✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Transportation,Exclusive,faraday future,Jia Yueting âś… **What You’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 “related party…
đź’Ą Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’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…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,AI training,distillation,Elon Musk,Grok,OpenAI âś… **What You’ll Learn**: OpenAI and Anthropic have recently been on the warpath against third-party efforts to train new AI models by incentivizing chatbots and publicly accessible APIs, a process known as “distillation.” That conversation has focused on Chinese companies using distillation to create open-weight models that are roughly equivalent in capacity to American offerings, but are available at a much lower cost. However, technology insiders widely assume that US labs are using these technologies on each other to avoid falling behind competitors. Now, we know this…
🔥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Update 4:30 PM EDT: On a popular listserv for academics, many of whom are attending RightsCon, a board member of Access Now wrote "I am told I can leak that RightsCon has been canceled. Message from [Access Now] following shortly" in a thread about what attendees were planning on doing. And in an email, AccessNow wrote: "It is with heavy hearts that we share: RightsCon will not proceed in Zambia or online. We understand this news is deeply upsetting for our community and while we know…
đź’Ą Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: Transportation,autonomous vehicles,avs,hertz,Lucid Motors,robotaxis,self driving cars,Uber âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Uber's upcoming luxury robotaxi service in collaboration with Lucid Motors and Nuro will get a fourth partner: Hertz. Hertz will provide "day-to-day management of vehicle assets, including shipping, maintenance, repairs, cleaning and warehouse staffing," the companies announced Thursday. The service, which was announced last year, is supposed to launch by the end of 2026 in the San Francisco Bay Area, using Lucid's Gravity SUVs and Nuro's self-driving technology. Hertz is handling this work through a newly created subsidiary called Oro Mobility,…
✨ Read this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Japan’s Minister of Defense ShinjirĹŤ Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf. According to Koizumi, Japan’s military has already begun to use the cardboard drone. “The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is already utilizing them as targets,” he said in a post on X. “In aiming to become the Self-Defense Forces that…
đź’Ą Explore this trending post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Enterprise,TC,Salesforce,Enterprise AI,AI agents,artificial intelligence,Agentforce âś… **What You’ll Learn**: Artificial intelligence continues to advance at breakneck speed, forcing companies to develop and release new products faster than ever before or risk becoming irrelevant to a fast-moving competitor. Salesforce believes it has found a strategy that allows it to keep up even if it's not clear where AI is going next. The customer management software giant is outsourcing its AI roadmap in real time. Salesforce certainly isn't the only company that works closely with its customers to get feedback on its products.…
✨ Check out this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: It’s been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there’s no group that has felt the pressure quite like Gen Z.Like with many tech trends before it, it’s no surprise that young people are among the biggest adopters of AI chatbot tools. But contrary to the tales spun by tech companies like OpenAI and Google, polling data shows that Gen Z students and workers are a big part…
đź’Ą Explore this must-read post from TechCrunch đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: AI,Apps,Facebook,Instagram,Mark Zuckerberg,Meta,Threads,WhatsApp đź’ˇ **What You’ll Learn**: Meta doesn't appear much in discussions about the best AI products these days, but its products still benefit from the continuing increase in interest in the technology. Business AI tools facilitated about 10 million conversations per week through late March, up from 1 million conversations at the beginning of this year, Meta said during a first-quarter conference call on Wednesday. This growth comes as the company recently expanded its AI Assistant pilot program for business in the US, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Latin America.…
🔥 Discover this trending post from Hacker News đź“– đź“‚ **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Though wind and solar continue to carve out larger and larger shares of world energy supply, the modern world still runs on petroleum, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The world consumes over 100 million barrels of oil a day. As of 2023, oil was responsible for 30% of all energy use worldwide, higher than any other energy source (though its share has been gradually falling). In chemical manufacturing, petroleum is even more critical: an astounding 90% of chemical feedstocks are…
