The Google Capital Company
Google has issued equity to Berkshire Hathaway, a deal Ben Thompson reads as a signal of enormous AI-compute demand and a future in which capital itself becomes the scarce commodity the hyperscalers compete for.
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Vol. 2026 · No. 156
Friday, June 5, 2026
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The stack
4 picks · curatedChanging how we develop Ladybird
The independent, built-from-scratch browser project lays out changes to how it organizes development, aiming for a more sustainable process as it pushes toward a usable engine.
Most K-12 teachers say AI's impact on education will eclipse the internet or computers
A new NPR/Ipsos poll finds many teachers already using AI to save time, while a majority worry it is making it harder for students to learn to think for themselves.
Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery
Anthropic released an open-source reference harness for pointing AI models at codebases to surface security vulnerabilities, with the framework and methodology laid out publicly.
Tech & capital
Hacker News · 383 c · 773 pts
SpaceX, other mega IPOs denied fast index entry by S&P
Reuters · today
Blacklisted AI company Anthropic and the White House ease tensions ahead of IPO
Stratechery · paywalled
An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about finding core competencies
Reuters · today
Drone crashes and severed fingers at a $13 billion Silicon Valley military startup
The wire
AP Wire · today
Senate OKs $70B immigration bill after rejecting efforts to permanently ban Trump's settlement fund
Reuters · today
US posts another month of strong job gains in May; unemployment steady at 4.3%
Reuters · today
US Supreme Court backs federal regulators in wins for FCC and SEC
AP Wire · today
Ex-national security adviser John Bolton will plead guilty in classified information case
Faith
Mere Orthodoxy · today
Hospitality, desecration, politics: a review of Carl Trueman's 'The Desecration of Man'
Christianity Today · today
AI only responds to the questions we know to ask
Christianity Today · today
The scenario I imagined for this year's ethics class final
Slow reads
Marginal Revolution · 9 min
The US exports intelligence
Hacker News · 53 c · 78 pts
Entanglement builds space-time. Now 'magic' gives it gravity
Hacker News · 357 c · 234 pts
I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling
The rest 12 items
- AP Wire With Trump in a holding pattern on Iran war, allies and critics worry he risks getting boxed in
- AP Wire Hezbollah rejects latest ceasefire agreement as Israeli strikes kill 4 in Lebanon
- Reuters Iran says it fired warning missiles and drones at US warships in Gulf of Oman
- AP Wire Putin says Russia will bolster its air defenses in response to Ukrainian drone attacks
- Reuters Russia accuses Ukraine of killing Azerbaijani nationals in drone attack on ships
- Reuters Marine drone self-detonates in Romanian port after Ukraine says Russia jammed vessel
- AP Wire Truck breakdown in Niger strands passengers and leaves at least 49 dead in the Sahara Desert
- AP Wire A fire at a nursing home in Sri Lanka kills 12 people
- AP Wire Police arrest son of James Handy's girlfriend in actor's stabbing death in LA
- Reuters Middle East conflict pushing millions into hunger, WFP says
- AP Wire Clashes erupt in Somalia's capital ahead of a planned anti-government rally
- Reuters Taiwan, China coast guards in renewed standoff at top of South China Sea