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez.
IMAGEHow much of a problem is AI’s water use?AI’s water footprint is growing, but location and cooling technology make a difference.
IMAGEMan City and Aston Villa to face holders PSG in Champions LeagueEuropean champions Paris St-Germain will face Premier League duo Manchester City and Aston Villa in the league phase of this season's Champions League.
IMAGETitle holders PSG to face Barcelona and Man City as Champions League draw is madeTwo-time defending champions Paris Saint-Germain will host Manchester City and travel to Barcelona in the Champions League this season, after the 36-team draw was made Thursday. Real Madrid will face Inter Milan and Arsenal, among a host of mouth-watering clashes.
IMAGEFalcons rumors: Michael Penix Jr. still in QB1 race despite no preseason actionThe Atlanta Falcons quarterback race still has Michael Penix involved even though he hasn't seen preseason action.
IMAGESutton's predictions v Royal Blood drummer Ben ThatcherBBC Sport football expert Chris Sutton takes on Royal Blood drummer Ben Thatcher, plus the BBC readers and AI with his predictions for this weekend's Premier League fixtures.
IMAGEHas Social Media For Children Just Changed Forever?Tech giant Meta will pay up to $18billion to settle claims its platforms harm children
Show HN: IdeaKache – Ideas Worth Holding OntoExplore 2,410 ideas from many of the world's leading thinkers. Start with Jeff Bezos or let IdeaKache pick for you by clicking "Crack open a Kache Surprise".I've spent 9 years collecting ideas from books, podcasts, X and corners of the internet. Each entry taught me something.All entries are sourced so you can refer back to the original. I've checked every one of them.Some entries are behind a simple login (which is free) to protect against agents and bots.Let me know what you think.Jeremy
IMAGEWATCH: Seattle Storm makes 1 girl's dream become a realityEleven-year-old Charlotte, with the help of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, became a Storm player for the day.
IMAGEESA Awards €544 Million in European Launcher Challenge ContractsThe European Space Agency has signed the first contracts under its European Launcher Challenge, committing a combined €543.6 million to Isar Aerospace, Rocket Factory Augsburg, and PLD Space. MaiaSpace was notably not among the awardees, with the agency stating that the contract award process with the company is “expected to resume in the coming weeks.” […] The post ESA Awards €544 Million in European Launcher Challenge Contracts appeared first on European Spaceflight.
IMAGE'National treasure: If we could all be like Dolly, the world would be a much better place'As the world pays homage to the life and legacy of Dolly Parton, François Picard is pleased to welcome Nashville's Irene Kelley, Country musician and celebrated songwriter, alongside her daughter, Justyna Kelley, Country musician, songwriter, actress and producer. For the Kelley family, Dolly Parton’s significance lies in the extraordinary reach of her music, and even more in the way she turned intimate stories into something remarkably universal. Her songs were grounded in home and family, sharing life's immense struggles, while staying true to her values. The Kelleys see Parton as a national treasure who transcended generations, social class and the great political divide.
IMAGE'Great public test': French presidential hopefuls to face off at business summitParis's Roland Garros tennis stadium will be the venue for a French presidential election warmup event on Thursday as seven from a crowded field of candidates will take to the stage at the Medef business leaders' annual end-of-summer seminar to defend their business and economic programmes. France 24's Charles Pellegrin reports.
IMAGEShow HN: ThunderPhone v2 – a new architecture for voice AIHi folks, Alex here from ThunderPhone. Today we're launching v2.Voice AI has been a hot topic for the past year or two, both for automating phone calls and for adding voice features to apps.Most of the voice agents deployed have been using a "3 step pipeline": a transcription model to turn user speech into text, an LLM to generate a response in text, and a TTS model to turn the response text into audio.But the performance of these 3-step voice agents has often been so-so, largely for 3 reasons:1) Voice agents have to be fast, usually requiring non-thinking LLMs to handle the conversation. Non-thinking LLMs make mistakes, leading to dumb behavior that derails conversations.2) Today's voice AI stacks typically rely on a single transcription model to turn what the user says into text. This step loses a ton of information from the audio, and if the transcription model makes a mistake, the LLM often has no way to recover. This also leads to a lot of dumb behavior that breaks calls.3) Natura