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Why is this outdoor kitchen? | Image: Sonos An unannounced Sonos speaker called Play has been spotted on the Canadian Best Buy site. The Sonos Play looks like a slightly shrunk-down version of the Move 2 with a loop on the back for toting it around. While nothing is confirmed yet, it's listed at CAD $399.99 with a release date of March 31st, 2026. In addition to Wi-Fi for multi-room Sonos setups w... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program on Friday morning, including an increased cadence of missions and cancellation of an expensive rocket stage. The upheaval comes as NASA has struggled to fuel the massive Space Launch System rocket for the upcoming Artemis II lunar mission, and Isaacman has sought to revitalize an agency that has moved at a glacial... View Source

Anthropic may have lost out on doing business with the US government, but it's gained enough popularity to earn the number one spot on the App Store's Top Free Apps leaderboard. At the top, Claude beat out both ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which respectively sit at the second and third spots on Apple's free apps charts. The sudden surge in user downloads isn't random. It follows... View Source

In a statement on X, Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour said his company would pay out positions on "Ali Khamenei out as Supreme Leader?" at the last trading price before his death. Mansour said that Kalshi doesn't "list markets directly tied to death" and that its rules are designed to "prevent people from profiting from death." In addition, Kalshi is refunding fees related to the market and reimbursing an... View Source

Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket will return to flight today (March 1) after a 10-month-long grounding, and you can watch the action live... View Source

In a lengthy post on Truth Social on February 27, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to "immediately cease all use of Anthropic's technology" following strong disagreements between the Department of Defense and the AI company. A few hours later, the US conducted a major air attack on Iran with the help of Anthropic's AI tools, according to a report from The Wall Stree... View Source

When Block Inc. laid off nearly half its staff this week, co-founder Jack Dorsey offered a seemingly simple explanation: artificial intelligence was allowing the company to do more with fewer employees... View Source

Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C... View Source

Lego's new Smart Brick is a pretty big deal. It packs a miniature computer, a microphone, and NFC tech into a classic 2×4 Lego brick, which can power all sorts of new experiences with select sets. It has so much promise that we awarded it "best in show" at CES 2026, and now, eight Star Wars-themed sets that support the Smart Brick (and include it, in some cases) are now available. Three of t... View Source

Leon Kennedy, one of the game’s protagonists. Resident Evil turns 30 this year. The series is full of history - the new Resident Evil Requiem is technically the ninth mainline game, but there are a bunch of spinoffs, remakes, movies, and even a TV show - which can make it fun to follow for fans. But it's also intimidating for people like me who haven't played everything. The latest release, Reside... View Source

With Big Tech no longer leading stocks higher, traders are eyeing newly listed contracts to trade short-term opportunities in some of the biggest names... View Source

Hunt for the names of the many moons surrounding our solar system's eight planets... View Source

We finally have an update to the Soundcore Space One that launched two and a half years ago. At MWC 2026, Soundcore has announced the Space 2, which will be available in the US on April 21st in three colors - linen white, jet black, and seafoam green - for $129.99. That's $30 more than the Space One's original price. According to Soundcore, the Space 2 have had a full-band noise cancellation upgra... View Source

Honor Device Co. demonstrated a humanoid robot and its so-called robot phone at MWC Barcelona 2026 on Sunday, as the Chinese device maker seeks to reinvent itself as an artificial intelligence-driven hardware company... View Source

While Honor has already made plenty of product announcements, with tablets, foldables, and more, its most interesting device at MWC 2026 is the Robot Phone — and maybe the humanoid robot that came alongside it.   After briefly showing off a model at CES, Honor isn't quite ready to launch its Robot Phone. However, we got more specs, tech demos and a closer look following the company... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the contemporary attention economy, follow Mia Sato. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started "KING BASEBALL, monarch of the American sport world, is sick," a New York Times story on the disappearance of amateur and small town... View Source

Oil and cryptocurrencies could see increased trading volatility after the death of Iran’s supreme leader. 'Bloomberg This Weekend' hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini speak with Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Mike McGlone. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

I saw the camera arm unfold from this demo phone, though it didn’t do much else. Honor has revealed more details of its so-called Robot Phone at MWC 2026, and finally showed a working unit in action alongside a dancing humanoid robot. Specs are still thin on the ground, but the company has confirmed it plans to release the phone in the second half of this year - though I've been told that will onl... View Source

Goldman Sachs’s former CEO Lloyd Blankfein sits down with David Gura, host of The Big Take Podcast and Bloomberg This Weekend, to talk about the risks of private credit, what he learned running the bank during the global financial crisis, and how he thinks companies – and executives – should and shouldn’t engage with politics. Subscribe to the Big Take podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or iHeart... View Source

Apple’s satellite features are designed for situations where cellular and Wi-Fi coverage are unavailable. In supported regions, compatible iPhone 14 or later models can connect directly to a satellite to send messages, access Emergency SOS and share location data. Location sharing via satellite is particularly useful when traveling in remote areas, hiking or driving through regions with limited ne... View Source

A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon blood red for billions across North America, Australia and East Asia... View Source

There's never been a better time to add facial recognition to everything! The public at large is gradually becoming numb to our Palantirized surveillance state, and American communities are responding to the militarization of federal law enforcement with their own increasingly intricate webs of sousveillance. The Ray-Ban Meta glasses are sleek, unobtrusive wearables with front-facing cameras and a... View Source

Apple’s upcoming touch-screen MacBook Pro will show the company is still far from combining the Mac and iPad. Also: Apple is preparing its retail stores for significant interest in this coming week’s new products, and it’s readying a new artificial intelligence framework for developers... View Source

Honor launched the Magic V5 in August 2025 and yet its successor is being announced just seven months later. Speak to Honor’s representatives, and you can imply that it’s racing to push the envelope against both its real competition (Samsung) and its anticipated one (Apple). With so little time between launches, you’ll be unsurprised to learn that little has changed. The only other real reason thi... View Source

As AI invades everyday life, we’ve gone back and revisited the best video games with memorable AI characters, evil or otherwise... View Source

