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Varda Space is planning to send medicines from United Therapeutics into orbit to explore the use of microgravity in creating drugs. This is one of the first commercial research deals to develop medicine molecules in space and return them to Earth, though the missions are still in the early stages. Varda CEO Will Bruey joins Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

David Trujillo, partner at TPG, joins Dani Burger on "Bloomberg Deals." OpenAI this week unveiled a new consulting and services business, aimed at driving higher adoption rates of its technology across companies. The new joint-venture is backed by billions of private equity dollars, and led by PE powerhouse TPG. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

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Varda Space Industries Inc. is expanding plans for orbital pharmaceutical manufacturing beyond its recent success in crystallizing HIV drug Ritonavir in space, Chief Executive Officer Will Bruey said... View Source

Copilot features are now available on Edge for mobile... View Source

 US business leaders including Apple Inc.’s Tim Cook and Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk on Trump’s first overseas trip since waging war in the Middle East — a 36-hour visit with Xi Jinping that’s expected to encompass the war, tariffs and the self-ruled island of Taiwan. The list of attendees until Tuesday had not included Huang, whose company makes the chips at the heart of the AI boom and has been... View Source

Fanuc Corp. shares soar after the company announced that it would tie up with Alphabet Inc.’s Google in an announcement on Wednesday, broadening expectations for physical AI with robotics companies... View Source

Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people familiar with the matter, setting the stage for what could be its largest funding round yet. The Claude maker would then be valued at more than $900 billion. Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Blackstone Inc.-owned data center firm AirTrunk is marketing a $2.3 billion loan to fund a Malaysia project, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a slew of tech-linked financings in Southeast Asia spurred by the artificial intelligence boom... View Source

In South Korea’s $4.6 trillion stock market, signs of euphoria are popping up everywhere... View Source

A federal judge cited “red flags” about a proposed $1.5 million deal between Elon Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission to end the agency’s lawsuit alleging the world’s richest person waited too long in 2022 to reveal his growing stake in Twitter Inc... 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 BlackRock’s Gargi Chaudhuri, Liquid Death Founder & CEO Mike Cessario, Citigroup’s Managing Director Jason Bazinet, Disney & Coca-Cola Board Member Carolyn Everson, 248 Ventures Chief Investment Strategist Lindsey Bell... View Source

Bankers were still putting the final touches on Alphabet Inc.’s blockbuster $17 billion of bond sales when word started to spread Monday morning on Wall Street: the company is already hawking more debt... View Source

Blackstone Digital Infrastructure Trust Inc. raised $1.75 billion in a US initial public offering, as investors’ appetite for artificial intelligence infrastructure shows no sign of easing... View Source

It can now shoot at a stellar 30 fps with no blackout and capture 8K 30p video... View Source

AI giant wafer chipmaker Cerebgas is raising its IPO price $185 per share instead of earlier $150-$160 price range. The order book was oversubscribed 20+ times. Bloomberg reports they are offering 30 million shares and will raise ~$5.55 billion. The order book is over 20x+ oversubscribed. Cerebras will try to challenge NVIDIA. Amazon plans to ... Read more... View Source

Short sellers eying China’s hottest AI firms have found the going hard with so little of their shares publicly traded. That scarcity premium may come to an end in July as stock lockups expire... View Source

The bill appears to be gaining new momentum... View Source

OpenAI may be a marquee corporate name but working with the tech giant is business as usual for TPG Inc... View Source

And, brace yourself, Microsoft is also testing a new startup experience... View Source

The Trump administration is fighting for the right to keep some social media moderation advocates out of the US. On Wednesday, US District Court Judge James Boasberg heard arguments in a lawsuit between the nonprofit Coalition for Independent Technology Research (CITR) and Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other Trump administration officials. The suit concerns a policy that allows restricting vi... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss what to expect from the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and China's Xi Jinping, as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gets added to the trip last minute. Plus, Anthropic is looking to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing at a valuation of more than $900 billion, in what could be its largest funding round yet. And, we speak with Andur... View Source

There are single and dual probe models available... View Source

Microsoft Edge is adding a new feature that will allow its Copilot AI chatbot to gather information from all of your open tabs. When you start a conversation with Copilot, you can ask the chatbot questions about what's in your tabs, compare the products you're looking at, summarize your open articles, and more. In its announcement, Microsoft says you can "select which experiences you want or leave... View Source

Cerebras Systems Inc. expects to price its US initial public offering at $185 per share, according to people familiar with the matter, as the artificial intelligence chipmaker seizes on the surging demand for semiconductors... View Source

The history tab might be the most useful feature X has added in forever... View Source

