Intel’s Most Advanced Chip Node Enters Production Testing
The engineers gathered at the VLSI Symposium in Honolulu on Tuesday to hear Intel make a quiet but consequential announcement: the company’s most advanced chipmaking process, 18A-P, had entered risk…
Uber Expands in Houston, Where the Robotaxi War Has Three Armies
On any given evening in Houston, a rider hailing a car can now be picked up by a vehicle with no driver at the wheel, from two different companies, and…
A SpaceX Engineer Turns Rocket Engines Into Power Plants
Spencer Jackson spent nearly seven years at SpaceX working on some of the most extreme machines ever built: the structures of the Falcon Heavy, the thermal seals that protect Starship…
SpaceX to Buy AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion
The deal came together in weeks, and it moved the way SpaceX does: fast, in-house, and with the company’s own stock as the currency. SpaceX said Tuesday it agreed to…
Threads Passes 500 Million Users, Lets Them Tune Its Algorithm
The feature Meta rolled out for Threads this week reads like an answer to a question users have asked since the app’s early days: why am I seeing this? The…
SoftBank and OpenAI Take AI Security to Japanese Companies
Masayoshi Son has spent years telling investors that AI will change everything. On Tuesday his company began selling that argument to Japanese corporations, one vulnerability at a time. SoftBank Group,…
The World’s 500 Richest Gained $336 Billion in a Single Day
The number is so large it reads like a typo: $336 billion, added to the combined net worth of the world’s 500 richest people in a single day. It happened…
OpenAI’s $150 Million Bet on Partners Who Sell for It
The announcement, made Tuesday, was modest in form and large in intent. OpenAI said it is launching a partner network with an initial investment of $150 million, offering training, technical…
Baron Capital Adds $1 Billion to SpaceX Stake as Shares Extend Rally
Ron Baron has spent the better part of a decade telling anyone who would listen that SpaceX would one day be the most valuable company on the planet. On Monday,…
Meta Puts AI Search at the Center of Facebook
For most of its two decades, the search bar at the top of Facebook has been one of the least useful tools on the internet. On Monday, Meta Platforms turned…
