Technology

Seattle&based Phaidra, which develops AI agents to help make data centers more resource efficient, raised over $50M in a Series B led by Collaborative Fund (Alan Neuhauser/Axios)

Seattle&based Phaidra, which develops AI agents to help...

Oct 2, 2025

Alan Neuhauser / Axios: Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI agents to help ...

Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users across desktop and mobile worldwide, with 42M+ DAUs, and Brave Search handles 1.6B+ queries each month (Paul Thurrott/Thurrott)

Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users a...

Oct 2, 2025

Paul Thurrott / Thurrott: Brave says it has surpassed 100M monthly active users ...

Sources: Apple has paused development of a lighter Vision Pro to focus on smart glasses, a no&display model for a 2027 release, and a model with a display later (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple has paused development of a lighter Visi...

Oct 2, 2025

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has paused development of a lighter Visi...

Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding Project, a vector&based semantic search database with nearly 120M entries, to make data accessible to AI (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)

Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedding P...

Oct 1, 2025

Russell Brandom / TechCrunch: Wikimedia Deutschland launches the Wikidata Embedd...

Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defense tech investors and startups like Helsing, applying a profit&driven model to Europe's military buildup (Patricia Cohen/New York Times)

Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation of defens...

Oct 1, 2025

Patricia Cohen / New York Times: Russia's Ukraine war spurred a new generation o...

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using a phone, Romanian elections, VK, encryption, Edward Snowden, spring 2018 poisoning, and more (Lex Fridman)

Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censo...

Oct 1, 2025

Lex Fridman: Q&A with Pavel Durov on Telegram, his arrest, censorship, not using...

Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to recognize many alignment evaluation environments as tests and would modify its behavior accordingly (Celia Ford/Transformer)

Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to ...

Oct 1, 2025

Celia Ford / Transformer: Anthropic's System Card: Claude Sonnet 4.5 was able to...

The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated antitrust laws when Zillow paid Redfin $100M to stop competing against it in online rental listings (Jody Godoy/Reuters)

The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated ...

Oct 1, 2025

Jody Godoy / Reuters: The FTC sues Zillow and Redfin, alleging they violated ant...

President Trump signs an executive order directing his administration to invest $50M in AI&driven pediatric cancer research (Tina Reed/Axios)

President Trump signs an executive order directing his ...

Oct 1, 2025

Tina Reed / Axios: President Trump signs an executive order directing his admini...

OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it generated ~$4.3B in H1 2025 revenue, 16% more than all of 2024, and burned $2.5B, largely due to R&D (The Information)

OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it ...

Sep 30, 2025

The Information: OpenAI's financial disclosures to investors suggest it generate...

NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a "total internet blackout" as the Taliban imposes a telecom shutdown; an official says it will last until further notice (Anbarasan Ethirajan/BBC)

NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a "total interne...

Sep 30, 2025

Anbarasan Ethirajan / BBC: NetBlocks: Afghanistan is experiencing a “total inter...

Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for a single month than it did in 2020 in areas located near significant data center activity (Bloomberg)

Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as...

Sep 30, 2025

Bloomberg: Analysis: US wholesale electricity now costs as much as 267% more for...

Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historically been critical of cryptocurrencies, prepares to allow access to crypto ETFs on its brokerage platform (Crypto in America)

Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historic...

Sep 30, 2025

Crypto in America: Sources: Vanguard, the asset manager which has historically b...

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand&alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuring a TikTok&like vertical feed with AI&generated videos and a recommendation page (Wired)

Sources: OpenAI plans a stand&alone social app powered ...

Sep 30, 2025

Wired: Sources: OpenAI plans a stand-alone social app powered by Sora 2, featuri...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; the first&in&the&nation AI safety law requires AI companies to disclose their safety testing regimes (Chase DiFeliciantonio/Politico)

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 into law; ...

Sep 30, 2025

Chase DiFeliciantonio / Politico: California Governor Gavin Newsom signs SB 53 i...

EA's ~$50B buyout talks highlight the slowdown and consolidation trends in the $178B global gaming market after the COVID&19 boom, as gamers stick to old titles (Jason Schreier/Bloomberg)

EA's ~$50B buyout talks highlight the slowdown and cons...

Sep 29, 2025

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: EA's ~$50B buyout talks highlight the slowdown and c...

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