The Magic V6 is just slightly more water-resistant than the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. For the third year running, Honor has announced what it says is the world's thinnest book-style folding phone. For the second year, it's combined that with the biggest battery in any foldable too. This year, for its third and final trick, the company went ahead and made sure it was the first foldable with an IP69 rating... View Source

BYD Co. reported a 41% drop in vehicle sales for February from a year earlier, after a record-long Lunar New Year holiday brought production and retail activity in China to a near standstill for much of the month... View Source

It'll be the last blood moon until New Year's Eve 2028... View Source

Nvidia Corp., the world’s most valuable company, is throwing its weight behind an effort to make sure the forthcoming 6G phone networks provide a strong platform for services and devices that take advantage of artificial intelligence... View Source

A Tokyo Electric Power Co. unit told renewable-energy producers to curtail output for five hours on Sunday, with electricity supply projected to surpass demand... View Source

Grok says the 1400+ nextbigfuture citations in grokipedia and Brian Wang’s evidence based quantitative forecast are trend synthesis that few can rival. A personal track record of success in deep-tech startups and multiple fundraising wins adds practical, real-world validation to the predictions and roadmaps detailed on the site, bridging theoretical futurism with executable outcomes. For ... View Source

South Korea’s exports accelerated in February, reinforcing the central bank’s view that solid semiconductor demand is helping cushion the economy as it maintains a neutral policy stance while monitoring financial stability risks... View Source

China kicks off its most important annual political meeting next week, with investors seeking clarity on how Beijing intends to press ahead with its tech ambitions while reviving a fragile consumer economy... View Source

Who would've guessed we'd get to play the original Banjo-Kazooie on a handheld with just a D-pad in 2026. HyperMegaTech!'s latest release is a collaboration with Rare Ltd., the legendary game developer known for the Banjo-Kazooie franchise and, more recently, Sea of Thieves, called the Super Pocket Rare Edition. The vertical handheld features 14 classics from the British developer,... View Source

It might be World War III, but at least I won $20. | Image: Polymarket / The Verge Polymarket has been allowing people to bet on when the US would strike Iran next. Obviously, now that it's actually happened and people have died, the prediction betting market is feeling some pressure. The site has been at the center of controversy before, including suspicions of insider trading on the Super Bowl h... View Source

That’s coming on a little strong, maybe. | Image: Vera C. Rubin Observatory The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's automated alert system is online and already bombarding astronomers with things to look at in the night sky. The system went live publicly on Tuesday, February 24th, and on the first night dropped some 800,000 alerts about asteroids, supernovas, and feasting black holes. And that number is o... View Source

Alaska's House of Representatives unanimously passed HB47, a bill that imposes sweeping limits on when and how minors use social media apps, along with bans on generating or distributing harmful deepfakes of children. The bill's original form was focused on prohibiting the possession and distribution of sexually explicit images of children using AI, but Alaska lawmakers decided to add am... View Source

The Binkov’s Battlegrounds video (uploaded before the attack started) provides one of the clearest, equipment-focused baselines for the current escalation. Details the largest US combat aircraft/tanker/AWACS concentration around Iran since 2003. Two carrier air wings (over 100 tactical aircraft, F-35 heavy on Abraham Lincoln south of Iran + Ford en route), 100+ US fighters at ... Read more... View Source

Bloodborne fans may not be happy to hear that a remake was reportedly rejected, but that doesn't mean it's completely off the table. Bluepoint Games, Sony's closed-down studio behind many PlayStation remakes, pitched remaking the classic Gothic horror RPG in early 2025, but was blocked by the game's developer, FromSoftware, according to a Bloomberg report. As Bloomberg reported... View Source

MWC 2026 officially gets underway on March 2 and will continue through March 5, but the announcements are already coming ahead of its start. We can always count on the annual tech event to bring tons of new phones, laptops and tablets, and we're expecting to see some robots and other gadgets too — plus plenty of AI news, of course. In addition to the announcements, MWC is our chance to get ha... View Source

There is the wrong assumption of the accuracy of crowd robotaxi counts BUT only 139 out of 200 Waymos counted in Austin with same methods. At least 30% undercounted. Harder to find robotaxi (Waymo-Tesla) in the SF Bay Area. 67 Waymos counted in SF Bay Area out of 1000 Waymo claimed. I believe the main ... Read more... View Source

Welcome to the weekend, friends! While the rest of our team was checking out Samsung’s forthcoming Galaxy S26 lineup and prepping for Apple’s “special experience” next week, we’ve been sifting through Woot’s “Video Games for All” sale and a truly weird slate of deals that, frankly, don’t have a throughline. (Some of us have also spent the last week unpacking what Huel is, but that’s neither here n... View Source

IBM losing 13% because Anthropic did some initial COBOL analysis is absurd. It was also an absurd part of the $1 trillion stock losses from the boogeyman story about AI job losses. 1. IBM only makes a tiny fraction from the COBOL business 2. BS the banks etc… will change the cobol running the ATMs ... Read more... View Source

The Xiaomi Tag is a bit larger than Apple’s second-gen AirTags. | Image: Xiaomi Xiaomi has announced its first Bluetooth tracker, and while the Xiaomi Tag has a more elongated design than the Apple AirTag, that lets you use it in more places right out of the box. On one end of the tracker you'll find an integrated metal loop that can be attached to a keyring or clipped to a carabiner without the n... View Source

The Leitzphone has just launched internationally alongside a regular version of the 17 Ultra. Xiaomi and Leica's long-running phone partnership just got a little closer. Alongside the new international release of its 17 Ultra flagship, Xiaomi has been entrusted with manufacturing a separate version that is the first Leica Leitzphone to release outside of Japan, following three Sharp-made models ex... View Source

China’s biggest phone makers continue to relentlessly forge ahead with high-spec phones that you may never see in the US. With the Xiaomi 17 Ultra this year, the company has continued its pattern from previous iterations by focusing on powerful camera sensors, huge batteries and… being selective about global availability. Xiaomi’s 17 series is launching across multiple European territories months... View Source

