In today’s Bulldog wrapup of technology news:

  • Hulu is expanding its streaming lineup
  • Warren Buffett is a big hit on Yahoo video
  • Tesla to step up production
  • The man claiming to be bitcoin’s inventor expands his story

The details:

  • Hulu to sell Internet TV package with live programming

Hulu is expanding its Internet TV programming with a subscription service offering a mix of live cable and broadcast options that will include news and sports.

The move will pit 8-year-old Hulu, a streaming service created by TV networks to counter the threat posed by Google’s YouTube, against similar cable-like bundles already being offered over the Internet by Dish’s Sling TV and Sony’s PlayStation Vue.

Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins confirmed his service’s foray into live programming at a Wednesday presentation in New York. But he didn’t providing many specifics, including how much a monthly subscription will cost or how many channels will be available.

“Very soon, fans will be able to enjoy favorite shows and cheer for favorite teams, all onHulu,” in a “deeply personalized experience,” he said.

Hulu has connections in Hollywood because it is co-owned by three of the major players in cable and broadcast programming — 21st Century Fox, Walt Disney Co. and Comcast’s NBC Universal.

Forrester Research analyst James McQuivey said he believes programmers are testing the economics of live-TV subscriptions over the Internet with smaller platforms before they commit to major technology companies such as Apple and YouTube, which have both expressed interest in selling similar viewing alternatives.

  • Berkshire Hathaway meeting viewed live 1.8 million times

The first online broadcast of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting was viewed 1.8 million times.

Yahoo Finance broadcast the meeting Saturday where Berkshire Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger answered questions for more than five hours.

Buffett’s wit and his successful investing record while building Berkshire into a conglomerate that owns more than 90 companies and employs over 350,000 always attract a crowd.

In addition to the online audience, Buffett says roughly 40,000 people attended the event in Omaha.

Yahoo Finance says there were 1.1 million unique viewers of the broadcast worldwide. The meeting broadcast was offered in English and Mandarin.

Replays of the meeting will be available for the next 30 days at:

http://yhoo.it/BRKLive .

  • Tesla to increase production

Electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc. brushed off a big first-quarter loss and cheered investors with news that it plans to accelerate its production plans.

Tesla’s loss rose 84 percent to $282 million in the first quarter as it struggled with parts delays for its new Model X SUV. The company’s stock-based compensation costs also more than doubled during the quarter to nearly $90 million.

The loss, of $2.13 per share, far exceeded Wall Street’s forecasts. Analysts polled by FactSet expected a loss of 87 cents per share.

But Tesla’s shares jumped 3 percent to $229.48 in after-hours trading after the company said it’s pushing ahead its plan to make 500,000 vehicles per year to 2018, two years earlier than scheduled. That’s up from 50,000 vehicles in 2015.

Tesla said it remains on track to deliver 80,000 to 90,000 vehicles this year after resolving the Model X production issues. It also reaffirmed that production of the lower-cost Model 3 car will start in 2017. Tesla has set July 1, 2017, to start production of the Model 3 and wants to make 100,000 to 200,000 cars in the second half of the year.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has a desk and a sleeping bag at the company’s Fremont, California, factory, said he celebrated the first flawless production of a Model X at 3 a.m. last Friday — eight months after the company started deliveries to customers.

  • Debate over bitcoin founder continues

Australian entrepreneur Craig Wright, the man who came forward this week as bitcoin’s founder, says he will provide further proof in the coming days to back up his claims.

In a new blog post Tuesday, Wright said proof will include moving some of the earliest-created bitcoin and providing “independently-verifiable documents and evidence.”

Experts widely criticized the blog post Tuesday in which Wright appeared to sign a passage by Jean-Paul Sartre with a private encryption key that would have only been available to bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Instead, experts said Wright’s blog amounted to cutting and pasting information from the publicly available ledger known as the “blockchain.” Wright was said to have signed messages with the private key only in unverifiable individual sessions.