In the ongoing fight for content and talent, YouTube is pitching itself as the connector between the creators and advertisers - and marketing its creators not just as the future of social media, but also of advertising, TV, streaming, and entertainment more broadly. At the company's annual advertiser event in New York on Wednesday, YouTube introduced a new slate of exclusive shows coming to the pl... View Source

Cisco Systems Inc. gained as much as 17% in late trading after the company delivered a better-than-anticipated sales forecast and announced plans to cut thousands of jobs, an attempt to focus on the fast-growing AI market... View Source

Advertising has become big business for the streamer... View Source

The 1980's kids classic 'Space and Beyond' is back as a stunning interactive comic... View Source

Cisco's fourth-quarter sales forecast topped estimates and the company announced plans to cut thousands of jobs. Lindsey Bell of 248 Ventures reacts to the report on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

A Wilhelm one, no less... View Source

For the first time, AMD is including its 3D V-Cache tech in its commercial workstation processors with a refreshed line of Ryzen PRO 9000 series chips. Up until now, AMD's 3D V-Cache chips have mainly been geared toward gamers, but they've also gotten better at creative tasks over recent years. In our review of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D last year, Tom Warren crowned it "the best CPU for both gaming and... View Source

Sebastian Mallaby of the Council on Foreign Relations says Chinese AI is closing the gap—and that means Washington can’t afford to ignore safety talks... View Source

But doing so could threaten its bottom line... View Source

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Branch’s work outfitting a prototype of a lunar surface habitat they developed, pictured here, under a cooperative agreement with Marshall Space Flight Center, helped the company evolve its printing processes.Credit: Branch Technology Inc. An innovative 3D printing process that advanced NASA’s approach to outfitting a l... View Source

Classics as well as newer films like Anora are on sale. | Image: Neon If you’ve been meaning to grow your physical movie collection, now’s a good time to do it. Through May 25th, The Criterion Collection is taking 30 percent off every disc on its site, including standard Blu-rays, 4K releases, box sets, and even films that are currently only available to preorder. The sale spans every category Cri... View Source

Elon Musk’s xAI has recruited multiple Wall Street firms with ties to the billionaire’s business empire to test its Grok chatbot, according to people familiar with the matter, part of a push to bolster revenue ahead of parent company SpaceX’s initial public offering... View Source

The t-shirt in question refers to Dante and "Virgil."... View Source

NASA/Joel Kowsky “Rise,” the Artemis II zero gravity indicator, is seen sitting on the dais as NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen speak with congressional staff, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and ba... View Source

Sonny White (Harold G. “Sonny” White) has solid credentials as a NASA veteran but is viewed as a highly speculative researcher in the broader scientific community. His work on advanced propulsion (especially warp drive concepts) generates excitement in enthusiast and media circles. For people who freak out about me platforming Sonny White, they should know ... Read more... View Source

SpaceX just revealed that it's on the hunt for additional launch sites for its Starship megarocket, eyeing locations both inside and beyond the United States... View Source

A week ago, newly appointed Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro was busy regaling investors with plans to turn Disney Plus into the company's "digital centerpiece." By last Friday, though, his attention had presumably shifted to a fight with the Trump administration over free speech. Disney-owned ABC has now accused the administration of violating its First Amendment rights with an ongoing investigation into... View Source

Security personnel are catching attackers in new ways, too... View Source

Devolver promises "both familiar and all-new mechanics."... View Source

The Unitree GD01 will mass produce the world’s first transforming commercial giant Mech. It was announced by Unitree Robotics on May 12, 2026. It is a civilian vehicle that a human pilot rides inside (open cockpit in the torso) and not yet a fully autonomous robot. It transforms between bipedal (upright 2-leg walking) and quadrupedal ... Read more... View Source

High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth's strongest atom smasher, may hide a superheavy secret that is the key to unlocking a 60-year-old puzzle... View Source

Hello and welcome to Regulator, the newsletter for Verge subscribers that goes into tech shenanigans that take place in the backrooms of Washington. Really, it sometimes does feel like the online series The Backrooms: a parallel universe with no internal logic, evil corporations lurking in the background, and mind-rending eldritch horrors around every corner. (Not a subscriber yet? Sign up here to... View Source

Researcher Sasha Luccioni argues we need better emissions data and a better sense of how people are using AI in the first place... View Source

NASA announced Wednesday that it will fly the Artemis III mission in low-Earth orbit and that it continues to target 2027 for this stepping-stone flight that will help land humans on the Moon. The space agency chose the orbit close to Earth—as opposed to a higher orbit—because it would preserve the final remaining Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage for launching the Artemis IV landing mission late... View Source

Silicon Valley’s top federal prosecutor said his top priorities include cases of trade-secret theft and economic espionage involving foreign adversaries such as China... View Source