NASA has severe penalties for those who dare to deal in astromaterials... View Source

The Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra are launching together, but there’s no sign of the Pro. Xiaomi has just given a global launch to two of its latest flagship phones, the Xiaomi 17 and 17 Ultra, along with a Leica-branded Leitzphone edition of the Ultra. There's no sign, however, of the 17 Pro, which launched in China with an additional display mounted next to the rear cameras. The 17 and 17 Ultra will ap... View Source

Crypto traders flocked to decentralized exchange Hyperliquid over the weekend as the escalating conflict between the US, Israel and Iran rattled global sentiment and sent some investors seeking round-the-clock hedges... View Source

On Episode 199 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Dr. Pascal Lee, who has thoughts on how and when robots may perform better —and more safely —than humans in space... View Source

I never knew how easy it was to die in an orgy. But that's just one of the many threats facing Geralt of Rivia in his latest adventure. The studio behind the Reigns series of Tinder-like choose-your-own-adventure games has now adapted The Witcher, following a handful of original titles and a take on Game of Thrones. And for Francois Alliot, creative director at Reigns studio Nerial, the series' st... View Source

Alongside a global launch for Xiaomi's 17 Ultra (read about that right here), the company announced a further deepening of its relationship with Leica. The CEO of Leica, Mattias Harsch, took to the stage to announce a new Leitzphone, which appears to be an even deeper collaboration than 17 Ultra by Leica, which is a different phone. Confused? That's fair.  Design-wise, Leica has shi... View Source

"I am programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring."... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 117, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, please send Android tips, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Eileen Gu and Ozempic and fancy grocery stores, trying out the beautiful Shiori bookmarking app, trying to temper my expectations for the... View Source

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. It's Steam Next Fest week, with literally thousands of demos for upcoming games for us to dive into. I'm trying to check out as many as I can before the event wraps up on Monday. However, I made a near-critical error in my planning: I opted to try the Raccoin demo first. I could and would have happily played t... View Source

A rare atmospheric effect called selenelion could briefly let skywatchers see the rising sun and a blood moon at the same time... View Source

NASA's Artemis 3 mission will no longer land astronauts on the moon —and it might not involve SpaceX's Starship megarocket, either... View Source

The prime minister stabilized Italy. In her second act, she wants growth — and a global reality check on AI... View Source

The CGO Compact electric bike twists and folds to create a wall-hugging profile. Good electric bikes are expensive. So why not buy one and share it? That's the idea behind the Tenways CGO Compact e-bike I've been sharing with my wife and teenage daughter for the last two weeks. It adapts in seconds without any tools to comfortably fit riders of varying heights thanks to its low-entry frame, quick-... View Source

OpenAI has raised $110 billion in a deal that values the startup at $730 billion, representing the ChatGPT maker’s largest funding round to date and bolstering its costly push to secure more computing power and talent for AI development... View Source

Malaysia’s largest pension fund declared a 6.15% dividend for both its conventional and Shariah savings accounts for 2025, a year where unpredictable trade policies whipsawed markets... View Source

OpenAI has reached an agreement with the Defense Department to deploy its models in the agency’s network, company chief Sam Altman has revealed on X. In his post, he said two of OpenAI’s most important safety principles are “prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems.” Altman claimed the company put those princi... View Source

President Donald Trump’s social media company pressed into nuclear energy, finance and cryptocurrencies. Now, its flagship Truth Social platform may break away... View Source

OpenAI has agreed to deploy its own artificial intelligence models within the Defense Department’s classified network after rival Anthropic PBC saw its relationship with the Pentagon implode over surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns... View Source

Financial firms ended February where they spent much of the month: enduring another dizzying blow from the threat of artificial intelligence and grappling with signs those cockroaches Jamie Dimon warned about in the world of private credit are starting to scurry... View Source

A Bolivian military aircraft transporting cash for the central bank crashed near El Alto International Airport in the western part of the country, leaving more than 10 people dead and an unspecified number injured... View Source

OpenAI said it has reached an agreement with the US Department of War to deploy its models in their classified network... View Source

America’s journey back to the moon has run into a few missteps. NASA administrator Jared Isaacman is banking on a new approach... View Source

Anthropic PBC started this year on a winning streak, with surging sales, multiple viral products and a large funding round all giving the startup a big advantage in the costly global AI race... View Source

"Bloomberg Real Yield" highlights the market-moving news you need to know. Today's guests: Société Générale Americas Head of Research Subadra Rajappa, JPMorgan Asset Management Fixed Income Portfolio Manager Kelsey Berro, and Barclays Global Head of Debt Capital Markets Meghan Graper. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Defense Department and Anthropic continue to battle over safeguards around the use of Anthropic’s AI technology by the US military. Sarah Kreps, director of the Tech Policy Institute at Cornell University, discusses what’s driving the divide and why she thinks the two sides will reach a deal. Kreps joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block announced it was cutting nearly half of its workforce as it bets big on AI. But skeptics say investments in technology may not be the only reason for the layoffs. J.P. Gownder, vice president and principal analyst on the Future of Work team at Forrester Research, joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Vir Biotechnology Vir is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on powering the immune system to transform lives by discovering and developing medicines for serious infectious diseases and cancer. The company on Monday announced new data from the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of VIR-5500, a prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeting, PRO-XTEN dual-masked T-cell engager (TCE)... View Source

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a member of the UN advisory body on AI, says she doesn’t believe Anthropic is going anywhere, noting that much can change in the next six months. She speaks with Romaine Bostick and Bailey Lipschultz on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As a leader, your intuitions are one of your greatest assets. You have a very particular set of intuitions, intuitions you have acquired over a very long career. However in the age of AI, those same intuitions may be leading you slightly off course and you won’t notice until you’ve fallen behind. Not because you’re ... Read more... View Source

Simon Gallagher, Managing Director at SPG Global, says Netflix’s outlook remains strong even without Warner Bros. Discovery content. He speaks with Romaine Bostick and Bailey Lipschultz on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

