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Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart

Can Apple's new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it's losing an all-important industry race?

We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued

Morningstar values SpaceX at $63 per share, a 53% discount to its IPO offering price of $135, based on…

FCC lifts looming deadline for Amazon Leo satellite broadband constellation

The waiver "serves the public interest by promoting a second large satellite broadband constellation."

Mercor’s Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia over ‘dual-pricing’ valuation tricks

Sequoia is just one of the top firms that sells same equity at two different prices.

OpenAI Files Draft S-1 at $852B Valuation as ChatGPT Hits 900M Weekly Users

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, filed a confidential draft S-1 registration statement with the U.S.

SpaceX's stock market blast-off could be Musk's biggest gamble yet

SpaceX is preparing for a stock market debut that could transform the company, the wider market and Elon Musk's fortune.

Show HN: Mach – A compiled systems language looking for contributions

Hi HN,I'm the creator of Mach (https://github.com/octalide/mach or https://machlang.org).

As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says

Tools for Humanity, Sam Altman's identify verification company, is reportedly struggling to generate revenue and will…

Apple’s WWDC AI demos looked more real after $250M false ad settlement

The vibe of Apple's 2026 WWDC keynote felt like a spouse proudly listing all the honey-do-list items tackled.

Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]

Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality

Hi HN! We’re Jimmy and Ray. Jimmy is a Thiel Fellow with a Ph. D.

OpenAI Wants to Kill the Chatbot It Invented and Turn It Into a Superapp

The company that launched ChatGPT in 2022 is now betting its future on something closer to WeChat than a Q&A box

OpenAI Confirms Confidential IPO Filing, Keeps Timing Open

The ChatGPT maker says it has filed paperwork for a potential public offering but may remain private while it pursues…

Following Anthropic, OpenAI files confidentially for IPO

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company said Monday in a blog post.

OpenAI Submits S-1 Draft to SEC

Apple plays catch-up at WWDC

Apple spent much of its WWDC keynote highlighting fixes, performance improvements, and long-requested features before…

macOS 27 requires Apple Silicon, as Apple draws down the Intel Mac era

You'll need an M1 or better to run the next release of macOS.

China's Xiaomi MiMo Is Now 15X Faster Than ChatGPT and Claude

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed blows past the speed threshold custom silicon companies spent years building toward—on…

iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 don't drop support for any iPhones—and just a few iPads

This promises to be a solid release for aging iPhones.

Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers

As AI experimentation grows more expensive, Apple is waiving cloud API costs for developers with fewer than 2 million…

Waymo bought Apple’s self-driving car proving ground for $220M

Waymo has acquired a massive 5,500-acre proving ground in Arizona owned by Route 14 Investment Partners LLC, a Delaware…

FrontierCode

FrontierCode is a new benchmark that evaluates AI coding models on producing high-quality, production-ready code rather…

Apple Unveils Upgraded Siri as Tech Giant's Big AI Push Finally Arrives

The revamped Siri adds conversational AI, visual understanding, and personal context awareness as Apple rolls out new…

Meta alleges NSO violated spyware injunction with new WhatsApp attacks

WhatsApp disrupted spear phishing attempts, asks court to hold NSO in contempt.

Microsoft’s open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers

Microsoft shut down dozens of GitHub code repositories for Azure and AI coding tools after a reported hack.

I'm building a parallel internet, and it's called The Thinnernet

Surveillance Is Not Safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]

Say hi to "Siri AI"—Apple announces new, more "conversational" voice assistant

New features coming this fall alongside two-tiered, Google-powered AI model overhaul.

Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models

Apple announced a major overhaul of its Apple Intelligence platform, built on foundation models co-developed with Google…