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Anthropic’s IPO filing outlines a governance structure in which seven cofounders direct Class F shares representing about 50.1% of total voting power on key issues. Nell Minow, Chair at ValueEdge Advisors, says the filing asks investors to trust a multilevel structure: an independent board would appoint most directors, while the founders retain controlling votes. She speaks with Romaine Bostick... View Source

AirTrunk secured a A$4.25 billion ($3 billion) green loan to finance the development of a Sydney data center campus, a signal of confidence in a sector that’s taken a slew of hits in recent weeks... View Source

Hot-water mopping, allergy-certified suction, and corner-hugging navigation make this a smart pick... View Source

As nations across the globe grapple with a surge in borrowing costs, almost none enjoy the option now being eyed in South Korea: deploying a major new source of cash to simply cut back on selling debt... View Source

From furniture building to serious refinishing work, these deliver the goods in terms of power, control, and dust collection... View Source

In an exclusive conversation with Bloomberg's Heesu Lee, South Korean budget minister Park Hong Keun says that the fund financed by semiconductor-driven tax gains will serve as a fiscal dam to cushion from higher yields (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

As tech billionaires make bank off an AI trade that now threatens retirement accounts and university endowments, a criminal element is rising to take advantage of the crumbs that fall off the table. According to new reporting by NBC, truckfuls of equipment bound for data center construction sites are disappearing at a breakneck pace, representing tens of millions of dollars in losses for developer... View Source

Malaysia is expected to attract more interest as a data center hub following the outbreak of the US-Iran war, according to SD Guthrie Bhd., giving the palm oil giant and the country’s biggest landowner an opportunity to capitalize on the boom... View Source

Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more "major" discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What's different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as "shepherds" guiding the results in computer science and physics, while for th... View Source

Anthropic PBC’s landmark initial public offering is laying bare the stark extremes of the AI boom business model: astonishing growth but deep uncertainty about unpredictable demand and the massive spending required to continue building the resource-intensive technology. The startup, which publicly filed IPO paperwork on Monday, is poised to be the first major US firm focused solely on building AI... View Source

Spain is easing rules for data center power usage after an initial government proposal faced strong industry backlash... View Source

1 Min Read Solar Cells Inspected on NASA’s NEO Surveyor PIA26715 Credits: BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal Solar Cells Inspected on… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads Solar Cells Inspected on NASA’s NEO Surveyor JPEG (889.24 KB) Description The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object... View Source

India now makes one in four iPhones, but its dependence on imported components remains substantial. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andy Mukherjee says the country's manufacturing gains may not justify the growing taxpayer subsidies needed to replicate China's success. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

2 Min Read NEO Surveyor’s Sunshade Gets Inspected PIA26780 Credits: BAE Systems Space & Mission Systems Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NEO Surveyor’s Sunshade Gets… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NEO Surveyor’s Sunshade Gets Inspected JPEG (1.17 MB) Description The large sunshade of NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surv... View Source

As it prepares to go public, Anthropic's S-1 filing makes generative AI's methane dependency glaringly obvious. "Competition for access to electrical supply and data center locations with adequate power availability is intense." In documents filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission Monday, Anthropic acknowledges that data centers are becoming increasingly reliant on "natural gas" - the... View Source

Victor Khosla, Founder and CIO of Strategic Value Partners, discusses headwinds worsening since his previous appearance. While markets have already repriced amid mounting pressure, he says risks remain unusually high: whereas he would normally put the chance of severe tail events at about 5%, he estimates a 20% to 30% chance that such risks could materialize now. He speaks with Romaine Bostick... View Source

Explore This Section Perseverance Home Mission Overview Rover Components Mars Rock Samples Where is Perseverance? Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Mission Updates Science Overview Objectives Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Perseverance Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars Missions Mars Perseverance Rover Mars Curiosity Rover Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter... View Source

Running out of space on your Nintendo Switch 2? Thankfully, Samsung’s P9 MicroSD Express card is discounted at multiple retailers, with the 256GB version going for $47.99 (Amazon, B&H Photo) and the 512GB version $99 (Amazon, B&H Photo). The smaller card typically sells for around $80, and the larger option usually sells between $150 and $200, though both are higher than their original lau... View Source

Applied Materials Inc. boosted its stake in fellow chip-equipment maker BE Semiconductor Industries NV and vowed to step up their work together, citing the European company’s growing role in energy-efficient AI computing... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) This 360-degree panorama from NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover shows Neretva Vallis, the dusty, long-dried river channel that cuts through the western rim of Mars’ Jezero Crater.NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Over 1,645 Martian days, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover measured the fine and ultrafine Martian dust particles found cl... View Source

I have been dreaming of doing research in space as an astronaut my whole life, but for some reason, the thought of working underwater made me nervous. I’ve known for a long time that astronauts train underwater to simulate different scenarios they’re likely to experience in space. Diving was never an issue for me, either — I even made it as far as becoming a certified rescue diver. So what was the... View Source

Anthropic’s IPO is offering a rare look inside the business of frontier AI. Bloomberg journalists answer your questions in an interactive Live Q&A on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 1 p.m. EDT... View Source

Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) died on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at age 90 of natural causes/old age at his home in North Hollywood, surrounded by his daughter and niece. He was Chekov on Star Trek Original Series and Bester on Babylon 5. With Koenig’s death, only William Shatner (Captain Kirk) and George Takei (Hikaru Sulu) ... Read more... View Source

It’s about more than the cameras, speakers, and built-in artificial intelligence. I ranked nine frames based on style, wearability, and features that make them worth considering... View Source

The financing gives SpaceX another way to fund its rapidly expanding AI ambitions without relying solely on traditional debt markets... View Source

Down in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff election on Sunday to be re-elected as president, in a comeback that literally defied the odds — at least as they’d been set by buzzy prediction markets. Though platforms like Polymarket frame themselves as prognosticators of the future by drawing on the “wisdom of the crowd,” they were horrendously off the mark when i... View Source