US President Donald Trump (R) looks on as US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth speaks to the press following US military actions in Venezuela | AFP via Getty Images Nearly two hours after President Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he was banning Anthropic products from the federal government, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth took it one step further and announced that he was now design... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde discusses OpenAI’s $110 billion fundraise at a $730 billion valuation with key backing from Amazon. Plus, the feud between Anthropic and the Pentagon over AI use by the military continues. And Jack Dorsey’s Block says it's cutting half its workforce in a bet on AI. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Federal Communications Commission has given the go ahead for two of the US' biggest cable providers, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, to merge. Charter announced its intention to acquire Cox for $34.5 billion in May 2025, with specific plans to inherit Cox's managed IT, commercial fiber and cloud businesses, while folding the company's residential cable service int... View Source

Two Falcon 9 launches from Florida and one from California deployed 83 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, wrapping up February 2026 for the SpaceX network... View Source

NASA announced at a press conference on Friday that it's delaying its plans for a Moon landing until Artemis IV in 2028. The Artemis III mission, scheduled for 2027, was originally going to attempt to land on the Moon but will now be a test flight instead. NASA also says it's "increasing its cadence of missions," including adding a second test flight in 2027 and aiming for "at least one surface la... View Source

Denmark’s intelligence services warned that foreign powers may seek to interfere in the country’s March 24 general election, singling out Russia as the primary threat but also flagging the US and China as potential sources of influence... View Source

Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery are officially merging. The studio paid Netflix the $2.8 billion termination fee it was owed for breaking its original deal to buy Warner Bros. earlier today, and the historic film studio has now formally accepted Paramount’s offer.Along with the deal, which values Warner Bros. Discovery at $31 per share, Paramount is making several commitments to assu... View Source

President Donald Trump directed US government agencies to stop using Anthropic PBC’s products, since the company and Pentagon can't agree on what the AI guardrails should be. Alondra Nelson, a member of the UN advisory board on AI and a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, discusses this on Bloomberg the Close. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

President Donald Trump has ordered all US government agencies to stop using Claude and other Anthropic services, escalating an already volatile feud between the Department of Defense and company over AI safeguards. Taking to Truth Social on Friday afternoon, the president said there would be a six-month phase out period for federal agencies, including the Defense Department, to migrate off of Anth... View Source

A new analysis of Apollo moon samples reveals insight into the history of the lunar magnetic field... View Source

On Friday afternoon, Donald Trump posted on Truth Social, accusing Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, of attempting to "STRONG-ARM" the Pentagon and directing federal agencies to "IMMEDIATELY CEASE" use of its products. At issue is Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's refusal of an updated agreement with the US military agreeing to "any lawful use" of Anthropic's technology, as Defense Secretary Pet... View Source

On "Bloomberg Real Yield" Meghan Graper, the global of head of debt capital markets at Barclays, and Maureen O'Connor, the global head of high-grade debt syndicate at Wells Fargo, join Matt Miller and Emily Graffeo. They discuss credit concerns, issuance, and the debt spending related to AI. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance's merger agreement is now official. On Friday, the two companies announced plans to merge into a massive media company that will fold WBD's studio, linear channels, streaming service, and gaming segment into Paramount. Though WBD initially signed onto an $83 billion agreement to merge part of Warner Bros. with Netflix, Paramount persisted with a hostil... View Source

SpaceX is targeting filing confidentially for an initial public offering as soon as next month, according to people familiar with the matter. Bailey Lipschultz has more on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

See how the space race evolved from the other side in this new sci-fi series coming in May... View Source

Blackstone Inc. is launching a publicly traded acquisition company that will snap up data centers, giving millions of mom-and-pop investors a chance to bet on the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus is on sale for $29.99, which is $5 shy of its best price. | Image: Amazon When Amazon first showed off its redesigned Fire TV OS at CES, we were impressed. It’s faster, better organized, and feels similar to Google’s top-notch TV interface. The update is now finally rolling out to the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Plus, making it an even better buy now that it’s on sale fo... View Source

The inside story of why PlayStation closed its beloved subsidiary... View Source

After suggesting a version of AMD's FSR 4 could be ported to the PS5 Pro last year, it looks like Sony is finally rolling out an update with the upscaling tech in March. Mark Cerny, the lead architect of the PS4, PS5 and PS5 Pro, shared via a blog post that the PS5 Pro will be updated with a new version of the company's PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) upscaling tech next mon... View Source

The U.S. military is developing a new experimental aircraft known as the X-68A and looks a lot like a cruise missile that is also capable of launching its own missiles... View Source

FedEx plans to pass along any refunds resulting from the Supreme Court's ruling that some of President Donald Trump's tariffs are "illegal." In a statement on its website, FedEx notes that while "no refund process has been established by the courts," the company will reimburse shippers and consumers impacted by tariffs if it gets its money back. The delivery giant issued the statement after filing... View Source

New research from IDC forecasts that the global smartphone market will shrink 13% due to the crunch in memory chip supplies. Nabila Popal, senior research director at IDC, joins Caroline Hyde on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Hundreds of employees at Google and OpenAI have signed an open letter urging their companies to stand with Anthropic in its standoff with the Pentagon over military applications for AI tools like Claude. The letter, titled “We Will Not Be Divided,” calls on the leadership of both companies to “put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War’s current dema... View Source

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as reported by ABC, less than a year after Madhu Gottumukkala took charge of the agency as deputy director and acting director in May 2025. CISA's executive assistant director for cybersecurity, Nick Andersen, will become the agency's new acting di... View Source

Bloomberg's Bailey Lipschultz joins Matt Miller and Emily Graffeo on "Bloomberg Real Yield" to discuss CoreWeave, which is looking to raise about $8.5 billion to help finance a buildout of cloud computing capacity for Meta. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Let's say Godzilla exists and walks among us like in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Could humans actually stop him, or even survive? We spoke to the experts to find out... View Source

The HTC U24 Pro may not be gold, but its design is otherwise awfully similar to the Trump phone’s. | Image: HTC Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts, and have stopped getting a response. This week, thanks to a reader tip, we think we've found the original phone the T1 is based on. A long ti... View Source

