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Plummeting software stocks aren’t good news for any company with a big enterprise business that is considering going public. Nonetheless, there’s a growing consensus that 12-year-old Databricks—whose initial public offering has been chatted about for years—could take the step by the end of this year, according to several investment bankers and investors in the company who have spoken to its executives recently. This may be wishful thinking, given that talk of a Databricks IPO stretches back to at least 2021
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ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules. Read more ›
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An elixir for keeping our brains and bodies younger may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves across the United States — if only we’d take advantage of it. I’m talking about the shingles vaccine. It was invented because, well, shingles is a terrible disease. If you ever had chickenpox (like I did), this virus is […] Read more ›
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order announcing that California’s newly gerrymandered maps, which are expected to give Democrats as many as five more seats in the US House, may go into effect during the 2026 midterms. These maps were enacted to counterbalance a Republican gerrymander in Texas, which could also give […] Read more ›
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On Thursday, Bitcoin's value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as CNBC reports. After crossing $100,000 in November 2024 and peaking at over $122,000 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a steady decline for the last several […] Read more ›
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A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions -- a decision that could reshape how one of the platform's most popular content genres operates. U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi of the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss in Cordova v. Huneault, a creator-versus-creator dispute,... Read more ›
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A team of geologists found for the first time evidence linking regions of low seismic velocity and the shape of the Earth’s magnetic field. Read more ›
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Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Read more ›
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HBO is developing a Baldur's Gate TV show that will continue the story of Larian Studios' hit RPG Baldur's Gate 3, according to Deadline. The Last Of Us co-creator Craig Mazin will serve as the show's creator, writer, executive producer, and showrunner. While it's set to feature new protagonists, the plan is for existing characters […] Read more ›
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Nvidia representative recommends GeForce graphics card owners to uninstall the Windows 11 KB5074109 update to solve framerate drops and gaming artifacts. Read more ›
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Talk about raising the stakes. A day after Google parent Alphabet scared the market by projecting plans to double its capital expenditures to around $180 billion, Amazon went one better by announcing it plans to lay out $200 billion on capex this year, 56% higher than what it spent in 2025. Investors were just as unimpressed as they had been with Google: Amazon stock dropped as much as 10% in... Read more ›
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Мы привыкли, что нейросети — это «черный ящик»: на входе данные, на выходе ответ, а внутри магия. Но что, если этот ящик можно сделать прозрачным? Команда Anthropic провела масштабное препарирование Claude 3 Sonnet, чтобы найти конкретные «фичи», отвечающие за концепции — от Золотых Ворот до уязвимостей в коде. Разбираемся, как устроены мысли нейросети и почему это открытие меняет наше представление о безопасности ИИ. Читать далее Read more ›
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In an all-hands meeting with employees today, Apple CEO Tim Cook promised to lobby the U.S. government on immigration, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. Cook said he is "deeply distraught" with the U.S. government's current approach to immigration, and he promised to make his voice heard on the matter, the report said. "For as long as I can remember, we have been a smarter, wiser, more innovative company because we've... Read more ›
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There are lots of revelations about Epstein's relationship with the crypto world in the files. That's not one of them. Read more ›
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Smart glasses are finally moving past the “cool demo, never used” phase. The best versions are the ones that fit into normal life: you put them on, you get hands-free audio, you can grab quick photos or video without pulling out your phone, and you move on. The Oakley Meta HSTN smart AI glasses are ... Read more ›
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Elon Musk told podcast host Dwarkesh Patel and Stripe co-founder John Collison that space will become the most economically compelling location for AI data centers in less than 36 months, a prediction rooted not in some exotic technical breakthrough but in the basic math of electricity supply: chip output is growing exponentially, and electrical output outside China is essentially flat. Solar panels in orbit generate roughly five times the power... Read more ›
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Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: The Order of Giants is among the available new titles. Read more ›
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A wrongful death lawsuit claims a 20-year-old driver was unable to escape a burning vehicle due to faulty electronic doors. Read more ›
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There are plenty of tech luminaries whose correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein has turned up in the files of the disgraced financier. But few of those exchanges are quite like those that Epstein had with Masha Bucher, who is now a well-known venture capitalist. On June 25, 2019, 11 days before Epstein was arrested and charged with sex trafficking of minors, he asked Bucher—who was then acting as a publicist for... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is sounding an increasingly bullish note about the first major AI model expected to emerge from its new AI group. The company recently told some staffers in the group, known as Meta Superintelligence Labs, that its next generation large language model, codenamed Avocado, is “now Meta’s most capable pre-trained base model to date,” according to an internal memo, which was viewed by The Information. In the memo, dated... Read more ›
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Elon Musk rammed through the combination of his space company, SpaceX, with his AI startup, xAI, on Monday, merging the shiniest jewel in his business empire with his most money-losing firm. The deal—which valued xAI at $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, according to people familiar with the situation—comes as xAI battles to catch up to rivals such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. The deal shows how quickly the... Read more ›
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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 ... Read more ›
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On Monday, our reporter Jemima McEvoy broke the news that venture capitalist Masha Bucher had deep ties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Their correspondence, released in a dump of more than 3 million pages from the Justice Department Friday, showed Bucher—née Drokova, the name she was using at the time—working as a publicist for Epstein, setting flirty texts and getting advice for her early-stage fund, Day One Ventures. The... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! Firstly, I want to tell you about an exciting addition to The Information’s Weekend section: reporter Eli Rosenberg, an alum of The New York Times, The Washington Post and the San Francisco Chronicle. He’ll cover tech wealth and culture—just as a slate of potential mega-IPOs from the likes of SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic means everyone in Silicon Valley will have even more money. Read more about Eli and... Read more ›
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As Amazon weighs an equity investment of tens of billions of dollars in OpenAI, the companies are also discussing a commercial agreement that could require OpenAI to dedicate its own researchers and engineers to developing customized models for powering Amazon’s own AI products, according to a person involved in the talks and another person who was briefed about it. Amazon could use customized versions of OpenAI’s models to bolster Amazon... Read more ›
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It’s CEO replacement time. Both Walt Disney Co. and PayPal named new chief executives on Tuesday, with each appointment symbolizing major business shifts. Disney named parks chief Josh D’Amaro to succeed longtime CEO Bob Iger, who turns 75 next week (D’Amaro is Iger’s second successor, after the first one flopped so badly Iger had to return to save the day.) Disney’s announcement was long expected. PayPal, in contrast, made a... Read more ›
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When Stripe acquired crypto startup Bridge last year, it described stablecoins as financial services “superconductors.” Thanks to Bridge, Stripe has since integrated stablecoins into an array of products, such as stablecoin cards that allow customers to spend crypto anywhere. Using stablecoins for payments turns out to be harder than it looks. After Stripe launched one of its new Bridge cards in partnership with another crypto firm in January, scammers instantly... Read more ›
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Last fall, a plane took off from Ottawa, Ontario, with some unusual cargo: a collection of nonviable human embryos and eggs. Once the aircraft reached a high altitude, the pilot made arcs in the air, creating short intervals of weightlessness that gave researchers on board a chance to study the possible effects of space-like microgravity on cells that are key to reproduction, according to Shawna Pandya, a Canadian space medicine... Read more ›
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