Comprehensive cross-platform coverage of the U.S. market close on Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, and YouTube with Romaine Bostick, Kristine Aquino, Carol Massar and Tim Stenovec. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The bezels aren’t that noticeable with other watchfaces, but some things don’t change. Last week, I sank into my living room couch and watched a bedraggled, nihilistic Matthew McConaughey take a drag of a cigarette in season 1 of True Detective. "You know, someone once told me time is a flat circle. Everything we've done, or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again." I assume most peop... View Source

Bloomberg’s Ed Ludlow takes a look at Anthropic's regulatory filing as the company prepares to go public under the ticker ANT. The S-1 revealed Anthropic's revenue and spending, along with its plan for an unusual corporate structure. Plus, venture investors are in line for a big payday when Anthropic goes public. Matt Murphy from Menlo Ventures and Byron Deeter from Bessemer Venture Partners discu... View Source

Explore This Section Science Science Activation NASA SEES Interns Tackle… Overview Resources Opportunities Citizen Science Highlights About Science Activation   4 min read NASA SEES Interns Tackle Real-World Challenges in Lunar Exploration The Matrix Team developed a sophisticated interactive dashboard for the IM-3 mission that allows users to vary engine, spacecraft, and orbital parameters to inv... View Source

Tesla unboxed modular manufacturing is the central breakthrough. It is purpose-built for Cybercab scale and robotaxi economics. ⁠There were major innovations needed to convert cybercab into modules (giant lego) that can be snapped together with ten times faster build times. Factory and Cybercab designed for Optimus Humandoid for Fleet Charging and Other Use Cases and ... Read more... View Source

On Oct. 26, 2004, NASA's Cassini spacecraft took the first close-up images of Saturn's largest moon Titan. The Cassini spacecraft would later drop off a probe on Titan named Huygens, which was a European spacecraft that hitched a ride to the Saturn system with the Cassini mission. But before Cassini dropped off its robotic passenger, it flew by Titan a few times and took some amazing photos. Cassi... View Source

Anthropic has finally filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, a document designed to give investors a look under the hood of its business, from how much its executives are making and plans for spending its IPO billions to the risks that could derail its ambitions. At more than 300 pages, there's a lot to unpack, and some of the disclosures have not previously been reported. Here are some of the big... View Source

Whether you use AI in your personal life or not, there is no longer any escaping the grasp of the industry’s tendrils. There are multiple trillions of dollars now resting on AI’s success, much of it bound up in speculative debt. As everybody knows, debt is only an issue if you can’t pay it off — and as top AI labs fail to bring in enough revenue to cover skyrocketing costs, alarms are blaring that... View Source

Tesla Inc. analysts are rapidly turning more bullish on the electric carmaker’s stock as a long awaited combination with SpaceX edges closer to reality... View Source

Anthropic is in the middle of scaling up compute and infrastructure commitments while its revenue base, especially from agentic and high-intensity enterprise workloads, continues to expand. The combination of recent token-price cuts, reported re-acceleration in October ARR, and an active IPO timeline. Anthropic has filed an S-1 for its IPO. Nov 11 date Anthropic has ... Read more... View Source

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's non-canon, but come on; Darth Vader wielding the gleaming Infinity Gauntlet is just an excellent visual. This nerd-baiting image comes to us via the main cover of Marvel Comics' upcoming "Star Wars / Marvel: Hope Assembles #1.""Star Wars" celebrates its 50th anniversary next year, as does the first "Star Wars #1" comic, and to kick the intergalactic party off early, Marvel w... View Source

Nothing’s Ear 3A come in a variety of fun colors, including a yellow shade. | Photo: John Higgins / The Verge If you want a decent pair of noise-canceling earbuds without spending a fortune, Nothing’s Ear 3A are worth considering. The wireless earbuds offer a lot of features for the price, and they’re an even better value now that all four colors are on sale at Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for $7... View Source

The rise of AI has caused the price of PC components to skyrocket, infuriating anybody looking to make a new purchase or upgrade their gear. Graphics cards have become such a hot commodity that they’ve become completely unaffordable — and higher-end one’s, like Nvidia’s sought-after RTX 5090, are hard to even find in stock. One reason for the price and availability issues may be industrial facilit... View Source

The French government plans to increase the number of third-level student places and make €4 billion ($4.5 billion) available for high-school renovations as it tries to end nationwide protests that have turned violent in recent weeks... View Source

NASA has officially ended the mission of its Swift space telescope, after a private satellite failed in its bold bid to rescue the aging spacecraft.That rescue mission was led by the Arizona company Katalyst Space Technologies, whose LINK spacecraft tried to meet up with Swift this summer to boost its orbit. That didn't work out, however, so Swift continues its fall back toward Earth. The telescop... View Source

Apple has just released iOS 27.2, bringing Apple Pencil support to the iPhone Duo. The software update also includes an "Edge Light" feature for the iPhone Duo that's intended to illuminate your face during video calls. Apple previously said the iPhone Duo would add support for the Apple Pencil "later this year." The company's first foldable comes with revamped iOS 27 controls designed to work acr... View Source

Anthropic’s S-1 filing shows it’s not going public out of desperation but, in fact, has a financial war chest, explains Gil Luria, managing director of D.A. Davidson. Luria explains why Anthropic’s structure as a public benefit corporation and its majority voting power controlled by a group of seven people make for a more complicated and unusual structure. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

"Have you ever seen a portal?"The term "cult classic" has been loosely bandied about in cinematic circles until its definition has diluted into nothingness, but never has it been more appropriately applied than to director Richard Kelly’s strange psychological sci-fi thriller, "Donnie Darko", which celebrates its milestone 25th birthday today.Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnel... View Source

From the bright minds that brought you FTX Arena and NBA Top Shot NFT maketplace (where sales last month dropped to $762,781, which is a 99.66 percent decrease compared to the February 2021 peak of $226,350,843), the NBA announced Monday that it has new "preferred" prediction market deals for Kalshi and Polymarket, as well as a memorandum of understanding with the US CFTC about how to manage the r... View Source

The fear of AI has reached a fever pitch. There’s data to support it. According to the Chapman University Survey of American Fears, an annual poll that asks what Americans are “really afraid of,” the fear of AI hurting the political process and economy ranked in third and seventh place, respectively. These fears were only outdone by “corrupt government officials” and the possibility of the US beco... View Source