The venture capital firm has reportedly donated $115.5 million during this election cycle... View Source

Sonny White and the Casimir Team have created nanostructures to get microwatts of continuous energy (could last centuries or millenia) by leveraging the Casimir force. In Casimr Energy there are fewer virtual particles between plates with a tiny gap which creates a force by having more virtual particles outside it. The first-generation microsparc delivers performance ... Read more... View Source

For the second year in a row, Netflix's ad-supported tier more than doubled its monthly viewerbase. During its 2026 upfront presentation, Netflix revealed that its $8.99-per-month plan reaches more than 250 million people around the globe, a significant leap from 94 million users reported last year. The streaming service reported earning $1.5 billion from ads in 2025, and now it's finding more are... View Source

Agentic commerce and international expansion is the new focus for Affirm, which laid out a bold roadmap to $100 billion in annual volume at the company's 2026 Investor Forum. Affirm CEO Max Levchin joins Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde to break it down on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Marketing, engineering and product teams are among those affected, according to a leaked memo... View Source

The string of galaxies is just a small part of the colossal Virgo Galaxy Cluster... View Source

Anduril is being valued at $61 billion in a $5 billion funding round led by Thrive Capital and Andreessen Horowitz to invest “aggressively” in manufacturing capacity, research and development and infrastructure. Anduril CEO Brian Schimpf joins Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde to discuss on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Last month, it said it would use employees' mouse movements and keystrokes to train AI models... View Source

Instagram is once again cribbing from competitors like Snapchat and BeReal with a new photo-sharing format it calls "Instants," which are ephemeral photos that you can't edit and that you can only share with your close friends or followers that follow you back. Instants are available globally beginning on Wednesday as a feature in the inbox in the Instagram app and as a separate app that's now in... View Source

Microsoft Corp. has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAI, a sum that underscores the significance of the software maker’s role in the AI company’s growth... View Source

It's all about sharing candid snaps in the moment... View Source

A mockup of Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 2 lunar lander has been assembled at the Johnson Space Center, and is ready for Artemis astronauts to come aboard to begin training... View Source

Like the EOS R50 V, the R6 V is just branded R V on the front, with its full name printed on the top deck. | Image: Canon Canon has announced a new EOS R6 V mirrorless camera, a 32.5-megapixel camera with 7K video. It's the first full-frame EOS camera to carry the V moniker, signifying that it's designed primarily for video capture. The R6 V is based on the EOS R6 Mark III, but it eschews features... View Source

MARA continues to shift its focus from Bitcoin mining to the unprecedented energy demand needed to fuel AI. MARA CEO Fred Thiel discusses the company’s big pivot on "Bloomberg Open Interest." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Premium members are also getting the classic arcade shooter Time Crisis... View Source

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its new Incognito Chat is "the first major AI product where there is no log of your conversations stored on servers." Messages in Incognito Chat aren't saved or stored in users' chat history, similar to incognito modes on other AI chatbots, but Meta says its version is different because it also uses end-to-end encryption, which Meta recently removed from Instagram DMs... View Source

Fractile, a UK startup designing chips to handle artificial intelligence workloads, has raised $220 million to help produce its first processors... View Source

Epic Games might be doing more to mark Overwatch's 10th anniversary than Blizzard is... View Source

The Sun rises behind NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft on top of a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 30, 2026.Credit: NASA/Jim Ross NASA is moving quickly to define next year’s Artemis III mission in Earth orbit, a crewed flight that will test rendezvous and docking capabilities between the agency’s Orion... View Source

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's non-canonical Superman!... View Source

It looks just like the A7R V, and other Sony cameras. | Image: Sony Sony announced its new flagship high-resolution camera, the A7R VI. The standout feature is its fully stacked full-frame sensor with 66.8 megapixels of resolution and up to 16 stops of dynamic range. That's only an increase of about six megapixels for the VI model, but its stacked architecture means a much faster readout speed for... View Source

French artificial intelligence startup Mistral AI is in discussions with European banks about deploying its answer to Anthropic PBC’s Mythos, the limited-access AI model that can uncover cybersecurity vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed and scale... View Source

xAI has reportedly added 19 more unpermitted methane gas turbines to its latest data center site... View Source

3 min read NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Reveals Dazzling Night Sky NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has released its most complete view of the starry sky to date, filling in gaps from previous observations. Nearly 6,000 colored dots scattered across the image show the locations of either confirmed or candidate exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system — identified by the mission... View Source

Maybe I'm just punch drunk in my third week attending Musk v. Altman, but I have become very, very fond of Microsoft during the course of this trial. They don't want to be here any more than I do. Their opening statement was honestly one of the most Microsoft things I've ever seen. More than anything else, it was an ad for Microsoft that listed their products in some detail. The general implicatio... View Source

