OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn’t seem to be living up to expectations.
OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn’t seem to be living up to expectations.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta made AI look so stinking cute by giving it a squishy little face – and this holiday season, he wants to sell you a Muse Charm so you can carry your jolly AI helper around like a Tamagotchi. But I won’t be buying one, because we have Muse Charm at home. It … Read more
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As of October 23rd, 2026 “AI bubble” had one of its loudest weeks of the year. CoreWeave slid to a new 52-week low on financing worries, Nvidia fell 4.4% on October 22, and Ken Griffin told a Citadel conference investors are “almost certainly” in a bubble, which promptly drew pushback from Deutsche Bank’s Christian Sewing … Read more
Every programmer eventually encounters that moment of quiet confusion during a late-night debugging session: you cast a signed 8-bit -1 to hexadecimal, expecting something clean and human-readable, only for the debugger to spit back 0xFF. Widen it to a 32-bit register, and it suddenly balloons into 0xFFFFFFFF. Where did the minus sign go? Why didn’t … Read more
The latest Windows 11 Insider build adds some powerful new search features and quick settings while in Xbox mode. The Xbox shortcuts let you control things like Bluetooth, WiFi, and power settings without having to exit gaming mode. The search improvements are quite comprehensive. You can now filter results for files, actions, or web results. … Read more
Generosity is a marketing strategy. Unit economics is a survival strategy. Here is how my “Founder’s Launch Program” saved my indie app. The best week of my indie life. It started with a stranger on Reddit. He’d tried my native notes app, EpicNotes, on his Xiaomi phone and left a comment: “Feels fast and nice. … Read more
We got a chance to touch Apple’s latest MacBook at the “Pro and Tell” event. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge While the new touch-enabled MacBook Pro with the PROLED XDR screen is available for preorder across a few major retailers, Best Buy is sweetening the deal by including a $100 gift … Read more
No lies detected. | Photo: Onda Vic Mensa is one of those people who has done so many things that it’s hard to remember where you were first introduced to him. Was it his debut mixtape Innanetape, which finally hit the major streaming services for the first time in September? Or maybe his house-influenced single … Read more
How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## I Compared 8 AI Agent Platforms. Here’s What Running a Team Actually Costs By @thomascherickal [ 55 Min read ] Compare … Read more
Let’s learn about Literature via these 500 free blog posts. They are ordered by HackerNoon reader engagement data. Visit the Learn Repo or LearnRepo.com to find the most read blog posts about any technology. Literature refers to written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit. Literature is vital for cultural preservation, fostering … Read more
The iPhone Duo has its frustrations, but it’s also fun and engaging enough that I didn’t want to switch back to my Pro Max.
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Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 150, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Halloween, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I was in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee on a family vacation. It was delightful … Read more
“Its James Talarico. Can you please please please please pretty pretty please rush in even just $1?” “Who’s working to elect James Talarico? Marxists.” “Wow! Wow! Wow! Mark Kelly just made a HUGE announcement!” “We asked Ben Verlander, MLB analyst and former Tigers prospect, to record a quick video about the election this Tuesday, November … Read more
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On October 29, 2026, an Ethereum hot wallet belonging to Binance was emptied in a single transaction. The tool behind the drain was EIP-7702, a feature that went live on Ethereum in May 2025. As of October 30, 2026, no flaw in EIP-7702 itself has been reported. It did exactly what a valid signature told … Read more
Key Takeaways ● Clean core extensibility is when we, as a design choice, decide to go that way per use case: synchronous OData for transactional use cases that require immediate response, asynchronous events for all other use cases. ● At the beginning of each CAPM project, multi-tenancy issues should be addressed; retrofitting tenant isolation … Read more
France’s potential role in AI rests on its ability to organise a chain of capabilities. Model developers can produce useful technologies, computing institutions can provide infrastructure, and public administrations can establish sustained demand. National capacity grows when these activities become connected through arrangements that work under practical constraints. The decisive question is whether French institutions … Read more
The money behind the money is thrilled, mostly.
Chapter 7 of Super Second Brain, translated from the Korean whitepaper by Hanul Lee. Generative AI assisted translation and editing. This essay is a philosophical thought experiment. Perfect memory, consistent values, and a thousand shared bodies are assumptions within that experiment, not measured capabilities of present-day AI systems. Suppose we have passed the crossing point … Read more
DAEDALUS’s inauguration in Lavrion on 19 October 2026 brings Greece’s immediate AI policy question into sharper focus: how will institutions use the new computing base? EuroHPC and GRNET point to a delivered supercomputing installation, following earlier procurement and benchmark milestones. [1] This creates an opportunity for researchers, businesses and public organisations to attempt work that … Read more