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Mercury is the single “product” that has improved my life the most. I have always hated banks, invoicing platforms, and corporate cards. They make all of these things so incredibly easy. I haven’t had

Mitchell Hashimoto: Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp, says his terminal application Ghostty will move off GitHub, citing GitHub's frequent outages — I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. —

The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI is officially upon us. And it is going to be a mess. As the two sides fight over the early days of AI, who deserves credit and cash for what, and more, we're lik

Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Musk testifies he's suing OpenAI because “it is not okay to steal a charity” and its pivot sets a concerning precedent for philanthropic efforts — Elon Musk testified Tuesda

Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: the judge asks Elon Musk and Sam Altman to “control your propensity to use social media to make things worse”, as opening statements begin — The judge ove

Neanderthal and modern human brains from the same time period had similar sizes , though average Neanderthal brain volume was roughly 1410 cm³, higher than the mean value for humans today . However, w

No matter what kind of company you are...start making your internal company data legible to AI. Today. As a founder, you are essentially building two versions of your company: the one humans work in a

Christina Kyriasoglou / Bloomberg: NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to 3.18B, vs. 3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13%+ after hours — NXP Semiconductors NV jumped in l

Will Knight / Wired: OpenAI's Codex instruction set contains a line, repeated several times, that forbids Codex from randomly mentioning goblins, gremlins, and other creatures — “Never talk about gobl

This article discusses the practical implementation of AI systems in government agencies to detect and prevent fraudulent activities, likely covering deployment challenges, best practices, and real-wo

Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: Parallel Web Systems, founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and which offers web search tools for AI agents, raised a 100M Series B at a 2B valuation — Parallel

NASA officially delayed Artemis III to no earlier than 2027 in December 2024 , with the launch currently targeted for Q2 2027 . The mission will launch crew on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket car

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about OpenAI's new partnership with AWS, Bedrock Managed Agents, Trainium chips, and more — As I noted yesterday, today's Strate

Luke Kawa / Sherwood News: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to 1.07B, vs. 1.14B est., and crypto revenue down 47% to 134M, vs. 147.6M est.; HOOD drops 6%+ after hours — The brokerage just repor

Shares in Robinhood Markets Inc. fell more than 8% in late trading today after the financial services company reported earnings and revenue below analyst expectations in its fiscal 2026 first quarter.

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to 3.11B, vs. 2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13%+ after hours — Seagate Technology (S

This Databricks resource explains how to securely transmit first-party conversion data to Snapchat using the Snapchat Conversions API through the Databricks Marketplace. It likely covers integration s

Erin Woo / The Information: Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract — Google and

Financial Times: Sources: Goldman Sachs stopped its bankers in Hong Kong from using Anthropic's models; Anthropic says its models were never officially “supported” in Hong Kong — Employees were unable

Bloomberg: Sources: Polymarket has discussed lifting the prohibition on US-based customers with the CFTC, as it seeks to bring its main exchange back to the US — Polymarket is taking steps to try to b

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: the US Commerce Department last week ordered multiple chip equipment companies to halt some shipments to China's second-largest chipmaker, Hua Hong — The U.S. Depart

South Korean reporter after experiencing @Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the country for the first time: 'It flawlessly performed all tasks, including obeying traffic signals, staying in lanes, adhering to

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% to 761M, above 759M est., and forecasts Q2 operating income below est.; SPOT falls 10%+ pre-market — Spotify Techn

Zoox approached robotaxi design by prioritizing autonomous operation requirements over traditional vehicle constraints, with sensor placement as a foundational design decision. Sensors positioned on t

The beauty of @cybertruck is that it’s a robotaxi and joy machine in one Handles traffic for hundreds of miles without me touching the wheel But when I want to send it in the desert, offroad mode is j

the culture it takes to do these two things in the same week (national bank charter conditional approval + banking cli) is remarkable some banks will thrive post AGI…. deposit account for tokens wen 🙂

The expansion of AI infrastructure across the United States has sparked significant debate between urban and rural areas, with large tech companies and the federal government advocating for data cente

To those who pit Sam Altman and Elon Musk against each other like a billionaire feud, look, do your own research. When have you ever seen Elon Musk use his money to buy a yacht, a paradise island, or

Today @poolsideai is releasing Laguna M.1 & Laguna XS.2, our latest generation models and first public models We started Poolside because we believed that to build truly capable coding agents, you nee

Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune: US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested in a Helsinki airport — The

Sam Altman announced that Codex will ship this week and has reached 'escape velocity,' indicating it has achieved a level of capability that will enable rapid, self-sustaining improvements. The statem

Which matters most? 1) Token usage 2) Dictation word count 3) Total AI queries 4) Tool count (Number 2 is becoming more and more of a positive indicator in my book, although I'm disappointed I broke m

Sam Altman announced that OpenAI's version 5.5 has achieved significant user engagement or adoption milestones, prompting consideration of how to celebrate this achievement with the community. The pos

1/ Today @Mercury received conditional approval from the OCC to establish Mercury Bank, N.A. I started Mercury in 2017 to build the bank I wish had existed as a founder. Nearly a decade later, we’re g

This post provides links to resources for SWE-Chat, including the arXiv paper (2604.20779), an interactive website (swe-chat.com), and a dataset hosted on Hugging Face. SWE-Chat appears to be a conver

Neil Hacker / Works in Progress: A deep dive into how ASML became a chokepoint for making cutting-edge chips by betting on EUV, close collaboration with TSMC and the US government, and more — By betti

Bloomberg: A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: A look at what's next for Netflix and Comcast's Peacock after the WBD-Paramount deal; Nielsen says Netflix had six of the top 10 original streaming shows in Q1 — The company's

Boaz Sobrado / Forbes: A profile of Anthony Fujiwara, who industrialized “clipping” for social media video marketing and has contributed to the rise of crypto casinos like Stake — Anthony Fujiwara is

All three of the liberal justices dissented from the order allowing Texas to use their new congressional map. But these same justices all voted with a unanimous court back in February to allow Califor

altman when he decided to keep “openai” So Elon Musk starts OpenAI as a nonprofit, for public good, puts in ~$50M to get it going… …and then Sam Altman and Greg Brockman flip it to for-profit, push hi

Nicole Sperling / New York Times: Amazon reaches a multiyear licensing deal with Oprah Winfrey to produce twice-a-week video podcasts starting in July, repurpose The Oprah Winfrey Show, and more — The

Calling him “Scam” Altman is accurate. This is very much worth reading. The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman that I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @NewYorker, with @andrewmaran

One of the most popular Linux distributions is about to get an influx of AI features. As reported by Phoronix, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Ubuntu developer Canonical, shared a blog post on Monday

One of Canva's new AI features has been caught replacing the word 'Palestine' in designs. The Magic Layers feature - which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components - isn'