5 place 26
Self-driving ridesharing service Waymo said Monday it has raised $16 billion at a $126 billion valuation. The valuation includes the size of the investment, according to an investor in the round. Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global and Sequoia Capital led the round, it said. Waymo said that ...
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
The Information
Violence erupted in Puerto Vallarta and other parts of Mexico after the government killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Read more ›
1,269
A new technical breakdown explains how microscopic gratings and prism layers hide your screen from prying eyes. Read more ›
835 fresh
Jeans are built to last, but fashion trends aren't. For millennials, shifting denim styles have become an unexpected reminder of aging and identity. Read more ›
469 fresh
The president now routinely tells companies how to run their businesses and threatens them if they don't comply. Read more ›
412
More Android phones with hardware-level privacy display protection may be coming later this year. Read more ›
259 fresh
Gold medalist Mikaela Shiffrin says she visited Paris two summers ago to get a feel for the Olympic atmosphere before this year's Games. Read more ›
228 fresh
A steady stream of ultra-high-net-worth individuals is deciding to hightail it to new countries. Here's where they're headed. Read more ›
220 fresh
The OpenAI CEO, very smart, brushed away concerns about AI's environmental impact with one hell of a take. Read more ›
194
Jensen Huang celebrated his 63rd birthday with a Paris Baguette cake you can buy at your local mall. Read more ›
194 fresh
Back in November last year, a report claimed that Apple would upgrade the selfie camera across the entire iPhone 18 lineup. A new rumor now corroborates the upgrade but suggests the improved front camera may be limited to the Pro models. According to tipster Whylab, the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max will feature 24MP selfie cameras, a claim that aligns with the November report that also pointed... Read more ›
172 fresh
Brussels-based Syndicate One, an international network-driven fund backing technology startups based in Belgium or founded by Belgian entrepreneurs, today announced that it has concluded the first close of its second fund at €22 million. The capital raise follows Syndicate One’s €6.5 million fund, which closed in late 2024, and is intended to identify, finance, and ... Read more ›
159 fresh
Samsung's headline feature for the Galaxy S26 Ultra just can't stop leaking. Read more ›
139 fresh
On 1 March 2026, Barcelona will once again host the GLOBALS Tech Festival 2026, known as “GSTF26”, marking its fourth edition and setting the tone for the week of MWC Barcelona and 4YFN. Positioned just ahead of the major industry gatherings, the one-day event aims to convert pre-conference momentum into tangible outcomes for founders, investors ... Read more ›
120 fresh
The $370 price difference between the U.S. and the U.K. on 28TB hard drives meant that it's more cost effective to pay for a round-trip ticket and a hotel stay than to just purchase 10 drives locally. Read more ›
110
Experience legendary OSes, architectures, programming languages, and games via a new online portal. Read more ›
107
Just days ahead of the Galaxy S26 series launch event, real-life images and a hands-on video have surfaced on social media, offering a close look at the Galaxy S26 Ultra. The leaks highlight the Privacy Display feature, the S-Pen, and even reveal the phone’s benchmark scores. YouTuber Sahil Karoul managed to get his hands on the upcoming Galaxy S26 Ultra, claiming that a retailer in Dubai already has the phone... Read more ›
106 fresh
President Donald Trump demanded that Netflix drop Susan Rice from its board after she was sharply critical of his administration. Read more ›
101
"A surprisingly ravenous black hole from the dawn of the universe is breaking two big rules," reports Live Science. "It's not only exceeding the 'speed limit' of black hole growth but also generating extreme X-ray and radio wave emissions — two features that are not predicted to coexist..." "How is this rule-breaking behavior even possible? In a paper published Jan. 21 in The Astrophysical Journal, an international team of researchers... Read more ›
89 fresh
The Information
Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meta’s plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and intends to release it later this year with health-tracking features and a built-in Meta AI assistant.... Read more ›
49
OpenAI has more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered devices that will include a smart speaker and possibly smart glasses and a smart lamp, according to a person with knowledge of the plans. New details are starting to emerge about the group and its development strategy. The smart speaker—the first device OpenAI will release—is likely to be priced between $200 and $300, according to two people with... Read more ›
45
Alibaba Group on Monday unveiled Qwen3.5, the new generation of its large language models, adding to the recent flood of new AI model releases from Chinese companies ahead of the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday. Alibaba, a major global competitor in open-source AI models, said ... Read more ›
34
OpenAI recently raised its outlook for revenue for the next five years, predicting it would generate about 27% more than previously forecast from sales of its ChatGPT subscriptions and other business lines, The Information reported Friday. But it warned it will burn more than twice as much cash ... Read more ›
31
Anthropic expects to pay Amazon, Google and Microsoft at least $80 billion to run its Claude AI on their cloud servers through 2029, according to the startup’s most optimistic recent forecasts. That’s not the only way the tech giants can make money from Anthropic: They get a cut of the revenue Anthropic generates if their customers buy its AI. And that’s a fast-growing source of revenue. Anthropic paid only about... Read more ›
27
Perplexity is no longer offering ads, an executive told The Financial Times. The AI search startup is pulling back from this line of business as rival OpenAI started showing its users ads in ChatGPT conversations earlier this month. The company said it was worried ads would undermine users’ ... Read more ›
27
OpenAI recently hiked its revenue outlook for the next five years, predicting that it would generate about 27% more than previously forecast from sales of its ChatGPT subscriptions, AI models, and newer business lines such as advertising and hardware, according to financial forecasts. But it warned it will burn more than twice as much cash through 2030 than previously predicted, as it spends $665 billion on the costs of running... Read more ›
26
Etsy saw its profit dip in the fourth quarter, even as revenue grew slightly, the company said Thursday, a day after the online marketplace said it would sell the Gen Z-focused clothing resale app Depop to rival eBay for $1.2 billion. Etsy reported revenue of $881.6 million, a 6.6% increase from ... Read more ›
25
A new holy grail has emerged in the AI industry in recent months: continual learning, or the promise of AI that’s able to learn from real-world experience the way humans do, without having to undergo long formal training processes that require tons of computational power and data.And as you’d might expect with the rise of an ill-defined, buzzy term in the tech sector, investors are already telling me that they’re... Read more ›
22
Over the last two years, investors and researchers have flocked to startups helping bring AI into the physical world, from developing robot hands to the AI models that train robots to software to train self-driving cars. Now one startup says it can solve a perennial problem for robots and other AI-powered systems: getting precise location data that helps the bots detect other people and things.ZaiNar, a Belmont, Calif.-based startup that... Read more ›
22
Most popular sources
Business Insider
|
44% 9 |
Tom's Hardware
|
17% 11 |
Gizmodo
|
10% 6 |
The Verge
|
5% 8 |
Android Authority
|
3% 2 |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
23.02.2026 05:00
Last update: 04:56 EDT.
News rating updated: 11:52.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.
popular
