Blue Origin schedules third New Glenn launch for late February, but not to the moon
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin had previously suggested that the third launch of the mega-rocket would take the space company’s robotic lunar lander to the moon.
Why the Moltbook frenzy was like Pokémon
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Lots of influential people in tech last week were describing Moltbook, an online hangout populated by AI agents interacting with one another, as a glimpse into the future. It appeared to show…
Build a Faster Content Engine With This $20 ChatGPT Skills Bundle
Five short courses designed to help keep entrepreneurs from burning out.
Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada
Now available in the US and Canada, Spotify’s AI-powered Prompted Playlists let users describe what they want to hear using natural language commands.
The Download: Yann LeCun’s new venture, and lithium’s on the rise
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. Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in…
Snapchat gives parents new insights into teens’ screen time and friends
With these new features, Snap is likely looking to appease regulators and parents over concerns about safety and screen time on its platform.
Quadric rides the shift from cloud AI to on-device inference — and it’s paying off
Quadric aims to help companies and governments build programmable on-device AI chips that can run fast-changing models locally.
Why 2026 is a hot year for lithium
In 2026, I’m going to be closely watching the price of lithium. If you’re not in the habit of obsessively tracking commodity markets, I certainly don’t blame you. (Though the news lately definitely makes the case that minerals can have major implications for global politics and the economy.) But lithium is worthy of a close…
Tiger Global, Microsoft to fully exit Walmart-backed PhonePe via its IPO
Tiger Global and Microsoft are offering up their full stakes in the company, while Walmart is choosing to retain its majority stake, and selling up to 45.9 million shares.
Former Google trio is building an interactive AI-powered learning app for kids
Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to get over that hurdle with their generative AI-powered interactive app, Sparkli. Sparkli was […]
Yann LeCun’s new venture is a contrarian bet against large language models
Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world. He believes that the industry’s current obsession with large language models is wrong-headed and will ultimately fail to solve many pressing problems. Instead, he thinks we should be betting on world…