SoftBank is creating a robotics company that builds data centers — and already eyeing a $100B IPO
You need infrastructure to build AI a and robots, but apparently you also need AI and robots to build infrastructure.
Google to sell its TPUs to some customers, who also fancy big-G GPUs
AI is driving more searches and ads Google Cloud will start selling its custom tensor processing units to some customers, because they want them and the search giant wants to diversify its revenues.…
Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell
Article URL: https://burrito.bio/essays/biology-is-a-burrito Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957714 Points: 28 # Comments: 4
Where the goblins came from
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957688 Points: 178 # Comments: 79
Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs
Article URL: https://github.com/cauchy221/Alignment-Whack-a-Mole-Code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957627 Points: 41 # Comments: 10
Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig
Article URL: https://pure-systems.org/posts/2026-04-29-functional-programmers-need-to-take-a-look-at-zig.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957624 Points: 32 # Comments: 13
Apple China highlights Apple Watch health and rescue stories in campaign with podcast tie-in
Apple launched a new campaign in China called “Thankfully, I was wearing it” (“还好戴着它”), which includes a special podcast episode in which three users share their stories. Here are the details. more…
The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/zig-anti-ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957294 Points: 49 # Comments: 6
A Grounded Conceptual Model for Ownership Types in Rust
Article URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research-highlights/a-grounded-conceptual-model-for-ownership-types-in-rust/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957116 Points: 17 # Comments: 0
Craig Venter has died
Article URL: https://www.jcvi.org/media-center/j-craig-venter-genomics-pioneer-and-founder-jcvi-and-diploid-genomics-inc-dies-79 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957101 Points: 144 # Comments: 31
Microsoft lifts 2026 AI spend by $25 billion to cover component price rises
Will write checks for $190 billion and even those megabucks may not satisfy demand If you've felt the sting of surging hardware prices, Microsoft can sympathize because the company on Wednesday said it expects its 2026 capital expenditure will hit $190 billion, with $25 billion of that due to ris...
Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight
Article URL: https://www.flyingmag.com/joby-nyc-electric-air-taxi-jfk-airport/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956781 Points: 31 # Comments: 70
Amazon, Meta join fight to end Google Pay, PhonePe dominance in India
PhonePe and Google Pay command 80% of India's UPI instant payments network. Rivals are set to meet with regulators to lobby for restrictions.
Mike: open-source legal AI
Article URL: https://mikeoss.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956739 Points: 37 # Comments: 12
Amazon’s cloud business is surging — and so is its capital spending
The e-commerce giant is making more money than expected from AWS but it's also spending a lot, and will continue to do so in the near term, its chief executive said.
Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B
The maker of Claude has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Linux cryptographic code flaw offers fast route to root
Patches land for authencesn flaw enabling local privilege escalation Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw.…
Elon Musk’s worst enemy in court is Elon Musk
Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk's testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: "I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life." Musk's direct t...
On the stand, Elon Musk can’t escape his own tweets
Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.
Meta is still burning money on AR/VR
Meta is losing billions on Reality Labs each quarter, and its AI expenditures are only going to increase its spending.