Get a jump start on the US trading day with Matt Miller and Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Open Interest." OpenAI shatters fundraising records. The ChatGPT maker closes a staggering $110 billion round, backed by Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia.  Jack Dorsey swings the ax at Block. And MFS’s blowup sends fresh tremors through the financial sector as new cracks emerge in private credit. Monroe Capital Chair... View Source

NASA/Michael Rushing Light shines onto a solar concentrator being tested in this Aug. 7, 2025, photo. The concentrator is part of the Carbothermal Reduction Demonstration (CaRD) project, which aims to produce oxygen from simulated lunar regolith for use at the Moon’s south pole. For this test, the team integrated the solar concentrator, mirrors, and software and confirmed the production of carbon... View Source

Executive Summary Takeaways • Tesla’s Dec 2025 CPUC filing showed 798 drivers + 1,655 vehicles registered for supervised robotaxi in the Bay Area—massively larger than the ~330+ spotted by community trackers. • Trackers capture only ~70% of fleets (Waymo Austin benchmark is 144 counted versus ~200 claimed). No one doubts Waymo when they say have ... Read more... View Source

NASA is changing its plans to return astronauts to the moon, and redrawing the architecture for how the Artemis missions will look moving forward... View Source

On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, and by association, the world's largest maker of cameras. It's still the second largest after Apple. Samsung handed me the microphone first. I asked: We see a divide in society between people who want AI to do impressive things with their... View Source

Dave Lee of Bloomberg Opinion says Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is in a "lose-lose" situation and faces a real problem when it comes to a battle with the Pentagon over how to use AI products. He speaks on Bloomberg Open Interest. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Plans to return humans to the moon will come in later mission as agency grapples with delays and glitches Nasa announced on Friday radical changes to its delayed Artemis III mission to land humans back on the moon, as the US space agency grapples with technical glitches and criticism that it is trying to do too much too soon.The abrupt shift in strategy was laid out by the space agency’s recently... View Source

It's time to say goodbye to the Paldea region because a new generation of mainline Pokémon games are on the way. During today's big Pokémon Presents stream, Nintendo announced that Pokémon Winds and Waves are the next installments in the core game series. The games will launch in 2027 and are exclusive for the Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo also shared a trailer showcasing a new... View Source

Leverage sells... View Source

OpenAI just announced a massive funding round of $110 billion, which is one of the biggest investment rounds in Silicon Valley history. The investors feature many of the usual suspects, including Amazon with $50 billion, NVIDIA with $30 billion and SoftBank with $30 billion. This investment brings OpenAI to a $730 billion valuation "We’re super excited about this deal," OpenAI CEO Sam Al... View Source

One of 2026's must-have Lego Star Wars sets — the excellent mid-sized AT-AT model... View Source

There’s a sale happening at Woot that’s delivering Black Friday-esque deals on video games through March 5th. The “Video Games for All” sale includes discounts on physical games for most modern consoles, making it a great time to treat yourself (or a pal) to some titles that you’ve been waiting to see big price drops for. There are also deals on gaming accessories like totes, controllers, and more... View Source

The Pentagon is poised to take unprecedented steps in its standoff with Anthropic PBC that risk touching off a massive legal fight with the $380 billion company and threaten to undermine Pentagon efforts to further adopt artificial intelligence... View Source

With the likes of The Last of Us and Fallout out of the way for a bit, Amazon has seized its opportunity to put the spotlight on the next big video game adaptation, its currently-in-production God of War show. Today we got our first look at Ryan Hurst and Callum Vinson as Kratos and Atreus. The image released by Amazon shows the eponymous God of War standing next to a tree as he watches... View Source

NASA has changed Artemis III into a 2027 LEO (low earth orbit) rendezvous mission. There is no orbital refueling is needed at all by SpaceX. Block 1B – the planned upgrade to the SLS rocket – is dead. No more custom builds. No second mobile launcher. NASA is standardizing the rocket so they can launch ... Read more... View Source

After this 'blood moon,' our natural satellite will not fully disappear into Earth's shadow again for nearly three years — until a rare trifecta of total lunar eclipses in 2028–29 ends the drought... View Source

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (C) speaks during a meeting of the Cabinet as U.S. President Donald Trump (L) and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (R) listen in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 29, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump is holding the meeting as the Senate plans to hold a vote on a spending package to avoid another government sh... View Source

The disruptive potential of AI has rattled markets for weeks in what traders are calling the "AI scare trade." Among the companies hit hardest were trucking and logistics stocks, which tanked after Algorhythm, a former karaoke company, said that its AI logistics platform is helping to make trucking more efficient. Gary Atkinson, the CEO of Algorhythm, joined Bloomberg Open Interest to talk about t... View Source

NASA is making major changes to its Artemis Moon program. On Friday, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency would carry out an additional flight in 2027 to test commercial lunar landers from SpaceX and/or Blue Origin. The new mission will take the place of Artemis 3, which previously would have seen NASA attempt to land on the Moon for the first time since 1972. The flight will al... View Source

5 Min Read NASA’s Home for Experimental Flight Advances Aeronautics Mission NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s ER-2 aircraft taxis at Edwards, California, on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025, ahead of a high-altitude mission supporting the Geological Earth Mapping Experiment (GEMx), which requires flights of up to eight hours at approximately 65,000 feet altitude. Credits: NASA/Christopher LC Clark Ne... View Source

In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultra, which looks like an extremely cool bit of tech and a really useful new feature - and a lot of iterative year-over-year changes. The new camera features, on the other hand, are neither of those things. They're something worse. Something s... View Source

Anthropic PBC got a vote of support from Silicon Valley workers for its increasingly contentious public-relations battle with the Pentagon over how the military can use artificial intelligence... View Source

This week, we're diving into the big changes at Xbox and what it all means for Microsoft's gaming future. Phil Spencer, the longtime face of Xbox, announced he's retiring last week. He'll be replaced by Microsoft's former CoreAI CEO Asha Sharma, instead of his longtime deputy Sarah Bond, who plans to leave the company. Will this change actually help the beleaguered Xbox di... View Source

