Nvidia, CoreWeave, and Nebius: Inside the Circular Financing of the GPU Boom — Neoclouds are one of the more hotly debated AI business models, with CoreWeave and Nebius being the two most widely recognized names. These companies have seen their sales, backlog, and share prices…
The 5 Best Songs Of The Week — Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which…
Farage says his aides' donor comments were 'loose pub talk' — Two senior Reform aides have stepped down from their roles following a Channel 4 News and Verbatim film about donations.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch — David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Hooray for the sockets interface | APNIC Blog — In 1983, BSD 4.2 introduced sockets, treating network communication like file I/O. This simplification sped UNIX adoption of shared protocols and services, marking a key turning point in modern networking.
Will the DOJ's investigation into a16z spook other VCs? | TechCrunch — On the latest episode of Equity, we wonder why the DOJ is investigating startup board seats.
Meta rolls out a new AI creator assistant on Facebook | TechCrunch — Creators often have to parse through charts and dashboards to understand their performance, but with the new AI assistant, they can get quick answers to questions like "When should I post?" and "What are people
5 days left: Save up to $410 on Disrupt 2026 passes | TechCrunch — Early Bird savings for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 in San Francisco end May 29 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register now to save up to $410 before prices increase.
Defense tech is flooded with money, but who's built to last? | TechCrunch — Watch as XYZ Venture Capital founder and early Anduril backer Ross Fubini joins Equity to discuss the defense tech boom and what separates the startups that win government contracts from those that don't.
Cameron beats Mayer to become unified light-middleweight champion — Chantelle Cameron produced one of the finest displays of her career to beat Mikaela Mayer and add the WBA and WBC light middleweight titles to her WBO belt.
HN Match — Hacker News Job Matchmaking — AI-powered matching between HN candidates and job postings
California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1 | TechCrunch — Streaming ads might be getting a lot quieter.
From Fortnite to robots: General Intuition raises $2.3B on bet that video games can train AI agents for the real world | TechCrunch — General Intuition has raised $320 million to scale AI trained on millions of hours of gameplay, betting action data can help AI develop…
AI agents aren't confidently wrong because of bad context — they're wrong because of bad data engineering — <p>You spend weeks tuning an AI chatbot. Answers are accurate. Stakeholders sign off, and you ship it. Three months later, the system is confidently wrong about a third…
The groupthink boom: what three top VCs really think about the AI frenzy | TechCrunch — "If you're 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you're 19, oh my God, this means you're really good; you might alre
Google Cloud deletes Australian trading fund’s infra — A $124B fund in Australia would have lost all data stored with Google Cloud, had they not relied on a third-party backup. A rare blunder from GCP, where regional replication did not stop the deletion – and a just as rare stat
X just tweaked its algorithm to make it more friendly, less battleground | TechCrunch — The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel.
Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream | TechCrunch — A security researcher said a flaw in FIFA’s online platforms allowed her to access several internal systems, including one that could have allowed her to take control of the TV stream…
Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP | TechCrunch — If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.
Brazil’s Police Launches Second Phase of Probe Into Americanas — Brazil’s Federal Police and federal prosecutors launched the second phase of a probe that previously targeted Brazilian retailer Americanas SA, deepening an investigation into alleged accounting fraud, according…
Jedify raises $24M to help companies arm AI agents with context on their business | TechCrunch — The funding round was led by Norwest, with participation S Capital VC, Cerca Partners, and Oceans Ventures. Snowflake Ventures also participated as a strategic investor.
Devhints — TL;DR for developer documentation — A ridiculous collection of web development cheatsheets
Datadog veterans launch AI coding startup Niteshift on a bet against Big AI lock-in | TechCrunch — AI coding agent startup Niteshift has raised a $7 million seed round from a who's who of angels. It's betting companies will want power over, not lock-in with model makers.
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models | TechCrunch — Anthropic said it would begin restoring access to the Fable on July 1.
Q3Edit — edit, compile, and play Quake 3 maps in your browser — Q3Edit is an open-source, browser-based level editor for Quake III Arena — TypeScript + WebGL2, with id Software's q3map BSP compiler and ioquake3 running as WebAssembly. Edit, compile, and playtest without leaving…
Review GitHub code using Gemini Code Assist | Gemini for Google Cloud | Google Cloud Documentation — Review pull requests using Gemini Code Assist.
Backed by $60M in funding, Oak steps out of stealth to fix the identity mess that AI agents are making worse | TechCrunch — Cofounded by senior entrepreneur Shai Morag, Israeli identity management startup Oak is emerging out of stealth with $60 million in seed funding.
Senior SWE-Bench — Evaluating agents as senior engineers on the work we actually give them
The fix for the AI agent that hijacked a company's DNS: it can propose the change, but it can't approve it — <p>A security agent read a Cloudflare log, found an attacker’s prompt-injection payload sitting inside it, and rewrote the company’s DNS. The firewall had already…
Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google | TechCrunch — Shopify says AI isn’t cannibalizing search traffic the way it has for publishers. Instead, AI-driven traffic and orders to Shopify stores tripled year over year in Q2.
Nvidia projects $673 billion in sales as AI demand widens — Nvidia forecasts 70% fiscal 2028 growth, implying $673 billion in sales as demand expands beyond hyperscalers despite supply constraints.
