HashiCorp Co-Founder’s AI Critique Grips Hacker News
The post went up late on a spring evening, a long argument about startup economics from a name the valley still stops to read. Within hours it was the most-discussed…
OpenAI Is Said to Weigh Suit Against Apple
A partnership that began with a handshake on a stage in Cupertino is now reported to be headed toward lawyers. OpenAI is considering suing Apple, according to a report from…
AI Labs Sign Up Buyout Firms as Sales Channel
In a 72-hour stretch this week, the three largest AI companies effectively signed up some of Wall Street’s biggest buyout firms as distribution partners. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all moved…
Nvidia’s Value Now Tops Germany’s Economy
Nvidia is now worth more than the whole of Germany. The chipmaker’s market capitalization reached $5.7 trillion in mid-May, surpassing the $5.45 trillion that the International Monetary Fund projects for…
SpaceX Prospectus Details Musk’s Mars-Linked Pay Plan
The prospectus answers the question investors have asked since the listing was announced – who controls SpaceX? – with a definitive answer. Elon Musk would receive Class B shares carrying…
Cerebras Stock Surges 108% in Nasdaq Debut
The meeting almost never happened. Eric Vishria, a general partner at venture firm Benchmark, had been reluctant to see a chip startup called Cerebras Systems when an associate pressed him…
A Trial’s Final Arguments Put OpenAI’s Founding Promise on the Line
Steven Molo stood at the podium in a San Francisco courtroom and introduced a witness with the wrong name. The lawyer, leading Elon Musk’s case against OpenAI, called Greg Brockman…
Chinese Investors Pour More Than $7.6 Billion Into Robot Startups
The term sheets are piling up in Shenzhen and Beijing. In the first four months of 2026, investors closed more than 200 funding deals in China’s embodied intelligence sector —…
SpaceXAI Loses Engineers as Two Cultures Clash
The all-hands meetings were the worst part, one former employee said. Half the room wanted to talk about launch timelines and hardware discipline. The other half wanted to discuss research…
OpenClaw’s OpenAI Embrace Stirs an Old Question About Open Source
Peter Steinberger has a foot in two worlds. The developer is the founder of OpenClaw, an open-source project that has become popular among engineers who want to control their AI…
