130 place 50
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is cutting back its commitment to ambitious moonshot projects.
Company executives have told staffers at the X unit, which converts promising investment projects into full-fledged subsidiaries, known as Other Bets, that no such conversions will happen this year, said a person familiar with the situation. At the same time, executives have told staffers that projects within X that might have turned into full subsidiaries should seek outside capital and depart from the A
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
"I think the license should be taken away from ABC," Trump told an ABC reporter. "Because your news is so fake, and it's so wrong." Read more āŗ
3,139 fresh
Cloudflare has confirmed that a bug in one of its core services caused a major outage on Tuesday, taking large portions of the internet offline. Read more āŗ
2,514 fresh
Android phone owners are finding their handsets are less desirable to thieves. Read more āŗ
1,781 fresh
Gemini For Home will soon bring an expanded array of AI features to your smart home setup. Here are a few of the highlights we find compelling about it. Read more āŗ
1,208 fresh
The Jim Henson Company is selling off almost 200 props and puppets from the show, which can't be good. Read more āŗ
1,149 fresh
From the popular "6-7" to "crashing out" and looking "chopped," these are 15 slang terms you might've heard your Gen Z coworkers using in 2025. Read more āŗ
1,104 fresh
The upcoming Samsung Galaxy A57 5G, a mid-range smartphone, has been spotted on China's 3C certification website, revealing details about its charging speed. As per the listing, the mid-range phone could offer faster charging speeds than the upcoming Galaxy S26 flagships. According to the 3C listing, the Galaxy A57 5G (SM-A5760) will support 45W fast charging. The listing reveals support for 10V/4.5A and 15V/3A wired charging. Meanwhile, the upcoming flagship... Read more āŗ
905 fresh
If you're experiencing internet issues this morning, you're far from alone. Infrastructure company Cloudflare has been hit with what it calls "widespread 500 errors, [with] Dashboard and API also failing." The company said that services are starting recover, but customers may continue to see "higher-than-normal errors rates" is it continues to work on the problem.Ā Cloudflare is a key internet hub, as it provides network and security products for internet... Read more āŗ
850
Klarna has claimed that AI-related savings have allowed the buy now, pay later company to increase staff salaries by nearly 60%, but hinted it could slash more jobs after nearly halving its workforce over the past three years. From a report: Chief executive Sebastian Siemiatkowski said headcount had dropped from 5,527 to 2,907 since 2022, mostly as a result of natural attrition, with departing staff replaced by technology rather than... Read more āŗ
753 fresh
Anticipation is rising for the potential release of the āEpstein files.āĀ The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to approve the release of Justice Department case files related to the accused sex trafficker Tuesday, something even President Donald Trump belatedly said he supports (after months of opposing it). But will the files corroborate any of the [ā¦] Read more āŗ
723 fresh
Elon Musk claims Tesla may need 100 ā 200 billion AI chips per year, a volume far beyond what TSMC and Samsung can supply, which is why he is considering building Tesla's own fab, as he believes existing foundries cannot scale fast enough for him. Read more āŗ
642
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered the oldest known figurine representing human-animal, uh, interactions. Read more āŗ
627 fresh
Writer and executive producer Henry Gilroy says that Sabine's 'Ahsoka' arc was something consideredāand dismissedāduring 'Rebels'. Read more āŗ
524 fresh
The Department of Education announced plans to move a portion of its work to other agencies. Shutting down the department still requires Congress. Read more āŗ
457 fresh
Dispatch developer AdHoc has no interest in using AI to replace voice actors or game development. Read more Read more āŗ
448 fresh
For months, the Social Security Administration was quietly sharing sensitive data about immigrants with DHS. Now itās official. Read more āŗ
446
The Information
Andy Rubin, creator of Android and a former Google executive, has launched a new startup focused on humanoid robots, said a person with direct knowledge of the venture. His venture is the latest addition to the red-hot and frothy humanoid space, crowded with companies ranging from Tesla to startups such as Figure AI. Rubinās startup, Genki Robotics, is based in Tokyo, where he is currently living, according to the person.... Read more āŗ
69
At Teslaās annual meeting earlier this month, shareholders showed little enthusiasm for a proposal that the electric vehicle maker invest in one of CEO Elon Muskās other companies, xAI. But Muskās revelation at the meeting that Tesla is considering building its own chip fabrication plant signaled another way his two companies could work together. Musk had already discussed plans for such a chip fab internally at Tesla months before the... Read more āŗ
49
Appleās succession plans for its next chief executive have accelerated, with its board and senior executives preparing for current CEO Tim Cook to step down potentially next year, according to the Financial Times. Any announcement of succession likely wonāt happen until after late January when ... Read more āŗ
39
Walt Disney Co. reported flat revenue and slightly lower operating income in the September quarter, as a sharpĀ slump atĀ most of its TV networks offset growth in its streaming business and theme parks operation. Disney stock was trading down 8% on Thursday. Disneyās entertainment ... Read more āŗ
31
OpenAI is trying to turn public opinion against The New York Times in their legal battle. As part of the Timesā copyright infringement lawsuit against the ChatGPT creator, the Times has asked for access to 20 million conversations between users and ChatGPT, a request OpenAI said Wednesday was ā ... Read more āŗ
30
Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:ā¢ The Big Read: Inside Grindrās boardroom feudĀ ā¢ Plus, our Recommendations: āHarry Potter and the Sorcererās Stone,ā āA Biography of a Mountainā and āMaterialistsāA bit of housekeeping: The Informationās Weekend section is looking for a reporter for a beat weāre calling ātech wealth and culture.ā This person will cover how Silicon Valleyās moguls live largeātheir pursuits, their pastimesāand how they spend their money. Hereās a... Read more āŗ
27
TeraWulf was limping along as a publicly traded bitcoin mining business until AI companies suddenly wanted access to its data centers. Now the cloud startup is at the center of one of the hottest meme-stock trades. Shares in TeraWulf and competing crypto miners have soared in recent months after they struck deals with tech companies desperate for data centers and energy resources to power their AI bets. Anthropic, maker of... Read more āŗ
23
Investors are rushing to back a new generation of research-focused AI startups. In just over a month, theyāve made or discussed $2.5 billion of investments into five of these startups, called neolabs, despite the high costs and risk of failure. The neolab startupsā founders say they hope to exploit new approaches to developing AI models and research they say major developers like OpenAI and Anthropic may have overlooked. Read more āŗ
12
Anthropic plans to invest $50 billion building its own data centers, the first time it has done so, in Texas and New York, the AI startup announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Anthropic said it would partner with London-based cloud startup Fluidstack on the data centers. Anthropic said that the ... Read more āŗ
12
Blockchain.com, a crypto brokerage and wallet provider, is planning to go public next year, the companyās newly named co-chief executive revealed, aiming to list after several volatile years. The company said it promoted its president Lane Kasselman to be co-CEO, alongside its founder and CEO Peter Smith, as part of its listing efforts. Kasselman isĀ a former Uber executive who has worked for the crypto firm for five years. The... Read more āŗ
9
Most popular sources
Tom's Hardware
|
19% 12 |
Business Insider
|
17% 5 |
TechRadar
|
12% 10 |
Android Authority
|
7% 8 |
Engadget
|
6% 1 |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
18.11.2025 17:19
Last update: 17:12 EDT.
News rating updated: 00:12.
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
![Cloudflare outage under investigation as Twitter, Downdetector go down ā company confirms Global Network issue [clone]](https://times42.com/media/3/5/7/11516357_640x200.jpg "Cloudflare outage under investigation as Twitter, Downdetector go down ā company confirms Global Network issue [clone]")
