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📰 AI & Future Tech
- Meta pushes back developer release of new AI model amid ongoing testing (META)
- Why Meta is delaying its latest AI model release
- Anthropic built what may be its most powerful AI model ever, but the company decided not to publicly release it. Why? Alistair Barr reports.
- Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns
- MGX raises stake in Anthropic ahead of IPO
- Hegseth doubles down on Anthropic's security risk designation
- US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules
- New Bipartisan Legislation Takes a Big Step Forward in Restricting State Regulation of AI
- Intel sets sights on Nvidia and AMD with upcoming AI data center chip launch by year end
- Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) To Launch Homegrown AI Model Suite At Annual Build Developer Conference
- Apple approves Poke as the first AI agent on its Messages for Business platform
- Apple partners with Nvidia and Google to launch next-generation Siri in September
📰 Funding · VC · IPOs
- SpaceX and Anthropic are about to go public—and your 401(k) may be forced to buy in
- Helion, the Sam Altman-backed fusion startup, raises $465M to build a power plant for Microsoft
- Ramp raises $750M at $44B valuation as investors hunger for fintechs with an AI story
- Vibe-coding phenomenon lifts AI startup Supabase to $10.5 billion valuation
- Ramp hits $44 billion valuation as companies look to rein in AI spending
- Suno raises $400M Series D at $5.4 billion valuation
- Nvidia-Backed Robotics Startup Generalist AI Valued at $2 Billion
- Tripo AI Raises Nearly $200M in Series A+ and Series A++ Financing
- Databricks is choosing patience over a 2026 IPO
- Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to start a new AI company
- What the EU’s new Sovereignty Package means for European tech
- Exclusive: Scotch Raises $20M Series A To Disrupt Legacy Liquor Retail Tech With AI
📰 Markets & Breaking
- India's cenbank cuts growth outlook, raises inflation forecast as it keeps rates steady at 5.25%
- South Korea stocks fall 5% as tech heavyweights follow plunge in Wall Street's AI-linked names
- S&P 500 futures tick lower as Wall Street awaits May jobs report: Live updates
- Tech Futures Skid With Jobs Report Due
- SpaceX blocked from early U.S. benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms existing rules
- SpaceX Will Be Worth $1.75 Trillion Next Week but the S&P 500 Won’t Be Adding It
- India Scraps Taxes to Attract Foreign Investment in Bonds
- DBS Sees Room for 50bp More Indonesia Hikes in 2H 2026
- DeepSeek nears $7B haul in first raise
- Data center energy challenges mount
- JPMorgan, Citi and Big Banks Plan New Tokenized Deposit System to Answer Crypto
- Marvell looks poised to finally get a spot in the S&P 500 after explosive stock surge
📰 Long Reads
- How much value is AI really creating?
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX lines up retail investors for record IPO allocation
- Governments need to learn how to talk about debt
- PwC cuts partner payouts in China Evergrande fallout
- Trump lawyers refuse to reveal financial information to BBC in $10bn lawsuit
- The teenagers enlisted as agents of mayhem by Russia and Iran
- Getting Out of the Redistricting Business
- Don’t Worry! That Was Almost Certainly the Last Graham Platner Scandal!
- Made Man
- Burnham confirms he will seek to replace Starmer as UK prime minister
- Yet More Damning Revelations About Graham Platner
- Trump Thinks His Administration Is ‘Like Pirates’
📰 Chile / LatAm
- Boric en entrevista con Jon Lee Anderson: “Yo podría ser candidato”
- Ignacio Briones: “Si el gobierno está pidiendo endeudamiento es porque no tiene caja”
- Impacto de megarreforma: nuevo informe financiero de Hacienda prevé un peor escenario fiscal a partir de 2027
- Senado acuerda priorizar el debate sobre levantamiento del secreto bancario por vía administrativa
- Hacienda prepara propuesta sobre el secreto bancario; piden inhabilitación para cargos públicos de exalcaldesa de Las Condes, y comenzó embargo de bienes de deu…
- Becas Chile: Quiroz denuncia deuda de hasta US$150 millones de estudiantes que obtuvieron el beneficio
- IVA a apuestas online: Quiroz asegura que “el deber” del SII es recaudar lo que está gravado y expertos entran al debate
- Expectativas de IPC de mayo llegan hasta 0,5% y la inflación anual podría alcanzar su mayor nivel en ocho meses
- Presidente de Ecuador reduce nuevamente su gobierno y pasa de 14 a 10 ministerios
- EE.UU. amenaza con retirar visados a quienes intenten “manipular” las elecciones en Colombia
- Manejaría logística de grupo criminal: formalizan a encargada de agencia de Aduanas por robo de carga
- Lo que viene en la integración BICE-Security: fusión de AGF y corredoras, potenciar negocio en Perú y crecer en financiamiento automotriz
📰 Founder · Launches
- Show HN: Lessons learned from running Claude Code swarms at scale
- Show HN: Wyreup.com – Common file edit tools packaged for offline and agent use
- Show HN: Tatami – a macOS workspace manager with BSP tiling
- Show HN: Laravel Octane Benchmark (Swoole, RoadRunner, FrankenPHP)
- Show HN: Bonsai –- Using agentic AI / browser / memory to replace ChatGPT
- Show HN: A simple bookmark manager for Mac and iOS
- Show HN: LLMhop – A tiny, stateless router for LLMs with a NixOS module
- Show HN: ControllerTest-test gamepads,stick drift and polling rate by browser
- Reality: The Final Eval — Lukas Petersson and Axel Backlund of Andon Labs
- Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety: Customizable Multimodal Safety for Global Enterprise AI
- UPDATE: I built a job search engine out of spite (Indeed fired my pregnant wife)
- Build tools, to build more
📰 Reddit / HN
- Ask HN: Is Apple taking AI seriously?