With a small form factor and a seriously low price, the Herhoter Galaxy star projector is a great buy for anyone wanting nebula projections on a budget... View Source

It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fully autonomous lethal weapons, or potentially be designated a "supply chain risk" and potentially lose hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts. Amid the intensifying public statements and threats, tech workers across the industry are l... View Source

NASA is shaking up its Artemis mission to the moon, cancelling a huge Boeing upgrade and moving up an Artemis III launch. This is NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman speaking to reporters. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Pokémon celebrates its 30th anniversary today, and as you’d expect, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company are cranking up the nostalgia in every possible way. In addition to re-releasing the Game Boy Advance remakes of Pokémon Red and Blue on Nintendo Switch Online, they’re also selling us a Game Boy-shaped portable Pokémon jukebox. Officially titled the Pokémon Game Music Collection, the little music... View Source

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying the agency’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft, arrives Feb. 25, 2026, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to troubleshoot the flow of helium to the rocket’s upper stage, the interim cryogenic propulsion stage. Once complete, the SLS rocket will roll back to Launch Complex 39... View Source

NASA brought its mega moon rocket back into the shop for repairs on Feb. 25, 2026, just as the sun was setting over the Florida Space Coast... View Source

The US-Mexico border in Fort Hancock, Texas. | Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images The US military mistakenly shot down a drone belonging to Customs and Border Protection near the Mexican border in Fort Hancock, Texas, according to reports from Reuters and The New York Times. The Thursday incident reportedly led the Federal Aviation Administration to close the airspace where the... View Source

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced sweeping changes to the Artemis program on Friday morning, including an increased cadence of missions and cancellation of an expensive rocket stage. The upheaval comes as NASA has struggled to fuel the massive Space Launch System rocket for the upcoming Artemis II lunar mission, and Isaacman has sought to revitalize an agency that has moved at a glacial... View Source

Okapi Partners CEO Bruce Goldfarb reacts to Netflix dropping out of the fight to buy Warner Bros. Discovery and Elliott Investment Management building a stake of more than 10% in Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Goldfarb also discusses the outlook for proxy season and the current regulatory environment. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Pokémon leakers were right: the Gen 10 games are called Pokémon Wind and Pokémon Waves. The Pokémon Company confirmed the titles during a 30th anniversary stream on Pokémon Day. The games are set to hit Nintendo Switch 2 in 2027. (A Game Freak leak last October suggested Wind and Waves would be out this year with DLC to follow in 2027.)According to the Pokémon account on X, in Wind and Waves,... View Source

Amazon has slowly been teasing out casting details for its live-action adaptation of God of War, and now we have our first look at the show. It's a single image but a notable one showing protagonist Kratos and his son Atreus. The characters are played by Ryan Hurst and Callum Vinson, respectively, and they look relatively close to their video game counterparts. There aren't a lot of other details... View Source

Anthropic has rejected the Pentagon’s latest offer in a dispute over safeguards around the use of its AI technology by the US military. The company continues to insist on two specific restrictions: It doesn’t want its technology used for surveillance of US citizens or for autonomous lethal strikes without a human in the loop. Bloomberg Opinion's Parmy Olson breaks down the situation. Her opinions... View Source

Samsung’s Unpacked event midweek revealed three new phones and two sets of earbuds, but the real standout, as usual, is the Galaxy S26 Ultra. This year, the Ultra actually features a bit of genuine tech innovation — and no, we don’t mean it folds. Let’s talk about its new Privacy Display. This isn't a shimmery, holographic screen protector that’s hard to read and constantly peels off at the c... View Source

Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at same time in curved line across skySix planets are set to parade across the sky this weekend in a rare celestial spectacle, experts have said.For the next few days, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mercury, Neptune and Uranus will all be visible at the same time in the night sky – although binoculars or a telescope will be needed to... View Source

OpenAI has closed another round of funding, totalling $110 billion being newly committed to the maker of ChatGPT, which it says has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million consumer subscribers. Amazon is investing $50 billion and striking a deal that includes custom models for it to use with Alexa. Nvidia and SoftBank are each contributing $30 billion, as well, even as the Wa... View Source

OpenAI raised $110 billion in funding. Investors include Amazon, SoftBank and Nvidia. It's part of the ChatGPT maker's push to secure more computing power and talent for AI development. Mandeep Singh of Bloomberg Intelligence has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The web-like features are believed to be sculpted by ancient groundwater, offering new clues about the Red Planet's watery past... View Source

The TCL X11L is the most impressive TV of the year, but the year is still young and RGB LED is on the horizon. Since I saw the TCL X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at a pre-CES event in December, I've been eager to get a close look at it in my living room. At first glance, the TV impressed me enough that I named it the best TV of CES 2026. From the moment I completed Google TV setup and started watching the T... View Source

US Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Emil Michael says the Pentagon is open to more talks with Anthropic PBC ahead of a 5 pm ET deadline to loosen restrictions on the use of its artificial intelligence technology by the US military. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

It’s that time of year: a whole bunch of Pokémon news is incoming. February 27th is the date the franchise first debuted, and The Pokémon Company uses it as a chance to outline its plans in a Pokémon Presents showcase. Last year’s event included the announcement of Pokémon Champions, and the 2026 edition should be particularly big, as this year represents the franchise’s 30th ann... View Source

Jack Dorsey’s Block is cutting 4,000 employees, reducing its workforce by nearly half, in a move the financial technology firm is describing as a bet on artificial intelligence changing the future of labor productivity... View Source

The MacBook is coming back — or at least, that's what the rumors claim. Next week, Apple is expected to announce a colorful, low-cost, non-Air, non-Pro MacBook powered by one of its mobile processors. By avoiding its pricier M-series chips, Apple may reportedly be able to reach a low $699 or $799 price for the MacBook. The $999 MacBook Air is the cheapest laptop on the company's website... View Source

A U.K. astrophotographer had to put together some clever equipment tricks to show six of the seven planets in a rare 'parade' over the south of England... View Source