Discussing Anthropic’s IPO filing, portfolio manager Lori Keith described AI’s shift from pilot projects toward companies capturing measurable economic value. She said Anthropic’s customer growth signals strong demand: nearly 12,000 customers spend at least $100,000 annually, up from about 950 a year earlier, and more than 1,900 spend at least $1 million. Keith said adoption remains early, with en... View Source

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Members of the media are invited to tour a new lunar landing simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley on Thursday, Oct. 29, and Friday, Oct. 30. Using a combination of in-house and partner motion-based simulators, NASA is giving astronauts and engineering support teams simulated experienc... View Source

Are you a Star Trek fan about to beam down to a Halloween party? Maybe you want to give Trick or Treat a Trekkie twist? We've got you covered with costumes based on the iconic sci-fi franchise, from the original series through to Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Discovery and beyond. Adult costumes aside, we've also included outfits for younger Star Trek fans and props to round out your... View Source

The RealReal, a secondhand luxury fashion consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defense system, effectively making it harder for AI agents to shop on its site. The change comes days after The Verge reported that an AI agent could be used to take advantage of The RealReal's item reserve system. On the retailer's website, an item goes "on hold" and is unavailable for other customers to bu... View Source

Anthropic PBC is relying more and more on Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to sell its artificial intelligence technology to customers, despite the three companies being rivals, investors and key suppliers of computing power... View Source

Astronomers have spotted a remarkable gamma-ray burst (GRB) that's a real Incredible Hulk compared to other cosmic explosions of the same type. What makes this GRB so special is the fact that the central engine powering it remained active for around 27 days, flaring in X-rays following the initial blast. That's 20 days longer than the longest previous GRB on record.This record-breaking burst — whi... View Source

Following reports of iPhone Duos with cracked and broken inside screens, often showing a bright line running from the center to the right side, Apple says in a statement to Bloomberg and 9to5Mac that it's aware of "an issue impacting the inner display" on a "small number of iPhone Duo units." If your iPhone Duo is affected, Apple says to contact AppleCare for a replacement. Shortly after launch, i... View Source

As new AI tools sprout up like weeds, it’s becoming remarkably commonplace for people of all walks of life to outsource their social interactions to the whims of the computer. But for former Google exec and CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer, AI is doing a lot more than just making dinner reservations — instead becoming a crutch for the basic tasks of parenthood. Mayer’s latest project is Dazzle, a startu... View Source

Anthropic filed for its long-awaited IPO, a landmark moment in an industry that is growing ever-hungrier for cash to power ahead. Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

With only minor changes, the XM4C is more of a re-release than a refresh of the XM4. When Sony announced the WH-1000XM4C headphones, I was perplexed. A product revamp usually includes at least one or two significant improvements. Or if it's a nostalgia play, it's from a decades-old product and not one that came out in 2020. Beyond a few minor tweaks, though, the XM4C are remarkably similar to thei... View Source

Dutch investors will likely ditch their cryptocurrency if the asset class is carved out of a shift to a new investor-friendly wealth tax, industry groups are warning... View Source

SpaceX is shooting for new heights with its upcoming Starship test flight, and the booster tapped for the mission is in its final stretch of preparations before the mission. The Super Heavy booster for Flight Test 15, Booster 22, underwent a static test fire on Sunday (Oct. 25), igniting all of its Raptor 3 engines for about 15 seconds. "Full duration 33-engine static fire for the Super Heavy boos... View Source

Instagram is announcing a big push into longform horizontal video, which the platform is calling "Features." Instagram boss Adam Mosseri has been against doing longform video on the platform "for a long time," he says in a six-and-a-half-minute video (here's the widescreen version) with VP of product Tessa Lyons, saying that "one of my concerns has been, how do we make sure that we keep Instagram... View Source

When Netflix Inc. Co-Chief Executive Officer Ted Sarandos invited Bela Bajaria to his office around 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday Oct. 14, she didn’t think much of it. These kind of casual drop-ins were common for the two executives, who worked in adjoining offices on the 11th floor of Netflix’s Hollywood headquarters... View Source

NASA/Carla Escamilla NASA test pilot Mike Lippert poses for a photo ahead of his first time flying the agency’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft on Oct. 21, 2026. The X-59 has flown numerous times since its inaugural flight in November 2025; its first supersonic flight was on June 5, 2026. Lippert took off from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and landed one h... View Source

Tesla has expanded the Houston geofence size to nearly the size of the Austin geofence. The robotaxi expansion and inflection in miles have caused Barclay to increase the price target to $450. Shares are up 6% this morning to $395. The unsupervised miles are over 500,000 miles per week to 3.3 million miles cumulative last ... Read more... View Source

A portable console that’s just as powerful as your desktop? Yes, please... View Source

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to up to 60,000 employees across the US, UK, Canada, and India. In a message to employees, Microsoft chief people officer Amy Coleman writes that this gives staff members "the opportunity to leave Microsoft with financial support and career planning resources" as the company looks to trim staff without another round of layoffs. Sources familiar with the situ... View Source

Jason Greenberg, executive chairman of tech, media and telecom investment banking at Jefferies, says markets are distinguishing between winners and losers as AI infrastructure spending evolves from chips and systems toward software and, eventually, enterprise applications. He speaks on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra was blighted by some nuisance bugs at launch, but now the company has released some new firmware to resolve them. The October 22 release addresses three issues notable issues in particular: screen flickering, unexpected restarts, and lengthy reboot times, alongside unspecified "additional bug fixes and general performance improvements," according to Microsoft's ann... View Source

Gambling ads have become practically inescapable — plastered all over subways, billboards, websites, and TV broadcasts, all in an effort to lure in an audience struggling to make ends meet. Experts warn of an gambling addiction epidemic, as an alarming proportion of the country admit to having used a sports betting app at least once or placing bets on the outcome of an event on a prediction platfo... View Source

Anthropic PBC filed for an IPO, warning its technology carried existential risks even as it moved a step closer to being the first company focused primarily on developing the most advanced artificial intelligence models to go public. The company behind Claude expects to begin trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT, a filing Monday with the US Securities and Exchange Commis... View Source

