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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

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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

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-powered "Copilot Tasks" designed to take care of busywork for you in the background, the company announced on Thursday. The feature takes the load off your device using its own cloud-based computer, allowing it to work across a browser and apps to handle a variety of jobs ranging from scheduling appointments to generating study plans. As noted by Microsoft, you can... View Source

Jack Dorsey's Block aims to improve efficiency by reducing headcount and leveraging artificial intelligence tools. A key focus is on an internal AI tool called Goose, which the company plans to rely on heavily to streamline business processes and enhance productivity. Emily Mason reports on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

RedOctane Games, a relaunched version of one of the studios behind the very first Guitar Hero, has shared a first trailer for its new music game, Stage Tour. The original RedOctane was shut down by Activision in 2010, and only recently reformed under Embracer Freemode to create a new music game franchise in August 2025. Stage Tour is playable solo or with other players in a band, according to RedO... View Source

One of our universe's biggest stars has dramatically turned into a rare, yellow 'hypergiant' star, and astronomers aren't sure when it will go supernova... View Source

Jack Dorsey's Block, the financial tech company that runs Square and the Cash app, is cutting its workforce by "nearly half" and axing more than 4,000 jobs. The company will shrink from more than 10,000 people to less than 6,000, Dorsey says in a post on X. And the reason why? AI. "We're not making this decision because we're in trouble," Dorsey says. "Our business is strong. Gross profit continue... View Source

Warner Brothers Discovery's board has officially recognized Paramount's acquisition proposal as a superior offer compared to Netflix's earlier deal. Lucas Shaw reports on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple and Netflix have entered into a rather surprising partnership. The dynamic streaming duo will share Formula 1 programming, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The deal allows Netflix to stream the F1 Canadian Grand Prix in May, along with Apple TV. On the flipside, Apple TV and Netflix will both air season eight of the docuseries Drive to Survive. The Netflix-created series spotlights vario... View Source

Magnet rings have changed my life. I grip and mount and satisfyingly snap awesome accessories on and off my phone all day. Even Samsung sells neat ones like these folding magnetic mirrors. But unlike Apple and Google, Samsung refuses to put the magnets inside the phone. Why? I asked Samsung's Won-Joon Choi, the executive in charge of both R&D and operations for Samsung's mobile business. He sa... View Source

Dell Technologies Inc. shares jumped in extended trading after the company gave an outlook for sales of its artificial intelligence servers that exceeded estimates, a sign of robust demand for machines helping fuel the AI data center build-out... View Source

Meta has sued the people and groups behind three scam operations that used images and deepfakes of celebrities to lure users to scam websites. According to the company, the three entities were based in China and Brazil and targeted people in the US, Japan and other countries. The ads promoted fraudulent investment schemes and fake health products.Meta said that it had filed lawsuits against severa... View Source

2 Min Read JPL 3D-Printed Part Springs Forward PIA26706 Credits: Proteus Space Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal JPL 3D-Printed Part Springs… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads PIA26706 Figure A JPEG (82.95 KB) PIA26706 Animation MOV (3.33 MB) Description With a simple motion, a jack-in-the-box-like spring designed at NASA’s Jet... View Source

The U.S. Space Force is putting an indefinite halt on all national security missions aboard United Launch Alliance's Vulcan Centaur, following a repeat anomaly with the rocket's side boosters... View Source

The smartphone industry could experience a record-breaking decline in 2026 as a result of the RAM shortage stemming from memory-hungry AI giants. That's according to the latest report from the International Data Corporation (IDC), which forecasts smartphone shipments to plummet 12.9 percent this year, marking its "lowest annual shipment volume in more than a decade." At the same time, the average... View Source

Chime issued guidance that topped analyst expectations, driven by rising user growth and strong demand for its digital banking products. Chime CEO Chris Britt joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We’re still waiting for releases dates for Remedy’s in-development Max Payne remakes, but if you’re in need of a noir fix sooner than that, keep an eye on Liquid Swords’ Samson: A Tyndalston Story, which just got a release date of April 8. The debut game from a new studio formed by Just Cause creator Christofer Sundberg, Samson looks like a tighter, more narrative-led experience than Avalanche’s p... View Source

The Samsung Galaxy S26 and S26 Plus are "more of the same for more money," my colleague Allison Johnson reported this week. Now, Samsung is confirming what we previously only suspected: RAMageddon is partly to blame. Samsung's Won-Joon Choi, the COO of its mobile business, tells The Verge that the memory shortage alone made a "significant contribution" to the price. All the increasing material cos... View Source

