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Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI…

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 Is Here: Better AI Coding, Smarter Safety—Same Huge Price

Anthropic's latest flagship AI model Claude Opus 4.8 arrives with sharper reasoning, tighter alignment, and a price tag…

A respectable port of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition invades macOS

The port seems solid, and all DLC is supported—but there's no crossplay, sadly.

Google Hates You

Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows

# Summary The article argues that implementing durable workflows—systems that checkpoint program progress to recover…

Apple working to cram massive Gemini model into iPhone to power new Siri

As Apple tries to shrink Gemini for the iPhone, a cloud component is probably inevitable.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI Model Nearing Release After Raising Cybersecurity Alarms

Anthropic signaled that broader access to its controversial Claude Mythos AI models may arrive "in the coming weeks"…

About LLMs at Zig Days

Loris Cro advises Zig Days participants to limit discussions and use of large language models during these community…

Amazon turns to Jeff Bezos' other company to do some heavy lifting

Amazon is turning a corner with its launch providers, but ULA's Vulcan remains grounded.

The Lone Lisp Heap

Lone is a Lisp interpreter written in freestanding C that builds its language implementation in real-time rather than…

Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by Altimeter Capital,…

H1 secures $40M from CVS, proving SaaS startups can still attract investment

CEO Ariel Katz argues that while AI can replicate workflow SaaS, it can't copy H1’s unique doctor data.

A security lapse at prison pay phone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses

Pay Tel secured the publicly exposed data after security researchers discovered the leak containing callers' sensitive…

Hold on for Dear Life

# Summary The article explores the paradox of cryptography's role in resisting authoritarianism: while modern…

Bitburner, programming-based incremental game

Why Paris may be the most important AI city outside Silicon Valley

Europe’s startup ecosystem has matured significantly; its founders are increasingly willing to scale companies…

Show HN: Py-SQL-cleaner – format SQL embedded in Python strings

Hi HN, I built py-sql-cleaner, a CLI for formatting SQL embedded in Python files.Python formatters handle Python syntax.

In just 3 weeks, StrictlyVC is coming to Los Angeles

StrictlyVC Los Angeles is on June 18.

Corgi announces $106M raise at $2.6B valuation — double what it was worth three weeks ago

Insurance tech Corgi announced today an $106 million Series B1 raise, valuing the company at $2.6 billion, just three…

Intel makes a bid for handheld gaming PCs with new Arc G3 processors

Intel's Arc B390 integrated GPU has offered impressive performance in laptops.

Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock

A bipartisan amendment that would have effectively banned police license plate reader (LPR) programs nationwide,…

Trump loses more control over AI regulation as Illinois passes landmark law

Here’s why Anthropic and OpenAI are on board with Illinois safety testing.

Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool

The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.

Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras with Trash Bags

Dayton, Ohio has covered its Flock automated license plate reader cameras with trash bags as a temporary measure while…

Waymo’s newest robotaxi is Chinese-made, built to make money, and now accepting riders

The launch of the Ojai minivan robotaxi comes after years of development and testing, but arrives amid a challenging…

Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code

Anthropic has introduced dynamic workflows in Claude Code, which enable Claude to orchestrate tens to hundreds of…

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgraded version of its AI model with improved performance across coding,…

Tuning LLVM's SLP Vectorizer Cost Model

A recent LLVM patch introduced ordered vector reductions to optimize floating-point addition chains, but it caused a…

Endive: A JVM native WebAssembly runtime

Endive is a JVM-native WebAssembly runtime that allows developers to run WebAssembly programs directly on the Java…