The tranche of Jeffrey Epstein emails and files released on January 30th tie the infamous pedophile, sex trafficker, and influence peddler to elite figures across the tech industry. The world of cryptocurrency is no exception. Epstein's connections are intriguing, disturbing - and worth mapping closely. With his interest first piqued as early as 2011, Epstein was ahead of the game on crypto. The f... View Source

US equity futures slip as the S&P 500 faces a monthly loss. Shares of Netflix climb after the streaming giant drops out of the bidding war to buy Warner Brothers, clearing the way for Paramount Skydance. Anthropic rejects the latest offer from the Department of Defense in a dispute over safeguards around the use of AI technology by the US military. Jack Dorsey's Block jumps as it slashes nearl... View Source

Honor’s Robot Phone is set to make an appearance, and this time we might actually see it switched on. | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge With rare exceptions, phones are pretty boring these days. The good news is, a boatload of those rare exceptions are about to show up at once, courtesy of Mobile World Congress. The tech industry's biggest mobile show may not quite have the clout it once did, w... View Source

Welcome to Edition 8.31 of the Rocket Report! We have some late-breaking news this week with an update Thursday afternoon from Rocket Lab on the timing of its much-anticipated Neutron rocket. Following the failure of a first stage tank during testing, the company is pushing the medium-lift rocket's debut into the fourth quarter of this year. Effectively that probably means 2027 for the booster, wh... View Source

The chipmaker’s explosive growth already seems like old hat... View Source

If there’s one thing that stops people using their smart rings over the long term, it’s the battery life. After all, they’re so unobtrusive, it’s easy to forget to drop it on the charging plate every few days. It doesn’t take long for your pricey gadget to become little more than a very expensive piece of jewelry. It’s one of many maladies Ultrahuman is looking to address with the advent of its ne... View Source

The Ultrahuman Ring Pro comes with a snazzy Pro Charging Case for up to 45 days of additional battery life. | Image: Ultrahuman Ultrahuman is expanding its health monitoring ecosystem with the launch of a new flagship smart ring and a "biointelligence AI" platform upgrade. The Ring Pro is Ultrahuman's third-generation smart ring, and promises up to 15 days of battery life before needing to recharg... View Source

Dash0, a software startup that helps companies monitor their systems for anomalies, is in discussions to raise funds at a valuation of about $1 billion, according to people familiar with the matter... View Source

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CoreWeave Inc. fell as much as 12% in early trading after reporting a bigger-than-expected loss and boosting capital expenditures, spurring concerns about the company overspending on infrastructure... View Source

OpenAI has vowed to strengthen its safety protocols and to notify law enforcement of credible threats sooner in a letter addressed to Canadian authorities, according to Politico and The Washington Post. If you’ll recall, Canadian politicians summoned the company’s leaders after reports came out that it didn’t notify authorities when it banned the account owned by the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbi... View Source

A new method of predicting when a superflare will erupt from the sun suggests that we are in the middle of such a period now — and that could be bad news for the Artemis 2 astronauts... View Source

Netflix Inc. just won by losing... View Source

Google will finally be able to provide real-time driving and walking directions in South Korea, The New York Times reported. The company has received permission from the nation's Transport Ministry to export geographic data out of the country, which will allow it to provide GPS services as well as detailed listings for restaurants and other businesses.  "We welcome today’s decision... View Source

Beijing Dongchedi Technology Co., an automotive information and trading platform known as DCar, is considering an initial public offering in Hong Kong as soon as this year, according to people familiar with the situation... View Source

Get a great view of the "blood moon" with these optics and level up your stargazing for the future... View Source

Artificial intelligence will be disruptive for India’s services sector, particularly the software firms, but warnings of a doomsday scenario are exaggerated, former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said in an interview... View Source

Anna Edwards, Guy Johnson, Tom Mackenzie and Mark Cudmore break down today's key themes for analysts and investors on "Bloomberg: The Opening Trade." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Max Kettner, chief multi-asset strategist at HSBC Global Investment Research, says investors are too focused on the artificial intelligence trade. "We're probably missing that, under the hood, there is some proper cyclical recovery going on," Kettner tells Bloomberg Television. "The smaller, manufacturing-driven economies, all of them actually have been starting to see a real pickup in the last tw... View Source

Despite an ultimatum from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Anthropic said that it can't "in good conscience" comply with a Pentagon edict to remove guardrails on its AI, CEO Dario Amodei wrote in a blog post. The Department of Defense had threatened to cancel a $200 million contract and label Anthropic a "supply chain risk" if it didn't agree to remove safeguards over... View Source

Rightmove Plc and its property portal peers will survive the artificial intelligence wave, with the technology presenting more of an opportunity than a threat for the sector, according to Chief Executive Officer Johan Svanstrom... View Source

Elliott Investment Management, which has built a stake in London Stock Exchange Group Plc, said there’s “still an opportunity for further value-enhancing actions” after the bourse operator announced a £3 billion ($4.1 billion) share buyback... View Source

After four years of taking a cautious approach to deals, Engie SA Chief Executive Officer Catherine MacGregor made her biggest acquisition yet with a £10.5 billion ($14.2 billion) bet on UK electricity grids... View Source

Emerging-market stocks are heading for their strongest stretch of earnings growth since the 2002-04 super-cycle, powered by a surge in artificial-intelligence investment that is reshaping the asset class, according to Morgan Stanley... View Source

SAP SE’s new bonus system ended up rewarding underperforming managers while holding lower-ranking workers to a higher standard for their payouts, prompting an outcry from employees and leaders alike at the German software company, people familiar with the matter said... View Source

South Korea said it will grant conditional approval to Google’s request to transfer high-precision map data overseas, marking a significant shift in a long-running policy dispute over digital sovereignty and national security... View Source

Poland is moving ahead with a new legislation that would ban social media for children under 15 years old, setting the stage for a potential battle with some of the biggest US tech companies... View Source

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Days after back-flipping AI humanoids dazzled China with a new year performance alongside dancers, a small research firm jolted US markets with a stark warning about how automation could trigger an economic spiral by displacing workers... View Source

