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AI-powered travel agency Fora hits unicorn status, raises $60M

Travel agency Fora announced a $60 million Series D round led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, valuing the company at $1 billion. 

TechCrunch • Jul 16, 2026 • Dominic-Madori Davis
Technology Jul 16, 2026

NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook

Article URL: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-notebook/notebooklm-gemini-notebook/ Comments URL: h...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

Article URL: https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/16/microsoft-comic-chat-is-now-open-source/ Comments URL: ht...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Show HN: Leaves – a text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer

GUI disk analyzers are great for figuring out what's filling up your laptop/desktop drive.On containers or remote serve...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Google continues its renaming streak by turning NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google said users can soon access their notebooks through AI Mode in Search.

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Google’s AI Mode now lets you link and interact with select apps

With this new update, Google is expanding AI Mode beyond answering questions and into completing tasks across the apps t...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook

Google is giving its AI note-taking app a new name. The company announced on Thursday that NotebookLM is becoming Gemini...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Show HN: BambooGrid – Open-source web UI for power grid modeling and power flow

Hi HN, I am co-founder of Kickstage, a software company specializing in solutions for the electrical industry and latel...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Energy IPOs surge as investors hunt for ways to play AI boom

Companies coming to market are raising money at fastest pace this century.

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Time’s running out to save $10 on Splatoon Raiders physical preorders

Splatoon Raiders’ July 23rd launch day is almost here, so your window to preorder the physical version at a $10 discou...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Tesla driver in fatal Texas crash overrode FSD by pressing accelerator ‘100 percent,’ investigators confirm

The Tesla driver who fatally struck a woman after crashing into her home "manually overrode" the vehicle's Full Self-Dri...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Yes, you can now order DoorDash from the command line

DoorDash is opening a limited beta of dd-cli, a command-line tool that lets developers and AI agents search stores, buil...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

UK cops say arrest of two young hackers disrupted the operations of an infamous hacking group

Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair, two members of the prolific Scattered Spider hacking group, pleaded guilty and were sent...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Swatch’s New Gold MoonSwatch Solves the Problem of the Nightmare Royal Pop Launch

Swatch’s latest MoonSwatch is the Mission to the Moon 1969, a limited-edition model with components crafted from Omega...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Show HN: Sentinel – open-source QA agent that reads your code before it clicks

Article URL: https://blog.simbastack.com/announcing-sentinel/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=489359...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Period tracker Stardust shares users’ health data with analytics firm, says Mozilla research

One period tracker app tested by Mozilla was 'squeaky clean,' while another app was seen sharing users' health data with...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Immersive Linear Algebra Book with Interactive Figures

Article URL: https://immersivemath.com/ila/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935951 Points: 19 # Co...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball?

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT ...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Schema Harness Achieves ~99% on Arc‑AGI‑3 Public

Article URL: https://schema-harness.github.io/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935905 Points: 18 #...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

How to Train a Gen AI Kick Drum Model on Your Old Linux Desktop with 6GB VRAM

Article URL: https://www.zhinit.dev/blog/training-a-kick-drum-diffusion-model Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Apple’s OLED iPad Mini upgrade is on the way as prices continue to rise

The iPad Mini could get an OLED display upgrade as soon as October, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. It would be th...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product

Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research th...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Kimi K3 Is Live

Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/code/docs/en/kimi-code/models Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Sheryl Sandberg leads $10 million investment in AI-powered vehicle inspection service

The startup, founded in 2021, lets enterprise customers use smartphones to scan and spot vehicle damage.

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Guide to data tools landscape for developers

Article URL: https://sinja.io/blog/data-landscape-guide-for-developers Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Tesla driver who blamed crash on autopilot pressed accelerator 100%, NTSB finds

NTSB findings back Elon Musk's claim that driver manually overrode FSD.

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Kimi K3 is now live

Article URL: https://www.kimi.com/en Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48935342 Points: 97 # Comments:...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Why AMI Labs’ Alexandre LeBrun won’t call his AI ‘AGI’ or ‘superintelligence’

While everyone in AI is chasing "superintelligence," Alexandre LeBrun, CEO of Yann LeCun’s world model startup, AMI La...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

Moonshot’s upcoming Kimi 3 is expected to close the gap with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8

The FT reports Kimi K3 will be the largest open AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 tri...

Technology Jul 16, 2026

‘No company is going to go to jail for you’: Proton’s CTO on balancing privacy, policy, and trust

Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking with Bart ...