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Axon AI Policing Revenue Surges 700%+ YoY
Rick Smith has steered Axon from its origins as a Taser manufacturer into a policing software company, with revenue from AI policing tools surging more than 700% year-over-year as he wagers both Axon'
US Database Gaps Tied to Iran School Strike; AI Debate
Disconnected US military databases may have caused the February 28 missile strike on an Iranian elementary school that killed an estimated 120 children, with experts split on whether AI integration wo
Flexion's AI Trains Humanoids to Run Office Errands
Swiss startup Flexion Robotics, founded by ex-Nvidia researchers, demonstrated AI software that enables humanoid robots to autonomously complete multi-step office tasks like retrieving parcels and usi
South Korea Plans $357.5B AI Data Centers
South Korea unveiled plans for new AI data centers backed by ~$357.5 billion from SK Group, GS Group, and Naver, targeting 8.4GW of capacity initially and 18.4GW by 2035.
Dealogic: Japan saw 18 IPOs in H1 2026, the lowest since 2011, despite stock market surges, partly due to Japan's lack of AI, data center, and chip startups (David Keohane/Financial Times)
Japan's listings market slumped to just 18 IPOs in the first half of 2026 — the weakest first half for new issues since 2011 — despite a surging Tokyo stock market, with Dealogic attributing the droug
DeepSeek Claims 85% Inference Speedup with DSpark
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek detailed DSpark, a speculative decoding framework for its V4 models that it says speeds up AI inference by up to 85% and was tested on Gemma and Qwen.
Hacker News Readers Demand AI-Free Tech News Filters
A Hacker News thread is rallying readers to demand tech news sources that exclude AI coverage, with commenters sharing already-built filtering tools like hcker.news and 'HN sans AI' that strip AI stor
China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity
Z.ai released open-weight GLM-5.2, which some researchers say matches Anthropic's Mythos on bug-finding despite trailing US frontier models on general tasks, putting pressure on US export controls.
Austria Pushes EU to Host Anthropic on Bloc Soil
Austria is lobbying the EU, via a formal letter, to host Anthropic on European soil as part of broader bloc efforts to reduce dependence on US and Chinese tech.
Suno's Spark program asks artists to waive legal rights
Suno has launched Spark, an incubator program for unsigned musicians offering grants and mentorship, as the AI music company pushes beyond generation tools toward artist development and streaming.
Show HN: NanoEuler – GPT-2 scale model in pure C/CUDA from scratch
A developer has open-sourced NanoEuler, a ~116M-parameter GPT-2-class language model built entirely from scratch in C and CUDA — with no PyTorch, no autograd, and no ML libraries, and a complete pretr
Ford rehires 350 veteran engineers after AI falls short
Ford has rehired 350 veteran engineers — dubbed 'gray beards' — after its AI-driven and automated quality systems fell short, deploying them to hunt for failure points before parts ever reach the plan
GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
Semgrep's IDOR-detection benchmark found Zhipu AI's open-weight GLM 5.2 beat Claude Code 39% to 32% F1 with no scaffolding, at roughly $0.17 per vulnerability found, while the company's own purpose-bu
Age of Empires II Analogy Argues AI Isn't Conscious
A University of York researcher used Age of Empires II's scenario editor in a recent paper to argue that treating AI as conscious is absurd, finding that 57% of more than 300 reviewed papers assumed A
Z.ai GLM-5.2 Matches US AI on Cybersecurity Bugs
Researchers report Z.ai's GLM-5.2 matches leading US AI systems in finding security bugs, with the Wall Street Journal warning that US restrictions on frontier AI risk handing Beijing a cyberwarfare a
Software Engineer: AI Coding Makes Me 'Lazier and
A working software engineer warns that AI coding tools have eroded his skills, eliminated the creative flow state, and threaten the developer pipeline as junior roles vanish and platforms like Stack O
As Trump Doubles Down on Quantum Computing, This Is the Top-Performing Stock to Buy YTD - Barchart.com
President Trump signed executive orders directing the development of a powerful quantum computer, targeting 2028, while federal agencies were given roughly four months to finalize quantum-ready plans.
Tony Fadell's Quest to Reinvent the Thermostat
The Verge's Version History podcast revisits Tony Fadell's founding of Nest and his bet that reimagining the lowly thermostat could reshape the smart home — a bet that paid off commercially even as th
AI Users Busier While Cognitive Skills Decline: Studies
An opinion writer synthesizes multiple studies arguing that AI adopters are working more, not less, and that heavy AI use corresponds to measurable cognitive decline — reframing the AI-age divide as a
China Defies US Restrictions and Builds the World’s Fastest Supercomputer
China's LineShine supercomputer displaced US rival El Capitan from the top of the TOP500 ranking, delivering 2,198 exaflops using entirely Chinese-developed hardware — including 45,000 CPU-only proces
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