Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo
https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/
https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/
Maker's Pet
Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum — Meet OOMWOO - Makers Pet
I’m starting a new build-in-public project: oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself. Raspberry Pi, ROS 2, 2D LiDAR, Home Assistant, 3D printed, local-first — and open from the first commit.
Senior SWE-Bench: open-source benchmark that assesses agents as senior engineers
https://senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai/
https://senior-swe-bench.snorkel.ai/
Senior SWE-Bench
Evaluating agents as senior engineers on the work we actually give them
The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
https://intrepidkarthi.com/writing/the-gauge-broke/
https://intrepidkarthi.com/writing/the-gauge-broke/
intrepidkarthi
The gauge broke · intrepidkarthi
For two years I argued the feeling of AI speed had come apart from the fact of it, from watching my own teams. This summer it stopped being an anecdote. A controlled trial measured experienced developers feeling about 20% faster while running about 19% slower.…
MarketFish – Simulate a market with 128 AI consumers before you launch
https://github.com/Key-wxh/market-fish
https://github.com/Key-wxh/market-fish
GitHub
GitHub - Key-wxh/market-fish: Dont guess. Simulate. Multi-agent market prediction engine.
Dont guess. Simulate. Multi-agent market prediction engine. - Key-wxh/market-fish
Google loses fight over record $4.7B EU antitrust fine
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/alphabet-google-android-eu-antitrust-fine-4-1-billion-euro-appeal.html
CNBC
Google loses fight over record $4.7 billion EU antitrust fine
In 2018, the European Commission slapped Google with the record-breaking penalty on the grounds that it abused Android's mobile dominance.
Nvidia offers startup customers chance to swap compute power for revenue share
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/nvidia-plans-to-offer-start-up-customers-access-to-revenue-sharing-deals.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/nvidia-plans-to-offer-start-up-customers-access-to-revenue-sharing-deals.html
CNBC
Nvidia taps AI cloud providers to expand compute access for startups
Chipmaker Nvidia is expanding its support for fast-growing AI startups by introducing a partnership program that leverages its network of AI cloud service providers to offer these firms access to critical computing infrastructure, the company said Thursday.
Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-sell-excess-ai-computing-capacity-via-cloud-business-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-07-01/
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-sell-excess-ai-computing-capacity-via-cloud-business-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-07-01/
OpenAI: In early talks to give 5% stake to US Government
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/02/openai-stake-us-government-ai-sam-altman
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/02/openai-stake-us-government-ai-sam-altman
the Guardian
OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’
CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report says
Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01232
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01232
arXiv.org
Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match...
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central component of post-training large language models (LLMs), yet little is understood about how RL adaptation is distributed across transformer layers....
AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-were-getting-ai-fake-news-complaining-about-how-ai-fake-news-is-the-death-of-real-news/
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-were-getting-ai-fake-news-complaining-about-how-ai-fake-news-is-the-death-of-real-news/
Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/3epPWgu-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/3epPWgu-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
Y Combinator
Full Stack Engineer (TS/SCI) at Hazel | Y Combinator
Note: This role is exclusively available to U.S. citizens who can obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Top Secret security clearance with full-scope polygraph. There are no exceptions.
Who We Are:
Our mission at Hazel is simple and powerful. We…
Who We Are:
Our mission at Hazel is simple and powerful. We…
Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models
https://github.com/rafal-qa/slopo
https://github.com/rafal-qa/slopo
GitHub
GitHub - rafal-qa/slopo: Embedding-based code duplication detector
Embedding-based code duplication detector. Contribute to rafal-qa/slopo development by creating an account on GitHub.