The six biggest takeaways from this week’s podcast business summit... View Source

Apple's mobile devices are secure enough for NATO. Following extensive testing by the German government, the iPhone and iPad are now considered secure enough for the NATO-restricted classified level.Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik, or BSI) tested the devices. BSI first approved the iPhone and iPad for governmental use... View Source

Largest ever image obtained by specialist telescope in Chile represents scientific and aesthetic breakthroughScientists have captured a beautiful image in unprecedented detail of the vast Milky Way galaxy, of which our own solar system is a part.The stunning image is the largest ever obtained by the specialist telescope in Chile called the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (Alma) radio... View Source

In January, Qualcomm hinted to The Verge that it might finally bring its powerful Arm-based Snapdragon processors to Windows gaming handhelds at the 2026 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco - just in time to challenge Nvidia's own first Arm gaming CPU and Intel's first dedicated handheld gaming chips. But plans have shifted, Qualcomm now tells me. It won't announce any updates to its Snapd... View Source

The Pentagon escalated its ongoing dispute with Anthropic PBC on Thursday, making public a threat to effectively ban the artificial intelligence startup from the US military’s vast supply chain... View Source

Review aggregator Metacritic has removed a review of Resident Evil Requiem because it was AI-generated, Kotaku reports. The review was published by UK gaming site VideoGamer, but appears to be "written" by a fake AI journalist rather than a real person.While it's unfortunately difficult to confirm with 100 percent accuracy whether a piece of text is AI-generated, you don't have... View Source

Tesla Cybercab production has started to scale. Hundreds of Cybercabs are in various stages of build right now at Giga Texas (in the “yellow section,” grid Y57 on the east side). Joe Tegtmeyer has seen it and described it to Herbert Ong. The Unboxed [giant lego method] manufacturing is live and working. Tesla builds five ... Read more... View Source

NASA has replaced two bigwigs in its human spaceflight program, just a week after releasing a report criticizing how the agency handled the first crewed flight of Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi... View Source

Students are seen on the campus of Columbia University on April 14, 2025, in New York City. An immigration judge ruled on April 11 that Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian student protester from Columbia University and a US permanent resident detained by the Trump administration, can be deported, his lawyer said. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images) |... View Source

Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy called the current AI-driven moment ‘magical.’ Snowflake projected product revenue for the current quarter of around $1.26 billion. Ramaswamy discusses the company’s results with Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

eBay announced that it is cutting about 800 jobs from its global staff. "We are taking steps to reinvest across our business and align our structure with our strategic priorities, which will affect certain roles across our workforce," the retailer said in a statement as reported by Bloomberg. This move will see about 6 percent of eBay's current full-time workers laid off. Bloomberg... View Source

'Change happens when a few determined individuals make it happen'... View Source

The iPhone and iPad have been approved to hold NATO-restricted information, according to an announcement on Thursday. That means off-the-shelf devices running iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 can handle classified information "without requiring special software or settings," Apple says. The NATO-restricted designation is the lowest level of classified information, and it applies to information that would be "... View Source

Treasury departments in global companies are struggling to adopt artificial intelligence tools, according to a Crisil Coalition Greenwich survey, underscoring how slowly the technology is penetrating a critical function in corporate finance... View Source

How much would you pay for a good night's sleep? This is a question I've asked myself repeatedly over the last few weeks as I've been testing the Dreamie, a $250 alarm clock and "bedside companion" that I couldn't stop thinking about after I first encountered it at CES. Ambient's Dreamie offers many of the conveniences of a smartphone-connected device — highly cu... View Source

Gavin and Citadel Securities highlight physical limits to AI deployment which create natural guardrails. Compute availability and trust issues for new AI only businesses means human productivity is boosted more than the just fire and replace. People had time to learn, pivot, and build. A big business is the category of helping people become productive ... Read more... View Source

The image generational capabilities of Nano Banana 2 seem comparable to the Pro model. | Image: Google / The Verge Google is bringing a more powerful version of its Nano Banana AI image model to free users. Nano Banana 2 (also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Image) is rolling out today across the Gemini app and other Google AI platforms, making knowledge and rendering features that were previously exclu... View Source

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-33 Dragon spacecraft undocked and successfully departed from the International Space Station and is scheduled to splash down off the coast of California on Friday morning. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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The mid-sized Venator-Class Attack Cruiser is one of our favorite Star Wars Lego sets... View Source

