SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint about the Tesla merger

SpaceX CEO Gwynne Shotwell just gave another hint about the Tesla merger

โœจ Discover this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,Gwynne Shotwell,In Brief,SpaceX โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: All eyes are on the IPO of SpaceX - the world's largest in history - and its CEO Elon Musk. But lest you forget, there's another publicly traded company in Musk's world that many believe will one day merge with SpaceX. We're talking about Tesla, which has a current market cap of about $1.26 trillion. Musk, who also leads Tesla, has portrayed it as a company specializing in artificial intelligence and robotics, although the bulk of its revenue still comes from selling…
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Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial.

Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial.

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: For many journalists, blowback is just part of the business. The irate call to the editor or publisher, often expressed through the promise of litigation. The online pile-on, often expressed through personal invective. Occasionally, the threat of violence, often expressed through all-caps derangement. Itโ€™s rare to encounter a novel variant. But on April 21, I received a remarkable email. โ€œSomeone has filed an objection against something you wrote,โ€ explained Austin Livingston, pointing me to a web page where Purdue Pharma heir Michael Sackler, a film…
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SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

๐Ÿš€ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,IPO,SpaceX,spacex ipo โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: SpaceX has captured the attention of the media, investors, and the public for years now โ€” attention driven by the company's launches of reusable rockets, the rise of its Starlink satellite network, and, of course, its founder and CEO Elon Musk. But in its 24-year history, nothing has matched this initial public offering. Everyone seems interested, and that's probably due to the sheer size of this IPO. The company priced its 555.6 million shares at $135 per share to raise $75 billion, making…
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I Am Not a Reverse Centaur

๐Ÿ”ฅ Check out this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me, even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the arguments I made that time because my views on the subject haven' t changed. What has changed, however, is that the number of contributions I receive on my open source projects has gone up, and nearly all are now made with LLMs. The other day…
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โ€˜I think about him every time I go swimmingโ€™: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more | David Hockney

โ€˜I think about him every time I go swimmingโ€™: David Hockney remembered by Rachel Whiteread, Jeremy Deller and more | David Hockney

๐Ÿš€ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: David Hockney,Art and design,Culture,Tacita Dean,Jeremy Deller,Rachel Whiteread,Helen Marten,Mark Wallinger ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Rachel Whiteread, artist: โ€˜It was like he was breathing artโ€™My earliest memories of modern artists were of David Hockney, Andy Warhol and Bridget Riley. I remember seeing a TV programme about David in the 1970s as a young kid and thinking โ€œwow, is that what being an artist is like?โ€ Because my mum was an artist but she wasnโ€™t anything like that!Compared with Bridget Riley, who was very sort of cool, David seemed out…
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Mistral is rumored to raise โ‚ฌ3 billion at a โ‚ฌ20 billion valuation

Mistral is rumored to raise โ‚ฌ3 billion at a โ‚ฌ20 billion valuation

๐Ÿš€ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: AI,Fundraising,In Brief,Mistral AI โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: French AI lab Mistral is in early discussions to raise about 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion), Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing anonymous sources. The funding round will value the company at approximately โ‚ฌ20 billion (about $23.15 billion), nearly double the โ‚ฌ11.7 billion valuation it received in its Series C funding round last September. Mistral, one of Europe's leading AI startups, launched in 2023 with a stated ambition to โ€œput leading-edge AI into everyone's hands.โ€ The company has taken a more open approach…
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Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It’s About Time

๐Ÿ”ฅ Discover this trending post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Recently, a new type of question has entered the database arena: what did this data look like last Tuesday? Maybe it's the price of a product before the holiday sale kicked in, or which department an employee belonged to before that reorg nobody asked for. Short of adding an entire audit trigger system, how can we know what data looked like before and after a change at that exact date?The SQL:2011 standard formalized a proper solution over a decade ago with temporal tables. Other database…
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SpaceX starts at $150, an 11% increase from its expected debut in history

SpaceX starts at $150, an 11% increase from its expected debut in history

๐Ÿ”ฅ Read this awesome post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,SpaceX โœ… **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: SpaceX broke ground on its first day as a public company, immediately jumping to $150 a share after it began trading on the Nasdaq, roughly 11% higher than the $135 figure it formally priced its initial public offering on Thursday. The stock's pop is no surprise. The company's IPO was four times oversubscribed, according to Bloomberg, meaning many institutional investors did not receive allocations and would likely buy shares on the open market. Demand for SpaceX is also a function of its small float,…
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Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

Euro-Office, open standards, and native ODF

๐Ÿ”ฅ Explore this must-read post from Hacker News ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: ๐Ÿ“Œ **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: A welcome commitment to open standards โ€” and why it should end with ODF as Euro-Officeโ€™s native document format. The Euro-Office pre-announcement has generated considerable coverage across the European press over the past few days. The Document Foundation welcomes the attention that open standards are receiving โ€” and welcomes still more the commitment the announcement makes to them. Before the discussion settles, we would like to clarify one point and state one expectation. Several reports have described Euro-Office as โ€œthe first European open source office…
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Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire after SpaceX’s historic IPO

๐Ÿš€ Explore this trending post from TechCrunch ๐Ÿ“– ๐Ÿ“‚ **Category**: Space,Transportation,Elon Musk,SpaceX,Tesla ๐Ÿ’ก **What Youโ€™ll Learn**: Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire after SpaceX made its public market debut on Friday, according to Bloomberg News. The SpaceX founder and CEO owns nearly $860 billion worth of the rocket company's stock after it was priced at $135 a share before its IPO. Combined with his Tesla stake, and the immediate rise in SpaceX stock on Friday after the start of trading, that's enough to give the tech mogul - already the richest person in the world - a paper…
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