- Spammers are flooding Reddit with fake posts designed to show up in AI search results
- Kevin O’Leary says he will shrink his Utah AI data center project after political backlash / The “Shark Tank” mogul said he would cut the 40,000-acre project by…
- Watch These Judges Rip Into Lawyers For Citing Cases That Don't Exist
- Seattle poised to ban new datacenters, the largest city yet in the US to consider such a moratorium
- GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day
- On-policy distillation: one of the hottest terms on PapersWithCode [R]
- ‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year
- A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI
- GoPro is in serious financial trouble. Action camera giant is at risk for potential bankruptcy
- NeurIPS used uncalibrated AI detector for desk rejections [D]
- MiniMax dropped a new attention architecture. [N]
🎬 🎬 AI/Tech — just dropped
- Certification Questions | LIVE AMA | Summer of CCNA
- Optimize, deploy, and benchmark an open-source LLM with vLLM
- Claude Opus 4.8: Lying Machine No More?
- OpenAI Codex will merge into ChatGPT: Denise Dresser, Alex Emibiricos, Romain Huet, Sam Altman
- ChatGPT in PowerPoint Explained in 5 Minutes for Beginners
- The forgotten developer who saved JavaScript...
- New Claude Opus 4.8: 15 Things You May’ve Missed
- AI News: Claude Opus 4.8, Insane Omni Use-Case, and A Dog Translator?
- I BUILT A FULLY AUTOMATIC MANSPLAINER
- How I use LLMs
- Switching back to Windows?!?
- Build Your Own App In Just 30 Minutes! Full Course with Andrew Ng
🎬 🚀 VC & Startups — just dropped
- Feature Differentiation Is Dead. Here's What Actually Wins Now with Lovable's Elena Verna
- Thomas Laffont: The $4T AI IPO Wave Is Coming… and We’ve Never Seen Anything Like It
- How Exa is Building the Perfect Search Engine | Deep Dives with a16z
- Token Budgeting Panic Hits Corporate America | Cognition Raises $1BN at $26BN Valuation
- Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz Walks Us Through His AI Coding Setup
- What David Senra Learned Studying 400+ Founders
- Building Next-Generation Financial Instruments
- Ryan Nece (Next Legacy Partners) - Learning from Achievement and Adversity [Entire Talk]
- ChatGPT – The Super Assistant Era | BG2 Guest Interview
- Inside SaaStr's 21+ AI Agent Stack: 2.25M Sessions, 614 Meetings, $10M+ in Revenue. The Agents #006
- Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
- Why AI Agents Need Context | Deep Dives with a16z
🎬 ⛳ Golf — just dropped
- Can I Break 50 with Bob Does Sports? (Explosive)
- The Backswing Move Quietly Ruining Your Ball Striking
- 3 wood vs 5 wood vs 7 wood WHICH ONE TO PLAY?
- The BIGGEST match yet! | Peter Finch vs Sean Walsh | Match 3 | The King Of Kiawah
- We Restarted Our Golf Careers with $0.01
- Can I beat a Female Tour Pro?
- The Greatest Crash out In Youtube Golf History
- Can We Make Major Cut @ Worlds Tightest Golf Course?
- Hitting Cups: Ben Plays the Gasparilla with Soly on the Bag
- Can I Break a Public COURSE RECORD in One Try?
- This Feels Wrong, But It Makes Iron Strikes More Solid
- How to Break 80 When Things Go Wrong (they always do)