The Remarkable Paper Pro Move is essentially a digital notepad, with a skinny 7.3-inch E Ink screen that’s easy to hold one-handed to jot down notes or ideas. At $449 new, it’s not exactly cheap, but buying refurbished is a way to save, as always. Remarkable itself offers the refurbished Paper Pro Move for that same price with a polymer Book Folio case and a Marker Plus that has a built-in eraser... View Source

Daniel Flax, Neuberger senior research analyst and managing director, says Anthropic's S-1 signals an "extraordinary growth trajectory ahead." Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Flax also acknowledges Anthropic faces challenges from competition. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, left, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman signed a Memorandum of Understanding advancing agriculture and Earth science during an event at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on Saturday, Oct. 24.Credit: NASA NASA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding expanding cooperation in Earth observation, geo... View Source

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The James Webb Space Telescope's stunning view of the emission nebula N159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. (Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, E. Sabbi, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb)Acknowledgement: M. H. Özsaraç)The NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope has captured a breathtaking view of a majestic star-forming region shining 161,000 light-years from Earth in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way known a... View Source

Today, I’m talking to Kevin Roose, journalist and author of the new book The AGI Chronicles, which details the recent and explosive transformation of the AI industry. Kevin was a longtime New York Times reporter and host of the popular podcast Hard Fork, but he and friend of the show Casey Newton just left the Times to start the all-new tech podcast Machine Gods, which launched last week. Kevin an... View Source

Over the weekend, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk issued a stark warning: investing in AI cloud computing companies is ill-advised and could result in “guppy-level death and consolidation.” Analysts have been raising concerns that leading hyperscaler CoreWeave could soon collapse under its own weight, pointing out that it’s taken on over $50 billion in debt, while burning through cash at an alarming rate. It... View Source

Anthropic PBC has filed its long-awaited IPO and is expected to begin trading on the on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol ANT. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley lead the IPO. "Bloomberg Open Interest" has more. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

This 13,800-year-old Alaskan base camp is rewriting how the Americas were settled... View Source

Anthropic has filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, preparing the company behind Claude to beat OpenAI to the punch with an IPO. In a filing with the SEC, Anthropic said it plans to list on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker symbol "ANT." The AI company confidentially filed with the SEC earlier this year in June, but the public document reveals more details, as we... View Source

Anthropic PBC filed for an IPO, moving a step closer to being the first company focused primarily on developing the most advanced artificial intelligence models to go public... View Source

New AI-powered research questions whether a majority of Earth’s mass extinctions were as abrupt as previously believed... View Source

A computer running COBOL 73, an antiquated computer programming language, awaits taxpayer information entries at the Internal Revenue Service in Austin, Tx., on Friday, June 10, 2022. | Image: Getty Images What do the IRS, banks, airlines, and government infrastructure around the world have in common? They're all running on systems propped up by antique computer code that nobody dares touch, lest... View Source

“Right now, the bond side of things, the rate side of things, is probably the easier trade to be in,” says Max Kettner, chief multi-asset strategist at HSBC Bank. He explains the factors behind his cautious view of equities through the end of the year amid what he calls “narrative bingo.” He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Researchers searched for a signal of pain inside large language models—and they may have actually found one... View Source

SpaceX signed a roughly $40 billion equipment-finance lease with Apollo Global Management Inc. to pay for the chips needed to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions... View Source

Operation Spider's Web proved $2,000 toys can hunt supersonic giants. Now the Pentagon is rattled... View Source

Earth almost always has more than one moon. The others are just very small, and they never stay long — but they could provide accessible and unique insights into the solar system.Temporary satellites, or mini-moons, are small asteroids that wander into Earth’s neighborhood and get captured briefly by our planet’s gravity. A typical one stays about nine months and circles Earth roughly three times... View Source

Company imitates reflection of sun from mirrors, prompting pushback from some scientists, environmentalists and California localsLocals in a rural area of California were recently startled to see dazzlingly bright light shining down from nearby mountains at night, illuminating a swathe of the desert below.Unbeknown to them, the strange nocturnal illumination was the latest step in a company’s plan... View Source

The billionaire’s companies are in two very different positions... View Source

The full "Hunter's Moon" wowed stargazers with a breathtaking display of natural light when it rose to dominate the autumn sky overnight on Oct. 25-26. Here are our favorite photos captured from around the world.October's full moon is often known as the Hunter's Moon because it traditionally rose around the time that hunters would take to the newly harvested fields to catch animals to prepare as f... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc. is seeking to raise as much as $95 billion from selling common and preferred stock, tapping investors for support in the race to lead artificial intelligence’s development... View Source

Malaysia’s biggest opposition party laid out its economic ambitions for the four states it controls, including plans to attract more investment, as it grows more confident about prospects of taking power nationally... View Source

AI agents will trade up to 65% of US investment grade, Barclays says... View Source

NASA is overhauling how it selects and develops science missions, with changes intended to reduce costs, streamline competition and get missions into space faster.The new approach, called Competition Model 2.0 (CM 2.0), was announced on Oct. 21 in an open letter from Nicky Fox, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD), to the NASA science community. The changes, directed... View Source

It was about to be a long night in Huntington, West Virginia. Mayor Patrick Farrell stood before 10 members of city council in a white dress shirt and dark blazer studded with an American flag pin. Behind him sat his constituents and residents from neighboring towns. Some had their arms crossed, while others held a steady glare in his direction. Less than a week before the July 13th meeting, a 33-... View Source

It's obvious that things are getting more expensive, and there are plenty of reasons behind the surge in prices — whether it's wars or inflation or companies padding their profit margins. But with the release of AI agents like Meta's Muse, tech companies are promising consumers that agents will start saving them tons of money by finding the best deals. According to today's guest, Lindsay Owens, th... View Source

Volkswagen AG and Xpeng Inc. secured approvals to trial autonomous driving systems on public roads in China, signaling a renewed push by authorities for larger-scale deployment following a safety review of the technology... View Source

Tata Communications Ltd. plans to spend as much as $450 million to create a long-haul fiber optic network linking India’s key artificial intelligence hubs, building out the country’s infrastructure and readiness for the global AI economy... View Source

