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After report of OpenAI missing targets, one company sees its worst share-price decline in six months

SoftBank Group shares tumbled in Tokyo trade, suffering its worst single-day percentage loss in six months, after a published report that OpenAI missed several internal targets in the face of competition from rival artificial-intelligence labs.

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Scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far

I've been scraping 241 UK council planning portals – 2.6M decisions so far UK planning data is technically public. In practice it's locked behind 400+ different council portals, some still running bespoke ASP.NET that looks like it dates from 2004, some behind AWS WAF, all with subtly different schemas. I've spent four months scraping them. I'm now at 241 councils and 2.6 million decisions across England, Scotland and Wales. The scraping problem Most UK councils run one of a handful of portal sy

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Microsoft Office can now be controlled with Logitech’s MX Creative Console

Logitech’s Creative Console and other MX accessories are now compatible with several productivity apps. | Image: Logitech Logitech has announced a new suite of Productivity Plugins for its entire MX line of accessories, including its Stream Deck alternative, the MX Creative Console. Since the console launched in September 2024, Logitech has been expanding its capabilities with plug-ins that support creativity-focused apps such as Final Cut Pro, Adobe Lightroom, and Figma. That is now expanding

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Where to find first users and testers? (I will not promote)

Hi everyone. I am helping out a startup with marketing. It is an AI consultant for 3D Printing. We have issues with finding first users. I tried posting on 3Dprint groups but get a lot of hate on AI. The founder said he made research and the product is needed. He got good feedback during Additive Manufacturing forum from 3D print product providers. But I am starting to doubt the idea. Where do you look for testers and first users? Would you recommend anything? Thanks in advance. Good luck w

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[i will not promote] Are support tools overkill for early-stage SaaS?

Feels like most support tools are overkill when you're just starting out. Tickets, automations, dashboards, pricing… a lot of it doesn’t get used early on. What are you all using in the beginning? Just email? Something custom? Trying to figure out what actually matters vs what’s just noise. submitted by /u/Jash_Kevadiya [link] [comments]

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Drizzle on top: a new high-end dog food brand is coming for the 1%

Golden Child is launching with two "five-star" products: a fresh frozen meal system and, more intriguingly, a "drizzle." It has also raised $37 million in funding.

TechCrunch

WASM is not quite a stack machine

Article URL: https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/wasm-is-not-quite-a-stack-machine/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930493 Points: 8 # Comments: 1

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After 33 Years, the CEO of Walmart Just Explained the Biggest Challenge Facing Every Leader in 2026

No pressure, right?

Inc. Magazine

Jury selection in Musk v. Altman: ‘People don’t like him’

On Monday, the courtroom battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over alleged broken promises at OpenAI started, as usual, with jury selection. The only tricky part? A lot of the prospective jurors already have an opinion about Elon Musk, and it's not a good one. The Verge reporter Elizabeth Lopatto, who was there at the courthouse, quoted statements from some of the juror questionnaires: "Elon Musk is a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage." "Elon Musk is a world-class jerk." "I very mu

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India’s Snabbit closes $56M round as investor interest in on-demand home services heats up

Snabbit now processes over 40,000 daily jobs and has cut costs sharply as it expands across cities and services.

TechCrunch

How Stripe Detects Fraudulent Transactions Within 100 ms

In this article, we will look at how Stripe’s Radar does this effectively and the architectural decisions the team took while building it.

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Given the startup ecosystems in Canada, shouldn't there be more home runs? (I will not promote)

Given the countless accelerators in the major cities in the country and at least in Toronto specifically as well, MaRS, the MaRS health innovation conference that just happened, Toronto Tech Week, TechTO and various other innovation /startup conferences, how is it that the country has had so few startups that successfully scaled up to become "big" in the last 15-20 years? submitted by /u/coolinjapan001 [link] [comments]

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