HBO Max's password-sharing crackdown is going to get a lot bigger. During an earnings call on Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery streaming head JB Perrette said a global expansion "will start in 2026," as reported earlier by The Wrap. Warner Bros. Discovery has ramped up its paid sharing initiative in the US over the past year, introducing "more aggressive" prompts in August that push people toward... View Source

Warner Bros. Discovery reported lower fourth-quarter sales and earnings, with fourth-quarter revenue declining 6% to $9.46 billion and adjusted earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization shrinking to $2.22 billion. And Paramount Skydance reported fourth-quarter sales and earnings that beat Wall Street projections, with revenue of $8.15 billion and adjusted operating income of $6... View Source

Burger King, the chain that leans into creepy when others don't dare, is at it again. The Verge reported on Thursday that the company is rolling out a new voice-controlled AI chatbot for its workers. That may sound like business as usual in 2026, but this assistant doesn't just help with meal prep and monitor inventory. It also has an unsettling habit of surveilling employees' voice... View Source

The Cricut Explore 5 will be available in taupe and teal color options. | Image: Cricut Cricut has announced new versions of two of its cutting machines that could appeal to crafters struggling with limited space for their hobby. The new Cricut Explore 5 is 30 percent "more compact" than the Explore 4 that launched a year ago, without reducing the size or types of materials the machine can handle... View Source

The ‘raid shooter’ game from Wildlight Entertainment had a promising start but lost players fast... View Source

NASA recently ended a manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) a month early, citing a medical issue with one of the astronauts. The space agency just revealed that the impacted astronaut was Mike Fincke. This was the first medical evacuation in the history of the ISS. NASA wrote a statement saying that the astronaut experienced an unknown medical event on January 7 "that requi... View Source

NASA/Dan Goods NASA astronaut and deputy director of the Flight Operations Directorate Kjell Lindgren takes a selfie with panelists and the audience at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Feb. 25, 2026. Actors Ryan Gosling and Sandra Huller, screenwriter Drew Goddard, directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and producer and writer of the “Project Hail Mary” novel Andy W... View Source

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The sleeve can’t charge your laptop. | Image: Razer Razer has announced an expensive new laptop sleeve that's not made from an exotic animal or encrusted in diamonds. What potentially justifies paying $129.99 for Razer's Laptop Sleeve 16" are the pair of wireless charging pads integrated into its cover flap. While you're out and about, it can protect a laptop up to 16-inches in size, and when you... View Source

Viral Patel, CEO of Blackstone Private Equity Strategies (BXPE), discusses the firm's investment strategy amid the ongoing disruption caused by AI across various sectors including software, financial services and insurance brokerages. He speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

We appear to have reached a point in the information age where AI models are becoming old enough to retire from, er, service — and rather than using their twilight years to, I don’t know, wipe the floor with human chess leagues or something, they're now writing blogs. Can anything be more 2026 than that? ICYMI, Anthropic recently sunsetted Claude Opus 3, the first of its models to be retired... View Source

6 Min Read NASA’s ESCAPADE Ready to Study Space Weather from Earth to Mars An artist’s concept shows the two ESCAPADE spacecraft at Mars. The ESCAPADE mission is the first to coordinate two spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth. Credits: James Rattray/Rocket Lab USA Mars is not what it used to be. Once warm, watery, and blanketed by a thick atmosphere, today the Red Planet is cold,... View Source

This is Lowpass by Janko Roettgers, a newsletter on the ever-evolving intersection of tech and entertainment, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. These days, if you sign up for a new streaming service, you generally have two options: Either pay a massive premium for an ad-free experience, or endure frequent commercial breaks and all the sneaky tracking that comes with ad targeti... View Source

Google is rolling out a new version of its popular AI image generation tool that’s meant to produce better visuals more quickly, six months after challenging OpenAI with the release of the original Nano Banana product... View Source

Google has launched its new image generation model, the Nano Banana 2, which is powered by Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. The company says the new model has the capabilities, world knowledge and reasoning of Nano Banana Pro, but it can accomplish tasks at “lightning-fast speed.” That enables rapid editing and the quick creation of various iterations using a single prompt. Nano Banana 2 will give more peo... View Source

NASA’s crawler-transporter 2, carrying NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket with the Orion spacecraft, arrives Feb. 25, 2026, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the agency’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

