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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Testifies About Sam Altman Allegedly Lying to Her
She just transformed a known anecdote into a deposition given under oath.
gizmodo.com
Frontier Labs And Robotics Companies Again Top List Of New Unicorns In April 
A total of 28 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in April, with robotics startups and frontier labs leading by number of entrants for the second consecutive month.
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Is xAI a neocloud now?
xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.
techcrunch.com
Claris CEO Ryan McCann on FileMaker in the Age of Agentic Coding
That previous item led me to look at Claris’s website for the first time in a while. And, lo, there’s a banner promoting a message from CEO Ryan McCann that was posted just yesterday, under the headline “How Claris Is Building for What’s Next”: Every AI-generated application crea…
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After Sales Stall at the Start of 2026, Lucid Drops Production Target
Lucid saw a quarterly net loss of about $1 billion.
gizmodo.com
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.
techcrunch.com
International tech
XPeng Unveils GX Native Wire-Control Chassis: A Technical Deep-Dive
XPeng's GX Native Wire-Control Chassis integrates human and autonomous driving control into one system, clearing 49 hairpin turns on a Yunnan mountain road in a single run as proof of concept.
pandaily.com
SF Express, Sequoia China and IDG Back Tsinghua-Spinout Humanoid Robot Unicorn
Tsinghua-spunout humanoid robot startup Wujie Power raises over $200M in angel-stage funding from Sequoia China, Linear Capital, Hillhouse, Baidu Ventures, and SF Express.
pandaily.com
Kimi reportedly nears $2 billion funding round at over $20 billion valuation
Kimi developer Moonshot AI is close to completing a new $2 billion funding round that would value the company at more than $20 billion, according to LatePost. The round is reportedly led by Meituan’s Long-Z Fund, with China Mobile and CPE joining as investors. Moonshot AI had alr…
technode.com
Meesho Jumps 8% After Q4 Loss Shrinks 88%
Shares of Meesho soared as much as 8% to hit an intraday high of ₹211.3 on the BSE during the…
inc42.com
Samsung halts all home appliance sales in China as pivot to AI accelerates
South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it would end sales of all home appliance products in mainland China, retreating further from a consumer market increasingly dominated by domestic rivals as the group doubles down on its far more profitable semiconducto…
scmp.com
Exclusive: Robotics Startup Alphadroid Raises $3.8 Mn From Alkemi, Others
Robotics startup Alphadroid has raised ₹36 Cr (around $3.8 Mn) in its pre-Series A funding round led by Alkemi Growth…
inc42.com

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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: 221 # Comments: 59
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BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
Article URL: https://electrek.co/2026/05/05/byd-overtakes-tesla-kia-best-selling-ev-brand-key-overseas-markets/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039739 Points: 240 # Comments: 404
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Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA
Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039362 Points: 294 # Comments: 293
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Direct FDM Printing with Granules
The idea of FDM 3D printing using granules rather than filament is an appealing one: rather than having to wrangle spools of filament that need to adhere to strict dimensions …read more
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How To Better Enjoy VR on Linux
Linux folks are used to having to roll many of their own solutions, and better Linux desktop usability is a goal of the WayVR project, which aims to provide desktop …read more
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Programming Still Sucks
Article URL: https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040269 Points: 352 # Comments: 168
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Learn Programming Without a Computer
Presumably aimed at children, NHK World’s Texico program teaches the main ideas about programming without actually using a computer. Instead, it uses items like a toy train, playing cards, and …read more
hackaday.com
This Az-El Mount Is Worth Following
Communication with satellites often involves the use of high-gain directional antennas coupled with careful positioning to find and track the target. With a geostationary satellite the mount is either fixed …read more
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Inkscape 1.4.4
Article URL: https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.4/Inkscape_1.4.4.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040622 Points: 305 # Comments: 89
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