Companies linked to China’s battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. agreed to buy up to a 38% stake in Chinese data center operator VNET Group Inc. from an existing shareholder, in a deal that could be valued at up to $942 million... View Source

They were supposed to be made in the US, but instead were "designed with American values in mind."... View Source

NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway works on MVP Cell-09 research inside a portable glovebag aboard the International Space Station.ESA/Sophie Adenot Expedition 74 astronauts aboard the International Space Station are uncovering how bacteria that causes pneumonia can lead to long-term damage in the heart. Researchers are leveraging the space environment to observe how stem cell derived heart tissues resp... View Source

Scientists are using a new technique to study incoming space debris and its effects on Earth's atmosphere... View Source

REI’s annual Anniversary Sale doesn’t start until March 15th, but that hasn’t stopped Garmin from rolling out discounts on a range of devices — including its InReach Mini satellite communicators. Right now, for instance, you can grab the Mini 2 at Amazon, REI, and Garmin for $249.99 ($150 off) or the Mini 3 for $399.99 ($50 off) through the same retailers (Amazon, REI, and Garmin). That’s the... View Source

Charles Schwab Corp. is planning to use artificial intelligence to extend benefits usually reserved for wealthy clients to the less affluent. CEO Rick Wurster said AI will be a "real accelerant" for the 55-year-old firm. He spoke with Carlyle Group Co-Founder and Co-Chairman David Rubenstein for an upcoming episode of Bloomberg Wealth. This interview was recorded May 1 in New York. (Source: Bloomb... View Source

One of the best things these speakers have going for them is a reliable app... View Source

The pink, yellow, and teal Otg Roz is one of the Royal Pop’s eight unique designs. | Image: Swatch Following a series of cryptic newspaper ads and Instagram teasers that had watch fans speculating about its next collaboration, Swatch announced a new timepiece collection created with luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet. Inspired by Swatch's iconic Pop watches from the '80s and Audemars Piguet's Royal... View Source

Cloud computing provider Nebius Group NV reported a 684% jump in first quarter sales on increased demand for its data centers... View Source

No one other than you will be able to read messages exchanged via Incognito Chat with Meta AI... View Source

M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, looks incredible in this new snap by the James Webb Space Telescope... View Source

Google announced its new Googlebook laptop platform yesterday, and so far I've been left asking, "Why?" Why is Google blowing up its Chromebook and ChromeOS platform for this? I've been excited by the prospect of Android and ChromeOS unifying under the long-rumored Aluminium OS. The theory was that Aluminium might unite Android and ChromeOS under one house, simultaneously turning Android phones in... View Source

Artificial intelligence algorithms are coming to some of the most valuable real estate in retail: the Amazon.com Inc. search bar... View Source

Alexa for Shopping is an 'agentic AI assistant' for Amazon purchases... View Source

A prototype MicroSparc chip was fabricated, the Casimir team tests it using low-noise experimental setups designed to reduce electromagnetic interference. Dr. White said these tests were performed in dark, RF (radio frequency)-sealed enclosures over several weeks “using precision electrometers capable of measuring signals down to microvolt and attoamp sensitivities.” They observed device outputs r... View Source

Verge reporter Gaby Del Valle demonstrates the size of Sherp’s ATV at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday, May 5, 2026. No one paid attention to the gunshots that echoed through the convention center. They were real enough, and so were the screams that accompanied them, in the sense that they were recordings of real people who, like guest stars on Law and Order, reenacted scen... View Source

New reactors with new designs mean new uranium mines and new production. Bloomberg Primer explores whether the industry can keep up with demand. ... View Source

It comes with a flip-out display and in-body stabilization, but no stacked sensor or electronic viewfinder... View Source

Elon Musk are walking with Eric Trump and his wife in a small group behind Trump and a group of about ten US and China leaders going to a limo after getting off Air Force One. Elon Musk arrives with President Trump and the U.S. delegation in Beijing, China. pic.twitter.com/yqCGkMCkbH — America (@america) May 13, ... Read more... View Source

A 3,700-mile-long cloud bank on Venus forms through the same phenomenon that describes how water spreads out in your kitchen sink, scientists say... View Source

With the Switch 2 getting a price hike in September, this holiday season will be pivotal for Nintendo. That increased cost means that the company will rely heavily on new games to sell its current console - but as of right now the lineup for the second half of the year is sparse. However, without getting into specifics, president Shuntaro Furukawa has made it clear the company still has a number o... View Source

Big tech stocks are proving to be a safe bet for equity investors looking for a harbor in a “fragile” market brought about by the Iran war, according to Seema Shah at Principal Asset Management... View Source

