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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute

Elon Musk's xAI surprised the AI world when it made a deal to sell compute to Anthropic. Now we know how much it's worth.

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Technology May 20, 2026

SpaceX just filed for what could be the biggest IPO ever

Elon Musk's final frontier is officially open for business now that SpaceX has formally filed its S-1 prospectus with th...

Technology May 20, 2026

Show HN: CPU-only transcription for YouTube, TikTok, X, Instagram videos

Article URL: https://github.com/kouhxp/yapsnap Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214399 Points: 5 # ...

Technology May 20, 2026

NASA's Psyche spacecraft returns unfamiliar views of a familiar world

"As a bonus, it captured Mars images from a rare perspective."

Technology May 20, 2026

Sam Altman makes ‘mic drop’ offer to every Y Combinator startup

Altman offered to have OpenAI invest in every single startup in this Y Combinator class: tokens for equity.

Technology May 20, 2026

You don’t need to be an AI startup to raise. Lucra has $20M to prove it. 

Slapping “AI” on your startup’s pitch deck is basically table stakes right now. When a...

Technology May 20, 2026

GitHub's take on age assurance for developers

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/policy-news-and-insights/why-age-assurance-laws-matter-for-developers/ C...

Technology May 20, 2026

PopuLoRA: Co-Evolving LLM Populations for Reasoning Self- Play

Article URL: https://vmax.ai/team/populora-co-evolving-llm-populations-for-reasoning-self-play Comments URL: https://ne...

Technology May 20, 2026

‘Solve all diseases,’ you say?

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the lat...

Technology May 20, 2026

Declining America

Article URL: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/05/19/Declining-America Comments URL: https://news.ycombinato...

Technology May 20, 2026

Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item...

Technology May 20, 2026

The SpaceX IPO filing has arrived

SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO eve...

Technology May 20, 2026

SpaceX S-1

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000162828026036936/spaceexplorationtechnologi.htm Comments...

Technology May 20, 2026

Microsoft’s carbon removal plans aren’t dead after all

Microsoft is responsible for over 90% of the carbon removal market, and reports suggested the company was pausing purcha...

Technology May 20, 2026

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google Declared War on the Remnants of the Web

Article URL: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116605858023186072 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821...

Technology May 20, 2026

Masters of the Universe final trailer brings the '80s nostalgia

"You are he who will restore peace to Eternia."

Technology May 20, 2026

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematici...

Technology May 20, 2026

Colorado Amended SB051 (Age Verification Bill) to Exclude Open Source Projects

Article URL: https://legiscan.com/CO/bill/SB051/2026 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213651 Points...

Technology May 20, 2026

SpaceX punts Starship launch as investigation opens into Starbase worker's death

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-punts-starship-v3-launch-to-may-21-as-investigation-open...

Technology May 20, 2026

Leaving the V8 in the past: The all-electric Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door

The 0–60 time is impressive, the miles/kWh number even more so.

Technology May 20, 2026

IrisGo, a startup backed by Andrew Ng, looks to become the AI desktop buddy you never knew you needed

Initially billed as an "AI butler," Iris watches what happens on a user's desktop and automatically learns how to do tas...

Technology May 20, 2026

Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/article/not-alive-not-dead-disembodied-human-brains-used-drug-testing Comm...

Technology May 20, 2026

"Ryzen 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition" may help you avoid paying for a new PC

It could be one way to make your old PC play nicely with a high-end GPU.

Technology May 20, 2026

Google publishes exploit code threatening millions of Chromium users

Google publishes exploit code before patch, reported 29 months earlier, is fixed. ...

Technology May 20, 2026

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombina...

Technology May 20, 2026

Trump wants $1B to protect White House ballroom from drones and other threats

President asks $1B from taxpayers to secure his $400M privately funded ballroom. ...

Technology May 20, 2026

Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling

Article URL: https://www.beyondplastics.org/press-releases/starbucks-cups-recyclable-report Comments URL: https://news....

Technology May 20, 2026

Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)

Disney still has a lot of tech to unite and bundles to push.

Technology May 20, 2026

Node.js 26.0.0 (Now with Temporal)

Article URL: https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.0.0 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212242 Poi...

Technology May 20, 2026

Chickens without eggs? De-extinction company creates artificial egg.

In the process, Colossal may have handed a useful tool to developmental biology. ...