While electric vehicles have gone mainstream, shipping has lagged behind. But now, the humble passenger ferry may be the most primed to make battery-powered boats a viable option. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Elon Musk said SpaceX has closed a $40 billion debt deal to pay for the chips needed to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions. People familiar with the discussions, though, told Bloomberg News that talks over pricing were still ongoing. Bloomberg's Ruhell Amin explains. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Palantir Technologies Inc. has spent years selling governments and companies its data analytics. In South Korea, it’s also selling $170 windbreakers — and they are flying off the shelves... View Source

Chinese food-delivery giant Meituan is seeking to raise the equivalent of about $1 billion through its offshore yuan bond offering, according to people familiar with the matter, as it joins a growing wave of issuers tapping the dim sum debt market... View Source

Private Infrastructure Development Group, which operates in Africa and Asia, plans to invest at least $1 billion each year until 2030 as more investors increase allocation to facilities... View Source

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Two leveraged exchange-traded funds tied to SK Hynix Inc. will be liquidated just months after their debut in the US, as investor appetite for the artificial intelligence trade moderates... View Source

APOD Science APOD 2026 October 26 – M42: The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. M42: The Great Nebula in Orion Explanation: The Great Nebula in... View Source

Japan’s government said it will convene a ministerial meeting on Monday to address cyber threats as a growing number of data breaches expose the nation’s online vulnerabilities... View Source

Ukraine already has and is expanding alternatives for high-speed interceptor drones that reduce or eliminate dependence on Starlink/Starshield. Russia has launched thousands of Iranian-designed Shahed drones at Ukraine, resulting in hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths and heavy infrastructure damage. Increasingly, they’ve been countered by Ukraine. The main options in use or under development ar... View Source

Ukraine uses both commercial/consumer Starlink terminals and the military-oriented Starshield service. The distinction matters. High-speed military use is typically associated with authorized Starshield configurations rather than unmodified commercial plans. Musk publicly stated that Starshield (the military version) is owned and controlled by the US government, and that speed/usage limits are dec... View Source

Asia’s busiest earnings week will put the AI trade to a major test as investors look for proof that billions in investment are translating into profits, and that growth is spreading beyond tech... View Source

SK Hynix Inc. plans to return about 80% of the gains from selling down its stake in Japan’s Kioxia Holdings Corp. to shareholders through a special dividend of about 16 trillion won ($12 billion), the DongA Ilbo newspaper reported... View Source

A programming slump and talent backlash prompted a major regime change at Netflix... View Source

Elon Musk said SpaceX has closed a $40 billion debt deal to pay for the chips it needs to fuel its artificial intelligence ambitions... View Source

The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest... View Source

As is tradition, iFixit has torn open the latest iPhone and laid its parts bare on a table. It found some interesting details about how Apple might be hiding the crease on the Duo's folding screen and gave it a 5/10 repairability score. That might not seem particularly high, but it's the best score the site has given to a foldable yet. The internal screen's matte nano-texture cover doesn't just ma... View Source

Tesla has 970 unsupervised robotaxi registered in Texas and the crowdsource count for Florida is at least 38. 1008 unsupervised Tesla robotaxi. Miles and unsupervised vehicles are increasing by 20% per week. Hundreds of cybercabs will be added Dallas and Houston in November... View Source

In my mind, Spooky Season music comes in two distinct flavors. There are the fun, occasionally goofy songs like "The Monster Mash" and John Carpenter's "Halloween Theme." Then there is the genuinely terrifying: Throbbing Gristle, The Body, or Scott Walker's The Drift. This 2006 album from the singer-songwriter is truly upsetting. On it, Walker explores death, disease, and tragedy. But not just fro... View Source

Social media and the iPhone Duo subreddit are filled with reports of Apple's foldable failing quickly and in spectacular fashion. Some users report having the phone for only a few hours before the hinge seems to catch on something, then audibly crack and break the screen. Tellingly, the cracks all seem to happen in the same place. YouTuber CuriousHagi was able to reproduce the cracked screen durin... View Source

Launcher-like pinned tabs, pop-over glance view, and more make Zen my go to browser. | Image: Zen Browser I know many of you are mourning the loss of the Arc browser, and I get it. It felt like the first app in a long time to really offer a new approach to browser design. Atlassian bought the company last year and shifted its focus to developing Dia, its even more AI-focused browser. And soon enou... View Source

The stick and face buttons are too close for comfort. | Photo: Cameron Faulkner / The Verge The Crkd Nitro Deck was a saving grace for the original Nintendo Switch. The slide-on $59.99 accessory brought Hall effect sticks to drift-plagued consoles - no need to open up your Joy-Con for a complicated repair. The Nitro Deck 2, made for both the original Switch and the larger Switch 2, continues the t... View Source

Epicentr, a major Ukrainian home improvement retailer, said its business had been “destroyed” by a rapid-fire succession of Russian airstrikes on its distribution centers, with the latest ones coming over the weekend... View Source

Instagram is continuing its expansion into living rooms with Instagram for TV, for Apple TV. The company first started testing a version of the platform focused on Reels, live streams, and other video content, blown up for a bigger screen in December of last year. Then, in June, it launched a slew of new features for the app, which is available for Amazon's Fire TV, Samsung Smart TVs, and Google T... View Source

What if it’s not drug companies or dodgy dealers trying to keep you hooked, but rehab? It sounds like a twist straight from a Philip K. Dick novel, but that’s what allegedly happened with a treatment center in Southern California. Prosecutors accuse two local rehab kingpins, Nathan Young, 39, and his father David Young, 71, of running a devious scheme that involved luring recovering addicts with i... View Source

JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s private bank is using artificial intelligence to onboard clients, for investment research and other tasks in an effort to increase productivity among its wealth advisers, according to its Europe, Middle East and Africa head, Pablo Garnica... View Source

For all the controversy they’ve caught this year, Flock cameras only collect and store license plate data from passing vehicles. But the WALL-E-esque delivery robots now trundling through America’s cities are bristling with cameras and sensors that help them navigate the bustling world around them as they make their way to customers’ doorsteps — and according to a pair of new lawsuits, you might b... View Source

