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      "title": "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research",
      "url": "https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research",
      "published_at": "2026-07-29T21:25:40+00:00",
      "snippet": "Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-s-top-startups-are-barely-publishing-their-research Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103285 Points: 504 # Comments: 257",
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    {
      "title": "Thinking Machines co-founder Lilian Weng left the company citing health reasons, then joined OpenAI",
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      "title": "As AI content floods the internet, Pangram raises $9M to detect it",
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      "published_at": "2026-07-29T11:00:00+00:00",
      "snippet": "Pangram has raised $9 million to scale its AI detection software. The startup has also released a new AI text detection model, Pangram 4, and an AI image detection model in research preview.",
      "sources": [
        "techcrunch"
      ],
      "tracked_brands": []
    },
    {
      "title": "Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971059/ai-artists-lawsuit-google-meta-anthropic",
      "published_at": "2026-07-28T20:19:25+00:00",
      "snippet": "When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his boo",
      "sources": [
        "theverge"
      ],
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    },
    {
      "title": "Perplexity’s Personal Computer turns Windows PCs into AI agents",
      "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971750/perplexity-personal-computer-windows-ai-agents",
      "published_at": "2026-07-28T12:11:42+00:00",
      "snippet": "Perplexity has expanded its agentic Personal Computer tool to Windows, allowing computers running the world's most popular OS to be used as a locally run AI system. Like the Mac version that Perplexity launched in April,",
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      ],
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      "title": "Google just redesigned the search box for the first time in 25 years — here’s why it matters more than you think.",
      "url": "https://venturebeat.com/technology/google-just-redesigned-the-search-box-for-the-first-time-in-25-years-heres-why-it-matters-more-than-you-think",
      "published_at": "2026-05-19T17:45:00+00:00",
      "snippet": "For a quarter century, the Google search box has been one of the most recognizable interfaces in computing: a thin white rectangle, a blinking cursor, a few typed words, and a list of blue links. On Tuesday, Google will ",
      "sources": [
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      ],
      "tracked_brands": []
    },
    {
      "title": "Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment",
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      "published_at": "2026-01-07T20:00:00+00:00",
      "snippet": "Nous Research , the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm , released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary s",
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    }
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  "note": "Index of third-party reporting: headlines and short excerpts with attribution and links. Full articles belong to the publishers.",
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  "source": "DABYTE topic index, dabyte.ai"
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