Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump ...
Sources: Lightspeed returned $8B from current and active funds in the past five years; its most recent fund with more than 1x DPI was its $500M fund in 2016
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Tim Cook teases an announcement of “the newest member of the family” on February 19; Mark Gurman reported Apple would update the iPhone SE
Is It The iPhone SE 4? John Voorhees / MacStories : Apple's Tim Cook Teases February 19th Event on X Mike Wuerthele / AppleInsider : Tim Cook teases Feb. 19 launch of what is probably the new iPhone S...
Source: Meta plans to break up its civil rights team, which helped develop tech to address racial and other disparities in how Meta distributed ads on its apps
Kalley Huang / The Information : Bluesky: @martinsfp and @jaydolan . X: @ericnewcomer Bluesky: @martinsfp : One sad part of this is ‘this would be a bad look’ wasn't even a factor that stopped them. ...
Google says it made a major quantum error correction breakthrough, unveils its Willow quantum chip with 105 improved qubits, and shares benchmarks and a roadmap
Is Bitcoin's security at risk? Matt Swayne / The Quantum Insider : Willow Wows Elon Musk in X Exchange With Sundar Pichai Mudit Dube / NewsBytes : Google makes quantum computing breakthrough with new ...
Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay
Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full and real union': La...
Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July
tech oligarchs depend heavily on their access in washington, so will do everything they can to keep it. a16z desperately wants washington to legitimize crypto, so they can get a return on their signi...
Databricks plans to acquire Tabular, a data management startup that helps companies optimize data stored in the Apache Iceberg format and others, for $1B+
We are excited to announce that we have agreed to acquire Tabular … Lindsay Clark / The Register : Databricks' $1B Tabular buy raises questions around table format wars Tabular : Tabular is joining Da...
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of betraying OpenAI's founding agreement to develop an AGI for the “benefit of humanity” rather than profit
“It's a fun complaint to read; it fundamentally accuses OpenAI & its CEO, Sam Altman, of pretending to run a nonprofit designed to benefit humanity while actually running a regular ol' tech company & ...
Instacart files for a US IPO, reports 2022 revenue up 39% YoY to $2.55B, $428M net income, up from a $73M loss in 2021, and H1 2023 revenue up 31% YoY to $1.48B
Common Stock This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock … Reuters : Instacart reveals IPO filing, disclosing PepsiCo investment, profitability Dan Frommer / The New Consumer : Parade...