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Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testif...

The Verge May 6, 2026 Elizabeth Lopatto
Technology May 6, 2026

Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla

Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or De...

Technology May 6, 2026

What British people mean when they say 'sorry'

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260506-what-british-people-really-mean-when-they-say-sorry Comments U...

Technology May 6, 2026

DeepSeek V4 Pro at 75% off until 31 May

Article URL: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043...

Technology May 6, 2026

Pope Leo called his bank's customer service line. They hung up on him

Article URL: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05/06/pope-leo-bank-customer-service-chicago/89960592007/ ...

Technology May 6, 2026

Ads on Apple Maps

Article URL: https://ads.apple.com/maps Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48043010 Points: 35 # Commen...

Technology May 6, 2026

UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing

Article URL: https://bmmagazine.co.uk/news/uk-jet-fuel-shortage-rationing-goldman-sachs-warning/ Comments URL: https://...

Technology May 6, 2026

David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/column/925487/david-sacks-trump-administration-ai-model-review Comments URL: http...

Technology May 6, 2026

A 20-minute pitch wins Indian startup Pronto backing from Lachy Groom

The investment comes as Pronto scales to 26,000 daily bookings and the market heads toward a potential $18 billion size.

Technology May 6, 2026

SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket

Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is set to become SpaceX's busiest launch site—for n...

Technology May 6, 2026

Anthropic raises Claude Code usage limits, credits new deal with SpaceX

Deal follows others with Microsoft, Amazon, and more.

Technology May 6, 2026

Nintendo announces a new Star Fox for the Switch 2

It turns out Fox McCloud's appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo just surpr...

Technology May 6, 2026

SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format

Article URL: https://sqlite.org/locrsf.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042434 Points: 12 # Co...

Technology May 6, 2026

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

Technology May 6, 2026

TSMC taps wind power as AI chip demand soars, Taiwan feels energy crunch

TSMC backs renewables during record demand for energy-hungry chip manufacturing. ...

Technology May 6, 2026

Snap says its $400M deal with Perplexity ‘amicably ended’

The deal, announced last November, would have seen Perplexity's AI search engine integrated directly into Snapchat.

Technology May 6, 2026

Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers

Chairman Brendan Carr celebrates FCC court loss in case over Biden-era rule. ...

Technology May 6, 2026

Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models. 

Technology May 6, 2026

Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software

Article URL: https://adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/the-wrapper-and-the-code Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...

Technology May 6, 2026

A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool

To stop children from bypassing its age checks, Meta is revamping its age-verification tools with an AI system that anal...

Technology May 6, 2026

Google shuts down Project Mariner

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web,...

Technology May 6, 2026

Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good

Trump forced to admit Biden was right on AI safety testing.

Technology May 6, 2026

Mickey Mouse is watching you: Disneyland deploys facial recognition

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/disneyland-entrance-facial-recognition Comments URL: https...

Technology May 6, 2026

Insurance startup Corgi hits $1.3B valuation 4 months after its Series A

Corgi announced on Wednesday a $160 million Series B, led by TCV, valuing the startup at $1.3 billion.

Technology May 6, 2026

Show HN: PHP-fts – Full-text search engine in pure PHP, no extensions

Article URL: https://github.com/olivier-ls/php-fts Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48041316 Points: ...

Technology May 6, 2026

How David Sacks crashed and burned in the White House

Hello and welcome to Regulator, a newsletter exclusively for Verge subscribers about tech, politics, and Washington intr...

Technology May 6, 2026

MIT’s virtual violin offers luthiers a new design tool

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/mits-virtual-violin-offers-luthiers-a-new-design-tool/ Comments UR...

Technology May 6, 2026

Microsoft’s AI data center push is colliding with its clean power goals

The push for new data centers at Microsoft is putting one of the its key clean power goals at risk.

Technology May 6, 2026

McDonald's is a premium product now

Article URL: https://greyenlightenment.com/2024/07/31/mcdonalds-is-a-premium-product-now/ Comments URL: https://news.yc...

Technology May 6, 2026

Inkscape 1.4.4 Is Out

Article URL: https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.co...