Nintendo Co. plans to trim strategic shareholdings worth about ¥300 billion ($1.9 billion) owned by its partner banks, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter... View Source

Companies are increasingly using artificial intelligence as justification for cutting headcount and trimming costs, rather than using the technology to boost productivity by redeploying workers, according to Morningstar Inc... View Source

The Japanese government will invest a total of ¥250 billion ($1.6 billion) in state-backed Rapidus Corp. as part of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s pledge to boost domestic chipmaking... View Source

Mainland Chinese investors are accelerating their exit from Hong Kong-listed shares, signaling impatience with big technology firms’ inability to translate artificial intelligence spending into earnings growth... View Source

Coupang Inc. reported a surprise loss in the fourth quarter, underscoring the strain facing the company following a massive data breach in South Korea, its main market... View Source

Andy Florance, CEO of CoStar Group, discusses the company’s new AI initiative in real estate, Home AI, a fully integrated native AI solution designed specifically for the sector, with Romaine Bostick and Bailey Lipschultz on “The Close.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. is still evaluating whether it will release another super-thin smartphone after sales of its inaugural attempt, last year’s Galaxy S25 Edge, were comparatively “lower” than the company’s other handsets... View Source

Elon drops the big things on FSD, cybercab and optimus, battery and cybercab factory in Europe. If authorities cooperate, Tesla would make Gigaberlin the largest factory in Europe. 1. Full Self-Driving (FSD) March 20, 2026: FSD regulatory approval in Europe (confirmed by Dutch authorities. Rollout starts immediately after). 2026 (this year): “You will be able ... Read more... View Source

Nvidia, the dominant maker of artificial intelligence chips, suffered its worst stock decline in 10 months after the company’s latest forecast failed to dispel fears of an AI bubble. The shares fell 5.5% to $184.89 in New York, marking the biggest one-day drop since April 16. The decline followed a first-quarter sales outlook that — on its face — looked impressive. Nvidia easily beat t... View Source

The Federal Trade Commission is encouraging companies to adopt age verification technologies by announcing it will not enforce a children's online privacy law against certain websites that collect and use minors' personal data in order to verify their ages. "Age verification technologies are some of the most child-protective technologies to emerge in decades," Christopher Mufarrige, the director o... View Source

Bloomberg Television brings you the latest news and analysis leading up to the final minutes and seconds before and after the closing bell on Wall Street. Today's guests are Richard Bernstein Advisors’ Michael Contopoulos, CoStar Group’s Andy Florance, Flexport’s Ryan Petersen, JPMorgan’s Jason Hunter, Susquehanna International Group’s Mehdi Hosseini, Yale University’s Gautam Mukunda, Tanger’s Ste... View Source

We’ve known Apple would follow up its blockbuster film F1: The Movie with live coverage of F1 races in 2026. Now that we’re approaching the first grand prix weekend of the year, the company has provided details on what fans can expect to see inside the Apple TV app and beyond. There’s already a dedicated F1 channel in the Apple TV app, which is where you’ll stream races live when the time comes. Y... View Source

Image: WindowsLatest Lenovo's next gaming laptop could be a shapeshifting foldable called the Legion Go Fold, which can be used as a laptop or a handheld gaming PC with two different display sizes, as WindowsLatest reports. Leaked images of the device show it attached to both a keyboard and controllers, with a hinge in the middle of the POLED display, allowing it to unfold from 7.7 inches to 11.6... View Source

OpenAI Inc. told Canadian lawmakers it would have referred a banned ChatGPT user who later became the chief suspect in one of the country’s worst-ever mass shootings to police under newly updated policies... View Source

For anyone who has been following the soap opera unfolding between Netflix and Paramount Skydance over the past few months in their financial brinksmanship to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, the saga may be nearing its end. Today, WBD said its board of directors have determined that the latest offer from Paramount Skydance amounted to the better proposal. The media outfit gave Netflix four busines... View Source

Netflix has dropped its $83 billion deal to acquire the Warner Bros. studio, HBO, and its streaming service HBO Max. In an announcement on Thursday, co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters say the streamer is "declining to match" the new bid made by Paramount: The transaction we negotiated would have created shareholder value with a clear path to regulatory approval. However, we've always been discip... View Source

Netflix has decided not to increase its bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, citing that the deal is no longer financially attractive despite previously considering it value-creating. This announcement follows Paramount's offer being declared the superior deal by Warner Bros. Seven Letter Partner Annalyse Keller, Democratic Strategist Arshi Siddiqui and Bloomberg's Kailey Leinz discuss on "Balance o... View Source

Audio company iFi just introduced a new DAC (digital-to-analogue converter) that's both smaller and lighter than its previous model, and only costs $59. The iFi GO Link 2 connects to a smartphone or other audio-playing device over USB-C and can instantly improve the listening experience on wired headphones.Wireless earbuds and music streaming services have normalized listening to your favorit... View Source

Less than 24 hours before the deadline in an ultimatum issued by the Pentagon, Anthropic has refused the Department of Defense's demands for unrestricted access to its AI. It's the culmination of a dramatic exchange of public statements, social media posts, and behind-the-scenes negotiations, coming down to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's desire to renegotiate all AI labs' current contracts with... View Source

Anthropic PBC rejected the Pentagon’s latest offer to defuse a standoff over conditions the company has sought governing the use of the its artificial intelligence software by the military, a confrontation that has jeopardized its defense work for the government... View Source

Block is the latest business to announce layoffs, with the operator of payment platforms Square and Cash App opting to cut jobs in favor of using more AI tools. The financial tech company, helmed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, is slashing its current staff of 10,000 to "just under 6,000." CNBC highlighted a letter Block sent to shareholders announcing the decision to nearly halve its wo... View Source

This first Version 3 Starship marks a milestone with its fully tiled heat shield, all four flaps, and tweaks for powerful Raptor 3 engines, heading to Massey’s Outpost for cryogenic tests and leak checks. Paired later with Booster 19 for Flight Test 12, it advances SpaceX’s push for routine reusable flights to orbit, the Moon, ... Read more... View Source