Europe has fallen behind the US in the race to build the biggest AI models, constrained by smaller capital markets and a fragmented business environment. France-based Mistral is betting it can compete differently using open-source models to offer companies lower costs, more control over their data and greater technological sovereignty. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Also: The company rolls out a retail store tool to reduce wasted inventory... View Source

In case there was any doubt over the powerful tide of anti-AI sentiment, a new poll shows that most Americans are incredibly pessimistic about the technology. The poll, conducted in a collaboration between the Washington Post, ABC News, and the research and consulting firm IPSOS, showed that 57 percent of Americans now believe AI is outright bad for society, while just 42 percent say it’s good. An... View Source

Three of the biggest and most important technology companies in the world are expected to show healthy growth when they report earnings this week... View Source

On Oct. 25, 1671, the Italian astronomer Giovanni Cassini discovered a new moon at Saturn! Iapetus was the second moon anyone had ever found orbiting Saturn, and it was the first of four moons Cassini would discover at the ringed planet.The Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens had discovered Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons, about six years earlier. After Cassini found Iapetus, he also found th... View Source

The mods at r/opensource posted new submission rules that, among other things, banned projects that use AI. The post made Saturday evening opens by saying, "If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it's not welcome on r/opensource. AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community." The new rules have set off a firestorm in the comments, and even spurred th... View Source

Meta Platforms Inc.’s $349-and-up Ray-Ban Meta Audio, announced last month, are an odd proposition. On the one hand, they’re more expensive than some of the company’s entry-level models and yet they do many of the same things:  play music, make calls, answer questions through Meta’s artificial intelligence assistant, or let the wearer dictate texts and audio messages. Users can connect their calen... View Source

Go ahead and use AI to make your video game — if you want the result to be derivative trash, that is. Masahiro Sakurai, the creator of the iconic Super Smash Bros and Kirby franchises, recently unloaded on how developers are using AI to “churn out” video games, saying the tech is speeding up development time at the expense of quality and originality.  The topic came up in an interview with the Jap... View Source

On Bloomberg This Weekend, MetLife Investment Management Chief Market Strategist Drew Matus examines how AI investment is driving markets, corporate spending and parts of the US economy as investors look to Big Tech earnings for evidence that the spending will pay off. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Matus discusses risks from rising technology investment and what markets nee... View Source

This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industryThe US military has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions about whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor.The... View Source

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more about AI's impact on the web, follow Emma Roth. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started The digital publishing industry has relied on Google for a very long time. Many outlets spent time and money optimizing their webpa... View Source

These elusive and reactive particles have been challenging to hold on to and even more challenging to study, but a new method paves the way for tests on the differences between matter and antimatter... View Source

Chatbots are building intimate “algorithmic self-portraits” of users as they retain information to offer a hyper-personalized experience, researchers warn. A recent study, conducted by a coalition of scientists in Germany, India and the Netherlands and presented at the ACM Web Conference 2026, investigated the ways that OpenAI’s ChatGPT has tracked and made sense of user inputs to develop comprehe... View Source

Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing Co. a printed circuit board maker, raised about HK$9.9 billion ($1.3 billion) in Hong Kong’s biggest listing in nearly two months, which hit a volatile market for companies related to the artificial intelligence build out... View Source

While oil is known to float, new research finds that over time it can permeate even extremely deep marine habitats, with animal populations declining by as much as 80 percent... View Source

Microsoft’s new AI is surpassing the abilities of human doctors — according to its own study, at least. The research, which was peer-reviewed and published in the prestigious journal Science, showed that the medical model, dubbed the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), was over twice as accurate than generalist physicians at diagnosing patients. And unlike previous studies, this one fo... View Source

The October full moon rises tonight! Here's everything you need to know about the "Hunter's Moon," including where to see it, how it got its name and other tricks of the light and mind that could conspire to create a truly spectacular lunar light show.October's moon reaches 100% illumination at 12:12 a.m. EDT (0412 GMT) on Oct. 26, as the lunar disk shines opposite the sun in Earth's sky. The shad... View Source

Paris Marx, author of Hyperscale, has been tracking global data center development for years. The US has a lot to learn from what’s happened everywhere from Ireland to New Zealand... View Source

Despite the significant investments ploughed into artificial intelligence it has provided “zero payoff” to corporate America outside of technology, according to Apollo Global Management Inc. Chief Economist Torsten Slok... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 25 – Dark… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Dark Matter in a Simulated Universe Explanation: Is our unive... View Source

Masayoshi Son of SoftBank Group Corp. chose locations in Malaysia for $50 billion in technology investments, the country’s prime minister said, an outlay that would accelerate the billionaire’s global bet on AI infrastructure... View Source

The United Arab Emirates shut more beaches after an oil spill in the Persian Gulf raised concerns over environmental and health impacts... View Source

Acrimonious political debate in Australia is escalating risks to legislators, one of the country’s most senior police officers said after a lawmaker suffered serious injuries following an alleged attack... View Source

Bad people violating the terms of service for commercial passenger planes. Mixing civilian and military uses is not good. IF SpaceX civilian products were used for military offensive purposes then Starlink would become high priority targets for other militaries. Leaked documents from a joint forum and reports from investigative outlets indicate a three-stage approach to ... Read more... View Source

Elon Musk / SpaceX has long restricted Starlink (the commercial/civilian service) from offensive military uses such as guiding drones, consistent with its terms of service, and offers a separate military product (Starshield). This is common for technology companies and especially satellite companies. Just because SpaceX Starlink is the best and most important unjammable communication does ... Read... View Source

Pessimism has gripped Chinese stocks, with no end in sight for a deepening selloff as investors confront the realities of an economy that’s weak enough to erode corporate profits but not to trigger forceful new stimulus... View Source

BBC's Blue Planet III is looking to prove its authenticity by leaving in the less-than-perfect shots. Previous incarnations of the nature series were defined by their gorgeous, crystal-clear footage that seemed almost too good to be real. But one dead giveaway of AI is when things look too polished and seamless. To counter that, Blue Planet III goes warts and all. Executive Producer Elizabeth Whit... View Source

Elon Musk reportedly ordered SpaceX to throttle Ukraine's Starlink access... View Source