The FCC approved the $24 billion Echostar sale of spectrum to ATT and the $20 billion cash and stock sale of spectrum to SpaceX. The FCC approved it for US customers to get faster speeds, increased coverage, stronger competition, and innovative new services direct from next-gen satellites straight to your smartphone. Thanks to President Trump, ... Read more... View Source

The Trump phone may finally be here: Trump Mobile's CEO told USA Today that the phone will begin shipping to buyers this week. The announcement comes as reports have gone viral this week alleging that preorders for the phone have been canceled. Trump Mobile CEO Pat O'Brien confirmed the release plans to USA Today over email, telling the outlet that all preorders will be fulfilled within the next f... View Source

Istanbul-based startup Insider One bought Bluecore Inc to expand its US reach in artificial intelligence marketing ahead of a planned initial public offering... View Source

The world's first space-based neutrino detector launched to space this month to study elusive neutrino particles that constantly bombard Earth... View Source

Here’s how the GD01 (seen left) stacks up against Unitree’s CEO and existing humanoid robots. | Image: Unitree Unitree is already one of the most recognizable names in the humanoid robot industry, but now it's pursuing even nicher sci-fi tech: giant mech suits. The Chinese robotics company has debuted the GD01, which it describes as "the world's first production-ready manned mecha," and it can be... View Source

Seems Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management, says technology is "likely to continue to be the favorite" in markets. "People want to build up exposure, they want to keep creating this buildup in AI technology," Shah adds. She also warns of vulnerability should the conflict in the Middle East continue to disrupt shipping. Shah speaks on Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Microsoft appears to be working on expanding its Xbox Game Pass subscription to China. References to "Project Saluki" have been discovered in a recent update to the Xbox PC app this week, with Microsoft describing the codename as "China market expansion for Game Pass, Rewards, and subscription tiers." While Microsoft offers a variety of games in China through Activision Blizzard, it does not curre... View Source

A University of Nebraska lab has developed a test that can detect the virus before symptoms become severe. Now, it's ready to start testing those returning to the US after a cruise outbreak... View Source

Poland will continue working on legislation to tax digital platforms, Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski said, despite threats of retaliation from the US administration of Donald Trump... View Source

The Studio Display looks great next to a MacBook, but its aging display technology holds it back. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge For the better part of 12 years, Apple owned the 5K monitor world - primarily because it made basically the only options. LG's 5K UltraFine was a solid, if bland choice, but many people bought a 27-inch iMac from 2014 for its 5K screen alone. Then in 2022, Apple fin... View Source

If construction ever resumes in the Persian Gulf, tech companies will have a new headache to deal with: Unexploded missiles and mines... View Source

NASA has enabled scientists to study the impact of microgravity on drug development for decades, beginning with the Space Shuttle. This work accelerated in the 2010s, with the completion of the International Space Station and full-time crew members devoted to scientific research. There have been some notable successes during this timeframe, such as the ability to grow a more uniform crystalline fo... View Source

Ant Group Co.’s quarterly profit continued to decline after the company increased investment in artificial intelligence technology for its health care, large language model and payment services... View Source

Once again, Sony doesn't have plans to release it in the US... View Source

It will likely cost about $1.2 trillion to develop and operate President Trump's planned "Golden Dome" missile defense system, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report... View Source

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. reported weaker-than-expected sales, stoking concerns about its ability to convert substantial AI investments into a major growth driver... View Source

Serial tech investor Balaji Srinivasan is attempting to forge closer ties to politicians in Malaysia, wooing them with a showcase of his startup school project and calling for policies that would support it... View Source

At its peak, the Androscoggin paper mill in Jay, Maine, a rural town about 67 miles northwest of Portland, employed about 1,500 people - until a pulp digester exploded in 2020, forcing the mill to close permanently. In 2023, the 1.4 million-square-foot facility was purchased through a joint venture by JGT2 Redevelopment and a number of other holding and capital companies. The project is led by dev... View Source

Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s March-quarter revenue missed estimates, underscoring the urgency around its costly AI pivot while core businesses like games and advertising show signs of age... View Source

Amazon's head of devices and services, Panos Panay, says that the company is "not necessarily" planning to release a smartphone, but has stopped short of denying it outright. It was previously reported that Amazon is developing an Alexa-enabled AI phone codenamed "Transformer," more than 10 years after it scrapped its ill-fated Fire Phone. Speaking to the Financial Times, Panay was asked directly... View Source

This is the first time NASA has encountered a situation like this, and it took nearly a week to resolve... View Source

Japan’s three megabanks are set to secure access to Anthropic’s artificial intelligence model Mythos, according to a person familiar with the matter, after its limited release last month sparked fears of a new age of cybersecurity risks... View Source