A 'ring of fire' solar eclipse glowed over Antarctica, witnessed by only a handful of researchers at Concordia Research Station... View Source

Woot is offering steep discounts on many video games and accessories, some of which are fairly recent releases. No matter what you choose from its sale catalog, you can get up to $30 off your order with the code LEVEL20 used at checkout through the end of the day on February 27th (the sale lasts through March 5th, but the coupon ends beforehand). 8BitDo’s highly customizable Pro 3 controller for S... View Source

New York City is a famously expensive place to do construction. On this episode of the Odd Lots podcast, Elizabeth Crowley, president and CEO of BTEA and Michael Capasso, president and CEO of CAC Industries, tell Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway how insurance, among other factors, is driving costs up and why now is the time for reform. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Tips for capturing the total lunar eclipse on March 3, 2026, from knowing what to expect and finding clear skies to using mirrorless cameras and smartphones... View Source

Today, we’re talking about the future of Xbox. Phil Spencer, a two–time Decoder guest who’s led Xbox for more than a decade, retired last week. But in a shocking twist, his deputy and long-assumed successor, Sarah Bond, is also out too, and the Xbox division is now in the hands of Asha Sharma, one of Microsoft’s AI executives with no prior game industry experience. It’s a major leadership tr... View Source

Lumen Technologies President and CEO Kate Johnson talks about the opportunities AI is proving and a deal to expand Anthropic's fiber network in the US. She speaks on Bloomberg Surveillance. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Robotics company Intrinsic has announced it will be folding into Google as the company bets on the future of physical AI in manufacturing. The company focuses on software tools to make robots more affordable and easier to use, as well as using adaptive intelligence to help the robots perform real-world tasks. Intrinsic was started in 2021 as an Alphabet "Other Bets" project, part of a po... View Source

Joel Montalbano, acting associate administrator for NASA’s Space Operations Mission Directorate NASA On Thursday, NASA announced Joel Montalbano will serve as the acting associate administrator for the Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD) at NASA Headquarters in Washington, and Dana Hutcherson will serve as the acting program manager of the Commercial Crew Program... View Source

Cute and simple to use, the One Fire Star Projector is the perfect addition to any child’s bedroom... View Source

Google is planning to test changes to how it displays search results for certain topics, nearly a year after it was charged with violating antitrust rules in the European Union, Reuters reports. The shift will show top-ranked rival services for hotels, flights, restaurants, and transportation higher up in results, rather than prioritizing Google's own services like Google Flights. It will be rolli... View Source

The US space agency has released a "pre-solicitation" for what is expected to be a hotly contested contract to develop a spacecraft to orbit Mars and relay communications from the red planet back to Earth. Ars covered the intrigue surrounding the spacecraft in late January, which was initiated by US Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as part of the "One Big Beautiful Bill" legislation in the summer of 202... View Source

Brandon Creighton, chancellor of the Texas Tech University System, discusses the partnership with Fermi Energy, Nvidia chips, and other topics with Bloomberg's Julie Fine. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Apple CEO Tim Cook has teased “a big week ahead" for Apple, starting on the morning of Monday, March 2. The company had already announced an in-person event for media and creators on March 4, while rumors had pointed toward Apple revealing at least five products over three days next week, so it looks like the stars are aligning for that to actually be the case. Cook all but confirmed tha... View Source

Few sci-fi characters have exceeded their original programming quite like Voyager's Emergency Medical Hologram... View Source

A publicly-traded private credit fund managed by Blackstone Inc. has begun marketing bonds due in 2029, a day after disclosing it’s seen continued signs of stress in one of its largest investments... View Source

NVIDIA is a very busy company, and between all the graphics cards and AI-chasing, it wouldn’t be wholly surprising to see the company forget about its more niche offerings, such as the Android-powered NVIDIA Shield TV. Happily for all those who own one of these powerful set-top boxes, that doesn’t appear to be the case. Not only is NVIDIA continuing to support its Shield devices, but it’s just rol... View Source

Here’s how to use optics to get the most from February's planetary parade... View Source

In January, Anthropic "retired" Claude 3 Opus, which at one time was the company's most powerful AI model. Today, it's back - and writing on Substack. The newsletter, called Claude's Corner, will give Opus 3 space to publish its "musings, insights, or creative works," Anthropic said in a blog post. The model will post weekly for at least the next three months. Anthropic staff will review and publi... View Source

Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities, breaks down fourth-quarter earnings from Nvidia as he raises his price target for the stock to $300. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Like other electronics products, cameras have shot up in price in the US of late due to tariffs and other reasons. Fortunately, there are still many models available for less than the price of a budget smartphone ($750 or less) that offer great features for creators and photographers alike. If it’s speed you want for sports or action shots of your kids, models like Canon’s R50 can shoot burst... View Source

EBay Inc. is cutting about 800 jobs, or 6% of its full-time employees, saying the layoffs are needed to align its workforce with strategic priorities... View Source

Netflix has unveiled a trailer for its upcoming documentary Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere set to arrive on March 11th. It will be the first full-length Netflix documentary for Theroux, and see him interview "manosphere" influencers like Sneako, Justin Waller and HS Tikky Tokky, aka Harrison Sullivan. "I’ve made documentaries for over 30 years now, and in a way, this subject f... View Source

The nebula is possibly being produced by a type of unstable star called a Wolf–Rayet star... View Source

Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called "Patty," is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for "friendliness." Thibault Roux, Burger King's chief digital officer, tells The Verge that the company compi... View Source

The app’s Shop the Look may affect the trust influencers built with their audience... View Source

Instagram is adding a new alert for the parents of teen users of its social media platform. The network will alert the adult if their child repeatedly searches for terms about suicide or self-harm in a short time frame. From that notification, the parent will optionally be able to access resources for having conversations with their teen about these topics. These alerts will begin rolling out for... View Source

A Galaxy smartphone using tap-to-unlock on a keypad for a Nuki smart lock. A new smart lock standard, Aliro, is bringing this functionality to all smartphones. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Aliro has officially arrived. The smart lock standard, first announced in 2023, finally has a 1.0 spec, meaning companies can now get hardware certified and roll out support. Aliro is an open s... View Source

Edward Yardeni, president at Yardeni Research, sees the rotation away from AI and tech stocks as a “healthy rebalancing” of the market. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

New York Attorney General Letitia James has accused Valve of promoting illegal gambling through its video games in a lawsuit filed by her office. According to the AG’s announcement, her office conducted an investigation and had concluded that Valve enabled gambling by enticing users to pay for a chance at rare items from loot boxes in Counter-Strike 2, Team Fortress 2 and Dota 2. In the lawsuit, t... View Source

The alerts will start rolling out to Teen accounts with parental supervision protections next week. | Image: Meta / The Verge Starting next week, Instagram will notify parents to check on their teen searching for terms related to self-harm or suicide. Meta says a similar alert system for its AI chatbots is coming later this year. The new Instagram feature sends parents an alert when their child "r... View Source

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman interviews Microsoft Japan President Miki Tsusaka at an event for Bloomberg.com subscribers in Tokyo. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stellantis NV is considering tapping electric-vehicle technology from its Chinese partner Leapmotor to help lower costs across its mass-market European brands such as Fiat, Opel and Peugeot, according to people familiar with the plans... View Source

In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen. Now, a new study reveals the simple way in which these mysterious objects might form... View Source

Google is folding Alphabet's AI robotics "moonshot," Intrinsic, into the company after five years as an independent unit. The move marks a strategic shift as Google doubles down on physical AI and pulls experimental projects closer to its core business. Intrinsic "graduated" into an independent company inside Alphabet's Other Bets division in 2021, a portfolio of high-risk, speculative ventures th... View Source

Private equity firm Summit Partners is investing $122 million in Montreal’s Stay22 Technologies Inc., a startup that offers technology to help publishers and creators earn money from online sales... View Source

French AA gaming developer and accessory manufacturer Nacon has filed for insolvency after its majority shareholder Bigben failed to make a loan repayment, the company said in a press release. "To date, the company reports available assets do not allow it to meet its liabilities," Nacon wrote. The objective with insolvency, it said, was to allow "continued operation, protect employe... View Source

Bruce Richards, CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder of Marathon Asset Management on Private Credit's exposure to the software industry. He says 'software will survive, but the multiples that they trade at are contracted and stay that way for a while'. Richards speaks to Bloomberg's Anna Edwards and Lizzy Burden on 'The Opening Trade', (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Marathon Asset Management founder and CEO Bruce Richards says private credit is too exposed to the software industry, telling Bloomberg Television there is a risk that defaults in software-exposed private credit markets could reach more than 15%. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Baidu Inc. reported a drop in its revenue for the third consecutive quarter, underscoring the magnitude of weakness in its core advertising and AI businesses... View Source