Senator warns of national security risks after Elon Musk’s DOGE granted ‘full access’ to sensitive Treasury systems

February 6, 2025

What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change

This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. As I’ve admitted in this newsletter before, I love few things more than getting on an airplane. I know, it’s a bold statement from a climate reporter because of all the associated…

February 1, 2025

U.S. senator says Musk’s access to Treasury systems represents a “national security risk.”

X expands lawsuit over advertiser ‘boycott’ to include Lego, Nestlé, Pinterest, and others

February 1, 2025

X is now suing more advertisers in an antitrust lawsuit focusing on what the company’s CEO Linda Yaccarino has claimed is a “systematic illegal boycott.” The company formerly known as Twitter first filed the lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers and its brand safety initiative known as the Global Alliance of Responsible Media in […]

Adobe exec Scott Belsky departs for indie movie studio A24

February 1, 2025

Adobe’s chief strategy officer Scott Belsky announced this week that he will be joining A24, the independent movie studio behind “Civil War,” “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” and many more titles. Belsky first joined Adobe in 2012 through the acquisition of Behance, leaving briefly in 2016 to become a VC at Benchmark but eventually returning […]

3 Lessons Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Frederick Douglass About Leading in Challenging Times

February 1, 2025

Navigating a business can have its ups and downs. Whether you’ve navigated a tricky quarterly earnings report or had to hire and fire staff during a difficult time for the business, you know that being a leader in times of stress, uncertainty, and difficulty can make you a stronger leader overall.

DeepSeek gets Silicon Valley talking

February 1, 2025

Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at DeepSeek’s major boost in the U.S.; Elon Musk admitting he was wrong about FSD; teens losing trust in Big Tech; and more! Let’s do it. DeepSeek went viral this week after its AI models led Wall Street analysts and technologists to question whether the […]

The Easy Way to Make Managing Your Rental Property Stress Free is Just $39

February 1, 2025

Handle guest messages, calendars, and pricing from one dashboard.

Here are all the IPOs reported to be in the works for 2025

February 1, 2025

These companies have confidentially filed to go public in recent years.

Here are the apps battling to be become the ‘TikTok for Bluesky’

February 1, 2025

TikTok’s potential U.S. ban has sparked a flurry of development within the open social web community. Several new applications are being built that could one day serve as a TikTok replacement for those who favor the open source, decentralized social network Bluesky and the technology that powers it, the AT Protocol. Though the TikTok ban […]

Venture debt lenders will play a big role in fire sales and startup shutdown this year, experts say

February 1, 2025

When accounting startup Bench abruptly failed last month, the shutdown was forced when the company’s lenders called in the startup’s loan. In late 2023, the digital freight company Convoy faced financial challenges, leading venture lending firm Hercules Capital to assume control of the company to recover its investments. Divvy Homes, which sold for about $1 […]

How to delete X and move on with your life

February 1, 2025

As Elon Musk’s X sees a decline in daily active users, some people are deciding to ditch the social network entirely, whether that’s for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, or perhaps, better yet, nothing at all. Since the Tesla and SpaceX CEO bought Twitter in 2022, numerous alternatives have cropped up, seeking to ensnare people who are […]

What a return to supersonic flight could mean for climate change