Even Honda is pivoting to data centers
Honda this week began production of batteries destined for energy storage systems, according to a report from Nikkei Asia. The milestone makes Honda the latest car company to dive into…
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Cloudflare’s new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers’ content
Cloudflare has just issued the AI industry a new deadline to separate the web crawlers used for traditional search purposes, like Google Search, from those used for AI agents and…
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Lime begins life as a public company after years of uncertainty
Micromobility company Lime has raised $167 million in its IPO, ending an almost decade-long run as a private company that saw wild valuation swings as it navigated multiple major hype…
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Neocloud Together AI raises $800M, leaps to $8.3B valuation
Together AI — an AI neocloud that rents out Nvidia GPU clusters and other AI-specific infrastructure — has raised an $800 million Series C at an $8.3 billion valuation, the…
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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Ashton Kutcher is stepping away from Sound Ventures — the firm he co-founded with Guy Oseary 11 years ago — to start a separate VC fund, the Wall Street Journal…
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SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has shown investors a prototype of a “handset-like” AI device, reports The Wall Street Journal. The prototype is reportedly sleeker and slimmer than an iPhone, making us…
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Apple’s Hide My Email feature has a bug that’s been exposing real email addresses, researcher claims
Apple’s Hide My Email feature is a convenient privacy tool that uses disposable addresses to hide a user’s true email for the sake of online anonymity. Unfortunately, new research appears…
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WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags
WhatsApp this week started rolling out username reservations ahead of the broader launch planned later this year. The feature — which lets people find and message each other by handle…
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After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck
AOL is public again — sort of. Its owner Bending Spoons, the 13-year-old Italian company that has been quietly acquiring beloved but ailing internet brands for the past decade, went…
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Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading
Earlier this year, shares of traditional SaaS companies tumbled amid investor fears that software built with AI could eventually displace those businesses. Despite such concerns, Bending Spoons, a company that…
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