Solo-Mine Bitcoin From Your Desk With This $60 Lottery Ticket Machine
The odds are long but this pocket-sized miner gives you a shot at capturing a full Bitcoin block reward without the warehouse.
Inside the marketplace powering bespoke AI deepfakes of real women
Civitai—an online marketplace for buying and selling AI-generated content, backed by the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz—is letting users buy custom instruction files for generating celebrity deepfakes. Some of these files were specifically designed to make pornographic images banned by the site, a new analysis has found. The study, from researchers at Stanford and Indiana…
Why Most People Miss Out On Billion-Dollar Opportunities
How do you build the future? How do you build category-defining companies? It all starts with changing how you approach opportunity.
Netflix revises offer to pay all cash for Warner Bros to stave off Paramount
However, the streaming giant is still offering the same $27.75 the companies had agreed on for WBD’s movie studio and streaming assets, and the deal continues to value the company at $82.7 billion.
Indian vibe-coding startup Emergent raises $70M at $300M valuation from SoftBank, Khosla Ventures
The funding comes as the startup claims it has scaled ARR to $50 million, and is targeting $100 million by April 2026.
The UK government is backing AI scientists that can run their own experiments
A number of startups and universities that are building AI scientists to design and run experiments in the lab, including robot biologists and chemists, have just won extra funding from the UK government agency that funds moonshot R&D. The competition, set up by ARIA (Advanced Research and Invention Agency), gives a clear sense of how…
The Download: digitizing India, and scoring embryos
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The man who made India digital isn’t done yet Nandan Nilekani can’t stop trying to push India into the future. He started nearly 30 years ago, masterminding an ongoing experiment in technological state…
Meta’s Oversight Board takes up permanent bans in landmark case
For the first time, Meta’s Oversight Board is looking for specific policy recommendations around disabled accounts.
Everstone combines Wingify, AB Tasty for $100M+ digital experience optimization platform
The combined business will serve more than 4,000 customers globally and surpass $100 million in annual revenue.
What Startups Need to Learn from Fortune 500 Playbooks (and What They Shouldn’t)
Here’s what young companies can borrow from Fortune 500 discipline, and what to leave behind to stay innovative.
How We Out-Innovated Industry Giants on a Modest Budget — and How You Can Do the Same
When we couldn’t outspend the biggest companies in our industry, we found another way to compete.