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U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/30/nx-s1-5745926/endangered-species-committee-hegseth-security Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47595620 Points: 64 # Comments: 13

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Inside the 'self-driving' lab revolution

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00974-2 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574960 Points: 4 # Comments: 0

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Anthropic is having a month

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

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Salesforce announces an AI-heavy makeover for Slack, with 30 new features

Slack just got a whole lot more useful.

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Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama's MLX support

Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage.

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RFK Jr. wants Americans to use peptides that were banned over safety risks

The FDA is reportedly planning to allow production of 14 previously banned peptides.

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Starlink satellite breaks apart into "tens of objects"; SpaceX confirms "anomaly"

Satellite failure cause is unexplained after second "fragment creation event."

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Show HN: 1-Bit Bonsai, the First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLMs

Article URL: https://prismml.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593422 Points: 50 # Comments: 20

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Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz

Article URL: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/iran-strait-of-hormuz/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584795 Points: 141 # Comments: 378

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Robotaxi companies refuse to say how often their AVs need remote help

Aurora, May Mobility, Motional, Nuro, Tesla, Waymo, and Zoox all refused to cough up a number during Senator Ed Markey's recent investigation.

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OpenAI, not yet public, raises $3B from retail investors in monster $122B fund raise

OpenAI's latest funding round, led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank, values the AI lab at $852 billion as it nears an IPO.

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It’s not your imagination: AI seed startups are commanding higher valuations

Among the most recent Y Combinator cohort, many startups were commanding $40 million valuations. But with more money comes higher expectations.

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Yupp shuts down after raising $33M from a16z crypto’s Chris Dixon

Less than a year after launching, with checks from some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley, crowdsourced AI model feedback startup Yupp is closing its business, the company said Tuesday.

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He-Man gets an origin story in Masters of the Universe trailer

"Skeletor took my family and he destroyed our world."

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Sweaty, glassy-eyed Tiger Woods blames cell phone use for his car crash

Cops arrest Woods after incident.