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Clipto uses AI to search terabytes of video and is now valued at $250M

The three-year-old startup says it reached $15 million in ARR and profitability before raising its latest $15 million round.

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Technology Aug 31, 2026

Debian won’t ban AI code from its Linux distribution

Debian voted to allow developers to use AI tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, mainte...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Launch HN: Almanac (YC S26) – AI that knows your company

Hi HN, I'm Kushagra, one of three founders of Almanac, a Hermes with a brain that knows everything about your company.W...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps ar...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Sony’s WH-1000XM5 headphones are back down to their lowest price

Sony is one of many companies offering Labor Day discounts on tech products, though its week-long sale on the last-gen W...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

George Santos Just Got Hit With Kalshi’s First-Ever Lifetime Ban

The former US representative was also fined more than $71,000 for allegedly attempting to manipulate the prediction mark...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools

AI is proving effective at finding and exploiting vulnerabilities. Some say this will make it harder for governments to ...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Nvidia’s $3.5B MediaTek bet reveals its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek. The deal shows how Nvidia plans to stay essential to AI i...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Launch HN: Hebbian Robotics (YC S26) – Build scalable robotics data pipelines

Hi HN, we’re Brandon and Kingston, the founders of Hebbian Robotics. We built HFlow (https://github.com/Hebbian-Robot...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Agentic Trust Controls

Article URL: https://trustcontrols.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510612 Points: 5 # Comments...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Show HN: 2x-4x cheaper GLM 5.3 for coding and research

Inference for Kimi and GLM. Built for research and coding agents that plan, call tools for hours, and reason over large...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Apache Iggy, a message streaming platform in Rust, graduates to an Apache TLP

Article URL: https://iggy.apache.org/blogs/2026/08/24/apache-iggy-top-level-project-tlp-graduation/ Comments URL: https...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Doubling of Kobo's U.S. sales in both 2025 and 2026, 70% US female customer base

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/kobo/comments/1w20azv/the_doubling_of_kobos_us_sales_in_both_2025_and/ Comments U...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/986682/openai-chatgpt-eu-dsa Comments URL: https://new...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Playa Phone

Article URL: https://playaphone.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510514 Points: 29 # Comments:...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

C++26: Standard Library Hardening Experiments

Article URL: https://www.cppstories.com/2026/hardening-experiments/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

MapQuest’s app surges to No. 1 in Navigation after refusing to rename Lake Ontario

MapQuest is getting an unexpected boost from its decision to defy President Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario.

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Culture Clash

Article URL: https://aeon.co/essays/at-the-heart-of-the-snow-leavis-two-cultures-clash Comments URL: https://news.ycomb...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

My Experience Has Nuance, Yours Is a Data Point

Article URL: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/nuance-for-me-none-for-you/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/i...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Marx, Keynes, and A.I

Article URL: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/marx-keynes-and-ai Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

New York governor to 3D printed gun leader: ‘tell Cody I will get ahead of him’

Cody Wilson, the creator of the first 3D printed gun, announced a tool last week aimed at skirting a New York law that p...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

ChatGPT Work Tool and Skill Reference

Article URL: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49510...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

New York Governor Kathy Hochul thinks AI should be ‘less evil’

Today, I’m talking with New York Governor Kathy Hochul, and I’ll just warn you — this episode moves really fast. I...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Show HN: Linux server management over SSH – written in Rust and Tauri

Article URL: https://serverbox.stupidlabs.lol/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509679 Points: 5 # ...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU

OpenAI will soon be held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT's impact on minors, user mental health, and...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our larg...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Instagram cracks down on AI accounts pretending to be human

Instagram is finally taking steps to address the rise of fake AI-influencer accounts that have gotten harder to spot. It...

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Meeting notetaker Circleback adds a free tier to attract more customers

Circleback is also introducing new pricing plans starting from $14 per month

Technology Aug 31, 2026

Apple Caught Off Guard by AI Demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio

Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/30/apple-unexpected-mac-mini-and-studio-demand/ Comments URL: https://ne...