Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of compute
At a moment when Anthropic’s compute margins should be getting better, they’re getting worse.
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Rivian spinout Also was working on an e-moto project in Kenya — until it walked away
Also co-founder and president Chris Yu told TechCrunch that he wanted to prioritize autonomous vehicles.
Athena Raises $2.5 Million From a16z Speedrun to End the Billable Hour in Real Estate Law
American law firms bill an estimated $403.9 billion a year, most of it by the hour, at rates that now reach about $3,400 an hour for a top partner at a large firm, more than double the top rate of a decade ago. Investors have spent the past 18 months pouring money into the software … Read more
Google will let schools disable its AI tools, but not without sacrificing Search
Schools choosing to restrict AI altogether will no longer be able to access Google Search, as AI features are now integrated into the search engine.
Meet Rise: HackerNoon Company of the Week
Welcome to another HackerNoon Company of the Week feature. Every week, we highlight a standout company from our Tech Company Database that’s making waves in the global tech ecosystem and the lives of its users. Our database features everything from S&P giants to rising stars in the Startup scene. This week, we spotlight Rise (trade-rise), a trading app built … Read more
South Korea Wants Stablecoins Written Into Its Forex Law Within The Year
The Bank of Korea plans to prepare the bill jointly with the government before the year ends. Unhosted wallets and mixers are already on its radar. South Korea is moving on two tracks at once. The first is fast and narrow. The government and the Bank of Korea plan to revise the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act this … Read more
New York City’s Mamdani criticizes Madison Square Garden owner over surveillance tech
The mayor’s comments come after the entertainment giant’s data breach last year, which exposed James Dolan’s surveillance.
Midterm elections 2026: all the news
The 2026 midterm elections will determine the scope of President Donald Trump’s power in his final two years in office, and signal what voters care about going into the 2028 presidential election. While this year’s races are expected to be most broadly defined by affordability issues, there’s several topics impacting the tech industry that appear … Read more
Apple restricts dating apps and AI companions to users 18 and up
Apple’s new App Store rules will require 18+ ratings for dating apps and AI companions that offer sexual or romantic content.
Apple is all in on AI — its own and everyone else’s
Apple CEO John Ternus. | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images Apple’s latest earnings show how it’s continuing to capitalize on the AI boom without busting its budget on the infrastructure spending consuming its competitors. Overall, Apple posted its best-ever fiscal year for revenue and earnings per share. iPhone and Mac sales continued to grow strongly … Read more
How We Stabilized a Bazel CI Runner by Fixing Resource Limits and Container Cleanup
It all started as a routing investigation. The monorepo (Go, nodejs, C++ with shared proto files) pipeline had been running slowly for some time, and then it started to fail. Bazel builds were being OOM-killed during working hours, the retries lengthened the queue, the longer queue reduced the frequency of pushes, and the CI issues … Read more
GTA VI’s download will need up to 212GB of hard drive space
You’re going to need a lot of extra storage space on your console if you’re planning to play Grand Theft Auto VI later this month. Rockstar Games confirmed on Tuesday that the pre-load file will require up to 212GB “depending on your device.” Rockstar says you can start pre-loading the game on the PlayStation 5 … Read more
How I Used a Stock Market Theory to Predict Cellular Network Behavior
The strangest paper I have ever written started with a stock chart. In 2016, I was working on handoff prediction for cellular networks, the problem of anticipating when a moving phone should jump from one base station to the next. Get it right and the call continues seamlessly. Get it wrong and the call drops, … Read more
The Elder Scrolls VI officially has a name: Sentinel
Bethesda is officially confirming today that the next Elder Scrolls game will be called The Elder Scrolls VI Sentinel. The confirmation came in a less than 10-minute video celebrating 40 years of Bethesda game studios. It’s been more than eight years since Bethesda officially announced the existence of the sixth game in its Elder Scrolls … Read more
OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers ‘compute campuses’
The Stargate AI data center “compute campus” in Abilene, Texas. | Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images People hate data centers. They’re loud, resource-hungry eyesores that are so profoundly unpopular they have managed to achieve the near-impossible in today’s polarized political landscape: genuine bipartisan opposition. But what about “compute campuses”? Those sound lovely, right? OpenAI seems … Read more
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The TechCrunch Founder Summit agenda is only half the reason to be in Boston on Nov. 4
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A truck-sized NASA space telescope is about to crash to Earth
Almost 22 years after it was launched, NASA’s Swift Observatory is now about to fall back to Earth on Wednesday after attempts to push it back into a higher orbit failed. NASA announced that the aging space telescope is anticipated to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere at approximately 3:30AM ET (give or take 11 hours), and that … Read more
Peak Design expands its collection of wireless charging accessories
Peak Design, best known for its backpacks and travel bags packed full of useful features, announced it’s expanding its collection of chargers and charging accessories with new devices that focus on pairing premium materials with innovative functionality. “Somewhere along the way, we accepted that the electronics we use every day should be cheap, disposable and … Read more
Bambu’s nine-nozzle H3C foretells the future of 3D printing
The Bambu H3C. | Image: Bambu Lab Three years ago, I told you how home 3D printers had evolved for speed, producing parts in minutes that used to take hours or days. Now, the next evolution is here: printers that can swap between materials on the fly, mix different colors to produce nearly the full … Read more
The 2026 iPad Mini is a terrific tiny tablet — for a big price
The iPad Mini sometimes feels like a trap. It is, in some ways and for some people, the perfect iPad: meaningfully larger than my phone’s screen but still small and light enough to use for reading in bed or gaming on the subway. As most of the rest of the iPad line has tilted ever … Read more
Adobe’s Premiere mobile app is adding licensed music from ‘leading artists’
Adobe is teaming up with Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group to add a library of licensed music clips to the Premiere mobile video editing app. No specific musicians have been announced with this partnership, but Adobe said it will include “popular songs” from “leading artists,” and enable Premiere mobile users to quickly jump … Read more
Tomorrow: TechCrunch Founder Summit takes over Boston and when pass rates increase
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Apple is restricting dating apps and romanceable chatbots to over 18s
Apple will soon start asking developers to provide more details about their apps to enforce new App Store age rating requirements for dating and location-sharing features. The upcoming content descriptors announced on Monday will require developers to declare if their apps allow users to share their real-world location with others, or include features that enable … Read more