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Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform

techcrunch.com Tim De Chant 2025-10-17 12:28:03

British renewable energy provider Octopus Energy said this week that it’s spinning off Kraken, its tech platform for utilities, spurred in part by $500 million in committed annual revenue from other utilities and energy providers. An eventual Kraken IPO could be valued at $15 billion and could occur within a year, according to The Wall Street Journal. Kraken was actually the company’s initial product, according to Octopus CEO Greg Jackson. “We created Octopus as the ‘demo client,’” he told the

Topics: energy growth kraken octopus tech

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The UK’s largest energy supplier has created its own EV charger

theverge.com Tom Warren 2025-11-16 14:54:01

is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The UK’s larger energy supplier, Octopus Energy, is launching its own EV charger. The Octopus Charge is designed to pair with the Intelligent Octopus Go tariff, which offers up cheaper electricity rates overnight for EV charging. Octopus Energy has designed and built its own EV charger and is backing it with a three-year warranty. There’s a £999 (about $1,300) tethered option

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A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler

news.ycombinator.com Abhinav Sarkar 2025-11-23 22:08:22

In this post, we write the compiler for our AST to bytecode, and a decompiler for the bytecode. In this series of posts, we write a fast bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics: In this series of posts, we write a fast bytecode compiler and a virtual machine for arithmetic in Haskell. We explore the following topics: Parsing arithmetic expressions to Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs). Unit testing for our parser. Interpreting ASTs. Comp

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Octopolis and Octlantis

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-15 06:03:59

Settlements of gloomy octopuses in Australia Octopolis and Octlantis are two non-human settlements occupied by gloomy octopuses (Octopus tetricus) in Jervis Bay, on the south coast of New South Wales. The first site, named "Octopolis" by biologists, was found in 2009. Octopolis consists of a bed of shells (mainly scallop shells) in an ellipse shape, 2–3 meters diameter on its longer axis, with a single piece of anthropogenic detritus, believed to be scrap metal, within the site. Octopuses build

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Anthropic's powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you'll want to)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2026-01-10 11:26:15

Anthropic / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.1. The model exceeds the predecessor's performance on complex tasks. It is available to paid Claude users, Claude Code, API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI. In May, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4, which the company dubbed its most powerful model yet and the best coding model in the world. Only three months later, Anthropic is upping the ante further by launching the highly anticipated Claude Opus 4.1, w

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Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.1 with improved software engineering accuracy

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2026-01-11 11:43:53

In May, AI firm Anthropic introduced its Claude 4 family of models with a focus on improvements to coding, reasoning, and following instructions. Three months later, Anthropic is back with Claude Opus 4.1, which it says upgrades “agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.” Anthropic says Claude Opus 4.1 improves software engineering accuracy to 74.5%. That compares to 62.3% with Claude Sonnet 3.7 and 72.5% with Claude Opus 4. More specifically, the updated model is better at “in-depth res

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What happens when an octopus engages with art?

news.ycombinator.com Francesca Perry 2026-02-04 04:35:49

CNN — When the Japanese artist Shimabuku was 31 years old, he took an octopus on a tour of Tokyo. After catching it from the sea with the help of a local fisherman in Akashi, a coastal city over 3 hours away from the Japanese capital by train, he transported the live creature in a temperature-controlled tank of seawater to show it the sights of Tokyo before returning it safely to its home the same day. “I thought it would be nice,” the artist, now 56, said about the experience, over a video ca

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Heat pump makers are ready for a rush: Will customers come?

feeds.bbci.co.uk Unknown 2026-02-22 16:00:05

Heat pump makers are ready for a rush: Will customers come? 1 hour ago Share Save Chris Baraniuk Technology Reporter Share Save Chris Baraniuk Octopus makes heat pumps at its factory in Northern Ireland On the day I visit Octopus Energy's heat pump factory in Craigavon, Northern Ireland, temperatures in London reached 29C. Some of the staff meeting me, who are usually based in the south of England, are beaming. It's wonderful to escape the heat, they say. And who can blame them. Climate chang

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Robotic sucker can adapt to surroundings like an actual octopus

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-03-21 06:00:02

Some of the most ingenious tech has been inspired by nature. From color-changing materials that function like cephalopod skin to a tiny biomimetic robot that looks and moves like an actual cockroach, the extraordinary adaptations of some organisms have upgraded our technological capabilities. Now the octopus is lending an arm—or a sucker. Octopus tentacles have remarkably strong suckers with an adhesion power that could be an asset to soft robots that need to pick things up and hold onto them.

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Latest Tech News

Octopus Energy spins off its Kraken utility billing and AI platform

The UK’s largest energy supplier has created its own EV charger

A Fast Bytecode VM for Arithmetic: The Compiler

Octopolis and Octlantis

Anthropic's powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you'll want to)

Anthropic rolls out Claude Opus 4.1 with improved software engineering accuracy

What happens when an octopus engages with art?

Heat pump makers are ready for a rush: Will customers come?

Robotic sucker can adapt to surroundings like an actual octopus

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