Thoughts on the MacBook Neo, as Apple expands its superpremium tier via “Ultra” products; sources say Apple aims to use 3D-printed aluminum for Watch and iPhone
Apple has taken the wraps off its $599 MacBook Neo, entering new territory in a way that could shake up the computer market.
UK data center developer Nscale raised a $2B Series C led by Aker and 8090 Industries at a $14.6B valuation and adds Sheryl Sandberg and Nick Clegg to its board
Nscale, a UK developer for artificial intelligence data centers, has raised $2 billion in funding and added a trio …
A look at the OpenClaw craze in China: AI labs launch tools to help users set up OpenClaw, a Shenzhen district drafts policies to support AI agents, and more
Chinese software shares surged Monday after local government agencies joined tech leaders such as Tencent Holdings Ltd …
The US-led war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend $300B+ on AI investments, putting at risk a potential source of funding for tech companies
The war in Iran is complicating plans by Gulf nations to spend more than $300 billion on data centers, chips and other AI investments …
A study of ~1,500 US workers finds AI use can reduce burnout but also cause “AI brain fry”, a mental fatigue from using AI tools beyond one's cognitive capacity
On New Year's Day, programmer Steve Yegge launched Gas Town, an open-source platform that lets users orchestrate swarms …
Kalshi aims to broaden its user base via targeted marketing, enlisting female influencers and others; 26% of current users are women, up from 13% in May 2025
Kalshi wants to get more young women interested in the prediction-market platform, looking to expand beyond sports and its core male customer base.
Kalshi partners with XP, Brazil's largest brokerage firm with 4.8M active clients in December 2025, to list event contracts, its first international expansion
Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. is expanding outside the US for the first time, partnering with Brazil's XP Inc. to list event contracts.
A Lloyds-commissioned study of 5,000 people in the UK finds that 50%+ of the adults used generative AI platforms for financial advice; ChatGPT was the most used
Millions of people are already turning to chatbots such as ChatGPT to plan their retirement — When Dan, a 41-year-old …
South Korean giant Coupang is lobbying the US to represent its interests as it faces 10+ data leak probes; Coupang Korea CEO Harold Rogers attended Trump's SOTU
Coupang leans on its US domicile to lobby Washington against probes from Seoul — Coupang, the online retailer, once called itself a “proud Korean company”.
Advice to developers: make software that agents want, with API-first design, as AI agents, instead of humans, will become the primary users of future software
Building for trillions of agents — Over the past few months, something big has started to happen with agents.
How some candidates for the US midterms are using social media posts and niche buzzwords on their websites to signal for support from crypto and AI super PACs
The A.I. and crypto industries entered this year with nearly $250 million combined to spend on politics, and a battle plan to shape the regulatory landscape in their favor.
A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia
Sources: Chinese AI circuit board maker Victory Giant plans a Hong Kong IPO as soon as April that may raise $2B+; Chinese regulators approved the IPO last week
Victory Giant Technology (Huizhou) Co., a Chinese maker of printed circuit boards, is preparing for a Hong Kong listing …
Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks
Ask about this article... Like Google's Nano Banana Pro and GPT Image 1.5, Uni-1 is built on an autoregressive transformer …
How Circle, Stripe, Coinbase, and others are building stablecoin-based agentic payments infrastructure that makes microtransactions between AI agents economical
ZyG, whose software coordinates AI agents across SEO, marketing, and more for DTC brands, raised a $58M seed co-led by Bessemer, Viola Ventures, and Lightspeed
A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can facilitate academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv
- Elizabeth Gibney — Search author on: — PubMed Google Scholar — All major large language models (LLMs) …
A profile of Emil Michael, who made his name as an aggressive dealmaker for Uber, as he takes a leading role in the Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic
Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. …
Samsung's consumer device chief TM Roh says it is “open to strategic co-operation” with more AI groups, having recently added Perplexity to its mobile OS
Korean giant's device chief says its future Galaxy devices will host multiple models as users mix and match AI tools
German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022
Guild.ai, which helps companies develop, deploy, and observe AI agents, raised a $14M seed and $30M Series A, both led by GV, and is now valued at $300M
Lawsuit documents: two DOGE employees used ChatGPT to identify National Endowment for the Humanities grants, worth $100M+, to be cut for being related to DEI
Documents show how A.I. was used to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities as the agency embraced President Trump's agenda.
Sources: Palmer Luckey's ModRetro, which wants to sell updated versions of 1990s consoles like the Nintendo 64, is in talks to raise funding at a $1B valuation
Caitlin Kalinowski, who led OpenAI's robotics team, resigns over concerns about domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after OpenAI's US DOD contract
Caitlin Kalinowski, who had been leading hardware and robotic engineering teams at OpenAI since November 2024, announced she has left the company.
As cheap, powerful GPS jammers proliferate, a look at some alternatives to GPS, including using supersensitive, quantum-based magnetic sensors
The US and Israel are using AI to wage war on Iran with unprecedented speed and precision in attacks, even as the cost of ill-informed decisions remains high
a trend linked with the phrase ‘The computer said to do this.’” [embedded post]
Iran targeting commercial datacenters in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare and raises doubts over the Gulf as a global AI hub
Why Kuwait, UAE, and Saudi Arabia Are Now a No-Go for TravelersAssociated Press:Mideast's water supply at risk as Bahrain and Iran say their desalination plants were attacked amid expanding warRenju J...
Leading the Future, a pro-AI PAC backed by Palantir-cofounder Joe Lonsdale, hit pro-regulation Democrat Alex Bores with attack ads over Bores' work for Palantir
and building a strategy that other politicians will have to contend with. https://www.politico.com/...Katie Fossett /@katelynfossett:“Leading the Future's goal is not actually to kill Alex's race. The...
A profile of Nscale founder Josh Payne, a former coal miner in Australia who moved to London and started the data center developer in 2024 amid the AI boom
After leaving high school in an industrial area of Australia, Josh Payne took an unlikely path to becoming the head …