How RCA Victor sold Sound Service to classrooms in 1939

RCA Victor advertised "Sound Service for Schools" in a 1939 LIFE magazine advertisement, promoting audio technology to educational institutions during the Great Depression era.

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Allstate accuses Broadcom of auditing it because it quit VMware, CA

2026-07-09 · 20:28

Broadcom accuses Allstate of dodging VMware audits.

Anthropic AI Oversight Board Adds Ben Bernanke, Who Oversaw 2008 Financial Crisis at Fed

2026-07-09 · 20:22

Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke will have the power to appoint Anthropic board members as part of company's Long-Term…

Show HN: Reviving my 2001 college band with AI

2026-07-09 · 19:49

A former Ripon College band called Fading Maize, which recorded original songs in a dorm room in 2001, has been revived…

Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1

2026-07-09 · 19:40

Meta's pitch to users is Spark's ability to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and help with large code…

Charles Hudson shares the common mistakes he’s seen after investing in 500+ startups

2026-07-09 · 19:26

In this week’s episode of Build Mode, Isabelle Johannessen talks with Precursor Ventures' Charles Hudson about the…

New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial

2026-07-09 · 19:05

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs,…

Slate Auto teams up with Crayola to color its EV truck

2026-07-09 · 19:01

Slate has an answer for owners who have always want to drive a truck with bright crayon colors.

OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs

2026-07-09 · 18:57

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

Mercor is in talks for a $20B valuation

2026-07-09 · 18:42

A new $20 billion valuation would be a giant step up from the $10 billion valuation it reached in October.

Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI

2026-07-09 · 18:40

While Google prohibits misleading and deceptive ads, an ad can still leverage AI to create some type of synthetic or…

Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia

2026-07-09 · 18:34

The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, "strengthening its…

GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper

2026-07-09 · 18:29

GLM 5.2, an open-weights AI model, achieved near-human accuracy in preparing UK VAT tax returns for small businesses,…

How to Start a Ruby Meetup

2026-07-09 · 18:27

Starting a Ruby meetup requires securing a venue (ideally an office with meeting space), creating an event listing with…

How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?

2026-07-09 · 18:22

"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."

Instagram users: Here’s how to stop Meta’s AI from using your photos

2026-07-09 · 17:56

Muse Image allows users to generate AI images using photos from public Instagram accounts.

Show HN: I built a web tool to see and edit what an AI thinks before it answers

2026-07-09 · 17:36

A developer created Lucid, a web tool that visualizes what language models are "thinking" before they generate responses…

OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 Sol: Here’s How It Stacks Up Against Other AI Models

2026-07-09 · 17:24

OpenAI's new flagship model is out, after spending two weeks locked behind a government-approved preview.

Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September

2026-07-09 · 17:17

The company is taking a modular approach to designing these chips, anticipating that their needs will change as AI…

Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig

2026-07-09 · 17:17

Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of popular infrastructure tools like Terraform and Vagrant, built Ghostty, a fast and…

Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created

2026-07-09 · 17:06

Having proven how valuable compute can be, the company finds itself at the center of a market everyone wants to be in —…

GPT-5.6

2026-07-09 · 17:04

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ChatGPT Work

2026-07-09 · 17:03

Wildcard (YC W25) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer

2026-07-09 · 17:00

Wildcard, a Y Combinator-backed startup, is hiring a Founding Engineer to build its agentic commerce optimization…

AI 2040: Plan A

2026-07-09 · 16:21

AI companies are racing to develop superintelligent AI by the late 2020s, which could result in extinction or dangerous…

AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn

2026-07-09 · 15:50

AI-generated content is proliferating across social media platforms, with one in four longform posts flagged as fully…

Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website

2026-07-09 · 15:28

Context.dev, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has launched an API that extracts structured data from any website to power…

Hy3

2026-07-09 · 15:27

Show HN: Policy enforcement for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex

2026-07-09 · 15:26

Show HN: Runtime authorization for Claude Code, Cursor, and CodexHi HN, Fernando and I built Kastra.

Opinionated and Easy Pi.dev Configuration

2026-07-09 · 15:19

LazyPi is a one-command configuration tool that instantly sets up the Pi coding agent with 60+ community skills, 67…

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