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Anthropic is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people familiar with the matter. The Claude maker is in discussions to raise the new capital at a valuation of more than $900 billion, not including the investment, said the people. Bloomberg's Neil Campling reports. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

SoftBank Group Corp. reported a surprise rise in quarterly profit helped by valuation gains on its OpenAI investment... View Source

Siemens AG will repurchase as much as €6 billion ($7 billion) of shares after orders climbed against a difficult geopolitical backdrop including tariffs and rising inflation... View Source

Korean President Lee Jae Myung said his adviser’s viral post about redistributing profits from the AI boom was meant to start a broader public debate about how a potential tax windfall should be used... View Source

As an astronomer, I had witnessed many celestial phenomena. But nothing prepared me for those few minutes in 2017 when the world fell silentI have never driven with more determination than when rushing away from Shelby Park in Nashville. We had reached Davidson Street when my husband shouted: “There! There’s sunlight!” I skidded into a car park of a printing company with barely any time to spare... View Source

Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe’s biggest phone carrier, slightly raised its guidance after recording growth in Germany and its US arm, T-Mobile US Inc... View Source

As US Treasury traders debate whether the 30-year yield will mount a sustained push past 5%, one market veteran is pushing a far bolder wager... View Source

Australia’s plan to scrap a capital gains tax discount risks “unintended consequences” for the startup sector, even as the budget delivered a credible package of productivity reforms, said Danielle Wood, chair of the Productivity Commission... View Source

The complaint says ChatGPT started giving Sam Nelson advice about drug use with the launch of GPT-4o... View Source

Earth Observatory Science Earth Observatory America’s Emerald Isle Earth Earth Observatory Image of the Day EO Explorer Topics All Topics Atmosphere Land Heat & Radiation Life on Earth Human Dimensions Natural Events Oceans Remote Sensing Technology Snow & Ice Water More Content Collections Global Maps World of Change Articles Notes from the Field Blog Earth Matters Blog Blue Marble: Nex... View Source

Yoni Assia, eToro CEO join Bloomberg Businessweek Daily on their reccent earnings beat. EToro Group reported adjusted earnings per share for the first quarter that beat the average analyst estimate. He also discusses retail trade sentiment, crypto and how AI is changing the trading landscape. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Joanna Shen of JPMorgan Asset Management says the firm believes we are "in the early adoption AI phase." She tells Bloomberg Television that AI agents are "the first technology in decades that can supercharge the labor inputs." (Source: Bloomberg)... 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 Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Jim Caron, Stifel Financial Chief Economist Dr. Lindsey Piegza, Deutsche Bank’s Michael Linenberg, TIAA’s CEO of Retirement Solutions, Kourtney Gibson, Cboe Global Markets’ Mandy Xu, Alge... View Source

The Live Threat Detection feature is also getting a major upgrade... View Source

The worsening shortage in global memory chips due to the artificial intelligence buildout is driving a widening gulf in corporate results and stock performances... View Source

Google's only giving us a tease of what it has planned for its new laptop lineup... View Source

Sony’s new flagship doesn’t look much like its predecessors. | Image: Sony / The Verge Sony's Xperia 1 flagships have looked more or less the same since 2020, but that's finally changing with the Xperia 1 VIII, which moves to a chunky square camera island. The phone also boasts what should be a substantially improved telephoto camera, along with an AI camera assistant that looks like an improved v... View Source

Alger CEO and CIO Dan Chung discusses AI investment in an interview with Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

Meta is also finally delivering an Instagram app for Android tablets... View Source

China’s artificial intelligence hardware suppliers have a problem: keeping up with insatiable demand for their products... View Source

A device with at least 4GB of RAM is required to use the software... View Source

Metis TechBio Co, a biotechnology company using artificial intelligence to deliver and formulate drugs, is set to begin trading in Hong Kong after raising HK$2.1 billion ($270 million) in an initial public offering... View Source

It will arrive on Pixel and Samsung Galaxy phones first... View Source

Nidec Corp. shares were untraded in Tokyo on Wednesday, and set to plunge after the company said it identified suspected improper quality conduct... View Source

It offers a new multi-aspect ratio feature and up to 5.6K 60 fps video... View Source

Emails show that Elon Musk's company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues... View Source

Chinese investors are heading into the earnings season demanding proof that billions in AI spending by tech giants are paying off... View Source

It's the top trending topic on the platform... View Source

1789 Capital Partner Paul Abrahimzadeh speaks to Romaine Bostick and Katie Greifeld on "The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The Spanish studio's newest title is due to be released on Steam later this week... View Source

Photographers search for dark skies in the most remote landscapes to find places where the galaxy shines with extraordinary clarity. They share not only their breathtaking results but also their methods, trials and adventures• Stargazing in New Zealand’s first dark sky community Continue reading... View Source