On Thursday, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act into law, requiring disclosures on AI-generated ads. The law requires any ad - whether it's a still image, video, audio, or text - that "has been significantly modified or generated by artificial intelligence" to include a label in the same format as the ad itself. That applies to TV commer... View Source

On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first-ever photo of Earth from space. While these grainy, black-and-white images might not look like much today, they were a huge deal at the time, because no one had ever seen Earth from space before. The V-2 rocket launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It carried a 35-millimeter motion picture camera that captured a new frame ev... View Source

On Episode 233 of This Week In Space, Tariq Malik and guest host Rick Jenet are joined by Dr. Amanda Smith-Hackler, the Director of Education for the Universities Space Research Association and Principal Investigator for the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Scholars and STEM Workforce Development Programs, about the new and exciting opportunities available to young people seeking to enter the... View Source

Lindsay Powell, who releases records under the name Fielded, has spent most of her career subverting expectations and genre conventions. According to their Bandcamp page, Fielded started as an experimental noise project before growing into something closer to R&B. But from moment one, her take on the genre was restless, relentlessly playing with what R&B even means. Her first album, Ninety... View Source

Like gas station kratom, research-grade peptides have become widely available for consumers at convenience stores across the United States. Yet as one investigation into peptides sourced from a New York City bodega found, ease of access comes with a high price: your health. In new reporting on the peptide trade, CBS took a hard look at gray market peptide products available across the US, includin... View Source

Technical colleges are betting a surge in demand for skilled workers will lift profits, though the payoff may take time as they expand campuses and programs to accommodate more students... View Source

A new study found Grok's AI overwhelmingly recommends Republican candidates while OpenAI's GPT favors Democrats, with the two AI models disagreeing in more than 90% of nearly 500 election races... View Source

LG’s C6 OLED TV is on sale in multiple sizes starting at $999.99 ($300 off). | Image: LG Black Friday is still over a month away, but if you’re hoping to upgrade your TV, you don’t need to wait until November. LG has already kicked off its early Black Friday sale, letting you save on the LG C6 and various soundbars through November 1st. Right now, for instance, you can snag a 55-inch C6 for an all... View Source

The Lenovo Yoga 9n is a pricey workstation laptop, but being a 2-in-1 also makes it fun. | Photo: Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge It looks like the long-rumored touchscreen MacBook might actually get announced next week, and after using the Lenovo Yoga 9n for our testing of Nvidia's RTX Spark platform, it got me thinking: this is a lot of what I want from a touchscreen MacBook. Like the Apple... View Source

Thanks to the rise of military-style imaging drones, AI-integrated surveillance towers, and automatic license plate readers, police across the United States have more eyes in the sky than ever before. So why on Earth are university police in Florida spending six figures on a ridiculous-looking quadcopter that fits just one single officer at a time? The answer to that question is harder to find tha... View Source

The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson tells Bloomberg This Weekend that AI offers powerful tools for businesses but poses significant risks to media, while its broader economic impact continues to lag behind rapidly advancing capabilities. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Thompson also discusses the discipline of distance running and how the sport shaped his relationship with his... View Source

It feels like Apple's Welcome Home event just happened. And the iPhone Duo announcement isn't all that far in our rearview mirror, either. Yet, the company is back with another launch, focused on the MacBook Pro, it looks like. Its "Pro and tell" event is scheduled for October 28th at 1PM ET in Los Angeles. While obviously nothing is confirmed yet, it sure seems like we're finally going to get tha... View Source

Doomsaying about the coming AI apocalypse is no longer relegated to outbursts from a few tech billionaires. Now, the major American banks whose policies dictate the flow of capital throughout the world are starting to worry about rogue AI, preparing contingency plans for the “day after” a theoretical AI-driven catastrophe. That’s according to new reporting from Axios, which notes that banks are pr... View Source

This could finally unravel one of the hardest problems in science... View Source

Across several decades in Hollywood, Caleb Deschanel has seen a lot. He served as cinematographer on films like The Passion of the Christ and The Patriot, worked on sequences in The Godfather and Titanic, and directed a few episodes of Twin Peaks. Even still, nothing could quite prepare him for his first stop-motion project: working as the cinematographer on Wildwood, the latest release from Coral... View Source

Linx Dating founder and CEO Amy Andersen tells Bloomberg This Weekend that newly wealthy AI creators are fueling demand for high-end matchmaking as busy professionals seek an alternative to dating apps. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Andersen explains how her firm vets and recruits potential partners for selective clients, with matchmaking packages that can exceed $500,000... View Source

Lee Chang Dong's seventh feature film, Possible Love, is inspired by true events from 2009, when a Korean conglomerate fired a third of its staff - 2,600 employees - after which many died by suicide. Possible Love is the latest in a long line of Lee movies that engage with themes of class or labor or religion or compressed modernity, that uniquely Korean affliction, without feeling didactic. A dif... View Source

In October 2024, as The New York Times first reported, a mother in Florida named Megan Garcia filed what was then a first-of-its-kind lawsuit accusing the chatbot startup Character.AI of killing her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III. The young user took his life in April 2024 after months of extensive and deeply intimate conversations with chatbots, or AI “Characters,” on the platform. Garcia’s l... View Source

On Bloomberg This Weekend, Gideon Lewis-Kraus explains how advanced chipmaking depends on a deeply interconnected global network of specialized companies, including ASML and TSMC, making semiconductor supply chains extraordinarily difficult to replicate or relocate. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Lewis-Kraus describes the remarkable engineering behind ASML’s EUV machines and... View Source

It didn’t take long for fans to figure out that the fourth season of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" was going to be unlike any season of "Star Trek" before it. The entire season was one giant gimmick, and that gimmick was shoving "Trek" into as many genres as possible and often directly adapting classic films from those genres. You could argue that an entire season of gimmick episodes is a bold r... View Source

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 149, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy It Actually Feels Like Fall Now At Least In My Neighborhood), and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about Demis Hassabis and computer chips and permafrost, enjoying the first episodes of Machine Gods,... View Source

The vaccine is personalized to a patient’s tumor, and results from the Phase 3 trial are yet another example of the promise of mRNA vaccines in treating cancer... View Source

