xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B(twitter.com)

734 points by rvz 1 year ago | 1072 comments

Elon Musk's post announcing xAI acquired X in an all-stock deal valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion.

In the last 30 years, the number of public companies has been cut in half(twitter.com)

34 points by MrBuddyCasino 6 months ago | 24 comments

Y Combinator is predicated on startups that require low capitalization(twitter.com)

141 points by Apocryphon 2 years ago | 82 comments

Aspartame is set to be declared a possible carcinogen(twitter.com)

101 points by dcu 3 years ago | 106 comments

Nvidia and its partners built a system to bypass U.S. export restrictions(twitter.com)

301 points by mgh2 2 years ago | 168 comments

EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up(twitter.com)

49 points by ryzvonusef 1 year ago | 31 comments

Is Gmail killing independent email?(tutanota.com)

416 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 403 comments

Tutanota blog post arguing that Gmail's dominance threatens independent email providers; the captured page shows only the site header and footer.

Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds(wsj.com)

1053 points by shayneo 1 year ago | 507 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that a federal judge found Apple violated an antitrust ruling; the capture shows only a device verification screen.

U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe(wsj.com)

477 points by moose_man 2 years ago | 193 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting that the U.S. government launched an antitrust investigation into UnitedHealth Group; page showed a device verification screen.

Do not fear AI. Fear AI companies(df7sc6o35ljoz.cloudfront.net)

14 points by rDr4g0n 1 month ago | 2 comments

An essay arguing that people should fear the companies building AI rather than AI itself, appealing to readers' intuition that something is wrong.

U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts(washingtonpost.com)

642 points by Despegar 1 year ago | 925 comments

Washington Post exclusive reporting that the U.K. secretly ordered Apple to provide blanket access to users' encrypted iCloud backups worldwide.

Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship(aclu.org)

400 points by pabs3 11 months ago | 199 comments

ACLU article arguing that the Apple and Google app store oligopoly enables corporate and government censorship of smartphone apps; screenshot shows a donation modal overlay.