Who, me? | Image: The Verge; Getty Images After two weeks of hearing from assorted witnesses that he was a lying snake, the jury finally heard from the lying snake himself: Sam Altman. At the end of the testimony, his lawyer William Savitt asked him how it felt to be accused of stealing a charity. "We created, through a ton of hard work, this extremely large charity, and I agree you can't steal it... View Source

Anthropic PBC is in early talks with investors to raise at least $30 billion in fresh financing, according to people familiar with the matter, setting the stage for what could be its largest funding round yet... View Source

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SpaceX is officially targeting May 19 for the debut of Starship Version 3, an advanced new vehicle that could help humanity take its first steps on the moon and Mars... View Source

The total pay package for Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang decreased 27% to $36.3 million in fiscal 2026 after the value of his stock awards declined... View Source

The lawsuit claims Meta is not doing enough to protect senior citizens and other vulnerable groups... View Source

Bloomberg reporters Silla Brush and Katherine Doherty break down how US derivatives exchange CME Group index provider Silicon Data are teaming up to create a futures market for the computing power that backs artificial intelligence infrastructure. Brush and Doherty report that a futures market would functionally set a price for computing power and say that the move signals to the rest of the indus... View Source

iOS 27 may integrate Visual Intelligence into the Camera and make it more customizable... View Source

Apple's next iOS update could include something phone photographers have been waiting for: a lot more control over the Camera app. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the Camera app will be "fully customizable" in iOS 27 and users will be able to "pick their own set of controls - called widgets - that run along the top of the interface." Gurman notes that the Camera app will keep the current set... View Source

"Risk is on and at higher levels," Bob Sloan, managing partner at S3 Partners, says when discusses short covering in US stocks on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The federal retaliation against corporate DEI efforts marches on... View Source

"Rather than 'icy' or 'rocky,' we should simply call them minor giants."... View Source

Google I/O is just days away, and that means it’s time for another Android Show event to unpack all the Android ecosystem highlights Google has in store.  The highlight of this year’s Android Show was Googlebooks, a new line of laptops running Android. They can cast apps from Android phones, pull files directly from a connected Android device, and offer contextual AI suggestions using the mou... View Source

Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow discuss comments by a South Korean policymaker that the country should pay citizens a “dividend” using taxes on AI profits. Plus, the largest US derivatives exchange, CME, is planning to create a futures market for computing power, one of the key drivers of the AI boom. And, the CEO of SAP talks about the company’s push into AI agents across business operati... View Source

The game is sort of a spiritual sequel to NBA Street and NBA Jam... View Source

Meta announced on Tuesday that it's testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers to questions or context about a conversation on the platform. If you've spent any time looking at replies on X as of late, this new feature sounds a lot like Meta's take on people tagging xAI's Grok. But, as reported by Engadget, Threads users quickly discovered that you can't block t... View Source

High-flying chip stocks struggled through one of their most challenging sessions of the year on Tuesday in a dramatic reversal for some of the market’s best performers... View Source

However, its marquee features won't arrive until the final release... View Source

The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI over claims that his conversations with ChatGPT led to an accidental overdose. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sam Nelson's parents allege ChatGPT "encouraged" the teen to "consume a combination of substances that any licensed medical professional would have recognized as deadly," resulting in his death. Though ChatGPT initially "shut do... View Source

Apple Inc. is planning to upgrade its Camera app, making the software fully customizable as part of a broader set of user interface changes coming in its next iPhone software update... View Source

The company has deployed an OTA software fix... View Source

Starting Tuesday, parents can get more details about what their teens are up to on Instagram. Meta is adding a feature to its Teen Accounts that shows parents the "general topics their teens engage with," like "basketball" or "fashion." Meta also says it will soon start notifying parents when their teen adds a new interest to their algorithm. In December, Meta announced its "Your Algorithm" featur... View Source

Samsung Electronics Co. and its labor union failed to reach a last-minute wage agreement, according to the Yonhap news service, heightening the risk of a strike that could disrupt operations at the world’s largest memory-chip maker... View Source

Six months after leaving Bandai Namco, Harada is in charge of his own team... View Source

At a busy airport, every aircraft in the area shares just a handful of radio frequencies. Spectrum and time are constrained and if multiple people speak at once, both messages can get lost. Communications like “clearance delivery,” which require long transmissions and readbacks, are challenging in high-traffic areas, particularly when weather or other factors require many aircraft to c... View Source

The newly rebranded Cowboy Space Corp. will use the money to develop and operate AI data centers in orbit, which it will launch on a homegrown rocket... View Source

