Snap’s Specs got a proper hands-on review this week, and by most accounts they’re more capable than Meta’s top-end glasses, fully untethered and mostly comfortable to wear, even if the design still…
A US judge just ordered Google to make its ad tech tools interoperable with competitors, share ad auction data and accept an internal monitor, in a ruling that had been sealed until this week. That’s…
Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement this week. The combined company keeps the Cohere name, and Aleph Alpha’s Ilhan Scheer becomes COO of the merged entity. Two mid-tier…
Zipline, the drone delivery company, is reportedly in talks to raise close to a billion dollars at a valuation around 20 billion, up from 7.6 billion back in January. Paradigm is said to be circling…
SK Hynix just settled its bonus fight with its own union, agreeing to pay half of all profit-sharing bonuses in cash instead of the 40-60 cash-stock split it had proposed. Labor peace, basically…
AWS says it can’t restore some data that lived exclusively in its Bahrain and one UAE data center after Iranian drone strikes hit the region this spring. Not degraded. Gone, unless it existed…
Three tech billionaires got on the phone with Trump, and the result, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal, was that an AI regulatory plan pushed by DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis got…
Stripe charges per transaction. Twilio charges per message and per minute. OpenAI charges per token. Three companies, three completely different units of value, three pricing models built around what…
An API can pass every unit test in its suite and still break every client that calls it, because unit tests check that functions do what the code says they do, not that the API does what the contract…
A team spends three weeks rewriting a hot loop in Rust bindings, shaves forty milliseconds off a function that runs once per request, and ships it. The page still takes four seconds to load. Nobody…