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SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B

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Technology Apr 21, 2026

Show HN: Almanac MCP, turn Claude Code into a Deep Research agent

I am Rohan, and I have grown really frustrated with CC's search and read tools. They use Haiku to summarise all the sea...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Pentagon wants $54B for drones, more than most nations’ military budgets

The proposed Pentagon drone investment rivals Ukraine’s entire military budget. ...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox 150

CTO says new AI model is "every bit as capable" as world's best security researchers. ...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are "nonbinding"

FCC tells Supreme Court its fines are nonbinding unless a jury upholds penalty. ...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

We translated the Palantir manifesto for actual human beings

Palantir CEO Alex Karp is a man in charge of one of the most important and frightening companies in the world. Karp's ne...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan

Article URL: https://claude.com/pricing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854477 Points: 105 # Comme...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Silo S3 teaser turns back the clock to a greener past

"Before we can know how it will all end, we need to understand how it all began." ...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Another Day Has Come

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/another_day_has_come Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

California has more money than projected after admin miscalculated state budget

Article URL: https://www.kcra.com/article/california-more-money-than-projected-newsom-miscalculated-budget/71056376 Com...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents

Article URL: https://zindex.ai/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854116 Points: 4 # Comments: 1

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield

Apple's top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Framework's CEO on the RAM crisis and creating a "MacBook Pro for Linux users"

"We actually have slightly more Linux users than Windows users."

Technology Apr 21, 2026

I don't want your PRs anymore

Article URL: https://dpc.pw/posts/i-dont-want-your-prs-anymore/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4785...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

ISS astronauts are in the middle of a tech overhaul

Even astronauts need to level up their laptops once in a while - including the crew of Expedition 74 on board the ISS, w...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Florida probes ChatGPT role in mass shooting. OpenAI says bot "not responsible."

Can ChatGPT be blamed for a mass shooting? Florida is investigating.

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Report: Meta will train AI agents by tracking employees' mouse, keyboard use

Move highlights the difficulty of finding high-quality interactive training data. ...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Tim Cook was an innovator — just not the Jobs kind

Under Steve Jobs, Apple released the groundbreaking products that defined the company. But the company wouldn't be what ...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans

Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store

Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, a...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Framework Has a Better, More Take-Apart-Able Laptop

The company announced its new Framework Laptop 13 Pro, along with updates to its 16-inch model.

Technology Apr 21, 2026

SusHi Tech Tokyo isn’t a conference — it’s a deal room with 60,000 people

When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exh...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

AI backlash is coming for elections

Ask Americans how they feel about AI and most say they have concerns. Communities have mounted resistance to data center...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT's Image Generation Model

The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it's better at creating more detailed images and rendering text,...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image-generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web

OpenAI is rolling out the latest version of its AI-powered image generator with new "thinking capabilities," allowing it...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’

The AI industry's mudslinging continues.

Technology Apr 21, 2026

OpenAI Livestream

Article URL: https://openai.com/live/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47852835 Points: 9 # Comments:...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Framework’s Laptop 13 Pro launch event

Framework CEO Nirav Patel is showing off his company’s latest modular, repairable laptops in San Francisco today. ...

Technology Apr 21, 2026

Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 151 Bugs in Firefox

The Firefox team doesn’t think emerging AI capabilities will upend cybersecurity long term, but they warn that softwar...