Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures
Palantir’s ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it’s worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of “the West.”
April 2026
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters its assetmaxxing era
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
Cracks are starting to form on fusion energy’s funding boom
Fusion startups and investors risk deepening fissures if some key disagreements aren’t settled amicably.
Blue Origin successfully re-uses a New Glenn rocket for the first time ever
It’s a major milestone for the company’s new mega-rocket system, putting it in position to challenge SpaceX’s dominance of the global launch market.
NVIDIA Releases Ising: the First Open Quantum AI Model Family for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Systems
Quantum computing has spent years living in the future tense. Hardware has improved, research has compounded, and venture dollars have followed — but the gap between a quantum processor running…
xAI Launches Standalone Grok Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech APIs, Targeting Enterprise Voice Developers
Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has launched two standalone audio APIs — a Speech-to-Text (STT) API and a Text-to-Speech (TTS) API — both built on the same infrastructure that powers…
A Coding Tutorial for Running PrismML Bonsai 1-Bit LLM on CUDA with GGUF, Benchmarking, Chat, JSON, and RAG
In this tutorial, we implement how to run the Bonsai 1-bit large language model efficiently using GPU acceleration and PrismML’s optimized GGUF deployment stack. We set up the environment, install…
Anthropic Releases Claude Opus 4.7: A Major Upgrade for Agentic Coding, High-Resolution Vision, and Long-Horizon Autonomous Tasks
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.7, it’s latest frontier model and a direct successor to Claude Opus 4.6. The release is positioned as a focused improvement rather than a full…
A Coding Guide for Property-Based Testing Using Hypothesis with Stateful, Differential, and Metamorphic Test Design
In this tutorial, we explore property-based testing using Hypothesis and build a rigorous testing pipeline that goes far beyond traditional unit testing. We implement invariants, differential testing, metamorphic testing, targeted…
Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston
Tesla is expanding its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston, according to a social media post from the company. The post says simply that “Robotaxi is now rolling out in…