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Sources: A potential $900 billion valuation round could happen within two weeks

Sources: A potential $900 billion valuation round could happen within two weeks

โœจ Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Venture,Exclusive,Anthropic,megarounds โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Anthropic is asking investors to make allocations to the AI โ€‹โ€‹company's latest fundraising campaign within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter. The round, which TechCrunch reported is expected to be worth about $50 billion, is expected to close within two weeks, the sources said. As mentioned earlier, Anthropic is targeting a valuation of around $900 billion. However, our sources said that due to growing demand from investors seeking a stake in the company, the final valuation may exceed this…
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SimpleX blog: SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding

SimpleX blog: SimpleX Channels, SimpleX Network Consortium and Community Crowdfunding

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Published: Apr 30, 2026 Freedom of speech needs infrastructure that protects it by design โ€” not only the protocols and servers, but the governance and funding to support them. SimpleX Channels โ€” more public, more freedom, more private v6.5 release brings SimpleX Channels: a new model for online publishing built for participation privacy. Channel content is visible to chat relay operators. And each channel uses multiple relays, so no single relay can block the channel. But the real identities of channel owners and subscribers are…
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Apple has been surprised by the AI-driven demand for Macs

Apple has been surprised by the AI-driven demand for Macs

โœจ Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Hardware,AI,Apple,earnings,mac,mac mini,Mac Studio,macbook neo โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Apple's iPhone sales and services revenues were the stars of the show in the tech giant's latest quarter, but the Mac has quietly outperformed โ€” thanks to growing demand for artificial intelligence workloads. Wall Street investors were expecting to see Mac revenue in the low $8 billion range, but Apple reported $8.4 billion in the second quarter ended March 28 โ€” a notable win for a non-core segment of the tech giant's business. Additionally, investors believed before the earnings announcement that Mac…
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Apple reports second quarter results

Apple reports second quarter results

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Apple periodically provides information for investors on its corporate website, apple.com, and its investor relations website, investor.apple.com. This includes press releases and other information about financial performance, reports filed or furnished with the SEC, information on corporate governance, and details related to its annual meeting of shareholders. This press release contains forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include without limitation those about the Companyโ€™s plan for return of capital, payment of the Companyโ€™s quarterly…
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Legal AI startup Legora is valued at $5.6 billion and its battle with Harvey is getting hotter

Legal AI startup Legora is valued at $5.6 billion and its battle with Harvey is getting hotter

๐Ÿ’ฅ Read this insightful post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Startups,jude law,legal tech,legora,nventures ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Nvidia has set a new stone in its AI empire. NVentures, its venture capital fund, has backed Legora, in what is said to be its first legal investment in AI. Leveraging artificial intelligence to help lawyers streamline their work, the Swedish-born legal tech startup is competing with US player Harvey. Along with Atlassian and other new financial investors, NVentures has joined Legora's cap table as part of a $50 million Series D extension that comes a month after the startup's $550 million Series…
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Follow-up to Carrot disclosure: Forgejo

๐Ÿš€ Read this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Since I published Carrot disclosure: Forgejo two days ago, numerous things happened: Friends of mine were reached out to, to "talk to me from a place of trust", or simply to tell them what an horrible person I am, which they found hilarious. The toot linking to the blogpost was removed from infosec.exchange by an overzealous moderator after it had been reported multiple times by multiple people. I thus moved to mastodon.social, where it was also removed with "Irresponsible disclosure" given as a reason. So…
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Rivian is reducing the size of the Department of Energy loan to $4.5 billion, while enhancing the capacity of the Georgia factory

Rivian is reducing the size of the Department of Energy loan to $4.5 billion, while enhancing the capacity of the Georgia factory

โœจ Read this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,electric vehicles,EVs,Rivian ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Rivian has reworked its loan deal with the Department of Energy and now expects to borrow $4.5 billion to build its new plant in Georgia, down from the original $6.6 billion allocated under the Biden administration. The company also announced Thursday that it will retire the loan sooner than planned, in early 2027, and expects to increase the Georgia plant's total capacity from 200,000 to 300,000 vehicles in the initial phase of operation โ€” another sign that the company has high hopes for its…
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Full-Text Search with DuckDB – peterdohertys.website

โœจ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Published on: 4/29/2026 Overview This is a follow-up to my first post about DuckDB: A Dab of DuckDB. If youโ€™re new to DuckDB, you may want to start there. The basic DuckDB workflow of making a data source quickly and easily discoverable is incredibly powerful โ€ฆ but there are limits. Some use cases, like searching the contents of historical publications or a tranche of emails would be constrained by basic text queries. As mentioned in my first post, Iโ€™m interested in exploring some of the…
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Electric vehicle startup Faraday Future has paid $7.5 million for a company linked to founder Jia Yueting

Electric vehicle startup Faraday Future has paid $7.5 million for a company linked to founder Jia Yueting

โœจ Read this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Transportation,Exclusive,faraday future,Jia Yueting โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Faraday Future paid about $7.5 million to a company controlled by its founder Jia Yueting in 2025, according to a new regulatory filing. The long-struggling electric vehicle startup made payments in one year when it delivered just four vehicles and lost nearly $400 million. The company focused on selling smaller trucks and cheaper robots imported from China. The payments occurred while Faraday Future was still under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which was probing what are known as โ€œrelated party…
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Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec

Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec

๐Ÿ’ฅ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: 24 Apr, 2026 You know the drill. That passwords.txt is no longer needed. Right click -> Delete. Empty Trash. That's it. Well, not quite. When I was younger, I used to hear stories about people recovering deleted files. Not from opening the Recycle Bin and restoring files one by one. No. There were rumors that deleted files weren't actually sent to the abyss. That, one could recover lost items even after clearing them from whatever OS bin they were last seen in. Recently, I was…
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