Google invests up to $40 billion in Anthropic in cash and accounts

Google invests up to $40 billion in Anthropic in cash and accounts

💥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Enterprise,Anthropic,anthropic investment,chips,compute,Google,google cloud 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic and support the AI ​​company's growing computing needs, Bloomberg reports. Its Alphabet subsidiary is committed to investing $10 billion now, at a $350 billion valuation for Anthropic, with another $30 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, according to Anthropic. The promise of investment comes after Anthropic launched its latest model, Mythos, to a limited group of partners this month. Anthropic says Mythos is the company's most powerful model to date and has…
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Tesla (TSLA) quietly discloses $2 billion AI hardware company acquisition buried in filing

Tesla (TSLA) quietly discloses $2 billion AI hardware company acquisition buried in filing

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Tesla agreed to acquire an unnamed AI hardware company for up to $2 billion in stock and equity awards, according to a single sentence buried in its Q1 2026 10-Q filing. The company never mentioned the deal in its shareholders’ letter or during last night’s earnings call. The disclosure appeared in Note 14 — Subsequent Events, the very last note in the financial statements, in what may be the most expensive one-sentence disclosure Tesla has ever made. What the filing says The full disclosure, in…
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Distinctive mini Macs are flooding eBay amid AI-triggered shortages

Distinctive mini Macs are flooding eBay amid AI-triggered shortages

✨ Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Hardware,Apple,local AI,mac mini,Mac Studio,openclaw ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Small, expensive Macs have been flooding eBay amid a shortage of sold devices, which have become a go-to tool for running on-device AI models like OpenClaw. Reports this week indicated that the $599 base model M4 Mac mini with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of storage was sold out on Apple's retail site, with no options for delivery or in-store pickup. The shortage has since extended to other configurations of the base model, regardless of the amount of memory specified. Some outlets…
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Why I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support

Why I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support

💥 Read this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: First enthusiasm A couple of weeks ago I subscribed to Claude Code, and during the first few weeks I had a really nice experience. It was fast, the token allowance was fair, and the quality was good. I learned they had raised the token allowance for non-rush hours , and since they opposed some governmental rules, it felt good to support the right cause. (づ  ̄ ³ ̄)づ However… for about three weeks now my initial enthusiasm has been rapidly waning. Poor support It began with…
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Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins StrictlyVC SF

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga joins StrictlyVC SF

🚀 Check out this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,AI,Fundraising,Uber,StrictlyVC,StrictlyVC San Francisco 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: a surprise! StrictlyVC San Franciscowhich kicks off this year's lineup of events for TechCrunch on April 30 at the Centro Cultural Center of the Philippines, gets a new addition to its increasingly stacked roster of speakers. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga will join us to discuss, you guessed it, working at scale in the age of AI. You'll need to act fast to get a ticketfor what will become a favorite event in the San Francisco startup scene next week. It's an…
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Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers For Long Obsolete Input Hardware: Bye Bus Mouse Support

Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers For Long Obsolete Input Hardware: Bye Bus Mouse Support

💥 Explore this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Beyond Linux looking to remove old drivers due to the surge of AI/LLM bug reports, the Linux 7.1 kernel is also removing some old hardware drivers simply on the basis of long obsolete hardware. The input subsystem saw several drivers removed this week for decades old hardware. With the input subsystem updates this week there is a new Charlieplex GPIO keypad driver, the aw86927 driver adding 86938 ASIC support, and the Chrome OS keyboard driver adding support for the Fn-key keymap extension. Beyond those additions,…
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Nuclear energy startup X-energy raises $1 billion in data center-based IPO

Nuclear energy startup X-energy raises $1 billion in data center-based IPO

🚀 Explore this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Climate,Fundraising,Amazon,IPO,nuclear fission,nuclear power,X-Energy ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nuclear energy startup X-energy raised $1 billion in its initial public offering yesterday, selling 44.3 million shares for $23 per share, a huge premium over the price of $16 to $19 per share it was seeking. Initially, the company was hoping to raise about $800 million. The stock is expected to begin trading on Friday on the Nasdaq under the symbol XE. X-energy builds small modular reactors capable of generating electricity or delivering heat for industrial processes. The company has a deal with…
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On sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

On sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing

🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Hi friends, I’ll be attending Babashka Conf on May 8 and Dutch Clojure Days on May 9. If you’re attending either (or just visiting Amsterdam), drop me a line! When I have an idea for a project, it tends to go in one of these two directions: I just do it. Maybe I make a few minor revisions, but often it turns out exactly how I’d imagined and I’m happy. I think, “I should look for prior art”. There’s a lot of prior art, dealing…
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Another spyware maker has been caught distributing fake Android hacking apps

Another spyware maker has been caught distributing fake Android hacking apps

💥 Discover this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cybersecurity,hackers,hacking,infosec,ips,Italy,privacy,Spyware,surveillance 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Another government spyware maker has been arrested after its agents used fake Android apps to install its surveillance software on targets, according to a new report. On Thursday, Osservatorio Nessuno, an Italian digital rights organization that researches spyware, published a report on a new malware it calls Morpheus. The spyware, which is disguised as a phone update application, is capable of stealing a wide range of data from the intended target's device. The researchers' findings show that the demand for spyware by law enforcement and…
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Once more unto the breach

Once more unto the breach

✨ Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Look, I get it. Diet Coke tastes sweet because it has aspartame in it. Aspartame is a weird synthetic molecule that’s 200 times sweeter than sucrose. Half of the world’s aspartame is made by Ajinomoto of Tokyo—the same company that first brought us MSG back in 1909. If you look on Wikipedia, you’ll see that aspartame is a methyl ester of the aspartic acid phenylalanine dipeptide, which isn’t, like, comforting. It’s normal to have a prior that aspartame might be bad for you. Certainly,…
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