Tech — 2026-04-30¶

The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents ¶

2026-04-30 · MIT Technology Review · MIT Technology Review

Today’s MIT Technology Review "Download" newsletter covers nuclear waste storage solutions amid rising support for nuclear energy and a research vessel’s Arctic expedition to study the North Pole’s past climate.

The Download: storing nuclear waste and orchestrating agents ¶

2026-04-29 · MIT Technology Review · MIT Technology Review

Sources: Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within 2 weeks ¶

2026-04-30 · TechCrunch

Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Apple was surprised by AI-driven demand for Macs ¶

2026-04-30 · TechCrunch

Apple said it will be supply-constrained on Mac mini, Studio, and Neo in the next quarter, too.

Legal AI startup Legora hits $5.6B valuation and its battle with Harvey just got hotter ¶

2026-04-30 · TechCrunch

The two wildly fast-growing rivals have raised massive sums, pushed into each other's home turf, and now have dueling ad campaigns.

Rivian downsizes DOE loan to $4.5B of Georgia factory ¶

2026-04-30 · TechCrunch

Rivian has reworked its loan deal with the Department of Energy and now expects to borrow $4.

Hackers are actively exploiting a bug in cPanel, used by millions of websites ¶

2026-04-30 · TechCrunch

Web hosts are scrambling to fix the bug under active attack by hackers.

Exclusive eBook: Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones ¶

2026-04-30 · MIT Technology Review

The ultimate plan to live forever is a brand new body.

This startup’s new mechanistic interpretability tool lets you debug LLMs ¶

2026-04-30 · MIT Technology Review

The San Francisco–based startup Goodfire just released a new tool, called Silico, that lets researchers and engineers peer inside an AI model and adjust its parameters—the settings that determine a model’s behavior—during training.

It’s time to make a plan for nuclear waste ¶

2026-04-29 · MIT Technology Review

Today, nuclear energy enjoys a rare moment of support across the political spectrum in the US.