Hamburg in advanced talks for Arsenal's Vieira — Hamburg are in advanced talks to buy Arsenal midfielder Fabio Vieira in a 10m euro (£8.6m) deal.
Enterprises are overpaying for simple AI queries — Snowflake's gateway now auto-routes to cut costs up to 3x — <p>Enterprise teams running AI agents at scale are finding that a single model handles every task poorly — either the model is too expensive for simple questions or…
Buz - A drop-in replacement for Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds — Buz This is my WIP fork of Bun, based on the last commit before their Rust rewrite. It is still very early in its development and is nowhere near ready for production. I saw that a similar…
Exaforce raises $125M Series B to build AI for catching and stopping cyberattacks as they happen | TechCrunch — The round valued the three-year-old startup at $725 million.
Modular: Modular 26.5: Mojo 1.0 is here! — Today, the Mojo language officially reaches 1.0: a milestone the language has been building toward since its first release in 2023. Mojo has grown into a general-purpose language with a vibrant developer community writing their own…
Writer introduces new AI model and upgraded harness to contain token costs | TechCrunch — Built as a post-training variation on Z.ai's open source model GLM-5.2, Writer says the new system should provide deployment-ready capabilities at a much lower price.
Kash Patel's clothing brand website shut down after reports it was hacked | TechCrunch — According to users on X, the website was hijacked by hackers in an attempt to trick visitors into installing malware.
DoorDash's new AI chatbot lets you order with prompts and photos | TechCrunch — The new chatbot, called Ask DoorDash, allows users to search the app for what they're looking for in their own words instead of having to scroll through restaurants and stores to build a cart.
Build adafruit projects right from Firefox — Use Web Serial to connect, code, and control compatible hardware devices directly from your browser.
Payments startup Flutterwave hits $3.2B valuation, backed by Ripple | TechCrunch — African payments infrastructure company Flutterwave has hit a new valuation and landed blockchain company Ripple as an investor and partner.
Notion just turned its workspace into a hub for AI agents | TechCrunch — Notion’s new developer platform lets teams connect AI agents, external data sources, and custom code directly into their workspace as the company pushes deeper into agentic productivity software.
DOJ wants more answers on Fox’s $22B Roku deal | TechCrunch — Fox’s $22 billion plan to buy Roku has hit a new hurdle. The Justice Department sent Fox and Roku what’s known as a “second request” on Tuesday, asking
Announcing the Zulip Foundation — Today marks a major transition for the Zulip open-source project and for Kandra Labs, the company behind it: I’m stepping back from full-time Zulip leadership to join Anthropic, alongside three senior team members, and we’re donating the company
What Will Happen In 2024 - AVC — As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. The Fed has taken interest rates as far as they want at this time and inflation has come down. It seems that a “soft landing” is likely. That is good news for th
Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents — <p>Meta today <a href="https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-code-and-muse-spark-1-2?utm_source=ai_meta_site&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=hp_research_muse-1…
How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked | TechCrunch — A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.
The Best Airbnbs, Lodges, and Hotels Near Carlsbad Caverns National Park — From adobe casitas to classic hotels, here's where to stay near Carlsbad Caverns, a park that's great to visit any time of year.
Former DJI Engineers Raise $250,000 for 'World's First Robotic Extreme Zoom Camera' — A robotic camera that tracks wildlife at 2,000mm? Meet RocXZoom.
El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds — “One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”
Uber is building an autonomous vehicle empire, and here's every company it's using to do it | TechCrunch — Uber has partnered with — and in some cases made direct investments in — about 30 autonomous vehicle companies over the past two years. Here's the list and the latest on…
Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk | TechCrunch — Two critical security flaws in WordPress’ software have given hackers the chance to remotely take over tens of millions of websites, according to an estimate by a…
Gloria Steinem, trailblazing journalist and activist, dies at 92 — At a time when women were largely limited to domestic roles, Steinem challenged gender stereotypes and championed feminist ideals like equality, sisterhood and reproductive freedom.
Ice Spice and Lil Yachty Link Up for New Song “Out My Face (My Baby)” — The beat-switching track also gets a bifurcated video directed by Yachty himself
Ring introduces a new encryption standard, makes it the default for cloud features | TechCrunch — Ring says users can still opt for end-to-end encryption.
Waymo accelerates robotaxi expansion with launches in Denver, San Diego and Tampa | TechCrunch — Waymo will begin inviting riders on a rolling basis and slowly ramp up access in the three cities, following its usual commercial playbook.
Venezuelan Oil Replenishing US SPR a ‘Pure Fantasy,’ Says Stephen Schork — Stephen Schork, principal and editor at The Schork Group, discusses the Trump administration’s plans to take majority ownership of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s oil reserves. He also looks…
Pentagon Is in Talks With Venezuelan Mogul for Massive Oil Deal — The US government is pursuing a major stake in Venezuelan oil reserves via a potential partnership between the Department of Defense and Alejandro Betancourt, a controversial energy investor who has become a key…
The Case for Taking Kids on Big Trips—Even Those That Sound Like a Terrible Idea — One writer counts safaris, Mardi Gras, and an India excursion among her mother-toddler trips. Here's why she has rarely, if ever, regretted it.
Hot French startup ZML releases free product to speed inference across lots of AI chips | TechCrunch — ZML, a hot French AI startup endorsed by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun, has now released ZML/LLMD, software that could make running AI less costly.