Hacker News with Generative AI: Business

Waymo reports 250k paid robotaxi rides per week (cnbc.com)
Microsoft's Big AI Hire Can't Match OpenAI (newcomer.co)
Microsoft’s Big AI Hire Can't Match OpenAI
'Things Have Ground to a Halt': Tariff Uncertainty Paralyzes Businesses (nytimes.com)
Show HN: I used OpenAI's new image API for a personalized coloring book service (clevercoloringbook.com)
Upload your memories - we print and send a physical personalized coloring book for just $23.99.
Prepper Disk (prepperdisk.com)
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Waymo reports more than 250k rides per week (cnbc.com)
Alphabet reported Thursday that Waymo, its autonomous vehicle unit, is now delivering more than 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in the U.S.
Lip-Bu Tan: Our Path Forward (intc.com)
A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees.
Waymo reports 250k paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. (cnbc.com)
Yahoo Wants to Buy Chrome (theverge.com)
Legacy search brand Yahoo has been working on its own web browser prototype, and says it would like to buy Google’s Chrome if the company is forced by a court to sell it.
How DigiKey is dealing with tariff chaos (text.npr.org)
Thief River Falls is in northwestern Minnesota, and along with having a really cool name is really small. But it grew a very big company that is now riding out an unprecedented and unpredictable storm - tariffs.
Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do? (ycombinator.com)
I'm the lead software engineer at a company building a B2B hardware/software product in the US. Great team, great technology, great PMF and good progress on revenue targets. There are lots of opportunities for how to develop the product further. It's been an extremely hard scale-up but we are finally starting to see it pay off.
The EdTech Chicken and Egg Problem (ycombinator.com)
I've worked in edtech for almost 10 years now in B2B, B2C, and nonprofit contexts. I've seen real product market fit, and a lot of poor product market fit.
Tesla (TSLA) stock surges on Elon's lies despite disastrous earnings (electrek.co)
Tesla’s stock (TSLA) surged by as much as 8% today following the company reporting disastrous earnings results – its worst in years and way below expectations.
IBM says 15 contracts impacted by DOGE cost cuts, shares drop (yahoo.com)
International Business Machines (IBM) said 15 of its government contracts were shelved under a cost-cutting drive by the Trump administration, a setback that eclipsed its upbeat revenue forecast and dragged its shares down over 8% on Thursday in premarket trading.
Sustainability still not a high priority for datacenter industry (theregister.com)
When it comes to building datacenters, reducing the environmental impact of the project is still not seen as a major concern – it is lower on the list than cost of equipment and materials, skills shortages, a possible downturn in projects, and even bad weather.
AMD 2.0 – New Sense of Urgency (semianalysis.com)
Ever since SemiAnalysis published an article in December 2024 detailing mediocre AMD software and the lack of usability, AMD has kicked into a higher gear and has made rapid progress in the past four months on many items we laid out. We view AMD’s new sense of urgency as a massive positive in its journey to catch up to Nvidia. AMD is now in a wartime stance, but there are still many battles ahead of it.
Someoen accidentally saved half a million-dollars (mataroa.blog)
I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I've made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons.
Ask HN: Why so many companies reducing middle management recently? (ycombinator.com)
OpenAI says it would buy Chrome if Google is forced to sell (engadget.com)
Google is under the microscope following a court ruling last year that it has a monopoly over online search, but the future of its vast suite of digital services is still uncertain at this stage.
Why Discord founder Jason Citron is stepping down from CEO job (venturebeat.com)
Jason Citron is stepping down as CEO of Discord and he has hired game veteran Humam Sakhnini as the new CEO.
Tesla's Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks (theatlantic.com)
Reality is catching up with Elon Musk.
Tesla profits drop 71% on weak sales and anti-Elon Musk sentiment (techcrunch.com)
Tesla’s flailing sales figures have put the company closer to the red than it has been in years, according to financial results released Tuesday, threatening one of its biggest advantages over other EV players.
Intel to cut 20pc of global workforce, putting Irish jobs at risk (independent.ie)
Intel is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20pc of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, it is understood.
M&S (Marks and Spencer) Cyber Incident Update (londonstockexchange.com)
Intel to announce plans this week to cut over 20% of staff (scmp.com)
Intel is poised to announce plans this week to cut more than 20 per cent of its staff, aiming to eliminate bureaucracy at the struggling chipmaker, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
The Tent Company Profiting from Trump's Deportation Plans (propublica.org)
In June 2005, a former employee from the Federal Emergency Management Agency toured the grounds of the Bonnaroo music festival in rural Tennessee.
The Rise and Fall and Rise Again of Lionel Trains (1997) (spikesys.com)
In the year 1901, Joshua Lionel Cowen (origially Cohen), a resident of New York City, sent a flatcar, with an electric motor and battery cleverly concealed underneath, around a small circle of brass track. From that seemingly unimportant event emerged a corporation and a legend.
Drum Machine Price Before Tariffs: $399, After Tariffs: $977 (synthtopia.com)
Music gear prices are skyrocketing as a result of the Trump administration’s new tariffs, and this is going to significantly impact US musicians’ instrument purchase plans for the foreseeable future.
Airbnb will now show total prices by default (cnn.com)
Boeing sold its digital business to Thoma Bravo for 10B (nytimes.com)
Boeing announced on Tuesday that it would sell a handful of navigation, flight planning and other businesses for more than $10.5 billion as the company works to refocus on manufacturing planes and other aircraft.