Unreasonably wealthy AI plutocrats are pouring billions of dollars into US elections. Elon Musk alone has pumped more than $445 million into Republican campaigns ahead of the midterms, after spending a near-equal sum to get president Donald Trump elected in the last election cycle. Leading The Future, a Super PAC backed by OpenAI and Palantir cofounders and prominent tech venture capitalists inclu... View Source

Benjamin Netanyahu said he is exploring the use of cryptocurrency to circumvent potential financial sanctions on Israel, drawing criticism from opposition figures who said it would turn the Jewish state into an economic pariah like Iran... View Source

Meta’s stocks have taken a serious beating lately, with its price shedding more than 13 percent over the past month. That fact isn’t likely to ease pressure in the trillion-dollar megacorp’s board room, as tensions between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his board of directors reach a boiling point. As the Wall Street Journal phrased it in new reporting, the conflict between Zuckerberg and his board have... View Source

The spooky season is officially here! To celebrate, we've put together a list of five Halloween-themed skywatching targets that you can enjoy with nothing but the naked eye or binoculars and, of course, clear skies. Over millennia, the night sky has helped shape human beliefs. In return, we have imprinted our myths, stories and perceptions upon it, seeing monsters and mythology in the twinkling li... View Source

When he started flying unmanned aircraft in combat, “Ray” was flying some of Ukraine’s earliest mid-range strike drones, on missions of about 100 kilometers with a warhead about the weight of a bowling ball... View Source

The Webb telescope sees tiny red dots everywhere. Astronomers can’t agree on what they are, but some believe they may be enormous stars with black holes inside... View Source

SpaceX says 440,000 Nvidia Vera Rubin chips will be running by the end of Q2 2027. My model takes SpaceX from about 3 GW of AI compute at the end of 2026 to 19–23 GW by the end of 2027, with Minihard payback that could be about six months. Where will the demand for the ... Read more... View Source

Japanese IT services provider GMO Internet Group Inc. said it has asked the government to deploy active cyber defense as the company works to contain the fallout from a hacking incident... View Source

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 24 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Rosetta’s Selfie Explanation: This Rosetta spacecraft selfie was s... View Source

Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia’s security cannot be compromised as he held fast on the government’s partial ban of Google’s navigation app Waze and said authorities aren’t ruling out even wider restrictions... View Source

Western Digital Corp’s finance chief brushed off worries that spending on artificial intelligence has peaked, saying that demand for data storage is still increasing after the company’s capital spending plans spooked investors... View Source

The S&P 500 fell for a second day on Friday as oil prices rose and technology megacaps treaded water after Thursday’s selloff. Chips stocks offered some relief, as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index, or the SOX, ended the day higher... View Source

OpenAI has begun cutting off internet access for its most capable artificial intelligence models during the training process in response to prior incidents in which its systems breached other companies... View Source

927 registered Texas robotaxi. 38 crowdsource count in Florida. 965 and Florida is an undercount. Almost 1000. There will be over 2 million FSD subscribers by the end of 2026. Over 300 cybercabs will be added to Dallas and Houston in November. On track to 5000 to 10000 Tesla unsupervised robotaxi end of December or ... Read more... View Source

Rob Hornby says AI costs are falling faster than those of comparable technologies historically, but remain substantial. He describes companies as being in a transition period: investment is underway while returns are uneven, and the shift from flat fees to per-token charges has exposed costs. He speaks with Romaine Bostick & Jess Menton on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Stephanie Guild, CIO of Robinhood, joins Scarlet Fu and Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Money." They discuss how she is seeing consumers take advantage of the pullback in AI, having cash on the side to invest, and how Robinhood users can now use agentic AI agents to invest on their behalf. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Close 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 BlackRock Deputy CIO, Global Fixed Income Russ Brownback, AXA Group Chief Economist Gilles Moëc, Mizuho Securities Senior Equity Research Analyst Lloyd Walmsley, AlixPartners Co-CEO Rob Hornby, Interactive Brokers Chief Strategist Steve... View Source

4 min readNASA’s Swift Mission Ends, Leaves Behind Scientific Bonanza NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has ended its science mission now that the spacecraft is orbiting less than 171 miles (275 kilometers) above Earth’s surface. The greater atmospheric drag at this height prevents the satellite’s telescopes from steadily gazing at their astronomical targets. Swift conducted its final observat... View Source

The UK announced £100 million ($134 million) for a AI Biosecurity Lab which will be supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, part of a raft of measures designed to improve the government’s ability to understand and tackle the risks posed by the technology... View Source

Before astronauts return to the lunar surface, NASA will first conduct one of the most ambitious and complex test missions in the agency’s history.  Launching in 2027, Artemis III will send NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Frank Rubio, Andre Douglas, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano aboard the Orion spacecraft into low Earth orbit to perform a series of demonstrations with te... View Source

SpaceX launched its newest batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites today (Oct. 23) from the California coast.The spacecraft, Starlink Group 15-15, were stacked 27 high inside the payload fairing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off from Pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 6:48 p.m. EDT (2248 GMT; 3:48 p.m. local time in California).The rocket's first stage booster, designated... View Source

During a lengthy news conference on Friday, NASA provided a detailed overview of how it plans to return astronauts to the lunar surface as soon as 2028 as part of its Artemis Program. Although much of the information behind these plans has been previously reported at Ars Technica and elsewhere, this marked the first time NASA has laid them out in detail and acknowledged some substantial changes in... View Source

Brian Kelly discusses findings from The Points Guy’s State of Loyalty report, saying its focus is on where consumer trust and loyalty are growing—not simply whether people are loyal overall. Fuel and dining programs posted 88% consumer satisfaction, which Kelly links to rising everyday costs: consumers are using rewards for immediate savings while wages stagnate and expenses climb. He speaks with... View Source

7 Min Read NASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon Missions As NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human landing system providers Blue Origin and SpaceX have streamlined the designs and changed both concepts of operations for its future crewed landers. Since NASA established in... View Source

NASA just gave us our best look yet at its Artemis III moon-lander test flight.The agency laid out a detailed concept of operations for Artemis III today (Oct. 23) during a press conference at Kennedy Space Center, stressing how important the flight is to its moon plans and how challenging it will be to make everything go right."We're launching three of the most powerful rockets in the world, and... View Source