This week at I/O, Google rolled out a series of major updates for Android Auto that include better sizing for unconventionally shaped screens, video streaming through YouTube, widget support, and of course, more AI-powered Gemini features. The company also announced some updates for cars that run on Google's built-in native software, including the ability to ask Gemini questions that are specific... View Source

US derivatives exchange CME Group and index provider Silicon Data are teaming up to create a futures market for computing power. Bloomberg’s Katherine Doherty discusses the reasons for the new market and how it will work. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on “Bloomberg Tech.” (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company has been working on the idea since the end of 2025... View Source

Google is announcing a new line of laptops coming in the fall called Googlebooks. Details are sparse for now, as the tease is just a small part of various Android announcements during Google's Android Show. But we do know this is a major new initiative in the laptop space for Google, seemingly designed to succeed Chromebooks with something more capable: a platform running a long-rumored new operat... View Source

Jess Houlgrave, CEO of WalletConnect, joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The company behind color grading tool Color.io was acquired in January... View Source

2 Min Read NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Westernmost Selfie PIA26752 Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Perseverance Rover… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Perseverance Rover Snaps Westernmost Selfie PNG (178.16 MB) PIA26752 Figure A PNG (178.92 MB) PIA26752 Animation (.gif) GIF (3.55 MB) PIA26752 Animation (.m... View Source

Using AI and Rubin Observatory data, scientists are rethinking Type 1a supernova "standard candles," hunting for "unknown unknowns" that could lead us to missing ingredients in our recipe of the cosmos and solve the puzzle of dark energy... View Source

AI-generated widgets are among the features coming to Android this year. | Screenshot: Google Would it shock you to hear that Android 17 is filled with new AI-enabled features, like improved dictation and vibe-coded widgets? Fortunately, that's not all. The platform is getting non-AI updates too, from an emoji overhaul to a new screentime tool that helps you avoid distracting apps. Google has just... View Source

Bloomberg Intelligence's Nathan Dean joins Scarlet Fu and Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Crypto." The Senate Banking Committee released market structure bill text that will serve as the basis for the committee’s markup of the digital asset market Clarity Act. The committee meets this Thursday. (Source: Bloomberg)... View Source

The service confirmed issues on X... View Source

1 Min Read NASA’s Perseverance Captures Panorama at ‘Arbot’ PIA26753 Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS Photojournal Navigation Science Photojournal NASA’s Perseverance Captures… Photojournal Home Photojournal Search Latest Content Galleries Feedback RSS About   Downloads NASA’s Perseverance Captures Panorama at ‘Arbot’ PNG (132.21 MB) PIA26753 Figure A PNG (117.68 MB) PIA26753 Figure B PNG (67.84... View Source

Google and SpaceX are in talks to build data centers in orbit, pitching space as the future home for AI compute, even as costs today remain far higher than on the ground... View Source

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to rank researchers by their accomplishments and "take a chainsaw through a bunch." Altman conceded that this was the management style the Tesla CEO was... View Source

Alphabet Inc.’s Google introduced a new high-end laptop segment called "Googlebook" that will run Android and prominently showcase Gemini artificial intelligence. Hardware partners Dell Technologies Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd. and HP Inc. will debut models built on the platform in the coming months... View Source

Google had a whole lot of news to share, including on new laptops and Gemini Intelligence... View Source

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Perseverance rover recently took a self-portrait against a sweeping backdrop of ancient Martian terrain at a location the science team calls “Lac de Charmes.” Assembled from 61 individual images, the selfie shows Perseverance training its mast on a rocky outcrop in the foreground after creating a circular abrasion patch, with the western rim of Jezero Crater stretching... View Source

Gemini Intelligence comes with a Liquid Glass-ish visual treatment. | Image: Google It is, once again, Gemini season. Google is announcing a host of new Gemini features during its pre-I/O Android showcase, many of which aim to help use your phone for you. You'll find Gemini in more places, like Chrome on Android, in your autofill suggestions, and all up in your apps - if you want. Google also has... View Source

Anthropic PBC identified a number of secondary marketplaces as unauthorized sellers of the company’s shares, telling investors that buying the stock won’t work... View Source

The console price shoots up in September, so this might be a good way to save some cash... View Source

6 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoNASA’s Perseverance looks down at a rocky outcrop nicknamed “Arethusa” and then appears to look into the camera in this animated selfie, which is composed of 61 images taken March 11, 2026, during the rover’s de... View Source

Panasonic has announced a new addition to its Lumix camera line with a compact body and fixed lens that's targeted at photographers instead of creators making video content. The Lumix L10 is available for preorder today with a black or silver finish for $1,499.99. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Lumix brand, the L10 will also be available in a titanium gold finish with matching accessorie... View Source