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🪐 What’s happening in tech today, June 30, 2025?

The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, London Launched the First Emergency Phone Service in 1937, Germany's Heinkel He 176 Took Its Maiden Flight in 1939, Mike Tyson Was Born in 1966, and we present you with these top quality stories. From Meta’s $14B Bet on Scale AI Backfires, Triggers AI Trust Crisis to Is Crypto Still Inclusive? What Happens as Big Tech Shuns DEI Initiatives, let’s dive right in.


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Meta’s $14B Bet on Scale AI Backfires, Triggers AI Trust Crisis

TL;DR Meta’s $14.3B investment in Scale AI sparked a trust crisis, data quality concerns, and industry-wide fallout. Heres what it means for AI’s future. ⚡️TL;DR (C

By @davidjdeal [ 4 Min read ]

Meta sure knows how to roil an entire industry. Its $14.3 billion investment in Scale AI has intensified an ongoing discussion about AI data quality and trust—sometimes in ways that reflect poorly on Meta and Scale, but undeniably in ways that matter...

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tech-stories

Is Crypto Still Inclusive? What Happens as Big Tech Shuns DEI Initiatives

TL;DR As the tech world faces a broader pushback against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts, it’s fair to ask: where does crypto stand?

By @obyte [ 5 Min read ]

Let’s take a step back and unpack what’s happening and why it matters.

The result? Some companies are quietly scaling back their DEI policies or rebranding them under less visible names. Others have pulled funding from initiatives entirely.

Some examples:

Featured Vector Image by storyset / Freepik..

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machine-learning

The Base Rate Fallacy: Why Your Smartest Model Still Gets It Wrong

TL;DR Are AI models as accurate as the validation test says?

By @f1r3_wh1sk3y [ 3 Min read ]

“The problem isn't the data. It's how we ignore the boring parts of it.”

Are AI models as accurate as the validation test says? Why would a model with 99% prediction accuracy flood your inbox with false alarms and turn your beautiful day into a debugging nightmare?

Where:..

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web3

The Path to a Real Decentralized Order Book Protocol

TL;DR A light approach to the creation of a fully decentralized order book concept; the version 2.0 of AMMs.

By @foued2d [ 5 Min read ]

Bridging On-Chain Liquidity with Real-Time Trading Infrastructure

These services stitch together liquidity across DEXs (e.g., 1inch, Matcha) to simulate an order book. While they improve execution via smart routing and can integrate CEX/DEX arbitrage, they lack precision in pricing and face challenges with fragmented liquidity and timing mismatches.

Where:..

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machine-learning

How World Models Laid the Foundation for Artificial General Intelligence

TL;DR World models are internal representations that allow an AI to simulate future outcomes, test hypotheses, and strategically plan behaviors.

By @OurAI [ 7 Min read ]

Imagine an AI that learns by living in a simulated city—navigating traffic, responding to virtual disasters, and interacting with digital citizens. Picture another AI system fighting off a relentless digital virus outbreak, evolving strategies in real-time to contain a spreading infection within an entirely synthetic world...

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Additional Stories of your interest:

-Moonwell’s Founder Calls for Better Crypto UX: “Take the Hippocratic Oath to Your Users”

-New AI Model Promises INSANELY Good Aesthetic AI Photos

-Gemini CLI Is Google’s Quietest Power Move Yet

-What If You Could Run a Blockchain on Everyday Hardware?

On This Day

London Launched the First Emergency Phone Service

On June 30, 1937, the world's first emergency call telephone service was launched in London using the number 999. This service was introduced following a tragedy in 1935 when a woman died because an ambulance could not be called in time. The new service allowed anyone in the London area...

Poll Of the Week

Which Tech Giant is the Most Evil?

There is no "Don't Be Evil" in any of their codes of conduct. But one of them is the most evil, we suppose. Vote!

17% Apple ($2.7T)

6% Microsoft ($2.1T)

11% Google/Alphabet ($1.5T)

15% Amazon ($1.4T)

47% Facebook/Meta ($0.43T)

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